Wednesday Sports 6/12/19
12 June 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
The Brewers fought back last night to make it close but in the end the Astros prevailed 10-8 to open a two-game series at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Milwaukee scored four runs in the last two innings but could not overcome an early deficit. Christian Yelich went 3-5 and hit his 25th homer. He doubled and scored in the first inning, homered to lead off the third and singled in the fifth to extend his hitting streak to nine games. During his streak, Yelich is hitting .559, 19-34, with four homers and 11 RBI’s. Travis Shaw and Yasmani Grandal also went deep. Shaw’s was a 440 foot shot off starter Brad Peacock in the seventh that went into the second deck in right field. Grandal’s was a three-run blast in the ninth inning off Chris Devenski. Brewers starter Freddy Peralta allowed six runs over four innings and took the loss, dropping to 3-3. Peacock improved to 6-3.
The teams close out their two-game series tonight as Brandon Woodruff, who’s 8-1, goes against Astros ace Justin Verlander, who’s 9-2. First pitch is at 7:10 and the game can be heard on AM1100/98.3FM, WISS.
In other games in the Central Division, Cleveland edged Cincinnati 2-1, St. Louis beat Miami 7-1, the Braves took care of the Pirates 7-5 and the Rockies pounded the Cubs 10-3. The Brewers remain a half-game ahead of the Cubs in the division.
After skipping the voluntary portion of the offseason, Packers safety Josh Jones returned for mandatory minicamp on Tuesday. Jones was unable to practice due to a hamstring injury.
Jones requested a trade earlier in the offseason, but there has been no movement on whether that will happen. The Packers could have fined Jones had he not shown for mandatory minicamp this week.
The National Hockey League season concludes tonight. Boston hosts St. Louis tonight in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Eau Claire North defeated Fond du Lac 8-4 in the semifinals of the State Baseball Tournament Tuesday evening at Neuroscience Group Field in Grand Chute. Fond du Lac advanced after a 2-1 quarter finals win in nine innings over Brookfield East.
Today, Markesan plays Ozaukee in Division 3 quarterfinals action. Markesan enters the game with a 21-5 record.
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