4/4/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
4 April 2025 Sports
Nestor Cortes bounced back from his dreadful Milwaukee Brewers debut by allowing just one hit over six innings in a 1-0 victory over the slumping Cincinnati Reds on Thursday.
The Reds lost 1-0 for a third straight game after falling by that score to the Texas Rangers each of the previous two days. According to Sportradar, the Reds are the first team to lose three consecutive games 1-0 since the Philadelphia Phillies in May 1960. It’s happened six times in the majors, four of those from 1908-17.
Cortes (1-1) was pitching five nights after allowing homers on each of his first three pitches in a 20-9 loss to the New York Yankees, his former team. Cortes yielded eight runs, five walks and six hits in two innings of a game that helped draw attention to the Yankees’ use of “torpedo bats.”
He was much sharper Thursday, striking out six and walking two. The Reds’ only hit off Cortes was a one-out double by Jose Trevino in the third.
Joel Payamps retired the side in order in the ninth for his first save.
Cincinnati’s Nick Lodolo (1-1) allowed one unearned run and four hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Lodolo didn’t allow a baserunner for the first three innings. In the fourth, Jackson Chourio led off with a ground-rule double, and a fielding error by Lodolo allowed William Contreras to reach with one out. Sal Frelick drove in Chourio with a two-out single.
The Reds put two runners on with one out in the seventh against Elvis Peguero, who then retired Spencer Steer and Santiago Espinal on fly balls to center.
The Reds are the first team to get shut out in three straight games since the Washington Nationals last September.
Nick Martinez (0-1, 6.00 ERA) pitches for the Reds as the four-game series continues Friday. The Brewers hadn’t announced a starter. First pitch is at 7:10.
There were no other games Thursday in the NL Central.
In the Midwest League, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers open their season tonight at home against Cedar Rapids. First pitch is at 6:40 from Fox Cities Stadium.
Giannis Antetokounmpo became the first player in NBA history to have 35 points, 17 rebounds and a career-high 20 assists as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Philadelphia 76ers 126-113 Thursday night.
Antetokounmpo helped the Bucks shoot 51.6% from 3-point range. The Bucks are coming off a win Tuesday against Phoenix in which they shot 68.9% from the field, the highest in an NBA game since 1998, and 58.6% from 3-point range.
Brook Lopez scored 17 points, Kyle Kuzma had 16 and AJ Green hit four 3-pointers for 12 points. Bucks coach Doc Rivers left the bench in the first half, citing an illness, and watched from the locker room as assistant Darvin Ham took over.
Rookie Adem Bona led the 76ers with a career-high 28 points on 13-for-15 shooting. Quentin Grimes had 24 points with 10 assists, and Guerschon Yabusele added 22 points.
he Bucks played their eighth game without Damian Lillard, sidelined with a calf injury later diagnosed as deep vein thrombosis. Rivers said the team got a great report on the nine-time All-Star’s treatment response and, “we have much more hope today than we did three days ago” about him returning this season.
76ers: Philadelphia has lost 10 straight and is 3-25 since Feb. 5. Already without Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid and Paul George, reserve guard Lonnie Walker IV limped off in the third quarter. Coach Nick Nurse was ejected in the fourth.
The 76ers led 39-25 after one quarter, but a 15-0 Bucks run to start the second erased that. The teams went back and forth until an 11-2 run to end the third broke an 85-all tie.
The win was Rivers’ 1,156th regular-season coaching victory, breaking a tie with Phil Jackson for seventh in NBA history. He picked up 236 with the 76ers from 2020-23.
Milwaukee continues a three-game road trip in Miami Saturday night. Tipoff is at 7:10 CDT.
The women’s Final Four gets underway tonight as Texas plays South Carolina followed by UConn against UCLA.
The men’s Final Four gets underway tomorrow, Florida plays Auburn and then it’s Houston taking on Duke.
High School Baseball (Thurs.)
St. Mary Catholic 3 Ripon 2 (8 innings)
Plymouth 17 Sheboygan Falls 7
Lomira 10 Winneconne 0
Campbellsport 12 Oakfield 0
Laconia 4 Markesan 2
Madison Memorial 2 Beaver Dam 1
Oshkosh North 11 Marinette 3
Oshkosh West 13 Wautoma 7
Green Bay Southwest 12 Clintonville 2
Portage 6 Westfield 1
Sauk Prairie 5 Wisconsin Dells 1
Softball (Thurs.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 9 Ripon 1
Waupun 13 Plymouth 1
Chilton 10 Winnebago Lutheran Academy 0
Beaver Dam 7 West Bend East 2
Menasha 6 Oshkosh North 1
Stevens Point 17 New London 10
Seymour 7 Algoma 4
Xavier 9 St. Mary Catholic 8
Clintonville 10 Waupaca 7
Brookwood 29 Mauston 0
Oakfield 8 Horicon 3
Cambria-Friesland 17 Pardeeville 1
Markesan at Randolph 12 Markesan 0 (5 innings)
Rio/Fall River 11 Montello 0
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