A's vs. Braves Game Highlights (4-1-26) - MLB Highlights

Fans are clamoring to get into the stadium here at Truist Park game three of this series the final game of Atlanta's homestand Lawrence Butler and blooper again embracing for the second straight game the A's won last night so maybe blooper being around Lawrence Butler is a very positive sign for the A's and might be a good thing here in the series finale where the A's are trying to get a series win their first the season. What do you think happens first the long dog gets a blooper tattoo or blooper gets a long dog tattoo. And Chris sale turned 37 on Monday. So he had that great opening day start and a birthday and now he is ready for start number two in the season. Early test for Ronald Acuna Junior one away twenty twenty four and L.S. Young. Think about that. That's just two years ago. Like I said 16 year career for the self on nine time all star slowly to third Riley charges good play on an in-between hop to get it by you. Not only was he a Cy Young award winner he pitched the triple crown was on the all MLB first team won a gold glove award and then I'll come back player of the year. He was the winds leader the ERA leader and he was an all star and a fly ball to right field coming in and to his left Ronald Acuna speeding up at the line slows makes the catch as he crosses the foul line. That's a one two three first inning composed by Chris sale. The man on the mound this afternoon Luis Severino has an opportunity to alleviate a lot of that stress. That's the fireball and Dominican right hander. Meanwhile Ronald crowding the plate waiting on a three to here it comes and there is a called third strike. That'll be challenged by Acuna our first ABS challenge of the game and now the video replay of the ABS pitch and that is a ball. So Ronald was right. It's ball for eliminate the strikeout and hand that man a bases on balls. Pick off attempt to Cunha is out. Well Chris I'll tell you Luis Severino is like a ballet artist out there with his feet. How quick he can pivot and move around three to pitch on the way check swing. He did not go and there's ball for second walk allowed by Severino former a Matt Olsen two for seven with a double in the series one to a wave and a miss at a breaking ball. Severino gets his first strike out of the contest. That was something that was a bit of an issue in Toronto even though he came out of the outing feeling good about your first start. It's the free passes and it's the elongated bats and the three two as they go is swung on and miss gets it with a high fast ball at ninety six. He's not just a thrower by any means especially at this stage in his career. I mean you spend almost two decades in the big leagues. You have a pretty good feel for how to pitch. He's going to see if he can't get these hitters to expand that strike zone one to pitch. So long Soderstrom got him looking Severino without command first ball in play for the Braves and it is a single to left center for Dom Smith a good base running as he able to get to third and they are at the corners. Marcots say questioning maybe some career decisions these are tough for managers. We saw yesterday with Suarez struggling with the command. You're not throwing strikes you put your manager in a really tough spot. Now this is your your veteran your opening day guy here at Severino high ball four and they're loaded. So another walk by Severino he's faced 10 batters and he's walked half of them and somehow the Braves have not made him pay for that yet. Maybe Drake makes a pay right here. Baldwin the other one who else. But Drake Baldwin is off to such a great start after winning it all as a rookie of the year last year a cutter that did not cut very much at all up and away. And we talk about Drake Baldwin when we talk about his ability to use the entire field and do it with authority and he does it there with that hard line drive single to left field. Here's the delivery and swung on a foul tip it's held by wins the inning is over but the Braves on the board with two. Think about the difference of the two pitchers right now. Chris sale thirty seven pitches twenty seven strikes you got Severino seventy five pitches here with almost half of the balls. Bonyas lifts it to left. Yes yes on the track in front of the wall. I don't think he realized how close he was to the fence but he made the catch kind of non shallowly as he banged up against the wall. And Chris I'll be honest I'm not sure that this wasn't a home run. I believe that ball would have left the ballpark now Langley Lears off to a good start for homers already for Shane Langley Lears this season 1 0 to Langley Lears high in the air deep to left. Kiyos Trembski going back at the track at the wall. He's got bombs in Atlanta. Shay Langley Lears has his fifth home run of the season and puts the A's on the board. It's two to one Braves Shay Langley Lears jumping all over