Reds vs. Braves Game Highlights (9/9/24) | MLB Highlights

The Braves come in 78 and 65. Currently tied for second in the National League east with Atlanta right in the heat of the battle with the New York Mets for that final wild card spot in the national league on the mound for the Braves Charlie Mart-n eight and seven on the year. A 424 a 138 career wins. His last five starts for Charlie. He's undefeated, he's two and oh , with a good 3, 25 a five and four this season at home here at Truest Park. 11 popped up right side of the infield playable for matt Olson. Drifting towards the foul line of this will land in his glove and play and one down gets Spencer steer that brings De la Cruz up to the plate to, to have a seat beautiful fastball. He was thinking curve, he got a fastball wasn't looking for first strike out of the ball game for Charlie Morton on the way to step and he whack one way up in the air shall, right, will drifting back and in shallow, right, second baseman has it and that's a 123 1st inning by the veteran Charlie Morton. Good start. We head to the bottom of the first inning. Nick Martinez kind of interesting when you look at his season. Anybody that has followed this team all year long knows that Nick Martinez's numbers out of the bullpen pretty good as a starter. Not great. And Martinez strikes him out. There's that changeup and I really believe that change up in the two seam fastball. He has way more movement now than back in April and may walk in a single. The Braves have at 1st and 2nd for yesterday's hero sean Murphy. No score bottom of the first inning. That can change right here. But to count on sean Murphy put up big numbers in his career versus the Reds, a 381 hitter against them in his career. A ground ball weekly rolled the third base side, gobbled up by Marte. One hop throw is picked at first by France for the out side retired. The Braves threatened but come up empty with two outs. We go to the second inning. No score, Reds and Brave nine pitches got Charlie the first inning. Charlie had a pop out strikeout and Then another pop out there in the first inning, he gets first, he comes up putting little weight at first on that left foot looked like he hit him in the knee and Then it caught the catcher Murphy. I think Murphy got the worst of it is a rough game of pinball wizard. Thankfully, both men appear to be ok. Now, Friedel at first base, here's France first pitch opposite way, fair ball by France. Friedel through second. So right has trouble getting to it. Wave is on, they're going to the to the play on the save. A just fair hit from France and Friedel comes home from first reds ahead. One that pitch is off the plate away and he's still able to get enough of the good part of the bat on it to take it down the right field line. Wonder how Friedel's foot is feeling right now. It's jake Fraley to the plate. Charlie kicks and fires the 12 gets him swinging with a curve those last two curveballs better and hopefully that brings back the confidence he was looking for that pitch good release point. There two down for a Rosario Reds leading one nothing. They got an RB I double from time for a moment to go to drive in TJ Frito scored from first base. Pay off left side smothered by. She snaps the throw to first. It is not in time. France claims third. Rosario who can motor beats out she but that dive does save a run 1st and 3rd. So there at 1st and 3rd for the number nine, this guy is batting a lean 199 homered four times. Rosario takes off soft miss throw, they concede the steal. Rosario's got his 13th stolen base. Rosario. Now at second base with the steal big pitch right here, it would mean two runs, 22, it right by brought some heat there with a 95 mile an hour sinker and he strikes out or off to the top of the third one. Red one out for a Larez 12 pitch. There's a called third strike at a curveball by that's twice that de La Cruz has gone down looking in the game, got him with a fastball in the first inning. Gets him with a curveball here and of the curveballs he's thrown the night. That might be the top of the list. Good back door. So two down for Tyler Stevenson , 32 pitch that is beautiful curve ball right at the bottom of the zone and he locked up Stevenson. We end to the bottom of the fourth inning one, nothing Reds Matt Olson singled in the first inning on the backhand. Robs Matt Olson. That is a rock star play right there. He caught that ball diving backwards towards right field. You love that when you're pitching, this ball is smoked. Look at that and I don't think there is a pitcher in baseball who celebrates a teammate's play defensively like Nick Martinez swing and a miss struck him out slider away. That's another 123 innings for Nick Martinez. He's retired 10 in a