4/23/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
23 April 2024 Sports
From Wayne Mausser:
Oneil Cruz broke out of a slump with three hits, rookie Jared Jones allowed one run in six innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended their skid at six games, beating Milwaukee 4-2 on Monday night to stop the Brewers’ four-game win streak.
Cruz capped a three-run sixth with a two-out, two-run single. He also singled in the second and dropped a double into right-center in the fourth. The 6-foot-7 shortstop was 4 for 44 in his previous 12 games.
Jones (2-2) gave up four hits and two walks. The 22-year-old struck out seven and has 39 strikeouts to become the fourth major league pitcher since 1893 to strike out at least seven in his first five starts, joining Masahiro Tanaka (2014), Stephen Strasburg (2010) and José DeLeón (1983).
Jones fanned Brice Turang to start the third, making him fall in the box swinging at a slider down and inside.
The Pirates, following an 11-5 start, were outscored 36-9 in back-to-back three-game sweeps by the Mets and Red Sox. The Brewers were coming off a three-game sweep at St. Louis.
David Bednar picked up his third save, allowing only an infield hit by Jackson Chourio in the ninth.
Joe Ross (1-2) gave up two runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings for Milwaukee.
Andrew McCutchen led off the first for Pittsburgh with a 414-foot homer to center, his first of three hits. He hit his 1,000th single in 1,473 games with the Pirates in the third.
Rhys Hoskins homered off Jones leading off the fifth, then walked to load the bases with two outs in the sixth. Jones retired Blake Perkins on a comebacker to end that threat.
Pirates setup man Aroldis Chapman walked three straight, loading the bases with one out in the eighth. Hunter Stratton entered to limit the damage to one run, getting Hoskins and Perkins to ground out.
LHP Bailey Falter (1-1, 4.05 ERA) will take the mound for the Pirates in the second game of the four-game series Tuesday. The Brewers had not announced a starter. Wade Miley, who was slated to start Tuesday, but is dealing with left elbow inflammation. First pitch is at 5:40.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Monday the Phillies shutout the Reds 7-0 and the Cardinals beat the Diamondbacks 5-3. The Brewers lead the Cubs by 1 ½ games, the Reds by 2 ½, the Pirates by 3 games and the Cardinals are 5 games behind.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are back in action tonight, playing on the road against Peoria.
The Milwaukee Bucks are back in action tonight at home, hoping to make it a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Playoff series. Milwaukee won Sunday night, without Giannis Antetokounmpo, 109-94 as Damian Lillard scored 35 points, all in the first half. Pascall Siakum led Indiana with 36 points and 13 rebounds. The Bucks hope Antetokounmpo, who’s suiffering from a calf strain, is able to play in this series.
On the PGA Tour, the RBC Heritage wrapped up Monday, after a rain-delay and darkness forced the tournament to go an extra day. Scottie Scheffler played his final three holes and ended up winning by three strokes over Sahith Theegala. It was Scheffler’s third straight win and fourth in in his last five tournments. Scheffler finished -19 under. Wyndham Clark and Patrick Cantlay finished four strokes off the pace. Cantlay won another $3.6 million to surpass $18 million in earnings this season.
Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst wouldn’t mind adding a few more picks to the league-leading total his team already is projected to have in this week’s draft.
The Packers, Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams currently have 11 selections each to lead all NFL teams in the draft that begins Thursday. That follows a 2023 draft in which the Packers selected 13 players.
“You never have enough ammunition to build your room, so there’s significant competition in every room,” Gutekunst said Monday during a pre-draft news conference. “I think that’s really important. We have 11 right now. I’d love to end up with 13, 14 or more.”
The Packers last season became the fourth-youngest team to reach the playoffs and the youngest to win a playoff game since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, according to the Elias Sports Bureau’s weighted age statistic. They went 10-9 and reached the NFC divisional playoffs while having the NFL’s youngest roster.
They achieved that in part because of a rookie class that featured four players who had more than 350 yards receiving (Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks and tight ends Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave) and two more who recorded at least four sacks (Lukas Van Ness and Karl Brooks).
Green Bay benefited from having a jumbo-sized draft class that included an extra second-round pick because of the trade of four-time MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets as well as nine third-day selections. This year, the Packers have five of the first 91 picks after landing an extra second-round selection in the Rodgers trade as well as a third-round pick from sending cornerback Rasul Douglas to the Buffalo Bills at last year’s trade deadline.
Gutekunst said the Packers’ abundance of selections in the first few rounds puts them “in a pretty good space to move, or just sit and pick.” But he also noted the benefits of adding extra picks.
“More at-bats, right?” Gutekunst said. “You’ve got more chances for hits. There’s never enough. I don’t ever subscribe to the thought process: ‘Hey, we’ve got a pretty good team. These guys might not have a chance to make the team.’ I think I’ve talked a lot about competition in every room, and how much it accelerates the growth of your football team. I think that’s the best way for your team to move forward. So to me, there’s never enough.”
Baseball Results from 4/22
Omro at Ripon
Kewaskum 2, Plymouth 1
Campbellsport 10, Chilton 5
Lomira 8, Mayville 1
Reedsburg 11, Beaver Dam 7
Rosholt 15, Tri-County 0
Pacelli 25, Wild Rose 1
Poynette 2, Pardeeville 1
Girls Softball Resluts from 4/22
Berlin 12, Princeton/Green Lake2
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 9, Campbellsport 7
Plymouth 11, Sheboygan North 6
Lomira 13, Oakfield 2
Mayville 7, North Fond du Lac 5
Winnebago Lutheran Academy 8, Omro 4
Beaver Dam 4, Milton 1
Wittenburg-Birnamwood 2, Weyauwega-Fremont 1
Rosholt 16, Tri-County 9
Pacelli 10, Wild Rose 0
Appleton North 4, Fond du Lac 3
Neenah 7, Kimberly 3
Oshkosh North 14, Appleton West 3
Watertown 10, Oshkosh West 7
Oconto Falls 10, Clintonville 9
Luxemburg-Casco 10, Fox Valley Lutheran 0
Freedom 7, Wrightstown 2
Westfield 23, Pardeeville 1
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