8/9/23 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
9 August 2023 Sports
Andrew Chafin and Abner Uribe combined to allow three straight bases-loaded walks in the 10th inning and the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers lost 7-3 to the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.
Colorado’s Nolan Jones went deep twice for the first multi-homer game of his career. Other homers came from Colorado’s Elias Díaz and Milwaukee’s William Contreras and Andrew Monasterio.
But the game was decided by the Milwaukee bullpen’s inability to find the plate in the 10th inning. Chafin (2-4) and Uribe didn’t throw a strike in any of the three bases-loaded walks.
Chafin walked Michael Toglia to start the 10th before Brenton Doyle loaded the bases with a bunt single down the third base line. Harold Castro, who began the inning as the automatic runner on second, scored the go-ahead run when Chafin walked Cole Tucker on four pitches
At that point, Uribe came in for Chafin and promptly walked Ezequiel Tovar on three pitches — Uribe started the at-bat with a pitch-clock violation — to score another run. Uribe then walked Ryan McMahon on four pitches as the Rockies increased their lead to 6-3.
Tucker scored Colorado’s final run on Jones’ sacrifice fly.
Colorado’s Justin Lawrence retired the side in order in the bottom of the 10th to seal the victory. Matt Koch (1-0) earned the win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
The Rockies trailed 2-1 before Díaz and Jones greeted reliever Elvis Peguero with back-to-back homers to start the seventh inning. Jones also homered in the fourth off Milwaukee’s Wade Miley, the only run he allowed in his 300th career start.
Díaz sent a 1-1 sinker over the left-field wall for a game-tying, 404-foot blast. Jones followed with a 368-foot drive to right off a 1-0 slider.
Peguero had allowed just two homers in 45 2/3 innings this season before giving up the back-to-back shots.
Milwaukee responded quickly as Monasterio led off the bottom of the seventh with his second homer of the season, sending a 1-1 slider over the left-field wall.
Freeland struck out four, walked none and allowed eight hits and three runs in six innings. Miley also worked six innings and struck out two while giving up two hits, three walks and one run.
Colorado’s back-to-back homers in the seventh came after the Brewers had pulled ahead in the sixth on Mark Canha’s two-out RBI double to right. Before that hit, Canha had been 4 for 27 since the Brewers acquired him from the New York Mets last week.
Monasterio’s homer came off Rockies starter Kyle Freeland, who then allowed a Joey Wiemer single before leaving the game. Brent Suter, who pitched for the Brewers from 2016-22, came out of the bullpen and ended the threat.
RHP Chris Flexen (1-5, 7.82 ERA) starts for the Rockies, and RHP Adrian Houser (4-3, 4.19) pitches for the Brewers in the series finale Wednesday afternoon. First pitch is at 1:10.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the Rays beat the Cardinals 4-2, the Marlins nipped the Reds 3-2, the Braves downed the Pirates 8-6 and the Cubs slipped past the Mets 3-2. The Brewers lead the Reds and Cubs by 1 1/2 games in the division.
In the Midwest League Tuesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home over Dayton 6-4.
The Brewers 2023 first round draft pick, Brock Wilken, made his home debut with the Timber Rattlers Tuesday night. He started at third base, batting third in the line-up with two hits, one walk and one run scored. He now has walked eight times in his five games with Wisconsin. Those first four games were on the road.
Wilken was called up to High-A on August 3rd after his short stint with the rookie Arizona Complex League.
They meet again tonight with the first pitch at 6:40.
The Dock Spiders dropped their sixth straight game to the Woodchucks 6-4 on Tuesday night at Herr-Baker Field. The Dock Spiders fell to 28-40 on the season, 15-18 in the second half. The Dock Spiders will be back at Herr-Baker Field on Wednesday night as they take on the Green Bay Rockers. First pitch is at 6:35.
The Packers left for Cincinnati Tuesday where they will have a dual practice today. The teams will meet Friday night in their first preseason game.
Cormac Madigan of the Ripon College football and baseball programs added one more accomplishment to his lengthy collegiate resume on Monday as he was named the 2023 Midwest Conference Male Athlete of the Year.
Awarded to one student-athlete representing women’s sports and one student-athlete representing men’s and mixed sports, the MWC Athletes of the Year award honors graduating student-athletes for their exceptional achievements in athletics, academics, leadership and community service.
In the third installation of this award for men’s and mixed sports, this is the first such honor for a Red Hawk male student-athlete.
One of the most decorated athletes in school history, Madigan (Rosendale, Wisconsin/Laconia High School) recently wrapped up his career with his name littered throughout the school’s record books. On the gridiron, Madigan holds six school records (career rushing yards, career points, career rushing touchdowns, career all-purpose yards, rushing touchdowns in one game and pass completions in one game).
He helped lead Ripon to a 9-1 season in 2022 and a share of the Midwest Conference championship for the first time since 2001. Madigan was the 2022 Midwest Conference Offensive Skill MVP, the 2018 Midwest Conference North Division Newcomer of the Year and was named to the postseason All-Midwest Conference team in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022.
On the baseball diamond, Madigan was a standout performer for the Red Hawks in 2022 and 2023. He was an All-Midwest Conference second-team outfielder in 2022 and is the school record holder in single-season games played (43 in 2023) and single-season at-bats (186 in 2022). His 65 hits in 2022, his first season playing collegiate baseball, rank fifth in program history for single-season hits. More impressive than his accolades on the field are his contributions to Ripon in the classroom and in the community. Madigan was named the 2022 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Division III Football Team Member of the Year. A chemistry-biology major, Madigan graduated with a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade point average. He was also the 2022 MWC Football Elite 20 award winner, signifying the student-athlete with the highest GPA in their sport throughout the conference. In 2022 and 2023, Madigan was named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Division III Academic All-American Third Team for baseball. Three times he was selected as a CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-District honoree – twice in baseball and once in football. Four times he was named to the Academic All-Midwest Conference team.
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