Nationals vs. Braves Game Highlights (5/12/25) | MLB Highlights

All in all Grant and the rest of the rotation Frenchie which we talked about before the break they have been really solid as of late. They have for Grant really his last three starts is keeping the ball in the ballpark six home runs and those three starts previous three Brandon only one home run. So for him it's keeping that ball down and getting ground ball out. Holmes with the 0 2 to Abrams. He got him really good start for Grant Holmes. They can't ask for much more than that. One down base is empty for James Wood. This ball hit hard but Eli White hardly had to move. And there are two away. Here's Nathaniel Lowe on one to pitch take a hike. Got him with a slider. That pitch looking very sharp right out of the gate and a one to three inning for Grant Holmes complete with two strike Jake Irvin five career starts against the Braves two and one with a solid two seven seven. The R.A. night started on the season two and one three nine four R.A. forty eight innings this year. Love the whip one one five not beat himself with the walk Verdugo hits it well out to right center. Not enough to get over but enough for a double for Alex Verdugo. Great start by Verdugo banging one off the bricks in right. So two fly outs for Dugo still at second. Here's the D.H. Marcelo Zuniga and there's another one. Thirty four walks now on the season for Ozuna two on with two out the kick in the pitch swing a high pop up into shallow right center field. Dylan Cruz moves in on it. Cruz still coming in now slows up. Cruz makes the catch. Jay Kerbin does a nice job to strand that lead off double Gilbert Ruiz going to lead off of the Nationals and he gets Ruiz a curveball that fooled the catcher four hitters faced three strikeouts for Grant Holmes. Here's Josh Bell two outs one one to Bell and Bell hits one a deep center field. Michael Harris drifting back now holds he's under it. And that's that for the Nats in the top of the second six up and six down by Grant Holmes to go to the bottom of the second. No score. Jay Kerbin faces Sean Murphy bottom of the second inning no score. Murphy hitting a two thirty with seven homers first pitch swinging. And James would do his right to twenty from this side of the plate. Here comes Dylan Cruz. I mean that's easy compared to some of the things he did over the weekend in right field. Irvin has two quick outs on four pitches round ball chop to first low reaches out high into his left makes the grab of it and goes to the bag for the unassisted out. So Jake Irvin didn't break a sweat that inning down go the Braves on six pitches first baserunner there for the Nationals. Here's Jose Taino twenty four year old from the Dominican was a rookie last year ground ball Olsen to second for one. That is a tough turn but they got it done well played all the way around Olsen to Allen to Holmes as that goes three six one with a double play Oh to pitch swing and a miss four strikeouts first time through the order for Grant Holmes. So a two out walk to Riley followed by a two out single by Olsen there at first and second for Marcelo Zuniga hard hit through the left side. Austin Riley is coming home. The throw from Roy is cut off and Atlanta grabs the lead one to nothing. It's amazing. How many times do you see a quick two outs and all of a sudden just a walk to start the inning and that guy comes around to score. Here's Michael Harris. He was swinging to the first pitch back in the first inning does the same here rifles one in the center that's down for a base in coming around third base now Olsen the throw from young is cut off back to the mound and it's to nothing Braves on back to back swings from Ozuna and Harris and the Braves have the early to nothing lead and they are loaded for Ozzie Albies the eighth brave to the plate here in the third inning and the pitch swung on in high in the air to right field Cruz back toward the corner circles under it and he makes the catch for the out that retires the side top of the order for the Nats Abrams. CJ Abrams will lead off the fourth inning for the Nationals and he chops one off the plate Holmes darts off the mound gloves fires to the outside of the bag. Oh man what a great play. Grant Holmes darted off the mound glove did his momentum carried him in the foul ground so he had to go to the other side of Abrams to have a clear lane to throw the ball and got it there just in time. So the batter will be James Wood. James hit one one oh nine last time up for some a little bit higher. That's a loud sound and a high fly ball to deep left. See you later. The great young opposite field slugger he gets a four seam fastball a little bit. Let's go shop a little out. No big deal. Let's just line it out there for one oh nine in our eleventh of the season and the batter is now Luis Garcia Garcia for one with a ground out to first left handed hitter three two in the air to deep center field. Michael Harris got a sprint back