BREWERS vs. BRAVES Full Game Highlights (6-21-26) - MLB Highlights

What an incredible weekend so far. Two thrilling games, both Braves victories, and now the Braves will try to bring out the brooms on Father's Day. Even if you are the best dad ever, you've got to realize you might share that award with a lot of others here today at Truist Park and try to take them to 45. At 30 today is a double nickel, number 55, Bryce Elder. So you see the 15 starts. This was a little bit of rest, though. Six days rest in between here for Bryce Elder. Coming off a little bit of a rough one against the New York Mets and look forward to this one this afternoon again. That's the Brewers' Churny, two for eight in the series, called strike and Chirillo thought about it but he's not going to challenge here the first he's down looking even if this wasn't intentional elevated sinkers any pitch really that's coming down even a breaking ball at the top of the zone they come down they just catch the very top of it and it puts hitters in a bad spot they can't figure out whether or not they want to challenge because they're not used to seeing that pitch. And now here's Brice Turang wearing the blue batting gloves and using the blue bat. And Bryce Elder carving him up in the first. He got Chirillo looking and then Turang. They go down 1-2-3. We go to the bottom of the first inning. Brewers nothing and the Braves coming up. Sixth start of the year. Fourth for Gass since he's been back in the rotation. He pitched great last time out on Tuesday against the Guardians. He covered 5 2/3 in 92 pitches. Gave up just two hits. Punched five without giving up an earned run in that start. Looking to build off that. 1-2 to Dubon. And Dubon takes that sweeper and sends it fair right down. And it's going to bounce in for a ground rule double and a great start for Dubon and Atlanta. It's been a great series for Mauricio Dubon and having really big moments and a leadoff double here to put a little pressure right away on the Milwaukee Brewers. Well, this will get Dubon to third as Baldwin bounces to Turang. It's a productive out. And now he faces yesterday's hero, Ozzie Albies. He's batting from the right side with the infield in. And he lifts it to right field. Sal Frelick drifting. Makes the catch. Tagging from third base, Dubon. Here's the throw out of right. A dive for the plate, and it's 1-0 Braves. And the series of Ozzie continues. He drives in the first run of the ball game. They say get him on, get him over, get him in, and that's what the Braves do here in the first. 1-2 pitch. And nailed the outside corner, a beautiful sinker at 93, strikes out Harris, and Gasser limits the damage to just the one run. The leadoff double comes around and scores, Braves out to a 1-0 lead, William Contreras, the cleanup hitter today. 0-2 liner, off the glove of Albies, a base hit for William Contreras. The leadoff man is on to start the second inning, Contreras has been hitting rockets all over the field, and now Contreras talking some trash to his old teammate Ozzie Albies. He tells him Ozzie, you know, You don't have enough range to get to this rocket right back up the middle. That was a slider over the plate, and he just drives it right back up the middle. 2-1 to Bowers. Ground ball left side finds a hole. Back-to-back hits open up the second inning against Elder. Bowers just hits one where they ain't, and the Brewers' first two have reached here in the second inning, and the Brewers have a threat against Elder. Something cooking for the Brewers with Garrett Mitchell digging in. Chopper hit towards short. Kim will go to first, just in time to get Mitchell. Runners at second and third with one away. Productive out, moving the runners up. Sal Frelick digs in, tying run at third, go-ahead run at second base, trying to answer that run that the Braves got in the home half of the first inning. And Freelick lines one down the left field line, that'll score a couple. Contreras is in, Bowers is in, Freelick on his way to second base with a two-run double. Just like that, the Brewers have the lead. Oh, what a nice piece of hitting right here by Sal Freelick, answering back after the Braves. Score in the bottom of the first. The Brewers now have the lead 2-1. Still only one out for Cooper Pratt, who's had a great series. Three for seven. Hitting a robust .375 in his first week as a big leaguer. Looking to add on against Elder. Is a chopper left side. Kim coming in. Fields throws to first, and he got Pratt. Pratt thought he was safe, but he was definitely out. Freelick could not advance to third, so he stays at second for David Hamilton. The pitch. Hamilton, a fly ball into left center field. This is well struck over the head of... Harris and hits off the base of the wall in left center. Around third is Freelick. He will jog home and into second with an RBI double is David Hamilton. The hardest hit ball off the bat of David Hamilton all season long. 105 off the bat of David Hamilton. And the Brewers lead it 3-1. And they are all over Bryce Elder here in this second inning. 