a pitch middle middle have added Bangalore's back at it again. Good luck getting that one. Yes. When does the American League Player of the Week award come out because I'm pretty sure we got a front runner here. Yeah I'd say so. And he's striking out here to in the top of the fourth. But Langley Lears does get the A's on the board two to one line drive. Dom Smith's having a nice ball game in a single to left center in the second now right center here in the fourth. But you just saw the mutual respect and love that Butler and Harris have for one another. Putting a bow on the Harris and Butler story Butler said the last time he was actually here at Truett's Park he came to game two of the series against the Phillies in twenty twenty three A's and his season was over. He came to support Michael Harris and that's the game where Harris made an incredible catch and ended the game on a spectacular double play. And Butler just talked about beaming with pride for Michael Harris in that moment for how far the two had come to get to that point. I would say he just needs to get better at his dressing. I'm going to help him out. You know I might just buy him some clothes just send them to his house and tell his wife to make him wear them because you know sometimes he just don't. He just does. He just puts clothes on and doesn't care how he looks. So I'm going to help him out with the work to handle business. You know it's not a fashion show you can look good and handle business. One one out the second over a leaping Hernandez and a base hit in the center field. So the eight and nine hitters are striking for singles and that'll be the end of the line for Luis Severino. It goes to the order twice and those walks early really did him in pitch count over 90 and he departs after three and a third inning. That was in play toward the gap. It's going to clear the bases and score to Drake Baldwin has driven. He mentioned it earlier. He continues to produce it is the drink once again. What an at bat. This was 11 pitches for him and then he gets a 98 this one the four seamer and there is that beautiful Drake Baldwin swing to more RBI. This is a game of momentum Dallas. You talk about it all the time adds two more to Atlanta's cause they're up by three with a Cy Young Award winner on the mound punched up the middle might find a hole that leaks through it a base hit Drake Baldwin around third he'll score just add enough mustard on it to sneak it in between Hernandez and Wilson and it's an RBI single for Matt Olsen and it's five one Braves here in the fourth you know get helped out the other day by going three and two thirds going to need another heroic effort from reliever to save the bullpen but you do it the off day tomorrow which helps wear out your bullpen early in the season like it's too low pitch is swung on fly ball the deep center field going back for it as Clark he's under it and makes the catch 15 feet from the track and the inning is over. Chris Sale has had it since he has been a brave how about this a 19 and 0 record with an era under two in that Braves uniform and they have given him at least five runs of support. Riley stays back low throw no problem for medals. You talk about it earlier and Chris Sale and kind of his ability when he needs to reach back sharply to DuBois and a couple of ground outs to the left side of the infield to start the six top of the order and Jacob Wilson 0 4 2 today he's flied out grounded out to pretend in the series Olson is there sale covers three grounders and another one two three frame one hit through six innings for say what a day for Drake he walked in the first two RBI single in the second two RBI double in the fourth he's scored a run and he's been doing everything but sell it hot dogs and working on the grounds crew here at the ballpark here today that's one fly ball the left center park going to the track at the track to the wall leaps up and Denzel Clark strikes again what a play a Superman catch from Clark tracks at the entire way playing centerfield here at Truitt's Park for 10 years just an unbelievable snag by Denzel Clark the best defensive center fielder in baseball and I don't think it's quite close and Butler is now the pinch hitter so the Atlanta kid will get one more at bat here at Truitt's up the first base side Ricell Iglesias gloves and will take it himself one unassisted on the scorecard let's go out and just kind of give him an extra second or two to catch his breath to two he reaches and tip that into the middle Baldwin and he holds on for the strikeout to at bats now after coming off the bench to watch the hands of the Drake right here Braves trying to get to four and two to start the season here on this opening homestand of twenty twenty six popped up on the infield Dubon waits in the sun Braves when they take two or three from the A's and it'll be a happy flight out West for the first road trip of the season.