Orioles vs. Dodgers Game Highlights (8/27/24) | MLB Highlights

Dodgers coming into the season, one of the big favorites, the Orioles do as well and it's fun when things lineup the way you think they're gonna, and this is a big time series here. It could be a preview of a World Series, which would be amazing. And I think with these Orioles, these young guns going against the veterans, a great team on the Dodgers side, they're going to be fun to watch. And there are the combined numbers, a big strikeout number. It is Ben for Flaherty. What a turnaround. It's been turnaround season last year, Jack Clarity picked to an , er, a of five this year. It's 32 runs per game better this year. What's different? Just look at the walks 24 walks this year and 129 innings of work last year, he walked 66 and already exceeded his strikeout number from last year. 162 punchouts this year leading it off for the Birds is Colton Ker left handed hitter, 247 tied him up, struck him out with the fastball. He will strike out more than a batter per inning. He's near the top of baseball is trying to get that whiff and he gets it. There is a 262 on the year a liner in the center field in and over toward right center to make the catch tommy Edmond. And quickly there's two out rookie of the year has graduated from that to just simply one of the best players in baseball. And he's still only 23 Henderson lines one into the glove of shortstop, miguel Rojas perfectly positioned behind second base, 123. Here come the Dodgers, here comes shohei. It's an Anaheim. I went to high school. He's been back and forth featuring the bullpen and the rotation this year back and forth between the big league club and AAA Shohei Otani steps in first pitch line drive to right field and it's going to drop in for a base, hit a step in front of Anthony Santander and so on one pitch, the Dodgers have their first base runner of the night. A single to right by again. He throws a lot of breaking stuff we talked earlier in and so the Dodgers have a base runner one pitch into the ball game and up comes Mookie Bats a shot to second Jackson scares it and starts a double play was called right to Jackson. Jackson was right on time and right in the right place. So you're right. This is a bullet just right back up the middle. There's Jackson just a little too hot to Oscar hernandez. Now this is hit on the ground right to the shortstop fielded by anderson. He'll fire on to first base. It's into the chest of o'hearn hernandez is out and so a minimum pace first, here's Ryan o'hearn feels like he's close, he feels like he's close to breaking out. It's been around a month since o'hearn last home run. But like some of the swings he put on last series, he said he thinks his swing decisions have been better and o belt it, he was waiting on that first home run in a while and there it is just over the right field wall for ryan and for the first time since July 20th leaves the yard and the Orioles strike first, that's how you want to get the party started right there. Well, you work the count, you get a 31 fastball, you can look for it even if he don't throw it now, maybe in Baltimore that might have been off the wall, but he torches it. Dodgers as a club have really been hitting and can explain why they played so well. That's a fair ball have been chugging out of the box with extra bases. It's kept, will take the third one. You see if we call it an error or not because of the tough car. Tommy Edmonds doesn't care how they score it. He just likes being on third with one out to left fielder. K's there makes the, here comes , here comes K's story in the game set the first fly miguel Rojas, 1 to 1. Miguel is through the bottom of the league as far as hard contact. But it is specific contact that he goes for to move runners up to hit holes in the infield to get singles and to drive in runs right there. That ball was not scorched but it was hit well enough RB. Now it threw out nobody on and has just singled in his second at bat between Henderson the shortstop and Holliday the second base. So Otani, you love holding him to a single. He has two of those tonight. No harm, no foul, but it does extend the inning from Mookie Betts inside ball four Dodgers looking for their first lead of the game. So the inning will extend 1st and 2nd with two outs and the power ball to Oscar hernandez will come to the plate. He pulls one in the left center fielder, a base hit a two out rally as they've done so frequently in the second half has given them the lead 2 to 1 on a base hit. Here's Will smith and we won't see one here sinker gets him. So a couple of strikeouts in the inning for Irvin and Jack Flaherty, four strikeouts, one walk against his former team. Oh my goodness. How did that with a blur headed right for him? Wow, Moor's last couple of months. One of the Orioles best hitters. 863 is on base plus slugging. That's an excellent number since July Holliday's on the run and over the drive deep left field into the los Angeles Knights. The red hot ramon Arrey just keeps on swinging a big stick and the Orioles jump back in front of the year. Orioles reached their approximate average over the last seven games as far as runs scored in half of this game. And they're doing it with the long ball, which is a large part of their again off flaherty and they are peppering him in this inning. Oh, it's up by the wrist area. That's why they're having him flex that with one out 71 pitches. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets through this inning. That that would be it because they're going to want to get some ice on that and not the swelling get in r pulls it to Quique hernandez at first. #### will take it himself on one hop and that the top of the fifth inning. So something of course worth monitor here, Jack Clear. He take that line, drive off his wrist, throwing down in that bullpen yet he's back. They use this advanced medical technology known as tape, blue tape. This is where he's going to have a little longer leash and mark prior coming out, not dave Roberts. And the reason is when his back has been against the wall since he has been very tough with runners in scoring position in the air right field. Mookie running in should be a can of corn. Taylor gives Mookie his space to make the catch. That's the first out. Both runners hold Flaherty to Jimenez with a 2 to 2 and a fastball. You're not kidding about a little more leash two on two out in the sixth inning. A left handed hitter up a left hander in the bullpen ready to go but Jack Flaherty going to get a chance to face him. Cedric Mullins flied down the line fading towards the corner right to finish off six innings from Jack Flaherty grit and toughness tonight in this highly anticipated up for the 10 game run is on base and the go ahead run coming up to the plate swing strike three down and away opportunities but they one for six tonight with runners in scoring position sinker outside corner strike three called Will smith disagrees but Cano Straddles and Stairs Smith back to the third base dugout. You can don't, you know, three of the five wins, the comeback for fly ball. This is not going to win the game shallow center for Mullins and M is retired and there are two outs in the bottom of the ninth drew. French goes out has a few with sir Anthony Dominguez Freddie Freeman, maybe not available tonight. Injury recently trying to play through it, but it's lux who's hitting here inside ball four tying run in scoring position. And how desperate is chris for a moment where he's the guy with a drive to left field to is there and the Orioles hang on for dear life winning a 32 opener at Dodger Stadium.