Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 9/29/21
29 September 2021 Sports
Sports for September 29th
Dylan Carlson, Nolan Arenado and Jose Rondon homered to back Adam Wainwright, and the St. Louis Cardinals extended their winning streak to 17 games and clinched an NL wild card berth with a 6-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night. St. Louis will play in the NL wild-card game on Oct. 6 at the Los Angeles Dodgers or San Francisco, whichever does not win the NL West. The postseason trip will be the third in a row for the Cardinals. Milwaukee already was assured of the NL Central title.
St. Louis was 71-69 on Sept. 11 before the winning streak, the longest in team history and the longest in the major leagues since Cleveland took 22 in a row in 2017. The Cardinals are on the longest winning streak from Sept. 1 on since the 1935 Chicago Cubs won 21 in a row.
Wainwright (17-7) allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings, throwing 102 pitches and stranding seven runners. Wainwright has won six consecutive decisions for the Cardinals and 10 of his last 11. He is 4-0 in September and improved to 2-1 in four starts against the Brewers this season.
Paul Goldschmidt and Tyler O’Neill each had two hits in an 11-hit attack. With the score 2-2 in the fifth, Goldschmidt doubled off Jandel Gustave (1-1) and O’Neill followed with a single to right that gave him 22 RBIs in the last 20 games. The ball went under the glove of Avisail Garcia for a two-base error, and Nolan Arenado’s sacrifice fly made it 4-2. Rondon homered with two outs in the sixth. Arenado’s 34th home run, a two-out drive in the seventh, tied Scott Rolen (2004) and Fernando Tatis (1999) for most among Cardinals third baseman in a season.
Luis Urias hit a two-run homer in the fourth. Carlson homered leading off the bottom half, and Wainwright bunted home Harrison Bader.
Milwaukee’s Brandon Woodruff allowed two runs and seven hits in four innings.
The teams meet again tonight. RHP Adrian Houser (9-6, 3.34 ERA) starts for Milwaukee against RHP Miles Mikolas (2-2, 4.15 ERA)is 5-1 in his career against the Brewers. First pitch is a 6:45 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the Pirates beat the Cubs 8-6 and the White Sox downed the Reds 7-1.
The Packers (2-1) had an off-day Tuesday and are back on the practice field today getting ready for the Steelers (1-2) Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Field.
Meanwhile, a Green Bay Packers defensive lineman will miss time after being placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. The team placed Tyler Lancaster on the list Tuesday. It is unknown if he tested positive for the virus or came in close contact with one or more people who have it. In addition, the Packers signed tight end Tyler Davis off the Indianapolis Colts’ practice squad. Davis, a second-year player out of Georgia Tech, appeared in eight games with the Jacksonville Jaguars last season before being released following training camp of this season.
Bryson DeChambeau finished tied for second place in his group after the first day of the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championships in Mesquite, Nevada, averaging 406.2 yards on his five longest tee shots. DeChambeau hit drives of 412, 408, 407, 403 and 401 yards on Tuesday to advance to the next round. The field on Wednesday will be narrowed from 64 to 32, with the top eight from each group advancing to Thursday, then down to the final 16 for Friday’s final round.
His 412-yard drive was tied for third longest in his group with Josh Cassaday, who also had a 417-yard drive. Scottie Pearman, who leads the group, had a 413-yard drive. Each competitor has five sets in which they each hit six balls. In each set, they compete directly against two or three other people. First place in that set gets 200 points, second place gets 100, third gets 50 and fourth 25.
DeChambeau had three firsts and two seconds to finish with 800 points, which was tied with Jim Waldron behind Pearman (900) in his group.
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