DODGERS vs. METS: Official Full Game Highlights (July 24) | 2026 MLB Season

It was in 43 and 60. Only the Rockies and the Giants were the worst record in the National League. The Dodgers come in a Major League best, 65 and 38. Here comes Shawn Minaya and the Mets. Minaya was in his third season here with the Mets. He'll go back to 2024, his first year with the club. He was one of their best pitchers. So here's Otani, who's been dealing with a knee injury and thus not pitching the last few weeks but having his usual spectacular season at the plate. This one's through. Takes advantage of the challenge and leads off the game with a base hit. In a one-two count, this is just a get-over sweeper and Shohei stays on it, hits it really hard. We have found that four hole an awful lot this year with this swing. Plies this ball to right center field. Routine for Carson Benj and the rookie will make the catch for the first out. Minaya, I know it's only two batters but seems to have a lot more life on his fastball here tonight. Swing and a miss. Minaya with the sweeper gets Edmond for the second out. And now 36-year-old Freddie Freeman still up to his old tricks. Top 10 in the National League in base hits and on base percentage. Otani takes off, swung and missed, strike three. So Minaya with back-to-back strikeouts of Edmond and Freeman could get himself through the first inning. If they were glancing across town to watch what Rookie Sasaki did last weekend, they're probably saying, oh boy, five and two thirds innings against the Yankees with that big old glove of his, that cartoon glove. Just one unearned run. Yeah, Benz was, or Ewing was ready for that first pitch fastball, flied to right for Kyle Tucker. The headline of the game was not the glove but the velocity, 100 miles per hour, 21 times. The only guy that's had more fastballs that fast this year is Jacob Mizorowski. Takes low and it's a four-pitch, one-out walk. Dalton Rushing was saying he and Rookie was a different animal last Friday. He said he was fired up in the first few innings and usually you don't see quite that fire and edge from him. Manifested in that heater, living up above 100. Strikes him out on three pitches. Late on the fastball after the first pitch slider strike and now this one, boy, that just looked, that got degraded as a slider but that looks like splitter. Midor lines it to third right at Tommy Edmond. Slicing line drive to the perfectly positioned Edmond and so Soto's one-out walk is stranded at the end of one full. No score for the Dodgers or Mets. Bottom two, Carson Bench to lead off against Rookie Sasaki. Walked one in the first inning but no hits. Off the end of the bat on this 2-0 pitch to the second baseman Rojas for the first out. Luis Robert, third game back from the injured list. One for nine so far and the one was a titanic home run. And Robert skies one to deep left field. Back goes Hernandez to the warning track near the wall. It's out of here. Luis Robert strikes again. His fourth home run of the year, his second in three games back from the injured list. He's going to be in the lineup most of the time between now and 10 days from now because it makes perfect sense for the Mets to be showcasing Robert as much as possible. See if there are teams interested in him for their stretch drive. Let's take a look at the location on this fastball because I think it's pretty good. I think it's just an amazing piece of hitting. It's pretty good. It's a little low for an upper fastball, you see, but it pretty much hits the club. As we go to the top of the third, Dodgers looking to get things going against Shawn Mania. That's a fair ball. Just scooted inside the bag for Hernandez. Try to make it to Ewing Stroh offline. A nifty slide, a nimble slide for a leadoff double. One-nothing Mets, one on, one out for the Dodgers in the third. Pulled on the ground to first and handled by Young. And Otani retired. Hernandez to third, two out. Three-two coming to Pajes. And it misses inside ball four. First walk given up by Shawn. As Tommy Edmond struck out his first time up, lines one to Lindoro, snags it. Knee high for the out. Pulled it off the bat of Edmond, and Mania strands a pair. Second walk of the ballgame for Soto. It's the first baserunner that he started out 0-1 with, but it was Soto. That's a little different type of hitter. They signed Bichette to a big contract. Over $40 million a year. Three years, $126 million. And he got out of the gates really slowly. I was hearing the boos here. Soto getting twitchy over there at first, not running. Bounced up the middle. Rojas to the bag over the first double play. Well, Bichette grounded into a league-high 17 double plays last year, and he grounds into one here to end the third inning. Freeman struck out his first time. Freddie against left-handed pitching in his career. .280, but just .226 this year. Bichette the other way to lead off the fourth. One of the best triggers for Freddie Freeman. Just tell him he can't. Mookie survived that foul ball in the on-deck circle in Philadelphia the other night. That was so dangerous. He said he's never had anything close to that in his life. He pokes one to right center field. Well, that's a base hit. Freeman goes first to third, and the Dodgers have him cornered. So, Betts with his first hit since the big night Monday in Philly. Something brewing here. Good chance here for Rojas. Rojas flies it to deep right field to tie this ball game. Sacrifice fly Miguel Rojas. Freeman into score one to one. Tucker takes a very borderline pitch. Alvarez, did he challenge in time? No, it's too late. You were not prompt enough. Yeah, he thought about it and then tried to challenge it. I thought it was too late, as well. I thought it took too long, only because Alvarez was considering, like, should I do it this early in the game? Anyway, two men on now. Second walk of the night for Minaya. Teosca Hernandez, the batter. And Hernandez skies one to right. Over toward the line comes Bench. He'll have room, and he's got it. Tagging at second is Bench. He'll go to third, ball cut off by Lindor. That's a big out for Minaya. Now they're two away, and he'll get the left hand hitting Dalton rushing. And he pops this one up into shallow left. Ewing coming on. He's there. And he's got it. Side retired. Sean Minaya's been good through four innings. Third time around the batting order now. Shohei Otani, who is single to