Reds vs. Dodgers: Official Full Game Highlights (September 9) | 2026 MLB Season

Yoshinobu Yamamoto fifth in the league with a two sixty seven. This guy is a pressure pitcher a big game pitcher and every game for him has felt like it's big a one ninety five in August. He was dealing the last outing perfect through five. But I think he's going to be edgy and I think he's going to get a lot of swing and miss tonight. I think it's going to be a very great outing for him. Carlos Jorge's played just a few games in the major leagues is saying man this is the line drive caught at second by Freeland. They will cruise aboard in 16 straight games fastball to the inside corner and a challenge coming here from Ferdinand is going to get him a strikeout on a perfect comeback to Seymour ninety seven gets it accurately for that strikeout to up and to down in this first inning. What brings up Sal Stewart feels like he might be due. That's smoked over second base here and Sal is aboard with a two out single which snaps a modest slump for him. Stewart's hopping around at first looking runnerish and now getting picked off. And it looks like getting hurt Sal Stewart the likely National League Rookie of the Year holding that left side that left ankle after he's picked off first base. All right. So Yamamoto faces the minimum in the first inning picking him off. Stewart has been testing that ankle some lifting it twisting it in the air but he stays in the game. He's read louder your loudest challenge tonight because he's not a real high strikeout pitcher is to get ahead in the count. He doesn't really do that. He doesn't win the one one count very often takes a lead off one of the Dodgers or only have 10 hits in the two games in this series but they also have 10 walks. Will Smith went deep yesterday for the first time since coming back from the injury Smith lifts deep left center. Jorge back at the wall the center this series he got his first hit his first deal and now his first robbery to keep it scoreless. Welcome to Dodger Stadium. Get to the wall time and get up there and grab it. Nicely done. That's a steak dinner from your pitcher Mookie Betts. He is writing a 17 game on base streak over which he's hitting three thirteen. Got him looking and that is a rarity right there. Number one even the strikeout Mookie Betts he only strikes out about 10 percent of the time up at the plate Edmund not held on. He takes off and louder strikes out Muncie back to back strikeouts for louder to close out a scoreless first after he walked the leadoff man. We go to the second. The days fouled off five pitches and he ultimately goes down in a splitter and Yamamoto has his second K. Hector Rodriguez left handed hitter swings and grounds it slowly to second base incomes Freeland throws to first and just does get the speedy Rodriguez. There's two down nice for Yamamoto after they made him work for the first out. Another rookie climbs in one Breda finishes him off. It's the splitter and it's a one to three second with book and Cade scoreless game to the last of the second task Hernandez heads up there to leave things off. What a tear this guy has been on three for three with a run knocked in yesterday. Here's one where he's going to reach out get it off the end of the bat drop it into center field for a leadoff hit extending the hitting streak to ten games as hot as Teosca Hernandez has been. Tucker not so much. Tucker rips one by first and down the line he's trying to join the party Dodgers at first and third with nobody out in the second Kyle Tucker with his first hit in more than a week. You're talking about different guys different nights now to the bottom of the order with a chance here. Hunter Fiducia Tapper along first. Stewart's going to go behind Hernandez who's in there say front of the tag from Hayes Tejo showing some flexibility. He got in between with the secondary lead and then the topper to first but rescued himself with an outstanding hook slide and the Dodgers have bases loaded nobody out. So now Alex Freeland Brad in the second Brito fired a day. Cruz Ramos in time for a double play. Hernandez scores Reds down a run but Cincinnati turns to man a third and Tucker did louder. Keep it there. Kike Hernandez 0 for two with a walk yesterday first pitch roll the third Hayes handles a couple of leadoff hits at the start. Dodgers scratch out the first school Will Banfield digging in strikes him out splitter to the knees for his fourth two up and two down in this third inning. Hayes deep breath and a one two and another strikeout with a fastball this time. And he's got five through three second look at Red Lauder coming right here. One gone in this third Will Smith down the left field line base it for Smith into the corner. Man he's hitting the ball hard. It's a double. He's picking on the low pitch to his home run last night was on a low pitch heads it off at the pass with the barrel RBI chance for Mookie Betts. The pitch really tough the first time Slider finished him off right at the bottom of the strike zone in the air to left field sends Frito back onto the track turns and it goes Mookie Betts finds the seats Dodgers lead three to nothing on base three creaches eighteen games. He's driven in 18 runs in that time. You know who's seen better days that beer can destroy six strikeouts now for Yamamoto was first came against De La Cruz