5/30/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday
30 May 2024 Sports
Christian Yelich, Blake Perkins and Willy Adames hit home runs and the Milwaukee Brewers came to life against Shota Imanaga to beat the Chicago Cubs 10-6 on Wednesday night.
Rookie Joey Ortiz, batting leadoff for the first time, hit a double off Imanaga (5-1) in the first. Two batters later, Yelich crushed a 441-foot home run to right-center to give the Brewers an early 2-0 lead.
Imanaga entered the game with major league-leading 0.84 ERA. He had allowed five earned runs in his first nine starts before being charged with seven on Wednesday as his ERA climbed to 1.86.
Yelich’s sixth home run, his first since April 10 at Cincinnati, also halted Milwaukee’s 32 2/3-inning scoreless streak against Cubs starters this season and accounted for the only first-inning runs allowed by Imanaga.
Ian Happ’s solo homer off Bryse Wilson in the second pulled the Cubs to within a run.
Perkins made a leaping grab at the center field fence to rob Christopher Morel of a two-run homer in the third.
The Brewers scored five runs in the third. Adames had a run-scoring single, Gary Sánchez drove in a pair with a double and Perkins capped the inning with a two-run homer to push Milwaukee’s lead to 7-1.
Imanaga gave up a season-high eight hits in 4 1/3 innings, his second-shortest outing of the season. He had one walk and one strikeout in the 82-pitch outing.
The Cubs pushed across a run in the fourth on Michael Busch’s groundout. They added two more in the fifth.
Perkins made a spectacular diving catch of on the warning track to take away an extra-base hit from Happ in the seventh. Milwaukee added three more runs in their half of the inning, two on Adames’ ninth homer of the season.
The Cubs added a pair of runs in the ninth.
Jared Koenig (5-1) pitched two innings of scoreless relief to get the win.
RHP Jameson Taillon (3-2, 2.58 ERA) pitches for the Cubs and RHP Colin Rea (4-2, 3.98) starts for the Brewers in the series finale on Thursday. First pitch is at 12:10 at American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Wednesday the Cardinals beat the Reds 5-3 and the Tigers shut out the Pirates 8-0. The Brewers lead the Cubs and the Cardinals by 4 ½ games, the Pirates are 6 ½ out and the Reds 8 ½ games behind.
In the Midwest League Wednesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home over the Fort Wayne Tincaps, 4-3. The teams play again tonight with the first pitch at 6:40.
In the Northwoods League Wednesday the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders lost at Wausau to the Woodchucks 7-4.
Fond du Lac will return home for four straight at Herr-Baker Field starting on Thursday against Wausau game time is set for 11:35. Thursday is Weather Day at the ballpark and also $3 Craft Brews and Brats from Fox River and Sheboygan Sausage.
The NBA Western Conference Finals continue tonight as the Minnesota Timber Wolves host the Dallas Mavericks in game five. The Timber Wolves staved off elimination Tuesday night at Dallas with a 105-100 victory. The Mavs lead 3-1.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Titans (44-5) will face 2024 NCAA Division III Softball World Series host No. 2 East Texas Baptist University in their first game of the World Series on Thursday (May 30). The three-time World Series participant Tigers (43-2) swept the Marshall Regional with a win over Simmons University (Mass.) and two victories over Texas Lutheran University before winning both games of the Marshall Super Regional over Williams College (Mass.). UW-Oshkosh and East Texas Baptist are joined in their World Series bracket by Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) and Rowan University (N.J.). The Spartans (40-7) won their regional and swept Coe College (Iowa) in their super regional to advance to the second World Series in program history while the Profs (39-8) won the regional and super regional rounds on their home field to reach the fifth World Series in program history.
Tufts University (Mass.) (38-8) and Virginia Wesleyan University (40-8) have already claimed their spots in the other bracket of the NCAA Championship, while two more remain to be filled.
All charges have been dismissed against star golfer Scottie Scheffler, who was arrested while in Louisville, Kentucky, for the PGA Championship earlier this month.
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell addressed the court Wednesday on a motion to dismiss the charges after he said his office conducted a “thorough” review of the case and could not proceed with the prosecution.
Scheffler’s characterization of the incident as a “big misunderstanding” was “corroborated by the evidence” and his actions “do not satisfy the elements of any criminal offenses,” O’Connell said.
Judge Anne Delahanty approved the motion during the brief court appearance. Scheffler’s attorney, Steve Romines, did not address the court.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be brought again, “which is something that we required,” Romines said.
Major League Baseball’s embrace of the Negro Leagues is now recognized in the record book, resulting in new-look leaderboards fronted in several prominent places by Hall of Famer Josh Gibson and an overdue appreciation of many other Black stars.
Following the 2020 announcement that seven different Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 would be recognized as Major Leagues, MLB announced Wednesday that it has followed the recommendations of the independent Negro League Statistical Review Committee in absorbing the available Negro Leagues numbers into the official historical record. Gibson, the legendary catcher and power hitter who played for the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS and holds the all-time single-season records in each of those categories. Gibson is one of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues players — including three living players who played in the 1920-1948 era in Bill Greason, Ron Teasley and Hall of Famer Willie Mays– included in a newly integrated database at MLB.com that combines the Negro Leagues numbers with the existing data from the American League, National League and other Major Leagues from history.
Baseball Regionals (Wed.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 9, Grafton 4
Kewaskum 8, University School 2
Campbellsport 5, Catholic Memorial 3
Clinton 8, Lomira 4
Mayville at Lake Country Lutheran10, Mayville 0
Saint Mary’s Springs 5, Cedar Grvoe-Belgium 1
Winnebago Lutheran 2, Kohler/Sheboygan Christian 1
Beaver Dam 6, Cedarburg 4
Menasha 2, Oshkosh West 1
Oshkosh North 3, Fond du Lac 2
Appleton East 4, Kaukauna 3
Kenosha St. Joseph 7, Horicon 0
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