5/20/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
20 May 2024 Sports
Kyle Tucker homered twice to tie for the major league lead with 15 and drove in four runs, leading the Houston Astros over the Milwaukee Brewers 9-4 on Sunday for their ninth win in 11 games.
After striking out in his first three at-bats, Tucker decided to change his cleats from a pair of lime green Astros mascot Orbit-themed ones to his normal orange pair.
Jose Altuve hit his 37th leadoff homer in a four-run first inning and Jake Meyers had three hits for Houston, which took two of three from the Brewers and improved to 21-26 with its third straight series win.
Tucker hit a solo homer to right in the sixth off Thyago Vieira and a three-run, opposite-field drive to left in the seventh against Mitch White. Tucker tied Baltimore’s Gunnar Henderson at 15 home runs after his third multi-homer game this season and the sixth of his big league career.
Rookie Spencer Arrighetti (2-4) won his second straight start after going 0-4 in his first five. He allowed four runs and six hit with six strikeouts and two walks over 6 1/3 innings, his big league high.
Colin Rea (3-2) gave up five runs, eight hits and four walks in 4 1/3 innings.
After Christian Yelich’s RBI single in the first, Houston went ahead for good on Altuve’s homer, Jon Singleton’s run-scoring groundout and Meyers’ two-out, two-run double.
Brice Turang had a two-run single in the seventh and scored on Yelich’s single.
RHP Joe Ross (2-4, 4.61) starts for Milwaukee against LHP Ryan Weathers (2-4, 3.81) Monday to open a three-game series at Miami. First pitch is at 5:40.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee Brewers pitcher DL Hall needed only 11 pitches in his appearance for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Sunday. Hall pitched a perfect top half of the 1st inning, including a strikeout.
The 25-year-old is working his way back from a knee injury that he’s been trying to manage with since 2021. Hall is expected to make his next appearance at Triple-A with the Nashville Sounds.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Pirates nipped the Cubs 3-2, the Dodgers slipped past the Reds 3-2 and the Red Sox pounded the Cardinals 11-3. The Brewers lead the Cubs by 2 games in the division.
In the Midwest League Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home over Beloit, 5-3. Teams are off today.
Xander Schauffele faced yet another major champion down the stretch and this time delivered some magic of his own. He swirled in a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday to win the PGA Championship for his first major championship in another thriller at Valhalla.
The birdie putt denied Bryson DeChambeau — and LIV Golf — a chance at another major title and put Schauffele in the record book with the lowest 72-hole score in major championship history.
The Olympic gold medalist got something even more valuable in silver — that enormous Wanamaker Trophy after a wild week at Valhalla. He closed with a 6-under 65 to beat DeChambeau, who was entertaining to the very end by turning a huge break into an unlikely birdie on the 16th hole and a 10-foot birdie on the par-5 18th for a 64.
Two players — Schauffele on Thursday and Shane Lowry on Saturday — tied the major record with a 62.
Schauffele became the first player since Phil Mickelson in 2005 at Baltusrol to win the PGA Championship with a birdie on the last hole to win by one.
Tyrese Haliburton scored 26 points and the Pacers set an NBA playoff record by shooting 67.1% from the field, beating the New York Knicks 130-109 on Sunday to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 10 years.
The Pacers averaged 123.3 points during the regular season, sixth highest in league history, and set an NBA record by scoring 140 11 times.vThey haven’t slowed down much in the playoffs.
The Pacers made 29 of their 38 shots in the first half, a shooting percentage of 76.3% that was the highest in the postseason since 1997, when the NBA began keeping detailed play-by-play for all four quarters. They led 70-55 at that point and pulled away every time the Knicks tried to make a run in the second half.
The No. 6-seeded Pacers advanced to face top-seeded Boston in a series that begins Tuesday. Indiana last reached the conference finals in 2014, losing to Miami.
Donte DiVincenzo made nine 3-pointers and scored 39 points for the Knicks, who were trying to reach the conference finals for the first time since 2000 but couldn’t overcome the losses of Julius Randle, Mitchell Robinson and Bojan Bogdanovic, before losing Anunoby and finally Brunson.
Brunson finished with 17 points and nine assists, shooting 6 for 17 after scoring 40 or more points five times in this postseason. Alec Burks came off the bench for 26 points.
In the Western Conference Semifinals Sunday Minnesota came back from a 20 point deficit in the seventh game and won its series at Denver with a 98-90 win.
Timberwolves four-time All-Star Karl Anthony-Towns led the way, turning in the most impressive performance of his nine-year career. Towns, the franchise’s No. 1 pick in 2015 and the longest-tenured member of the team, scored 23 points with 12 rebounds, 2 steals and a blocked shot.
Nikola Jokic finished with 34 points and 19 rebounds but shot 13-for-28 from the field and 2-for-10 on 3-pointers for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray scored 35 on 13-for-27 shooting with 3 assists and 4 turnovers.
The UW-Oshkosh softball team took down St. Benedict for a second time to clinch a regional title, advancing in the Division 3 national tournament.
The Titans improve to 42-4 with the 8-3 win. Starting pitcher Sydney Nemetz was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, while relief pitcher Brianna Bougie, outfielder Brianna Davis, and infielder Morgan Rau were all named to the Regional All-Tournament Team.
The 25th Cellcom Green Bay Marathon was the last, but went out with a Northeast Wisconsin native claiming victory in the final women’s race.
Kathy VanDehy of Menasha originally planned to run the full marathon in 2019 before it was cancelled due to weather. Five years later she ran the full 26.2 mile race for the first time on Sunday.
NIicholas Chelimo of Grand Prairie, Texas won the men’s race with a time of 2:24.32.
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