00:01How about this pitching matchup we have today Yoshinobi Yamamoto goes for the Dodgers Nolan McClain very quickly has become
00:07the ace for the Mets and not a game you want to play tonight if you're a hitter but as
00:12Francisco Lindor strolls to home play I mean there's no doubt that the Mets offense is feeling the heat but
00:18a huge test tonight and if they figure out Yamamoto what a lift that would be a door lifts one
00:23to deep right field back goes Tucker at the wall and it's out of here Francisco Lindor leads off
00:29the game with a home run his first home run his first RBI of the season and the Mets strike
00:37first on the third pitch of the game 1-0 New York boy did the Mets and Lindor need that
00:44I mean he caught a 2-0 fastball right down the middle and hit a rocket his 32nd career leadoff
00:54home run and the Mets have a much needed early lead lifts it
00:59into right center field but he got under it and Kyle Tucker will make the grab for the first out
01:041-0 Mets two down bases clear Bo Bichette coming up Bichette for being a high average guy he will
01:10swing hard
01:12does right here and punches a bouncing ball to Freddie Freeman at first after the leadoff shot 1-2-3
01:18Nolan McClain's first time pitching against Dodgers 1-0 New York one out nobody on in the first here's Kyle
01:24Tucker
01:24on this 3-1 pitch wraps around the plate ball four Dodgers have their first base runner against McClain and
01:30here is McClain's battery made from the WBC championship game and Will Smith and I asked Will if he thought
01:36it would help having caught him a few times and he said he'd definitely think that it would and he
01:41did mention yeah he can go look at it on traject but different than the real thing Tucker takes his
01:45lead at first the payoff is ripped on off field bend will lay out good effort can't get it though
01:51Tucker a great read heads for third throw to second not in time double will Smith so the Dodgers in
01:58business with two in scoring position and only one out now Freddie Freeman
02:02I don't know one bounces run along first that is going to stay fair and tie the ball game Vientos
02:08to the bag Tucker to the plate one to one well if you're going to make it out make it
02:13productive out get yourself an RBI
02:16Freddie does his job there so in this highly anticipated pitchers duel both offenses crack through in the first inning
02:22and it brings up to Oscar Hernandez with two out and he strikes him out with a cutter Dodgers tie
02:28it though one one after one
02:29four in row retired by Yamamoto since the Lindor home run and Brett Beatty coming up splitter dives under the
02:35swing and gives him his first strikeout of the night that would be the one to do it splitter has
02:40been his best pitch and here's Vientos
02:42marks off for his last 20 kicks and throws and strikes him out another one three Yamamoto Will Smith leading
02:51off the inning had the first and only hit up to this point against McClain it's a one out double
02:55in the first got him looking third strikeout for McClain
02:59one down to the fourth now here's Freddie Freeman 2-2 to Freeman and got him nasty McClain with back
03:06to back strikeouts to start the fourth well this is the backdoor breaking ball that never comes over the plate
03:12it just stayed outside and pulls Freeman two outs in the bottom of the fourth they Oscar Hernandez next and
03:19Hernandez goes down again this time on the fastball away Nolan McClain strikes out the side in the bottom of
03:26the fourth inning Yamamoto has retired 12 in a row
03:29McClain has retired 11 in a row Yamamoto through four innings 54 pitches McClain through four innings 54 pitches dangerous
03:37pitch here tie game in the fifth on the hands sawed him off one away seems like EK with the
03:43best of the best there's a relentlessness where even where it feels like you are the best you find a
03:49way to tap into a little bit more I think you're competing against yourself right and he sets a standard
03:54for himself each season
03:56Baiti trying to bunt his way aboard Will Smith says uh-uh so two outs and the bases stay clear
04:02now Mark Vientos struck him out Yamamoto keeps on rolling a few hitters into the game on both sides I
04:10was like well this is false advertising as a pitcher's duel but since then it has been all these two
04:15pitchers Max Muncy leading off that curveball hit to short two hopper handed by Lindor
04:21and Muncy retired one away here's Paez in the fifth pitch he's looking to center field but Robert gets in
04:28front of it and makes the catch two out of the hardest hit ball by the Dodgers tonight so Kim
04:33has worked at four five K's just one walk in this game for McClain who comes back home with a
04:38payoff and misses outside ball four two out walk for Hessong Kim we got his speed aboard here in a
04:451-1 game Alex Freeland comes up he has one of the hardest hit balls in this
04:49speed speed speedy Kim at first and McClain throws it away can't have a chance to use that speed at
04:55the second go ahead running scoring position the end does just kind of whips that ball right there didn't bounce
05:01trying to catch it and apply the tag at the same time you got to make that play the ball
05:07did not bounce base hit could give the Dodgers the lead here's an 0-1 and he bounces up slowly
