Schmidt's 7 hitless innings help Yanks blank O's

NEW YORK -- Clarke Schmidt pitched 7 hitless innings and the New York Yankees held the Baltimore Orioles to 1 deed successful a 9-0 rout connected Saturday.

JT Brubaker gave up a azygous to Gary Sánchez to unfastened the eighth for the Orioles' lone hit.

Schmidt (4-3) was bidding to propulsion New York's archetypal no-hitter since Domingo Germán threw the Yankees' large league-leading 4th cleanable game connected June 28, 2023. The Yankees had not thrown a no-hitter astatine location since David Cone's cleanable crippled connected July 18, 1999, against the Montreal Expos.

Baltimore was astir no-hit for the archetypal clip since Aug. 12, 2015, successful Seattle by Hisashi Iwakuma.

Schmidt struck retired 5 and issued some walks successful the archetypal inning erstwhile helium threw 29 pitches. The right-hander threw archetypal transportation strikes to 16 of 24 hitters and exited aft tying his vocation precocious of 103 pitches.

After consecutive walks to Jordan Westburg and Gunnar Henderson, Schmidt struck retired Ryan O'Hearn and retired Ramon Laureano to extremity the first. He permitted 1 different runner the remainder of the way.

Schmidt exited aft throwing 21 pitches successful the seventh. Brubaker allowed a two-strike azygous to Sánchez and immoderate successful the assemblage of 46,142 lightly booed.

Brubaker pitched the last 2 innings to decorativeness New York's 2nd one-hitter this season.

Trent Grisham, JC Escarra, Ben Rice and Anthony Volpe deed solo homers arsenic the Yankees finished with 14 hits and won for the 2nd clip successful 9 games.

Volpe finished with 3 hits aft going hitless successful his erstwhile 25 at-bats, raising his mean 8 points to .236. It was the shortstop's 3rd three-hit crippled this play and archetypal since May 24 successful Colorado.

Baltimore's Zach Eflin (6-4) allowed six runs and 10 hits successful 3 innings.