Braves vs. Orioles Game Highlights (7/24/26) | MLB Highlights

What a Friday night here at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as the O's and Atlanta Braves kick off the three game series critical crucial baseball here in late July and no better man to turn to these days than Trevor Rodgers to try to keep it rolling. Yeah I tell you it has been a tale of two different seasons for Trevor Rodgers and two down and a tough match up here for Matt isn't it. Boy the numbers don't go down versus left handed pitching either hit to sixty six against lefties and right. They do go down against Trevor Rodgers against two he's won for seventeen nine case that kind of a fun look all too often. And Grant Holmes will get his 19th start of the season here tonight. Now we mentioned how good he has been throwing the baseball his last three starts plus a relief outing in there as well for Grant home Hall of Fame weekend. Each team gets to select their own hats. The Braves have of course Andrew Jones going into the hall on Sunday. So these are the Braves hats with that Hall of Fame patch right there on the side. Dylan Beaver is in the leadoff spot for the first time this season on the ground a shorter old friend of him a tail can't make the play. Well a long time Oriol Mateo who is here parts of the last five seasons with an early gift for his former dugout. Here's Pete Alonso who just seemed to hit one rocket after another on the road trip. He goes chasing after that home slider. He is down on strikes and that's what we're talking about. And to be able to do this you got to be able to get ahead in the count and then get chased on that really good tight slider which is way out of the strike zone. Here's Gunner Henderson off a very nice series in Boston. Runner takes off struck him out. Oh let's see if Mateo got that tag. The Braves want to challenge it. They will. As long as there's contact there and it clearly looks like there is he's out. Oh yeah he's out. Wow. Nice throw. After the calls overturned the runners out. So a couple of strikeouts for said nothing to do it after one in one down Colton Kauser and he strikes him out and it's with the slider. No surprise there. So that's three strikeouts through five hitters for homes and the Orioles have their nightly walk. That's their ninety fifth straight game with a walk the longest active streak in the majors and the Mets thirty five. Well now Jackson Holliday who homered off Grand Homes last year went three for three. We'll see if Holliday can continue his success in homes. Yes he can in the right field he's four for four. Holliday is going to hold it first and Tavares will tap dance in the third. He got the cutter. He slammed the cutter right. The kid knows what he's talking about. Wouldn't this be a big run to get in and Christian Encarnacion Strand will try to get it in at his Orioles home debut. See if he sticks with this fastball. Racing in behind him Christian Encarnacion Strand with a two run double in his first Camden Yards Orioles at bats. Just say yes to CES maybe one more fastball than what Holmes should have thrown right there. That'll bring up Chadwick Trump who spent a dozen games earlier this season in Atlanta and he's striking out against his old teammate Grant Holmes two to nothing after two one up one Joey Bort coming up and bigger. Directly down the line here for Joey Barrett he shoots it the other way heading for second and he slides in with a double good piece of hitting by the Braves catcher. But look how far off the first base Pete Alonzo was playing. That's just an excellent piece of hitting two down and back to the top of the order to Drake Baldwin. And he's in to win the shut down third second K for Trevor today Dylan Beavers leads off he's single to the first inning. Ozzie what a pick. Well there's the Curris out connection with Andrew Jones Ozzie Albies making a tremendous play at second base. You don't have time to create the pick that you want. And so you got to use your hands and the hand showed up here for Ozzie. Wow brings up the polar bear Pete Alonzo. Pretty deep out to right center Harris on the track reaching up and he has it. We see Michael Harris do it so often whether that's a truest Parker on the road and he does it here at Camden Yards. Michael goes up may or may not have gotten out of here but either way he was up above the wall as far as the pipe goes. Yeah close. Wonderful plays back to back by the Braves defense now Gunnar Henderson with the O's ahead by two. Olsen will take this Holmes covers and a one two three inning with a little help from Grant Holmes friends. First pitch he sees he singles to right to strike the fourth. So Maddie looked a little frustrated in his first at bat. He knows that he has had issues with Trevor