Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday 8/20/20
20 August 2020 Sports
Christian Yelich hit one of Milwaukee’s four homers, Brett Anderson pitched six strong innings and the Brewers beat the Minnesota Twins 9-3 on Wednesday night. Avisail Garcia, Ryan Braun and Keston Hiura also homered as Milwaukee tied a season high in runs and home runs a night after nearly being no-hit by Twins starter Kenta Maeda. The Brewers also earned seven walks. Anderson (1-2) posted his longest outing of the season, giving up five hits and a run with five strikeouts. Minnesota left-hander Rich Hill (1-1) allowed four runs, four hits, and three walks in 2 2/3 innings after being reinstated from the injured list.
Hill cruised through the first two innings on just 16 pitches, but he couldn’t finish the third in his second start of the season after being sidelined 19 games with left shoulder fatigue.
The first of Hill’s three walks in the third started the onslaught. After walking Orlando Arcia, Braun followed with his first home run of the season. Garcia singled home two more runs, ending Hill’s night early.
Yelich homered to start the scoring in a four-run fifth inning. Braun singled in front of Yelich’s sixth homer of the year. In his past 10 games, Yelich is hitting .324 with three homers and eight RBI. The 2018 NL MVP hit .037 in his first six games of the season. Garcia hit his second home run of the season and Hiura connected for his sixth off position player Ehire Adrianza pitching in the ninth. Anderson was in cruise control for his best outing in his first season with Milwaukee. He allowed an RBI single to Eddie Rosario in the second and worked around two hits in the fourth. He hadn’t pitched more than 4 1/3 innings in his first three starts of the year.
RHP Brandon Woodruff (1-1, 3.16 ERA) will start the series finale for Milwaukee on Thursday. Minnesota counters with RHP Jose Berrios (1-3, 5.92). First pitch is at 6:10 and the game can be heard on AM11/98.3FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Wednesday, the Cardinals beat the Cubs 8-3 but the Chicago won the second game 4-2, the Royals shut out the Reds 4-0 in the first game but Cincinnati won the second game 5-0 and the Indians beat the Pirates 6-1.
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The Bucks and the Magic square off today in game two of their playoff series. Milwaukee lost the first game Tuesday, 122-110. Giannis Antetokounmpo was held without a field goal over the last 11 minutes as Orlando stunned the Bucks. Milwaukee had swept the season series against the Magic, winning the four games by an average of 17 points. Today’s game begins at 5:00 CDT.
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Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has been suspended from working Cincinnati’s games after using an anti-gay slur on air Wednesday night, prompting the team to apologize for the “horrific, homophobic remark.” Brennaman used the slur moments after the Fox Sports Ohio feed returned from a commercial break before the top of the seventh inning in the first game of a doubleheader at Kansas City. Brennaman did not seem to realize he was already on air. He later apologized. The Reds took the 56-year-old Brennaman off the broadcast in the fifth inning of the second game.
Brennaman opened the fifth inning with an apology spoken directly to camera before handing off play-by-play duties.
“I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of,” he said. “If I have hurt anyone out there, I can’t tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I am very, very sorry.”
After pausing to announce a home run by Cincinnati’s Nick Castellanos, Brennaman added: “I don’t know if I’m going to be putting on this headset again” and apologized to the Reds, Fox Sports and his coworkers.
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Facing backlash from fans, players’ parents and others, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren is seeking to elaborate on last week’s decision to postpone football season until spring. The first-year commissioner has been criticized for a lack of transparency in how the decision to call off football this fall was made. He said the vote by the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors was overwhelmingly in support of postponing fall sports and will not be revisited. Warren wrote that transmission rates continue to rise at an alarming rate, there is too much unknown about the virus, recovery from infection and long-term effects and that there are concerns about contact tracing.
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The Packers held their fourth practice of training camp on Wednesday that lasted an hour and 23 minutes. It was a good day for safety Adrian Amos as he picked off quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the second day in a row. Rodgers has been picked off four times in three days.
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The Ripon School Board yesterday decided to keep low-risk sports like girls tennis and cross country on the fall sports schedule while moving high-risk sports football, boys soccer and volleyball to the WIAA’s suggested spring sports schedule. Ripon school superintendent Mary Whitrock says, “Adopting the alternative schedule for high-risk sports teams reduces the potential of risk of an outbreak and increases the district’s ability to protect students, staff and the community at-large. During Wednesday’s meeting the board discussed the increased outbreak in the area and Fond du Lac County Health Department’s concern with controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus between athletes playing high-risk sports at this time. They also noted that though Ripon was one of the first districts in the East Central Conference to use the alternative spring schedule, it is not the first district in the state to use the option. Other area schools like Oshkosh North and Oshkosh West are few of the other distrcts have decided to play football in the spring.
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