Orioles vs. Astros Game Recap (8/17/25) | MLB Highlights | Baltimore Orioles

Orioles vs. Astros Game Recap (8/17/25) | MLB Highlights | Baltimore Orioles

Greetings from Dyken Park where today the Houston Astros wrap up a three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles. This is the conclusion of a six-game home stand for the Astros and it’s the rubber game of this series after the Astros picked up a 5 to4 win in 12 innings over Baltimore yesterday. Bren this is a crazy crazy weekend for the birds and today Samuel Bio makes his big league debut. Christian Javier, you see the numbers he has been able to put together in his career in those three starts and six appearances against the Baltimore Orioles. A sub 2 erra and a whip under one. Also 31 strikeouts in those games as well. And Holiday lifts it to right center to his right. Sanchez makes the catch. So one out, nobody on for Jordan West. Two-1 pitch to left field going back but there to make the play Taylor Trmell. There’s two away on the ground. Altuve is there and a 10 pitch first inning for Christian Javier. Astros coming to bat. Dean Kramer coming off the second longest start of his career. Eight innings of one-run baseball last time against the Seattle Mariners where he was stellar. He’s made more appearances and starts than anybody in the Orioles rotation. The 1-1 chopper out to third base. Dropping back is Westber. Fields belt high onto first and Pñena is out. One away for Carlos Koreah. Ground ball up the middle. Base hit into center field. Picked on the cutter at the knees. And Carlos Koreah has the first hit of the ball game. That brings up Jose Altuve and he has great numbers against Kramer. Seven for 14 with a home run and three doubles. 10. He hits way up into the rafters near shortstop. Henderson looking up towards the roof. Makes the catch to the back of the dirt. Second out here of the bottom of the first. Sanchez swings and misses. Five straight splitters for Kramer to end the first inning. We’ll see Adley Colton and Sabwell Basio back in the second. Two outs here in the second inning. And here comes the first major league at bat for Samuel Basio. And he got hit. Welcome to the big league, Samuel Basio. A rude welcome at that as he takes a fast ball up and in. So that is one way to reach base in your first big league plate appearance. The two and Mayo lifts this one shallow right side. Altuve along the back rim of the infield dirt makes the catch after going to his left to retire the side. Yiner Diaz serving as the designated hitter. He will do that on days where he does not catch. He’s got big time pop. Ground ball up the third baseline. Backhanded by Westber. Throw to first just in time. We’ll see if the Astros challenge. And yep, the Astros are going to challenge. What’s your call, Bish? Yeah, I think he got there. He’s there. Good hustle by Yiner. A back view. The call on the field is overturned. The opener is safe. Diaz at third and Kramer will try and retire Melton and keep this game scoreless. One, two. That is hit on a line out to short stop. Nab by Henderson from shallow left. Throws to F. Bang. They got him. Gunnar Henderson with a nifty play on a backhand in a shallow left. He dropped back a step, did a little twirl, squared himself up through to first. Melton is out and the Orioles do not allow a run in the bottom of the second to Houston. West’s got the third straight single by the Orioles and they’re loaded up. And now maybe the best hitter in baseball right now with runners in scoring position to the plate. It’s Gunner Henderson. Here’s the pitch. Curve ball poked to right and hit well back on it. Sanchez onto the warning track and he leaps and he makes the catch. He robbed a homer. It’s going to be a sacrifice fly. Orioles take the lead, but it’s a home run robbing grab by Sanchez in right field and there’s two away at the apex of his jump. His elbow was at the height of the yellow line. Crowd got a good look at it. Clearly over that wall, maybe by about 4 feet. That’s how high Sanchez jumped for it. This one to center field. Jacob Melton is there. That’ll retire the side. Orioles get a run on a sacrifice fly with the play of the day coming from Jesus Sanchez. One- nothing Baltimore. This is concerning for Houston. Christian Javier out after three. So we just got word that Christian Javier came out of the game due to an illness. So, Duban did not pitch in yesterday’s ball game. The Astros needed a little bit of length from him. Samuel Basio, the top 15 prospects in Major League Baseball. He’s making his major league debut and hit by a pitch. This could be two to second for one. On to first and a double play. Just what Shawn Dubin and the Astros needed. A 563 double play. And there’s two outs. First and third, nobody out. And now Jackson Holiday 1-1 pitch smoke past the dive of the third baseman Karean in the left. Here comes Beavers down to score. Dylan Beaver scores his first run in the major leagues on the opposite field single by his buddy Jackson Holiday extends the lead to two nothing with Jeremiah Jackson moving up to second base. Three straight singles from the Orioles here against Duben. Westber has lined out to deep left and singled to right. He got a cutter on 3-1 driven to deep right center field and gone into the visiting bullpen which is about to be activated because Jordan Westber has just knocked Shawn Duban out of this game and blown the doors off the fifth. A three-run home run. Westberg’s 15th to jump into the team lead tie with Jackson Holiday and the Orioles lead by five in inning five. So two-1, nobody out. And here comes Jordan Westber again. The 2-2 ground ball towards the hole. Pass the dive up and to left field. Jackson speeding around third. Coming down the line. Trl’s up with the throw. It’s cut off. The run will score as JJ slides across the plate. Jordan Wester’s got a three hit day. He’s driven home four and the Orioles have a six nothing lead. First pitch to Rutman is pulled and that is snagged by the first baseman Dubon. drops it, but he gets it to Ort covering first base for the out. Rutman retired 3-1 on the ground out. He will pick up an RBI, driving home his 28th of the year. 1-1 and he hits this one high in the air right field. That could be out of here. No, it’s robbed by Sanchez. He does it again. That is no way to treat a debutant. Bessiah was making a bid for his first hit in the major leagues. It would have been a goner. Instead, it goes into the glove of Sanchez again. And let’s not forget the fantastic work that we watched today by Dean Kramer. Scoreless inning streak now at 13 in a row. So, a careerhigh in pitches and in whiffs for his career. And in fact, he gets whiff number 20 on pitch number 107. the first time he’s ever thrown a 107th pitch in the big leagues. Two outs here in the seventh inning. The two- two pitch. Swinging a line drive out to right field. Jackson breaks to his right. He’s there. He makes the catch to retire the Astros here in the seventh inning and help Dean Kramer spin the gym. A three hit shut out through seven frames on a career day for Dean Kramer. more pitches than he’s ever thrown, more whiffs than he’s ever generated, and he’s fired another zero through seven in the Lonear State. And the bases are loaded for Jordan West already with a career-high four RBI’s. Two- two pitch, little looper out to left, charging on. Treml goes into a slide. He can’t make the catch. Beaver stops at third. It is eight nothing Baltimore on the bloop hit by Westber. 31st pitch of the inning from Williams. Ball four. Base is loaded. Walk. I don’t think Gunner knows it. That’s ball four. I think it’s ball four. That’s ball four. Go to first. Take your base. So Dylan Beavers will score a run on the cheap as everybody can advance. Nine nothing Orioles. Ground ball. Base hit. There you go. Adley Rutman. The RBI single from Rutman means it’s now a 10 nothing ball game. Samuel Basio has a chance to take care of those first hit jitters. Two-1 pitch. That ball ripped to right center field. Samuel Basio’s first major league hit is a tworun single. August the 17th of 2025 in Houston. The first of many for one of the games best young stars in the making. Now they’re two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. Victor Keratini to short and that ends a 12 nothing win for the Baltimore Orioles in Houston. Book it for the birds. Give the Orioles another series win against a great team from the AL West.

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