Braves vs. Angels Game Highlights (4-7-26) - MLB Highlights

It's you say Kikuchi facing the Braves here tonight. Yeah it's very important to keep that role like he had last year at home where he was dominant ninety three with an ERA two point nine four for say Kikuchi. It's it right at Zach Neto is a low line drive for the out. You said Kikuchi retires the Braves leadoff hitter swing and a miss strike three is Kikuchi first strikeout putting away Baldwin. That's that slider. I love that whole sequence Kikuchi and Darnell on that one to all these come to play to those guys got a history together and waves through that first strike three change up real good change up Wayne. So gets a slider punch out and a change up punch up and Ray Aldo Lopez his third start of the season. It's been a good start to the season for Lopez 11 innings to those first two outings. Another nasty slider that went even better than the previous one and Neto is down on just three pitches a salute for the crowd really for a couple of reasons for Mike Trout. Of course tonight is the bobblehead commemorating his four hundredth career home run last year got hit on the hand. It was a scary moment for Trout with all the swelling that happened so quickly. Turns on this hits it hard on the ground the third it's Austin Riley who has a great arm but he chucks it into the dugout should be able to advance there that went in the dugout so he'll be able to go to second to base error by normally very sure handed Austin Riley who with a very strong throwing arm let that one rip downfield. Here's Nolan Shana well with Trout at second base line left center Dubon is out in left tonight thanks the catch tagging and holding it second base Trout and two down in the inning angels needed to out him from Jorge Soler who is the club leader right now in runs handed in. There's a drive out to the left field corner to bonds after it. But it's gone. Jorge Soler once again has torched Ronaldo Lopez. I mean those numbers are almost almost impossible to think how good they really are. That is his fifth career home run 14 for twenty three tenth RBI second home run an absolute rocket out. Matt Olsen won for four yesterday. Olsen turns on it rip to right and it bounces up against the short wall and Matt Olsen with the lead off double to try to get the Braves some momentum here in the second. So he's in scoring position and Austin Riley try to make amends here for the throwing error in the first. It's a ground ball since on his way to third base that ball hit too softly for Neto to try to pull him a third but he does retire Riley at first base Mauricio Duvall in the next matter. Swing and a miss Kikuchi goes back to that slider up in the zone and Duvall punches out Eli White getting a start with the lefty on the mound out in centerfield tonight. See if the Braves can get on the board here in the second. It's another full count three and two White left field and it's going to stay fair. Eli White cruises into second base RBI double Atlanta on the board. Big RBI double here for Eli White first run driven in of the season for Eli. Want to know the count on Adele swings at the next one and that's a little bloop that's going to drop in the right center field lead off hit Josh Lowe will be the next batter. There goes Adele. It's a pitch that's outside and a perfect stolen base for Joe No chance that great job six stolen base one caught stealing so far and down goes Lowe. He was well late on the fast ball. Josh Lowe the Atlanta native back to the dugout. And here is the former Atlanta Brave Travis Darnell off the end of the back. Adele stays put at second and is a good result for Lopez. Interesting that he didn't go there on a swinging but I don't know if he didn't have a good secondary or if you can see in there he got caught in between. I think Ozzie's even a little bit surprising he's still there. Lopez and the Braves will take it bottom of the order Parasa line drive out to Ozzie. He catches it on the short hop right in front of him goes over the first base for the out and the lead off hit and stolen base does not hurt the Braves in the set. That is out. Number two Baldwin is the batter now. Drake Baldwin Pohum hard line drive for a base hit and he is a board with two outs and now Ozzie all be here's a chopper in the hole. It's short. Netto will have a long throw here. Has to get out of it and he barely retires all bees on a close play. You're going to look at that. But I thought he got him and he doesn't look comfortable on the base going by to all these. I want to make sure he stays healthy if you're a Braves fan two outs in the inning. Shana will fly it out to left his first time. That ball is drilled the right backing up his Acuna over his head and one obstacle must have gone all the way up to the netting up there. Shana well said the advantage they never called it out of play and he ends up at third. I think you're going to say that's up in the netting. Now the umpires never called it the first base umpire Vic Carapazza said it was still in play. Take a look at it clear the wall. Looks like it hit the yellow line and maybe went up in the air. I don't think this is going to end well for the Braves. And then Ronald seemed like he didn't know where the ball was when it was in his glove. And now