7/11/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
11 July 2022 Sports
Sports for July 11th
Touted rookie Oneil Cruz hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning and Daniel Vogelbach added a three-run shot in the ninth to power the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. Michael Chavis and Ke’Bryan Hayes also went deep for the Pirates, who took two of three from the NL Central leaders.
Andrew McCutchen had a two-run homer in the ninth for the Brewers.
Chavis tied it 4-all with a leadoff homer in the sixth off Trevor Gott (1-2), who had just replaced starter Eric Lauer. Two outs later, the 6-foot-7 Cruz connected for his fourth home run of the season.
Vogelbach made it 8-4 with his drive off Chi Chi González.
McCutchen’s shot off closer David Bednar cut Milwaukee’s deficit to two. Bednar, selected to his first All-Star team Sunday, retired Willy Adames and Kolten Wong to end it.
In a matchup of two lefty starters, neither Lauer nor José Quintana made it past the fifth inning. Lauer struck out nine and gave up one run over six innings in his previous start, but needed 57 pitches to get through the first two innings this time.
Pittsburgh took a 1-0 lead with three straight singles in the second. The Pirates extended their lead to 2-0 in the third. Hayes, who doubled, scored on a passed ball, a 94 mph fastball that glanced off the mitt of Pedro Severino, who made his second appearance of the season after serving an 80-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
After Hayes’ double, Lauer retired eight straight batters until Hayes returned to the plate in the fifth inning. Lauer slapped his glove just as Hayes connected on a solo home run that gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead. The long ball has hurt Lauer. He has given up 18 homers, including 10 in his last six starts, after allowing 16 all last season.
The Pirates were able to overcome a short outing from Quintana, who signed as a free agent in November.
Milwaukee tied the game at 2 in the third after Jonathan Davis singled, then advanced to third with a stolen base and a throwing error on the play by catcher Jason Delay. Mike Brosseau and Luis Urías each had an RBI single.
Quintana was chased in the fifth. Davis led off with a double and tied the game at 3 when he scored on Adames’ double, which fell near the right-field line. Pittsburgh challenged, but the call on the field was upheld. Milwaukee took a 4-3 lead on a sacrifice fly by Urías off winner Chris Stratton (5-4), who replaced Quintana in the fifth.
It was Pittsburgh’s first road series win since sweeping a three-game series against the Dodgers from May 30 to June 1.
Following a day off, the Brewers begin a two-game series Tuesday in Minnesota with a matchup between two rookie right-handers. Milwaukee’s Jason Alexander (2-1, 4.75 ERA) gave up six earned runs in 5 1/3 innings in his last start against the Cubs. Minnesota’s Josh Winder (4-2, 3.12) allowed two runs over five innings in his last start at the Chicago White Sox.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Reds beat the Rays 10-5, the Cardinals nipped the Phillies 4-3 and the Dodgers over the Cubs 11-9. Milwaukee leads St. Louis by 1 ½ games in the division.
In the Midwest League Sunday South Bend beat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 6-2. There are no games today in the Midwest League.
In the Northwoods League the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders lost both ends of their doubleheader with the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters 10-6 and 9-3 Sunday at Herr-Baker Field. The two teams play tonight at Wisconsin Rapids with the first pitch at 6:35.
Both Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Corbin Burnes and closer Josh Hader were named to the National League all-star team on Sunday afternoon. It’s Hader’s fourth all-star game appearance, the most by a pitcher in Brewers franchise history. That breaks former closer Dan Plesac’s record. Hader leads the majors with 26 saves. Burnes, the reigning Cy-Young award winner in the NL, will be making his 2nd straight all-star game appearance. He’s second in major league baseball with 134 strikeouts.
Novak Djokovic waited. He waited for Nick Kyrgios to lose focus and lose his way. Waited to find the proper read on his foe’s big serves. Waited until his own level rose to the occasion. Djokovic is not bothered by a deficit — in a game, a set, a match. He does not mind problem-solving. And at Wimbledon, for quite some time now, he does not get defeated. Djokovic used his steady brilliance to beat the ace-delivering, trick-shot-hitting, constantly chattering Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Sunday for a fourth consecutive championship at the All England Club and seventh overall.
Jerry Kelly won the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship for the second time in three years Sunday, breaking away with two late birdies to beat defending champion Steve Stricker by two strokes. Kelly closed with a 2-under 68, taking the outright lead with a 15-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-5 16th and running in a 10-footer on the par-4 17th. He finished at 11-under 269 on Firestone’s South Course. Kelly also won at Firestone in August 2020 and finished second last year. The 55-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin, has 10 PGA Tour Champions victories, also winning the Principal Charity Classic last month in Iowa, after winning three times on the PGA Tour.
The 55-year-old Stricker, also from Madison, matched Kelly with a closing 68. Sticker missed a chance for his second major victory of the season after taking the Regions Tradition in May in Alabama.
Steve Alker bogeyed the par-4 18th to drop into a tie for third with Ernie Els at 8 under. A three-time winner this season and the Charles Schwab Cup points leader, Alker shot a 69. Els closed with a 68. Stephen Ames (65) was 6 under with Ken Duke (66), Woody Austin (68) and Alex Cejka (73).
On the PGA Tour Trey Mullinax won the Barbosol Championship Sunday by one stroke over Kevin Streelman. Mullinax shot a final-round 66 to finish at 263.
Xander Schauflee won the Genesis Sottish Open Sunday, his fourth win of the year. He finished at 7-under 273, one shot ahead of Kurt Kitayama.
In Nascar Chase Elliott led a race-best 97 of the 260 laps and held off a charging field to win Sunday’s Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart, ultimately securing the trophy when the caution flag came out in the closing portion of the frenzied final lap. Corey LaJoie, who was dueling it out with Elliott on the last lap, brought out that caution after hitting the wall in Turn 1 in a final attempt to pull alongside and pass Elliott for what would have also been a popular first-career NASCAR Cup Series victory for the well-liked LaJoie. Ross Chastain, who had a busy day on track and was part of a couple of those incidents, rallied to finish runner-up to Elliott.
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