3-2, runner goes, and it's down and in. Ball four, Hamilton swipes third base. Jackson Chourio coming up, the eighth man to hit in this inning. Jackson Chourio's been swinging the bat well in this series, hitting the ball hard, not getting a ton of hits to show for it, just two. Hits so far in this series. Jackson lines one back up the middle and into center field. A base hit. Hamilton will trot home. Stopping at second is Yellich. And Jackson Chourio smacks a ball at 107. Right back up the middle and gives the Brewers a 4-1 lead. RBI number 30 on the year for Churio. And that will get Turang to the plate. He is the ninth batter of this inning. Ground ball towards the middle. That will sneak through. Yellich will score. 5-1 Brewers. Attacking early and often. Again, the first pitch of the at-bat. Brice Turang, this lineup, super aggressive against Bryce Elder, and the carousel moves on. Contreras, who started this inning with a base hit off the edge of the glove of Ozzie Albies at second base, hits for a second time. The pitch, a drive to left. This is high. This is deep. It is gone. William Contreras, a three-run blast. It is 8-1 Milwaukee, and the Brewers are all over Bryce. Elder and the Braves here in this series finale. 1-10 off the bat of Contreras, his seventh home run of the season. And the Brewers lead it 8-1 here in the second inning. Well, the Braves have some work to do now after an eight run at top of the second for Milwaukee. Last time that happened to a Braves pitcher, you've got to go all the way back to 2017, Bartolo Colon. They put up the kind of effort today to make sure they're not swept here in Atlanta. A long way to go in this one, but a gigantic second for the Brewers and this feels like an offensive kind of day the way the ball is going to carry Gasser looking into white and he got him looking with a sweeper. Beautiful pitch from Robert Gasser and there's two away now for Ha-Sung Kim. Gasser's one two pitch to him is a swing and a miss. He struck him out. That's a good shutdown inning. Two down in the inning back to the top of the order to Christian Yelich. Yellich has walked and scored also a fly out to center field. O'Reilly going over making a great play. Ron Culpina had to get out of the way. But that saved Milwaukee adding to their lead here in the third. Contreras two for two, single, and a three-run homer. Both came in the same inning. Ground ball towards the middle. Tough play. Kim bobbles, corrals. Can't get him. That's got to be a base hit. It's got to be. Happy Father's Day. Dada Barrelman, I love you. Here comes Dada Barrelman. And a line drive down the right field line, a base hit. Contreras will go from first to third. Bowers finds the barrel. Second hit of the game. That's exactly why he's called the Barrelman, because that's all he does is find the barrel with the baseball. Eight runs on ten hits so far for the Brewers as Garrett Mitchell digs in looking to join the hit parade. Everybody has reached base safely for the Brewers. Mitchell trying to. Be the last one. 1-1 grounded to Ozzie Albies. He'll scoop it up and make the play. No runs, two hits. No errors and two men left. 8-1 Brewers. Michael Harris 0-1 with a strikeout. Michael swings and smashes it deep down the right field line. That's a fair ball. And two outs into the corner. Extra bases coming up for Harris. He digs in to second. He'll hold there. Lead off double for Michael Harris on a ball that was stung pretty hard down the right field line. There goes Michael. 0-1 pitch is a ball high. No throw down and a stolen base for Michael Harris. Michael able to swipe third. That is his fourth steal in five attempts. Now a sac fly could drive him in. Got him swinging. Fastball up in the zone. Fifth strikeout for Gasser. It's a pretty good hitter in Austin Riley who, yes, is struggling, but still to be able to drive that pitch, top rail, inner part of the plate, right on that corner, and to get the swing and miss at just 92, 93 miles per hour, you know that it has that extra little giddy-up. Ground ball weakly to the left side. This will produce a run. Up with it, Hamilton slings it across for the out, but Bart rakes in his first RBI as a Brave. Eight-two, our score is Eli White. White hits it to right. And Sal jumped in. Foul ball. He tried. Sal almost brought it back. It was up against a couple of Brewers fans in that foul territory. Sal climbing the wall and then taking a dive among the fans. He got a glove on it. He almost caught that. That's like a stage dive at a concert. Here's a swing and a miss. Gasser gets another strikeout. That's his sixth. Four quality innings. Hey, I was on TV. Sal just jumped in my lap. Grant is 0 for 1 with a walk. He has been as good as advertised to start the big league career of Cooper Pratt. He fouls this one off of his foot, and he is down in some pain. He's going to get up and go for a little walk and