5/15/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
14 May 2025 Sports
José Ramírez hit his seventh homer, Logan Allen allowed three hits in six innings, and the Cleveland Guardians beat Milwaukee 2-0 on Tuesday night, their second consecutive shutout of the Brewers.
Kyle Manzardo drove in the Guardians’ other run with his second triple this season, a short flyball that got past a diving Jackson Chourio in center field to score Ramírez in the eighth inning.
Allen (2-2) walked one and struck out six. Matt Festa, Hunter Gaddis and Emmanuel Clase completed the shutout. Clase got his ninth save.
The Guardians have six shutouts this season, including Monday night’s 5-0 win over the Brewers. They have won five of seven overall.
Ramírez went deep in the first inning off Quinn Priester (1-2), who allowed three hits in five innings.
Ramírez and Steven Kwan each had two hits, including Kwan’s ninth double. Carlos Santana walked twice to extend his on-base streak to 16 games.
Chourio had two of Milwaukee’s three hits, including his 14th double, and stole his seventh and eighth bases of the season. The Brewers have lost five of six.
Chourio doubled to open the sixth but Allen then retired the 2-3-4 hitters, striking out Christian Yelich to end the inning.
Guardians starters have a 2.16 ERA over their last 14 games. They had a 5.24 ERA over the prior 28 games this season.
Milwaukee hadn’t announced a starter for Wednesday’s series finale. Gavin Williams (3-2, 4.38) will pitch for the Guardians. First pitch is at 12:10.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Tuesday the Cubs edged the Marlins 5-4, the White Sox downed the Reds 5-1, and the Mets nipped the Pirates 2-1. The Cardinals were off.
In the Midwest League Tuesday the Beloit Sky Carp pounded the Wisconsin Timber Ratatlers 17-3 at Fox Cities Stadium. The teams meet again afternoon with the first pitch at 12:10.
Even with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision to “posthumously remove” Pete Rose from Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list on Tuesday, there is still a major hurdle to be cleared for him to get inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Rose, who died on Sept. 30, 2024, was a Cincinnati native who starred for the Reds from 1963-78, and returned to serve as player manager from late in the 1984 season until 1986 and then continued to manage the team until his banishment on Aug. 23, 1989 for gambling on baseball.
Rose became baseball’s all-time hits leader and finished his career with 4,256 hits.
is family had filed a petition on Jan. 8 to have Rose removed from the ineligible list.
Manfred also removed “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and 15 other deceased players from the list, and wrote a letter to Rose family attorney Jeffrey M. Lenkov.
The Baseball Hall of Fame passed a rule in 1991, which came to be known as the “Pete Rose Rule,” that any player ruled ineligible by Major League Baseball could not appear on a Hall of Fame ballot.
Rose has never appeared on a ballot.
Now that Rose has been taken off the ineligible list, his name will be forwarded to a committee at the Hall of Fame, which would then decide which era to classify where Rose’s career belongs.
Tyrese Haliburton scored 31 points, Pascal Siakam added 21 and the Indiana Pacers advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the second straight year with a 114-105 victory over Cleveland on Tuesday night, eliminating the top-seeded Cavaliers in five games.
Donovan Mitchell, who missed the second half of Sunday’s game due to a sprained left ankle, led Cleveland with 35 points. Evan Mobley added 24 points and 11 rebounds.
The Cavs swept their first-round series against Miami, but were unable to match up against the up-tempo Pacers. It was the second straight series Indiana won in five games.
The fourth-seeded Pacers will now await the winner of the matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. New York has a 3-1 advantage in the series with Game 5 on Wednesday night in Boston.
The Celtics swept the Pacers last year in the East finals. Indiana had not been to the conference finals in consecutive seasons since 2013-14.
Indiana rallied from a 19-point deficit in the first half and took control after halftime as it won all three games at Cleveland’s Rocket Arena.
It was the first time since a 2005 first-round series against Boston that the Pacers won three road games in a playoff series.
The Cavs dropped three home games in a postseason series for the first time.
Cleveland stormed out to a 44-25 lead with 8:10 remaining in the second quarter before Indiana rallied. Haliburton had five of his six 3-pointers in the period as the Pacers got within 56-52 at halftime.
Indiana then shot 14 of 22 from the field in the third quarter – including four 3-pointers – to go up 85-76 going into the final 12 minutes.
It seized control with a 17-2 run over a five-minute span in the third when Siakam had eight points and Haliburton five. That was part of a 29-8 spurt that saw the Pacers take a 12-point lead late in the third.
Cleveland was just 7 of 26 from the field in the quarter.
Mitchell’s 3-pointer got the Cavs within 106-103 with 1:27 remaining, but Indiana closed it out by scoring eight of the final 10 points.
In the Western Conference semifinals the Oklahoma City Thunder won at home over the Denver Nuggets 112-105 to take a 3-2 advantage in their series.
Boys Baseball (Tues.)
Weyauwega-Fremont 3 Ripon 2
Kewaskum 12 Berlin 0
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 5 Waupun 1
Winneconne 15 Plymouth 8
Mayville 4 Laconia 1
Lomira 5 Winnebago Lutheran 4
Saint Mary’s Springs 5 Omro 0
Clintonville 1 Marinette 0
Wrightstown 1 Freedom 0
Little Chute 3 Waupaca 1
Wisconsin Dells 8 Adams-Friendship 2
Westfield 7 Mauston 3
Wautoma 8 Nekoosa 5
Girls Softball (Tues.)
Plymouth 13 Ripon 3
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 13 Berlin 0
Waupun 5 Kewaskum 1
Shawano 2 Winneconne 1
Campbellsport 12 Omro 0
Lomira 9 Mayville 1
Saint Mary’s Springs 8 North Fond du Lac 4
Kimberly 6 Fond du Lac 3
Hortonville 8 Appleton East 0
Kaukauna 11 Oshkosh West 0
Neenah 13 Appleton West 0
Clintonville 6 Marinette 4
Fox Valley Lutheran 3 Wrightstown 2
Luxemburg-Casco 6 Freedom 0
Denmark 16 Waupaca 0
Adams-Friendship 11 Westfield 6
Wisconsin Dells 12 Nekoosa 2
Horicon 10 Dodgeland/Hustisford
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