Rookie right-hander Brandon Young lost his bid for a perfect game with two outs in the eighth inning yet secured his first career victory as the visiting Baltimore Orioles rode home runs from Coby Mayo and Dylan Carlson to a 7-0 win over the Houston Astros on Friday.

Dylan Beavers is in a radically different situation than the Orioles outfield prospects who came before him. That means more playing time.

Baltimore's Brandon Young watched the Astros while growing up in Lumberton. He got his first MLB win in Houston in almost perfect fashion.

Urías and the Astros fell 7-0 to the Orioles, from whom Houston acquired the 31-year-old middle infielder 16 days ago.

I respect the effort here in giving a Houston team with playoff pretensions fits, forcing them to empty their bullpen and their bench while winning it, in the end, on a fluke play: a 60-mph dribbler to third by Ramón Urías ( Why did it have to be Ramón?