Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 9/1/21
1 September 2021 Sports
Sports for September 1st
Brandon Woodruff delivered six quality innings and Lorenzo Cain homered while driving in a pair of runs as the Brewers beat the Giants 6-2 Tuesday night to extend the National League Central-leading Brewers’ advantage over the second-place Reds to 10 games after Cincinnati was rained out on Tuesday. The only time the Brewers enjoyed a plusher cushion in their division was in 2011, when they led by as many as 10 1/2 games on their way to setting a club record with 96 regular-season victories.
The Brewers had 10 hits and a 6-0 lead against Johnny Cueto before the veteran Giants starter couldn’t get out of the fourth inning. Cueto’s only strikeout victim was Woodruff in the third, and that was after Woodruff laced a hit an inning earlier.
The Brewers scored in each of the four innings in which Cueto pitched, starting with a two-run first that included singles from Willy Adames and Christian Yelich and a run-scoring groundout from Avisaíl García that dribbled toward third base at 40.9 mph.
Cain hit a second-inning home run and Rowdy Tellez hit a two-out RBI triple in the third. Yelich singled with two outs in the fourth, then scored all the way from first base on an Omar Narváez bloop single.
Woodruff allowed one run on five hits and three walks in six innings and lowered his ERA to 2.35. The Giants had two hits through the first five innings before Brandon Belt put them on the board with a solo home run in the sixth — his fifth homer against the Brewers in five games in August. Woodruff stranded a pair of runners to keep the score at 6-1 through that inning before relievers Jake Cousins and Brent Suter finished the game.
The teams play again tonight as Milwaukee sends left-hander Brett Anderson (4-8, 4.27 ERA) against San Francisco right-hander Kevin Gausman (12-5, 2.49 ERA). First pitch is at 8:45 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Tuesday the Cubs beat the Twins 3-1 and the White Sox downed the Pirates 4-2. St. Louis at Cincinnati was rained out. The Brewers lead the Reds by 10 games and the Cardinals by 12 ½.
The Packers made moves to trim their roster to 53 players by the league’s 3:00 p.m. deadline Tuesday.
The team announced the following:
“The Green Bay Packers have released the following players:
- DL Abdullah Anderson
- WR Reggie Begelton
- QB Kurt Benkert
- G Ben Braden
- G/T Jacob Capra
- G/T Coy Cronk
- CB Stephen Denmark
- CB Kabion Ento
- CB Rojesterman Farris
- S Innis Gaines
- LB Tipa Galeai
- LB De’Jon Harris
- WR Damon Hazelton
- TE Bronson Kaufusi
- DL Carlo Kemp
- K JJ Molson
- DL Willington Previlon
- LB Delontae Scott
- P JK Scott
- WR Equanimeous St. Brown
- RB Patrick Taylor
- S Christian Uphoff
- T/G Cole Van Lanen
- LB Ray Wilborn
- RB Dexter Williams
- WR Juwann Winfree
- The team has placed T David Bakhtiari on reserve/physically unable to perform and TE Jace Sternberger on reserve/suspended.”
- With the cuts all calibrated, the active roster features the following:
- 2 quarterbacks (Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love)
- 6 wide receivers (Davante Adams, Randall Cobb, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Allen Lazard, Amari Rodgers, Malik Taylor)
- 3 running backs (Aaron Jones, A.J. Dillon, Kylin Hill)
- 4 tight ends (Robert Tonyan, Marcedes Lewis, Josiah Deguara, Dominique Dafney)
- 9 offensive linemen (Elgton Jenkins, Billy Turner, Lucas Patrick, Josh Myers, Royce Newman, Jon Runyan, Yosh Nijman, Dennis Kelly, Jake Hanson)
- 6 defensive linemen (Kenny Clark, Dean Lowry, Kingsley Keke, Tyler Lancaster, T.J. Slaton, Jack Heflin)
- 5 outside linebackers (Za’Darius Smith, Preston Smith, Rashan Gary, Jonathan Garvin, Chauncey Rivers)
- 5 inside linebackers (De’Vondre Campbell, Krys Barnes, Oren Burks, Ty Summers, Isaiah McDuffie)
- 6 cornerbacks (Jaire Alexander, Kevin King, Eric Stokes, Chandon Sullivan, Sheman Jean-Charles, Isaac Yiadom)
- 4 safeties (Adrian Amos, Darnell Savage, Henry Black, Vernon Scott)
2 specialists (Mason Crosby, Hunter Bradley)
The Packers are only keeping 2 QBs on the active roster, with Kurt Benkert out.
Also Tuesday, reportedlyGM Brian Gutekunst traded 2 future picks to the Rams for punter Corey Bojorquez. With Bojorquez coming onboard in Green Bay, J.K. Scott is out. And it appears the Packers have now spent 3 draft picks to address the punter position since 2019, as they drafted Scott and are now shipping 2 picks out to get Bojorquez.
The New Orleans Saints will not return to the city during the month of September due to the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, according to coach Sean Payton. That means the Sept. 12 Packers-Saints game will likely be held in another location. A location has not been chosen, but Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told a radio station that he’s had discussions with the NFL about hosting the Packers-Saints game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.
“That’s certainly possible,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan. “We’re having discussions. There’s a lot of moving parts, but we certainly have a kinship with the Saints because of our proximity to Louisiana. It’s a natural for us.”
The Saints evacuated New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Ida. They’ve been practicing at AT&T Stadium.
Sal Frelick, the Brewers first-round pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, made his debut with the Timber Rattlers Tuesday night. Frelick was the fifteenth overall pick and has quickly moved through the Brewers minor league system since he was drafted in July. The outfielder began with the Arizona Complex League, going 7-for-15. He moved up to the Low-A Carolina Mudcats where he hit .437, driving in 12 runs.
Frelick led off for the Timber Rattlers and played center field Tuesday night. He went 1-for-4 with one strikeout, one walk and one run scored. The Timber Rattlers won 8-7 over the Beloit Snappers and Frelick went 1-4 with a run scored in his debut.
Wisconsin has dismissed freshman running back Loyal Crawford from the team after police said he armed himself with a knife during a fight in a dorm. Badgers coach Paul Chryst announced the dismissal and said freshman running back Antwan Roberts had been suspended. University of Wisconsin police spokesman Marc Lovicott said the 18-year-old Crawford was cited on misdemeanor charges of criminal disorderly conduct and disorderly conduct while armed. Crawford’s attorney, Chris Van Wagner, says “there is much more to this story” and he asks that authorities consider all the facts.
A coalition of wildlife advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to stop Wisconsin’s wolf hunt this fall and invalidate a state law mandating annual hunts, arguing the statutes don’t give wildlife officials any leeway to consider population estimates. The lawsuit comes after hunters blew past their kill limit during a messy, court-ordered spring hunt in February. Conservationists deluged the state Department of Natural Resources with requests to cancel the fall hunt out of concerns it could devastate the wolf population. DNR biologists recommended setting the fall quota at 130 animals. But the agency’s board voted this month to set the kill limit at 300 animals. Wisconsin’s Chippewa tribes are entitled to half the quota but refuse to hunt wolves because they consider them sacred, meaning the working quota for state-licensed hunters likely would be 150 wolves. Wildlife advocates say that’s still too many.
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