Giants vs Dodgers Game Highlights (3/18/26) MLB Highlights

As the spring training schedule winds down in this afternoon at Camelback Ranch, it's the San Francisco Giants taking on your back-to-back world champion, Los Angeles Tigers. Here they go as Otani looks in at Jung-Hoon Lee. Just returned from the World Baseball Classic. Representing Korea, he and Hyesung Kim are very good friends. Six for 14 this spring for Jung-Hoon Lee. And he swings at this one, hits it in the air to center field. Andy Paez backs up a few. Reaches up, makes the catch, and there's one down. And with one out, you check the velocity. First pitch was at 95, the second pitch at 97. So the velocity is there. Now the question is, on a very hot afternoon, how long does he stay in the ballgame? Easy day to get loose today, huh? You sneeze and you're loose. Patrick Bailey batting left-handed against Otani. And Shohei winds, kicks, and delivers. Low ball one. Dalton Rushing doing the catching today. Caught last night. Over in surprise against Kansas City. 1-0 pitch. And a ground ball toward the middle. There's Betts right behind the bag. Swings it on to first for the out. Yeah, and that's positioning. Oh, this is spring training, but what about the scanner reports? We see the infielders, they mark off ahead of time exactly where their straight-up position is going to be. And if it's to pull, it's seven steps to the right or seven steps to the left. That was perfect defensive alignment. Two down. Matt Chapman, the third baseman, standing in from the right side. Swings the first pitch, pops it up to left. In comes Teosca Hernandez to make the catch. And Shohei Otani with a nice and tidy five pitch. Top of the first. Dodgers coming to back when we return to Glendale. Dodgers batting order looks like this this afternoon. Miguel Rojas playing second base. Then Freddie Freeman will hit second. Betts, Muncy, Hernandez, Pajes in center field rushing behind the plate. Santiago Espinol in right field today with Alex Freeland acting as the D.H. And here's Landon Rupp out of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Twenty-two starts last season. Seven and seven for the Giants. And the right hander into the line and the pitch to Rojas. To say the least for Otani. There's a little dribbler down to third. Charged by Chapman. Throws on the run and it gets away from Encarnacion. And safe at first. Miguel Rojas. Rojas just continues to put the ball in. Freddie Freeman. Inside to 47 no matter how many more games he plays. There's a base hit in the right field and the Dodgers have set up shop. First and second. And nobody out. Two of us were talking about pitch into play. Freeman took all of three pitches. Temperature has anything to do with it? Well we'll see on Saturday too with that 11 a.m. game. Pitch to Betts. Breaking ball. That's a strike. 1-1 to 1-2. That's high. Two of the right handers have been hooks. 2-2 is low. Pitch swung out and hit in the air to left field. That's a base hit. Coming around third. Rojas he will score. Freeman around second. He'll pull into third. And it's 1-0 Dodgers on a single by Mookie. Three straight hits for the Dodgers. Not a bad way to start. Max Muncy. 3-45 hitter. Fourth inning. Swing and a miss. 0-2 pitch. One ball, two strikes. Yeah, how about this? Boom. Now watch where the second fence is above the hill. He almost hit it over that. That's been the longest home run by a Dodger this spring. Max's second. 1-2 on the way to Muncy. And the pitch outside and hot. Landon Rupp ready to go. His pitch. Swung out and missed. He gets Muncy with a two seamer. Next is Santiago Espinel with 13. Throw to first base. Mookie dives back safely. Rupp stretching and throwing home. And it's outside. A breaking ball. Exceeded that. Got a chance here with Freeman at pitch. Swings. Fouls it down the right side. Afternoon. Here's a pitch. And it's up in the air. Shallow center. And that one may drop in. And it does. Freeman's going to score. And the Dodgers with a 2-0 lead. And Teoscar with his 16th run batted in. It's a tough play in that particular area. You got the center fielder. And I'm not certain that he got a real good look at the ball coming off the bat. There's some areas in the east. They're saying yes. We're still deep winter. Runners off first and second. 