Marlins vs. Astros Game Highlights (7/22/26) | MLB Highlights

Peter Lambert on the mound, making his 17th start of the year. He has been excellent in his last start before the break and his first start coming out of the break. Yeah, he's a lot of fun to watch, and he has been very consistent. Otto Lopez, who leads Major League Baseball in hitting and hits. A one, Otto squares to Bunt, gets it down, good roller down the third baseline. Paredes picks it up on the bare hand, fires to first. It is not in time. Otto Lopez reaches with a leadoff Bunt single on the second pitch of the ballgame. See if Stowers can follow up. And that is strike three. Call at the knees on the outside corner, and Stowers is challenging. Interesting. Maybe at the knees, maybe a little bit low. It was at the knees, and Stowers and the Marlins are going to lose this challenge. Boy, what a tough break for the Marlins team. They lose it that early. So the Marlins down to one challenge, and it's just two batters into the first inning. So Lopez still at first, one out for Heriberto Hernandez. Hernandez shoots once, softly into right field, the base hit. Lopez can really fly, and he'll go first to third. And the Marlins are in business here in the top of the first. First and third situation. Now the Astros, unlike the Marlins, they'll play the middle infield back and play for that double play. Now Edwards is really tough to double up. Long set, there goes Hernandez. Three-two, swing and a miss, down on strikes. Thrown on a second by Pena, and it's dropped by Pena. Now he throws to third, and not in time. And they don't get Otto, who is back there. It is a stolen base for Heriberto Hernandez. The throw to second beat him by plenty, but Burt held up at the very last moment. And the covering shortstop, Jeremy Pena, said, you know what? Let's go and just get the surefire out at third, which wasn't surefire. So a break for the Marlins there. Good walk from Liam, and the bases are loaded for Griff and Kona. Griff was one for three with a double yesterday. The one-one. Curve ball, and that's hit high in the air and pretty deep to right center. Back on it is Wade. Spence over as well. Spence with the call and the catch on the warning track in front of the Astros' bullpen to retire the side. Conine giving the Astros a scare, but Lambert gets out of it, leaves them loaded. Sandy on the hill making his 22nd start this year. He's 10 and 5 for the 3-8-9 ERA. In a major league leading 136 in two-thirds innings. Two-two from Sandy. Pena with the chopper right side of the infield, right at the second basement, Xavier Edwards. He's got that, and he tosses to first for out number one. No, no, it's Yordan Alvarez, the American League leader in all three of the triple crown categories. Batting average at .326. Hit sharply through the right side, a base hit for Yordan. Give him a nine-game hit streak as Yordan continues to be white hot. 16 hits in his last 30 at-bats. It's hard to have any range on the infield when he hits bullets like that. It's a one-on-one out for Isak Paredes. Big three-run homer yesterday to give the Astros some separation. Now Paredes hits a ball out to right-center field that's hanging up for Conine, peeling towards straightaway right. And he makes the catch for out number two. Paredes retired. Now it's Lamont Wade, Jr., 1-1. Now with a ground ball to the backhand of the shortstop, Lopez. He's got it, sets his feet. He one-hops one on a dime over to first base. In time to get Wade. Top of the second, we're scoreless. It'll be 7-8-9 against Lambert. Head off the hands and popped up on the infield, calling for it Walker, first baseman. Comes in on the grass to make the catch for out number one. Well, he's a bully with that fastball, isn't he? And that's lifted out toward left-center field. Over is Alvarez to his left, makes the catch. Ball was slicing back to him. Mack is the second out. Now it's Estairie Ruiz. And that's hit out to right. Coming in a few steps now is Wade. He's there to make the catch. An easy, breezy seven-pitch inning for Peter Lambert after a rocky first. He asks, does it see a strike? Not the easiest guy to walk. Just a seven-three pass he's drawn. It's amazing. Only seven walks so far this season. So one on for Christian Walker. Bouncing ball up the middle. Ranging and unable to get it. The second baseman Edwards. It goes in the center. Diaz stops at second. And Christian Walker now six for 15 against Sandy Alcantara. Slipped it right through there. Right in between the second baseman and shortstop. So the Astros have two men on with no one out for Lucas Spence. Got his first big league RBI and first big league extra base hit yesterday. Bounces one right side. Stowers has got that. Fires to second for one. Return to first. Not in time. That gets over Sandy's head. It slams off the first base dugout. Thankfully did not get into the dugout. Otto Lopez, he just sailed that throw. And the first thing that comes to mind is that finger? The finger, yeah. I mean, I was thinking that too. And Nick Allen at the plate with one out. Right-handed hitting second baseman. Infield in. Bouncing ball right side. Edwards can't get it. Under his glove and into right field. Diaz scores. On his way to third. Spence, he's in safely. Throw back across the diamond, but diving back safely