right, and grounds it out. And the sweeper hooked down the right field line. How did he do that? Otani heads for second. And he's going to take the turn and go for three. The relay by Lindor, and he's out at third base. Perfect relay from Bench to Lindor to Bichette. And Otani outstretching a double into a triple. On that bad knee, can still fly. Look at this pitch. It's six inches off the plate. One-handed, hooks it into right field. Bench had a long way to go for it, but he hits the cutoff man. That's the key. And all Lindor had to do was turn around and throw a strike. I mean, I was in shock at the way he hit that ball. I mean, a ball that's two feet off the plate that he's able to hook down the right field line. How did he do that? I don't know. Just superior at the ball skills. Love watching him running on the bad knee. Well, I'm Steve Gelbs, and that is Emma Stone. And you all know who Emma Stone is, famous actress. Now, she looks like she is a Mets fan at the game tonight. Unfortunately, that is, I think that's a lie, that's acting. She is here filming a movie along with Chris Pine that is set to be released called The Catch. For anybody who is wondering why the Mets are not wearing their home blacks on a Friday night, it is because the movie has taken precedence in this respect. And it's a Mets movie with the classic home uniforms. Freddie Freeman leading off in the top of the sixth against Sean Mania. Hit toward the right field corner by Freeman, and that ball's off the wall. Played by Bench, but he bobbled it, costing him any chance he might have of getting Freeman at second. Boy, if Bench fields that ball cleanly, it would have been awfully interesting to see whether Freddie could have gotten two bases. Lukey Betts flies one out to right center. Robert comes over in the gap and makes the catch. Freeman tags at second, and he'll go over to third. So now the infield has to come in with Miguel Rojas to batter. Rojas drove in the first Dodgers run with a sacrifice fly. Fly ball out to right. Bench getting in front of it. Freeman tagging. Here comes Freeman. Here comes the throw by Bench. On a field assist of the night for Carson Bench. Perfect one-hop strike to Alvarez, who got the tag down on Freeman. He didn't get his first shot at throwing out Freeman, but he took advantage of his second. Well, Sasaki's got a chance here to double down on what he did in New York last Friday night. You're talking about the importance of layering on that, not having that just be a one-off thing, but giving you some evidence that you can be confident it's real. Strikes him out. He didn't love where that splitter was, but he got a swing and a miss for his 6K in the first out of the six. Strikes him out. A fastball screams by him. Just pumped the heater by him. That's two Ks in a row to begin the inning, up to seven on the ninth. Keep pumping it, Rokey. That was good intentions. There it was. Sasaki strikes out the side in the sixth. Eight Ks in six strong innings. We go to the seventh with the game tied at one. Two soft hits for the Dodgers, and they have first and third and nobody out. And in a tie game, the Dodgers have put them at the corners with nobody out. Rayleigh's first pitch to Rushing. Squares around to Bunt. Bunt's it back to the pitcher. Coming home is Tucker. The flip home from Rayleigh. Now Tucker's in a rundown. Teoscar Hernandez is going to go for third. Rushing has got to get to second. Coming home to Tucker, he dives to the plate, but the tag was applied by Bichette. Teoscar Hernandez did get to third base. Dalton Rushing did get to second base, but he's got both hands on his hips in frustration because he didn't do the job he was looking to do, trying to bunt home Kyle Tucker. Still looking for that big hit. Lone run for the Dodgers came on a sack fly from Rojas in the fourth. Second and third one away. 1-1 game. Shohei Otani at the plate. Drilled in the air, center field. Just got under it, but it's deep enough to give the Dodgers their first lead. Hernandez into score on a sack fly from Otani. Dink, dunk, bunt, sack fly. 2-1 L.A. Rokey with eight strikeouts. He punched out the side in the last inning, we'll say. He was on. Sasaki's at 87 pitches. Got a career high in swings and misses tonight. Struck him out. Ninth for Sasaki and four in a row. 90 pitches in and still has good rhythm and still an outstanding release point where it looks like a fastball down the middle and has some action. Bouncing ball, first pitch. Mookie Betts, two up and two down for Sasaki. Sasaki after five and two thirds at Yankee Stadium last Friday with a fastball humming, living above 100. Hasn't been triple digits, but it's been even better. Splitter and slider, awesome. Easy ground at a second for Rojas. Rokey Sasaki goes seven innings. The story tonight, this guy right here, Rokey Sasaki, one of the best starts of his career. Freeman cracks his bat on a teardrop of a base hit against A.J. Minter and the baseball gods winking at the Dodgers tonight. Freeman runs, got a good jump and he's in there safely. Mookie said, I just happen to show up at those places when I'm hitting well. Dodgers leading this game, even though they're 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position. If they don't get Freddy in after a base hit and a stolen base, it's gonna be an inning they look back at if they lose this game and go, ugh, the eighth. Minter's 1-1. Tucker hits it hard, deep right field. Bench going back, it is gone! Kyle Tucker goes yard. Dodgers lead it four to one. A walk, a base hit, and now a bomb. There's your insurance. So, one away, Francisco Alvarez coming up. Has it drive deep to left field, right down the line, and Alvarez has a home run. Off of the air for Francisco Alvarez, gets the Mets back to within two. The Mets two solo home runs tonight, two bombs from Robert Jr. and now from Alvarez on a hanging cutter slider from Phillips. Scott's coming off the first five-out save of his time with the Dodgers. Another two-two from Scott. He's down, swinging on that slider. You introduced Tanner Scott with, hitters below 150 against that pitch. Flab on a right, no big deal for Kyle Tucker. And the Mets are down to their last out. Line drive, center field, Pajes is there. There's your ball game. Dodgers with a four-two win and with a five-and-two record on this trip. How about Roki Sasaki? Amazing. Twenty-two chases tonight. That is a season high.