5/31/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
31 May 2022 Sports
Sports for May 21st
Tyrone Taylor homered in both games, Aaron Ashby struck out a career-high 12 in the nightcap and the Milwaukee Brewers swept a doubleheader from the Chicago Cubs 7-6 and 3-1 Monday.
Luis Urías lined three-run homer into the basket in left-center to break a seventh-inning tie in the opener. The Brewers trailed 4-2 before Taylor’s two-run homer in the sixth off Matt Swarmer, and Milwaukee led 2-1 in the second game when Taylor homered off left-hander Brandon Hughes in the eighth.
Victor Caratini hit a tiebreaking home run in the fifth inning against his former team, and the Brewers won their third in a row while getting just three hits in the nightcap. The Cubs extended their losing streak to three.
Ashby (1-3) allowed one run and five hits six-plus innings, giving up Willson Contreras’ home run over the left-field bleachers and onto Waveland Avenue in the fourth. He left with the bases loaded in the seventh, and Brad Boxberger struck out pinch hitter Nico Hoerner and got Andrelton Simmons to ground into a 5-2-3 double-play. Boxberger pitched two scoreless innings, and Josh Hader remained perfect in 18 save chances by getting his second of the day.
Chicago’s Drew Smyly pitched three hitless innings and left because of right oblique soreness at the start of the fourth. Anderson Espinoza (0-1), a 24-year-old right-hander making his major league debut, allowed two runs and two hits in four innings.
Rowdy Tellez hit an RBI double in the fourth.
The first game was tied at 4 when Mike Brosseau singled off Daniel Norris (0-3) with two outs and Kolten Wong walked. Urías hit a 3-2 slider for a drive that barely made it over the ivy, his fifth homer this season. Jace Peterson hit a long solo drive for Milwaukee.
Matt Swarmer and Milwaukee’s Ethan Small made their big league debuts in the opener. It marked the first time in Brewers history that both starters made their debuts and the first for the Cubs since 1944. Swarmer allowed four runs — one earned — five hits and one walk in six innings.
Small was charged with two runs and four hits with four strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings. The lefty ran into control problems in the third when he walked four. The Brewers optioned Small to Triple-A Nashville between games, then selected the contact of RHP Luke Barker to fill the roster spot. The Brewer also placed RHP Brandon Woodruff on the 15-day IL with a right high ankle sprain a move retroactive to Saturday. Woodruff a two-time All-Star, sustained the injury on Friday at St. Louis, when he pitched four innings in a loss. He’s 5-3 with a 4.74 ERA in nine games this season. The Brewers recalled RHP Peter Strzelecki from Triple-A Nashville.
LHP Eric Lauer (5-1, 2.31) is scheduled to start for the Brewers on Tuesday and LHP Justin Steele (1-5, 5.40) for the Cubs. First pitch is at 7:05 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Monday, the Cardinals beat the Padres 6-3 and the Pirates nipped the Dodgers 6-5. The Brewers increased their lead over the Cardinals to four games in the division.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders tallied 11 runs and 16 hits at the plate, including four from Nick Mitchell (Western Illinois), while Austin Wagner (Mary) struck out seven in six shutout innings to give the Dock Spiders their fifth straight Opening Day victory, 11-2, over the Wausau Woodchucks. Five different Dock Spiders tallied a multi-hit game and three tallied a multi-RBI game.
With the win, the Dock Spiders improve to 5-1 all time on Opening Day, and are now undefeated in three Opening Day games against the Woodchucks, outscoring them 24-6.
The Dock Spiders travel to Wausau tonight to take on the Woodchucks at Athletic Park for the first road game of the season. The Dock Spiders return home on Thursday to take on the Green Bay Rockers at 11:35 a.m.
In the Midwest League tonight, Peoria is taking on the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at Fox Cities Stadium. The T-Rats are 28-17 while Peoria comes in at 18-27. First pitch is at 6:40.
Marcus Ericsson, once a Formula One backmarker, is now an IndyCar frontrunner. And an Indianapolis 500 champion. Ericsson became the second Swede to win the Indy 500 on Sunday when he held off some of the biggest names in North American auto racing in front of the largest crowd of his life. It was Ericsson’s third IndyCar victory in 52 starts. Pato O’Ward finished second, Tony Kanaan was third, followed by Felix Rosenqvist, another Swede, who drives for McLaren. American drivers Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly finished fifth and sixth, Rossi for Andretti Autosport and Daly for Ed Carpenter Racing. Helio Castroneves, last year’s winner, finished seventh and one spot ahead of Meyer Shank Racing teammate Simon Pagenaud. Reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou finished 10th in another Ganassi entry.
The Green Bay Packers say about 85 percent of tickets have been sold to the exhibition soccer match at Lambeau Field. The July 23 match is between German Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich and English Premier League champions Manchester City. The Packers say fans from across the United States and other countries are expected to visit Green Bay for the match. Tickets are available at https://www.ticketmaster.com/
High School Baseball (Tues.)
Xavier at Wautoma
Kewaskum at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Central Wisconsin Christian at Randolph
The NBA Finals begin Thursday night as Boston plays at Golden State. The Celtics eliminated the Miami Heat Sunday night 100-96 in seven games and Golden State defeated Dallas to advance to the Finals.
After a disastrous season that saw the Los Angeles Lakers miss the playoffs for the second time in the Lebron James era, the Lakers’ front office wasted little time in making changes. Head coach Frank Vogel, who led the Lakers to a championship just 18 months ago, is out as head coaac, and former Milwaukee Bucks assistant Darvin Ham becomes the team’s fifth different head coach in 10 seasons. The last Lakers coach to make it to his fourth season was Phil Jackson in his second tenure, which ended following the 2010-11 campaign.
Arizona Cardinals cornerback Jeff Gladney was killed in a car accident early Monday morning, his agent, Brian Overstreet, confirmed to ESPN. The Cardinals released a statement Monday afternoon, also confirming Gladney’s death.
“We are devastated to learn of Jeff Gladney’s passing. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and all who are mourning this tremendous loss,” it said.
The crash took place around 2:28 a.m. Monday, according to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department. A white vehicle was overturned when officers arrived. Dallas Fire-Rescue confirmed two people — a male and a female — were dead.
Gladney, 25, signed with the Cardinals in March after a jury found him not guilty on a felony assault charge. He was a first-round pick out of TCU in 2020 by the Minnesota Vikings, who released him in August after he was indicted on a charge of assault involving a former girlfriend in April 2021.
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