the umpires are going to send him back to second base. Ultimately this is ground rule. And it's in here another time so there is up with an open base for incredible numbers against Lopez for Solaire. Oh Solaire gets hit by a pitch detail the success that Solaire has had against Lopez. Donna struck out his first time against his former teammate ground ball weekly out to second English all over that thing. Ozzie thought he was going to forehand it then backhanded it and he throws low to first but dug out by Olsen boy that was an adventure for a weak little ground ball to second. That thing was spinning like a top all over the place out there lead off walk and a wild pitch. Now base it could tie the game. Austin Riley is the battery grounded out to Neto his first time up ground ball and Riley finds the gap on the right side. Olsen coming home head first slide. We are tied. They had to feel good for Riley CJ. Good piece of hitting by Riley and now here's Dubon behind Dubon to and O Dubon sends this down the left field line. It is trouble up against the wall. Riley is going to be held at third. Dubon double has two in scoring position and there's still nobody out. No one out here's Eli White Eli White first pitch lifts it out to right center. This is going to get Riley in easily and it also gets Dubon to third. So Eli White does his job at the Braves have their first lead tonight. Now the infield takes another step or two in when Jonah Heim with the play Heim shadow left it will get down a Texas League blue for the former Texas Ranger RBI single four to two at left this ball for us. So there is certainly hurt Lopez in his career but he's beaten up on the Braves as well and yet to get him out tonight. The two run homer the first and he hit him with a pitch in the third on the wrist and that one coming up in it bounced right back to Heim and they almost got shot. Well I mean it's like it hit a trampoline came right back to it and he almost threw out Shannon Weld a ball that was airmailed to the backstop Shannon Weld advances in a wild pitch. Here comes Soler going after Lopez they square up and cycle from behind as the Angels and Braves are all out on the field. It is Bedlam right now at Anaheim the former brain taking exception to the up and in fast ball and now the bullpens have empty. Well the first pitch to Soler in this at bat was upstairs where he got hit by a pitch earlier in the game as well after the home run. They just kind of stared each other down after Shannon Weld advanced on that wild pitch and Soler took a couple of steps. Lopez said well come get me. And it was on and the Dukes were flying some serious haymakers there too. Look at that. That's how it was. That's how you that's how you tackle the open field. Yes. The warnings have been distributed. I believe both players he said were ejected. Yes. Well that's one way to get Lopez out of the game. Go throw a fist at him and it will be Jameer Candelario that is going to step in. I'm a Tyler Kenley. He had to do the sprint in from the bullpen. Go back out get all your stuff now come back out. You got to take your warm ups here on the big league mound. The ball in the dirt gets away from home and that'll put Shannon Weld third base. There are two down and a one two one pitch coming from Kenley. He struck him out on the breaker. That's an inning that had no runs no hits no errors. A man left and a big league brawl. The batter is Ozzie all these looking for a little bit more insurance. Ozzie high in the air deep to right. Adele at the wall. He will watch it go into the front row. An insurance run off the bat of Ozzie all these here in the eights. Rob that one Adele. It took a couple ladders to get to that one big home run and a big moment for the Braves. So Bummer has hit a batter now walked a batter and Joe Adele will be stepping up to the plate. He's the tying run fly ball center field Harris backing up toward the right center has room to make the catch. Right. That was perfect to be able to get in both events or what an opportunity. Now you have two runners in scoring position. They announced O'Hoppy as the pinch hitter. He will bring Walt Weiss out to go to rice on Iglesias. Oh to strike him out on three pitches. Welcome back to Anaheim Rice out of Glacier two down now Travis Darnell two guys who know each other extremely well squaring off in a critical spot here in the eighth inning two on two out to pitch got him back to back strikeouts for Iggy to keep it a five to two ball game. So the Braves try to add to something here in the ninth with runners at the corners and nobody out. The guy he wanted to play here in this situation Drake Baldwin Baldwin line drive base hit he drives in a run here to make it six to two now 14 runs driven in on the season he's reached base in every game. What a start to twenty twenty six. So a four pitch walk to Ozzie Albies and the bases are loaded. Matt Olsen at the plate infield in Grotter to third tagging third and try to get the double play across the way. And they do with the Braves to score another one first and second one down. Sean you have been on twice a double in a walk. Sean O'Hara grounder Iggy to second for one double play ball game over Braves win seven to two the final. And there will be a rubber game in Anaheim tomorrow afternoon.