4/15/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
15 April 2025 Sports
Tarik Skubal struck out nine while allowing four hits and no walks in seven shutout innings as the Detroit Tigers trounced the Milwaukee Brewers 9-1 on Monday night.
The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner didn’t allow a baserunner until Rhys Hoskins singled to start the fifth. The Tigers already led 9-0 by that point.
Kerry Carpenter homered and went 2 for 4. Gleyber Torres drove in three runs and scored twice. Andy Ibáñez was 2 for 5 with one run and two RBIs. Javier Báez scored twice.
The Tigers handed Milwaukee its third straight loss by jumping all over Tyler Alexander, who pitched for Detroit from 2019-23. Alexander (1-1) gave up eight runs — four earned — and six walks in four innings while striking out two and walking three.
Alexander was hit by a batted ball against consecutive hitters in the second inning.
Torres hit a 103.6 mph shot off Alexander’s leg, though second baseman Brice Turang threw him out at first. Ibáñez then hit a bouncer that went off the back of Alexander before the left-hander recovered to throw him out.
Detroit scored two runs in the first, two in the second and four in the fourth off Alexander. Carpenter then greeted Elvin Rodríguez by leading off the fifth with a 403-foot drive over the center-field wall.
That was the only run Rodríguez allowed in five innings of relief.
RHP Jack Flaherty (1-0, 1.62 ERA) pitches for Detroit on Tuesday, and RHP Quinn Priester (0-0, 1.80) starts for Milwaukee. First pitch is at 6:40 from American Family Field.
In other games around the NL Central Monday the Pirates pounded the Nationals 10-3, the Cardinals downed the Astros 8-3 and the Cubs lost to the Padres 10-4. The Cubs lead the Reds and the Cardinals by a game-and-a-half, the Brewers are two games back and the Pirates are four games behind.
There were no games Monday in the Midwest League. The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are home tonight hosting the Lansing Lugnuts with the first pitch at 6:40 from Fox Cities Stadium.
Today is Jackie Robinson Day in honor the man who broke the color barrier after being signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. All players and members of the coaching staffs will wear #42 to honor the legacy of Robinson.
The Green Bay Packers re-signed TE John FitzPatrick. The transaction was announced Monday by General Manager Brian Gutekunst.
FitzPatrick (6-7, 262), a fourth-year player from the University of Georgia, played in nine regular-season games and the postseason contest for the Packers last season after being signed to Green Bay’s active roster from the Atlanta Falcons’ practice squad on Oct. 11, 2024. He was originally selected by the Falcons in the sixth round (No. 213 overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft. FitzPatrick played in nine games for Atlanta (all in 2023), recording a reception for 12 yards. In college, he appeared in 38 games with 13 starts, registering 17 receptions for 200 yards (11.8 avg.) and a touchdown. FitzPatrick will wear No. 86 for the Packers.
Top prospects Cam Ward, Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter will attend next week’s NFL draft in person.
The league announced on Monday that 17 players have been confirmed to attend the draft in Green Bay. The draft will be held from April 24-26, with Ward, Hunter and Carter the favorites to be selected with the top three picks, according to BetMGM.
Ward, the former Miami star, will be joined by two other quarterbacks at the draft with Ole Miss’s Jaxson Dart and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe also set to attend. Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, who is projected to be the second quarterback taken in the draft, will not be in attendance. Milroe will be joined by two Crimson Tide teammates with linebacker Jihaad Campbell and guard Tyler Booker also accepting invitations. Two other schools will have multiple players attending the draft in person with Michigan sending defensive tackle Mason Graham and cornerback Will Johnson and Georgia sending defensive end Mykel Williams and safety Malaki Starks.
The other players who are confirmed to attend the draft are LSU tackle Will Campbell, Texas receiver Matthew Golden, Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty, Arizona receiver Tetairoa McMillan, Ohio State tackle Josh Simmons, and Texas A&M defensive end Shemar Stewart.
The Dallas Wings selected UConn star and freshly minted NCAA champion Page Bueckers No. 1 in the 2025 WNBA draft, fulfilling the vision the team had conjured since winning the draft lottery in November for the first time in franchise history.
Bueckers, a three-time first-team All-American from Hopkins, Minnesota, becomes the sixth player, and first since Breanna Stewart in 2016, to be the No. 1 pick after winning a national championship in the same year. Bueckers led the Huskies to their first NCAA title in nine years, and the program’s 12th overall, on April 6 in her final college game.
Baseball: (Mon.)
Laconia 6 Ripon 2
Waupun 3 Jefferson 2
Kewaskum at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Chilton11 Plymouth 10
Wautoma 7 Berlin2
Beaver Dam18 Adams-Friendship 4
Hortonville 16 New London 10
Shawano 10 Waupaca 0
Campbellsport 6 Living Word Lutheran 4
Omro 11 Saint Lawrence Seminary 1
Saint Mary’s Springs 4 Winnebago Lutheran 3
North Fond du Lac 7 Sheboygan Falls
Appleton East at Stevens Point 0
Bay Port 1 Kaukauna 0
Kimberly 12 Appleton West 4
Little Chute 17 Fox Valley Lutheran 7
Lodi 17 Westfield 2
Nekoosa 5 Athens 3
Central Wisconsin Christian 13 Lourdes Academy 10
Cambria-Friesland 7 Pecatonica 5
Cambridge 6 Markesan 5
Softball: (Mon.)
Kewaskum 5 Chilton 4
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 15 Oakfield 13
Winneconne 12 Omro 0
Sheboygan Falls/Kohler at Plymouth
Cambria-Friesland 18 Berlin 0
Stevens Point 14 Menasha 1
Seymour 11 Xavier 6
St. Mary’s Springs 6 Winnebago Lutheran Academy 2
Laconia 12 Random Lake 2
Fox Valley Lutheran 15 Clintonville 0
Freedom 9 Wrightstown 0
Waupaca 14 Little Chute 13
Adams-Friendship 16 Montello 0
Nekoosa 11 Athens 0
Westfield 20 Princeton/Green Lake 7
Baraboo 11 Wisconsin Dells 2
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