Pirates vs. Guardians Game Highlights (9/1/24) | MLB Highlights

Greetings from progressive field in Cleveland, Ohio this afternoon. It's the Pirates and the Cleveland Guardians here in the final game of this three game weekend series, Alex Cobb coming on making his third start one and one. He won his last start here against the Cubs five and two thirds, three hits one run allowed, see if he can do something like that again. Today, I say kind of will lead it off, beat it into the ground. Ramirez cuts off the, you may see a lot of those ground balls right there with the movement he has on. Here's the switch hitting left fielder, Brian reynolds batting left handed and a ball that's banged right back to him. He kind of got it in self defense bounding off the ground back to the pitcher and cry tires. Reynolds to down that will bring up the DH today, boy, has he been swinging month of August Cruz batted 389. Now the pitch strike three called, he looked at a sinker. Cruz is out looking in a 123 1st inning for alex Cobb. Now Cleveland gets their turn here in the home half of the first Mitch Keller goes for the Bucks today, Stephen Kwan to lead things off, swing and a miss struck him out on that sweeper in underneath the hands. Good pitch for Keller one out really looked like he had some sharp, sharp break to it. Now, Andresen three for nine in the series with a home run was over four last night and it's trailed high and deep to right center field. This ball. Well, last 16 games he has seven bombs, 14 RBIs runner on two down Cleveland up in the first pitch off the glove of davis and the pass ball enables Ramirez to advance to second. Noel bangs one over the bag at third down. The left field line into the corner. Ramirez can walk home on his way to second with an RB I double. John Kensey Noel two nothing. Cleveland and John Kensey Noel with his sixth double 27. The Guardian's lead shut him out yesterday. There's a swing the looping fly ball to center Taylor back a few steps underneath it. He's got it and that ends the inning. Cleveland Alex Cobb, seven of seven down swing and a miss another good strikes out Taylor three strikeouts. Now the pitch and it's swung on the chopper by davis, the catcher into shallow right, sliding, stop by jim throwing to get him and moving to his left, shallow right with a sliding stop. Alex Cobb perfect through 32 to zero. Cleveland as we head to the fourth inning here in downtown Cleveland and alex Cobb back to work. Nine up nine down swung on grounded to short high hop handled by Roo throws in time at first one. Gone. Here comes Brian reynolds swung on. There's a tapper to third Corral by ramirez throws on the run in time for the out two down o'neal Cruz. The batter swung on a chopper to second easy high hop handled by Jimenez another low pitch three up, three down inning, a dozen in a row. Retired to start the game by Cobb back in Cleveland. Kyle Manzo up from Columbus Ding. He played in 30 games with Cleveland earlier and batted 27 , no homers. Seven RBIs swung on and there's a high fly ball to deep right. This one's carrying well and it is the first major league home run for Kyle Manzo just up from AAA Columbus today with the roster expansion and he smacks his first home run of his major league career. 30. Cleveland alex Cobb with a beauty going has retired the 1st 12 batters he's faced as we start the fifth swung on a chopper to third short hop handled by Ramirez throws, got him at first long hop and he charged in short hopped it to take away a potential issue and Then through accurately on the run. Now, rowdy Cole strike three on the outside corner caught looking for Cobb, that's his fourth strikeout and now it's 14 in a row retired to start the game as he remains perfect facing Brian de La Cruz tops it to third Jose again on the move. Tricky hot unloads a throw to get him 15 up, 15 down through five for alex Cobb bottom third of the Pirates order six. Then in Cleveland up 3 to 0 and Alex Cobb with a perfect game and straight three called on the inside corner, he locked him up. Strikeout number 5, 16, up 16 down that will bring up Michael Taylor struck out his first time up and strike three again. The inside corner strikeout number six, shame of all of this. It could be the pitch count that keeps K for making history. He's at 74 pitches. They don't really want to push him much beyond 85 due to that finger. Here's catcher Henry Davis, the pitch to him and he drills one to deep center. There is Thomas, he makes the catch angling toward right center and the perfect game continues an eight pitch inning for alex kyle. He has retired all 18 Pirates in Cleveland, bottom of the sixth inning, Mitch Keller to Kyle Manzo and Manzo with a high drive deep right center de la Cruz track four that the first two major league home runs in the career of Kyle Manzo both to right center and the Guardian's lead four to Cleveland up four, nothing in the sixth runners at the corners. One out and Pirates manager Derek Shelton will go to the bullpen Guardians have 1st and 3rd with one out. Stephen, a left handed batter coming up and for the first time since the Pirates home opener, we get to see ryan pitch on a line caught by Baraki and Then they throw to third to double off Thomas. The Guardians found a way out of their rally. There was something else, alex Cobb trying to make history a perfect game through 64. Cleveland top of the order. Now the pitch back up the middle knocked down by Cobb. He falls down, ball is laying on the grass to the left of the mound and Cobb is down face first and it looks like Cobb's ok, but the perfect game comes to an end on a smash back up the middle. He looks like he's convincing everybody he can stay in. He wants the baseball but he's ok, but the game is over. This is the longest perfect game by Cleveland since Trista mckenzie had 13 years ago that ended in the eighth inning, four zero Guardians here in the seventh inning and the first pitch swinging a line drive base hit into center on a half by Thomas gets it in quickly. Kiner stops at second and the Pirates have gotten a couple on with nobody out and here's manager Steven vote. We have a pitching change. What a brilliant performance by Alex. He had retired the 1st 18 Pittsburgh Pirates before the base hit by Isaiah kind of and they are going to rise as one here at the corner of Carnegie in Ontario. Now, Pirates at 1st and 3rd with one out for nick Gonzalez. Here's an 02 swing and a miss struck out Cruz running and the throw goes into center field stolen base for Cruz and on the throwing error will score with the Pirates first run. Jose ramirez batting right handed 01 for three with a single and the pitch is swung at to the parks number 34 for Jose ramirez. Cleveland with its fourth solo home run to the game and the Guardian's now leading it by a score of 5 to 1. So Naylor to second Manzo to first two down Cleveland on top 5 to 1 and here's Lane Thomas two for three with a couple of singles swung on, smashed into left, a three hit game for Thomas. Naylor's being waved home. Here's reynolds throw out of the plate on one bounce and he's in ST just did beat the tag of Davis and Cleveland gets an RB I single from Lane Thomas to score josh Naylor and it's 6 to 1. Cleveland Tim here and he got drilled near the bicep last night by a line drive but good to go the next day, Pirates last hope, nick Gonzalez runner at first two down Pirates batting in the ninth in this ball game and the Guardians take care of Pittsburgh and the rubber match 6 to 1.