Braves vs. Angels Game Highlights (8/17/24) | MLB Highlights

Taking on Griffin Canning here tonight. His best pitch is his changeup. Opponents hit 241 against his change up this year in 2024. Expect the change up a lot to this team. We're just about ready for baseball. Griffin Canning has wrapped up his warm up tosses Michael Harris. The second will lead this ball game off one for five in last night's ball game. He swings and loops one in the left field of the base hit in the left center. Might think about two bags, flies around first base stumbles and now dropping the ball out in center field is Kevin Pillar and it's an easy two bags for Michael Harris. 31 pitch that's hit hard out to left field and down for a base hit Michael Harris is going to get to third and hold back to back bases for the Braves, a double by Harris, a single by Riley and they're at the corners with no one out here it comes and Ozuna stings one deep center field way back to the wall. Three Brave run number 36 for Ozuna and he's packing a punch here in Anaheim. That was absolutely gorgeous. And in one swing of the stick, the Braves have more runs tonight than they had all night last night. This is about chris sale again. He is in Cy Young for 14th season resurgent career. He has been dominant called strike painted on the inside corner. Great start to the night for chris sale trying to dump one into shallow center field and he does, that's a base hit Shana does conquer sale here with a two out fluke single. Talking about a potential pitching triple crown for sale in the national league. Just 21 pitchers in the history of the national league have won the pitching triple crown 12 to pillar blew it right by him. Fastball 95 and pillar catching nothing but the taken at second base by Lopez, they do not turn to Merrifield, busting it out of the box beats the throw. It was still pretty close. Very close. Angels decided not to challenge , but they may have had a case on that play at first. Whip Meel got an incredible canning never even saw. That's just a smart baserunning play from a guy who was known for the high baseball IQ and picking up on the habits there of Griffin canning a runner in scoring position with two outs. Here's the next one and there's a ground ball base hit through in the left field. They're going to send Merrifield home. Here comes the throw, it's cut off and a run scores with two outs and the Braves add on here in the second. They up for nothing. So he will walk. The catcher Brandon will be the next batter Orlando charges. How about that? I thought he was going to throw to first, but that's how good Orlando is. Little flip to with me to get the lead runner 12 to a and he gets a swing and a miss there with the pass for the strikeout two down in the inning. Stefanik jumps on the first pitch. It's a liner right over the second base bag. So the Angels have a couple on, say goodbye to Jack Lopez four strikeouts first time through the order for Chris Sale. Taylor S one the other way, that's a base hit. Pencils down. Taylor Ward has a base hit 3 to 2 on Netto and ball four. So the Angels try to get something going against sale runners on 1st and 2nd. Nobody out one pitch line drive caught by Aria. Races to the bag can't get, but now he triggers the first base and they doubled off Neto. That was that close to a triple play or just barely got back to the bag at second after the line drive was caught behind the bag by Arcia and without him getting back to the bag just ahead of Arcia, that's a 63, triple play and the 22 have a seat, got him with a changeup and pillar just full of frustration. Tosses the bat, the helmet, elbow guard, shin guard. It's a yard sale down there by pillar out of nowhere. Now, they're up by 10 games swing and a miss pitch there by canning the strike out for a few balls and two strikes. Here's the next pitch and that's a swing and a miss and Knick gets polished up. So back to back strikeouts for canning who's got into a little bit of a rhythm. Now in this game, he's retired the last four in a row. Here's the 22. It's hit high in the air behind the mound. A lot of people are converging. Neto is going to take charge and he will make the catch on the grass behind the pitchers mound and a pretty quick clean inning for canning. He sets him down 123, four Braves Chris Sale with three shutout innings at this point. He has five strikeouts pitched around a couple of walks and leading it off Logan oh two pitch. Got him swinging, awkward swing at a fastball, tied him up, tied his arms in a knot right there and strikeout number six for chris sale left. He brings it ground ball out to short, not a problem vacuumed up off the dirt by Arcia and he throws over to first base for out number 212 on the way to Adle and he bites the dust with a fastball, swung on and missed by Adele. It's a 123 innings for chris Sale. Sale has been great through four innings. Braves have given him four runs at this point with Mary 32 from canning, swung on a belt to deep left field that's got some sock to it back to the wall and that's off the top of the wall. Mary digging for second base. Here's the throw from Ward. They're going to say home run, They're going to say that hits something back behind the wall and shot back out on the field of play. A home run by Mary Field. Did it hit that little strip of wall goes up there above that yellow square. That's what I thought James Hoy. And this will certainly be confirmed as a home run on his Kramer on a, we just saw that Travis Darna looking to drive in that run from second base good speed out there in Harris. He's at second Zuna at first. That's it. Well out to left center field charging that way, diving off the glove of pillar and goes rolling free to the left field wall that's going to drive in two runs. Great effort by pillar, but he couldn't squeeze it two RB I double by travis Darna and it's seven. Nothing great that is squared up by Liano way back to the wall. Adios home run. It's nine nothing braves here in Anaheim crushing the baseball here in the fifth inning. Angels here tonight. Down nine to nothing after the win yesterday, this ball floats to the left field line. Long run Taylor Ward as he slides and makes the catch on the move. What a good play by Taylor Ward. It was a long slide and I think he caught it. He didn't catch it with the glove. I think his body got under it. That was a kick save and a beauty. So it hit him in the knee and Then he kind of cradled it with his body until he was able to secure it. The ball never hit the ground. Here's why he win in the slide for about 30 ft and not only have the Angels not scored, they've really been given nothing at all by chris sale. He's been missing a lot of bats. They've not squared him up. There's strikeout number nine, a knee buckling slider to get that one out single. Here's Kevin Pillar. Here's the pitch on its way that's grounded sharply by the third baseman Riley that's going to roll down in the left field corner. Angels are going to have a chance to get a run on the board being waved home is shot, the throws way off line he'll score and at third base with a triple and it looks like his Angels on the scoreboard. It's now 9 to 1. Chris having to bear down here for the first time tonight looking for his 10th strike out of the ball game here's the next pitch and that's low. Did that bounce away or was that a foul ball, foul ball? The bat of Hopi? I think that got by saying it wasn't a foul ball. I think this hit travis Darna, their catcher right in the foot and he struck him out 99 top shelf and the strikeout leader in major league baseball is now Chris Sale a clock one in the air high in the air to left center field, Michael a running that way and he gallop to a in deep left center field and that is out number three. So that's likely the last bullet fired by sale 94 pitches for him and he had a big night with 10 strikeouts. We have played six innings. We head to the top of the seventh inning grounder to first on to second for one, but that ball is thrown into the Braves dugout. But this one for Zack Nevo is one that he's got to hold on to. I mean, you got a pitcher coming over trying to cover first base and he's getting there as the throw is getting there. It's an 11 2 lead for the Braves two down here in the ninth inning. Angels down to their final out. No pop one up shallow left Arcia Riley Kelk trying to get there. It's Arcia ball, he squeezes it and the Braves win the ball game to even up the series for the Angels in the ninth, no runs, one hit, no errors at a man left big win for the Braves. They got a three run homer early and they never let up the rest of the night.