Chicago Cubs vs. Atlanta Braves MLB game highlights (September 8, 2025)

Hi welcome to Cubs baseball here on Marquis Sports Network. Coming up tonight it's the Cubs and the Braves. It's a first of a three game set. They're arriving those two guys Carson Kelly and A.J. Hatt make their way in there is Shota Imanaga. He is on the mound here tonight. He Carl Armstrong getting some running in that right knee still a bit sore. More on PCA coming up. Pitchers trying to impose their will on hitters and hitters trying to do just the same. There's a little roller first base side Olsen over to Elder Bryce imposes his will on Michael Bush in the first pitch of the game the two to check swing went too far struck him out Suzuki is gone and Elder gets a one two three including a pair of strikeouts. Shota Imanaga takes the mound would we come back for fifty three on base. Eleven fifty two O.P.S. second best since nineteen oh one. Fly ball center field Castro is back and Willie turns and looks and it's gone and the Cubs killers at it again. Ozzie all these solo homer and it's one nothing number sixteen Jeeves. I mean a good player no doubt about it but what he has done against the Cubs. I mean he'd be a Hall of Famer if he faced the Cubs every day. See what he gets here. It's a channel fastball. Ninety one. That's that's middle middle right. Either need to be way up or down preferably up for Shota with that fastball. The one one line drive and a base hit up the middle and Ken is a board with two outs. Straight Baldwin now Baldwin the catcher first pitch swinging drives that one out towards right center field. That one is back and it's off the top of the wall. Castro will pick it up and fire it in scrambling around and coming in to score is Kim and it's two nothing slugging percentage. Tax that very first pitch he sees big old leg kick. It's all about trying to generate power there. He's not trying to punch the ball. He's trying to drive the ball and just misses the 16th home run. The one one line drive base hit left field. Pat will pick it up. Baldwin to the plate throw is too late and in the score is Drake Baldwin RBI single and Acuna ends the skin. It's three nothing. Jota ready and that one rolled to the right side. Horner picks it up. And that's that ground ball hard hit base hit right field and with two outs a man aboard and the righty deals fly ball in the air out towards left field profile has it and out number three. We're midway in the second and the Braves lead it. The one to swing and a miss even Naga gets him and one two three go the Braves Jota even Naga with it. And then this guy is chipped in and played very nicely on the ground right side. All these flags it down and gets it to Olsen. Inside corner another strikeout for Elder that is his fifth Bush frozen. We're midway in the third Jojo Romero squat and delivers. Swing and a line drive into right field and a base hit Olsen who struck out his first time. Fly ball left field half his back back onto the track and makes the catch. Learn a little bit more about that routine. We'll get to it in a sec. Happ swings here drives it to right Acuna backtracking on to the track and he makes the catch. Lane in his first game as a designated hitter and he lifts that one to right field Acuna three outs in the air and the Cubs go one two three. Swing and a miss struck him out and Acuna is gone one away coming on that split finger pitch steady diet of them to Acuna and continues his struggles. Yeah you volunteer to coach baseball unpaid at a D3 school and then you're an umpire observer. Cool stuff. Swanson handles that chance and one two three go the Braves Swanson swings and misses Elder gets him and one two three go the Cubs. Tonne strikeout rate is 18.2 percent and that's laced into right field and a base hit. He gets a cookie take a bite off the outside edge. There's the walk and now an opportunity for bloopers buddy Seah Suzuki Suzuki back in. Hit hard diving stop it short by Kim safe at second and everybody's safe. Great job by Ian Haff to beat the throw at second. Kim we want to go glove a couple of years ago with the Padres and he's got a shot at Seah but he tries to go the short way to second base in a spot on Bo Hustle by half beats the rap slide brought to you by Wisconsin Dell's dot com. PCA bounces this one to the right side and Olsen to Elder to end the inning. Fly ball right field. And Suzuki makes the catch. Elder. And that one ripped into left field and that's a base hit and slipping down is pro for Horner's into second. It's all man in scoring position comes down three zip where the seven three two hard hit ground ball all these grabs it throws him out and on the play Nico to third. Chopped towards third. That's a fair ball and Horner stayed on the bag and then a collusion collision with Alvarez everybody's safe. A snicker waving it off it's going to be a base hit for Dan's beat. We came off the base time the tag was not. And I say tag I mean he wasn't trying to he was trying to he was trying to tag him actually but Nico leaves the bag the glove leaves Nico. Yep we're playing a great job. Runner takes off from first Swanson is in and that pitch a strike on a breaking ball to Matt Shaw. Baldwin made no move to try to make a throw drilled out towards left center field Harris coming on and he makes a running catch. Horner will tag Nico into score and the Cubs are on the board it's three one it's pretty good grab by Harris out left center. Good range he's got a strong arm slider breaking pitch right off the outside edge and that leans out. Pretty good ride. Harris is too fast on the ground right side Olson Johnson gets over. Cubs get on the board but they leave a man it's three one time to stretch three and two Saval Rettigin fires in a line drive back up the middle of the base hit. You know what I'm saying. Like I get you I was raised on National League runner goes throw to second say. To one down popped up right side Bush charging in Michael. Is there to make the catch and Savali pitches around the single and the steel will head to the eighth it's three one. Line drive right field Acuna almost overran it. Swing and a miss and Suzuki is gone and the Cubs go one two three swing and a high fly ball center field Castro back the track at the wall and it's gone. Olson with the homer and the Braves get some insurance on his twenty third it's for one. The feeling he was sitting breaking ball there first pitch breaker and he smoked it and straightaway center field on a curve ball splashdown. The one one is inside. Did it get him. And I Sonia says it got him. Two and two here comes high fly ball right field playable for Suzuki Saia. We'll go to the ninth last chance for the Cubs down three. Bases and whatever pregame work he did three to. Inside corner got him and that's the ball game.