Dodgers vs. Giants Game Highlights (9/12/25) | MLB Highlights

Dodgers vs. Giants Game Highlights (9/12/25) | MLB Highlights

We’ve got September baseball, meaningful games, and oh, by the way, it’s the Giants and the Dodgers. So, I’m not sure it gets any better than that. And the Giants, you’re going to go to the playoffs, you’re going to have to beat one of the best teams in baseball. 16 games left on the season and seven of them are against the Dodgers. In six games so far between these two teams, the Dodgers are 4-2. It’s not just Dodgers against Giants. It’s Dodgers Giants with stakes. The postseason is upon both teams. Wild card on the line. One place National League West and maybe avoiding the three-game series on the other side with the Dodgers. Here’s the postseason picture in the National League. The Phillies have caughten fire and they have pulled a little bit further ahead of the Dodgers. That second buy in the National League. On the hill tonight for the Giants will be the 20-year veteran right-hander Justin Verlander. 6’5, 240 pounder. He is 42 years of age. This is what he has done in 25 starts this year. Three and 10 with a 409 RA. Here’s Mookie Betts. Really some odd numbers for Betts against Verlander. Three for 30. Well, he’s the hottest guy in the Dodger lineup right now. Betts takes low. Ball four pushes his own on base streak to 17 games. Happy 36th birthday for Freddy Freeman. Now the pitch comes in and a swinging strike three. Here’s Max Muny. Muny not the warmest of greetings from the locals. Oracle Park. He loves to hit it here. 3-2 pitch. There’s a swing and a high pop up. Shallow right. Here comes Gilbert in and to his right and he makes the catch. We saw some serious focus from Yoshino Yamamoto last weekend in Baltimore. Obviously a disappointing finish to that game. I don’t think 8 and two/3s of no hit ball becomes his standard. His standard just needs to be executing again tonight with Yamamoto coming off a eight and two/3 of no hit ball. Be yourself. Do not try and duplicate that outing, but go ahead and continue to execute with excellence with the fast ball and the split finger. Got him swinging high heat at 97. Ran to the count again. He throws and that’s too high and he walked him and a runner aboard for Willie Adam. And back in June at Dodger Stadium, Adamus clipped Yamamoto. Swing and they drive into the gap left center field that gets down. It’s going to go through to the wall. Devils will go to third and he’s going to be waved home. Here comes the relay to Betts and he’ll hold on to it. De scores from first. One to nothing Giants. The double. There’s a little bobble out there and that bobble kept the windmill going. So after eight and two/3 no hit innings in his last start. Yamamoto gives up a hit and an RBI knock at that. Three batters in tonight. 25th pitch of this first inning for Yamamoto. It’s strike three. Another high fast ball. The same pitch that got Ramos gets Chapman. Tasks Hernandez will lead off. Now here is a swinging strike three with a high slider. Here comes Pahes. 3-2 pitch. Fast ball driven to right. A liner and right to Gilbert. Shuck down inning. Three up, three down. We go to the last of the second. Now here is Schmidt. Two strike pitch underneath the legs of Yamamoto. Muki comes in bare hands and throws in time to get him. It’s a nine pitch scoreless second for Yoshino Yamamoto. Two outs, nobody on. Second trip to the plate for Shi Oltani. Here comes the 3-2. Two out walk. So the Dodgers have two base runners tonight. Both have been walks. Otani just now bets back in the first inning. One-two pitch. Bat strikes out swinging on a hard slider down and away. Dodgers don’t score. Two outs here in the last of the third. Endeavors will come up. That’s three. 97. Swinging on the fast ball. Leading off for the Dodgers this inning. Freddy Freeman. No hits through the first three innings. Two on broken bat. Base hit right field. That’s the first Dodger hit of the night. Comes leading off the fourth inning. Muny takes high ball four. A four pitch walk. First and second, nobody out for T Oscar. Hernandez hits a popup on the infield. I’m sure the infield fly rule is going to be called. It’s Adamus at short who will catch it. Big out. Hernandez retired. 15 and a third consecutive scoreless frames for Justin Verlander. One and two to Conorto. The pitch is a broken back ground ball to the right side. Dom Smith has it, bobbles it, flips to Verlander covering and gets the out for Andy Pahes who has a chance to atone for the first inning error that led to the Giants first run. towards the hole. Chapman and they got him. Wow, what a play. Dom went into the stretch and he’s slow to get up from the ground. We will see if the Dodgers want a challenge. But for now, Matt Chapman just kept the Giants ahead. Los Angeles is challenging the Alpa first base. And I think they got him. Yeah, I do too. It’s just a matter of did he keep his foot on the base? After reviewing the call on the field stands out and I’ll say it again. They got him. This is Dominic Smith. When he was walking off the field, they had already made the decision that he would not be able to continue in the game. So, he’ll get right into Dave Greser’s training room. Willie Adam leading off for the Giants in the bottom of the fourth. Adamus watches strike three. And Wilmer Flores will be the pinch hitter. Another 02 to Flores. Got him with a curve. Back-to- back Ks to open the fourth in three in a row. Tommy Edmond lines one and a diving catch by the second baseman Schmidt. And here’s Verlander’s wind up. He throws swing and there’s a high fly ball. Shallow left center. In quickly comes Lee and he makes the catch. Eight pitches, all strikes. Three pitches, three strikes. Another out for Yamamoto as he disposes of Casey Schmidt. Splitter in the dirt. Strike three swinging. An eight pitch inning for Yamamoto. Maxy looking for his first hit off the injured list. An 01 to Muny to right field. There is Maxy’s first hit off the injured list for the Dodgers. Just their second hit of the ball game. Tossar Hernandez 0 for two. Two and two. Peng swing and a miss. He struck it out with the hard slider. Six scoreless from the 42y old. Yamamoto is about to throw to Drew Gilbert. Strike three. Paints a fast ball at 97 on the outside corner. Now de got him swinging. Blew it by him for his ninth K of the night. 