Cubs vs. Reds Game Highlights (7/2/21) | MLB Highlights

It's fun Tommy to get Sonny Gray back on the hill you can already see the game face as he came through the dugout. This is how Sonny Gray takes his starts every fifth day. He is ready to go. And I think we're all excited to watch him back on the mound. Hot shot to first backhand pick pirouetting Botto underhand shovel Gray on the cover one down to strike three Cole Baez goes down looking Gray with an exclamation point on a perfect first inning. No score after half an inning. Alec Mills takes the mound and he's put some very good ball games against Cincinnati. For one thing he's never lost to them a team against whom he has three and oh lifetime. Weak contact ground balls and pop ups curveball swung on and missed strike three. So two sinkers in on the hands a curveball away. That's a pattern we've seen a thousand times in big league history. And it's it's perfect perfect pitch sequence and execution. He hits a fly ball in the shallow left center by is going out makes it over the shoulder catch. Let me correct that. That was Patrick Wisdom who caught that ball. He was the only infielder on the left side of the diamond. Here's the pitch to Castellanos swinging a miss. What is that like compared to the rest of the league with so many guys struggling. That is an amazing number. He hit better against lefty. So I think that might be the case. And it also tonight is probably a lot of Sonny Gray back to back case. He looks pretty good. David Ross in his second season that's on the edge strike three swing and a miss lost briefly by Barnhart. He gathers put out complete Gray strikes out the side. He's tossing a one hitter with four whips. I mean oh two got him. It's a bad pitch. Good result right there. The quarterback at that school got him swinging swing like a movie star. An everyday player go out and do it. But it's I don't think it's a part of the game. A very valued part of the game is for Sonny Gray and Peterson's got to be careful here. Jim Wolf our home plate umpire giving him a lot of leeway. Well when a catcher doesn't move his glove at all he brought it up a little bit. But I mean he didn't try to he didn't need to bring in six inches inside that pitches a strike all day long. First and second for Javier Baez. Farmer goes to India for his play to end the inning in his eighth season with the Reds to Seymour across the top of the strike zone for strikeout number five for Alec Mills. Fourth inning is underway. Anthony Rizzo has struck out Sonny Gray wins this one fastball strike three. He's got six strikeouts for looking long A.B. here by wisdom. He's worked at full second full count of the inning for Gray Fowler tip strike three Sonny Gray showing a well located fastball at ninety one ninety two still gets the job done. And Hayward has not had much success against Gray at all. So maybe get someone moving in two lines one toward right center in the gap base and it goes all the way to the wall. Bryant's going to try to score racing around third. Here comes the relay. India throws toward the plate. Bryant on the way scores with a slide at the plate. Cubs lead one to nothing. Jason Hayward comes through with an RBI double one to the left field. Winker staggered extends leaps forward and Jesse Winker makes the catch not the cleanest read but what an adjustment. And he makes the play. Ball right at just difficult to judge for so long as Joey Volo just pure hitter. He hesitated and struck him out the called strike three and he'll have his say with Jim Wolfe. Most of it was in the other direction. Six strikeouts now for Alec Mills and generous no not generous. Now next door they might be calling it that. Tapper Gray gathers two down Posey who had the year off last year opted out I should say driven toward right center drops in and sliding into second safely ball gets away from Farmer to out ringing double from Wilson Contreras two outs two strikes Contreras dances and Gray pinpoints outside edge fastball strike three eight K's for Greg. Got him to delay the delayed strike three call by Jim Wolfe seven strikeouts for Alec Mills you touchdown and approaching a career best struck him out gets away but Contreras will flip to first Mills so far so good here in the fifth. Sonny Gray is done five innings one run struck out eight. Art Warren enters. Grounded a former nice backhand from his knee to India one first not in time. Great play by Farmer on the order that seemed destined for left. So impressed by farm right here the extension once again keep your hands away from your body get up and make the play and almost turned it. That is a great play by Kyle Farmer. My goodness. He makes the play. David Bell makes a pitching change. When do you get the opportunity to face a lefty. Hold Botto. Art Warren and Josh Osage take the baton from Sonny Gray and they post a scoreless inning. The end of the twilight hour here in Cincinnati the Reds batting against Alec Mills Hakeyama takes strike three called he didn't like the call and his strikeout number nine for Alec Mills right at the top of the zone. Some guy named Bonds in 0 4 for the Giants up the middle in the center field. India turns and holds. Fire in for Brian and a two out hit from Castellanos and that's going to do it for Alec Mills five and two thirds one walk nine strikeouts Botto hit by pitch has struck out looking he cranks it to right field that X bubbles up to run double Reds up a run ninth inning the ball in the hands of the veteran he Pembrey swing and a miss. He struck him out. The Reds win it.