Dodgers vs. Rangers Game Highlights (4/18/25) | MLB Highlights

Rangers starter tonight Jacob deGrom he certainly has a nice pedigree himself. Yeah the Ben Abbott and Associates pitch arsenal will first look at the record here looking for the first win 14 and two thirds for three ERA Rangers catching a bit of a break with Shohei Ohtani on paternity leave. So Tommy Edmond will lead it off and turns on this ball sends it in the air to deep right field and he's the same for both these men. DeGrom allows a home run and when Tommy Edmond hits his National League leading seven Shohei who. And a fastball strike three called Betts down looking one away at the fastball. Ninety eight miles an hour maybe a hair off the plate framed up. We'll take it to got him swinging a slider from DeGrom back to back K.O. to. And that's in the air right field Garcia in his spot. He'll make the catch as Dodgers fans can sit down home run by Edmond and the Dodgers get that first run of the game. Yoshinobu Yamamoto who has looked like one of the best pitchers in baseball so far absolutely dominant on Friday against the Cubs six scoreless inning struck out nine in that game. And there it is right there to strike out Simeon sets it up with a couple fastballs and out of that same tunnel falls off the table under the payoff got him went back to the curve to get Seager and he's got back to the back case using the curve ball again in the three to count after setting him up getting the bat moving on the foul ball with the fastball and then he pulls the string comes home with a three to. Towering pop line the left center field Conforto comes on finishes off for one two three first for Yamamoto Dodgers got that first run of the game in the first inning on the Edmond Homer and out of the second he pops this one up. Should be Harris coming way in but it is young going out and he makes a catch one away is to two and he got him swinging a fastball up in the zone. Ninety eight miles per hour and for the ground that's three punch outs. Hits his ball hard out to right field and Muncie is on with a two out single. There's a swing at a high fly ball center field for Eddie Rosario and Tavares tucks it away on this one two from Yamamoto. Garcia swings and misses and a third K already for Yamamoto. Yamamoto has the swing and miss working in the first inning at ten swing six misses this one off the handle of the bat hit out pretty well to the gap and that one goes ahead and rolls past Páez Young will stop it second with a one out double. I look like I got in on him a little bit but he hit it hard hundred seven exit velocity so he must have caught it on the barrel there and when he got by Páez there I thought maybe a triple but Páez recovered quickly went back to it to finish off Harris. Strikeout number four for Yamamoto to go. A nice job by Will Smith picking that ball off the ground and then checking the runner and five K's over to score dissentings for Yamamoto. A one nothing start to this one Dodgers on top ninth place hitter Andy Páez will lead it off and he hits it sharply down to third nice backhand pick by Young and the throw to first in time. Well that's another great defensive play by Josh Young in the in-between. Young make sure he catches it and it was a strike to Berger. Good job staying low down on this ball and the perfect strike over there. Three to strike three called and a froze Edmond for its strikeout for Jacob to ground three balls and two strikes. Smoky Betts Jackson's swing and a high fastball somehow lays off some good pitches right there and the ground issues his first walk of the evening on one bouncer right side and ranging way over for Simeon. And he'll throw the ground covering and they get Freeman. Well we came in expecting a really fun pitching matchup tonight. It's exactly what we have got. He makes quick work of young strikes him out in the splitter. It's his six six strikeouts. This one lined in the left field by Harris another well struck ball. He's digging for two and the throw won't be in time. A two hour double for the rookie Dustin Harris swing and a miss went to the slider to finish him off. Yamamoto spins off the mound after his seventh day. We head to the fifth inning Dodgers leading one to zero to two pitch swung on bouncing ball slowly hit wide of first Berger lets it go to Simeon and he fires over him to DeGrom on the bag for the out second time tonight. Rainers have pulled up a four one out one pitch and Rosario lifts it out to center long run for Tavares and he makes a play fly ball out to short center Tavares makes another play another one two three for Jacob DeGrom he's now retired seven straight into the bottom of the fifth Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Time down on a high fastball strikeout number eight for Yamamoto his thirty sixth of the year and he went to an odd location for him. Twenty eight of his thirty six strikeouts are down below the knees down down down. Well here he elevates and beats him. Now the nine hitter Tavares chops first pitch that he sees to Tommy Edmond at second two up and two down. Pop fly shadow right field Tommy Edmond goes out and will finish off a nine pitch fifth inning for Yamamoto. DeGrom goes to work in the seventh inning. The one to swing and a miss to ground gets him with a fastball near the top of his own. He's having a night tonight. DeGrom has it going tonight. The one to pitch and that's in the air out to left field. Harris going back. He has plenty of space. Ford a retired two away but easily the best we have seen to ground pitch this year trying to get through seven innings with a look on that face tonight for DeGrom. He has not been playing around the three two and he strikes him out. Ninety seven right on the edge his seventh strikeout of the night. What a night for Jacob DeGrom. Day is finished for Jacob DeGrom seven innings just the one run on Edmond solo home run seven K's the best game that he's pitched in years. Unfortunately for him and the Rangers Yamamoto has been a touch better with six scoreless innings now 20 consecutive innings without giving up an earned run strikes him out with the curve ball nine strikeout of the game for Yamamoto only eight hits total between these teams five for Texas three for the Dodgers one nothing is the lead one on one out bottom seven Harris runs again check swing throw down in time it's a strike him out throw him out to finish off seven scoreless shut him out. Yoshinobu Yamamoto seven zeros on the board the Dodgers are headed to the eighth still on top of the Rangers one to nothing. Kirby Yates the former Ranger on in the eight three and two on Jonah Heim leading off the eighth. He couldn't lay off what would have been ball for here's to various the night here laying a bunt down Will Smith with an easy play and two gone in the eight. Got a chase and got strike three. Bookend case in a one two three eight for Kirby Yates Tommy Edmond who started this game with a home run. That is it. Edmond reaches out grounds this ball to Seager got around it but the throw is late it kicks away and Tommy Edmond is going to take second. That would be an infield hit and then an advance on an air punch to first burgers got it feeds Milner up to third goes Edmond Edmond at third Freeman at first one out ninth inning and a one nothing game. The Oscar Hernandez who's over three tonight the one to pitch. There he goes the other way but that RBI cash and some insurance once again to Oscar with two strikes delivers that is off the plate a walk. The bases are now loaded so bases loaded one out infield at double play depth with Smith the batter right handed hitter first baseman burgers halfway to second base down the line fly to center field. Will Smith lifts the two strike pitch to center to get Taylor to the plate something he's done more than anybody in baseball the last few years a sacrifice fly and it's three to nothing L.A. another free agent pick up for the Dodgers. Tanner Scott hits that ball hard at two hit night tonight. And I'll tell you Seager's hot right now and he's going to start bringing some guys with him. Kevin Polar former Dodger pinch-hitting for Jack Peterson groundsman left side diving stopped by Muncie from his knees gets the out at second heck of a play by Max Muncie laying out to his left and hitting the dirt Josh Young who's one for three with a double another two to young groundsman to third. That's a fair ball Muncie guns the second over the first a double play to end the game. Young's calling a foul but he doesn't get to make that call. I guess we have to review it right no matter what. You can't you can't review fair foul in front of the bases. That's the plate umpires call. He has a call and that's it. There is no challenge. Josh Young hits the ball and oh it bounces back. Dodgers shaking hands. They're done they're not going to talk about it.