Giants vs. A's Game Highlights (8/17/24) | MLB Highlights

Today, we honor A's great and major league baseball greatness. Let's hear it one more time for the 2024 Athletics Hall of Fame class, Eddie Joost, Bill King, #### Williams, Terry Steinbach, jose Canseco and miguel Tejada, a hall of Fame type of day star studded from beginning to end and hopefully many, many more fireworks from one to another. The A's take the field behind six shutout innings in a win against Toronto in his last start last week. And now this club will look to set the tone against the San Francisco Giants, a team that they played just a few weeks ago across the bay and split that series at one apiece. Another thing to remember Dallas. It is players weekend. So you'll see some colorful bats equipment and Then these guys showcase their personalities. A one hop chopper to third, throws a little throw to first, but Brown's able to dig it out that will bring up Lamonte junior camo up a lift left center field and well hit on Zar back in the alley at the track and he leans and he makes the catch mcgill on Duar with a great play racing into deep left center field, Then lunging and reaching out with a mitt in his left hand. He makes the catch right at the wall for out number two and that's at the knees ring him up. Fastball. 95 Ramos down on strikes. Giants go down 123 with a coming up in the bottom half on the hill. Today for the Giants will be the rookie right hander Hayden Birdsong 64, 215 pounder 22 years of age. Lawrence Butler wielding a green and gold bat. Well, for law dog, the heat is on the feet. That is where it's going down for Lawrence Butler. Three pitches. See you later. Well, that's the curveball he had when he faced the Colorado Rockies high to left to Ramos two out 32 pitch is swung on and missed strike three. Got him with the curve. That's an excellent first inning for Hayden Birdsong. We go to the second one thing is fairly consistent across the league and it's a very nice touch for major league baseball. As you can see on the side of the hats, personalized numbers, everybody's playing for second in terms of the shoe department tonight behind Lawrence Butler right here is exactly what we were going to be talking about. You see the numbers, the spikes for Lawrence Butler over here on the top right here. Screen 34 9, 4227. Well, you look up in center field there on Mount davis and that's where all of the retired numbers of our legends live. And that one out of it by fastball 96 and that will bring up chapman just struck out Chapman. He tips it in las glove as well. Three strikeouts in a row for Osvaldo. Here's a left hand hitter and he pops it up on the infield. Drifting back from third is her , is giving way in the shortstop. Schuman is there between 2nd and 3rd makes they can so far so good for. And after 1.5, no score on to the bottom of the third, no score. The A and the Giants here, the third baseman for these days and it's very high ball for Birdsong wasn't close with those last three a lead and this is driven to deep, right, goes back and he makes the catch. Butler swings grounds it to second fielding. The hop wisely goes to Fitzgerald for one over the first double play. Giants able to turn it and on one pitch, Hayden Birdsong is out of the inning on to the bottom of the fourth inning. The A's and the Giants no score. Hayden Birdsong is a impressive so far. The 22 year old right hander going to work against brett Rooker and a swing and a miss got him another high fastball. That one at 97 comes home and it's just outside with a curve and that's a one out walk is on for and Rey now Grey mcrae, he makes the catch and his throw is just a little late. Well, that really has been our first chance to look at, at the quickest and the route that mcrae can run. See he's playing fairly deep, didn't get a great first step but watch the makeup speed and he's got a good arm too. We're watching him throw, batting practice and he likes to show it off and it's strike three called Hayden Birdsong matching Oswaldo Vito got the makings of a pitching duel. We're through four. The A and the Giants don't have a hit. So here's Chapman, here's a ground ball to third charging Bahan Hernes and a throw to first. It is time on a stretch by Seth Brown retiring a man who did it so many times with the green and gold. This time, Darryl Hernes retires Matt Chapman. Well, I'll tell you it's Darryl playing third that makes this play, but this is Tada E coming in with the bare hand Miggy and firing a strike. It's a very nice place. It's a very nice play. I see the young guys play. It's very nice. Still no score here. A pitchers duel and Seth Brown not wasting any time picking up his second hit of the game, a leadoff single and that's how the A's offense will start the bottom of the fifth. Chapman creeping in Zack Gello who struck out swinging is up again, breaking ball grounded in the hole that will get through for a hit, a softly hit single to left. And now the A's have runners on 1st and 2nd with no. And that will bring up Darryl Hernes and we'll see if this might be a sacrifice push bunt first base side, Wade fields his throw to third and they got him force play at third and Wade aggressively came up throwing, he bounced the throw. Chapman stretched out and took it on a bounce, kept his foot on the bag for out. Number one will walk Schuman. The bases are loaded for Lawrence Butler at the top of the order. Bases loaded. No score, bottom of the to center mcrae will camp underneath, make the catch. Delo is going to try and score. It is cut off in the eighth strike first in game. The Lawrence Butler, a sacrifice fly to offense has been conservative for 5.5 innings. His clean up hitter who is Miguel on hit hard. Chapman couldn't reach it and on , on his horse to second. That's the loudest piece of contact all day long. And Miguel stands alone at second base that will bring up Brown and Seth is two for two base hit rounding third on Duar. They play on a three for three afternoon doubles the lead. It's 2 to 0 three. Little changeup here from Bivens and Seth Brown right on the ball at the point of finds a hole. Now, it's Grant Holman who's about to let the world know what kind of work he's been doing down in Vegas, a sub one, a in the minors. And there is the Holman contingent, a whole host of Holman and he got him. Is that yes, first strikeout for Grant Holland in his big, a big one. And that will be how he exits the game. 9795 paint line hitter, Micheel Oz comes out of the bullpen. Save this one for the A's who lead two nothing two on two out. Ninth inning. The most important job sits right here at home plate between OTAs and Schmidtz just struck out the side, picks up his first and coming after another, the right hander six shutout innings from the big right hander.