#MLBVideos: Cardinals vs. Reds Game Highlights (8/31/25)

Cardinals vs. Reds Game Highlights (8/31/25) | MLB Highlights

Reds trying to snap a five game slide. They have dropped eight of nine , they stand five games out in the wild card while singer has pitched well against the Cardinals one run in six innings each time. Lark but 0 to 2 in those outings is the team. This one lifted high in here to left Hayes is coming on. That is a fair ground that’s going to drop stops at first and a blue pit falls between three Reds defenders and the Birds are out early here at the great ballpark, not the way you want to start a ball game. So a break for the Cardinals, Iván Herrera is next. Runner goes it on the ground and what a piece of hitting by Herrera hit and run for ST Louis and they’ve got 1st and 3rd with nobody out. This is not getting off to a good start at all. 1st and 3rd. Nobody out here’s Wilson Contreras swing and Miss there’s the first strikeout for singer now, Nolan Gorman, zero for three with a walk yesterday. This one hit in the to shallow left center. Let’s see if that’s deep enough. Hayes comes in. There’s the catch here comes his throw, it’s not cut off and the Cardinals advance to runners sack fly for Corman scores after his blue pit and ST Louis leads it one to nothing. And that’s the difference right there. Potentially is that extra step that he had to take herrera moves up 90 ft to second base on Thomas and J A shot to right field. That’s down for a hit Herrera third. They’re waving him. Here comes this throw to the plate close to JC into second. It’s two to ST Louis. Just another fantastic piece of hitting by the Cardinals inside out yet again for Saji. This is a 93 mile an hour sinker in on the hands. Watch him pull these things in though and just be able to dump it into right field. Marte comes up throwing, he sails his cut off man that allows the ji to be at second. So two runs on three heads in the first inning for the Cardinals. Cesar Prieto, his first big league start bats for the first time. He had a super You working down in Memphis swing and a miss struck him out. Got him that time with the breaking ball down and in the inning is over that does it for the Cardinals that they get to and got a two run lead. Brad as we said in our opening comments, maybe the Reds, the team that can help him turn the ship around. We show you the numbers. He’s had a whole lot of success here against Cincinnati Friedel starts it right as the Reds try to get some runs back now to will be Marte. This one hit in the air toward right walker into the shadows into the corner. The wind pushes that the foul ground and Marte is retired one on one out now. De La Cruz getting kind of a half day off today. Ding instead of playing shortstop runner goes good job chop right to the second base bag. It’s a double play. There’s some good fortune for and the Cardinals get out of this inning working around a leadoff hit by a ball smoked to the middle infield one gone here in the second and now for his pitch to second scoot Bobble and a non throw by Cesar Brito just tumbled out of his hand as he tried to snap it all. Yeah, just mishandled. It was the right way to come about it, but just mishandled will score that. That’s definitely an error. That might be six opportunity to take advantage man on for Steer two for nine homer on the series runner off pitch. Miss. That’s a walk throw down means nothing. He would have been caught. But that’s ball four Brian Hayes base hit yesterday. He’s got two knocks on the series including a ground ball base is out of it trickles into right coming home. He scores steer first to third. Ryan Hayes Reds on the board. It’s too long. He talked about just that right there, really love that approach. He talked about doing the small things, just put the ball in play, trying to hit the ball hard as opposed to trying to do too much little ground ball through the four hole lead to an RB. I remember the RB, I, because Gavin luck doesn’t give up on the ground ball to second base, putting pressure on the defense , make the play and there you go two out in the second inning and now that and a miss up mclean wants to load them up. Palante has been bombed many times this year. Heightened of league gave up eight last time out against the Pirates. Teams have mashed his, er A in August is over nine DJ Friedel singled squarely up the middle. His first time on a two strike pitch base hit, that’s a couple of runs, steers scores. Hayes Home Friedel has the Reds ahead. 32. Cincinnati excellent job by TJ Fried just going with the pitch on the outside part of the plate. And this team called the counter punch a few mislays early in the game down. Two zip. Take advantage of a mistake up 32 down to Marte the chance now for the Reds to pour it on the mound needed that. But the damage has been done. Three runs, two walks and an starts. Second time through Lars base hit, run, scored his first time and he unloads high in the air to deep. Right, Marte going back at the 370 sign leaps up and makes a great catch. Where did the ball drop? Yeah, he dropped. It. Never stopped running. He’s on his way to third. Marte had it may have been knocked out by the collision and the Cardinals get a big break. That is huge. First of all, this ball is driven another one, a fastball at the top of the zone and new it up there really well, but this was gone off the bat. Be thought it was hauled in by Marte. But as he hits the ground ball just ends up popping out. Did he ever even have? It? Doesn’t