Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 5/19/21
19 May 2021 Sports
Sports for May 19th
Andrew Benintendi drove in the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning, spoiling a masterful start by the Brewers’ Brandon Woodruff and propelling the Kansas City Royals to a 2-0 victory over Milwaukee on Tuesday night. Royals starter Kris Bubic, who had been working in long relief but got a spot start when Danny Duffy headed to the injured list, threw six innings of one-hit ball.
Woodruff (2-2) allowed just four hits before walking Whit Merrifield and plunking Carlos Santana with two outs in the eighth. Brewers manager Craig Counsell brought in reliever Devin Williams to face Benintendi, who lined a single to right field that gave Merrifield just enough time to slide under Omar Narvaez’s tag at the plate. Narvaez immediately signaled for Counsell to challenge the safe call but it stood upon review. The Royals then tacked on a run when Salvador Perez hit a grounder to shortstop and Luis Urias threw wide of first base for an error.
As if that didn’t make the ninth inning bad enough for the Brewers, Avisail Garcia was tossed for arguing balls and strikes by plate umpire Brian Gorman with a 2-2 count and two outs. Counsell also was thrown out for defending his hitter, leaving Daniel Vogelbach to swing wildly at Josh Staumont’s pitch for the game-ending third strike. Jake Brentz (1-0) got just one out in the eighth but still earned his first career win. Staumont picked up his fourth save.
Most of the game amounted to a pitch-for-pitch duel between Woodruff and Bubic. Woodruff’s only hiccups before the fateful eighth inning came in the second, when he gave up a couple two-out singles, and the fifth, when the Royals gave up a couple outs on the base paths. Woodruff otherwise cruised right along, keeping impatient Kansas City hitters baffled by his fastball and sinker. Bubic struck out four and walked two.
Both starters were helped by a stiff breeze out of right field and thick, soupy air that kept a couple of potential homers in the park. The spring weather also produced a popup shower in the second inning that led to a 21-minute delay.
The two-game series winds up tonight as Brewers RHP Corbin Burnes (2-3, 1.57) returns to the mound after his record streak of 58 strikeouts without a walk — which ended against St. Louis last week — was broken by the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole on Monday night. RHP Brad Keller (3-4, 6.75) faces him for Kansas City. First pitch is at 7:10 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Brewers OF Christian Yelich played for just the second time in five weeks because of stiffness in his lower back that first showed up April 11 in St. Louis. He tried to return May 3 in Philadelphia but played just one game before returning to the injured list. He wound up going 0 for 4 with three strikeouts. Yelich served as the DH after playing in the outfield during a three-game rehab assignment at Triple-A Nashville.
Elsewhere in the NL Central, the Giants beat the Reds 4-2, the Cubs downed the Nationals 6-3 and the Cardinals over the Pirates 5-2.
The Tigers Spencer Turnbull threw the Tigers first no-hitter in a decade, blanking the Mariners for a 5-0 win at T-Mobile Park. With the eighth no-hitter in Tigers history, the man whose habit of talking to himself on the mound earned him comparisons to Mark Fidrych joined Justin Verlander, Jack Morris, Jim Bunning and others in franchise lore.
(Tues) NBA Playoffs –Play-in Tournament
Indiana 144, Charlotte 117
Boston 118, Washington 100
(Tonight)
San Antonio at Memphis
Golden State at Los Angeles Lakers
The Milwaukee Bucks (#3) open the playoffs Saturday afternoon at home against the Miami Heat (#6).
High School Baseball (Tues.)
Campbellsport 6, Ripon 1
Plymouth 15, Berlin 6
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 4, Waupun 2
Winneconne 5, Kewaskum 3
Mauston 4, Wautoma 3-With the loss the Hornets fall to 10-2.
Adams-Friendship 10, Nekoosa 0
Girls Softball (Tues.)
Ripon 13, Plymouth 12
Campbellsport 12, Berlin 0
Waupun 12, Kewaskum 6
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 4, Winneconne 0
Winnebago Lutheran 11, Omro 0
Random Lake 13, Saint Mary’s Springs 9
Fond du Lac 6, Appleton North 1
Oshkosh North 3, Appleton West 2
Wautoma 13, Adams-Friendship 3-The Hornets improve to 14-2
Lourdes Academy 12, Cambria-Friesland 5
Markesan 17, Montello 2
Princeton/Green Lake 7, Randolph 5
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