5/29/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
29 May 2024 Sports
Mike Tauchman hit a go-ahead single in Chicago’s five-run 10th inning that appeared to bounce off Trevor Megill’s throwing elbow, and the Cubs stopped a five-game skid by beating the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Ben Brown struck out a career-high 10 in seven hitless innings, continuing the Brewers’ season-long futility against Cubs starting pitchers. The Brewers got their first hit on Sal Frelick’s one-out single off Hayden Wesneski in the eighth.
Brown threw 93 pitches, 64 for strikes, in the rookie right-hander’s sixth start and 13th appearance. Cubs starters have combined to throw 32 1/3 shutout innings against the Brewers so far this season.
After Willy Adames’ two-out RBI single in the ninth forced extra innings, Tauchman opened the 10th by delivering a 99.4-mph sot that hit Megill, who reacted in obvious pain and headed straight toward the dugout.
As Megill left the field, the ball remained right in front of the pitcher’s mound for several seconds before first baseman Owen Miller raced toward it. But automatic runner Luis Vázquez slid home safely with the go-ahead run.
Hoby Milner replaced the injured Megill and allowed hits to four of his six batters, including a two-run double by Ian Happ and RBI singles from Cody Bellinger and Michael Busch.
Milwaukee got two runs in the bottom of the 10th before Tyson Miller struck out Andruw Monasterio to end the game.
Chicago’s 10th-inning outburst helped Craig Counsell get a measure of revenge one day after the Cubs lost 5-1 in his return to American Family Field. Counsell, the winningest manager in Brewers history, left for Chicago in November after the Cubs offered him a five-year contract worth over $40 million.
Adames forced extra innings with his clutch swing against Héctor Neris (5-0) for the Brewers’ second hit of the game. Two innings earlier, Bellinger reached his arm over the wall in right-center to rob Adames of a potential tying homer.
Bellinger’s catch marked the third time this season that an outfielder has reached over the fence to take a homer away from Adames.
Adames’ ninth-inning single to left brought home Christian Yelich, who reached on a two-out walk and advanced to second on a balk. Adames was thrown out trying to stretch the single into a double.
Cubs’ assistant pitching coach Daniel Moskos was ejected from the game before the 10th inning.
Chicago took a 1-0 lead when Busch homered against Freddy Peralta in the third.
Peralta threw a career-high 111 pitches and struck out 11 while allowing three hits in 5 2/3 innings.
The teams meet again tonight. The Cubs will send left-hander Shota Imanaga (5-0, 0.84 ERA to the mound against Brewers right-hander Bryse Wilson (3-1, 2.86 ERA). First pitch is at 6:40 from American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the Cardinals beat the Reds 7- 1 and Pittsburgh at Detroit was postponed. The Brewers lead over the Cubs was trimmed to 3 ½ games, while the Cardinals are 4 ½ games out, the Pirates 6 games out and the Reds are 7 ½ out.
In the Midwest League Tuesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers defeated the Fort Wayne TinCaps 4-3. The teams play again this afternoon with the first pitch at 12:10.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders picked up their first win of the year on the road at Wisconsin Rapids, 7-4. Fond du Lac came back from behind in the sixth to put four runs across the board with a two-out two-run RBI hit from Quinten Perilli (Elizabethtown) to give the Dock Spiders the lead and eventually go on to 1-1 on the season.
The Dock Spiders will stay on the road and play at Wausau tonight. The first pitch is scheduled for 6:05. In the NBA Western Conference Finals the Minnesota Timberwolves staved off elimination with a 105-100 win at Dallas over the Mavericks. Anthony Edwards led the T-Wolves with 29 points while Karl Anthony Towns had 25. Luka Doncic led the Mavs with 28. Game five is Thursday night back in Minnesota.
WIAA Baseball Regionals (Tues.)
Kiel 17, Berlin 0
Waupun 10, Edgerton 0
Wautoma 8, Laconia 7
New London 6, Little Chute 0
Fox Valley Lutheran 9, Seymour 5
Notre Dame 11, Shawano 1
Xavier 8, Luxemburg-Casco 0
Hortonville 7, Green Bay Preble 1
Neenah 15, Sheboygan South 0
Mosinee 2, Freedom 0
Lodi 11, Mauston 2
Central Wisconsin Christian 3, Catholic Central 2
Oakfield 17, Fall River 0
Belleville 5, Pardeeville 0
Softball Sectionals (Tues.)
Waupun 7, Plymouth 1
Beaver Dam 9, Oshkosh West 6
Mosinee 3, New London 0
Baseball Regionals
Grafton at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Kewaskum at University School
Catholic Memorial at Campbellsport
Clinton at Lomira
Mayville at Lake Country Lutheran
Saint Mary’s Springs at Cedar Grvoe-Belgium
Winnebago Lutheran at Kohler/Sheboygan Christian
Cedarburg at Beaver Dam
Oshkosh West at Menasha
Oshkosh North at Fond du Lac
Appleton East at Kaukauna
Horicon at Kenosha St. Joseph
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