that just barely clipped the zone Hunter for Dusha challenged in one first pitch center field Tommy Edmonds going all the way back. It's a new first home runs in five straight games for L.A. De La Cruz a career high twenty six on the year the Reds are on the board it's three to one longest run by a switch hitter in Reds history five straight games with a homer is on base straight now it's 17 games as well. I was up there Yamamoto knew it Kyle Tucker to lead off this inning snapped an 0 for twelve with a base hit his first time Tucker flies it to center field sends Jorge back he's not going to get their extra bases for Kyle Tucker who is two for two. This one had that sound. And it's something that Kyle's been looking for for a long time and especially here at home. These home fans of cheering him rooting him on hoping he could get it going here in the white uniform. Pedroza takes the walk the first to have reached here in the fourth verse and second for Freeland came up with the bases loaded nobody out his first time bounce into a double play here he's going to bang one to the gap and left center field and bring home Kyle Tucker ringing double from Alex Freeland makes it four to one bottom of the order getting the job done here in the fourth. Now here's Keke Hernandez. Here's another guy that they just need to get the bat going. Hernandez strokes one into left center field to score two more chugging out of the box and the ball squeezes by Jorge Hernandez ends up at second and they've busted it open here six one in the four. So a couple of starving hitters down at the bottom of this lineup and Freeland and Keke Hernandez connecting that is all for louder. He gets lifted in the fourth pitching change for the Red Legs Hardy three in the bank infield pulled in with a man at third for Will Smith and it gets past Brent Field and goes all the way to the backstop. The Dodgers score their fourth one of the inning. They now lead seven to one walk for Smith and they've brought seven men to the plate in this inning as Mookie Betts comes up and still just one away. That's with a second hit over the last two innings. This one is single to left another wild pitch second and third. Breaking ball didn't come within three feet of home plate to on for Muncie and he strikes out Muncie going after the slider. It was a strike whether he swung or not. It was on the plate and at the knees. So Hernandez the ninth man to bat in this fourth inning struck out his last time first time he's made it out the last two days up the middle. Another base hit for Oscar Hernandez and two more runs coming to score. Dodgers poured it on home at this point for Teoscar Hernandez hitting above five hundred over a 10 game hitting streak. He's not going to run seven games in a row nine one and two here. Key Brian Hayes strikeout victim his first time strikes him out on three pitches and it's a fifth consecutive game with eight K's for Yamamoto for Seymour on the black and the hitter Carlos Jorge Sosa for Hayes shadow right field Freeland's back there to make the catch two out Ely at the plate. Nobody on two outs a La Cruz in the air to right field. Tucker's going back. He makes a nice catch having himself a great game. He's got two hits and a nice defensive play right there. Fruitful night for Mookie Betts to run home run in the third single and scored in the fourth three hit game. Mookie Betts Dodgers have doubled their hit total from the first two games of this series tonight alone. Ten of them and I'm Muncie trying to join the fun. You touch on it. The only guy in the starting lineup that hasn't reached base yet turns on it down the line towards the corner. There it goes. Number twenty seven for Max Muncie and everybody's invited to the party tonight. Max have been the only starter in this lineup that had not reached base. Boy did he ever reach it here. Sal has a couple of hits tonight and we'll get a pinch runner. Stewart lifted and Jose Trevino comes in to run. J.J. Bledsoe is struck out and walked as Bledsoe swings and misses. He's been struck out ninth strike out of the game for Yamamoto first out of the seven one ball and two strikes on Hector Rodriguez was twice grounded out today got him to chase a splitter and he's matched his career high with a 10 strikeout in the night. The game the broadcast I was looking forward and anticipating this outing and how great it could be against this lineup of his amazing stuff. Grounded a second. It is Freeland and it's seven innings seven dominant innings from Yamamoto. They'd off walk for Freeland. I think. OK now Kiki Hernandez one for three high fly ball down the left field line if it's fair it's gone. It is both second extra base into the game for Kiki Hernandez and he's knocked in for best game in a long time for Kiki. They are putting offensive struggles in the rear view mirror. They face position player and Jose Trevino back up catcher for the Reds. Tucker sends a fly ball to right center field Rodriguez will watch it bounce over the top of the wall. Gone three hit game for Kyle Tucker's single double now home run to gone in the nine five on left center field Dodgers a new season best seven game winning streak and a 14 one win to make it so. Yama pitch well enough to be the headline but tomorrow's articles and the ones that get released tonight the headline will be the Dodger offense is back.