6/24/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
24 June 2022 Sports
Sports for June 14th
Tyrone Taylor hit a three-run homer, Willy Adames added a solo shot and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Thursday to split a four-game series with their NL Central rivals.
Taylor’s drive to left field on a 2-1 sinker from Dakota Hudson (5-4) in the fourth inning gave the Brewers a 4-2 lead and snapped a streak of 46 1/3 innings without allowing a homer by the Cardinals right-hander.
Adames took Hudson deep leading off the fifth to make it 5-3.
The Brewers, who have won five of seven, moved back into a first-place tie with the Cardinals atop the division. St. Louis has lost five of its last eight.
Jason Alexander (2-0) allowed four runs on six hits, working into the sixth inning while making his fifth start for a Brewers rotation that’s been plagued by injuries.
Josh Hader breezed through the ninth for his 21st save in 22 chances.
Paul Goldschmidt doubled in a run for St. Louis and came around to score on Alexander’s throwing error to make it 2-0 in the first inning. Alexander then allowed another double to Nolan Arenado and hit Brendan Donovan with a pitch before inducing an inning-ending double play from Juan Yepez. Lars Nootbaar led off the fifth with a homer for the Cardinals. St. Louis again got within one run on Yepez’s sacrifice fly in the sixth, but Milwaukee responded with Jace Peterson’s sac fly in the eighth.
Hudson allowed five runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
The Brewers continue their weeklong home stand Friday night with the first of a three-game series against the Blue Jays. RHP Adrian Houser (4-7, 4.24) gets the nod for Milwaukee while RHP Alek Manoah (8-2, 2.00) is scheduled to start for Toronto. First pitch is at 7:10 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Thursday the Dodgers beat the Reds 10-5 and the Pirates nipped the Cubs 8-7.
Brewers right hander Brandon Woodruff is nearing a return to the big leagues. Just one stop in Grand Chute with a rehab assignment before his return to Milwaukee’s rotation.
Woodruff was dominant for the first four innings of the night. Holding Quad Cities without a hit before a solo home run in the fifth for one of the only blemishes of the night. He would go on to allow just two hits over five innings with seven strikeouts while lighting up the Fox Cities Stadium radar gun with pitches reaching the mid-nineties. The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won 3-1.
Woodruff has been on the injured list since suffering a sprained ankle against the Marlins back on Memorial Day weekend.
As for the rest of the game, fellow Brewer Mike Brosseau came up with the Timber Rattlers first hit and scored on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth. Brosseau, who was also with the Timber Rattlers on a rehab assignment for a sprained ankle, finished the night with a pair of hits as the designated hitter.
Midwest League
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers beat Quad Cities Thursday night 3-1. The teams meet again tonight with the first pitch at 6:40.
In the Northwoods League last night, the Kalamazoo Growlers beat the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders 7-5. The loss was the fourth-in-a row for the Dock Spiders, who fall to 1-12 on the season. The teams conclude their two-game series tonight at Kalamazoo with the first pitch set for 5:35 CDT.
With the 24th pick in the first round of the NBA Draft the Milwaukee Bucks picked MarJon Beauchamp from G League Ignite on Thursday night. Beauchamp (6-6, 199 pounds), joined Ignite after playing 12 games with Yakima Valley College during the 2021-22 season, where he averaged 30.7 points, 10.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists while shooting 52.5 percent from the field and 39.8 percent from three-point range. He then played with Ignite last season, averaging 15.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game in 15 contests.
Former Wisconsin Badgers guard Johnny Davis was selected by the Washington Wizards with the 10th pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday night. Davis, who played high school basketball at La Crosse Central, averaged 19.7 points and 8.2 rebounds last season in being named the Big Ten player of the year and first-team All-American. Davis is the first Badger to be selected in the first round since Frank Kaminsky (10th) and Sam Dekker (18th) were first-round picks in 2015.
The first overall pick was Pablo Banchero who was taken by the Orlando Magic.
The Stanley Cup Finals continue tonight at Colorado where the Avalanche can wrap p the series against Tampa Bay. Colorado leads 3-2 in the series.
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