Reds vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (9/16/25)

Reds vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (9/16/25) | MLB Highlights

After handling their business in game one, the Reds try to make it back-to back wins at Bush. They seek the series against the Cardinals in St. Louis. The Reds now just two games behind New York in the wild card race, so anything’s possible. McGrevy ready to rock and roll. Tough luck loss for Michael out at Seattle. He pitched really effective baseball, just one run in six innings of work. The Cardinals though lost that game 4-2. So hopefully a better offensive effort and more work from McGrevy will make Oliver Marl smile by game’s end. Yeah, I want to see a lot of smiles today. You know what would do that for you? Some quick innings for your pitching staff and some long ones for your offense. There’s a swing and a drive hit deep to right field. Walker moving back. He reaches and makes the catch running onto the warning track. And the Cardinals have turned in the first play of the game. Hitting second in the lineup, Gavin Lux, the former Dodger. And a swing and a miss. McGrevy pulls a string. He’s got the first two outs. well, struggles with breaking balls. You’re going to get a heavy dose of them. That’s exactly what Michael McGrevy finishes off Gavin Lux with. That good slow curve ball right at the bottom of the zone. Marte swings and he drives that deep to right center field. Walker back on the track and he has it. Backing up against the wall near the 375 sign. Fly out, strike out, fly out. We go to the bottom of the first. Abbott has had a great year, the best of his career, and he’s coming off a brilliant start against the Padres’s. Yeah, that start against the Padres’s and they they put some left-handers in there against him as well, and he he made the pitches he had to make. Donovan drives one to deep right. Marte on the run. Awkward route off the wall. Donovan around first on his way to second. He will stop there. Donovan’s four for his last four in the series. Almost hit it out. He leads off with a double, his 26th of the year. So there’s a man in scoring position right out of the shoot. Here’s Ivon Herrera. Ground ball right side. A base hit. Donovan will stop at third. Marte got to that quickly. A sixgame hitting streak for Herrera. First and third, nobody out. Here’s Nolan Aronado. Moved up to the number three spot tonight after going two for four and has returned from the injured list. To center. Well hit. Fredel will retreat. He’ll make the catch. Aronado with a sack fly and an RBI that brings home Donovan. ABC baseball for the Cardinals leads to a one- nothing lead. Not bad RBI in each game. Coming back from the injured list for Nolan Aronado. Merles retired and now two away for Thomas Saji. Lined into right center. That’ll get down for a hit. Herrera will streak toward third. How about Saji? Nine pitches. Another hit for him. And the Cardinals have him first and third. Here’s Lars Nbar trying to break it 0 for 11. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Breaking ball off the outside corner. Nbar went spinning, but the Cardinals got a run and they had three hits, leaving two on. Here’s Tyler Stevenson who burned the Cardinals last night with a three-run double in a four-run ninth inning. He’s up with two on, nobody out. Little roller toward third. Aronado one there. Lobs the first for two. A double play. Harder hit. They might have had a shot to go around the horn for a three-bagger. Instead, it’s a 5-3 Twin killing. Benson at second. Well, it really is a play right here though. Nolan Aronado just makes it look easy. That throw is still on the run as the foot hits the base to get Stevenson. As you mentioned earlier, it’s just nice to have him back in the hot corner. 3 0 and that’s a walk. So, third walk for Ellie on the series. Second of the inning and outing for McGrevy. And two are on for Kean Hayes. And that shot to the second baseman. Donovan gets to it from the edge of the grass and throws out Kbrian Hayes. That leaves two runners on. Two down. Here’s Lux who struck out swinging his first time. Lux grounds it just inside the bag at third down the left field line. It carums off the sidewall. Now bobbled by Nbar and left, but Lux was already cruising into second with a stand up double. That’s a new careerhigh 25th double for Gavin Lux. gives Marte a chance to bring him home. Chopper hit towards short and so JC got the hop he wanted and his strike to first is in time and the Reds strand a runner there third. We go to the bottom of the third. One- nothing