7/17/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
17 July 2024 Sports
From Wayne Mausser:
Boston’s Jarren Duran, the All-Star MVP, hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the fifth inning and the American League beat the National League 5-3 on Tuesday night for its 10th win in the past 11 All-Star Games.
Pittsburgh rookie Paul Skenes pitched a hitless first for the NL, twice hitting 100 mph, and Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer in the third for a 3-0 lead.
Juan Soto hit a two-run double and scored on David Fry’s single to tie the score in the third, and Duran went deep off Cincinnati’s Hunter Greene.
Duran is the fifth Boston player to be an All-Star MVP, the first since J.D. Drew in 2008. The others were Pedro Martinez in 1999, Roger Clemens in 1986 and Carl Yastrzemski in 1970.
Oakland right-hander Mason Miller got the win after throwing a 103.6 mph pitch, the fastest in the All-Star Game since tracking began in 2008. Hard-throwing Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase struck out two in the ninth for the save.
The 22-year-old Skenes, who has pitched only 11 big league games since being the No. 1 overall pick in the draft last July, became the first rookie starter since 1995 and had the fewest games played for any player to make an All-Star team. The right-hander threw a hitless first, with a two-out walk to Soto before his Yankees teammate Aaron Judge grounded into a forceout on the next pitch.
Skenes threw 11 of 16 pitches for strikes, with seven fastballs up to 100.1 mph.
Ohtani, who has gone deep 29 times in the first season of his record $700 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, pulled a 400 –foot drive to right off Tanner Houck. That came after the Boston right-hander allowed singles to the first two batters he faced: No. 9 batter Jurickson Profar and leadoff hitter Ketel Marte.
Ohtani’s first All-Star homer made him the first Dodgers player to go deep in the Midsummer Classic since Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza off Cleveland’s Charles Nagy in 1996 at Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium. Eleven days after his 30th birthday, Ohtani was an All-Star for the fourth time — his first with the NL.
Baltimore’s Anthony Santander, after taking over for Soto in right field, had a two-out single in the fifth before Duran’s 413-foot homer to right-center after he had replaced Judge in center.
The AL has a 48-44-2 record in the All-Star Game, and had won nine in a row before the National League’s 3-2 victory last year in Seattle.
AL starter Corbiin Burnes arrived in Texas the morning of the game after spending time at home with his newborn twin daughters. The Baltimore right-hander allowed a walk and then a two-out double to Bryce Harper before getting out of his inning on a comebacker by William Contreras, his catcher last season in Milwaukee.
The game was payed in 2 hours, 28 minutes, it was the shortest All-Star Game since 1988, a game that the AL won 2-1 in Cincinnati that took only two minutes shorter.
Bruce Bochy of the host Rangers became the first manager to win World Series titles and All-Star Games in both leagues. Bochy is now 2-3 as an All-Star manager, leading the NL to a win in 2011. He won the World Series three times with the NL’s San Francisco Giants in 2010, 2012 and 2014, then led the Rangers to their first championship in his debut season with them last year.
The MLB regular series resumes Friday when 14 games are scheduled, with Milwaukee and Minnesota the only teams that won’t play until Saturday. Philadelphia (62-34) has the best record in the majors and Cleveland (58-37) has an AL-best .611 winning percentage, though Baltimore and the New York Yankees also have 58 wins. San Diego (50-49) is set to become the first team to play its 100th game, at the Guardians on Friday night.
Meanwhile, In the 19th round of the MLB Draft, the Brewers selected pitcher and Manitowoc Lincoln grad Noah Wech on Tuesday.
In his senior season, Wech tallied 87 strikeouts over 52.0 innings on his way to a dazzling 0.92 ERA. He becomes the first Wisconsin high schooler drafted by the Brewers since they selected Grafton’s Connor Fisk in the 34th round in 2010.
This summer, Wech made 3 appearances with the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders, where he posted a 2.31 ERA.
Wech is committed to play at Oklahoma State University.
The Green Bay Packers released its financial report Tuesday afternoon.
The team is the only organization in the NFL to make their ledgers public, and no surprise, the profits are looking good.
It’s another strong year from a financial standpoint for the Packers.
Mark Murphy says it’s clear the Packers are a popular team, picked to play in Brazil later this year, and this year’s national revenue numbers are proof of it.
The financial data released Tuesday is for April 2023 through March 2024. The Packers brought in a total revenue of $654 million, an increase of about 44 million from last year.
Nationally, revenue is up 7.5% from last year, sitting at $402 million. Locally, a smaller margin of increase: the Packers saw a 6.7% increase, sitting at $251.8 million. Packers President and CEO, Mark Murphy, says the playoff run at the end of the year certainly helped Pro Shop sales.
While total profit from operations in the most recent year was down slightly. The team’s net income was significantly higher than in 2023 due to gains from the organization’s investment fund.
Murphy says they will continue to invest in football facilities and the stadium.
The Bucks have agreed to a one year deal with free agent guard Gary Trent Jr., according to ESPN.
Trent Jr. spent the last four seasons playing in Toronto and averaged 13.7 points a game in 2023-24. His season high of 31 points came against the Bucks at Fiserv Forum in April.
The veteran guard started his career playing alongside Damian Lillard in Portland before being traded to Toronto in March of 2021.
His father, Gary Trent Sr., was a first round pick of the Bucks back in 1995 but was quickly traded away to Portland in exchange for Shawn Respert.
Packers quarterback Jordan Love hosted a youth football camp in Wisconsin for the first time, dodging questions regarding his contract status.
Love has hosted camps in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif., but this is the first time he’s hosted one in Wisconsin.
“I think we chose Milwaukee just because (there’s) more kids,” Love said. “More kids can get out here to it and we thought it would be a great location for it. Hopefully we do one in Green Bay too. Doing a kids camp is something I’ve always wanted to do. Since making it in the NFL that’s the first thing me and some of my friends talked about, doing one back home in our home town, and we’ve done that for 2 years. Now being able to do one here in Wisconsin where I play and where these kids are able to see us play is something that’s awesome to be able to give back to the kids.”
After signing a one-year, $11 million extension over a year ago, it’s been widely anticipated that Love would receive a long-term deal this offseason. Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst even said he planned on reaching an agreement before the start of training camp. But with camp set to start on Monday, there is still no new deal. Love was not eager to elaborate in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders fell on Tuesday night at Herr-Baker Field to Green Bay, 19-7. The loss moved the Dock Spiders to 18-30 on the season.
The Dock Spiders hit the road on Wednesday against Green Bay at Capital Credit Union Park, with the first pitch at 6:35 p.m
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