05:13for a six sitting in the handle and that retires the side if Kim's two out walk is stranded Dodgers
05:18and Mets
05:19still tied at one and so that is 19 in a row retired by Yamamoto and Jorge Polanco next Yamamoto
05:26gets him though with a looping curve we just talked about it where these guys again both of these pitchers
05:33a ton of different pitches but going about it different ways Yamamoto again putting away another hitter with the off
05:41speed to the cleanup spot where Bo Bichette is he's 0 for 2 Bo Bichette lines went down the line
05:47and that's a fair ball it's going to go
05:49to the corner Mets out of the corner Mets out of their second end of the corner Mets out of
05:51their second end of the night fielded by Teoscar the throw to second not in time the Shet slides in
05:56with a double and the Mets finally break through against Yamamoto after he had retired 20 in a row a
06:03two out double for Bo Bichette so a chance for the Mets with a runner in scoring position for the
06:09first time tonight and here's Alvarez he's struck him out and you knew it was coming didn't you that spitter
06:17dives away
06:18now two outs here's Benj eighth inning base is clear three and one to Ben he drives one to left
06:24field that is down for a base and blocked by Hernandez to keep it from going behind him person Benj
06:31with a hard hit opposite field single now the Mets have a two out base runner and a fast man
06:37at first boy that was a dangerous play with Teoscar two outs so now Lindor who provided the Mets with
06:44an instant run in the first inning your grounds one pass
06:47is Freeman that triples into right field Henge will go first to third and the Mets have runners at the
06:53corners with two down Lindor second ahead of the night and now the Mets have the go ahead run a
06:59third with two down and Luis Robert coming up and it's again the same question do I want a tiring
07:05Yamamoto or do I want Blake Trinan he's going to choose Blake Trinan seven and two thirds from Yamamoto tonight
07:12just one run the runners at first and third his responsibility no matter what though
07:17appreciation from this Dodger stadium crowd it's Blake Trinan who so far has bounced back from a rough year last
07:24year six games has not given up a run trying to finish it right here he does breaking pitch rings
07:30him off the batter is challenging the call to strike Robert will challenge it Dodgers are headed off at the
07:38field and Robert should too the call is a strike he is out the Mets have one challenge remaining hitting
07:45over the Mets
07:47strand two and we're still tied at one maybe the best game of Nolan McLean's brief major league career just
07:55his 12th major league start and he was tremendous but Brooks Rayleigh now has pitched five and two thirds innings
08:01eight punch outs has not allowed a run it's a lead off run go ahead runners aboard to lead off
08:08this eighth inning and now Santiago Espinal will bat for Alex Freeland lays the bunt down really to go to
08:15first well done by Santiago Espinal
08:17after the first successful sacrifice of the year for the Dodgers so Rojas into scoring position Shohei Ohtani to the
08:25plate and they're going to put Ohtani on that intentional walk by the way has extended the on base streak
08:30though for Shohei Ohtani to 48 games passes around say much to the dismay of this crowd Kyle Tucker lives
08:38in there with a chance to be the hero time
08:40and the baseball gods smiling on Kyle Tucker for what has to feel like the first time in forever take
08:59that ball 56 miles an hour off the bat that was just like a lob shot in tennis just over
09:04the net go ahead RBI take it however he can get it oh my goodness
09:09and a dunk shot base hit has given the Dodgers their first lead to the nine still just one away
09:14under the heart of the lineup Will Smith Smith takes the sweeper for a strike three call so really bounces
09:20back to get Will Smith for the second out
09:23now trying to limit the damage to one run as he faces 23 and he hits one of the right
09:28field pretty well hit but back goes baby to make the catch at the edge of the warning track so
09:32the Dodgers strand two but more important than that they score one
09:37Vestia looking for his second save of the season what a special night it would be for him to do
09:42that all the health care staff that he and his wife Kay brought here to the ballpark all the nurses
09:48that were there with them during those tough days with their daughter Sterling passing away last fall it'll be three
09:55four and five for New York Polanco Bichette and Alvarez
09:58the O2 up in the zone no way he catches up to that signature pitch for years Bo Bichette Bessia
10:08delivers Bichette swings and misses two out he put away Polanco with that high fastball and then goes after Bichette
10:16with that slider down in the zone down to their last out Francisco Alvarez
10:20did he go he did good morning good afternoon and good night Alex Bessia slams the door in the ninth
10:30and the Dodgers win two to one elite pitching performance by the Dodgers capped off by Alex Bessia just enough
10:38on the offense at Kyle Tucker floater out in the left field again the night belongs to Yoshinobu Yamamoto just
10:46an absolute dominant performance
10:48you
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