7/14/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday
14 July 2022 Sports
Sports for July 14th
Jose Miranda hit a game-ending, three-run homer against Milwaukee’s Josh Hader as the Minnesota Twins finally got a timely hit to beat the Brewers 4-1 on Wednesday afternoon. Miranda’s third hit of the game traveled to the second deck in left field. The 23-year-old rookie knew it was gone as he threw his bat and looked at the Minnesota dugout before the ball landed. The Twins have five walk-off wins this season.
Hader (0-3) walked Jorge Polanco and allowed a single to Max Kepler before Miranda’s drive.
Jhoan Duran (1-3) earned the first win of his career with one inning in relief, allowing one hit and a walk. Milwaukee had runners on first and second in the ninth inning, but Jace Peterson grounded into a 3-6-3 double play to end the threat.
Peterson homered earlier for the Brewers’ lone run.
Minnesota had plenty of chances to put the game away, but the Twins were 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position and left 13 runners on base through the first nine innings.
Joe Ryan gave up just two hits in 5 1/3 innings for Minnesota. He allowed Peterson’s solo homer leading off the third.
Aaron Ashby struggled to put away Twins hitters — until it mattered. In his third start since coming off the injured list for left forearm inflammation, Ashby threw 101 pitches in 4 1/3 innings. He surrendered six hits and walked three but allowed just one run.
Minnesota left seven runners on base in the first four innings against the left-hander, but Ashby’s day was done after a pair of one-out singles in the fifth. Trevor Gott came on in relief and stranded both runners.
Christian Yelich missed his second straight game Wednesday. He tweaked his mid-back Tuesday and his questionable for tonight’s series opener in San Francisco.
Right-handed ace Corbin Burnes (7-4, 2.20 ERA) will start for the Brewers against Giants left-hander Carlos Rodon (8-5, 270 ERA). First pitch is at 8:45 CDT and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Wednesday Miami nipped Pittsburgh 5-4, the Mets over the Reds 7-6, the Dodgers shaded the Cardinals 7-6 and the Orioles beat the Cubs 7-1. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by two games in the division.
In the Midwest League Wednesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at West Michigan 5-2. The teams play again tonight with the first pitch at 5:35 CDT.
In the Northwoods League Wednesday the Madison Mallards shutout the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders 4-0 . The Dock Spiders finish their two-game road trip against the Lakeshore Chinooks. First pitch is set for 6:35.
Sandro Mamukelashvili had 18 points and 15 rebounds and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 87-75 on Wednesday at the Las Vegas Summer League. Mamukelashvili, who was coming off a 28-point game Monday, also had four of Milwaukee’s 25 assists on 30 field goals.
MarJon Beauchamp made four of Milwaukee’s 15 3-pointers and finished with 15 points. Rayjon Tucker, Lindell Wigginton and Zylan Cheatham each scored 14 points.
Milwaukee (2-1) led 65-63 after three quarters before opening the fourth on a 11-2 run to take control. Minnesota didn’t make its first field goal of the fourth quarter until the 5:17 mark.
Kevon Harris scored 16 points for Minnesota (1-2). Terrell Brown Jr. added 14 points, Wendell Moore Jr. had 13 and Marial Shayok 11.
The Packers Road Trip is picking back up for the second year since a COVID hiatus. Well over a decade hosting the event, which was previously named the Packers Tailgate Tour, it has raised $3 million for charity.
This year, over a handful of former Packers — including Tramon Williams, Mike Neal, Tony Moll, Jason Spitz, and James Starks — are taking part in the five-day bus tour traveling all across the state while stopping at schools, hospitals and nursing homes to name a few.
Joining the former players is Packers CEO and President Mark Murphy who recently announced his retirement date, which will be exactly three years from the day (July 13, 2025).
The Packers-themed bus will return home July 17, before training camp begins July 27th.
A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case said in a court document she directed $1.1 million in welfare money to former NFL star Brett Favre at the direction of former Gov. Phil Bryant.
Mississippi news outlets report that the accusation, which Bryant denies, is in a filing on behalf of defendant Nancy New, who, with her son, once ran a nonprofit group and an education company in Mississippi. After pleading guilty in April to criminal charges, Nancy New, 69, and her son Zachary New, 39, agreed to testify against others in what the state auditor has called Mississippi’s largest public corruption case in the past two decades.
Her court filing is in a civil case filed by the Mississippi Department of Human Services against Mississippi Community Education Center Inc., once run by the New family. In the 29-page document, her attorneys say she was acting at the direction of MDHS officials in the awarding of various contracts and allocation of funds.
The filing was dated Monday and was first reported by Mississippi Today, a nonprofit digital news operation that has reported extensively on the welfare scandal.
She specifically mentions Bryant regarding $1.1 million in money paid to Favre “in consideration for Favre speaking at events, key A spokesperson for the former governor released a statement denying the accusations, according to WAPT-TV.
The state auditor has demanded repayment of $77 million of misspent welfare funds, including the $1.1 million paid to the retired NFL quarterback.
Favre has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing and has repaid the money. He has said that he didn’t know the money he received came from welfare funds, and has denied the auditor’s allegations that he was paid for events he didn’t attend. Favre also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi, where he lives, and Wisconsin, where he was a star with the Green Bay Packers
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