Cardinals vs. Giants: Official Full Game Highlights (September 9) | 2026 MLB Season

We join you for a final time from San Francisco as the Cardinals and Giants wrap up a three game series here at Oracle Park on the Hill today for the Giants will be the right hander rookie played Tidwell Tidwell twenty five years of age six three two hundred forty five pounder oh two on the year with a four point four three ERA one away Torres is retired. Now here is Yvonne Herrera got him on a swing and it is nothing gives you confidence once more as a pitchers with your throw a fastball by big league hitter in the first inning. And Alec Burleson hits in the first inning with the bases empty and two outs. And this is a little awkward but very very effective three up three down for the Cardinals in the first Andre Pallante. It's his turn to pitch and seek win number 13 this year as Drew Gilbert to lead off of the Giants line drive base hit maybe twenty two. Let's see if Gilbert turns the corner and goes it's a challenge and he is going to make it. You've got some good arms in this Cardinal outfield and he took him on and put himself in scoring position just like that. That's a shot in the arm at bat for everybody in that diet Spence. He'll not play in his twenty first game. Get him in get him over swing and a miss. There's that curveball we highlighted in our opening comment. Here's Eldridge at some big hits on this homestand for Bryce Eldridge. The other way so he'll score Eldridge for the base hit and the Giants are on the board. The number 50 for Bryce Eldridge and he went the opposite way to get it. You put it out to be six seven and you just don't see guys do that. No he has the ability to go the other way with it. He can hit the ball the ball park that way. So Eldridge is out in second on the force. Now a chance to steal the bag with John Bolly at the plate. Let her go swing and a miss the throw to second on the money and a little late tag on the hip. St. Louis is shot on the safe call at second. So about this the Cardinals are going to challenge early in the first inning. Get a chance to see it here. The snap throw right on the money. So J.C. perfectly lets it travel and absolutely ends up getting him before that hand gets in. The Cardinals are walking off the field before an announcement is made. After the calls overturned the runners out St. Louis will retain their challenge. Bernal's first a stealer caught as a major leaguer are four up and four down for Blade Tidwell. He's having a good road trip hitting three eighty five a couple of homers as Tidwell turns it loose and a shot fair down the left field line. He hooked that baby fair and he's on his way to second long strides and a slide. It's a pop up double for Baez his fifth. You'll take that. I mean it seems like everything that this guy hits it's extra bases. So he's in scoring position for Nolan Gorman Gorman looking for his first hit in the series. That one is dumped into shallow left that's going to get down by as an awkward turnaround third throw to the plate is going to be laid. He'll score standing up Gorman with a flair to left ties the game a base hit it's one one. Sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you hit him. It's where you hit him. Church is hit by a pitch for the fourth time this season. Runners at first and second two outs for Jose for me a late addition to the lineup. I'm just going to run the time. So that's a lead off single out number one lead a second. Here's Gavin on swing and a miss Palante has his second strikeout. That's a big one runner at second for Grant McCray ball and two strikes from McCray here and strike three a big bender from Palante back to back strikeouts the giant strand Lee at second Herrera with a base hit his good work on the road trip continues and he's a board for Alec Burleson Herrera breaks and stops and a step off by Tidwell and the Giants will try to run him down. Now the pitcher gets in the way are they going to call that on Tidwell. Yeah he interfered with Herrera his progress towards second and there's a huge break. Tidwell does everything right in this one until getting out of the way he made his guy Ronnie made him commit and then gave it up. But Herrera did a fantastic job of creating that contact right afterwards. He should have turned it back towards first. But here's the other mistake he gets rid of it and doesn't get out of the way. And Burleson takes his walk. First of those from Tidwell Leo's already made his presence known in the game. He's throwing out his first would-be base stealer in the major leagues today. The young Cardinals talent pipeline is starting to percolate swing drive that's whacked toward right. That ball is deep that ball is gone. Three run homer for Leo Bernal his second. What a road trip. Ten RBI eyes and the Cardinals lead it four to one. The kid is feeling it right now. Yesterday he had broken