5/5/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
5 May 2025 Sports
Freddy Peralta pitched six sharp innings to help Milwaukee beat the Chicago Cubs 4-0 on Sunday, with the Brewers’ lineup breaking through after an injury knocked out left-hander Shota Imanaga in the sixth inning.
Milwaukee prevented the Cubs from earning their first road sweep of the Brewers since October 2015.
The game was scoreless when Imanaga (3-2) strained his left hamstring while heading toward first base in an unsuccessful attempt to complete a 1-6-3 double play. Imanaga grabbed the back of his left leg at the end of the play.
When Imanaga departed, the Brewers had runners on the corners with two outs.
Julian Merryweather’s first offering was a wild pitch that brought home Chourio. Merryweather also surrendered an RBI single to Daz Cameron and a two-run double to Caleb Durbin.
Cameron entered in the fourth after starting right fielder Sal Frelick departed with left knee discomfort.
Peralta (4-2) struck out seven while lowering his ERA to 2.18. He improved to 7-2 with a 2.92 ERA against the Cubs in his career.
Peralta increased his career strikeout total to 997. The only pitchers to collect 1,000 strikeouts as Brewers are Yovanni Gallardo (1,226), Ben Sheets (1,206) and Teddy Higuera (1,081).
he Brewers open a three-game home series with the Houston Astros on Monday. The scheduled starters are Astros right-hander Ronel Blanco (2-2, 5.08 ERA) and Brewers right-hander Tobias Myers (0-0, 5.14 ERA). First pitch is at 6:40 from American Family Field.
In other games around the NL Central Sunday the Padres shutout the Pirates 4-0, the Reds lost to the Nationals 4-1 and the Cardinals edged the Mets 5-4. The Cubs lead the Reds by three games, the Brewers by four, the Cardinals by five and the Pirates are nine games out.
In the Midwest League Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers beat the West Michigan Whitecaps 7-3 at Fox Cities Stadium There are no game in the Midwest League Monday.
The Green Bay Packers wrapped up rookie minicamp on Saturday morning with a practice that featured 38 total players.
While there were a lot of players in attendance, all eyes were on the Packers’ eight 2025 picks.
Packers fourth-round draft pick Barryn Sorrell, whose surprise appearance in Green Bay.
Packers coaches were in attendance for Saturday’s minicamp, including head coach Matt Lafleur.
LaFleur spent time around all eight rookies and some of the tryout players, especially Canadian quarterback Taylor Elgersma.
Elgersma was the only quarterback at rookie minicamp. The Packers hosted him for a pre-draft top 30 visit after passing game coordinator Jason Vrable saw him at the Senior Bowl and other college football showcases.
Matt LaFleur said rookie camp is about getting players to “knock off the jitters” and prepare them for what’s to come.
The rookies will join the veterans when OTAs begin on May 27th.
Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard had surgery Friday to repair the left Achilles tendon he tore last Sunday in a playoff loss to the Indiana Pacers.
The Bucks said Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed the surgery in Los Angeles, with consultation from team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Carole Vetter. Lillard was helped off the court midway through the first quarter of the Bucks’ 129-103 loss in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series with the Pacers. Milwaukee announced last Monday that the seven-time all-NBA guard had torn his Achilles tendon.
The Bucks played without Lillard in Game 5 on Tuesday and lost 119-118 in overtime at Indiana, enabling the Paccrs to clinch the best-of-seven game series.
Lillard played three games in that series as he made a remarkably fast return from deep vein thrombosis in his right calf. Deep vein thrombosis is an abnormal clot within a vessel where the congealing of blood blocks the flow through on the way back to the heart.
After missing the Bucks’ last 14 regular-season games, Lillard was taken off blood-thinning medication and cleared to resume full basketball activity. Lillard missed Game 1 of the Pacers series to work his way back and then returned in Game 2.
Lillard, 34, ranked 10th in the NBA in scoring (24.9) and assists (7.1) this season while earning his ninth All-Star Game selection.
Scottie Scheffler shot a -31 under, matching that mark of 253 set by Justin Thomas at the 2017 Sony Open and equaled six years later by Ludwig Aberg at the RSM Classic, to win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson Sunday. Scheffler closed with a 63 Sunday.
The runaway victory came 11 years after his PGA Tour debut at the Nelson as a high school senior, and 22 years after a photo was taken of then-6-year-old Scheffler with the tournament namesake.
Scheffler was in position to break the tour scoring record before a flubbed chip that led to bogey on the par-3 17th hole and a par from a greenside bunker on the par-5 closing hole. His 8-foot putt for birdie and the record slid by the left side of the hole.
Erik van Rooyen of South Africa matched Scheffler’s 8-under 63 to finish at 23 under, three shots ahead of Sam Stevvens and four ahead of another hometown favorite, Jordan Spieth.
The fans got exactly what they wanted Sunday at Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena: another vintage Kaitlin Clark moment.
It came in her Indiana Fever’s 108-44 victory over the Brazilian national team in a WNBA exhibition game that was also a sold-out homecoming for the former Hawkeyes star.
To punctuate her night, Clark made an estimated 36-foot 3-pointer from just behind the spot on the court that has her No. 22 logo affixed. That’s where she hit the shot as an Iowa senior in 2024 that broke the NCAA women’s basketball career-scoring record.
Clark hit the shot with 26.1 seconds left in the third quarter, knowing she would sit the final quarter. It was her first game action since Sept. 25 last season, when the Fever were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Connecticut Sun..
Clark missed Saturday’s exhibition victory in Indianapolis over the Washington Mystics
with a lower leg injury, a precautionary decision to help her be ready for Sunday. She finished the game Sunday with 16 points, 5 assists and 6 rebounds, and said it was just good to be back in action again.
Baseball: (Mon.)
Plymouth at Ripon
Kewaskum at Waupun
Hustisford/Dodgeland at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Winneconne at Winnebago Lutheran
Beaver Dam at Waunakee
Green Bay East/West at Seymour
Xavier at Shawano
Menasha at New London
Campbellsport at Central Wisconsin Christian
Watertown Luther Prep at Mayville
Fond du Lac at Appleton West
Portage at Wisconsin Dells
Lourdes Academy/Valley Christian at Green Lake/Princeton
Softball:
Winneconne at Waupaca
Beaver Dam at Milton
Green Bay West/East at West De Pere
Menasha at Shawano
Green Bay West/East at West De Pere
Fox Valley Lutheran at Seymour
Laconia at Campbellsport
Lomira at North Fond du Lac
Mayville at Winnebago Lutheran Academy
St. Mary’s Springs at Omro
Appleton East at Appleton North
Stevens Point at Kimberly
Appleton West at Oshkosh West
Oconto Falls at Coleman
Westfield at Poynette
Oakfield at New Holstein
Horicon at Cambria-Friesland
Lourdes Academy at Princeton/Green Lake
Pardeeville at Wisconsin Heights
Johnson Creek at Markesan
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