Rodgers. This is going to be challenged as well by Trump his second challenge to the at bat. And now Trump receives. Just a disbelief on our first one down for Michael Harris. Line to lap pretty deep and it gets past Beavers. Are they going to wave Ozzie no he's going to stop at third at the last second. Tommy Watkins threw his hands up when the Braves will have him at second and third here with one out. Now you got to do bond to the plate Leiter to center. Kauser has it but as he backs up Ozzie will score easily to make it two to one still have Harris out at second Riley for one ground ball up the middle what an at bat for Riley to tie this game two to two here in the fourth. That's the thing a beauty for Austin Riley again this is not easy to do against Trevor Rodgers. Two outs and a great speed of Michael Harris. He scores very easily. Here's Eli White. Fastball away popped up. It's to Vera's in shallow right Braves get two to tie it three hits in a sack fly we're all new in the fourth two out of four innings now the Orioles leadoff guy has reached and it brings up Colton Kauser. He drills this toward the pole. It is hooking hooking and going foul first base umpire DJ Rayburn was down on a knee watching that ball go just right over that pole. These are really difficult reads for umpires and they're going to ask for a crew chief challenge on this. This is a crew chief review of the foul ball. The problem you run into is that it was higher than the foul pole and so it makes it very very difficult to get a judge on this and it's way above. You're not going to see it here until it comes down. Now that is not straight out. That was straight on. You would say OK that looks like it might be fair but it's not. They're going to go nuts here because they think that's what they're seeing. I just don't know the confidence level again if you don't have a can after a few call stands foul ball. I have a straight line like that. The fans are upset because they saw what we saw. Yeah. But that's not a straight on look. And that's the problem. Don't tie to two for now one on pitch to Kauser taken and it's high. He had to wait just a second. But yeah that is just a little high ball for two on nobody out the bears at the plate. Maybe a good time to put one on the ground here. One in one squares lays it down. Gorgeous gorgeous by Tavares. He's out at first but he advances Ward to third and Kauser to second. Well done. Jackson a holiday for a four lifetime against Grand Homes all bad the infield in Jackson holiday shoots one to right. Eli White will circle it. White makes the catch Ward tags from third throw is cut off Sackbuck Sack fly small ball can be your friend sometimes and it is for the Orioles as they retake the lead to up and to down over to Drake Baldwin who's grounded out to third struck out swinging. How would this be for a bounce back inning. Rogers says seven pitches seven strikes. Swing and a miss nothing but strikes nothing but outs. Trump with a base hit. That's the Orioles first hit from a catcher since Samuel Bassitt went on the aisle went out for Alonzo this ball rocketed to right. Eli White will get there. Talk the wall. It clangs well away from white Bob's turn to go to third and Alonzo in the second. What was the exit velocity on that one. You talk about turning around one to the backside of the field. You can't hit one any harder than that. A double that no doubt left the dent in the padding and second and third one away for Gunner weird to third and Riley will throw across that came off the bat awkwardly but thankfully for the Braves it means no runs and now two outs and now to say in the scoring position for Taylor Ward. Ground ball Mateo throws across what a pick by Olsen on the other side to keep this game three to two. Circle that on your scorecard Trevor Rodgers has just been chef's kiss. He'll bring it to off speed swinging a miss down he goes with a sweeper no walks in the game five strikeouts. He's only allowed four hits Olsen now one of 18 lifetime against Rodgers. Hey Matt Olsen figured out Trevor Rodgers and he singles through the right side that has to feel good for Mateo two down for Mauricio Dubon. Dubon jams one to right and Rodgers slams the door in the six another strikeout in there another zero post it and a quality start in the works. Here comes Danny Young to get so far in his eight games now a little bit more contact but it's big time ground balls and that's because he throws the two seed basketball along with the sweeper. Kauser will take a walk here is second and the Orioles third ability to Baron Kauser is on the run. The ball is Paul Ball for another very very tight pitch. The catcher is challenging the ballpark and another challenge by Joey Barrett. Now this is interesting. Eclipse the