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

It is a gorgeous Saturday afternoon for baseball game one at sixty one today it's game two of a three game weekend series between the Marlins and the Braves Jack Rolson is a nice reminder that in baseball sometimes the road to the big leagues takes a little longer than you imagine here. Exactly right. You know we talked about it a seventh round pick of the St. Louis Cardinals back in twenty nineteen out of UCLA getting an opportunity after all those years in the minor league lineup today is a little different with Michael Harris the second leading it off and we'll see if that makes a difference. Harris belts in right center field and it's off the wall. He's going to have to hurry here although it's covering second base. So it works out OK. So yesterday the Braves had a single in nine innings. Today they started off with a Harris lead off double Harris will jump up to third one down Olsen in search of his ninety second RBI of the season shadow shadow pop. So no one Lopez going out and it will be Lopez making the catch Harris tags aggressive and it works. Somersault for Harris as he scores the Braves first run of the game in the series. You think OK depth of this pop up there's no way he's going to tag right. But when Lopez is back to the infield knowing that his momentum is taking him away Michael's great speed and I have a feeling that as much as Maddison has some fun with Michael Harris and they joke with each other he may get a big hug because he just turned what looked like a pop out into a sacrifice and an RBI. How about the Braves here with two hits already after only one yesterday. O'Reilly and he takes strike three called. So the Braves get a run on a couple of hits and leave a man out here in the first. So a bullpen game for the Braves and Brent Suter had a few starts earlier this year where the angels out of the pen and he's going to do the same here with Atlanta. Otto Lopez who is having a career year at the plate that three or four batting average eleven homers seventy one driven in Lopez Banks one in the right. What do you say you sit against lefties. Well that's over three forty now Robert. First nobody gone for Gary Bertholdt Hernandez. Hernandez has good pop in that back and he hits his deep to right center. He timed it perfectly and took it away from Hernandez. Yes tip your cap. No hesitation whatsoever. What a play from Ronald Acuna Junior Brent Suter thrilled four to six fielder's choice and there are two men gone. Now Suter will see Javier Sanoja sporting a twenty three game on Bay Street. Doesn't look like he's going to reach here though. One inning in the books one to nothing Atlanta leadoff walk in the top of the second inning. So it's a strikeout for number one but a runner in scoring position as you stretch he pushed a second. Dom Smith getting the start here this afternoon as a designated hitter. Dom Smith connects deep to right get out of here. Oh yeah she is gone a two run blast his ninth of the year to make it three to nothing. And this is impressive for Don Wright. You think about how little he has been playing here lately and to be able to get in there and facing a guy with a split even though he hung in here a little bit hit it out of the ballpark. That is his first home run since August 1st. That'll knock Jack Ralston out of the ballgame. Victor Vodnik takes over for Jack Ralston. There's a walk to Hassan Kim second walk of the inning back to the top of the order to Michael Harris second base diving Serna. But he has nowhere to go with a baseball heck of an effort. But it's a single for Harris who is now two for two. Here comes Ronald Acuna way more good things have happened for the Braves and an inning and a half here today and all the last night. Grounder to third oh eight Sonoma up and bounces into the outfield and Kemp's going to score. Sonoma has had his issues over there at third base so far in this series that makes it four to nothing Atlanta kind of surprising for a guy who's been so good defensively and it wasn't as if this ball was hit particularly hard. It's against the change up exit velocity under 80 miles an hour. He just booted it and two down after the pop out two down for Drake Baldwin rounds that to the right side another diving stop by Serna from his knees to throw the first got him on a pick by Davis and De Los Santos won an inning for the rookie second baseman Jarrett Serna look at the smile on his face. Augustine sporting a quick six game hitting streak right now that is right in there. He freezes Ramirez to start the bottom of the second to now it's Estee Ruiz who did not play yesterday. It's bone him down right now a strike Ruiz swing and a miss to down. You're pretty impressive. Toward the gap Harris sprinting Harris getting there right where the dirt meets the grass a couple of hat tips of appreciation from Suter X Fulton on the pitch here for Miami one down in the