D-backs vs. Astros Game Highlights (9/7/24) | MLB Highlights

nice sunny day outside in Houston Texas but we are under the roof here inside minute B Park Diamondbacks and the Astros on the season in 28 starts for us Kikuchi a 4.24 erra he has 177 strikeouts in 150 and 2/3 Innings pitch he's one of the better pitchers of strikeouts per nine and that is popped up on the infield coming in both bregman and paa bregman the call and makes the catch to the left of the pitcher mound and there is one away Carl waiting for a onew here it is there we go Kikuchi gets him swinging he's still over in this series today and the first strike out for Kikuchi this is where you need you mentioned it those three four five hitters to come through one two there's a base hit right back up the middle and a good two strike Stroke by gritch to get the Dbacks first hit of the ball game here is Walker now for Arizona there it is two strikeouts for Kikuchi in the first off to a good start here's your DB back starter today left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez coming off his first loss as a diamond back 92 pitches to get through four beaten by the Dodgers on Monday yeah I think he's very anxious to get back out on that mound and really deliver performance better against Jose Altuve who was on base all night long last night and leads it off again for the gastr he went after that fast ball up got some good Chase there and got the weak popup Hero has got it Rodriguez one and two count on him and look at yordon Alvarez putting one in left field and he is getting extra bases as well he's going to get in there for a double we love talking about the home runs but the fact that he's able to get on top of this pitch and shoot it the other way shows how good that swing is to go out there and rack up hits here's Alex bregman good to have this bat back in there we talked about the matchup here three home runs in his career against the starting pitcher lines it to left grit on the run and he's got it just shy of the Crawford boxes out there Astros a one out double but that's all and we head now to the second inning the Diamondbacks as Tory told us this morning just need to find some footing against leftand pitching rightand bats are thin and teams are lining up lefties to face the Diamondbacks and that has been the way to beat them that one bounces into right Suarez full speed into third and a couple of base hits open up to Diamond Back second and there's a line drive to the opposite field off the bat of Newman McCarthy stops at second Suarez home and it's one- nothing Diamond B that is just fin Newman I mean he just spanks this ball the other way takes a fast ball the outside third it was elevated about mid thigh high and just shoots it that way what a beautiful swing this is three consecutive singles open up to second against kikoi for the first seven Diamondbacks have base hits and they have a one- nothing lead AST unable to to turn two there's one out in the inning with Runners at the corners o one Herrera swings Fly ball to deep right field this is hit well going back is gaml and he'll make the catch tagging from third and scoring is McCarthy and forget the lack of power that one driven to deep right center field and herrera's Sack fly makes it two nothing Diamondbacks that's a huge result for the Diamond bags Not only was that deep but that's opposite field stuff right there from Herrera and now here's Marte with a man at first gets him you say Kikuchi out of it two runs on the board though for the Arizona Diamondbacks we head to the bottom of the second what's been happening with rrod lately as Tory L is telling us today is it's one inning or one set of batters that's causing him to get that elevated pitch count and this might be the situation he's going to have to figure out how to navigate here and that's a ground ball softly hit left side charging and Fielding it Pomo to Second for one on the first that's a double play that'll get a run in for the Astros as Altuve scores it's 2 to one Arizona the Diamondbacks did a good job through the first three Innings Kikuchi was up to 51 pitches now so far only four in this here fourth inning all of a sudden Kikuchi has now retired eight in a row here is Newman Newman's a banger and this one's on its way Kevin Newman way up there and it's gone Kevin Newman two for two they get that run back and it's three to one done in B we got some Crawford seats I think that's Kevin Newman member in St Louis he hit one into big ma this one almost made the train tracks out there and kuchi goes ah shoot can I have that pitch back you say goodbye I say hello thank you 3-1 pitch and that is popped up Shallow left side going back Peña and bregman Peña stepping the foul ground makes the catch on the run to retire the side three consecutive there's the subset of B walk hit batter walk they're loaded now with one out and Grand Str is out to the mound we got bases Juiced for Chaz McCormick who could use a big hit and he gets one through Chaz McCormack's going to drive a couple home Victor cartini scores Jake Myers is in and the Astros have tied things up here in the fourth gaml goes to second on the play Astros have had Rodriguez on the ropes all game long and finally get a big hit Rodriguez long look at second now the one and Alvarez smokes it in the right field for a base hit racing around third Gamblin coming home the throw to the plate by Carol is cut off gaml scores yardon gives the Astros the lead with his third hit of the game 4 to3 Houston this the guy that couldn't hit it home well we put that me to rest yes we have watch this he was very efficient through three and we're still going in the fourth two two is fair at third Gino can't pick it up in everybody's safe now they're loaded for bregman and a long inning gets longer count is full that pitch is high ball four McCormack scores bregman gets an RBI and the Astros have a 5-3 lead what a disaster of an inning for Arizona Yano Suarez leads off the sixth against left-hander us Kikuchi the pitch swung on that's belted out towards left field to the Crawford boxes it goes gone home run for Gino Suarez number 25 and the DB back get one right back it's now 5 to four that's his fifth home run in his last nine games I'm telling you with Kikuchi throwing this High majority of Sliders guys are just sitting on it right now and Suarez certainly was sitting on that slider a couple of singles lead off the Houston six one thing that Yer Diaz does and he's already done it once is hit it to double plays he leads the American League in ground to get a double play and that's a ground ball up the middle and throw for a base hit on his way to the third McCormick he gets the way from Gary Pettis McCormick scores altua to third Yer Diaz comes through with an RBI single it'll make it six to four Astros gner takes a deep breath he's like wow been a heck of a game here's bregman he had a basis loaded walk is last time 0 for two bouncing ball softly hit up the third Baseline Jess far gloved by Suarez and he throws it high and pulls Walker off the bag altu scores and the Astros lead it 7 to4 we'll take that jery pñ to the plate Jeremy Paya drives one to right field it keeps going and it's in the bullpen Jeremy pay a three R bomb the Astros have opened it up now against the diamond back jp3 going Oppo Taco for a big blast what a great pitch to do it on too it was right down the middle and once more just like last night the Houston home run has blown the game wide open Herrera who moved up on that one is at second and Martez aborted first and it's a good start to the seventh well you're down six you need some Runners and so far so good kicks high off the mound and altuve's got it but he has no play herrera's across and Walker gets a run home it's 10 to five oh that thing went off the ramp like evil Canal it really did let's see where that ball hit it hit the pitcher back of his heel and it went straight up in the here so the Diamondbacks figure a way to stay alive in this seventh so two out nobody on for Jose Altuve two for four with a double couple of runs scored Jose Altuve get into the Crawford boxes Altuve with number 19 on the year K he just keeps getting hits Jose's amazing Tu eight now one Homer shy of his first 2020 season since 2017 a back-to- back strikeout for Blanco and the Diamond Backs are down to their final out if you can get a guy like this Blancos to bridge gaps and stuff like that it's it's a big big deal fans get to their feet the O2 to Walker Swing and a miss struck out on the slider away Loco strikes out the side Diamond Backs slide in September continues and the Astros pick up the 11 to five victory over the diamond BS