17 in a row set down by Yoshubo Yamamoto. It’s Michael Conforto to start things off. Conforto drives the ball right center field back at the wall. It is gone. Michael Conorto goes dead central to tie it up in the seventh. Home run number 11 for Conforto. Hit it to straight away center field just clearing the wall over the 391 mark. It is one to one. Well, the number nine hitter Ben Ward trying to get on in front of Otani. Now Wartvet sprays one to left field drifting back. It is off the wall. ricochets out to Lee in left center. That’s a two out, two strike double for Ben Wardvet and the Dodgers have the go-ahead runner in scoring position. They’re going to walk Otani and they’re going to let Berlander go after Mookie Betts. Justin Verlander remains in the game. 104 pitches thrown. First and second, two outs. Tie game in the seventh. Mookie Betts who swings to the first pitch, drives one out towards right center. Gilbert is over to make the catch. Huge faith in the veteran Justin Verlander and he comes through by getting that final out and keeping the game tied. Justin Verlander was fantastic tonight. Get that man some runs and there are two down in the giant half of the seventh inning. Here’s Matt Chapman, the third baseman. Two away, bases empty. Sets him down with a curveball. Strike out number 10 for Yoshobu Yamamoto. For Yamamoto, he is the first Dodger to go seven plus innings in strikeout 10 plus batters in three straight since Clayton Kershaw did it back in 2017. Max Muny the batter. So now a payoff pitch hits Muny. Oh no. Unfortunately, it appears Max Muny is not cuz Miguel Rojos is now at third base. Muny has been taken out of the game after he was hit by a pitch. Two away in the top of the ninth. Little tapper. Bailey said, “Get the heck out of the way.” They got him. Three up, three down. The Giants need a run to win it. The pitcher Jake Dryer stays in the game and instead of Drew Gilbert, it’ll be Luis Moss. Huge off the end of the bat to Muki Bets. He throws it in the dirt and Moss is safe. It’s just a sloppy throw. You’ve got plenty of time, but you feel it and then through in a hurry. And here comes Deers. On the ground into right field. Here goes Moss. He’s hit the bag. He’s going to go to third. First and third with one out. Dave Roberts is going to come out. He knows he’s got a sinker baller in the bullpin with Trident. Intentionally walk Willie Adamus to load the bases. Homer’s had good luck against Trinidon. He’s six for 15. High in the air, shallow center field. Pahes makes the call. McCrae tagging. He’s running home. Here’s the throw and they got him. You cannot run on Andy Pahz. Andy Pahz guns down McCrae. Ball was hit shallow enough where Pahz could come in. He stayed behind the catch. His momentum coming in towards the area. He’s going to throw the ball and a perfect strike to home plate and we’re going to extra innings. Otani coming up. They gave him the automatic walk with the new pitcher Pagaro in there. So Mookie bats with two men on at the plate. Bats hits a high fly ball. McCrae now playing right field. Moves back. He’ll come in a few steps and catch it. Wet is going to tag. Here comes the throw and he’s out at third. Great throw by Grant McCrae. Wow. Not only did he get the runner going from second to third, but he threw it right through the cut off man. And so Otani has to stay at first. We’ve seen some throws tonight. Well, that’s not on Dino Eel. That’s on Rove. This will bring up Freddy Freeman. Freeman on the ground. Adamus will go to first. Inning over. The Dodgers come up empty. And that is never good when you’re the road team. So I think that’s a good job even in a 3-1 count in a tie game where all you got to do is get that one guy home. Getting him over him over is huge. Here comes Dave Roberts. Dodgers lefty Tanner Scott is coming to the mound. Coincidentally, some of Scott’s late inning troubles have been in games started by Yoshobu Yamamoto. Lefty Jung Hu Lee coming to the plate. Giants are 90 ft away. Strike three. Now Lee was arguing that the ball was foul tipped into the dirt and Bill Miller says yes. They are saying foul ball because it hits the ground. It was caught. Oh, it was caught cleanly. That’s a strike out. So a missed and blown call. Let Lee stay in there for another 3-2 pitch. Gall four. Dodgers are going to walk intentionally this matter. load the bases. Casey Schmidt will be the one that’s walked. Instead of two outs, runner on third. The Giants now have the bases loaded. Still only one away. Bailey is going to hit. High drive left field out of we are going home. I don’t know what to tell you. Friday night crowd 40,000 plus and we just saw a dandy a moment that he’ll never forget against the Dodgers in a pennant race. A walk-off grand slam against the Dodgers to get the Giants within a half game of the Mets in the National League Wildard race. Wow. I’m able to admit I didn’t quite see that one coming, Dave.

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