Rays vs. Dodgers Game Highlights (8/25/24) | MLB Highlights

Gavin Stone, a career high 10 K's over seven scoreless innings to start this home stand. That was a great outing. This is a great year. 11 wins, leads all national league rookies and a 340 four. a Diaz second pitch of the game to center field, pushing back. Quique Hernandez on the edge of the grass in front of the warning track. He secures the first out of the game, his 22 pitch swinging Miss strike three K for Stone second out. Waits on this one to come down. Camaro chugging up that line. Stone, an infielder growing up turns and fires to get him and finish off a 123 1st taking the mound this afternoon for the Tampa Bay Rays. It's going to be left hander. Jacob Lopez. This is what he did in three games with the Rays. Five and a third innings, five earned runs first ball swinging Otani to right, but the yard's gonna hold him one pitch, one out. No sweat for Jacob Lopez. Mookie Betz caught by Caballero. Isn't it nice to have athletes up the middle? You know, there's some second base that are not going to be able to get to that one, two again, swinging the ball to first on a hop snared on the back hand by flips to La Lopez covering in time to get Freeman on the races. Make two brilliant plays behind Jacob Lopez in a 123, first three perfect innings out of the gates for Gavin Stone. Jacob Lopez has matched him six up, six down for the struck him out very similar to the pitch that he got Oscar hernandez with. It's that sweeping breaking ball lineup turns over the second time through will finally begin against Jacob Lopez. Here's show o 024 and cut on and miss for strike three. Jacob Lopez Rs up Shohei on a slider outside. Stone has faced 10 batters now and retired them all. Here comes the number 11 hitter , Brandon low and the Rays have their first baserunner hard single by Brandon Lau. He didn't let him get to the change up this time. No, no, be ready to go. The first sequence of pitches was, was pretty next level by gavin Stone. Cainero punches a ground ball right side. Taylor's only play is going to be at first two out and he's popped up on the right side. Chris Taylor holding the glove up fighting the sun. Freddie Freeman will take it though. Second pop up recorded for Freddie. So the one out single from Lowe does not hurt Gavin Stone or the Dodgers four pitch walk opens the four grounded out his first time did Freddie Freeman hitless in 10 A BS. This series lifted into left field. Lowe coming on. Still coming. Not going to get there. Freddie Freeman will take it any way he can get it on a weekend where he's looking for his first hit. It falls in like that and the Dodgers in business here in the fourth, he got them and there's out number one timely strikeout for Jacob Lopez hit to right. So the warning track goes to Luca where he makes the catch, Betts will tag and make third. There are two out, two outs and the pitch swung on and blasted to right on. The run is Deluca though in the corner, he'll make the catch just before reaching the wall and Jacob Lopez bends but does not break for scoreless in the fifth in L A and Dodgers flied to deep left center field by Rof hernandez on the run. Holds it in. He's not been out there in months. Just a pure baseball flare no matter where you put him. #### hernandez thrills. That's awesome. And that folks is why he is on this ball club so versatile and Then you add what he does in the postseason. Not even a question. I K Hernandez struck out swinging leading off the bottom of the third inning. Hernandez flies the ball towards the gap in left center field carrying well over the of the weekend for #### Hernandez and the scoreless tie is broken the way he's playing. He must think it's a playoff game, right? I mean, obviously he's going to tell you in honor of Kobe Bryant , what's gone on prior to the game and the festivities? And Kobe being his favorite player, why he wears that number two hits for each team. Dodgers had the game's lone run as we go to the seventh, Gavin Stone's been spectacular and Johnny De Luca gets into one into left field and the California kid has tied it up home run Deluca 1 to 1. You know , the Rays contact has been getting louder each of the last three innings and finally one gets over the wall and this thing begins again. How about this trip home for Johnny Deluca? I mean, this is something else so back even so Stone trying to take a deep breath here strikes him out. Number six hits him with that slider again. It's an 02 to wall strikes out swinging gavin Stone with a couple of K's in the seventh bouncing back after the leadoff blast by the former Dodger. Johnny Deluca. Hunter Fiducia. There's Fiducia first hit in the big leagues. All right, Conor Fusha singles against Drew Rasmussen and he's got a major league hit, got to do a little hip turn down there at first base as well. You know, he's been practicing that and he'll get the ball for Hunter. Congratulations to hunter for Red and throws it swing and Taylor slices one into right center field. There's Johnny Deluca though making the catch on the crow hop or Then did he drop the ball? He tosses into second and the throw goes back to first. He is out. So that's a double play to end the inning and he lost it on the transfer and he didn't go back to t and I think everybody is confused about what just happened. Now, we have the bottom of the eighth game tied at one. Shohei Otani, here's a 21. Otani tries to get out of the way. Yeah, I guess it hit him. They're asking if there was a swing as down to third for Bill Miller, I didn't see the outcome of that but again, Dodger fans holding their breath, it was ruled no swing. So this is a hit by pitch, but that's feels irrelevant at this point. The bigger deal is, is he ok? Waved off. The training staff stays in the game. Mookie Betts first pitch swinging high fly ball left field. Did you, Mookie Betts makes it hurt a two run home run to break the tie and the Dodgers lead it 3 to 1. Now, what a roller coaster of emotions over like a 62nd stretch. Otani gets hit and a lot of the thoughts on him making sure he's ok watching that replay. But as we're thinking about that , Betts in there and clubs a go ahead home run to the ninth inning. We go after Mookie Betts Homers in the bottom of the 8th, 31. Dodgers in front. Anthony Bond is on for looking for his second save. Got him with the Anthony Banda slams the door. The Dodgers beat the Rays 3 to 1. They win the series and they're 5 to 1 on this home stand. The power shows up Hernandez getting on the board and Mookie Betts the big two run shot Dodgers win.