Angels vs. Blue Jays Game Highlights (8/25/24) | MLB Highlights

Final game of the series, final game of the home stand, Kevin Gausman on the mound here this afternoon and he faced the Angels two starts ago. August the 13th out in Anaheim and had a very good one went seven scoreless innings in that start. First batter for the Angels is Taylor Ward. He's ding today broke the no hit bid of Bowden Francis yesterday in the air to shallow right field. Lots of sunshine today and has got the glasses on and he makes the catch right on right now. A battle with Zack Netto, the pitch and a ground ball to short scooped up by Leo Jimenez. And so two down and here's Kevin Pillar quite possibly playing in his last ever game here at Rogers Center again. He said he is leaning towards retirement, swing and a miss strike three more on top of that sweater and gets to swing over top of it. And that's a 123 top of the first for Gosman no score. Tyler Anderson ready to go to work and open his 26th assignment of the year trying to get his record back to an even 500 George springer leading things off for Toronto after a day off yesterday and a chopper to third base brandon Drury there this afternoon. That is a terrific plate appearance by Loper Fido to draw the walk. Here's Vladimir guerrero Jr again, 2 to 3 with a double and a home run yesterday. Guerrero swats a high fly ball to shallow right from second to Stefanik to make the catch a real good pitch. That's a good sequence overall on the ground to third. Drury picks it and gets it to Stefanik to put an end to the bottom of the first. Nothing comes of the one out walk to the second scoreless at Rogers center time for the second inning. Joe Adell stepping in for the Angels no score. Toronto and Los Angeles here at Rogers center. The Sun is an issue but Addison Barger does well to make the play and again, great location on that splitter gets a slow roller to Jimenez for the second out. Nice play at third by Clements and the side is retired three up , three down in the second here for Gausman got a little help from his defense behind him here for out number three top of the third in Toronto. No score. Blue Jays and Angels. Brandon Drury leads off and a fastball to get him or Drury kept waiting for the splitter and he never got it and a swing and a miss and a fastball up at 96 back to back strikeouts here to open up the third Gosman velocity was down a bit against the Reds in his last start. The stuff was just kind of here and there today is a different story so far here. Early in the third inning, the one swing and a bouncer up the middle on the run picked up by Jimenez swings over to first and that's another quick inning for Gausman, another 123 as he's retired all nine he's faced so far. No score. Middle of the third statistic Bassett's got a sign. He is referring to Taylor Ward comments though. So what Bassett has done is added up your numbers in the two starts against the Angels over the last time. So how Chris feels about Taylor Ward's comments, Chris Bass has entered the chat and what Taylor said was exaggerated a little bit for the leadoff hitter and now will be the nine hole hitter. Addison Barger. Here's Addison Barger lining one into center of base hit David Schneider will stop at second. So the first two have reached here in the bottom of the third. Vladimir Guerrero Junior intentionally walked before he even got up to the plate to load the bases. So the baton is passed here to Alejandro Kirk and it's ball four to force in a row. The benefit you have with Alejandro Kirk hitting behind Gladius. If you're going to put Vlad on to load the bases. Kirk gives you a tough plate appearance. He's not going to expand the zone a whole lot. Taylor Ward back up to the plate for the Angels. Second time through now for kevin Gosman, there's a shot out to center field that balls well , hit Lodo drifting back and he can't make the catch. It's off the wall. Taylor around second. He'll get into third with a leadoff triple. So you see Fido catching everything. It's a rare day off for Dalton V show a guy who's considered the best defensive outfielder in the sport by many. Here's Neto, he swings and lines one into left and that's going to fall in for a base hit. So Ward will come in and score and the Angels have come back quickly here in the fourth inning to tie up this game at one. Zack Neto just his second hit in this series tying it up bottom of the fifth inning. 11 Angels and Blue Jays. The top of the order hits for the Blue Jays broken bat liner to left field down for a base hit ball lands in left the barrel slams off the netting behind home plate and falls near the on deck circle but George Springer will take it. It's a leadoff single. Vladimir guerrero Junior coming up now for the Blue Jays one out runner on first and guerrero drives it to deep left field and it is going to be off the wall on the fly and it bounces away from Modi has it but Springer is around to score on an RB I double by guerrero. We keep saying Vladimir Guerrero Jr does things that other people can't and it's a changeup down and watch the way he stays on this. Baseball can rip it off the wall pretty good. A B right there for Will Wagner hasn't had his best series but he works a nine pitch walk to start this inning As Addison Marger comes up, Marger has had a base hit and he is also grounded out to, it is gone. Second series for Addison Barger and it is 4 to 1.A hanging slider from hunter Strickland. Addison Barger has been so good recently hitting hanging pitches , hit a hanging change up the other night for a game winner and Then no different there that hanging changeup. Just absolutely drills it over the bullpen in right field, only two hits for the Angels this afternoon. Other than that, absolutely nothing doing no walks, no hit batsman, no errors. Those were the only two base runners of the day allowed by Gausman swing and a miss strike three gets him to go around on a splitter in the dirt. Kirk applies the tag and that's Gausman's ninth strikeout swing and a miss strike 396 mile per hour. Fastball gets moniak. It's double digit strikeouts for Gosman and seven innings of one run ball at three and one with the bases empty. What they are going to walk guerrero. That's not what we have seen this year with lady at the play. I think Ron Washington might be over thinking this a little bit is up with Guerrero at first and one out swings at the 21 hammers it out to left Polar going back and the Blue Jays have blown it open. It's 61 Toronto, man. Do I love that? You intentionally walk one of the best hitters in baseball to get to Alejandro Kirk and he absolutely smashes a home run. Makes you pay for that top of the eighth inning. The Blue Jays leading the Angels 6 to 1 new pitcher for the Blue Jays is the righty Tommy. N here's brandon Drury for a third time. Drury with a drive out to left field well hit and that one's gone solo homer for Drury just his second of the season after 59 extra base hits last year. Second home run. That has to make him feel good. Especially after that backup break a ball in that sequence gets a hanging slider and lifts it out. You like to think that five runs is out of reach but still Bladder. That's a big run standing on third base Addison Barger out there, swing and a flare out to shallow right center field coming in moniak. It's down in front of him for a base hit and to score Barger all the way around to third low per Frito and Guerrero's got the Midas touch right now. It doesn't matter if he hits it hard or soft. Everything is dropping Lar back in the box taps the plate and looks out at pop, tall, slender right hander is ready to go swing and a foul tip held on to by Kurt strike three a scoreless top of the ninth for Zack Popp and the Blue Jays win the game 8 to 2 sweeping the Angels in this four game set at home.