St. Louis. It’s that check swing that hurts more than a full swing like that. But a hit makes everything feel better. Berles’s got a two out single. That’s the first hit off of Andrew Abbott for Alec Berles in 11 tries. Now Thomas and JC Arlesson at first with two outs. Swing drive hammered toward left. That ball is gone. You can put it on the board. A tworun homer for Saji. A line drive shot. Well at this point Thomas JC has seen everything that Andrew Abbott has. He got his first hit on the 10th pitch of the atbat. this time on the sixth pitch gets himself a change up goes down and gets it and hits his second home run of the season. A 391 ft shot. That’s another base hit for Pahes who seems to get hits in bunches. So Abbott now is they’re making him work a little bit here tonight. Believe at some point Terry Fran Kona is probably going to get that bullpen cranked up. Check swing. He went no appeal needed. Strike three. And that is number six for the Reds lefty on the evening. And that was center fielder Nathan Church. Runner fakes. Abbott delivers. Swing miss. So Newar Walker and Church are all 0 for two with two strikeouts. The other strikeout belonging to Herrera. So seven of them for Abbott, but a mixed bag because he’s given up. Three runs on seven hits. Breaking balls on the ground. Should be an easy play for Mlan. Picks fires out. They get a base runner. They leave him out there. We go to the top of the fifth inning. Cardinals three. Reds nothing. The leadoff man is on base for the Reds. Now keep Ryan Hayes. Good lead by Ellie. Little tapper back to the mound. Might be two. There’s one. Perfect feed and another double play. That’s the second double play ball tonight behind McGrevy. And cool as could be on that Ricky. He he is an infielder. We mentioned that. We’ve noticed that about McGrevy since he first came up. He’s a young guy, but he feels his position like he thinks he’s an infielder, which is what you should do, by the way, if you’re a pitcher. Driven to right again. Walker retreats. He’s got plenty of room and McGrevy sails through the fifth inning. Swings into the windup. His pitch high and that’s a leadoff walk. The third walk for Michael tonight. It’s the third time that the Reds have had their leadoff man on, but see if they can make some hay here in the sixth and strike three inside corner. Lux backed away from that blistering pitch and that’s his second strikeout. Runner at first, one out for Noel Vi Marte who’s 0 for two. Swing and a miss. McGrevy takes care of Marte. Back-to- back strikeouts after the leadoff walk. Jeff, I like how Michael McGrevy is using his fast ball. He’s riding it at the top of the zone. A couple of good ones here on the ground to second. Donnie gives ground and makes a good play and that will retire the side. McGrevy through six with a shut out. Well, bad news for Red Sitters. Michael McGrevy is still on the mound for St. Louis. Well, he’s only thrown 77 pitches so far. He has just three strikeouts. He’s walked just as many. Jojo Romero starting to play catch as McGrevy gets another strike out. So, he’s starting to pile those up. Three of the last four outs have been on swing and a miss for Michael. The Reds haven’t solved him. Third time through yet. Bah sets up outside. Two pitch is a swing and a miss. Back-to-back strikeouts here in the seventh inning. He struck out four of the last five batters that he’s faced and he has five for the game. And now he’ll face Ellie de la Cruz who has walked and singled. And now the two- two is strike three. McGrevy strikes out the side and makes mince me of the Reds in game two. McGrevy firing a shut out through seven six strikeouts for the young Cardinals right-hander tonight. Reds running out of time on the night and their year. They’ll have 11 games left after tonight. They’re on the wrong side of a three nothing score. Here’s the man who made his major league debut in his only outing as a red late in 21. Riley O’Brien. And O’Brien a big sweeper. Gets a swing and miss from Gam Lux. Brad called it earlier. The curveball gives Lux trouble. He struck out three times tonight. Ground ball right back to O’Brien. He spears it from the mound. Throws to first. Two down. The Reds are down to their last out. Here’s Sal Stewart 0 for two with a walk tonight. Ground ball to third. Aronado. What a scoop. Hand the throw. And the Cardinals have won it. Three nothing. O’Brien seals the deal for Michael McGrevy. This one was very well played by St. close and a much needed rebound win for the Cardinals

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