Cardinals vs. Reds Game Highlights (8/30/25) | MLB Highlights

Cardinals vs. Reds Game Highlights (8/30/25) | MLB Highlights

How about another gorgeous night at Great American Ballpark as the Reds and Cards settle in for game two of this holiday weekend series in Queen City. The Cardinals took game one. It’s go time. The playoffs for the Reds start now. Starting for the Reds tonight on the mound, that would be the lefty, the all-star Andrew Abbott. You That is clobbered to center field. Fredel going back on the track fighting the sun. Makes the play. In 23 starts this season, Abbott yielded just nine earned runs in the first two innings. He’s in a jam here. Scoreless still, but bases loaded, one out. Ground ball away from a double play right here. Fisted pop. Infield converging. Abbott gives ground and falls. Flip home for a force. Infield flying in effect. Well, so the batter’s automatically out and they’re going to throw to second and everybody’s going to be safe anyway. No, they’re going to call them out at second. No, they’re not. Now they’re throwing home. The runner’s coming home and they will tag out the runner at third. So, because all the runners moved up on the drop ball, the Reds are going to get the double play on the infield fly rule because the Cardinals got confused. Michael McGrevy gets the start tonight facing the Reds for the very first time. swinging a bouncing ball through the right side base hit. Noelvie Marte. Well, that’s a nice piece of hitting wide open right side of the infield and Marte takes advantage of it. Now Ellie the pitch and he cracks that to left. That’s going to get down for a hit. Good piece of hitting by Dea Cruz. First and second, one away. No score. Bottom of the first. Grounded right back to McGrevy. Deflected bare hand forcing third. Get him. Grievy believes I believe he feels this ball cleanly. That’s a double play. Yet another opportunity. Take advantage of it. Now Gavin Lux will be the batter. That’s slept to left center. That’s going to get down to the gap. Base hit. David Cruz scores on Duhar chugs for third and takes it. Slide into second and Army on double from Gavin Lux. Reds take a one- nothing lead. It looked like he just kind of caught the ball on the barrel and then just said, “Here, let me throw this out in left center field.” Back door breaking ball and he stayed right on it. Abid trying to rebound from the roughest outing in terms of runs of his big league career. And you can see the fight that he’s given for this Red’s team tonight. It’s a young man who reads hitters brilliantly who often has pretty fine command. Pah down on strikes and Andrew Abbott strikes out the side of the second. The one-two pitch to Mlan again to second. That one stayed down on SJC. has to hurry his throw and it wasn’t fast enough. That one spun Thomas around at second. By the time he recovered, Mlan was flying down the line. Cardinals are going to challenge this play at first. St. Louis is challenging a safe call at first. Oh, I think he’s definitely out on that one. This one’s going to go the Cardinals way. Call on the field is overturned. Runner’s out. St. Louis will retain their challenge. Abbott sets. He will turn and here he comes. Swing and a miss. He struck him out. has punched out four consecutive Cardinals. Second time through for Michael McGrevy. Fredel has bounced out to the pitcher. Sends this ball high in the air. Fairly deep right center. Walker shy of the track. One away. Here’s Noel V Marte. Ground ball back up the middle. This time right at the second baseman. Quick throw in time. So that’s seven in a row retired by the Cardinal starter, but the Reds are leading one- nothing. But the command that was clearly off in the first inning seemed to snap in the form the second most of the third has eroded a bit here. This is the second bases loaded jam for Abbott on the game. Only a one-run lead for a Reds team that has struggled mightily to score of late. So the hitter here, Lark, is Nathan Church, the rookie. He’s 0 for five on the series. He’s now three for 29 in the big leagues. The 2-2 sharply hit and throw. It’s a base hit and the Cardinals are going to take the lead. Church with a two strike hit and the Cardinals cash in a couple of walks in the inning and have a 2-1 lead. A what a great moment for the rookie