Giants vs. Nationals Game Highlights (8/6/24) | MLB Highlights

Mckenzie Gore will make his fourth career start against the Giants. He's beaten them two out of 3, 23rd start on the year six and nine. Tyler Fitzgerald has been arguably the hottest hitter in the game. Swinging Fitzgerald drives it to deep center going back. Jacob Young still back has a play shy of the warning track. He makes the catch just to the left of center field. Elliot Ramos who's missed a couple of games with an injured thumb, Ramos to right center field head deep and this one is gone. Elliott Ramos must be feeling good. That's the Ramos swing we've seen all year long, his 16th home run of the year. It's 1 to 0. Giants. You talked about it. He's bouncing around good. So let me just show Dave Fleming. Let me go. 428 just right at dead center. 31 challenge fastball up in the zone. You're going to get a lot of them when you face Gore. He gets one here and does not miss third out can be elusive. Sometimes Giants got something cruising here. Now, a couple runners are in front of a guy that's been swinging a hot bat for, had a big hit in last night's game and he drives that one out to deep right center field. It is gone. Michael Conforto was not waiting around. My goodness, what a shot. That was a three run homer. The second Giants home run of the first inning and it's 40 coming into the game. Lefties are hitting 311 off of Gore and off first pitches. 429. It is only going up from there for wasting no time gets four seam velocity right down the middle. Did not miss that when we talk about how quickly that scoreboard comes into play. They can get it on out of there. It's a little nitro zone giants four nothing. Gerard Encarnacion mckenzie Gore's got to be stunned now, groundball deep into the hole in short diving to his right and not getting it is Abrams. He comes up empty. That's a base hit will stop at second. Giants are going to send their ninth hitter to the plate in the first inning. They won't make the third out swinging and a foul tip into the strikeout. Nine Giants bat two homers Ramos Conforto and a poor spot early for San francisco Birdsong. Great to see the 22 year old back on the mound. It's been a few days, six starts this year, 3 to 0 with a 2972 and here is Ruiz on the ground to short Fitzgerald is going to run there himself good fast. And that's out. Number three, a good shut down in grade. Birdsall James Wood on base 10 games in a row over 360 during that time, no homers, but that's fine. He's driving the ball a bunch of extra base hits and makes a loud sound on a high drive to left back. Cannot get it. That's high off the wall, center fielder Ramos helping out and, yeah, James Wood lately not a homer, but that's his third triple over these last 10 games. The nationals with their first hit have a runner at third with nobody out here in the bottom of the second inning. One of those patented wood high fly balls to left field. This one just didn't carry out of the park and for got back near the wall, the ball hitting off the top of the fence came well on by him. So with wood speed, that's an easy triple Blankenhorn pretty much has to make contact to get an RB I here and there's the RB I by making contact. The first baseman Wade to the pitcher Birdsong, the Nats on the board and Travis Blankenhorn has his third RB I in seven games, two straight walks issued by Birdsong and Jacob Young will come up with runners 1st and 2nd and 1 out. Young stays with that one and hits it up. The middle. Alex Cole will score. Bargas stops at second and the Nats have the line moving here. Still only one out in a two run inning. Great job by Jacob Young to make the bat. His chased a couple down in the zone and Then one off stayed off the pitch out of the zone and he gets a curveball up in the zone enough for the knock Abrams popped up to the third baseman champion to start the first inning chance to deliver a big blow here, Abrams to right high in the air approaching the scoreboard. See you later. And now the Nets have a big fly to take the lead. Zoom goes CJ Abrams with a towering high fly ball home run over the big wall in right field. A three run homer, his 17th home run of the year and the Nationals have played it five here in the bottom of the second inning to take the lead. It's Washington five and San Francisco four on a three run homer for CJ Abrams for coming to third. He'll get the stop sign Encarnacion into second with a laser double. Number nine hitter is Casey Schmidt go struck him out ending the first inning. A popped up to right for Alex