1-1 pitch. Hit on the ground to the glove side of Koss. He flips to second one. Adamas to first. He got him. 4-6-3. Ending double play. Dodgers 2 runs, 4 hits. And a man left. We go to the second. It's the Dodgers 2. Giants nothing. Opening week with your back-to-back world champion. Back-to-back world champion Dodgers. Presented by Bank of America. Coming March 26th at Dodger Stadium. Check out exciting matchups, giveaways, special events and much more. Visit Dodgers. Dodgers with the lead. And Freddie rips this one high. And deep to right center field. Gone. His first home run of the spring. 3-0 Dodgers. Freeman, 2 for 2. Remember what I said in the first inning about the highest percentage of first pitch breaking balls to hitters leading off an inning. What was the pitch to lead off the inning here? Breaking ball. And now Mookie hits it in the air to shallow right field. And going over there near the line to get it. Jung-Hoo Lee. Went away for the and Freddie Freeman. Muncie takes. 1-0 and a strike call to Max James. Or in camp games or in just extra bats. As far as the number of at bats. Muncie takes low. 3-2 to Muncie. Just had what he calls a normal offseason. No recovery from anything. And Muncie strikes out on a curveball. He's not going to challenge it. The preferred strategy so far is the leverage situations more than anything. And it could be ball four. Could mean a run. Something like that in a leverage situation. Challenge for the 7th, 8th or 9th. Ball hit to right field. Jung-Hoo Lee drifting over near the line makes the catch. And the Dodgers are done in the third. But Freddie Freeman goes big fly right here. Banging the curveball out to right center to make it 3-0 Dodgers. Back-to-back world champion Dodgers baseball on Sportsnet LA. Brought to you by your local Kia dealers. Visit Kia.com to discover movement that inspires. Along with Kirsten Watson and Rick Monday. Tim Navarrete here. It's hot. Glendale. Triple digits. Here's Blake Trinan coming out of the Dodger bullpen. Get a bounce. 24. Haven't seen him in so long. 1-2. Wave and a miss. Got him with a sweeper. Wasabi out on strikes. Swing and a miss. Trinan's pitch to him. Swung on and hitting the air to right field. Elkins drifting over to his glove side left. He'll look up. Make the catch. Two down. And he shows Bunk. Part of the second road trip this year. Blow that puppy up. You want to volunteer. Freezing. And I really. Realized then. It was. Drilled into my head then what Mark Twain was talking about. The coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. People would arrive at sleeping bags not because they were going to sleep over. They were inside the sleeping bags during the game to stay warm. A little meeting on the mound and Dave Roberts comes to get Blake Trinan as he walks McCray. So two outs. And the Dodgers making a pitching chance. Relive Will Smith's history making Game 7 home run March 28th against the Diamondbacks. First 40,000 take home Will's go ahead home run bobblehead presented by Bank of America. Dodgers dot com slash promotions for the whole list. Alex Bessie. First time going back to back. Expecting to see Tanner Scott to. Pitch last night as well. And surprise. His eighth appearance. And it's important for the relievers. To get those back to backs here in spring training to graduate to that point. And that's where Alex is. And they got him picked off. So without throwing a pitch he's going to get out of the inning. Daniel Susak was at the plate. He'll. Come back next time. And Alex Bessie. Picks a man off right out of the bullpen. Stand and stretch time for the seventh inning stretch brought to you by sit and sleep. Three nothing Dodgers. Middle of the seven. Back to back world champion Dodgers baseball on Sportsnet L.A. is brought to you by Jack in the Box. The hot mess is back as a munchie meal for Jack's 75th anniversary. Glad you're with us on the radio TV simulcast that Trevor McDonald comes out of the giant bullpen and immediately commits a pitch clock violation. Alex Freeland the D.H. will have a 1 0 count on him. And now they're looking to see if they can. Do something with pitch calm. Reappearance is two starts for San Francisco last year. Well I guess yeah. I don't know if I grew up a sweat. Didn't throw a pitch and got the last out. So he gets credit