Marlins vs. Braves Highlights (8/4/26) | MLB Highlights

The Braves hold the second best record in baseball behind the Red Sox since the All-Star break at twelve and five. Marlins come in playing pretty good baseball as well having won six of seven after dropping twelve straight at Grant Holmes twenty first start of the season here for the right hander and he blows it by him swung on and missed strikeout number one for Holmes. I think he went in back to back strikeouts for Holmes to start it. This time the two strikeouts on a changeup and a curveball. I like it changing up a little bit. Lopez rips that into left and a two out base hit for the Marlins one two and you like Grant's chances here because Owen Casey has the highest strikeout rate in major league baseball and he just struck him out with a curveball that curveball looking really good a sharp weapon early and he strikes out three Marlins on the top of the first inning. I guess though on the mound for the Marlins tonight he made three starts with the Marlins last season two of which came against Atlanta and Cunha's out couple of ground ball outs here for Gusto to start this one. Matt Olsen has been swinging a really good bad homers in each of the last three games of that series. Thirty one on the season also for Matt eight hundred and ninety fifth consecutive game played here tonight. So he is now tied with Stan Musial eighth place all time and also just keeps on hitting a two out single. So right now the bottom of the first similar to the top of the first that is a foul tip held on to by Mack Cutter upstairs. Gusto gets the punch out and the inning is over. Leadoff man aboard second hit of the ball game for Miami. A leadoff single for Hernandez puts him aboard for Jacob Marcy to out to Olsen gloves fires the second. There's one Jarvis back to first. There's two. That's a double play. It happened so quickly that Hernandez and Marcy weren't even running. Hernandez assumed Olsen because he was so close to first base that he would step on the bag and throw then thus rendering him the ability to go back to first. Olsen outsmarted round ball up to third base take it on the second half by Riley next to third cuts it loose. That's in time for the out. So he faces the minimum in the top of the second as he with the bat resting on his left shoulder. Big wide open stance in the left hand batter's box stares down the right hander Gusto and drilling this to right. Pals one to nothing to Gusto on him did he. He did. The no doubter just shy of four hundred feet over a hundred off the bat. Give the fans something to smile about the Chophouse and six game winning streak. It's a beautiful Tuesday night at Truist Park. Grant Holmes is throwing two and a third scoreless. And one of the things he's been working on recently guys is getting that front leg a little less stiff. Felt like he was getting on top of it and having trouble getting that Kerr ball out of his hand because when it pops out of there that can really telegraph it to a hitter and a side is retired still one nothing after two and a half Otto Lopez leading things off here in the road for the first pitch that with a ground ball to the forehand of the second baseman Alvarez who bobbled it picks it up fires to first and it's not in time. Otto is a board on what will be a fielding error on Ozzie Alvarez. It seemed routine. I mean he took one shuffle to his forehand and he just couldn't glove it cleanly and Otto a board to open the inning to pitch. He blows it by another swing and a miss that strikeout number four for Grant Holmes. He really used the same recipe here in the fourth that he used in the first inning to cook it one one and a high fly ball down on the left field line maybe playable coming over your Strzynski Reilly in the neighborhood too. But you should be there for the out and two down a towering fly ball to right going back now Acuna. So is Harris sprinting to the warning track Acuna and Harris come together and Harris leaps in front of Ronald and brings it down. Lane Thomas first time in that Braves uniform and now it's Michael Harris the second Michael Harris charges one towards right center field. That's into the gap up the alley all the way to the wall. Harris in the second base and it's a one out double by Michael Harris mentioned that last year Harris took Gusto deep and this time he tagged one into the gap all the way to the wall the right center this right hander Gusto he's born in California but he's actually raised closer to Braves country at Charlotte pitching a couple of junior colleges in Florida and then became an 11th round pick by the Astros in twenty nineteen and you stress he chased it was a curve ball that bounced right behind the plate and the inning is over. Gusto Stratton the one out double from Harris he's through four innings of one run baseball two down for the number nine hitter Javier Sanoha Sanoha Benz one out of line out towards the gap in the left center. The stress he can't get there and go all the way to the wall and Sanoha will stop at second and the Marlins have a man in scoring position for the first time in this ballgame. Now he jumped all over a first pitch to see fastball that stayed up. You're not going to see a lot of fastballs from Holmes a lot of off speed especially if you're a left handed hitter. So I was thinking three but you don't want to make that third out at third. The problem is every time we've had a guy on base it's been with two out line to right Acuna charges and he's got it. We got a guy there. There's a guy there. We're halfway home. One nothing Atlanta Dominic Smith leads it off with the Braves in the bottom of the fifth inning. Great Dabney with us. One nothing Braves thanks to Homer by Ozzie Albies in the second inning Dominic Smith wraps one on the ground a second. It's a poppy a little bit but plenty of time to get Smith and there's one away. Riley sends one up the middle right in between Lopez in the bag at second. Austin's aboard with a base hit and Jarvis flies one to center. He's got it to gone here in the fifth. There's a swing and a miss side retired here in