Church and he made Abbott pay for two walks here in the fourth inning. Michael looks sharp. Just 53 pitches. Number 54 will be out number one. He’s getting the ball on the ground a lot. That’s good to see. Seven ground ball outs as that one shot toward third. Diving stop. Gorman scrambles to his feet and got his man by a step. Heck of a play at third by Nolan Gorman diving to his left. Two balls, one strike. Ground ball left side. Gorman’s got it. He’ll throw to first in time and McGrevy gets out of it. Nine ground ball outs through five terrific innings. Scott Barlo. He comes on for the 66th time. More balls than strikes for Barlo so far. So Barlo with 26 pitches. Mason Win do up. One-two pitch. Swing and a miss. Oh, he swung it a pitch in the dirt about 2 feet outside. Wind strikes out with a bases loaded. The starter Michael McGrevy still on for St. Louis. Nobody on, one man out. Two to one. Cardinals lead it. We’re in the bottom of the sixth inning. Belt it over third. Base hit. Newar after it on Duhar jogging up to second base. It’s already eight multi-hit games as a red for Duhawk. Kind of whips that ball to left field. Three 0 is a four pitch walk. Two on for Steer. That’s rolled to third. Corbin hits the bag. Got it. Double play. A stretch by Contrarus. And a killer DP. Now the Reds are going to challenge immediately. Terry Francona says check it. Cincinnati is challenging the out at first. They’re going to win this challenge. Yeah, it looks like Steer gets there before the ball gets there. After a view, the call in the field’s overturned. The runner is safe. Cincinnati will retain their challenge. Base hit ties it. One in the gap would almost certainly give the Reds the lead. Runners go. Grounded up the middle. Speared by McGrevy. A hard bouncer. Red string two. And Contraras is next. He’s 0 for seven in the series. He’s fly out and struck out tonight. Swing and a drive. Hammer deep left. That’ll get you out of the rut. That one is long gone over the Red’s bullpen. Contrarus the first Cardinal to 20 home runs. And boy, that one was crushed. 3-1 St. Louis. That is some much needed insurance right here in this ball game. The Reds are on the edge of the cliff right now. Boy, are they. No ball, one strength count. launched to left. They’re second to show for that. A few rows deep for a home run. It’s a one-run game. Third at bat, third ball smashed by Matt Mlan. That one stayed on the inside part of the plate and that’s where he loves the ball. Blues tonight to St. Louis and the Reds lead on the Cardinals would be cut to a half game. A is 0 for two with a hit by pitch. That’s hammered high in the air toward left. That’s carrying out toward that wall. That ball is gone at the 379 side. Pedro Pah shocks the world with a solo homer. His fifth home run of the month of August. He continues to do damage. And it’s again a two-run deficit for the Reds. Rally cap time again for the Reds. Reds down four to2. Steer leads it off against Kyle Ley. Hard ground ball is through. The tying run will come to the blue. Hanging breaking ball. Just hit it hard. Well, once you get somebody aboard, you can put the pitcher in a little bit of a tighter situation. He can’t just groove it in there. 02. Cracked to right down for a hit. Tying runs are on. And here comes the rookie. And the line moves to Will Benfield. The corners play on the grass. square dropped out back to the pitcher throw to third that cut down the lead man. Not sure that Benfield has done that a whole lot. So that is a fieldielder’s choice. Play goes one to five to get Spencer steered third. Now Matt Mlan Red’s trying to avoid dropping back to 500 and hitting their longest losing streak of the year. Grounded to third. Handled on a hop. Gorman hits the bag. Another force at third base. Reds are down to their last out. It all rests on Fredel. The lone red’s a homer off Lehey Lifetime. He’s the winning run at the plate. Softly grounded to the pitcher. Bobble shovel in time. That’s your bowl game. Four-2. The Reds have lost five in a row for the first time this year, making eight of nine overall. They’re back to 500. They failed to gain ground on the Mets who lost. They give a full game back to the Cardinals, who are now just a half game back of Cincinnati.

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