Phillies vs. Braves Game Highlights (4-26-26) - MLB Highlights

For the Philadelphia Phillies they go after game three against the Atlanta Braves they haven't won a series this year since the first week of April as Philly ended their 10 game losing streak last night with an 8 5 victory the Braves still have the best record in Major League Baseball at 19 and nine and there is sale going for a career win number one fifty today swing and a miss three pitches down goes Turner technically it's one of the slowest sliders in the game but it's also one of the nastiest struck him out beautiful slider and a beautiful start on a beautiful Sunday afternoon no scoring to the bottom of the first inning and the Braves taking their first taxid era Nola and the ball is hit well but it's a ball that I think Drake could catch in the air he just didn't love it try to get recovered and throw him out Petunia turned on the after burners there at the end the Braves had their first knock of the game is Drake Baldwin who is one for nine in the series and he hammers Baldwin saw a fastball he likes and there are two on with nobody out for Nola just one win that was in a game on April 3rd at Colorado in fact the Phillies have lost his last six starts and he's posted a six forty six era in that span Braves trying to make some noise early Matt Olson now. And the Braves jump on Nola with a three run homer by Matt Olson his eighth of the year three batters in three to nothing in Atlanta and we start the second Felix Reyes rookie just his fifth big league game and his first plate appearance last Saturday was against sale and he hit a home run off of him it was the only run that sale gave up and that started Philadelphia. Here's the one to pitch on the way to Garcia swung on miss for strike three and with that strikeout Chris Sale has now passed Chuck Finley for 28th all time on the career strikeout list sale looking for a one two three inning and six up and six down to begin the game. He got him for strikeouts through two innings six up six down. Mauricio Dubon first up for the Braves here in inning number two. There's a fly ball to deep right center field going back with urgency more. He's to the track. He's to the wall and he goes into the wall and he can't come up with it. Dubon off to the races around second. Billy's at the cutoff man throw to third head for slide he's in there. Dylan Moore just rammed into the wall got leather on it but he couldn't hold on as he was jolted by the right center field wall and it's three bags for Dubon Eli one for six in the series. He said it would give him his fifth RBI of the season. White drills deep to Mendez at bat after getting down to two for Eli White second homer of the season and the Braves all over Aaron Nola here early. Ronald Acuna with a single and a run scored in the first inning. This will be challenged by Ronald Acuna. Ronald hasn't been great in these. Let's see what happens. It is a ball. We saw that one well that missed by a pretty good margin that missed by two and a half inches. Ronald now four for ten. And he earns himself a two a one out walk here in the second. Baldwin sharp single last inning Ronald goes for second. He's safe. He stole one last night. He gets another here on Sunday and for Acuna that is his sixth steal and ten tries this year. Here's the one pitch and Baldwin punches one in the right field down the line Acuna coming around third base. He's going to score the throw comes in it's cut off and it's an RBI single out of Drake Baldwin who's two for two and it's six nothing Braves. They are squaring up Aaron Nola today. Popped up. Marshawn. Want to catch. Holy cow. The sun and some of the wind that the ball moving quite a bit as you said a lot of spin to it the athletic play by Marshawn all these grounded out his first time up fly ball left field. Reyes is out there plenty of room out left and he makes. And so Marshawn hit by the pitch and it's the first base runner of the game for the Phillies. Turner struck out against sale leading off the ballgame. That one's hit sharply back through the middle. It's a base hit the first one of the game for the Phillies and Trey Turner is a board Kyle Schwarzer is coming up. They can put a little dent in this inning right here in the game inside ball for that a load them up. Great A.B. really good A.B. There's been a couple of them in the Senate and the bases are loaded. And here comes Harper the hottest of all Philly hitters Harper to four thirteen against Chris Sale you have two Titans in the game going head to head here in the top of the third inning bases loaded two down sale versus Harper got him swinging fastball ninety eighty red line the fastball right on by Harper and Chris Sale comes back and wins that showdown six nothing Braves are in the top of the four. He struck him out just corkscrewed him into the ground with that slider and that strikeout number six for Chris Sale one down here in the fourth inning and he fans the breeze slider struck him out three straight strikeouts for sale going back to the final out of the third inning and he has seven for the game and the nine time all star deals a one to he strikes out the side season high eight K's for sale and this time it's on gas to Aaron Nola walks Drake Baldwin. So now the bases will be loaded for Matt Olson and Olson had the big blow in the first to get things going. Swing and a miss. He went with a cutter and he got the strikeout. Honestly that cutter was pretty much middle middle but Olson just flat out swung underneath it. Ozzie Albies over two with a ground down to fly out. Albies lifts that one to right Garcia's back in there makes the catch and Aaron works out of the bases loaded jab Chris Sale out there for his sixth inning of Urquhart Schwerver Harper and Reyes in the top of the sixth inning. Braves have a six nothing lead on the Phillies sales three two and a ground ball to first taken on the second half by Olson feeds to the bag sales their Braves do have bullpen action behind salads because he's at ninety six pitches. It's going to be Olson again. And after two plays covering first I think Drake just wants to give him a chance to catch his breath. He's thirty seven. You know it's give him a little little blow out there on the mound. Time to gather himself face a guy who has made some pretty good contact off him. Here's O2 sent out to short taken on a series of bounces by Mateo flings it across there's out number three and a one two three sixth inning by sale and six scoreless innings today for Chris Sale. He strikes out nine and he leads the way for Atlanta one out for Rafael Marciano. The Braves can hold on and win it. They would improve to five and oh and rubber games this year. Ground ball to third under the glove of Riley kind of nonchalant on that. And then Mateo is going to go run it down and Marciano is going to pull in the second base. Well it's hit well but this is a play that Riley makes it a sleepy. It's a backhander sort of locked his feet up but didn't stay with it. Two down for Kyle Schwarzer Phillies have had just two base runners since that bases loaded strikeout to Harper in the third inning fly ball right field Acuna is back. It is gone to run home run for Kyle Schwarzer and the Phillies are finally on the board here in the eighth inning. It is a six two game. It's RBI is 16 and 17 form and also pushes him over eight hundred RBI for his career. Harper takes a ball outside Drake Baldwin wants to challenge this first pitch. We're going to get our ninth challenge. It is record tying ninth challenge and it is a strike called. And I have one remaining. The Phillies bench is pretty upset about something complaining about the timing. Yes it is. I will say this it's been a little bit inconsistent among umpires. Bumper got six two Braves bottom of the eighth for Horry Mateo runner at first one out that was line caught by Alec Bowe high in the air Bowe fires it back across to Harper and that will end the frame that will send us to the ninth. And it's not a safe situation but Suarez will try to come on here and get the final three outs with Suarez. He's willing to pitch in any situation has been great so far over his twelve games post strikeouts and he struck him out fastball ninety nine express train hitter right on by the swinging bat of bars and one down in the ninth. Out towards Ronald Acuna Jr. Bathed in sunlight he makes the catch two down in the night. Meanwhile the Phillies one out away from losing eleven of their last twelve games Acuna waits out there in right field. And for Chris Sale career win number one and fifty the Braves are the first team in the big leagues to 20 wins this year.