4/4/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday
4 April 2024 Sports
From Wayne Mausser:
Jackson Chourio became the youngest player in six years to hit a home run but it wasn’t enough for the Milwaukee Brewers, who lost to the Minnesota Twins 7-3 on Wednesday as Ryan Jeffers hit a tiebreaking three-run drive to cap a five-run seventh inning.
Rhys Hoskins also went deep for the Brewers, who lost their first game after a 4-0 start. Minnesota’s Alex Kiriloff went 4 for 4 with two singles, a double and a triple.
Jeffers had four RBIs for the Twins.
Chourio led off the fifth by connecting on Daniel Duarte’s 1-1 slider for a 402-foot drive. Chourio, who signed an $82 million, eight-year contract during the offseason, is batting .350 with a hit in each of his first five major league games.
At 20 years, 23 days, Chourio is the youngest player to homer since Juan Soto in 2018.
After Chourio gave the Brewers a 3-1 lead, the Twins rallied against Milwaukee’s bullpen.
Kiriloff and Byron Buxton opened the seventh with back-to-back doubles off Joel Payamps (0-1), and Carlos Correa’s one-out single drove in the tying run. With two outs and two on, Jeffers got ahead 2-0 in the count against Bryse Wilson, fouled off four straight pitches and hit a 376-foot drive over the left-field wall to end an 0-for-13 slump. The Twins had not gone deep since Royce Lewis in the first inning of last week’s opener.
Jeffers added an RBI single in the ninth off Thyago Vieira.
Duarte (1-0), Brock Stewart, Griffin Jax and Steven Okert combined to retire 15 of the Brewers’ last 16 batters. Chourio’s homer was Milwaukee’s last hit of the day.
Milwaukee’s Joe Ross made his first major league appearance since August 2021 and Minnesota’s Chris Paddack made his first start since May 2022. Both pitchers have undergone Tommy John surgery twice.
Ross struck out three and allowed two hits but walked five in 3 2/3 shutout innings. Paddack gave up two runs and six hits in four innings.
Scheduled starting pitchers for Friday’s series opener against Seattle are RHP Freddy Peralta (1-0, 1.50) for the Brewers and RHP Logan Gilbert (0-0, 1.29) for the Mariners. First pitch is at 7:10.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Wednesday the Reds beat the Phillies 4-1, the Padres nipped the Cardinals 3-2, the Nationals downed the Pirates 5-3 and the Cubs slipped past the Rockies 9-8.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers open their Midwest League season Friday hosting the Peoria Chiefs. First pitch is at 6:40 at Fox Cities Stadium.
Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 35 points to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to an 111-101 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.
The Bucks lost for the fourth time in their past five games as they’ve faltered while trying to hold on to the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Jackson dominated in the second half, scoring 25 of his points while lifting the Grizzlies to their fifth straight victory over Milwaukee.
Brook Lopez paced the Bucks with 25 points and 10 rebounds while Giannis Antetokounmpo added 21 points, seven rebounds and eight assists. Bobby Portis had 19 points and Malik Beasley 10.
Both teams were short-handed with the Grizzlies missing Ja Morant, Desmond Bane and Marcus Smart because of injuries and the Bucks playing without Damian Lillard, Khris Middleton and Patrick Beverley.
GG Jackson had 15 points and Brandon Clarke, recently returned from an Achilles tendon injury that cost him 72 games, scored 14 points for Memphis.
The Grizzlies went on a quick 9-0 run to grab a 98-90 lead with 4:17 left, sparked by seven points from Jackson Jr. The Bucks did not get closer than four points deficit the rest of the way.
Antetokounmpo drew his fourth foul with 4:15 left in the third quarter and had to go to the bench, and the Grizzlies took advantage. Jackson Jr. scored nine points in the remainder of the quarter as Memphis outscored Milwaukee 15-8 to erase a six-point deficit and take a 79-78 lead into the final period.
The Grizzlies took a 53-49 halftime lead as GG Jackson and Jackson Jr. each scored 10 points and Clarke added eight. Clarke scored on a layup at the halftime buzzer to put the Grizzlies ahead by four.
Lillard missed his third consecutive game and second with a right groin injury, and Beverley sat out with a sprained right ankle suffered in the Bucks’ loss at Washington on Tuesday night.
The Bucks also were without Middleton, who scored 24 points against the Wizards on Tuesday but has not normally played in back-to-back games this season.
Since Rivers was hired as coach on Jan. 26 to replace Adrian Griffin, the trio of Antetokounmpo, Middleton and Lillard has played together only six times out of 40 games.
The Bucks host Toronto on Friday.
The 86th edition of the Masters Golf Tournament gets underway this morning at Augusta National Golf Course. Jon Rahm won last year’s event by 4 strokes over Brooks Koepka and Phil Michelson.
The Buffalo Bills traded four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Stefon Diggs to the Hoston Texans for draft pick compensation Wednesday.
The Bills received a 2025 second-round pick (via the Minnesota Vikings) in exchange for Diggs, a 2024 sixth-round pick (No. 189 overall) and a 2025 fifth-round selection. The Texans acquired the pick from the Vikings when they traded their 2024 first-round pick to Minnesota last month.
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