Angels vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (5/3/23) | MLB Highlights

Miles Michaelis has gone toe to toe with some of the best miles coming off a strong start last time his seventh start of the season. So Zack Neto leads off and we are underway. First pitch swing hit toward right. New bar in the shadows handles that one pitch and one out gets things started in St. Louis tonight. Here's Mike Trout. Trout was hitless last night seven homers 18 driven in for him and he got him Chase. That's refreshing to up to down for Michaelis. Listen to the applause for Shohei Ohtani from the Cardinals fans and the first pitch on the ground is going to be a base hit to right. So Taney wastes no time. He's a board in front of Anthony Rendon. Here's a three to pitch Ohtani takes off and that one is skied into shallow center out goes Donovan Carlson will join Edmond is there too. And Miles Michaelis a scoreless first inning. Now the Redbirds batsmen go to work against Shohei Ohtani at home. This is the number one reason why they changed the schedule and gave interleague play more of a push so that players like this can be showcased in all the ballparks. More often. How often do you see a visiting player get a round of cheers when he came to the plate. I was going to do on the mound and a tip of the cap from his WBC teammate Lars Neubauer who leads off for the Cardinals here in the home first swing and a miss Ohtani strikes out his new best Bud Neubauer goes down for the first down Goldie behind. One ball two strikes and look at that ball explode back to back strikeouts. That thing broke about three feet. Nolan Gorman who is batting to sixty seven on the year six home runs for him on low tie in the air deep right center field at the track at the wall. He ambushed him one nothing Cardinals lead that'll do it right there. First pitch sinker elevated belt high and Gorman shows off the power is seven home run of the year and a huge one here to give the Cardinals a little momentum against one of the best pitchers in the game. Nice work there by Gorman. Now Wilson Contreras will be the batter. It's a warning there for allowing him to get in the batter's box. We saw that all last night with Contreras happened at least twice in the game yesterday with Wilson Contreras Contreras kind of just wanders around the batter's box in a way that he's in the box. He's not really looking at the pitcher and it certainly seems like that is something that he is purposely doing to mess with the pitcher's time trying to aggravate him a little bit to more. There you go with that swing and miss was not real happy with him. After all that he strikes about three strikeouts but a home run allowed and it's one nothing St. Louis. Brandon Drury is the bat. He was one for four last night. High fly ball deep out there in left field and that ball is gone Brandon Drury has connected. That's his sixth home run of the season and just like that the Angels have tied up the game at one. All it is for Ohtani is five outs all via strikeout. Cardinals were given a gift in this inning on a Drury error and a couple of wild pitches had a runner standing at third with nobody out. Now we're sitting here with two out same runner Alec Burleson standing there swing and a miss Edmond strikes out a swing and a miss Ohtani strikes out the side again. Cardinals and Angels are tied at one. So they're at the corners for Ohtani who singled on the first pitch he saw hard hit in the right field a base hit. The Angels take the lead as Wallach scores and it's an RBI single for the starting pitcher. Here's Hunter Renfroe with an RBI chance to bounce two men on bounce down the line going to be a tough play even for our Renato Renfroe is safe. A run scores as Trout comes home and the Angels take a three to one lead in an infield hit Showtime. Indeed here in St. Louis tonight Ohtani has two hits in an RBI has six strikeouts on the mound who strikes out that is seven strikeouts for Shohei Ohtani and four in a row. So Goldie is the runner and it's Gorman at the plate and that's in the dirt. Goldie got a good secondary job but he's going to be thrown out. So Goldschmidt tried to move up on a ball in the dirt to stay out of the double play. Instead he's thrown out two outs in the inning. That'll be the first out of the ball game that's not recorded via the strikeout. That's a good pitch strike three called. It is the eighth strikeout for Shohei Ohtani. He's only been pitching for three innings and he's got a three to one lead. Nolan Arenado leads off hammered down the line. That one's fair. It's off the chart. And man that's got to feel good for Nolan Arenado. That's about the hardest he's hit a ball in two weeks and it was a missile off Ohtani and the tying run comes to the plate. And now another chance to get something done on Ohtani driven down the right field line. That's going to be troubled if it's fair that balls in the corner that balls off the wall. Arenado will score Contreras with a double and it's a one run game. Dylan Carlson put up a big fight. Eight nine pitch it bad before striking out in the air toward center Trout retreating to the warning track still going at the wall and Cameron for Carlson. And just like that the Cardinals are back in front and now Shohei one strike away from his five hundred strikeout. He went and that is strikeout number five hundred for Ohtani and he ties a career high. That's his thirteenth strikeout tonight in St. Louis Giovanni Gallegos will come on and try to get the final three outs. The Cardinals have not had a save in their last 16 days. Gallegos will have the nine one and two hitters for the Angels which means Mike Trout is due third and he drives this ball to right center field. This is deep. New bars going to watch it go. The game is tied. Jaeger's a game tying pinch hit home run and it's four to four here in the top of the nine. Here's Trout Ohtani's next. Trout puts the Angels in front. Mike Trout has given the Angels the lead to home runs in the top of the nine and the Angels have scored back to take a five four lead in St. Louis. Here's Ohtani two out of four tonight. Now Ohtani drills a gap in left center field that's going to get down for extra bases bouncing off the wall it's a double for Shohei and the Angels are roasting Gallegos here in the ninth and the fans are not happy. Three extra base hits in the ninth for the Angels. But now you've got to keep them with a one run lead. There's a bullet and Ohtani will score to make it six to four. It's an insurance run off the bat of Rendon. It's a three run ninth inning. And as the booze drowned the Cardinals the Angels have a six four lead. This one is a real gut check. John the Cardinals of course have one more out left but things turned on a dime here but look very much like a Cardinal victory a much needed Cardinal victory against one of the best starters in baseball and Ohtani. Now the Cardinals down to their last out Edman loops when the left here comes Taylor Ward say goodnight to the Cardinals. The Angels storm back in the ninth inning. They get a highlight of a victory at Busch Stadium a three run top of the ninth and a cascade of booze here in St. Louis the likes of which are rarely heard directed toward the Cardinals as the Angels have won the first two games of this series and Gooby tonight in improbable fashion.