4/2/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
2 April 2025 Sports
Eric Haase and Christian Yelich hit solo home runs to back a strong start by Chad Patrick and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 on Tuesday night for their first win of the season.
Patrick gave the Brewers something they hadn’t had thus far – three scoreless innings to begin the game. Milwaukee surrendered 24 runs in the first three innings of its first four games.
Haase homered from the ninth spot in the order to put the Brewers up 1-0 in the third. Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio followed with singles and Turang scored on a force-out at second on Yelich’s grounder to make it 2-0.
Patrick fell an out short of qualifying for the win in his first career start, giving up three hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
Rhys Hoskins had an RBI single in a two-run sixth to up the lead to 4-0, and Yelich hit his first home run to cap the scoring in the eighth.
Jared Koenig pitched an inning, Abner Uribe (1-0) got four outs to get the win, Joel Payamps pitched the eighth and Trevor Megill got the last three outs.
Michael Lorenzen (0-1) allowed four runs – three earned – in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out seven.
Koenig entered with two outs and two on in the top of the fifth inning. He retired Michael Massey on a grounder to first to preserve a 2-0 lead.
The Brewers began the day with an ERA of 12.27 through four games and that includes two scoreless innings from first baseman Jake Bauers. The staff tied the record set by the 1954 Cardinals for the most runs allowed through four games with 47.
Cole Ragans (0-0) makes his second start for Kansas City in Wednesday’s series finale. Freddy Peralta (0-1) starts for the second time for Milwaukee.
First pitch is at 12:10 from American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Tuesday the Rangers nipped the Reds 1-0, the Rays blanked the Pirates 7-0, the Angels beat the Cardinals 9-7 and the Cubs downed the A’S 7-4.
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 37 points and the Milwaukee Bucks relied on a team-record shooting performance to snap a four-game skid by winning 133-123 over the slumping and short-handed Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night.
The Bucks shot 68.9% (51 of 73) from the floor to set a franchise record for field-goal percentage. The previous record was 66.7% on Dec. 15, 1985, against Sacramento.
Bucks coach Doc Rivers improved his career record to 1,155-816 and tied Phil Jackson for seventh place in NBA history in regular-season wins.
The Suns lost their fourth straight. They were playing without Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and Royce O’Neale.
Durant sprained his left ankle Sunday and isn’t expected to be available for this entire three-game trip. Beal has a hamstring injury and last played on March 16. O’Neale is dealing with an illness.
Devin Booker had 39 points and 11 assists for Phoenix. Grayson Allen added 23 points and Collin Gillespie had 18.
Ryan Rollins scored 23 and Brook Lopez had 22 for Milwaukee.
This marked the first time Phoenix’s Mike Budenholzer had coached against Milwaukee at Fiserv Forum since the Bucks fired him two years ago. Budenholzer coached the Bucks from 2018-23 and led the franchise to a title in 2021.
Milwaukee moved within three games of fourth-place Indiana and one game of fifth-place Detroit in the East. The Bucks visit Philadelphia on Thursday.
Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst says two-time Pro Bowl left guard Elgton Jenkins is expected to move over to center to make room for Aaron Banks on the offensive line.
“He’s got a chance to be an All-Pro center,” Gutekunst told reporters Monday during the NFL owners meetings.
Banks, a guard who started 43 games for the San Francisco 49ers over the past three seasons, signed with the Packers in free agency.
Green Bay has a hole to fill at center after 2021 second-round pick Josh Myers joined the New York Jets last month. Myers started 56 games for the Packers over the past four seasons, including 16 last year.
The Packers have long praised Jenkins for his versatility. While he primarily has played left guard during his seven seasons with the Packers, Jenkins also has started eight games at left tackle, six at right tackle and four at center. He made 26 starts at center during his college career at Mississippi State.
Jenkins started all 17 games — 16 at left guard, one at center — for the Packers last season. The 2019 second-round pick has made 85 starts, and he earned Pro Bowl selections in 2020 and 2022.
A decision on the future of the tush push has been pushed until next month.
NFL team owners had been set to vote Tuesday on Green Bay’s proposal to ban the play that’s helped the Philadelphia Eagles win one Super Bowl and reach another, but it was tabled until May.
Team owners approved modifying the kickoff rule, expanding replay assist, revising overtime rules, along with other changes.
Postponing the tush push vote means the debate will continue while teams gather more information. Proponents of the play and those who oppose it presented strong arguments while the league’s medical experts expressed safety concerns.
NFL Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay stressed the issues surrounding the play extend beyond safety because there’s not enough data to indicate it’s dangerous. The league already has said no injuries have been reported on a tush push.
The league prohibited pushing or pulling a player before a rule change in 2004. McKay said the Packers asked to pull the proposal so they could reintroduce the previous language, study it, and bring it up for discussion for a vote at the May meetings.
It takes 24 of 32 votes to approve rule changes.
As for changes that did pass, regular-season overtime rules now will match those in the playoffs and both teams will have a chance to get a possession even if the offense scores a touchdown on the opening drive. The proposal was amended to make overtime 10 minutes, not 15 minutes.
Owners also approved a proposal from the NFL Competition Committee to allow replay assist to consult on-field officials to overrule objective calls such as facemask penalties, whether there was forcible contact to the head or neck area, horse-collar tackles or tripping if there was “clear and obvious” evidence that a foul didn’t occur. Replay also would be able to overturn a roughing-the-kicker or running-into-the-kicker penalty if video showed the defender made contact with the ball.
Replay assist could wipe out a foul only if it was incorrectly called, but it will not be used to throw a flag if a penalty wasn’t called.
The dynamic kickoff rule becomes permanent, with touchbacks moving to the 35-yard line instead of the 30.
Also, owners approved a rule to permit clubs to prepare kicking footballs (“K-Balls”) before game day, similar to the process permitted for game footballs.
Detroit’s proposal for playoff seeding to be based on winning percentage was also tabled for May. The proposal to stop automatic first downs from being awarded on defensive holding and illegal contact penalties didn’t pass.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says new licenses for the 2025/26 fishing season are now available.
Last year’s licenses expired Monday, March 31.
They cost $20 each, or you can purchase a spousal license for $31 so you and your partner can fish together. All fishing licenses and stamps can be purchased online at GoWild.wi.gov or at registered sales locations and DNR service centers.
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