get a little bit of that feeling back. He'll get a little bit of time here before he has to get back into the box. And then he hits a rocket back up the middle. He feels nothing anymore. Solid single for Cooper Pratt. What a shot by Cooper Pratt after following one off his upper shin. He just goes ahead and takes this slider, stays on it, stays with it. This kid's swing, we talked about it yesterday. He is limping around first base a little bit. Hamilton at the plate, and he hits a bullet into left center for a hit. Again, jumping on that first pitch by David Hamilton. A cutter down and over. Down and away to him. Well, now Brad Epstein is going to go out and chat with Cooper Pratt and make sure he's doing okay because he is certainly favoring that left leg. Yeah, he's limping around the bases right now. That's something you want to see from your prized rookie. He's not coming out. 21 years old. That thing should heal by the time he gets to third. Yeah, you're right. Yelich with a fly ball towards center. Michael Harris coming in. Slows, makes the catch in medium-depth center field. Runners remain at first and second. Two down. Churrio with a pop-up. Just back of first, Matt Olsen looking skyward into the brilliant blue sky. Makes the catch, one step back of the infield cutout. That ends the top of the fifth. One away for Gasser, and now he faces the top of the order for the third time. Mauricio Dubon. Mauricio Dubon on the ground to Pratt, checking on him. Tough play, got rid of it. Bowers with a scoop on the other end. Excellent play by Cooper Pratt. The biggest part was getting it out of his hand quick. This is the first time we've seen Cooper Pratt's range tested, and he answers that test easily. What a play by the kid right here. This is well in the hole on the run. He gets rid of it. And a good scoop on the other end by Jake Bowers. But what a great play right here by Cooper Pratt, making that look kind of easy, quite frankly. That's after he took a foul ball off his shin, testing some of his mobility. One-two pitch, swing and a miss. Baldwin went after a sweeper down and away. That is strikeout number seven for Robert Gasser. So he popped up right side. Sal Frelick is there one pitch and one out for Robert Gasser 91 pitches for him trying to get through this sixth inning he's got Matt Olson in his sights on the ground to first Bowers two away with Gasser who is at 48 pitches. After two innings, he's really dialed it in since that pitch count-wise has been much more efficient. Ground ball to second base. Rolls out to Terang, fields and throws. And it's a 1-2-3 sixth inning for Robert Gasser who retires the last nine that he faces. Well that'll kind of put things to bed here pretty quickly after what was a little bit concerning and what could be a little bit of a troublesome inning here for Ronaldo Lopez. And a nice turn all the way around. And Hassan Kim gives a really strong feed over there to Ozzy Albies. Now here's David Hassell. Hamilton now with a runner at third and two away one to skips in the dirt Bart blocked it. Here comes the runner from third to score here. Mitchell got a great read on a ball that didn't get too far away from Joey Bart and the Brewers had another run. Yeah great aggressive base running right here by Garrett Mitchell. Brewers score a run without a hit a walk a catcher's interference double play ball and now a wild pitch. Now robbed of a hit his last time up did Contreras and brings home the pitch and this is a rocket into center and it is going to drop in front of Harris for a base hit. Contreras has had himself a day. Four for five on the day for William Contreras. When he gets hot, he gets scorching hot and that appears to be what he is at the current moment. But Chad Patrick stays in the game. Three outs away from another save. It'll be a three-inning save. He's had one of those already this year. Get a line one in the right field. Base hit for him. That is his fifth hit of this series. Now they've got the lead off man aboard for the fifth time today here in this bottom of the ninth inning. Rowdy Tellez the batter. Matt Olson finished his day 0 for two with a walk. And a high drive to deep center field. Mitchell to the wall, and he's getting Rowdy. It's a two-run homer by Rowdy Tellez. And now a 9-4 game. That ball is crushed to center field. First homer as a Brave. 422 feet. Here's the 3-2 pitch. Swing and a miss. He struck him out. Went back to another cutter. Down and away. And Riley comes up empty. There are two away for Joey Bart. He represents the last chance for Atlanta. And a ground ball to third. Hamilton gets around it. Sets his feet. Throws to first. Low but dug out by Bowers. And the Brewers have salvaged a game out of this series. With a 9-4 victory here today in Atlanta. Great job by Robert Gasser to get through six innings in this start. Tied for a career high with seven punch-outs. William Contreras, big eight-run inning, and the Brewers salvage the series with a victory.