there is Allen with an RBI single to put the Astros up one to nothing. So Nick picks up his 11th RBI of the season. Spence at third. Allen at first. Still only one out. Here's Vasquez. He bunts one towards first. It's caught by Stowers. It was on the transfer. And everybody else is safe. Ball up in the air. Nice job by Stowers. He crashes hard. If he gets this ball and gets a good grip on it, you've got Spence over there at third. Back to the top of the order we go. Here's Pena. Out to again to Pena. Allen on the go again. That one misses low. Mack fires the throw to third. Sinoha coming to the plate. And they get Spence. And Sinoha just playing quick catch with Joe Mack. Got it right back to the plate. And they get Lucas Spence. The inning is over, but a run does come in. Bottom of the third inning here in Houston. Tonight, game three between the Marlins and the Astros. City Alcantara. We'll see Jeremy Pena. Pena tries to go for three. It's been spicy against the Marlins. A lot of jalapeno in that swing this week. That was a powerful blast up on the train tracks. 383 feet three days in a row now for Jeremy. He continues to handle Alcantara well. He's now three for five with three extra base hits off of him. And it's inside ball four. So a two-out walk. Second walk of this game for Lambert. That'll bring out Sinoha, their third baseman. We're going to break through here. I don't know when. A one-two to Sinoha. That is shot out towards the gap in right center field. Fairly deep. Racing overweight. He's not going to get there. It rattles up against the wall. Conine's going to try to score. No throw to the plate. A two-out RBI opposite field double for Javier Sinoha. And the Marlins have trimmed this Astros 2-0 lead in half. This is more two-out foot traffic for the Marlins. They can capitalize for more than one. Joe lined out to the left his first time up. Now Mack rounds one through the left side. That's a base hit. Alvarez is just going to trot to it. He makes a business decision. He will not be throwing home. Sinoha in to score. And the Fish tie the game on an RBI knock from Mack. A pair of opposite field two-out base hits for the Marlins has drawn them even here in game three tonight. Diaz fouls it back, and it's one and one. That was a fastball at 96. This one's ripped to center field, and that's going to be caught and off the glove. Ruiz should have made that catch easily, and it tipped off his glove and lands on the ground. So what happened to Asturi Ruiz on that play? And line to get more playing time because Jacob Marcy has been struggling. And that's going to be an error on Ruiz, of course. Here's Walker. One-two. Walker swings and misses. Good sweeper. And Christian Walker cut underneath it. Took until the 10th out recorded for Sandy to record his first punch-out. Got to bring up Lucas Spence. One-two again is cut on and missed. That's back-to-back punch-outs for strikeouts. One and two for Sandy tonight. And there are two men gone for Nick Allen. The one-two. That went a roller right at Stowers. He's got that. He takes it in the bag himself, and that ends the inning. Sandy works around the leadoff error. Jeremy Pena went deep in the third, homering for a third straight game. Hit the other way and over the leap of Stowers in the right. Jeremy Pena's two for three. They keep him hot in front of Jordan. You got something to work with, don't you? Absolutely. Broken back, ground ball, left side. There's one. There's two. And the side is retired. A three-one pitch and a double play ball rolled by Sandy Alcantara. Pitch way in off the plate, and Paredes is rewarded. Paredes didn't know where it was. He was looking around. He had no idea it was going to be in fair territory. Now it's Lamont Wade, Jr. Wade has grounded out and flied out to deep left center. Pitch number 10 of the at-bat is popped up at a shallow center. Otto sprinting back. Ruiz coming on. Ruiz tumbles, and it pops out of his glove. On contact with the ground, it popped out. Now he pops up, and he fires to second, and they do get Isak Paredes. It looked like he made a great sliding catch, but as he impacted the ground, the ball squirted away from him a little bit. Now he quickly got his wits about him, and Ruiz grabbed the baseball, and from his knees he fired to second, and they do get the sliding Paredes. Diaz gave it a ride, but it's a long second out. That'll bring up Christian Walker. Two-two. Is cut on and missed. Blown by Walker at 99 up and away, and as it stands right now, that is quality start number 111. Sandy Alcantara has the most in the history of the Marlins franchise. And Jeremy Pena has an infield hit, his third hit of the game. Boy, he was tearing down the line. He could smell that hit. As Yordan will come to the plate. Pena goes. This ball driven deep to left field. Awesome. Continues his magical season, breaking the tie in the bottom of the eighth. It's a 4-2 game. The 34 home runs makes Yordan the major league leader, one more than Kyle Schwarber. Here's Paredes, one for three. This ball drilled deep to left. Brian Abreu coming into this game. We talked about Hader pitching in back-to-back games in three out of the last four, so it opens the door for Abreu to come in. And the Marlins are down to their final out. With his sixth save, the Astros sweep the Miami Marlins.