10/2/23 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
3 October 2023 Sports
The Brewers will be without Brandon Woodruff, one of their top starting pitchers, for the Wild Card series against Arizona, and perhaps beyond if Milwaukee advances.
Manager Craig Counsell announcing on Monday Woodruff suffered a shoulder injury and his availability beyond the first series is “up in the air” at this point.
Woodruff missed four months of the season after a shoulder injury during his second start back in April. The right hander was able to return in August and finished with an 5-1 record with a 2.28 ERA in his 11 starts.
Counsell telling reporters, “it’s news that we weren’t planning on,” and the starter for game two against the Diamondbacks remains undecided.
Ace Corbin Burnes is currently slotted to take the ball in game on Tuesday at American Family Field while Diamondbacks counter with right-hander Brandon Pfaadt, with the first pitch scheduled for 6:05 p.m.
In the other NL Wild Card game tonight, Miami is at Philadelphia.
In the AL Wild Card games this afternoon Texas is at Tampa Bay and Toronto is at Minnesota.
Fans can attend the wild card postseason games at American Family Field nearly free — if they act fast.
Potawatomi Casino/Hotel has bought 500 tickets to each of the Milwaukee Brewers-Arizona Diamondbacks games this week. Starting at 3 p.m. Monday, they are being offered to fans for free, plus a $2 per order fee. Tickets are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
There is a four-ticket limit per order.
On Monday Giannis Antetokounmpo praised the Milwaukee Bucks for showing a commitment to winning another championship by acquiring Damian Lillard but added that it still doesn’t make financial sense for him to sign a contract extension right now.
Antetokounmpo is eligible to sign a three-year extension totaling about $170 million, but he can make significantly more by waiting until next summer to do so. Antetokounmpo’s contract runs through the 2024-25 season, though he also has a player option for 2025-26.
“I said that it did not make sense to sign the contract right now because money’s not important – a lot of money is important. So I’m going to sign it next year,” Antetokounmpo said with a laugh. “But, no, at the end of the day, again, it doesn’t make sense. It does not make sense for me to sign it right now. I’ve got to always look at what’s best for me and my family, for my situation.
“But at the end of the day, I want to be a Milwaukee Buck for the rest of my career, as long as we are winning. It’s as simple as that.”
Antetokounmpo had told The New York Times this summer that he wanted to make sure the Bucks were committed to winning another championship before deciding whether to sign his extension.
The Bucks have since added Lillard as part of a three-team trade in which they gave up two-time All-Star Jrue Holiday, guard Grayson Allen and plenty of draft capital. In Lillard and Antetokounmpo, the Bucks now have two of the 75 players selected on the NBA’s 75th anniversary team.
“Definitely I feel like the team has shown they’re committed to winning a championship,” Antetokounmpo said. “So I’m happy.”
The Lillard trade capped a busy offseason in which the Bucks also fired coach Mike Budenholzer and replaced him with Adrian Griffin. Budenholzer coached Milwaukee to its first NBA title in half a century in 2021 but got dismissed after the top-seeded Bucks lost to Miami in the first round of the playoffs.championship,” Antetokounmpo said. “So I’m happy.”
Lillard played just 29 games in 2021-22 due to an abdominal injury and was limited to 58 games last season by a calf strain. Antetokounmpo and three-time All-Star forward Khris Middleton had offseason knee surgeries, and Middleton played just 33 games last season.
The Bucks also don’t have control of any of their first-round draft picks until 2031. They’ve traded their first-round picks in 2025, 2027 and 2029 and have agreed to pick swaps in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030.
In Monday Night Football the Seahawks won on the road defeating the Giants 24-3. Seattle’s rookie cornerback Devon Witherspoon had a game for the ages on a national stage Monday night, starting it off by getting after Daniel Jones with two early sacks. He capped his night with the game’s most important play: a 97-yard pick-six that the Giants hopes of a comeback.
Witherspoon became only the second cornerback since individual sacks were tracked (starting in 1982) to have two-plus sacks and a pick-six in a single game, joining Captain Munnerlyn (Week 15 of 2013).
Seattle’s Gino Smith completed 13 of 20 passes for 110 yards and a touchdown to D.K. Metcalf. Kenneth Walker III rushed for 79 yards on 17 carries and scored a touchdown.
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones was 27 of 34 for 203 yards and led the team in rushing with 66 yards and 10 carries.
The Seahawks improve to 3-1 while the Giants fall to 1-3.
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