his streak of consecutive games with a hit. Today he bust right back into it with a three run shot at number two and that is four straight retired now by Palante. And now he faces Jung who leave on the ground deep short. So J.C. backhand long throw and a stretch in time and a one two three inning for Palante. Tidwell is authoring his own demise here and that might be the end of a line for him. The bases are loaded with nobody out in the fifth inning. New pitcher now for the Giants will be Philip Abner Abner. He's got 18 innings lifetime at the big league level. The bases are loaded. Nobody out for Leo Bernal. This has been the Leo Bernal show so far three run homer and his first caught stealing. Ground ball hit toward short one there and two there a run will score no RBI for Bernal but he puts it in play the Cardinals and a run. It's five to one Herrera takes third base Joshua Baez is next. Get off the end of the bat and it'll be Cox who makes the play in a nice job by Abner for ground outs in a row and eight in total two outs he has been able to shut down the Giants swing and a miss slider takes care of McCray eight ground outs for Polante just punched out his fourth giant and he leads five to one. J.C. takes a walk with one out in the left hand batting church will come up. Church with a bunt past the mound play at second wide throw to first ball will bounce into the dugout and the Cardinals will have second and third with one out church with a beautiful bunt got it past the hill and he's aboard and so J.C. to third. It's a problem when you're young player you think you can make every play that'll bring the infield in for Fermin who's over to Cardinals try to extend a five to one lead and it's cracked toward right center long run Gilbert still going still going makes the catch slides and scoring on the sack fly will be so J.C. Fermin gave that baby a ride and drives home another run his thirty eighth and St. Louis extends the lead so Ramon Arias is going to grab a bad pinch hit should get out of the inning. And Gilbert will look up into the sun and make the catch. It's six one base hit to left by Christian Koss and it's the last pitch of the day for Polante. What a performance Brad a great game in Colorado even better today against the Giants he'll leave with a six one lead and he'll leave a base runner for Justin Brewer in the sixth inning. Brett Harris will grab a bat and hit for Drew Gilbert here. Runner goes swing and a miss got to the steel as Harris goes down on strikes. So runner at second one out it's Turner Hill. That one is tipped and caught Hill down on strikes. So two strikeouts for Brewer and Eldridge is your batter. Seventy nine mile an hour sweeper. Do it again a little further off down he did just that. That one broke 19 inches and throw just a touch harder rule strikes out three Giants and sends us to the seventh with a big lead. Gorman chugs around first and he'll stop there with a two hit game. So J.C. next he's trying to keep a career high hit streak of nine games alive. Runner goes swing and a miss throw to second is terrible in the center field Scott on his way to third. There'll be no throw. So the Giants have made three errors in the game. Victor a steal he's 90 feet away. So J.C. strikes out and it's up to Nathan Church which comes got the sharp ground ball and that led the Indians to remain six to one for another nice day for a right hander for Cade Winquist and he just hit Brett Harris two on with two outs and Winquist will face Turner Hill. That's a rally for almost free hit batsman and a walk after two out. Not the guy you want up with the bases loaded. Six three. Well just like that they're back in it. Not a booming Grand Slam nothing spectacular but Eldridge just went with it and bounced it right on through prices driven in all three Giants runs today and Oliver Marmol will pop out of the dugout and he'll take the baseball from Cade Winquist. That's a little too close for comfort. Would you say it's six three San Francisco with the tying man coming to the plate. They will take aim at George Soriano two on two out two runs in for the. Well it is Hill that kid can fly. But that's so much pressure on the infield especially the left side. Now Jung who Lee extra base hit with Cox's speed would tie the game. It's six to six. The two out jump to the speed of Jonah Cox at first easy time. We got a new game. John who do it young man. They can actually take the lead right here with Whitcomb. But goodness first pitch just sitting in the bushes and jumps on it and Wittgen shows you the type of power he's got inside outside off the center field wall. Almost knocks it out of here Tubbo Wilkinson one out away from his first big league win. Still work to do. Here's Herrera. The third knows let this one get away and the Giants take advantage of it. And what do they do. They sweep the Cardinals in this three game series.