White Sox vs. Astros Game Highlights (8/16/24) | MLB Highlights

It's spencer on the mound for the Astros five and 10, 5.14. Er, a in 21 starts, 105 innings , 102 hits tied for seventh in the A L with 50 walks, 129 strikeouts. That will bring up Luis Robert Junior. This ball hit pretty well to left field. Jordan Alvarez will watch it off the board. He plays it well. He's got a chance to throw out Luis Robert tag in time Jordan played that perfectly. Luis Robert Junior trying to go to second Jordan point. His buddy with a big smile. I got you that time. That was a great play by Jordan. He knew this ball was hit hard enough to get off the left field wall, hitting high up on that padded wall which makes that bounce back to Jordan. True. And speaking of true, that arm was very true. Getting there in plenty of time to get luis Benee in 214 265 on base percentage grounded right to Jose Altuve spencer. Arrietty hopping off the mound. He's off to another good start. Garrett Crochet on the mound for Chicago 6 to 9, 65. a in 24 starts. Big pitch there to get Diaz as Crochet looking like himself again, sets down the Astros in order and it will be a single for andrew Vaughn that will bring up gavin sheets red hot here late swing and a miss picking up strikeout number two getting the hot Gavin sheets and that will bring up former Astro corey Lee, but he can also do this sends it deep to left field and that one is going to go off the wall. Lee, the throw comes into second. He slides in safely. A couple of deep drives Robert in the first thrown out at second trying to stretch a double and Then Corey Lee here are missing. So a four pitch walk and the bases are loaded here in the second. The table is set for Dominic Fletcher ground to first. They get one at second back to first and he couldn't glove it. So the run scores could not squeeze it and Fletcher safe at first white Sox. So fortunate here they got a bad break with the ball off the wall but they get a good break right here. This should have been too, not a great throw by the first baseman and Then Arrietty covering first base has an easy catch and he's not able to glove it. Jeremy on. Once again, that is the first hit for the Astros leadoff man on for victor Caratti nasty second punch out for Crochet. Here's jake Myers and he gets the wipe out with that cutter. Third strikeout tonight. Zack De Zenzo, the first baseman and Crochet fans three in a row. Four punch outs on the night. This is our ace. Second straight inning. The White Sox have led off with a hit now it's Robert Junior. He did it that one going way up there over the train tracks. Yes, sir. A 3 to 0 White Sox lead here in this third inning. Boy, you can only hope this is a sign of things to come for him because if he finds his swing, pitchers are going to pay for the rest of the year, here's Jose Altuve, it's this ball well to left going back on it and he will play it. It's going to be a double, an automatic double ground rule double for Altuve. It knocked out the fourth inning score for the Yankees and altuve will reach second base. You say he knocked out the Yankees again. That was awesome. Tuve hitting this one so hard. He got a cutter up that he can handle. It. Came off the bat at 108.4 and that Manuel's scoreboard couldn't even hold him. He broke that zero and just punched a hole in that wall. Now, Jordan Alvarez comes to the plate, Jordan Alvarez, one to center coming on Robert Jr. He's not going to get there checks up for an RB, I hit Astros on the board. It's now a 3 to 1 game Jordan drive run number 65 on the air to see Jordan driving a run here at home, didn't hit it hard but hit it hard enough. Tuve sold out. He saw this ball was off the end of the bat of Jordan and there was nobody out in the outfield that was going to have a chance between robert Jr and Benintendi. Jeremy Pena is 2 to 2 after that infield hit. This is the stretch in the lineup where he struck out three in a row in the second inning after a Pena hit 1 to 2 just by him. His first time swing and a miss , he struck him out eight strikeouts for Crochet. Zack got him swinging just sticking with that 99 with an occasional cutter changeup. And Crochet has got nine strikeouts through four and there are two away. Luis Robert Jr. His last time up a two run home run on the train track 11 hit in the air to left and this one he just got it over that yellow line in the Crawford boxes. And while his first was a no Doubter, this was a nail biter, a cliffhanger and it's 4 to 1. We talked about somebody's going to pay and it happens to be Spencer three for three for one off the top of the wall and two over it start to the inning after getting out of a base hit Jose Altuve and he gets him with the splitter. What a pitch by. And now it's Jordan. He had an RB I single in the third swing and a ground ball up the middle glove by Lopez will step on second throw to first double play, a 6 to 3 double play and the inning is over. Spencer will not get through six innings tonight. This will break his string of five starts in a row, six innings or more. The lefty warming up Caleb Ferguson will be on to face the lefty Dominic Fletcher runner on first and two outs walked him. So Fletcher keeps the inning alive for Baldwin back to back walks to the eight and nine hitters here in the White Sox lineup walks in the inning to load the bases. Now back to the top of the lineup and Nicky Lopez who is one for three broken bat caught by the pitcher Ferguson and that will do it for the White Sox in the sixth. Victor Caratini able to pick on a two Seamer and the Astros have a two out base runner that will bring up Jake Meyers who struck out twice today. Oh, Crawford, we've got a one run game fire with his 12 that split finger from Tookie toussaint has been giving the Astros hitters trouble but Jake myers went down and got one lifted it out to the Crawford box. Well done. Jake myers, the Ark of energy two out hit by Carini a home run on a 3 to 2 pitch by Jake Baer. The Astros have the tying run on base, draws a two out walk. The Astros will get the go ahead run to the plate. That's mauricio Dub-n who has struck out and walked Dub-n to the wall that's going to be, he's going to be held up to second base with a double and the Astros have the tied run at third. The go ahead run at second does cash in Justin Anderson, a Houston native is on to try to get out of the sixth inning mccormick grounded to third and the sox get out of the jam. Four walks here the last two innings taken by the sox two on for sheets with one away swing and a miss got him on a changeup. Now, corey Lee will stand in one for three, doubled in the second , got him and strikes out his former battery mate, corey Lee to end the inning and here he comes, runners on at 1st and 3rd and Luis Robert Junior at the dish this one hit hard and it kicks into center field fletcher scores, Nicky Lopez gets to third and the white sox get one more and lead it 5 to 3 here in the eighth inning. This is another nice piece of hitting. Didn't try to do too much, didn't try to go for the big bomb almost 99 off the bat but it's just a line drive single right back up the box fastball into this game. This will be his first save opportunity of this season. He is one of four in his career as far as saves and save opportunities. John Singleton will be a pinch hitter this time around for Chaz mccormick Singleton hits here with two outs and nobody on that ball hit to left field hit pretty well all the way back and that is the a pinch hit home run makes it 5 to 4 big John not ready for the postgame fireworks providing some of his own with his pinch hit home run. Good to see from John using that Crawford box to his advantage, Astros with a chance batters got him swinging ball game and the Sox end Astros eight game winning streak taking game one of this series 5 to 4.