Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 8./28/19
28 August 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
The Brewers fell another game back in both the division and the chase for a Wild Card as the Cardinals won their second straight at Miller Park Tuesday night, 6-3. Yadier Molina hit two more home runs, including a tie-breaking shot off the foul pole in the seventh inning to lead the way. Molina has hit three of his seven home runs this season over the past two nights, both Cardinals victories against a Brewers team at risk of falling out of the National League postseason picture. Milwaukee is 6 1/2 games back of St. Louis in the NL Central and 3 1/2 games back of the Cubs for the second Wild Card spot. The Brewers’ last hope, Hernan Perez, thought he had a game-tying three-run home run with two outs in the ninth inning, only to watch his fly ball fall short for the game-ending out. Adrian Houser, a bright spot amid a storm year for Milwaukee’s starting pitchers, was forced out early with a bad hip. Houser limited the Cardinals to one run, which came on Molina’s first home run of the night, but was lifted after five innings and 74 pitches in a 1-1 tie because of a sore left hip. He struck out two. Junior Guerra worked a 1-2-3 sixth before Matt Albers found trouble an inning later. In the seventh, Paul DeJong walked on five pitches with one out in the seventh before Molina turned on a sinker from Albers that was down and in, out of the strike zone, and managed to keep it just fair down the left-field line. When the baseball clanged off the foul pole, the Cardinals had a 3-1 lead. If all that were not enough to dampen the mood of Brewers fans, a fast moving storm caused a rain delay amid the Cardinals’ go-ahead rally. St. Louis added another run via Kolten Wong’s pinch-hit double when play resumed, and that bit of insurance proved decisive when Brewers catcher Yasmani Grandal smashed a two-run home run off Andrew Miller in the eighth. It was Grandal’s second homer since the All-Star break. The Cardinals then tacked two more runs against rookie reliever Devin Williams. The teams finish out their series this afternoon as Jack Flaherty, who’s 8-6, goes for St. Louis against Milwaukee’s Jordan Lyles, who’s 8-8. First pitch is at 1:10 and the game can be heard on Am1100/98.3FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the N.L. Central on Tuesday, the Cubs beat the Mets 5-2, the Pirates nipped the Phillies 5-4 and the Reds over the Marlins, 8-5.
Green Bay Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur is paying it forward this week. LaFleur will hand over the play calling duties to quarterbacks coach Luke Getsy. When LaFleur was the offensive coordinator in Los Angeles, Rams Head Coach Sean McVay gave him the opportunity to calls plays in two preseason games. LaFleur says it’s a chance fo Getsy to get his feet wet with the playcalling process at the NFL level. For Getsy, it’s his second stint in Green Bay. He spent four seasons on former coach Mike McCarthy’s staff before leaving to become Mississippi State’s offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach last year. Getsy did not call plays at Mississippi State. For LaFleur, it gives the first year head coach the ability to see his team play while not having the responsibility to call plays. While LaFleur and the starters have spent this week preparing for week one against the Chicago Bears, Getsy and the back end of the roster have been in their own group working on this week’s preseason opponent, the Kansas City Chiefs.
For Green Bay Packers fans looking to save a little green, officials are reminding them to be cautious when buying game tickets through secondary sources. The team, along with the Green Bay Police Department and DATCP, are advising fans to only buy verified tickets from official sources and team partners such as Ticketmaster’s NFL Ticket Exchange. Other resale marketplaces that offer verified tickets are StubHub and SeatGeek. The warning comes after the team received reports of counterfeit tickets circulating online through unauthorized resellers. If purchasing from an unverified online source, ticket buyers should note the team has eliminated PDF/Print at Home tickets in favor of mobile tickets. If fans purchase tickets on the secondary market via NFL-approved secondary marketplaces, those tickets will be forwarded electronically to be used as mobile tickets only.
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