4/15/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
15 April 2024 Sports
Jackson Holliday delivered his first big league hit in the seventh inning, then scored the tiebreaking run to help the Baltimore Orioles avoid a sweep with a 6-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Holliday struck out in his first two at-bats and was 0 for 13 with nine Ks since his call-up before he came up with the Orioles down 4-3 in the seventh. With a man on first and no outs, Holliday pulled a 99 mph offering from reliever Abner Uribe (1-1) into right field for a single. Then the rookie infielder flashed his speed, barely making it from first to third on Gunnar Henderson’s RBI single. That was an important extra base, because it enabled Holliday to score and put the Orioles up 5-4 when Adley Rutschman bounced into a double play.
At 20 years, 132 days, Holliday became the youngest Orioles player to produce a hit since Manny Machado (20 years, 85 days) did it in 2012.
Colton Cowser went deep the following inning for Baltimore’s third solo homer of the day. Holliday stranded two runners that inning with a groundout. Cedric Mullins and Ryan O’Hearn also homered for Baltimore.
Yennier Cano (2-1) got four outs for the win, although he allowed a solo homer in the seventh by Blake Perkins that put the Brewers up 4-3. Danny Coulombe finished the eighth, and Craig Kimbrel allowed two singles in the ninth but struck out three for his third save.
Baltimore’s Corbin Burnes allowed two earned runs in five innings against his former team. The Brewers traded Burnes to the Orioles in the offseason, and William Contreras greeted him with a leadoff homer in the first.
Milwaukee had tied a franchise record by scoring at least seven runs in six straight games. That included 11 each in two wins in this series. Regression hit hard Sunday, however. Milwaukee went 2 for 17 with runners in scoring position after going 33 for 69 over those previous six games.
The Brewers are back home tonight against the Padres. First pitch is at 6:40. Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Pirates beat the Phllies 9-2, the Reds pounded the White Sox 11-4, the Cubs over the Mariners 3-2 and the Diamondbacks shutout the Cardinals 5-0. The Brewers and Pirates are both 11-5 to lead the division while the Cubs and Cardinals are 1 ½ games back and the Cardinals four games behind.
In the Midwest League Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won on the road against the South Bend Cubs 9-6.
Paolo Banchero scored 26 points, Franz Wagner added 25 and Jonathan Isaac headed a shutdown defensive effort in his second start of the season for the Orlando Magic, who secured the No. 5 spot in the Eastern Conference on Sunday with a 113-88 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Magic snapped a three-game skid with the win in their season finale and finished at 47-35. They will face fourth-seeded Cleveland in the first round of the East playoffs. A loss would have dropped Orlando into a play-in spot.
It will be the Magic’s first playoff appearance since 2020 and only their third in 12 years. They have not won a playoff series since 2011.
Orlando also won the Southeast Division by one game over Miami.
Khris Middleton and Bobby Portis scored 17 points each for Milwaukee. Damian Lillard added 16 points on 2-of-14 shooting for the Bucks, who finished third in the East at 49-33. They will play Indiana in the first round.
Isaac started at center in place of Wendell Carter Jr., who had back spams but played 14 minutes off the bench and was a big factor in a second-half Magic rally that put the game away. Isaac played 26 minutes, one short of his season high, and finished with 10 points, eight rebounds and three blocks.
The Bucks played again without Giannis Antetokounmpo, who has a lower leg strain that’s left his availability for the playoffs in question.
The Bucks led 39-28 when Portis hit a 3-pointer with 7:06 left in the second quarter. It was their last field goal of the half. Wagner scored six points and Isaac hit a 3-pointer during an 11-0 Orlando run that quickly tied it, and the Magic led 47-42 at halftime. Milwaukee shot 0 for 11 with three turnovers in the final seven minutes of the half, scoring only three points on free throws by Khris Middleton.
Banchero and Carter led the Magic on a 14-4 run late in the third quarter, and Cole Anthony hit three shots during an 11-0 spurt to open the fourth quarter that put Orlando up 91-71.
For the second time in three years, Scottie Scheffler has won the Masters.
Scheffler finished with a score of 11 under at Augusta National Golf Club, fending off competition from Ludwig Aberg and Collin Morikawa, among others. The current world No. 1 is the first player to win the Masters twice in a three-year span since Bubba Watson accomplished the feat in 2012 and 2014. Scheffler was also the No. 1-ranked player in the world at the time of his 2022 victory, placing him with Tiger Woods as the only players since the inception of the Official World Golf Ranking to win multiple major championships while world No. 1. He’s also the fourth-youngest player to win multiple green jackets.
The 27-year-old captured the Players Championship last month, and his subsequent victory Sunday put him in elite company. Only five golfers have ever won the Players and a major in the same calendar year. Scheffler additionally joins Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to have multiple victories at both the Players and the Masters.
Scheffler paced well ahead of his competition. Åberg finished in second with a score of 7 under, making Scheffler the fifth player in Masters’ history to win multiple green jackets by 3-plus shots.
Last year’s winner Jon Rahm tied for 45th at nine over par. Tiger Woods shot a five-over 77 Sunday and finished with an 82.finishing last among the 60 players. Woods set the all-time record for cuts made at the Masters with his 24th on Friday.
The WNBA draft is tonight. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark is expected to be the number one pick by the Indiana Fever.
Baseball and Softball Schedules 4/12
Baseball
Ripon at Berlin
Waupun at Winneconne
Campbellsport at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Plymouth at New Holstein
Green Bay East/West at Shawano
Menasha at Seymour
West De Pere at New London
Appleton West at Xavier
Campbellsport at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Omro at Winnebago Lutheran
Mosinee at Kaukauna
Oshkosh West at Wautoma
Hudson at Oshkosh North
Mauston at Holmen
Weyauwega-Fremont at Westfield
Cambria-Friesland at Green Lake/Princeton
Wayland Academy at Markesan
Oakfield at Pardeeville
Central Wisconsin Christian at Lourdes Academy/Valley Christian
Randolph at Montello
Softball
Merrill at Plymouth
Waupun at Oconomowoc
Winneconne at Wautoma
Berlin at Omro
Appleton North at Green Bay West/East
Mishicot at Shawano
Oshkosh North at Menasha
Xavier at Manitowoc Lutheran
Oakfield at Campbellsport
Lomira at New Holstein
Laconia at Markesan
Waterloo at North Fond du Lac
Oostburg at Winnebago Lutheran Academy
Kaukauna at Brookfield Eas
Oshkosh West at Stevens Point
Roncalli at Adams-Friendship
Westfield at Pacelli
Mauston at Brookwood
Rio at Pardeeville
Williams Bay at Wayland Academy
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