for a third of an inning. And I think he's going to go. Throw a few down there. Yeah. They're letting him in down there. That's where he'll throw. He's not going down there to work on his pick up move. No he's got that down. Well every time we go past that now. And that ballpark is gone. Bouncer to third. Casey Schmidt. Long throw throws out Freeland one away. I can imagine. That playing the outfield as you did there many times. Upper deck all the way around. Fitzgerald lines it inside a third. That's going to go down and bounce off the sidewall. Fitzgerald. Will pull into second easily with a double. Good hitting and the ball is out away from him. So the four flagpoles behind the centerfield fence. You know you could pick up grass and. Senzel played it. Ended up in Knoxville. And ended up going to. He was his thing. And he crushes this one. Deep to left field. It is gone. A home run. Nick Senzel. Was gone as soon as he made contact. A warm afternoon. He hit it well enough. It's going to fly. And he couldn't hold up. He strikes out. Two men down. Cucamonga. Sixty one games with the Quakes last year. Swings and pops this one up. Middle of the infield. Shortstop Wasabi calling forward on the grass makes the catch. And the Dodgers are done in the seventh. But a two run shot. Over the bullpen and left by Nick Senzel. He extends the Dodgers lead to five to nothing. Don't forget to tune in when this game is over. Stay right where you are for Access Sportsnet Dodgers. Presented by Mercury Insurance. Folks in the studio are going to run everything down regarding this game. Moments ago you don't normally see this. Alan Porter the umpire and crew chief. Talking with both Dave Roberts and Giants manager. Tony Vitello. And. Don't know exactly what that's about. But you don't normally see that. Tanner Scott on the mound to pitch now on the eighth. It could be many many things. And you know. Over the years I have seen. One team may be low on a pitcher. Say to the other team look you have a pitcher that you want to get in the game. And borrow. A pitcher for a half an inning. Tanner Scott's good this spring. Nine strikeouts and six in the third innings pitch. And unlike Alex Vessia. Tanner has to actually throw a pitch. As he went down to the bullpen completing his work. But did not throw a pitch. In the game. Daniel Susak takes up high. He's come in as a designated hitter. He was. Left at the altar when. Grant McCray got picked off by Vessia. To win the top of the seven. And he strikes him out. This is really encouraging though. Considering what Scott. Went through last year. Not his best season. But to see him pitch now is. Like a. Somewhat different guy. Tyler Fitzgerald fouls went away. For strike one. Nothing and one to Fitzgerald. Slider in for a strike. Oh and two. That's a good pitch starts outside comes back and clips the corner. Fastball slider guy. How do you avoid. You know not getting into too many patterns where you're. Become a little predictable. This one's popped up shallow right Elkins. Over to foul ground. He's got room and he makes the catch. Two away. Change speeds change locations to. Those are other options. Do you have one type of fastball. Maybe you change the pressure on. On your fingers. To get the ball to move one way or another. Pitchers have all kinds of tricks. Spoken like a true hitter. Yep. Hitters and pitchers they get along generally but. Definitely a different perspective on the game. Well you get along with your pitchers better than the. Other teams pitchers. Right. That's a different perspective. Well Ernie Banks asked me once he said do you get mad at the baseball or the pitcher. And before I could answer he walked away. I was able to chase him down a number of years later said. You asked me a question. Long time ago and. Asked me if I get mad at the. The ball or the pitcher. Because what was your answer. I said. I said the ball. Goes. That's the best answers is too many different pitchers same ball. Coming way out. Victor Barracuda. With a very long home run. And the Giants are on the board it's five to one. Barracuda a big guy and he shows just how strong he is. This was long distance return to cinder address unknown. His son Kim just turned around and said. I'm not going to get that. That's over the batter's eye. He turned