look like it and credit this time new was running the whole way. That first one, that little blooper probably should have been on second, learned from that and was busted to third his first triple. But new bars at third, the infield is in for Herrera to right field, makes the catch tag at third throw to the plate. Is that, yeah, a fly ball double play. The Cardinals are going to challenge. I mean, if this stands, this is the throw of the year. Well, we’re going to see if that foot ends up getting in but to your point, what a strong throw out in right by Marte thought this was plenty of deep to be able to get it done. And by the way, didn’t even have all of his momentum going through this throw, had to side step. It, we’ll take another look at this slide. Let’s check out the foot of Lars New Bar before the tag of Banfield. That foot looks to get in New Bar pointed to the dugout immediately and said, let’s challenge this and the good work by Newt on that play, you see it so often, brad, a guy sliding in feet first, that foot will pop up and go over the top of the plate. He really made a concerted effort to curl that instep in to make sure the foot grazes the top of the dish and Cardinals fans, I think like what they see this should be overturned, overturned the runner of state. So give Herrera 50 rbs nonetheless, an impressive throw from Martay and wright to make that as close as it was, we head to inning number five. Nathan Church will get things started. He flied out to left, gets hit by a pitch. So a fast runner on in a tie game. Thank you very much. Top of the order coming up the new bars out for the first time. Here’s Herrera and he got hit two Cardinals in the inning. Contreras struck out swinging in the first a base hit in the third inning. The go ahead run is at second up. The middle mclean only play at first got him. And let’s see if Gorman has a big two out hit to deliver here for the Cardinals. He’s one for eight in the series ground ball to first deer to a knee gloves. It waves off singer takes it himself three unassisted a nice job by singer to work around. The two hit batsman De La Cruz has bounced into a double play. He has struck out chip shot that gets fair down the third base line de La Cruz starting for two new from left fire to second is late hustle double by de La Cruz leadoff man in scoring position. So the Reds have multiple cracks ideally here to take the lead back. Austin Hayes has struck out. He is flying to center, he’s in the air. Left field watches that has a dozen for Hayes two run shot. A 53 Cincinnati lead. Take advantage of that leadoff double by Elliot de La Cruz man on base, timely hitting the home run. Austin Hayes, that’s what we need did a really nice job of laying off some good pitches down in the dirt. It’s the slider up that he can handle and lays the lump and those are the first earned runs on Palante today. This is the seventh time in 10 starts. Palante has been tagged with five or more runs. Crooks still looking for his first big league hit struck out and flied out in this game, swing high fly ball lifted deep right Marte back. It is good. Jimmy Crooks first big league hit is a home run. What a special moment for Jimmy Crooks, for his family here in attendance. A great American ballpark. What a way to get your first hit. A big blast to right field. That is the stuff dreams are made of lefty versus lefty makes it a one run game and it was a moon shot that was not a wall scraper by any stretch. The Reds grab the two run lead on the Hayes homer back in the fifth. That has been sliced to one since that ball to right center. That’s going to get down to the gap all the way to the wall. Hayes up to second base church and center fires in a standing double for Austin Hayes and on to third is Austin Hayes two down. Here’s Brian Hayes. Hayes is one for three today. BC. Second knock second rib for Hayes today. Keep ryan Plates. Austin, it’s 64. That’s your insurance, Tommy. There it is. That’s what we were looking for. Take out that policy any time. Keep Brian Hayes ends up getting a slider from grifo. This thing just stays in the bottom of the zone. It’s low but it’s middle. See the frustration there from Gordon Matt mclean leads it off for the Reds first pitch to left and that is cut in back to back games for the Mac attack. Well, hopefully we are seeing that the Mac attack is back and some really good at bats today, a couple of base on balls early and some really good takes laying off breaking balls. Gets a heater right here. It’s the ninth Reds have a 74 lead. Acknowledge him. Emilio Pagan 32 hitless relief outings for Emilio. So he is going to reach, that’s his first big league hit. Prieto wants that baseball a slow roller. He’ll take it. He’s got a hit in the show and the Cardinals have a start in the night. That’s another keeper right there. Another mantlepiece Cesar Prieto roll over on a splitter but the exact right place Jordan walker struck out three times today. Swing and a miss really nice job of throwing that split frustrating day for Jordan Walker. Fourth punch out on the day with one out. The batter is Jimmy Crooks for really good pitch with his 97 mile an hour heater. Good run on that pitch. Nathan Church Reds one out away. He’s zero for two strike. Three P gets three Ks. He pulls down the save and the Reds snap the skate and hats at five. They beat the Cardinals in the finale 74. This is a recipe for success. Got to continue to win ball games. Nice job today.

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