7/1/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
1 July 2022 Sports
Sports for July 1st
Backup catcher Michael Perez had three home runs, rookies Oneil Cruz and Jack Suwinski hit back-to-back shots and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-7 on Thursday night. It was the first multi-homer game of Perez’s five-year career. He also doubled his season home run total.
Perez hit a two-run blast in the fourth inning off Brent Suter (1-2) to break a 3-3 tie. He added another two-run homer in the sixth to make it 6-4 before connecting again for a solo shot in the eighth to increase the lead to 8-4. The outburst came one day after the Pirates’ Bryan Reynolds had a three-homer game in a win at Washington. Suwinski homered three times June 19 in a victory over San Francisco. The Pirates had three players have three-homer games in the same month for the first time in the franchise’s 140-year history.
Perez went 4 for 5 to set a career-high for hits and raise his batting average to .169. He finished with five RBIs as the Pirates ended their eight-game losing streak against Milwaukee that dated to last season.
The Brewers scored three runs in the ninth inning to pull to 8-7. Willy Adames hit an RBI double, Rowdy Tellez drove in a run with a ground out and Kolten Wong hit a two-out run-scoring single off diving first baseman Michael Chavis.
Rookie Yerry De Los Santos then relieved closer David Bednar with runners on first and third and retired Luis Urias on a pop fly for his second career save, both coming in the last two days.
Cruz and Suwinski homered in the second inning to put the Pirates ahead 3-0. They became the first Pittsburgh rookies to go back-to-back since Brandon Moss and Andy LaRoche in 2008.
Brubaker (2-7) pitched six innings, allowing four runs and seven hits. He struck out six and walked two.
Andrew McCutchen had two doubles among his three hits while driving in two runs but couldn’t keep the NL Central-leading Brewers’ four-game winning streak from ending. The 2013 NL MVP is hitting .350 in his last 22 games following a 1-for-40 slide. Wong, Christian Yelich and Jace Peterson added two hits apiece for Milwaukee. Adames drove in two runs.
Brewers starter Adrian Houser left the game with right elbow tightness in the third inning. He was charged with three runs in 2 1/3 innings. Houser said the initial tests taken of the elbow were encouraging. He will undergo an MRI on Friday in Milwaukee.
Brewer RHP Corbin Burnes (6-4, 2.41) will start Friday night. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner has won his last three starts with a 2.18 ERA. Pirates RHP Roansy Contreras (2-1, 2.76) has the best ERA in the major leagues among rookies who have made at least seven starts this season. First pitch is at 6:05 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Thursday the Cubs pounded the Reds 15-7. Saint Louis had the day off. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by a game in the division.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers got a two-run home run from Darrien Miller, an impressive Midwest League debut from Israel Puello, and four innings of scoreless relief from three relievers for a 2-1 win over the Cedar Rapids Kernels Thursday night at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. Miller gave Wisconsin (41-30 overall, 5-1 second half) the lead with a two-run home run in the bottom of the second inning. The Kernels (45-27, 2-4) cut Wisconsin’s lead in half when Wander Javier hit a home run on the first pitch of the top of the fifth inning. The Timber Rattlers have won seven of their last eight games.
Game four of the series is Friday night. Antoine Kelly (2-3, 3.27) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. The Kernels have not named a starter for Friday at this time. First pitch is scheduled for 6:40pm.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders fell 24-7 to the Kalmazoo Growlers at Herr-Baker Field Thursday night. With the win the Growlers clinched the Great Lakes East Division First-Half title. The Dock Spiders dropped to 15-15 on the season while the Growlers improved to 20-12. The Dock Spiders continue their home stand with a two-game series against the Kokomo Jackrabbits. First pitch is at 6:35.
The Detroit Red Wings have hired Derek Lalonde to coach their rebuilding team, hoping the two-time Stanley Cup-winning assistant can make all the right moves to make the franchise relevant again. Lalonde spent the past four years on Jon Cooper’s staff with the Tampa Bay Lightning, a stretch that included championships in 2020 and ‘21 and, most recently, a third consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Final.
The Bucks took care of their own as free agency got underway with the league’s tampering period beginning on Thursday. Bobby Portis was the first to re-sign just five minutes after free agency opened at 5 p.m. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reporting Portis and the bucks agreed to a four year deal worth $49 million dollars. That’s the max Milwaukee could offer with his Early Bird Rights being held by the team. Portis started 59 games last season in place of an ailing Brook Lopez, and averaged 14.6 points and nine rebounds a contest. He’s also been elevated to hero status in Milwaukee with his energy and key plays during the 2021 championship run.
In a surprising and seismic shift in college athletics, the Big Ten voted Thursday to add Southern California and UCLA as conference members beginning in 2024. The expansion to 16 teams will happen after the Pac-12′s current media rights contracts with Fox and ESPN expire and make the Big Ten the first conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The announcement, which caught the Pac-12 off-guard, came almost a year after Oklahoma and Texas formally accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference in July 2025. Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said USC and UCLA, both members of the Pac-12 and its previous iterations for nearly a century, submitted applications for membership and the league’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously to add the Los Angeles schools.
The Big Ten is building on previous expansion into the nation’s largest media markets, and the move allows the conference to keep pace with the SEC as one of the most powerful entities in college sports. Losing flagship schools like USC and UCLA is a major blow to the Pac-12, which has had a long and amicable relationship with the Big Ten best exemplified by its Rose Bowl partnership. The Pac-12′s next move is unknown, but adding schools to replace USC and UCLA is a possibility. The Big Ten has expanded twice in recent years, with Nebraska joining in 2011 and Maryland and Rutgers in 2014.
J.T. Poston had a career-best 9-under par 62 to take the first-round lead the John Deere Classic. Eagles at the par 5 second hole and seven birdies got him off to a good start. Michael Gligic is two shots of the pace and two other golfers are two strokes behind.
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