Padres vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (7/25/25) | MLB Highlights

Padres vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (7/25/25) | MLB Highlights

We welcome you back to steamy St. Louis and Bush Stadium where the fans make their way in for game two of four between the San Diego Padres’s and the St. Louis Cardinals. Miles Michael is obviously looking for a bounceback from last time out. Ended up giving up five and four run innings against the Diamondbacks. Four of those five happened in the first inning. A good first frame is going to be important for him as he embarks upon his 20th start of the season. As Fernando Tatis steps to the plate, Miles Michaels has the ball on the ground to third and Aado vacuums that up. He’s on a long errorless string at third. Nice comeback for Michael from a 3-1 count. It brings up Luis Arise. That one queued back to the mound and Michael has a quick second ground out. Manny Machado 19 homers, 63 driven in for him. He had a long home run here in game one. Up the middle and into center field. A base hit for Manny Machado. A two out knock for Machado. Two down with Machado at first. Gives Jackson Merrill a chance. A swing and there’s a drive center field. Backing up on it. Victor Scott. He puts it away for out number three. Merryill lines out to the Cardinal center fielder leaving Machado on. On the bound for the Padres’s Nick Petta. 32year-old making his 21st start. He is having one heck of a year. Keep it up. Keep it going for Nick Paveta. And now it’s time to deal with four, five, and six. Trayus, Arnonado, and win in. And he hit him. Looking out at him a little bit. And Paveta walking a little bit closely. And you got Diaz in between. And now the benches will empty here in St. Louis. He got hit and Pavetto was kind of walking towards him, but Conurus looked like he was saying some stuff back. Obviously didn’t love being hit, right? Contraos is just tired of being hit on up and end pitches. Nick Pava is no sucker. He will not back down. And as Contras kind of struck a look at him, he certainly had some words for Contras. He knew that it wasn’t intentional trying to run it in clips. Contras shot a look at him. He had some words for Contras as he shot the look. The Cardinal third baseman had a one for four game last night. That one back up the middle right at the bag. It’s off the bag and fumbled. Everybody safe. That was trouble the moment it got to the grass behind the mound. It was right on a line to the second base pillow. Mason had a sizzling road trip. 11 for 25 on the road. There’s a bunt and Pava’s going to field and throw in time. Sacrifice is complete. Contraras to third, Aronado to second. Poso with a five-game hit streak as a pinch hitter. Think about how tough that job is on the ground. Right to short. No play at the plate. Throw to first is in time. What in the world happened to Bogarts? They had Contraras dead to right. So he never threw home. Thank you very much. The Cardinals take the lead. 2-2 is in the air to right field as Fernando battles the sunshine out there in right but makes the catch ends the inning. The Cardinals get the game’s first run leading one- nothing. Jackson Merrill leads off against Miles Michaelis Bogarts and sheets to follow. There’s a liner into center field and a base hit for Jackson Merill. Good start here to the fourth inning. So man aboard for Xander Bogarts who popped out to the first baseman Contrarus. Softly lined into right field to base head and up to second base goes Merrill on the single by Bogarts. High in the air by Sheets but no carry to that. Walker sets up and makes the grab. Tagging and advancing is the runner from second to third and the runner at first. Bogarts runs into an out. Thank you very much. And Bogart’s having himself a day right here. He saw this throw. He thought that Jordan Walker was just going to airmail it all the way to third. Swing and a miss right across the shoe tops. Couple of mental mistakes for Xander Bogarts have cost the Padres’s dearly after three and a half. Cardinals lead it one- nothing. So Contrarus is coming up. Fireworks in the second inning. Paveeta drilled him. 3-1 pitch is up and in ball four. And Contrarus is a base runner for the second time. That is the first walk for Paveta. Pavetta as he loses Aronado. And now he’s got some fourth inning trouble with Mason Win up. Mason sacrifice with two on, nobody out last time. He’ll be swinging here and pops away and late break from second. Contras will move up. He took four steps and then stopped. Luckily, he picked up the baseball and was able to make it in safely. line into left center. That’s going to get down and score two. Mason Win streaks around first. It’s a bases clearing double. It’s three to nothing and Pavetta is steaming. But what a great piece of hitting right here by Mason Wh. This is a pretty good pitch. It’s a sweeper. It’s down. It’s away. It’s where he wants it. Miles Michaels is rolling merrily along. Five innings of six hit shutout baseball. Machado one for two. A first inning two out single. Line to left and a base hit for Machado. He’s two for three. So Steven Matz pitching for the first time since July 20th. Steven closing in on a thousand career innings. He’s 20 and a third shy of that. And there’s a line drive center field. Scott plays the knuckle ball, dives and makes the catch. And if Victor Scott doesn’t catch that ball and it gets past him, then the Cardinals have real problems. And brings up Xander Bogurts. That’s a ground ball base hit into left center field. Bogarts gets his second hit as Machado takes second. This one back to the mound. Second base one, first base two. What a job by Steven Mats. Luis Sa Rise leads off. Top of the eighth inning. Padres’s trail the Cardinals three to nothing. And lefty Jojo Romero, who got five outs last night, is out there to pitch on the ground up the middle into right center field. A base hit. Starts things here in the eighth inning. Here’s Manny Machado. Two for three today. In the air, right center. Victor drifting back. The park’s going to hold that. Machado is retired. One away. Now you’ve got lefty lefty for Omero. Here’s Jackson Merrill. Chopper hit towards short. Race to the second base bag. Donovan is going to get there just in time. Oh, that was close. Little chopper hit toward third. Nolan gets the hop he wants and a strike to first in time. Romero works around a leadoff single. Three nothing the score as we move to the bottom of the eighth as David Morgan becomes a third arm used tonight by San Diego. Plain and simple, hold the deficit. Enter David the Captain Morgan in the air. Softly hit to right and Tatis can’t get it. Heck of a play from the seat of his pants to handle the high hop. Chopped right side towards second. Cronorth will go to second to get the lead runner and that’s all they’ll get. Berles is on and Contras comes up looking to get on base for the fourth time tonight. It’s a line drive the other way for Contrarus. Hson will stop at second. First and second for the Cardinals. One out. If you’re pitching to Wilson Contreras right now, you got to be thinking, where can I even go? Two pitch on the ground towards shortstop. Flipped to second for one, on to first for two. Double play. That’ll work. Nicely done. Ryan Helley picked up the save in the game last night. And he’s trying to save this one for Miles Michaels. The leadoff batter in the ninth is Gavin Sheets. And Powder River at 102 on the outside corner. Go ahead. Hellsley 102 riding away there from Sheets. That’s well hit toward right. Walker on the run. Hey, got a good jump. Good route that time by Walker. Cardinals gunning for their 11th shut out. The Padres’s trying to avoid being blanked for a seventh time. There’s your ball game. Cardinals shut out the Padres’s. What a glorious pitching performance tonight. Miles Michaels and the bullpen. Padres’s get shut out. They had 11 hits but no runs. Cardinals have taken the first two games of the series.

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