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Kyle Schwarber crushes a no-doubt homer for his 41st of the year and Ronald Acuña Jr. hits one 450 feet on this edition of FastCast
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One down for Ronald Acua.
Three-nothing Phillies in the top of the third.
Ronald Acua Jr. Launches this to left center, and it is long gone to the upper deck.
It gets the Braves on the board.
It is also career RBI number 500 for Acua.
And it's now a three-one game.
Schwarber's walked and scored.
He's grounded out.
That ball is smoked toward the second deck, off the Scorebit sign.
Line drive home run for Kyle Schwarber.
It's his 41st of the year, and the Phillies lead it four to one.
And you'll hear the reaction as Ronald Acua gets ready to bat for the third time.
Swing and a miss, he got him.
He just struck out the side, much to the delight of this crowd.
95 pitches, six innings, one run on three hits.
Strikes out nine, walks two.
After the home run to Acua, that was the last hit he allowed, a home run with one out in the third inning.
Retire 11 of the next 12.
Trying to become the next 30 homer guy in this lineup.
Sox already the only team with two.
Fly ball, left field.
It is Gonzlez drifting back, continuing to go back, and it is gone.
The fourth Japanese-born player to hit 30 home runs here in Major League Baseball.
What an accomplishment.
Cole Montgomery, back it goes.
Get out.
The second home run launched here in this first.
White Sox take a three-nothing lead.
And the White Sox lead is cut down to one.
First and second with one out, and the batter is Jeffers.
There's a deep drive, and the Twins are gonna get the lead.
Long three-run homer to left for Ryan Jeffers.
Twins lead five to three.
Twins have their first lead of this series.
So Yordan's intentionally walked to load the bases for Isiah Paredes with two out.
And he lines it to right, a base hit.
Daz scores, Trammell heads home.
Carroll fires it to the plate.
Trammell's safe.
Two runs on a base hit by Isiah Paredes.
Top of the eighth inning, it's a one run ballgame.
Vtor Marte starts the top of the eighth inning for the Diamondbacks against A.J.
Puk.
Swings, lifts it high.
Deep towards right.
Big bat flip because it's a tie game.
Solo shot Marte, and the Diamondbacks tie it at three.
Went down and got that ball and hammered it out of here.
Top of the 10th inning, D-backs and Astros tied at three.
He's gonna bring up Moreno.
Get that ball up in the air, deep, or else drive one through the infield.
And a line drive to right gives Arizona the lead.
Vargas comes home.
Gabriel Moreno makes it a four-three Diamondbacks advantage.
Seven batters into this game, the Cubs have three hits and a walk, but nothing to show for it.
Deep center field from Conforto.
Way back, and it's on the batter's eye and gone.
And they have a one-nothing lead today.
So a ton of traffic here for the Cubs.
My goodness, they've had all kinds of base runners.
So far just one run on the board.
Line, right field, and it falls in front of Casey for a base hit.
And Ian Happ comes up clutch.
It is three-nothing Cubs.
A dangerous left-handed bat coming up, so Craig Counsell decides to make the move to the veteran left-hander, Fieldbar.
Swing and a drive into the air.
Deep to right field.
Forget about it.
Whoa, Griffin.
Five-four now.
Zephyr John came in in the eighth.
And he looks for his first save in a Cub uniform.
Fly ball, shallow right center.
Seiya Longron makes the catch.
Cubs win.
This is a manager making a gut call after talking with a veteran pitcher.
Bases loaded with two outs.
Eli White the batter.
Looped into left field.
That's down for a hit.
Story scores.
Sogaard behind him.
Durn tearing around to third.
Eli White gets it done, and the Red Sox finally break through, and they lead it two to nothing.
It will be Rico Garcia time, a batter too late.
And the batter will be Connor Wong.
Rico Garcia has entered this game.
Ground ball up the middle, a base hit.
Another run scores.
Durn is in.
White to second.
Connor Wong with his 24th RBI.
It is three to nothing Sox.
Sonny Gray's pitching line, six strong, six Ks, and leading it now five to nothing.
Swung and a chop toward third.
Backhanded by Sogaard.
Behind the bag.
High throw to first.
Mickey gloves and applies the tag.
They got him.
And fittingly, Sogaard backing up Sonny.
A brilliant defensive play by Mickey on the back end.
Seven brilliant shutout innings for Sonny Gray.
Rice at second with two away for Spencer Jones.