fourth inning and now it's Hassan Kim Hassan Kim laces it to the gap. This one's going to go all the way to the wall. Kim is going to lose that helmet and dig for three. And he is in there standing up nice piece of hitting in the first triple of the season here for Hassan Kim splits the gap perfectly runs the bases really well. Braves can make it five nothing with a base hit right here and the hands of Michael Harris Harris keeps it fair just inside the chalk. He's going to head for second Michael Harris is three for three with two doubles a single and an RBI and it's five to nothing Atlanta. Michael is having himself a day here now two down with a runner at third base two down for Matt Olsen. Is he going to score here. That throw is high and yes he will score and Olsen will reach Taylor Santos trying to flip it to his pitcher but he would have needed a bigger step ladder to grab it. And it's six to nothing in opposite field line shot single for Baldwin. Olsen pushes to second Riley and Ozzie the only two Braves that have yet to reach today. There's a swing and a miss. Braves score two more times in the fourth lead six nothing after three and a half. Atlanta's enjoying a big lead and now they're going to turn it over to Dylan Dodd here at the bottom of the fourth two down for Javier Sanoja Sanoja supporting a twenty three game on Bay Street left field pretty deep good posture at the wall. Javier Sanoja with his 11th homer of the year making a twenty four game on Bay Street. Then I see you put together the posture. You get the good swing path and you go deep for home run number eleven six one Atlanta here in the bottom of the fourth with the Marlins are on the board and with two on and two gone it'll be Griffin Conant against the left hander and Dylan Duff. Things could change quickly if Griffin Conant unloads on one grounds that through the left side for a base hit. Here comes Augustine. No throw to the plate from the stretch ski and left it's not a pitch he's going to be able to homerun but a sinker at the bottom of the zone away from him just spanks it on the ground in the left. Oh nine is forty second RBI of the year and De Los Santos is still in search of his first major league RBI. Sharply to Kim on the second both teams get a pair of the fourth it's six to two at last one out. Albies not when a bouncing ball back into the third baseman Sanoha he's got it in fair territory jump throw on target and in time what a play from Harvey in the air and foul ground down to third baseline Javier Sanoha got enough mustard on that and that is exactly why he was a gold Glover in twenty five. Very interesting relief appearance by Robert Suarez. Everybody wants to see how he's feeling. Oh I saw him up to grab it. What a play helping his pitcher out Suarez his first pitch was lined up the bat of De Los Santos to. And it looks like it's going to be a quick inning if he can complete this play. But Olsen with a foot off the bag before Lopez got there that is the one hundred and second hit at home this season for Otto Lopez and there's only one other guy in baseball that is a hundred plus and for Ottawa a lot of infield base hits. I think the Braves might challenge this going to be close. He doesn't have his foot on a picked it but he was off the bag. He just looked at the replay and said oh he's out the golf field is confirmed the runners so it could have been a five pitch inning for Suarez in his second tune up but he will have to face at least one more batter. And next step will be Heriberto Hernandez Hernandez Yanks that down the left field line. That's a fair ball and it hops into the corner. Just Ramsey can't play it. Lopez scores easily on his way to third Hernandez and he dives in safely with an RBI triple seeing him a couple of times today go opposite field takes the change up from Suarez gets out in front pulls it then the ball takes a tricky hot way from Yastrzemski here's Marcy with a chance to make it six four and Marcy to right center field. Who's going to take this. Whoa Michael Harris as they avoid disaster they get four hits today his fourth four hit game of the season. Drake Baldwin twenty four homers trying to become the first Braves catcher since two thousand three Javi Lopez to have at least twenty five in a season Baldwin gives it a ride his head number twenty five. First Braves catcher to reach that mark since two thousand three he'll make it twenty five and seventy nine now for Drake Baldwin as he gets this slider here from the right hander and it's nice low line drive and he hits a one a four got out of here pretty quickly just enough number twenty five one out away from win number ninety four top of the order Otto Lopez high bouncer Reilly across Braves win win number ninety four in the books eight to three your final today here in Miami. Good day today for the offense after getting shut out yesterday only having that one hit and it was a good afternoon here in Miami.