Angels vs. Yankees Game Highlights (4/20/23) | MLB Highlights

It really comes down to me who's going to win round three. This has been like a heavyweight fight where Ohtani won game one. Aaron Judge was the factor in game two. But it seems to be it's all about their star players. Aaron Judge against Ohtani. We'll see who wins round three. Nestor Cortez be his fourth start on the year to win. He's up to a really good start. A couple of homers and a couple of walks and 15 punches in 17 and third inning. Beautiful day in the Bronx. Taylor Ward is ready. Nestor Cortez is ready. Let's do it. Strike three called as he nailed the outside corner with a fastball at ninety one to be able to throw the ball in the outside corner. That's an ability. Here's Ohtani reaches it and pops up. Who's going to get it. Cortez with the basket catch. Rizzo didn't get there. Trevino didn't get there. Cortez did. Here's Trout. Pitches grounded right back to Cortez who flips diverse to end the inning. Terrific inning for Cortez. He is a joy. He is a delight. There's Patrick Sandoval is off to an excellent start this year. Yeah his fastball through a lot better fastball last time out. He's been getting up there. Ninety four ninety five. We know how good his slider and his change up and curveball is. Volpe has reached in 13 of his last twenty nine play appearances over his last seven games and he walks another walk for Volpe. Here's Aaron Judge grounded up the middle it's a base hit for Judge Volpe around second. He's going to go to third easily throw comes into second. It's a single for Judge. So first and third no one up. And here's Rizzo. How long is it in the center field. It's a base hit in front of Trout Volpe scores. Judge advances to second. It's an RBI single for Anthony Rizzo and the Yankees leave one nothing. Anthony Rizzo does. He is such a good run producer. You really got to stay in there as a lefty to cover this pitch off speed pitch away and afford to give up much against Nestor Cortez and expect to have a chance to win this game. Laboratorious Lodge at Rendon with a great catch. Couldn't quite get that ball in a glove. He's looking to quick transfer to double him up but he was just having to be able to make that play that ball was hit hard. So here is LeMahieu and he has not had a hit in the series ball for to load the bases. That'll bring up Peraza. He's getting his reps now with Volpe playing shortstop. Looks like he's going to be here a while. He's got some opportunity to play second base and third base and he walks in a run Peraza with patience gets a Rivi Judd scores. It's to nothing. Yankees bases remain loaded. Pass the baton. Here's Oswaldo Cabrera and he punches him out on the inside corner two away. Sandoval waiting there kind of a late call. Cody here is Jose Trevino Trevino eight for thirty seven a home of four RBI and oh for five lifetime against Sandoval driven into left field and deep going back is Ward. He's going to play out the base of the wall to clear the bases. A three run double for Trevino and the Yankees with a five spot here in the first inning where these are the kind of hits the Yankees have not got in the last couple of weeks just to take advantage of a big opportunity. Huge double the big first inning for the Yankees. Here's a ninth batter kind of Vallejo. This is lifted to left center field hit pretty well. Taylor Ward is over with Trout and it's Trout making the catch. The payoff is high ball for is not something that is the fourth walk given up by Sandoval. Here's Judge Judge swings and tips into the glove of Hoppe for strike three. So Sandoval it's a strikeout of Aaron Judge. Here's Taylor Ward with two on your opportunity to get right back in the game. Now top of the order here to on fly ball center field kind of Falefa came in now makes the catch and throws the third as Ranjito advances. So he went back and then came in and made the play. Battery show Hey Ohtani popped out to Cortez the pitcher his first time up to to hit on the ground a second and the throw to first ends the inning. Now the Angels got the first two base runners on against Cortez top of the fourth five nothing Yanks. Angels don't have a hit yet against Nestor Cortez. He's thrown fifty six pitches so far swung on and hit in the air to center field kind of Falefa racing in dives and made the catch. I made a great catch. I know that was a base hit a little fly ball to center. He raced it and just made the grab before it hit the grab. Leading things off for the Angels is Brandon Drury a bouncer from Drury down the line. Tough play long throw by LeMahieu and it's not in time. The Angels have their first hit to an infield single for Brandon Drury. That was real close. What a play that was by LeMahieu got a lot on that throw like he beat it though. Back to back hits to start the fifth inning against Nestor Cortez. Matter now is O'Hoppy O'Hoppy rips one toward left field and that's a base hit trapped by the left fielder Cabrera coming home Drury the throw at the plate not in time. Close play. But Cabrera really fired one home after trapping that ball and left Drury had to wait to make sure it was a base hit and he just barely scores ahead of that great throw. But O'Hoppy gets an RBI and the Angels are on the board Ward then Ohtani then Trout. It can really boil up quickly with the way the Angels lineup is stacked up. The bottom of the order has come through here swings at the next one and hits it well into centerfield. Tyner Filippen dives and he makes another great catch. Wow tagging and coming in and scoring on that one will be Renhefo. But man Tyner Filippen between him and the judge out there in centerfield they have been making some plays. So here's Shohei two outs runner at first Ohtani goes after the first pitch grounded right to second it's fielded by Peralta. He will throw out Ohtani for the second time today and that will end the inning. Yankees here have a five to lead on top of the six with two outs. Now there is a two to breaking ball strike three beautiful backdoor breaking ball seven strikeouts for Nestle two walks two strikeouts for both in this game except judge. So it's a two to count now and judge with a runner at second and there's a swing and a miss at a slider that was elevated and he went after it struck him out a pair of strikeouts for Davidson in the inning. Renhefo is on. He has a leadoff walk at last pitch from Mr. Cortez number ninety four of the day and Aaron Boone now has that slow walk out to the mound. So Hoppe will face the Yankee reliever Logan O'Hoppe with a base hit down the left field line on the first pitch thrown by Ron Marinochio Renhefo is flying around the bases he's being waved home the relay throw coming to the plate way too late Renhefo scores from first O'Hoppe he's driven in another run and the Angels are only down by two. Now the tying and go ahead runs on board a brand new game here real soon if Anthony Rendon comes through with a base hit. High five ball left in the seventh now got an opportunity first and second nobody out. Strangely LeMahieu his first two years here was among the major league leaders with runners in scoring position three eighty four since twenty twenty one though it's two forty three in these situations line drive in a base hit down the Rizzo will score easily moving to third is Torres it's an RBI double for LeMahieu and it's six three Yankees. So bases loaded two up. So here is kind of a breaking ball line. There's a base hit centerfield a run scores Gleyber. Here's LeMahieu. He scores it's a two run base hit for a kind of Falafel and the Yankees have blown it open. They have an eight three lead Yankees have the bases loaded. Here's Peraza line drive left centerfield that's up for us. Everyone else moves up. It's an RBI single for Peraza two ribbies on the day and it's nine three Yanks Logan O'Hoppy begins the top of the nine two RBI is for O'Hoppy it's been a nice trip for him at Yankee Stadium and O'Hoppy wins the battle of Long Islanders but his shoulder kind of gave out on him again as he swung. We've seen that a couple of times now on this road trip. He gets his third hit of the game but that shoulder is causing him some problems and something the angels are going to have to get straightened out here because that's happened twice now on this trip. He seems to be anguishing as he heads back to the dugout and hopefully the angels can get this figured out for him. He's been a big part of this ballclub here at the beginning of the season. So Logan O'Hoppy leaves the game here in favor of a pinch runner. So there are two outs and that will bring up the top of the order and Taylor Ward struck him out swinging ball game over. Yankees win the Yankees win.