Homecoming for him.
Grew up in nearby Encinitas.
Liner to right.
It's a fair ball down to the right field corner.
Around from second comes Rice.
Yankees strike first, on top one-nothing.
Two-nothing New York.
Bellinger's the eighth man to the plate here in the second inning.
Something in the gap can blow this open.
Swing on a line drive base hit right field.
Here comes Caballero flying behind him as well.
Two-run single Cody Bellinger.
Four-nothing Yankees in the second inning.
Manny Machado leading it off for the Padres here in the fourth inning.
Machado into deep left field.
Back goes Bellinger, look up, and that is gone.
25th home run of the year for Manny Machado gets the Padres on the board.
Carlos Rodn's on fire everybody.
He's not trying to work corners and nibble.
It's, "I'm gonna go right after San Diego."
He was doing it with all types of pitches, all parts of the zone.
Just kept San Diego off-balance, a ton of swing and miss.
So the inning continues with a man on, and here's Alejandro Kirk, who had a good night last night.
Gets a piece of that and rolls it to third, and he's gonna beat it out.
And the throw is going to get by first, and Guerrero is coming around third.
What a slide by Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
The Blue Jays getting a run here with two outs and nobody on with now Nathan Lucas at the plate.
This is shot to left, and that's down for a hit, and Kirk is getting the wave.
It's an RBI single for Nathan Lucas, and it's two to nothing.
Now the tying run's at third base with nobody out for Salvy.
Lined to right field, and that is inside the line.
The Royals have tied the game.
Salvador Perez drives in a run.
Top of the seventh inning, it's a three-three ballgame.
First and third, two down.
Here's Kasuma Okamoto who is three for three.
And that's a base hit into left center.
Springer in to score.
Lucas around to third.
What a night for Okamoto as the Blue Jays have regained the lead.
Contreras has been swinging the well.
He's hitting 272 on the year, so already a nice year.
Contreras deep into left center field.
That ball's got some carry, and it is up and out of here.
William Contreras takes one deep.
One away and nobody on, and here's Elly De La Cruz.
Smoked to center field.
Destroyed by De La Cruz.
Off the batter's eye.
Second home run of the year and tied this game at one.
Three-two ballgame, and we head to the seventh inning.
Jackson Chio coming up.
Bases loaded, one away.
Santillan deals.
Chio, fly ball center field.
All three runners tag.
Pratt coming in to score the tying run.
And Chio makes it three-three, and he just missed a grand slam on the bat by a click.
We are tied at three, Reds-Brewers.
McLean.
Fly ball deep right field.
It's got some carry.
It's got some distance, and it's gone.
Oh, Matt McLean with an opposite field home run.
Four-three Reds.
Out number two, and here's Riley Green, one of two left-handed batters in the lineup.
Fly ball left center, deep.
Halpin to the wall, looking up, gone.
Riley Green gets the Tigers on the board three batters in.
And now the Tigers have their first two aboard.
Little flare into left center.
Over the glove of Parker Messing.
Gleyber Torres rounding third, heading home.
Gleyber Torres scores on the line drive single from Riley Green.
Tigers take a two-nothing lead.
Riley Green's been the problem.
This is deep into left center again.
Going back, Halpin.
Again, looking up.
Halpin, gone.
Riley Green, two home runs to the same spot.
Three-nothing Tigers in the sixth.
Here's Riley Green.
What a night.
Fly ball deep right center field.
Off the wall.
What a night for Riley Green.
Double off the wall in right center, threatened his third home run of the night, and the Tigers take a four-nothing lead in the seventh.
And with two out, bases empty, here is Junior Caminero.
Swing, fly ball left center field, hit well.
Carter moving back, turning and looking, and gone.
His league-leading 38th, and the Rays score in the first one-nothing.
And we've got two men out here in the top of the fifth.
To the left-handed hitting Richie Palacios.
Swinging a high fly ball, belted deep to right field.
This is way back and way gone.
Richie Palacios homers for the second consecutive game.
He says, "You know what?
I'm not done."
Once again, the Rangers find themselves down by only a run.
Rangers have the tying run on base.
So here's Foscue to pinch hit for Joc.
And that ball is hit hard, over Walls into left center, a base hit.
Justin Foscue with an RBI double.
We're tied at three.
Tied at three, top of the 10th.
So now it's Aronda at the plate.
First and third, one out.
Swinging a ball, driven in the air.
