Yankees vs. Nationals Game Highlights (8/26/24) | MLB Highlights

It's Cruz Day. Ladies and gentlemen, DC in DC Dylan Cruz for the first time as a big leaguer here at Nationals Park called up today the number three overall prospect according to mb pipeline.com. Hugs from his mom, Kim and his dad, George around the cage during VP plans coming up uh next few days. Absolutely not. Well, good cause uh we're gonna come watch you play at a national spark against the Yankees on Monday. 00 my God, honey. So, and Dylan Cruz is about to make his way to right field for the first time as a big leaguer. He just now hit the top step and there he goes, he'll be playing next to Jacob Young and of course, James Wood. There they are mom, sister, dad , they're all here pretty cool. Franny. Here's Mitchell Parker starting number 24 and trying to get his record above 500. So here's Gleyber Torres torres hits that in the air deep to left field and gone. Glaver Torres stay hot in an early one. Nothing Yankees lead on Glaber's 12th bomb of the season. Nationals fans coming to their feet. A standing ovation for the return of juan Soto here to National Park this time as a Yankee instead of a San Diego Padre, that was a goosebump moment no matter how many times you see these sort of things. 32. Now Mons Soto is going to take his league leading 109th walk of the year to set the table for judge off speed, gets him to roll it over. Tana Vargas and the nets will go around the horn for a 543. There's Nestor Cortez taking the bump in the nation's capital to be its 27 start 7 to 10 record and even four, a just coming out so crisp as he strikes out Abrams looking and here is Dylan Cruz Major league you for Dylan Cruz standing ovation from national fans and you know, Dave , when they cheer him going forward, it may sound like booze because they might be going Cruz. It's going to be hit solidly but high in the air up to one soda. He's halfway to second by the time that ball is caught two down, not a bad swing but DJ Leah singles one through the right side and the Yankees with two on and two out 02. Great job of having him lunging Parker getting over there missing the bag, possibly drop the ball. Oh, the ball was dropped. They had to wait for him to get over there and it took a while, bases loaded two outs and the 22 bounce to third Tana on the way and the short way three stranded Richard Parker has pitched out of a couple of jams here early. That one's well stroked out to right center. It's gonna add to his double total. That thing gets right at the bottom of the wall. Tang runs at second. Nets need to be fundamentally sound here and at least get back even with the Yankees Cape e right handed that balls in the air to left field and deep Verdugo racing back makes the catch up against the wall. What a play by Verdugo who now is down grabbing at his right leg after making a terrific catch for the first out of the bottom of the second. And Verdugo saying he's all right, wants to stay in and will after that terrific play two men away. Now the left handed hitting third baseman Jose Tana comes up driven in the air to center judge back on the track at the wall makes the catch to end the inning. No runs scored on nasty Nestor in the second 2 to 2 is the count and the pitch swing and a miss, he struck him out fastball by him 92 to the inside. So Parker wins that battle for his third strikeout swing and a miss over matching the left handed batter. So a walk but Then a couple of strikeouts, Volpe Peppers that into center field. Young is going to watch it fly off the wall. Anthony Volpe two for two tonight. This time, a leadoff double front door, got him on the hands , but it'll back up Cruz. That'll be his first big league chance out there and BPE easily to third in the first out here in the fourth inning in the air to right. Throw him out. He and Cruz here comes his first throw. Oh, it's a strong one. Had it been more online? He might have had a shot but a pretty good preview of things to come with that rocket coming from right. Yankees lead two. Nothing calling mom first. That's the way it should be right. Kim, delightful lady, a nurse and she was shopping at Winn Dixie when she got the night he goes to first base safe lead for the first time in his big league career. That's a great plate appearance. James Grounds into a force out that goes 5 to 6. Former Yankee farm head andres Chaparro in the batter's box drives it in the air deep left center Joe. Oh, we in George. What a play. He does it all and Then away send him to Monument Park. Now. My goodness. And Then completes the play on a beautiful relay. Torres Lamu inning over. What a highlight. Yep is at second. So two out and Hilda Vargas, the batter snap throw to second and they nearly got him. Glaber says take a look. So does Anthony Volpe to the naked eye. It looked like they had him at second on a beautiful throw from Austin Wells. Well, austin Wells, he's out, he's out after the ruling on the field is overturned. The runner is out New York, will it? Boy, that is a heck of a pick off throw from Wells. Nice tag from torres. Austin Wells will lead off the top of the sixth Yankees up 2 to 0 pitch is hit in the air to deep, right oh, back goes to right fielder. You can forget this one. Austin Wells takes out his frustrations from two strikeouts with an absolute bomb to right field and the Yankees extend the lead to three to nothing. Austin wells' 10th home run of the year, an absolute no Doubter into the second deck right here's Volpe, he's got a couple of hits tonight. Volpe liner into center field for a base hit. Now, you know, Volpe's getting locked in now he's going for second. The center fielder dropped the ball and he is safe at second base but took a shot to the head and now is shaken up. Anthony Volpe stays in the game after being checked on extensively by the Yankees athletic training staff, Anthony Volpe not wasting any time after getting dinged up at second. He has a stolen base his 24th of the year, Lema he delivers into the air left WB with that one plenty deep enough, makes it a four nothing game. The second sacrifice fly of the night for DJ Lema. Here, here's the Cortez leg kick of the pitch and this one is sliced down the right field line. Soto giving Jason land there inside the line and goes down to the corner racing for third is Vargas. He rounds third and holds as the relay throw to torres and he'll fire it into the plate. So Vargas holds at third and the Nationals have 2nd and 3rd. Nobody out for the top of the lineup. 12, 2nd and third. Nobody out. He's got about three pitches to try to get a swing and a Miss strand a couple of base runners swing and a Miss big strikeout there from Nestor one down. Big opportunity for Dylan Cruz making his major league debut with 32 swing and a miss made the big pitch again two down. So James Wood has drawn a walk hits here with the bases loaded two out bottom of the sixth. The Yankees leading four nothing and Cortez gets the assignment, the 22, he got him. Cortez strikes out three and works around 2nd and 3rd. Nobody out mowing through the top of the order and letting out some well deserved emotion. Nestor back to back seven shutout inning performances trying to make it three straight swinging a long drive left field way back it goes and the Nats are on the that one long gone in a section 101 over the Yankees bullpen. Ye got to that one. His fifth of the season. That's the Yankees for the Nationals one set for the eighth inning. It is 4 to 1 in favor of the Yankees bull taken care of. Jess in the eighth. Turned on and driven a right. Does it have the height? It does Jazz goes yard his 21st of the year and the Yankee lead is 51. Jacob Young is leading off the last of the eighth against Mark lighter junior 32 and he will check one to left heading for the bullpen. See you later, Jacob Young, two of his three homers within the last two weeks and the Nets are gradually climbing back top of the ninth inning here in the nation's capital Yankees, five nationals two here is judge one hit away from 1000 lines that to right field into the corner. There is hit number 1000 in the career of Aaron Judge, another round number for the Yankee captain. Well, another baseball that will end up in his locker after the game hit number 1000 for his career. Nestor Cortez started, it went six and two thirds allowed just one run. Glider cousins. Now homes right back to the mound. Holmes field lame on the bag ball game. The Yankees win it five to the final as they take the opener in DC.