Rays vs. Braves Game Highlights (9/10/26) | MLB Highlights

And on the mound for Atlanta today the veteran lefty Martine Perez he has been spectacular here at home this year. Overall it's a three to five era. Yeah and Brandon we talked about it going to be very important for him today. I think just a pitch to contact this is a team that does not strike out much but he's got the good change up his fastball has been good and limit those walks for walks last start if he can do that he's got a good shot. Martino be facing Yandy Diaz Ryan Valade and Junior Caminero. And there's a base hit in the hole just out of the reach of the shortstop Kim and Yandy is aboard. Yeah that was a nice job by Yandy Diaz because Martine Perez do a pretty good change up there in the full count. And Yandy was able to keep the hands back just long enough. Ryan Valade in the second spot he'll be playing first base today and this one in the short left center and that's going to drop having a little trouble Hicklin out there and left a little precarious as he approached that ball. Now a shot by the diving Reilly pass third. The bases are going to be loaded Hicklin up with the ball in the left. Yandy stops at third. Valade up to second brown ball Olson coming home for one. Will they get to. What a tremendous double play to end the threat. You could have drawn that up any better. Matt came home firing right away. I don't think they're going to challenge this right here. They won't escape a jam in the first. How about this right here. Twenty one and six. Obviously Nick 14 and four outstanding. The whip very good across the board. He has been so consistent all season long. Take in outside corner called strike three. Nick doesn't want to walk guys he didn't walk anyone and he punches out Baldwin who's been a tough customer this series. Little popper there on the right side going to be handled by Valade. Matt Olson good in his career against Nick Martinez. That's our Toyota Trent's feature. Well hit and this one will fall trying to get Matt Olson back on track. He's had some good swings in this series and add that one to the list. Popper short left Simpson will be there to make the catch. No runs ahead. The man left. We got to the second. No score. And here's Dominic Smith who's only in the lineup because Lane Thomas was a late scratch. Who that's a nice pitch there for a strike three call. Jake Smith looking when you get the hitter to flinch like Smith does that fastball out of the hand. Smith is thinking oh man his eyes are out over the plate. Advent Hill strike zone and just a quick action moves a lot into the top of the third inning. No score. It'll be Mullins Diaz and Valade coming up with a raise. Oh to change up. That is Martin Perez to a tee. Yeah it's pretty right there. You get that left on left. I'm telling you until you stand in there you don't know how good that change up is man. It just never gets there. Martin Perez is locked in right now. Ever since that double play seven in a row retired Ray's nothing Braves nothing into the bottom of the third inning eight nine and one coming up with the Braves Hickman Kim and Baldwin. Here's a grounder knife to the third baseman Junior Caminero. He's up with it throws across the diamond and just gets the hustling Brewer Hickman for the first down here in the third. And Martin Perez has retired seven in a row here trying to get Junior Caminero a tough out thirty nine homers to lead the American League Caminero. It's a lazy fly ball to Ronald one away Ronald Acuna Junior leading off here in the bottom of the fourth. So this month six games batting second three homers eight driven in broken bat. And between the two pitchers that is now 18 straight retired and Acuna is just left with a baton Michael Harris liner. But there is Madrigal. They just continue to mow down these hitters on both sides. I'll tell you these guys I mean you know you hear people say well they're pitching like they're double Park and Martinez and Perez are both that way swing and a miss down goes Mateo a couple of awkward swings two away two away for Nick Fortes who's over one with a fly to left field and that's ball for the Rays in another base runner. They put three men on in the first and this is the first runner since then Acuna makes a catch. But Perez is not making it easy on these Rays hitters this afternoon. Braves and Rays Corrales into the bottom of the fifth inning Mauricio Dubon leads off versus Nick Martinez. Dubon takes a ball low and inside one ball and no strikes. Now Mauricio favoring his oblique after turning out of the way of that pitch and walking to the dugout pitch low and in and there and he just turned the shoulder out of the way. A lot of times when you think about oblique injuries it's a swing and there wasn't even a swing by Dubon. He just turned to get out of the way of that pitch low and in and immediately held his oblique. Let's watch him move here down the line. Something to keep an eye on for sure. Oh look out that's right back at Martinez got him in the backside it appeared and he recovers to make the play at first. The Rays will take a look at Nick Martinez. Ballet walking in from first and the Fortes gave him that new baseball and he says hey I'm OK. And he got him looking came back from three and oh to strike out Riley looking ten pitches as it turns out in the inning for the same. He says empty one down for Ryan Belay. These two pitchers today Perez and Martinez were teammates for four seasons with the Rangers and their strike three call. Second time Belay has gone out on strike swinging in the third and looking here in the sixth and ball four is outside Caminero the second walk issued by Perez Fortes walked with two outs in the fifth the two out walk to Caminero in the sixth inning. Johnny DeLuca that's in the right center field and will drop for a base hit Acuna to