7/22/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
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Rhys Hoskins hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning and rookie Jackson Chourio homered and drove in three runs to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a two-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with an 8-7 win at Target Field on Sunday.
With the game tied 5-all, Hoskins took Twins reliever Griffin Jax (3-4) deep to left for his 15th home run of the season. A fan leaned over the railing to catch the ball before Minnesota left fielder Austin Martin had a chance to make a play, but the call stood after review as he didn’t reach into the field of play.
Eric Haase also hit two solo homers for Milwaukee, his sixth career multihomer game. Chourio hit a tying leadoff homer in the seventh after he ended the sixth inning with a leaping grab at the wall in foul territory down the left field line.
Minnesota’s offense loaded the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the eighth but couldn’t score a run against reliever Elvis Peguero.
he Brewers’ bats helped starter Aaron Civale overcome a rough outing. In his third start with the Brewers since being acquired via trade, Civale allowed five earned runs in 4 1/3 innings. He also walked four batters, including a walk with the bases loaded in the second inning.
Jared Koenig (8-1) pitched a scoreless inning of relief in his return from injury to earn the win.
Twins starter Joe Ryan cruised through four innings, allowing just a solo homer to Haase before a three-run fifth punctuated by Chourio’s two-run double. Ryan was tagged for four runs in six innings.
Byron Buxton homered twice for the Twins in the loss, both solo shots.
The start of Sunday’s game was delayed 49 minutes due to rain.
The Brewers play the Cubs at Wrigley Field tonight. Tobias Myers (6-3, 3.13 ERA) will start for Milwaukee against another right-hander Javier Assad (4-3, 3.27 ERA). First pitch is at 7:05 from Wrigley Field.
Elsewhere Sunday in the NL Central the Nationals beat the Reds 5-2, the Phillies shutout the Prates 6-0, the Cardinals over the Braves 6-2 and the Cubs nipped the Diamondbacks 2-1. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by 5 games, the Pirates by 7, the Cubs by 10 and the Reds are 10 ½ out.
In the Midwest League Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at Cedar Rapids over the Kernels 5-3. There are no games scheduled today.
A three-home-run game for the Dock Spiders on Sunday afternoon at Capital Credit Union Park wasn’t enough to overcome a 7-0 start for Green Bay, resulting in a 9-5 loss. With the defeat, the Dock Spiders dropped both games in the two-game series with Green Bay, falling to 19-34 on the season and 6-14 in the second half.
The Dock Spiders will have three days off for the All-Star break starting on Monday before embarking on a four-game road trip in Duluth and La Crosse—two in La Crosse and two in Duluth—with game one in La Crosse starting on Thursday at 6:35 p.m.
Todd Helton, Adrian Beltre, manager Jim Leyland and Joe Mauer are the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. They were inducted Sunday in Cooperstown.
The Packers open training camp today at Nitschke Field.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Packers locked up longtime defensive tackle Kenny Clark to a new three-year, $64 million contract.
Clark was a first-round selection by the Packers in 2016 and has spent his entire career with the organization, earning a trip to the Pro Bowl three times in that span. He recorded a career-high 7.5 sacks last season.
The new contract averages at $21.3 million per year, which makes Clark the tenth highest paid defensive tackle in the league.
Clark is the longest-tenured member of the Packers roster.
Rapoport reports Clark will earn $29 million in the 2024 season.
Two months after Xander Schauffele captured his first major championship victory at the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, he added a second one Sunday at the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club.
On a day when seven golfers started the final round within one shot of leader Billy Horschel, Schauffele was the man holding the Claret Jug at the iconic links course on Scotland’s west coast. He posted a 6-under 65 on Sunday, just like he did in the final round of the PGA Championship, and his 72-hole total of 9-under 275 put him two strokes ahead of Horschel and England’s Justin Rose.
South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence was another stroke back.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, Schauffele is the first golfer in the Masters era (since 1934) to have multiple final rounds of 65 or better in majors in the same year.
It’s the seventh consecutive major won by an American golfer, the longest such streak since they captured 13 straight from 1974 to 1977.
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