A's vs. Reds Game Highlights (8/28/24) | MLB Highlights

34 year old fernando Cruz. The starter who enters from more familiar territory is these days native bullpen, he'll be in to get things going for the Reds his first start of the season. Lark the fifth of his major league career. It's going to be really interesting to see how fernando Cruz attacks. These hitters. Remember yesterday, Jacob Junis came in and pitched four masterful perfect innings. And it's going to be interesting to see how fernando everyone in the world knows that he throws that splitter. Butler thundered his 15th homer yesterday, a two run shot part of the four run seven. This one out to right field, tracking it back is will be home for Butler. Pick it up where he left off that 16 on the season. You heard it from the law dog last night? How much he loves hit in the leadoff spot, something he did in the minor league, something he has, I think really grown into here at the big league level over a short period of time wasting no time. Brent Rooker, the DH one high into the cloudy sky and left spencer. Steer moving toward left center will make the catch Rooker is out. Number one hits it sharply on two hops to first Dominic smith with the chest high hopped. It handcuffed him a little bit races to the bag to make the play three unassisted for the second out trying to snap it. Zero for 14 cuts it loose, strike three called fastball at 96 right down the heart of the plate and locks up. So Cruz gives up a leadoff home run, but that's it. And it's going to be the eighth start of the season for right hander Osvaldo. Be do we just started to have the conversation about what JT has done for himself out of the bullpen. We know how got here and I think that's in the rearview mirror at this point with the month of August having gone the way it has for the big right hander. This is a man who is here to stay in this rotation the bottom of the first and Jonathan India will lead it off for the Cincinnati Reds able to get to pop up here on the 31 pitch and JJ traveling from center field to make the catch one. Cruz face. It runs scored in the strikeout yesterday pitch and a swing and a miss change up gets the LAZ and two outs in the first strikeout. Here is Tyler Stevenson on the left side picked up by the third baseman, scan across the diamond in time and a solid 123 shut down for, for Osvaldo for fernando Cruz. This is his longest outing in the big leagues as long as two innings never before as a starter slash opener. Another splitter strikeout. He is with four all in the last five hitters. He gets hitters with two strikes and Then that just does not get there great pitch to one ball, two strike count. There's the, there is a strikeout put out complete. He got the tag tied his career high with five strikeouts. Now a rematch with Butler was the only hit. He is a ground up the middle chopped to Laz and the bounce goes over. His glove. Butler will be on first with two outs. See how they score this. They scored a base hit trying to come and get the short hop, couldn't quite get there. But by the way, 11 for 11 trying to steal the pitch is low. There will be no throw a second , a stolen base for Butler and a one ball. Two strike count here to Brent Rooker, a career high six strikeouts and a career high three innings for fernando Cruz ball and two strikes to Dominic pitt swung on and missed on the slider down. He goes, chubby picks up his second strikeout. He's retired seven straight game as a red for Ahmed Rosario strikes out back to back punch outs to gone was a pitch runner in the game last night. The pitch that swung on a miss down. He gets him on the fastball three perfect innings for Os. He strikes out the side. He has four strikeouts for the game through three complete and the A one and the Reds 02 outs here in the fourth inning and here's Seth Brown, the first baseman, a first pitch swing for Seth Brown to center field and that leave the ballpark. Seth Brown home run number 11 in a 2 to 0. Oakland A's lead. Brownie getting into one break out the queeg Windex because Brownie is wiping windows. Stay fair. Jenny stay fair. Friedel left hand batter with a fly ball to right tonight. He's one for six in the series. Hammer to right back is Butler at the wall. And what a catch by Lawrence. Butler robbing TJ Friedel of extra bases at keeping perfection in order for Osvaldo be loves it. He is still not yet yielded a base runner currently riding a nine game hitting streak flew out to left in his first at bat. Now he lines this one to left center down for a hit. Cameron plays it on a hop and Spencer steers the Reds first baserunner tonight, you know, out of the stretch and the