Astros' Ramon Urias reacts to breaking up Orioles' Brandon Young's perfect game

Astros' Ramon Urias reacts to breaking up Orioles' Brandon Young's perfect game originally appeared on The Sporting News

The Houston Astros began a weekend series during players' weekend in MLB against the Baltimore Orioles. In the first matchup of the series, the Astros were the subject of a perfect game with two outs in the eighth inning.

Fortunately, the Astros didn't become part of baseball immortality, as Ramon Urias hit an infield single off Brandon Young, who threw the ball away on a would-be groundout.

After the game, Chandler Rome of The Athletic shared Urias's comments on breaking up the perfect game against his former team.

"You're trying to break it," Urias said, "You don't want to go home and know (they) just threw a perfect game."

Break it he did, as the dribbler past the mound forced an errant throw from Young to reach first base safely. While the Astros lost 7-0, the outcome of the game was nowhere near as bad as it could've been.

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If Young did manage to get the perfect game, it would've been the 25th in American League and National League history. Houston was already subject to a perfect game, at the hands of San Francisco Giants starter Matt Cain in 2012.

One of the most difficult feats to execute in baseball history, a perfect game was just four outs away for the Astros. They've been subject to a perfect game before, but have never notched one themselves despite having plenty of talented pitchers.

But, considering how difficult and rare a perfect game is, it's hardly a surprise that they haven't had a perfect game in franchise history.

At the very least, the Astros weren't subject to the 25th perfect game in history. Urias broke it up in the eighth inning and was relieved that he and the Astros wouldn't go down in history.

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