Braves vs. Phillies Game Highlights (8/30/24) | MLB Highlights

Taking the mound tonight for game two between the Phils and the Braves. A 2.82 a and 122 strikeouts. And last time out looked pretty good and I think the hope is he'll keep on building. He is on a unspecified pitch count, got him. He certainly wasn't sitting for fastball and a Colt strike three right on the inside part of the plate back to back cases swing and a miss, he struck out the side 123 go. The Braves Charlie Morton gave up the late homer yesterday, but they keep that streak going of three earned runs or less in 18 straight starts. And tonight it will be Reinaldo Lopez trying to continue that Harper lines one down the right field line. That is a fair ball going to the corner Bryce on his way to second and he'll be there with his 32nd double of the year. So you got a rudner in scoring position for Castano and he has started to thrive in these spots since the first of August. He's at 320 with runners in scoring position. That's a good pitch. But it's called the ball, but it was actually a strike. He just didn't present it very well. The first walk issued by Lopez and it brings Stott up, Lopez kicks, steals, reaches for it, slaps the curveball back to the mound wide throw, but a good job by Mattson to reel it in. And in the first inning, Rangers struck out the side in the first inning. It's the first time in his career that he has struck out the side in the first inning of the game. Swing and a miss four strikeouts in a row, a strike three called five up five down. It's five consecutive strikeouts for Ranger to start the night. You certainly got to like what we're seeing right now. Bounce the second base. He just ruined the six up, six down for Rangers, Suarez Braves looking for their first baserunner of the game. They've been hypnotized byRanger Su-rez. Ranger Su-rez. He's faced six batters and he has five strikeouts and now as the boos rained down on the Braves shortstop, Orlando do his best to find the first base hit of the ball game for the Braves Orlando out to left center field. This thing is well struck. It is gone. Orlando see you later and it's one to nothing as the boos rained down here in Philly and that one does carry over that big green wall in left field and it is one. Braves Braves are second in the national league in home runs. Count runs full sean Murphy high and deep and good by back to back solo shots. That was a mammoth majestic towering drive off the bat of Murphy and it is two nothing Braves as they visited the seats in left field back to back. So now five of his 11 home runs allowed this season have come 2.5 starts against the Braves to separate those guys and you don't want Schwarber any lower than that. He hits his high into the Friday night sky. Shea finds it for the first out or that and they can chase nasty slider lines one the opposite way. Los on the run. It's over his head. A one hop off the wall Harper is thinking two for the second time. Here's the throw to second off. That was a good, he's ok. 24 hours. Sure. He'll, he'll hear about it a lot. Oh, man, that could have been awful. Did you see his ankle? I'm sure wins. Not saying anything he's on him right now. Fastball there to right field. But so has it had some high jinks in between innings? Merrifield is reporting Bryce Harper for a poor slide. They like each other when he was here. They did. He was a very popular team and Olson with his base hit fouling double from Ozuna puts them at the corners when they went out and now Ramon loo up to the plate, this is going to score Marcello Zuna but they do get Lorean at first, but that's a very productive out. You score one, you also move Matt Olsen up to second base makes it 3 to 0. Braves here in the top of the fourth inning but Harris gets his second hit against Suarez there. Michael Harris goes for second base. Did he go? No, he did not. So it doesn't matter. Harris will take second garcia takes first and the Braves have them loaded up. It looked like when this game started, it was going to be a long night for these Braves hitters, but they've done a great job making the adjustment to what Suarez is trying to do this. He is in quite a pickle here and now sean Murphy trying to add to his problems with a base hit right here, grounded to third diving stop by Sosa. He will get sean Murphy but a run scores and now you have two in scoring position with two outs. You got to go to first. You really don't have any other players bouncer shortstop. It could have been a lot worse. They allowed two runs at the big four numbers. We go to the bottom of the fourth Bills down 4 to 0. Sound familiar Phillies have come from behind and won two games where they had to come from behind by four and last night was one of those two Reinaldo with three clean innings. Thus far looking for 1/4 that ball hit well out to right field. So there's going back into the first row. Bryson Stott reaches double figures and homers it's a 4 to 1 game. Bryson ST with a solo home run over the high wall in right. It's his 10th of the year and it's a 4 to 1 Braves lead. Now it's up to the Phillies bullpen to shut him down. Well, this bullpen has been really good line drive center field and Rojas makes the diving grab boy. He had his eyes on it the whole time, Johan Rojas every night when he's in the game. He pulls one of those in Lopez and the Braves leading the Phillies 4 to 1, a great catch in the top of the inning and he strikes out here good slider from Lopez back to back strikeouts. Schwarber knew it. He turned to the dugout immediately. 32 out to Michael Harris a couple of steps over. He'll take it the 1st 123 inning of the game for Lopez. The Phillies have not retired Orlando RC yet. He had the homer in the third and he walked in the fourth 21 is lifted high and deep out to left center and Orlando has another 12 tonight for Orlando Arcia. That ball was clocked into the seats in straight away center and he's having a good time here in front of this pro Philadelphia crowd. 51 Braves, that cutter misses. So after getting the first two here in the six. Lazar gives up the homer. Now he walks Murphy. So here is Giovanni Urshela gets that by a diving sos. Come on, Murph. Let's see what they send him. Yes, because Mars struggled to pick it up down the line and that allows sean Murphy to come all the way home. 6 to 1. Atlanta, two runs in 16 innings for Lopez against the Phillies swinging a mess curveball. There's a strike right in there. 98 Raldo coming in here with the best, er, a in baseball for a starter. Two and two. He's only given up one so far with two outs in the sixth and he's going to continue that through six innings. Great job once again by Reynaldo Lopez and you give up one run strikeout six and dominant that went off of the pitcher, not in the center, Marte who just came into the game out of the bullpen , but it looks like that was a glancing blow and he's ok, it's a single and that'll bring Matt Olson to the plate. He's one for three. Matt Olson right center. Nobody's going to get to that thing. Marcello Zuna might be going first to home again. Yes, he is, he's going to score and Atlanta piling on it is 7 to 1 in the seventh. Jt Realmuto here in the bottom of the seven, 21 pitch swung on hit deep left field and Allen is going to go JT Rutto, it's a hanging breaking ball and he slams it out to left a solo shot , but he's going to run back. It's now 7 to 2 on JTS 11th of the year. Well, he came back last night, biggest deficit of four on the year and one. They just want to do something bigger and better tonight. And the Braves three outs away from evening, this series in on the hands pop to the left side and Orlando Arcia has it and he got him that time. The slider Sousa is zero for four and the Phillies have just one out remaining. Braves trying to get back to 13 games over 500 which matches their season best if they can get there with one more strike, one more out, 2 to 2 pitch. Yes, he struck him out looking to end game two of the series and the Braves even up the series and they continue to put up crooked number after crooked number.