the bottom of the fifth. So one nothing Atlanta will go to the six a true spot. So in the midst of this five game win streak Braves starters have been really good and Holmes has continued that here tonight. Yeah that's how you do that especially with our pen down there. Your starters can get you into it Perez. The other night was outstanding. All right. That's a good start. They got the leadoff man on board on the second the fourth and now the sixth. That's the first walk for homes tonight and he pops it up in the right field. Ronald Acuna looking up into the twilight trying to deke the runners if he didn't see it. But he wasn't fooling anybody. Make the catch. Well that's a big out right there because Lopez has been as you said leading the NL and hits. Good chance he goes over 200 hits this year if he stays healthy to get that and not give them two guys on and no outs on a strike on Casey ground ball to first Olsen's got it triggers a second Jarvis right back to first. Holmes is there and a double play well played extremely smooth three six one double play to end the top of the sixth inning. Matt Olsen one for two with a single. He hits one deep down the right field line hooking into the corner going to the wall. Matt Olsen in route to second base he'll go in standing and it's a one out double for Olsen. There's now two for three tonight. Just tied your down Alvarez Alvarez and Olsen both with fifty nine extra base hits. That'll be baseball. Michael Harris ground ball to the right side up with its second baseman Javier Sanoha throw to first base in time of the out over the third base for Matt Olsen with two down once again in the hands of Ozzie Albies. Albies flies this into right field. Out of the inning Ryan Gusto has been outstanding tonight. We'll see if the Marlins can get a few runs for when we return Brent Holmes back out there for the fire at the top of the sixth inning and that one passed the dive to the third baseman Austin Riley and in the left for a base hit. And Arieberto Hernandez greets him with a lead off single. And that will be the final pitch that Grant Holmes throws here today. Walt Weiss the manager first year manager of the Braves taking a stroll out to the other mound. I'll send the job today. However by Grant Holmes a heck of a job by Holmes he fired seventy two pitches in six innings plus but he will leave to a nice ovation from the crowd here at Truist Park. Now as Dodd will come on for Atlanta in the air to center Michael Harris in line with it chin high catch and one away in the seven to pitch ground ball to short backhanded by Jarvis to Ozzie. There's one Ozzie to Matt. There is two third double play in the night. That wraps up the top of the seven. And here will be the first at bat as a brain for Lane Thomas the 30 year old from Knoxville Tennessee who grew up a big Braves fan idolizing Chipper Jones and the first pitch he chops to short. The first air of the game for the Marlins coming for the shortstop Lopez. No good hustle right. Just a ground ball but running hard out of the box and just a little offline here. And if you're not running hard right here right you get right back on the back Stowers. But since Thomas can fly a little bit see if they can make him pay for it. Here's Austin Reilly Reilly deep out to left center it's at the track it's on it's in the seats to run homer Austin Reilly as he swings the wood hard and pounds one over the left field wall three nothing Braves. I'd say that classifies as making him pay their extra run for the Braves. Good job Austin Reilly. That's exactly right. An error and a homer don't you know that's so deflating for the Marlins to see that homer come right after the six Vodnik new acquisition for the Marlins. So this is his Marlins debut. It's a well there and this time he has something to show for it bobbled for a second but Ronald is going to only get a single out of it. That's going to be that I did it hit Matt Olsen down around the ankle and the Braves have two on the ground here to start the bottom of the eight and Vodnik struggling here in his first appearance with his new club. They're loaded. This gets by the catcher and Acuna is going to score easily. Four to nothing and Vodnik's got big time stuff but tonight he's not sure where it's going. As you speculated Frenchie with just the four to nothing. Even though it's not a safe situation it will be a Glaciers Lopez flies one to left field down the line into the corner it bounces on the warning truck and it pops up on over the wall. Lopez has an automatic double to start the ninth. The Braves must really want this one to bring in a Glaciers and a non safe situation. It's a bottle rocket to shallow left coming in Mauricio Dubon. He spots it in the night sky has it for the out one away for Alberto Hernandez and there's ball for here comes Marcy and the tying run will step out to the on deck circle here in the ninth. You never know. And he lines this in a right field. He's going to get down for a base hit. Lopez will stop at third and don't go anywhere. Don't change that channel. The tying run is coming to the plate for the Marlins here in the nine and all of a sudden the bases are loaded in a big swing from Leo Jimenez could tie this game one away nowhere to put Leo Jimenez the ground ball that is through the left side for a base hit. They're going to wave Hernandez home. Dubon will just toss it back in and that's a two run single for Leo Jimenez. Now all of a sudden the tying runs on base and the Fischer on the board for two Atlanta in the top of the ninth. This Marlins team is never out of the contest. Even when closers come into the game and it's late they need three or four runs. Sometimes that's when they have their best at bats. You know sometimes closers they come in a non safe situations and it gets to be tough and hairy for him. And the Marlins are putting something together here in the ninth. Ramirez puts it in the air left field. This should be easy for Dubon. And there is your second out. Dyson it does not pay off and the Braves have won six in a row matching their longest win streak of the season.