pitch is hit in the air to right center. It's going to bend back toward Butler. Lawrence is there to make the catch for the second out. 11, a fly ball to right. Butler's been busy. This one, he goes back on it on the track has room makes the catch and the inning is over. No runs and hits and a man left on to the sixth inning in Cincinnati. There's one away that will bring Brent Rooker to the plate as the next delivery is swung on and smashed a long way by Rooker. He knows he got it and out it goes second deck for Rooker and 31 homers. Now a career high. 30 one and counting for Brent Rooker, Eugenie, I'm not sure that that ball didn't initially land up above the walkway between the second and the third level of seeing up there as the right hander delivers first pitch one, a line drive down the left field line, a base hit. This balls got a two off the wall and Cameron did his second base with a stand up double leadoff double for Cameron. His fifth double of the year can do now with the runner in scoring position here in the seventh that Goff will find the outfield Cameron at third base. He's going to get a stop sign from Eric Mart-n and it will be 1st and 3rd as the baton will be passed to Max Schuman. He swings at the first pitch to center field. Tj Friedel come over to make the catch and here comes Cameron home. A sacrifice fly for Max Schuman in a 4 to 0 ball game for the green and gold stolen base for zack Goff and for Gello as he inches closer and closer to being a 2020 man and the pitch is high there no throw to third , 19 stolen bases. Now on a walk for Jacob Wilson 1st and 3rd here with one out and it looks like that will be all for. It will be a major league debut as they call upon the just called up Evan Kravitz facing Lawrence Butler left on left bounce to second runner breaks from third fire to second one. Not in time scores. It's 5 to 0. Kravitz comes back to the set and of the plate ground ball headed to third Espinal has it. He'll go to India at second base and the inning is over a couple of ground balls by Kravitz. A de La Cruz to face the right hander Vito this one on the ground to right center keyes turns and holds base hit. Tyler Stevenson will hit to left. That's a base hit Stevenson with a 12 gamer. Green light on for de la Cruz. He rips around. Third reds are on the board. Stevenson drills a double. It's 51. So Tyler back to third base and that will bring Santiago Espinal to the plate past the Schumer Espinal does it again. Stevenson scores Espinal to second. He's got a 10 game hit streak. Reds get another run. It's 52, a rematch of last night , Tyran pitch hitter against new pitcher Michelle O opposite way base hit Wave is out for Espinal. France pokes in a run. It's 53. Rosario has struck out twice, once, looking once swinging hard opposite way base hit, ran through second Butler gathers on the chalk fire to second Rosario slams on the brakes. France has third. The Reds with a big rally. It's three straight two out hits. They have five knocks on the inning. The tying runs are on base. Will Benson. He has the pot but with one swing, he can give the reds, the lead runner goes from first great jump and this is a high fly deep, right? And part of a Furious is 765, Cincinnati. Well, you mentioned that. Will Benson definitely has the pop to change the score. That's exactly what he does. That will be a base hit for. We'll see if that banging around that Shays has been doing can pay off a laser to left field. It's going to bounce on the warning track and head over the wall. So it will be a ground rule, double 2nd and 3rd. Nobody out. That's the tying run. Now at third base for the eighth , Brown put a nice swinging on one in the 4th, 22. Good swing on this one to center Gary and that nine a two for seven career two homer game for Seth Brown. Your longest tenured Oakland Athletics aboard off goes first to third and now Jacob wilson will be this ball in the air looks like it has the distance to do it tagging up is off. He's charging home. Here comes the throw, it's going to be cut off going to second and that's right. It is Miller time Mason on right now after a bit of a outing last night, 31 pitches for the big fella ready to get right back on the horse and ride and the Reds will bring the tying run to the plate here in the ninth inning. So here's Ahmed Rosario who has singled and scored. He's one for three, finishes him off with a slider. Here he is again, Big Willie. Last time up that three run bomb check swing on a slider. He freezes bet and in the dirt picked up by Langler flips the brown and the A have made it two wins in a row in Cincinnati as the A's have a big lead, lose it rally back and win tonight.