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. That is clobber to center field , Friedel 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 the jam here, scoreless still but bases loaded one out ground ball away from a double play right here. Fist and pop infield. Converging Abbott gives ground and falls home for a force infield fly in effect. So the batter is 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 runners 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 mcgreevy gets the start tonight facing the Reds for the very first time. Swing a bouncing ball through the right side base hit Noel Marte. 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 good piece of hitting by de La Cruz first and second one away. No score bottom of the first grounded right back to mcgreevy deflected bare hand force and third get him. Mcreavy believes, I believe he feels this ball plainly. That’s a double play yet another opportunity. Take advantage of it. Now, Gavin Lux will be the batter that’s slap to left center that’s going to get down to the gap base hit de La Cruz scores on Duard jumps for third and takes it sliding into second and a double for Glu Reds take a 10 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 and 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 Reds team tonight. A young man who reads hitters brilliantly who often has pretty fine command down on strikes and andrew Abbott strikes out the side of the second. The 12 pitch to mclean began to second. That one stayed down on to JC. Has to hurry fast enough that one spun Thomas around at second. By the time he recovered mclean was flying down the line play at first. ST Louis is challenging a call at first. I think he’s definitely out on that one. This one is going to go. The Cardinals runners out ST Louis will retain their challenge. Rabbit sets, he will turn and here he comes, swing and a miss , he struck him out. Abbott has punched out four consecutive Cardinals second time through for Michael mcgreevy Friedel has bounced out to the pitcher this ball high in the air fairly deep, right center walker shy of the track. What a win. Here’s Noel Marte groundball 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 Cardinals 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 lead. So the hitter here Lark is Nathan Church. The rookie. He’s zero for five on the series. He’s now three for 29 in the big leagues. The two two sharply hit, it’s a base hit. The Cardinals are going to take the lead with a two strike hit and the Cardinals cash in a couple of walks in the inning and have a 21 lead. What a great moment for the rookie church and he made Abbott pay for two walks here in the fourth inning. Look 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 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 mcreavy gets out of it. Nine ground ball outs through five, terrific inning. Got Marlow. He comes on for the 66th time. More balls than strikes for Barlow so far. So Barlow with 26 pitches, the 12 pitch swing and a miss, he swung at a pitch in the dirt about 2 ft outside win strikes out with the bases loaded starter Michael mcgreevy still on for ST Louis. Nobody on one man out 2 to 1 cardinals lead it. We’re in the bottom of the sixth inning be it over third base hit New Bar after it on Duar jogging up to second base. It’s already eight multi hit games is a red from Duar kind of whips that ball to left field. 30, is a four pitch walk two on for steer that’s rolled to third. Gorman hits the bag guided a stretch by Contreras and a killer DP. 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. It looks like steer gets there before the ball gets there. After the call in the fields overturned. The runner of Cincinnati base hit ties it one in the gap would almost certainly give the Reds the lead runners go grounded up the middle speared by mcgreevy, a hard bouncer. Red strand two and Contreras is next. He’s zero for seven in the series. He’s flat out and struck out tonight. Swing and a try. Hammer deep left that will get you out of the rut. That one is long gone over the Reds bullpen Contreras, the first cardinal to 20 home runs and boy that one was crushed. 31 ST Louis. That is a much needed insurance right here in this ball game. The Reds are on the edge of the cliff right now. Are they no ball one strength count los to left. They set for the shot a few rows. It’s a one run game. Third at bat, third ball smashed by Matt mclean. That one stayed on the inside part of the plate and that’s where he loves the ball. Lose tonight to ST Louis and the Reds lead on the Cardinals would be cut to a half game. Uh Hayes is zero for two with a hit by pitch that’s hammered high in the air to left that’s carrying out toward that wall. That ball is gone at the 379 side pedro p 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 Raley cap time again for the Reds Reds down 4 to 2. Steer leads it off against Kyle Le hard. Ground ball is through. The tying run will come to the plate 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 crack to right down for a hit , time 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 the third to cut down the lead man. Not sure that Ben Field has done that a whole lot. So that is a fielder’s choice play goes 1 to 5 to get spencer. Steer at third. Now, Matt mclean Reds trying to avoid dropping back to 500 hitting the longest losing streak of the year grounded to third handled of a Hot Gorman hits the bag another force at third base. Reds are down to their last out and all rests on Friedel. The lone Reds a homer off leahy lifetime. He’s the winning run of the plate softly grounded to the pitcher. Bobble shovel and time that’s your ball game. 4 to 2. The Reds have lost five in a row for the first time this year. Make it 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.

Cardinals vs. Reds full game highlights from 8/30/25

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