Guardians vs. Yankees Game Highlights (8/21/24) | MLB Highlights

And they're going to face that guy. Nestor Cortez is 26 start six and 10 with a 4.20 you see the rest of the numbers. How about the scouting report, Paul? Well, do it again. Steely dan would say coming off a great game in Chicago seven scoreless innings and a season high nine strikeouts. Well, the Yankees know that the Orioles have already lost and Queens on a walk off home run. So if the Yankees win, they'll move back into sole possession of first place. Let's do it here in the Bronx and Juan swings at the first pitch and lost it to right field. Soto is there one pitch, one out? Thomas had the big pinch hit RB I double last night in the 12th inning that put Cleveland up and started a six run uprising. Well, swing and a Miss Thomas down on strikes. Yeah, that was right through the zone too. It looks pretty crisp so far. So not a ton of pitches. Little Mojo there early on for Cortez. Jose was zero for five in his first five trips to the plate last night. They intentionally walked him in the 10th swing and pop up right side of the infield. Ben Rice calling off torres. Now, Glaber calls right off, the second baseman makes the catch and that's a 23 top of the first for Nestor Cortez Junior on eight pitches and they will face the left hander Joey can. This will be his fourth start on 26.23. You see the numbers and how about a scout report on the left? Well, he is filling in, I mean because of the injury to alex Cobb was called up from AAA to start tonight and he only has four, is only four major league start since breaking in a couple of weeks ago. And book of danno, it brings back good memories, Michael. He's one of four players active players from the big island of Hawaii Labor, torres three hits in his last 22. Advances zero for four. Last night, howard has looked in the left center and it's going to find and dunk in for a base hit and torres with a bloop single into left center field and he starts off the bottom of the first with a base hit off Cantillo. Yeah, that's one of those where it's all at the end of the bat and you see this at every level , it's a big mighty swing, but it just really dies there. He is. Juan Soto tied his career high last night with his 35th home money at 35 last year as well with the Padres first pitch to Soto's Hammer in the air, deep center field on his horse lane, Thomas still on the track. He looks, but it's gone on to the netting and Monument Park in straight away center for the second night in a row. Juan Soto lights him up in the first inning here in the Bronx. A two run homer yanks up 2 36th home run of the season. A new career high for the sensational one, juan Soto, this guy is a machine. He is an absolute machine. He is a show. He is a machine and he has been in year one, an absolutely perfect Yankee. So eight for 29 in his last nine games, all eight home runs, it's a different game for him. Michael, here's judge fly ball right field. Noel out number one, Stanton went zero for three last night. He's batting 240 with 20 homers and 52 RB. I shot into right center field base hit Thomas cuts it off in right center. So a hard hit single with one out for Stanton. Here's Austin Wells. They really like this rookie catcher swing and a Miss Canti strikes him out two down curveball right there is the swing and miss off the left hander, Anthony Volpe looks at a curveball low. Volpe was two for four last night that gives him 32 multi hit games on the year swung on sharply hit to the second baseman, he flips to second to get the force on Stanton. But soto for the second night in a row has hammered a home run in the first inning, hit his 36th home run of the year, a two run shot and gets the customary love that he receives every single night from the right field fans here at the stadium. David Fry had the big three run triple last night in the 12th inning over the head of the first baseman Rice. It's a fair ball beauty and Fry will hold with a leadoff single. There you go. It's like there they got a little blue pit to start their inning in the first. There you go. Leadoff man aboard. Now, Naylor, completely different hitter against lefties against righties, 2 56 8, 35 ops against lefties, 2086 90. This should be two. There's one and there is c Nestor usually known as a fly ball pitcher, but you got this one on the ground easy double play with Naylor running. Here's john Kenzie Noel, big Christmas, big Christmas. I like that. Nickman fly ball hit in the air center field. Judge sizing it up in straightaway center and he makes the two handed catch side retired. Another efficient inning for Nestor Cortez Junior. No runs a hit. Nobody left. You know, Justin, you mentioned how the yanks have scuffled a little bit against the lefties. They've really struggled at home too, certainly by their standards. And, you know, you think about the vintage Yankee teams, of course, going back to the seventies, back to back championships, the dynasty starting in 96 even the wall court run before that 95 with Buck and Donnie, he coming to the Bronx. You were terrified. I got to start winning a little bit more here. High fly ball right field, going back, Noel on the track at the he's done sixth home run. This is getting like a video game. I mean, it, it is so hard to hit and this guy does it. He wants center field right field, he'll pull it opposite way. Fastball changeup, slider day game, night game. He is, he's on another planet. So two outs runners at 1st and 2nd glaber to is the hitter they're trying to avoid falling below 500 in the month of August. They're eight and eight so far bounce to the right side going to be a tough play fry wide of the line tosses to Cantelo and Torres is safe at first. I think they got it right close , close over to third goes Verdugo Perez in the second bases loaded and look who is coming up. It is juan Soto. We'll see if Cleveland will challenge this play and I'll tell you what BT on the replay, they should challenge. They may have their case here. Is there enough evidence to overturn that they're not challenging? They're not. So the bases are loaded here with two outs for Juan Soto. There's a base hit a check, swing two runs score. Here comes torres, here's the throw he's in there. A base. Jimenez now applies the tag for the final out but three runs coming to score on a little excuse me, poke job down the left field line for juan Soto Yankees. Now lead seven to nothing. Pedro Avila will come on to pitch here in the fifth. He'll enter the game. His first task is to try and solve. Aaron Judge. Nothing like easing into it. Go get him, buddy. 22 way inside goes to the backstop and did that clip judge. I think it did. Barksdale jumped out right away to see if he got hit. He said I might have hit my jersey, forget about it. I'd rather hit. Now, I'm going to tell you something. I see if you agree with me. If I'm boon and I see it on the , I don't want him to go. Oh, no, no, no, I'm not challenging that. Why would I challenge that? Don't you want aaron Judge to hit? He didn't, he didn't want to take first as he pulled his jersey said, that's all right. I think he should have the right to say no, I'm not taking first. I want to hit that point. Can Nester Cortez Junior post seven shutty for two straight starts. He's a strike away from doing so two outs. Nobody on 7 to 0 yanks top of the seventh stripped out toward third Peraza just gets seven strong shutout innings for Nestor Cortez Aaron Judge digging in the Yankees almost lost this guy. Can you imagine? And he accepted basically his hometown San Francisco Giants free agent offer. How different with the Yankees? Look without Judge aaron Judge also was looking at Legacy. He'll have his own monument someday in the way he's going, it might be the biggest monument out there driven deep to right. Oh, he didn't. Yes, he did the way two home runs for Judge eight nothing yanks. He's good. You know what folks, uh you just cannot enjoy this enough to, to watch these guys take the field every single day with this kind of ability and put up these kind of numbers and have fun doing it. Here's joe Kenzie Noel power, righty bat and he smokes the ball to deep right field back, goes soto way back gone. Well, the big man was watching Judge say, hey, he can go that way pretty easy. Why can't I And you know, if you , you get jammed, you can still hit it out. That's a pretty good approach to have where you stay inside the ball and you don't try to pull anything home run number 10 for Big Christmas. He breaks up the shutout with a solo jack here in the eighth and the Guardians are down to their final out here's David Fry, a one hopper to Pope the throw to first got a ball game and the Yankees with an impressive thorough 8 to 1 victory. Five ribbies for juan Soto, the two home runs for Judge. And again, that's how you get it done. If you're the Yankees, their two best players produced.