Cardinals vs. Yankees Game Highlights (8/30/24) | MLB Highlights

A little bit of an overcast Friday evening here in New York City, big crowd expected at the ballpark because it's Aaron Judge football jersey night. A lot of stuff going on and it is time for baseball and Marcus Stroman making his 26th start six with a 3.88. He's thrown the ball a lot better four and three good over his last three starts, only given up four earned runs and better breaking ball to me, he's got away from that cutter a little bit swing and a miss down on strikes and the 02 pitch hits sharply to first Ben Rice right there. Takes it himself to down swings and bloops one into center field on. Judge makes the catch to retire the side a quick 123 for Stroman Yanks come to hit Eric F. He is the man on the mound to start the series for the Cardinals tonight. Brad coming off maybe his best outing in ST Louis last time and he chased upstairs F he has his first strike out. Torres chased one out. Here's one soto soto went hitless in his return to Washington on the three games, that one is ripped into right center field, it's a base hit. So, Soto breaks his zero for 13 slide and gets a one out single in front of judge. So here's Aaron Judge and is off to a slow start tonight. Fetty strikes him out for out. Number two. Soto takes the lead the pitch and that is chopped to the shortstop and we will kick second base ahead of SOTO coming down six unassisted on the four. Let's keep an eye on Goldschmidt. He and Stroman have locked to a lot and Goldie drives this one toward right SOTO on the run can't get that off. The base of the wall is back to the infield and Goldschmidt will stop at second with a one out double chip that swing of the bat right there that tells you that he is dialed and we've seen him get better and better. This is where you want to see him hit. The baseball is the other way, lets the sinker travel right off the base of the wall back to back hits for the Cardinals and they're at 1st and 3rd and look who's back from the minors. Jordan Walker batting in the number seven spot swing and a miss down on strikes, second strikeout for Stroman, a big one that's a breaking ball and Then , you know, as a hitter, it's going to go away from you enough to get that swing and a Miss Stroman's pitch to hit in the air to deep left center judges back. He's got room and he makes the catch to retire the side. A couple of steps in front of the track gave it a ride. The Cardinals lead two. We go to the home second scoreless. Carlos Stanton will lead off for the yanks. One hit in his last 13 bets. That one is driven into center field, scott back. Still back. He's gonna be over his head and off the base of the wall. He'll fire the ball in and Stanton has himself a double. That ball was just hit so hard he couldn't react. I was gonna say the same thing. That's a line drive usually run down by a good center fielder, but this ball is hit so hard that as a player, you, you're just not seeing it. It beat you to the wall moves Stanton over to third infield halfway at 252 with 11 home run. 48 runs batted in high fly ball right field. Let's see if he tags. Walker makes the catch. He's tagging, he's coming home and the throw is cut off by Goldsman. That's a South fly for B and the Yankees have a one nothing lead. We saw some baseball there, we lead off double move him over, get him in. No one hit away from 1800 as a big leaguer, he had hard to left base hit, he hit that one over the shortstop's head a pulls home runs. But that time he pulled a single , sets it up for Brendan Donovan who had a 10 pitch sequence. Last time up, popped up. Left side. Chisholm makes the p he dropped , the ball could not hold on when he ran into the screen. So Donovan will get another swing. Seventh pitch. Brandon ground ball that's through for a base hit. Here comes Beley around third soto will throw back to second and safe. There a run is in. We're tied on a Donovan hit and the swing on the House pays off for the Cardinals able to catch that one in for sure. Had that little pop fly in foul territory. It wasn't grabbed and Donny takes advantage three straight singles for the Cardinals after two were out and now Paul Goldschmid coming up, lined up the middle, that's a base hit arenas, rounding third base and he's going to score ahead of the throw by judge and it's 2 to 1. ST Louis Paul Goldschmidt continues to swing a hot bat and a walk Yankees down 2 to 1. We're in the bottom of the third. So here's juan Soto. He singled his first title. That one is ripped into right center field. That's a base hit. Everyone go to the wall. David torres hustling to third. They're waving him home and there'll be no throw. It's an RB I double. So the game is tied at two. Soto got jammed his first time. Not this time, this ball was just rifled into right center. It will be up to Austin Wells kind of shifted. Well, the whole left side of the infield. I know he does pull a lot of balls. He has the ability to hit it out. Walker back on the track at the , see you a two and the Yankees lead 4 to 2. I'll tell you what , when you see what austin Wells has done since he's been in the four spot. I mean, he has really, really changed this offense and as he was talking about earlier in the game, men in scoring position big at bats, he seems to come through a lot. Burleson got the line moving with a two out hit in the third inning and scored one of the two cardinal runs. That one is drilled to right field that is going to be a base hit going to second is Bolson the throw to second. It is he over slipped the bag and b he kept the tag on to get Burson. What a play on both ends there because you know why soda really played this. He didn't have much of a chance this ball was hammered to start with, but he got a good relay in , he got his feet in good position, made a strong throw down in right field. Serenading soto, you know, he could not emphasize enough how much joy and how much fun he is having by being with, with the Yankees. So that base hit with one out brings new bar to the plate. New bar represents the tying run for the Cardinals. Stroman's won two on roll back to, to second for one b back to 1st May I have another? There's a double play. How about that? For Marcus 163 to get out of the six? You go to the bottom half. Yankees four Cardinals two. How start at the bottom of the sixth inning with Aaron Judge. Judge zero for two so far against Eric Petty and Judge didn't get that. He strikes out for the second time. Fetty has his eighth. That's the last pitch of the night for Eric Fetty. Eight strikeouts over five and a third innings. He's allowed four runs. Jordan Walker will lead off against Marcus Stroman as we start the seventh inning pitch to Walker swing and a miss, he got him with a big curveball 22 on the way on and missed. He got him. Oh, what a night for Stroman. If that's his last hitter, that very well could be. What an outing tonight for the guy with a zero on his back two outs in the eighth inning and Nolan Arenado was up, Nolan singled and scored in the third inning. So a very important pitch on the way, a swing and a try. There's a lunch job to left that ball is gonna go. Nolan Arenado with a line drive homer makes it a one run game. We've been seeing it more and more over the last couple of weeks. Chip, you talked about his numbers that he's put up in the month of August, but he's been driving baseballs and this one right here. Number 15 on the season, 18 game on Bay Street for Judge, he's zero for three today and they say he went around, he was taking his, uh, elbow guard off thinking it was ball four. But first base umpire Ben May said he went 32 swing and a miss. So from thinking he had a walk to striking out for the third time tonight. Judges down two away here in the eighth and here's the difference in the game. The two run home run by Wells in the third hit deep into right back. Goes walker on the track and y semi go his second of the night. Austin Wells gives the Yankees insurance his 12th home run of the season. This one traveled 413 ft a dozen dingers on the season for Austin Wells. His reaction that, what's the catcher's reaction here? Oh, hated it. Austin Wells loving it. Clay Holmes comes on, tries to pick up his 29th save. That one has driven out to left field. Verdugo on the run, he's there and the Yankees win 6 to 3 taking the first game of this three game set all about Wells with two home runs and also catching seven strong innings.