around just to get a better view of it. Four hundred and six feet. It's 410 to center. I think he got cheated a little there. Yeah. Whoever measured it you don't want him building your new house. And measuring. Catcher Eric Haas. The kitchen will be in the living room. Driveway won't be long enough for the car. No. So explain to me this it's 410 to straight away. Yeah. He hits it over the batter's eye. Trust me. It's an anomaly here with the high temperature. Eric Haas. Bounces one through. For a base hit. So you're really asking for some explaining. Just makes sense right. Which the 410 or the 4 0 6. The 410 makes sense. I'm sure that's been measured correctly. Yeah. Multiple times. Casey Schmidt third baseman. You know the story about Fenway Park right. Marked as 315 down the left field line for years and years and years. And there was an Air Force base nearby. Kind of like Luke Air Force Base is nearby here. But there was one nearby there called Pease. Pease Air Force Base. Not far from Boston. And they were using some measuring equipment from the sky. And they decided as a project one day we'll go up and we'll test the accuracy from home plate. And we'll measure Fenway Park. Well it turns out they got 310. With their high tech measuring gear. And so they informed the team. And they remarked it. It's been 310 for a lot of years since. And Schmidt could not hold up on the sinker. He's out. Second strikeout for Tanner Scott. For the Giants in the 8th. One run. Two hits. One left. Bottom of the 8th next. Dodgers 5. Giants 1. Welcome back to Camelback Ranch. Ahead of the 8th inning both managers. Came together. To talk to the umpires. To have a conversation. And it was just announced in between innings that. They're going to call this game after the 8th. Of course here. They're going to end this one after the 8th inning. Here guys. Thanks Kirsten. So safe to say the Dodgers are going to win huh. Absolutely. Well we thought that might have been. The conversation between Tony Vitello. Dave Roberts. And we showed them talking. Charles Davalon. The outfielder out of Arkansas. Was with the Razorbacks last. Season. Here's Eric Miller. 36 appearances. 4 and 1 and a 150 ERA out of the bullpen. You got a current temperature. It was even. One hundred. 15 minutes ago. It is now 1 0 1. 0 and 2 to Davalon. And he takes up by one ball. And here in the Valley of the Sun. Extreme heat warning. From right now through 8 p.m. On Sunday. 1 2 pitch. A little chopper toward third. Schmidt grabs it. Goes to first in town to get Davalon. One out. So not often you see a team that's winning in the last. Half inning. Getting to bat. But this is spring training. Miller was on the script to pitch for the Giants. So they want to get him another half. They are wrapping it up out in the bullpen right now. They're going to start hitting in. Picking up all the gear. His son Kim. Takes a slider for a strike. Kim's all dressed up for October. Never mind. 100 degree Wednesday today. That's weird. I was looking at the cameras. And our pool guy in Florida is currently at the house. And he's wearing a. Coat. And not a lightweight coat. Florida has been chilly lately. Yes it has. That son Kim. Beat out a ground ball to first base in the sixth. For an infield hit. 1 2. Inside. Two balls two strikes. Got the fan going. The fan has a fan. A bouncing ball over the mound. But Savi picks it up. Toss to first. And one more out to go today. Kind of takes the suspense out of it doesn't it. Strong statement. With a guarantee. Went out on a limb again. I guarantee they're going to win today. And take over first place in the. Cactus League. The all important Cactus League. 18th win. Eliezer Alfonso. What if you have a playoff. Cactus League versus the Grapefruit League. I don't know. I don't know about that. There's no chance. Nothing in 1 2 Alfonso. The field is short. And this should take care of the afternoon. And the Dodgers are going to win this one. By a 5 to 1 score. They go to 18 and 8 in Cactus League play. The Giants 16 8. And 1. We thank you for watching. We thank you for listening today. On the radio TV simulcast. Dodgers 5. Giants 1. It's an off day tomorrow. We're back Friday on Sportsnet L.A. And AM 570. At 6 p.m. For Kirsten Watson. And Rick Monday. Now stay tuned for access. Sportsnet Dodgers.