zone for strike three. Atlanta has one down remaining. So now Walt Weiss comes out to talk about the play at second. The call by Sean Barber was safe at second on Colton Kauser. You have to go through whether it's ball four or strike three before you can ask about the play at second. Colton clearly safe. The only question would be did he keep something on the bag and it looks like he did. Atlanta is challenging that the runner was out at second. Interesting. Yeah unless there's a different angle I don't see where the other man ever came off the bag after the call in the field to confirm the runner is safe. I'm interested in Carnasio and Strand for the first time in his one hundred thirty three game big league career has been intentionally walked and then Walt Weiss is going to go out and make the change. It's going to be Kenley against Trump trying to add to the Orioles league. He sends it to left DuBois David Ketch to save a run and keep it three to two full extension. What a grab Trevor Rodgers still dealing into the seventh inning single through the left side. Riley is two for three. That was the first three ball count that Trevor Rodgers had tonight. Now here's Eli White. White with a ground ball to third and Carnasio Strand. On to Alonzo and that's two. Trevor Rodgers says yes sir. What a timely twin killing for Rodgers and with two outs he will face Joey Barton. Two runs or less for the seven straight start. Trevor Rodgers shoves it against the first place Braves Rico Garcia comes out of the bullpen top of the card coming around and Drake Baldwin hit his 19th homer of the season yesterday and that matches the 19 that he hit from last year as a rookie Drake Baldwin gives it a ride and this ball game is tied courtesy of a Baldwin Bob. Twentieth of the season one more than he hit is the rookie of the year in twenty twenty five. We talk about his plate coverage and beyond the strike zone this changeup is outside of the zone but he did not get it away. Garcia kind of left it middle maybe a little bit even in her third and down and Drake Baldwin squares it up. Fernandez a one two three 70 returns for the first major league appearance since June of twenty four with the Brewers third time in his career. Kauser has a three walk game a potential winning run is on now and Colton already has a steal today probably with a hit the sack fly. There goes Kauser got a good job and the ball kicks away at second. It was a chance very worth taking. Hits it in the air it's Reilly again. All three in the air to Reilly here in the eighth and Hernandez gets out of it. We are still tied at three. Hernandez is coming back out here for a third inning. So the game winning run is at first base and that would be an awfully good time for Pete Alonso to finally solve. Eliezer Hernandez. Flips it in the right field in the base and Beavers turns a bag at second speeding to third he's safely there. The Alonso gets his first hit in ten tries on Fernandez for first and third two out situation. They will intentionally walk Henderson. Wow. The base Taylor Ward who has the best guy in Major League Baseball walks with the best of him. Now if he can draw a walk he wins it. Three to pitch grounder Reilly Babas recovers and throws across to send this ballgame to the tenth inning Orioles strand the bases loaded in the ninth and turn to Andrew Kittredge for the tenth. Nobody out of the runners at the corners now. Bouncer diving stop by Holliday Oh he airmails it out into left field and the Braves take the lead. Everybody's safe and now the runners are at second and third and they're set up for a monster inning. Now that's two outs for Kittredge after the error. So now it's up to Matt Olsen who needs a base in to drive in those runs. Olsen puts it in the air right center field. How big is that. A three run blast. Matt Olsen extending the lead when Kittredge was one pitch away from getting out of it. You cannot overstate how big that was. And that sends folks scurrying for the exits. It sends Kittredge scurrying to the shower. Dylan Lee will try to get the final three outs. The O's are halfway there. They've got two on another couple of base runners now. So a Jackson swap here is Jeremiah pitch hits for Jackson Holliday. Jackson a skyscraping fly ball the left and that will be the of the game does bring in Ward but the run not of consequence only the outmatters Orioles trying to avoid leaving 11 and a cool irony of a guy with strand right there in his last name being potentially the last A.B. Also the deep right field Preston Encarnacion Stratton Encarnacion Stratton has knocked in eight runs in five Orioles games and they will bring the tire under the plate. Go to he struck him out a roller coaster of emotions tonight in Baltimore. But the Braves find a way.