his right and in there to make the pickup Caminero goes to second base DeLuca picks up the first race hit since the first inning. And that was just a little flair to right field. There was nobody who's going to be able to get to that somewhat of a similar situation to the first inning bases loaded when Simpson came up in the first. Here you've got two on for Chandler Simpson in the six. He bunts. And Martinez. Martin Perez we'll see if they want to take a look at this. I don't know. I think he got him. That was incredible. Oh they are going to challenge it. Got a lot on this. In the outfall of first base. I think he's safe. I don't know. Our Mazda managers challenge. Hold on. Watch the foot. Yeah I think the ball's still bouncing on the dirt there. But are they going to have enough to overturn it. Here we go. After review the call on the field stands the runner. Just not enough to change it. You're right. Frenchy what a big play. Don't think you could tell where the ball was in the Braves get a break. Six time to get some run. Here's Hassan Kim the short stop Hassan Kim and bounce off the glove of Caminero Braves for the first time since the first inning have a base runner. I was about to say the Braves might have got even more of a break if that could have found a corner down there. But with that being said not having a runner on this is nice that ball just kind of hook in and it kind of just handcuffed Caminero no score bottom of the sixth inning. Drake Baldwin hit a home run in last night's game move to first they got it. They picked them off the call over there. Marley on the call and Kim Boy that's a big pick off right there. So he gets the base hit and is picked off with short left coming in. And that's going to be Simpson Chandler with a sliding catch out there. No runs ahead of pick off in the inning and nobody left no score through six. Diaz a first inning base hit with the Rays threat and Fuentes strikes out Yadi Diaz. Now that's where you see Fuentes go a lot when he gets guys behind him account a fastball riding up ninety eight ninety nine and you see most hitters do that exact same thing right underneath it. And now Ryan Valade hits it right back to the mound. Nice play by Fuentes and a clean one two three top of the eight on the pitch by the eighth right hander Kevin Kelly facing Mauricio Dubon. And a roller down to Cabanero and third wide throw but coming off the bag. Valade to get the tag throw to the home plate side and Valade managed to get that big Parchment's first baseman's a bit in play with the tag Kyle Snyder is the pitching coach and he's out there to bring a scouting report to his right hander. Kelly has Ozzie all Beasley's introduced one to drill the right center field. Nobody's going to get there. Ozzie's on his way to second. He's going to turn and head for third. Good call by Wald here right Roman there got an elevated fastball at ninety four after the changeup before and Ozzie just gets on top of this one nice and huge break the way it hits that wall right here again these outfielders not used to playing here with that wall. Now the go ahead run is at third base for Austin Reilly infield Zen's ground ball and the first run of the game. Go Zeg is busted by Austin Reilly. You look at something to get to the outfield right or try to shoot through and it just happened. He shot it right through the perfect part a game that has been absolutely dominated by pitching and in two pitches one to Ozzie and one to Reilly. Everything changes and Atlanta now has the lead. Yastrzemski is going to pinch hit here for the Bravos to try to keep the good offense rolling. Yes drills it again. This one is fair. Reilly's been waved home and bounced. They're going to call this a ground rule double to Luca through his hands up right away because it bounced up over that short wall and right. That's a bad break for Atlanta. Yeah he just got a good break out in the outfield with that one that one of course not. Good job. If you remember on the two one pitch he snuck that pitch on the inner half right there try to come back and that one right inside the line. And runners at second and third Kim at the plate Cam grounds it up the middle. It's going to score two and it is three to nothing Atlanta. Haas on Kim delivers man what a huge hit. You talk and being all the Brita Sire elite this race team so good offensively. Now you really are going to give Iglesias and now DeLuca will be lifted. Mason Junior will hit in his place against the right hander as a ball hit high in the air fairly deep to right Acuna turns looks and it is gone. Victor Mesa Junior for the second straight day on the board with a home run. His second of the series is number twelve of the year. The Rays aren't done yet. They're down three one now in the ninth inning. Boy he has a special swing doesn't he. He does. No one got out of here in a hurry. And again Ronald Acuna Junior tried to deke all of us Simpson here and then Liam Hicks has grabbed a bat. He's moved into the on deck circle and that's going to get the base runner aboard Chandler with a walk following the pitch at home run by Mason Junior. Wow right at the knees that's in there. Hicks can challenge all day but that's a strike. Hicks was called a strike. Call it confirmed. It's still lunchtime and Liam Hicks just got himself a good slice of frozen pizza. Rondo one for one in his career versus Iglesias and the one hit was a home run ground ball. He's got it. Well partner three one win some good good base hits in the eight to get the offense going in two hours and eight minutes. What's better than that post game beer. Yeah I like it. Three to one is the final Atlanta avoids the first three games sweep at home here this season. So that still has not happened. And they get a little momentum before that big series starting tomorrow against the Philadelphia Phillies.