4/16/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
16 April 2024 Sports
From Wayne Mausser
Jackson Merrill went 3 for 5 and singled home two runs during a six-run rally in the fifth inning as the San Diego Padres defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-3 on Monday night.
The game featuring two heralded 20-year-old rookies with the first name of Jackson – San Diego’s Merrill and Milwaukee’s Chourio – included big performances from both.
Chourio went 2 for 4, homered and scored twice. The outfielder’s two-run shot in the second inning gave the Brewers an early 3-0 lead.
The Padres trailed 3-1 before their unusual outburst in the fifth. The rally featured no extra-base hits, but did include six singles, a walk, a passed ball, catcher’s interference and a pitch-clock violation.
After consecutive singles from Luis Campusano, Tyler Wade and Xander Bogaerts loaded the bases to start the inning, the Brewers had a conference on the mound and kept starting pitcher Joe Ross in the game.
Fernando Tatis Jr. grounded into a fielder’s choice that brought home one run before Wade scored the tying run on a passed ball by catcher William Contreras.
Jake Cronenworth reached on catcher’s interference, loading the bases again, before Manny Machado hit an infield single that brought in Bogaerts with the go-ahead run.
Ross struck out Jurickson Profar and had a 3-2 count on Ha-Seong Kim before committing a pitch-clock violation that loaded the bases once more. Merrill, who turns 21 on Friday, singled home two runs and Campusano added an RBI single before Ross exited with the Padres leading 7-3.
Milwaukee brought the tying run to the plate during a ninth-inning rally that began with two outs and nobody on. After Oliver Dunn beat out an infield single and Stephen Kolek walked Chourio, Contreras greeted Robert Suarez with another infield hit.
Suarez then retired Sal Frelick on a fly to left to earn his sixth save in as many opportunities.
The Brewers had taken a 3-0 lead in the first two innings, but wasted chances to break the game open. Brice Turang grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the first. Chourio’s two-run homer in the second could have been a three-run shot if Blake Perkins hadn’t been thrown out at third earlier in the inning. The Brewers had two runners on with nobody out in the third before Joe Musgrove retired three straight batters to end the threat.
Musgrove (2-2) struck out three and allowed seven hits, four walks and three runs over six innings. Ross (1-1) struck out four and allowed seven runs – six earned – as well as nine hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings.
RHP Dylan Cease (1-1, 2.16 ERA) pitches for the Padres and LHP Wade Miley (0-0, 2.25) starts for the Brewers when the three-game series continues Tuesday night. First pitch is at 6:40 from American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Monday the Mets beat the Pirates 6-3, the Cubs nipped the Diamondbacks 3-2 as rookie Michael Busch homered for the fifth straight game. In other games, the Cardinals downed the A’s 3-1 and the Mariners over the Reds 9-3. The Brewers and Pirates are tied for first in the division while the Cubs are a half-game out, the Reds 1 ½ games and the Cardinals are three games behind.
The Green Bay Gamblers scored early and often, and outlasted the Chicago Steel 6-5 Monday night in Game 1 of their USHL playoff series.
The Gamblers can wrap up the best-of-three series with a win on Tuesday night.
A foregone conclusion became official Monday night. The Indiana Fever picked Caitlin Clark No. 1 in the WNBA draft.
Clark, the record-breaking face of women’s college basketball, was selected No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The Fever, who finished dead last in the Eastern Conference last season, also will have 36 of their 40 games on national telecasts or streaming platforms this season. That’s the most in the league, and an increase of 64% on the 22 Fever games telecast last year. At the Fever’s Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Monday, more than 17,000 fans claimed tickets to watch the draft there on the big screen.
The Los Angeles Sparks, rebuilding following the departure of Nneka Ogwumike in free agency, selected two players in the lottery:Standford’s Cameron Brink ‘s at No. 2 and Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson 4. Brink joins Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike as the third Stanford player selected in the top two of the WNBA draft and is the program’s 15th first-rounder.
The Chicago Sky made a splash in selecting South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso (No. 3) and LSU’s Angel Reese (No. 7), the 2024 and 2023 Final Four Most Outstanding Players, respectively.
Sisay Lemma (Siss-eye Lemma) scorched the first half of the Boston Marathon course Monday, setting a record pace to build a lead of more than half a mile.
Then the weather heated up, and the 34-year-old Ethiopian slowed down.
After running alone for most of the morning, Lemma held on down Boylston Street to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 17 seconds — the 10th-fastest time in the race’s 128-year history.
Hellen Obiri (Helan Obeeri) defended her women’s title in the Boston Marathon on Monday, outsprinting fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi down Boylston Street to win by 8 seconds.
Obiri, 34, is the first woman to win back-to-back Boston Marathons since 2005 and the sixth overall. She finished in 2:27:37.
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