Sports 9/13/18
13 September 2018 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
The Brewers kept their division hopes alive Wednesday night with a 5-1 win over the Cubs and moved within one game of first place in the NL Central.
Curtis Granderson homered and scored the first three Brewers runs as Milwaukee continued its run of series victories. Their stretch of seven in a row includes a pair of 2-1 series wins over the weary Cubs, who are two games better in the loss column but are in the midst of a brutal schedule that continues with a makeup game Thursday night in Washington on what was supposed to be an off-day.
Chase Anderson went the first four innings as the Brewers took an early 2-0 lead. Five relievers followed, including Corey Knebel with five critical outs in the fifth and sixth innings as the lead shrunk to 2-1, Josh Hader struck out three in the eighth against the heart of Chicago’s order, and Jeremy Jeffress pitched the ninth after the Brewers gave him some breathing room with a three-run rally.
Until Granderson’s solo home run sparked the ninth-inning surge punctuated by Mike Moustakas‘ two-run single. Otherwise it wasn’t a banner day for the Brewers’ offense against Kyle Hendricks and & Co. Despite three more hits from Lorenzo Cain to cap a series in which he went 8-for-14, and three hits from Granderson, Cubs pitchers held the Brewers 3-for-11 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine men on base — including runners at third in the first, sixth, seventh and eighth innings.
The Brewers are off today while the Cubs travel to Washington for a makeup game against the Nationals. Tomorrow night Milwaukee opens a weekend series against the Pirates at Miller Park. CT. Gonzalez goes for the Brewers against Pittsburgh’s Chris Archer. First pitch tomorrow night is at 7:10.
Will he play or won’t he play. That’s the question surrounding the status of Aaron Rodgers for Sunday’s game against the Vikings? And while neither Mike McCarthy nor the quarterback came out and said it, everything the 2-time MVP did say Wednesday leads you to believe he will take the field. Rodgers sprained his left knee against the Bears Sunday night. He said it’s “painful” but “you just have to suck it up and play through it,” Rodgers added that he does not need to practice at all this week to be able to play.
The Vikings have won the NFC North 3 times in the last 9 years. All three of those crowns came after Minnesota managed to win in Green Bay in 2009, 2015, and 2017. So with this important tilt on tap, how does Rodgers feel about his team’s chances if he CAN’T play. Rodgers siad he hasn’t even thought about that possibility. Vikings coach Mike Zimmer sure thinks Rodgers will take the field, saying Wednesday that Rodgers “walks on water”.
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