still back to the wall and he somehow some way does a magic trick in center. He makes the catch Willie Mays style and goes into the wall. I feel like I just saw a ghost. How did he do that. That is as sensational as it gets. Michael Harris Grant for strikeouts. The one run came on a James Wood Homer in the fourth one to round it out towards third charging onto the grass. Riley throw across his low but backpicked by Olsen. That's in time for round number three. No runs one hit no errors in a man left. We're halfway home. We go to the bottom of the fifth inning to one Braves two down for Ozuna had that solid RBI single and third that started the scoring for Atlanta Ozuna sends one soaring to deep left field that's got wings and an engine and that thing flies deep into the seats. A homer by Marcel and it's three one Braves four hundred sixty four feet as it was clobbered out of here. That's his first one since April twenty six. But he didn't leave any doubt Jake Irvin back to work. He's thrown 70 pitches in five innings bottom third of the Braves batting order and Ozzie Albies leading off swing and a belt to right on line coming in his Cruz he dives and he makes the catch for the out Dylan Cruz with another spectacular play coming straight in and it looked like for a moment in between. Do I try and lunge for it. Do I stay in my feet the last minute he went diving forward and he made the catch. Here's Nick Allen the shortstop batting ninth. He's lined to right flight out to left center over to kicks and fires breaking ball scrub back toward the mound off the Hill. Irvin has it quickly whip a throw over Nathaniel Lowe and the inning is over one to three inning for Jake Irvin. Two pitchers been mowing him down Holmes at seventy six pitches as he goes into the seventh inning. Luis Garcia grounded the first robbed of an extra base hit Garcia getting a big piece of that one out to right center. Nobody can catch it. He'll one hop the wall. Garcia's in standing with a one out double. That'll bring the tying run of the play to the person of Josh Bell and you're at this point in the only needing eight outs you're going to see Smith go to the bullpen. Good start. All right. So Dylan Lee is going to come in here to face Josh Bell. I just think you saw Josh Bell had some good swings off Holmes and wants to turn him around here. Check swing and he goes down looking at change up painted the outside corner. Great job by Dylan Lee getting that strikeout. Now one more to get two from Lee take a hike swings and misses over a slider. Excellent work by Dylan striking out Bell and Cruz and that ends the threat at the top of the seven days. Bell Hernandez now on the pitch 18th time this season looking to get himself a hold. And that is not how you want to see this eighth inning start up for the Nationals a double and a hit batter and they're at first and second. No one out. Well the Nats in business here Abrams next ground ball to second could get two and they do four six three double play. That is just what the doctor ordered over to third goes Taino with two outs. James Wood comes to the plate now as the tying run to to pitch he's got him swinging strike three and the Braves get out of the jam there. Rice on Iglesias French he's going to try to get the save here. He's got three four five in the order here. That's still have a pulse great swing by Ruiz out to left center. Here's Luis Garcia Junior. He has hit it well tonight. Garcia to left that's going to hop in front of Verdugo. So Garcia dunks one in the other way. The Nationals have two on against Iglesias again who is just six for eight and saves suffered the loss yesterday in Pittsburgh. Now it's Josh Bell to the plate and he represents the go ahead run in the ninth ground ball off of his glove has trouble picking it up. Ultimately they get the out at first. Olsen also had to get his arm out of the way of big Josh Bell but everybody's OK. And now we've got drama again two in scoring position and two outs here in the ninth. And here's Dylan Cruz a hit could tie the game the pitch swinging a ground ball up the middle. It's thrown by Allen he's double clutches throws to first it's thrown away. This game is going to be tied and that's going to be the first error of the season for Nick Allen. And that allows the game to be tied. The sure hand and Allen double clutched and threw wildly. The throw gets by and the Nationals score the tying run like that Iglesias just can't believe it. Look of disbelief all across his face. One two to call got him fastball elevated swung on missed but the Nationals strike for two runs they tie the game Eli White leadoff single Nick Allen sacrificed him over to second. That's where we stand. We've got one down hit likely scores the speedy Eli White top of the order in Verdugo coming up ground ball up the middle. Here comes this roaring crowd they celebrate another walk off victory as the Braves won it for three after the walk off knock by Verdugo in the ninth.