Thursday Sports 4/11/19
11 April 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Christian Yelich hit a pair of run-scoring singles, but the Brewers found themselves on the wrong side of a sweep for the first time since last year’s All-Star break. The Angels scored all four of their runs against Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff in the third inning on their way to a 4-2 win Wednesday to sweep the three-game series at Angel Stadium.
It was the Brewers’ first series loss this season and only the second series loss in their last 16 sets dating to last year. They hadn’t been swept since they lost all five games in rainy Pittsburgh to finish the first half of 2018, prior to a second-half surge that lifted Milwaukee to a division crown. Woodruff allowed four runs on three hits, a walk and a hit-batsman in the third inning, compared to one baserunner in five other scoreless frames.
The Brewers will try to regroup Friday up the road at Dodger Stadium in a weekend rematch of last year’s National League Championship Series. It continues Milwaukee’s tough early season slate. The next 13 games are against the Dodgers and Cardinals. Elsewhere in the NL Central on Wednesday, Cincinnati 2, Miami 1, Cardinals 7, Dodgers 2 and the Pirates 5, Cubs 2.
Russell Westbrook got his 34th triple-double of the season and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Milwaukee Bucks’ backups 127-116 Wednesday night to lock up the sixth seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Oklahoma City played without injured Paul George, but Westbrook, Jerami Grant and Dennis Schroder led a hot-shooting effort from 3-point range. Westbrook had 15 points, 17 assists and 11 rebounds. He moved into a tie with Magic Johnson for second place on the career triple-double list with 138. Schroder was 8-of-15 shooting beyond the arc and had 32 points. Grant hit four 3s added a career-high 28 points. The Bucks had already clinched the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference and rested star Giannis Antetokounmpo and some other key players.
Khris Middleton was the only usual Bucks starter in the starting five, and he scored 21 points in 17 minutes. He took an intentional foul with 5:32 left in the third quarter to end his night, moments after scoring to bring Milwaukee within 84-79.
Tim Frazier scored a career-high 29 points for Milwaukee and D.J. Wilson added a career-high 18 while grabbing 17 rebounds. Rookie Bonzie Colson started and scored 21 points.
Milwaukee finished the regular season at 60-22. The Bucks open the playoffs at home Sunday against Detroit.
The Packers continue their off-season workouts. Wednesday was the first time the rest of the Wisconsin media was able speak with the Green Bay Packers players since the team started voluntary offseason workouts on Monday.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers spoke with ESPN Milwaukee for more than an hour on Monday. Topics ranged from his new Head Coach Matt LaFleur, to his reported dysfunction between former Head Coach Mike McCarthy and former teammates stemming from a Bleacher Report article released last week.
Rodgers appears to be done defending himself. Meanwhile Packers receiver Davante Adams took to Twitter to react to the article which questioned Rodgers’ leadership and his ability to be a good teammate. Adams is standing by his teammate.
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