row. We go to the fifth. Still the Reds one Braves nothing. And Morton who has been ahead of just about everybody all night long has now walked back to back batters with two outs here in the fifth inning, a run on three hits for the Reds. No runs, one hit for the Braves Reds threatening here bases loaded. Two out. Another 22 swung on and missed. Got him with a fastball upstairs to leave him stranded. Big out for Charlie Morton. He gets his seventh strikeout. Braves trail one to nothing. We go to the seventh getting late one down for Ahmed Rosario hard hit ball out to third spinning stop by shea and that throw right on target. Another outstanding play by G shea who continues to wow, everybody here in the ballpark. Nice strong throw. He has been so good over there defensively good for him. Back to back two out singles here in the seventh, Charlie's night will come to an end at exactly 100 pitches, 61 strikes and the Braves going to the bullpen with two down here in the top of the seventh. Aaron Bummer will come on for Charlie Morton here in the seventh inning. Charlie six and two thirds innings, six hits one run allowed a couple of runners out there belong to him, walk to struck out seven. Also hit a very costly batter early in the game. Aaron Bummer four and three at 340. Er A this is his 50th appearance laz over two runners on the move. Pitches, a strike go down the third base close play, get him right on the money, sean Murphy. So B throws pitch and the Braves out of the jam. Let's see if the Reds want to take a peek at it. No signal yet. From the third base dugout still waiting on them to make a decision. They will challenge this. The only way he gets out of this is if the tag was in between his hands and I don't think it was came in. No, that left hand hit the glove before he hit the bag. He's out. I'll be stunned if they overturn this call. He is out in the top of the seven. Got to get the bats going running out of chances can ask for much more than what nick Mart-n gave the Reds tonight seven brilliant innings of shutout baseball. Just two hits, walked one struck out five excellent start for Nick Martinez. Go to the bottom of the 810 red call. The will bring in fernando Cruz for Cruz in his game number 65. He was in a lot of games last year. He totaled up 58. So he is a new here right hander with a 38 record. Got him to expand. He's really sticking with that splitter and it gets her shallow one away, no balls and two strikes on swing and a miss away with a fastball over the outside corner, two outs here in the eighth inning. Braves trailing one nothing. The Braves have had one base runner on first base in the game tonight. Luke Williams. It's a fly ball out to deep left center TJ Fried ranging back circles off his route and he's under the Braves go down in order in the eighth. That is the sixth time that they have gone down 123 and we will head to the ninth inning with the Reds leading the Braves one to 1st and 3rd for Fraley. The Reds have some insurance just 90 ft away for the last thing you want is to allow them to pick up some insurance here in the top of the ninth. That would really sting back to back one out singles by the Reds. Noel Marte is the batter, 12 pitch and this time he gets it by him through a slider low and in and Marte swings and misses big strike out there for Holmes. Now he's got to finish the drill. So now it's in the hands of Spencer, steer chopper up the third base line going to be a tough player. She has got it unload and not in time, Olson had to go to the ground to get leather on it. He rolls over and points to the Braves dugout to look at it and if this gets challenged and this is a huge call and it will be challenged. So we're about to get our first look at the replay, I think they got it. And if this call gets overturned , it's because of the great play by Olson stretching off the bag , it bounced Joe but shot right up into the webbing and made the impact on the back of his glove right before the left foot of steer hit the bag. Agreed. There it is. Call it over turned. That takes a run off the board. That is a big one for the Braves. Now, they got to find a way to get a run. We go to the bottom of the ninth inning 1 to 0. So the Braves are down to their final out and coming to the plate. The man who's led the offense all year and while his power numbers have grown quiet here over the last week and a half, you know that he's liable to erupt at any time. Two down bottom of the ninth one , keep the hopes alive. 2 to 2 pitch out to right center Fraley charges. He's got it and the ball game is over. The Reds blank. The Braves 1 to 0. Atlanta only gets two hits and that's all they could muster tonight. Tough one tonight in this makeup game between the Braves and the Reds.