5/12/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
12 May 2025 Sports
From Wayne Mausser:
Christian Yelich and William Contreras hit back-to-back homers in the fourth inning for Milwaukee on Sunday to help the Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 and avoid a three-game sweep.
Tyler Alexander (2-3) came on with one out and two on in the bottom of the fifth and pitched 1 2/3 hitless innings. Trevor Megill pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save as the Brewers snapped a three-game skid.
Jake Bauers drew a walk off Drew Rasmussen (1-4) and scored on Caleb Durbin’s groundout to make it 3-2 in the fifth. Yelich led off the eighth with a hit and stole second before scoring on Rhys Hoskins’s two-out single to cap the scoring.
Chandler Simpson had two doubles and Jonathan Aranda had three hits and an RBI for the Rays. José Caballero’s sacrifice fly made it 2-2 in the fourth.
The Brewers snapped a string of 13 consecutive losses to open the season in games where they allowed the first run. Milwaukee was the last team in the majors this season to win a game when its opponent opened the scoring.
Right-hander Freddy Peralta (4-2, 2.18 ERA) is scheduled to start for the Brewers on Monday against Guardians righty Ben Lively (2-2, 3.46 ERA) in the first of a three-game series at Cleveland. First pitch is at 5:10 CDT.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Mets beat the Cubs 6-2, the Cardinals downed the Nationals 6-1, the Pirates nipped the Braves 4-3 and the Astros shutout the Reds 6-0. The Cubs lead the Cardinals by a game, the Brewers by three, the Reds are 3 ½ games out and the Pirates are nine games behind.
In the Midwest League on Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (14-19( nipped the Peoria Chiefs (11-21) on the road, 5-4. There are no games scheduled today.
The Indiana Pacers spent two days looking for solutions against top-seeded Cleveland.
On Sunday, they delivered an emphatic answer.
Pascal Siakam scored 21 points, Myles Turner and Obi Toppin each scored 20 and the Pacers tied an NBA playoff record with a 41-point halftime lead before blowing out the Cavs 129-109 to take a 3-1 series lead.
The No. 4-seeded Pacers can close it out Tuesday in Cleveland, where they’ve already won twice.
Cleveland dominated the glass and held two-time All-Star Tyrese Haliburton to four points and five assists.
This time, the towel-waving home crowd helped spur Indiana, right from the start of a physical, sometimes chippy game.
The Pacers built a 44-point lead before settling for an 80-39 halftime margin that matched the league’s previous best since detailed play-by-play was kept, set by the Cavs in Game 2 of the 2017 Eastern Conference finals against Boston.
ndiana did much of its damage without Benedict Mathurin, one of its best scores, who was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul just 7 1/2 minutes into the game. And with Donovan Mitchell missing the second half because of an injured left ankle, the Cavs had no chance.
Darius Garland led the Cavs with 21 points in his second game back from an injured toe. Mitchell finished with 12. Coach Kenny Atkinson said Mitchell would have an MRI exam Monday.
Indiana wasted no time taking control quickly with early runs of 11-2 and 13-0 to build a commanding 48-23 lead with 9:24 left in the first half. They didn’t stop — or back down — there, either, closing the half on a 19-2 run
Aaron Nesmith’s buzzer-beating midrange jumper put the Pacers in another exclusive club — the 10th team in playoff history and second this week to score 80 points in the first half of a playoff game. Oklahoma City scored 87 points in Game 2 against Denver.
Turner made all four of his 3-point attempts with Indianapolis 500 winners Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon, WNBA Rookies of the Year Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, and former NFL star Reggie Wayne in the crowd.
In the Western Conference Semifinals Sunday, Oklahoma City won at Denver over the Nuggets 92-87 to tie their series at two-games each.
#2 seed UW-Oshkosh softball faced #5 UW-Platteville in Saturday’s championship of a newly formatted single elimination WIAC Tournament in Whitewater. The Titans won the first game 3-0 and won the second, 9-2, to claim a first league tournament title since 2021, third in history of program.
UW-Oshkosh baseball had not just one, but two chances to clinch a second ever WIAC tournament title, the benefit of being the only team going into Saturday unbeaten thus far throughout the double elimination format.
The Titans could’ve locked it up in the first game of a tentatively scheduled doubleheader, but after leading thru 5 innings fell to top seed & host UW-Whitewater 6-3. This forced UWO into into a “winner take-all” game two scenario.
After scoring 30 runs in their two tournament wins, Saturday’s title game held scoreless thru 6 innings with just two hits at that point. Warhawks plated 6 runs in the 6th leaving UW-Oshkosh with 7-0 deficit.
The Titans would get on the scoreboard scoring two runs in both the 7th & 9th but was too little to late falling 11-4.
UWO has now lost all 8 championship series appearances since their one and only title in 1998.
High School Baseball (Mon.)
Plymouth at Oostburg
Columbus at Waupun
Winneconne at Omro
Omro at North Fond du Lac
Xavier at Menasha
New London at West DePere
Shawano at Seymour
Pittsville at Tri-County
Wild Rose at Rosholt
Westfield at Wautoma
Wisconsin Dells at Tomah
Oakfield at Central Wisconsin Christian
Hustisford/Dodgeland at Horicon
Lourdes Academy/Valley Christian at Wayland Academy
Pardeeville at Cambria-Friesland
Fall River at Green Lake/Princeton
Randolph at Markesan
Rio at Montello
Girls Softball (Mon.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Wisconsin Lutheran
Winneconne at Plymouth
Winnebago Lutheran Academy at Laconia
New London at Seymour
Pittsville at Tri-County
Wild Rose at Rosholt
Neenah at Fond du Lac
Hortonville at Kimberly
Appleton North at Oshkosh North
Fox Valley Lutheran at Waupaca
Freedom at West De Pere
Nekoosa at Sparta
Oakfield at Horicon
Lourdes Academy at Wayland Academy
Pardeeville at Cambria-Friesland\
Randolph at Markesan
Fall River/Rio at Montello
Sepp Straka nearly blew a two-shot lead, but his impressive 2025 season continued Sunday afternoon. As Shane Lowry collapsed down the stretch at the Philadelphia Country Club, Straka held on late to pick up a two-shot win at the Truist Championship.
Straka posted a final-round 68 to get to 16-under in the tournament and claim his second title of the PGA Tour season.
Straka is the second golfer with multiple titles in 2025. Rory McIlroy, who completed the career grand slam last month at the Masters, is the other.
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