Deep to right center field.
Way back toward the wall.
Nimmo, it's gone.
Gone.
A three-run homer for Jonathan Aronda.
And the Rays have a three-run cushion.
Has not been easy for Tyler Glasnow tonight.
Battling into the fifth inning.
The Dodgers down three to two.
Lyle, fly ball left center field.
Edmund on his horse.
To the wall.
It is caught by Tommy Edmund.
Tommy Edmund is a saint, but that was criminal.
What a play.
I mean, the reactions always help cap it off.
Nationals take a three-two lead to the seventh.
Nationals have a potential insurance run standing 180 feet away.
Now he'll bring in Vesia with a runner in scoring position.
Swung on and hit out to left center.
Falling fast, Edmund can't get to this one.
And the Nationals have doubled their lead here in the seventh.
Tying run's aboard for the Dodgers in the seventh.
Tommy Edmund oh for three tonight, oh for seven in the series.
Edmund in the air.
Right field.
Back at the wall.
Gone.
Tommy with the go-ahead tank, and the Dodgers have grabbed the lead in the seventh.
You hang them, we bang them.
And Rafael Devers, the red-hot left-hand hitting first baseman will be next.
Devers to right field, and gone.
He's done it again.
Amazing.
This time against a lefty.
And Christian Koss is coming up.
High fly ball to left with carry.
All the way back at the wall.
Gone.
Just over the wall, Christian Koss.
Fifth inning, Giants have a three to two lead over the Mets.
Koss down the left field line.
Cranked that one, and gone.
That's his second home run of the game.
Kid's feeling it.
Sweeper, hanging sweeper.
You hang it, we bang it.
And it'll bring up Rafael Devers who homered in the first inning.
Devers down the left field line.
Hits it deep.
Devers, gone.
His second of the game.
To the opposite field.
Two up, two down.
Here's Max Muncy, the DH.
He was three for four last night with a home run.
One-two home.
Muncy sets a charge to deep left field.
Arozarena won't even move.
It is gone.
One C homers again.
That was absolutely hammered.
And the A's take a one-nothing lead.
Jeffrey Springs dialing it up and dialing it in.
There has not been a lead-off base runner in this game for Seattle in any of the six innings they face Springs.
Six-nothing, Jeffrey Springs dominant.
So one on and one away for the Athletics, top of the eighth.
That'll bring up Lawrence Butler.
Now Butler launches one to left.
Arozarena looking up, and it is gone.
Lawrence Butler, a home run, making it six-nothing.
Lift off for the Love Dog.
Seattle not happy at all.
Adams will go after Joshua Paez, who has hit safely in all four games on the trip, five for 12 with two doubles, a homer.
A swing, and there's a long drive deep down the left field line.
It stays fair, and it's a goner.
Joshua Paez with a thunderbolt.
Let's see if Yvonne Herrera can bring in the runner from second, Nathan Church.
The pitch to Herrera, he swings, and it's a high-fly ball.
That goes to deep center.
That goes out of there.
Two-run homer, Yvonne Herrera.
Three-two, St. Louis.
Four singles in the inning.
Three-two pitch is in the dirt, skips away.
Amador coming home, and he will score.
The game is tied.
Running is McCarthy on the double steal.
Tovar scores.
Rockies have taken the lead four to three.
Bottom of the seventh inning, the Rockies ahead six to five.
There's no place to put the man at the plate, Hunter Goodman.
First pitch, swinging, line drive, base hit into the left field.
Scoring from third base, Tovar.
Here comes McCarthy.
Throw to the plate is high.
It's a two-run single for Hunter Goodman.
It's eight to five, Colorado.
To the fifth inning, one-nothing Angels.
Josh Lowe, one of four lefty batters in the batting order for the Angels.
That one is squared up to center field.
That ball headed back at the wall, and that one is gone.
Josh Lowe's 11th of the season leads off the fifth inning, and the Halos have a two-nothing lead.
Going to the seventh inning, and runners are at the corners for Mike Trout.
Trout hits that one, and it gets through.
That'll bring in another run.
Mike Trout delivers in the seventh, and the Angels extend their lead.
It's four-nothing.
Angels with three straight hits here against Matson.
Still just one out, runners at first and second.
Make- hits the ball towards the gap into right field.
That ball still going.
That one's gonna get all the way to the wall, and it's an RBI double, brings in two, and the Angels lead grows.
It's six-zip.
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