Cole. And again, it takes Mackenzie Gore a minute with the walk and the double but the zero and the Nets hold on to the lead. Hebert Ruiz leads off, switch hitting catcher and Kert Ruiz puts a charge into one deep right field. See you later. That's number nine for him and the nets lead six to four the ball carrying. Well, tonight, Ruiz has been sweet, much better of late Nats a hit some up in flight against Birdsong. Melvin's coming out and now Rodriguez will come in and you feel for Hayden Birdsong who's been so good as a young big leaguer. And that's the toughest start of his young major league career. Andy Rodriguez, the Giants would like to get a few innings out of Rodriguez. He has pitched multiple innings on several occasions and that throws to the correct side of the bag, but it skipped away from Fitzgerald and James Wood has his fourth big league steal. Rodriguez gets his first strikeout and wood anchored to second brings in Alex call. He hits that ball hard hits, hooking away from the center fielder going all the way to the wall. Wood will score, call into second. Yeah, definitely. The call and the Nats lead 7 to 4. Alex with the sixth RB I of the year you get something out a little bit closer to you more middle of the plate. Nice job. Stays behind it nicely plays it through it a little bit of a late jump on that one. Take it still only one out and here's Zilda Vargas, that one off the end of the bat and a ways to go for Fitzgerald safe is the call at first. The Nets are going to send up their sixth batter this year and that's Jacob Young Chapman crashing in Wade is going to flip home the tag and they got him at home. So it wasn't a great bunt, but it was also a nice play by Labott Wade Jr to get the second out bases loaded for Juan Leez with two outs out to left center Ramos is going to get to this one out. Long way to go. It's only the fourth inning Tyler Fitzgerald against Mackenzie Gore. The starter Fitzgerald lights it in the left field base hit. So Tyler Fitzgerald with another hit his first of the game. So here is Ramos, that's a base hit to left field for Ramos and it goes right by wood. He's got to go get it and Fitzgerald who's very fast comes all the way around to score Ramos stops at second and they've gotten one of those runs back 7 to 5. Washington and he hits this off speed pitch in the left field and it just goes right up woods arm off the glove and it just rolls with Fitzgerald speed, no doubt about it. But now Ramos gets in a scoring position without a move, Ramos over to third as Garcia throws out Wade fastball strike three called that one a little bit lower. May have thought it was outside. He is caught looking for the second out of the inning. Let's see if can can get a big hit for the Giants can to right and Alex Cole comes over to grab it to big out 1st and 3rd. That's out number one. And we'll bring in travis Blake and that will keep the nets out of a double play and a run will score second time tonight. Travis Blankenhorn has a very productive ground ball out Michael. Good for on base for the third time. He's got his second extra base hit two outs here in the fifth, swinging a high fly ball shallow right call in and toward the line has a play and he makes the catch and Taylor Rogers trying to bail the Giants out facing the left handed hitting Luis Garc-a 1st and 3rd, 2 outs swing and a miss strike three. Ok. Taylor Rogers came to play tonight. Jelly will come in with two on and one out to face. Alex call. Alex Cole puts a charge into that one and going back and not able to catch it is Ramos Wood will score ramirez to third. He will be held. Alex call has second RB I double of the night and this guy just engross this ball up the middle. You love him staying inside the ball nicely. Get the backspin on it. Rockets out there into the Nationals bullpen for an automatic double for Roiz. Bring up James Wood. Wood has a triple over the left fielder's head back in the second. He scored. It's got a loud sound. It's got a high. Hey, you way later. Goodness gracious James Wood and all three of his big league homers have gone the other way and they haven't gone like that. Lord, he scores his fourth run of the night RBIs 22 and 23. And the nationals now lead by the score of 11 to 5. What a blast by James Wood. Number two down here comes matt chapman. The Giants are trailing 11 to 5 swing and a miss ball game over and a curly W is in the books. Put up some big numbers tonight. They hit three home runs, they put 11 runs on the board and they take game two of this series from the San Francisco Giants.