Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday 9/22/21
22 September 2021 Sports
Sports for September 22nd
Cardinals closer Giovanny Gallegos fanned pinch-hitter Pablo Reyes for the final out and St. Louis won its 10th straight game, increasing its playoff lead by holding off the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 Tuesday night. The Cardinals increased their edge for the second NL wild-card spot to four games over Cincinnati. San Diego began the day four games behind St. Louis and Philadelphia remained 4 1/2 back. Milwaukee, which has secured a playoff spot, lost its third straight. The Brewers, whose magic number to clinch the NL Central stayed at three, lead the Cardinals by 9 1/2 games. The Brewers are 2-5 in their last seven games, scoring a total of eight runs in the five losses.
Jake Woodford (3-3) and four relievers combined on a four-hitter as the Cardinals moved closer to the longest winning streak in franchise history, 14 games set in 1935.
Avisail Garcia singled to open the Milwaukee ninth and Lorenzo Cain grounded into a forceout — originally ruled a double play, the call was reversed by replay. After Luis Urias walked, Cain took third on a flyout. Christian Yelich was intentionally walked and Cabrera struck out Reyes for his 11th save. St. Louis scored a run in the first without a hit off Brandon Woodruff (9-10) and added a run in the eighth on Tommy Edman’s RBI single.
The Brewers scored once in the eighth off Luis Garcia when pinch-hitter Daniel Vogelbach walked, Kolten Wong doubled and Willy Adames followed with a sacrifice fly. Woodford allowed just two singles in five innings, striking out five and walking one. Alex Reyes and Genesis Cabrera each followed with a hitless inning. After the first-inning run, Woodruff allowed a pair of third-inning singles in six innings, striking out 10 and walking two. Edman generated a run for the Cardinals in the first. He worked a nine-pitch walk to lead off, stole second, took third on a groundout and scored on Tyler O’Neill’s sacrifice fly. The Cardinals made it 2-0 in the eighth when pinch-hitter Lars Nootbaar walked with one out, stole second and scored on Edman’s second hit of the game.
Lorenzo Cain was not in the starting lineup for the third consecutive game. Cain came out of Saturday’s game with a sore groin after crashing into the wall on a sensational catch. Cain pinch-hit in the seventh and remained in center field.
RHP Miles Mikolas (1-2, 4.50) starts the third game of the series for the Cardinals tonight. Mikolas allowed three hits in 5 2/3 scoreless innings in his last start for his first victory since 2019. LHP Brett Anderson, on the IL since Sept. 2 after being struck in the pitching shoulder by a line drive, is scheduled to be activated and start for the Brewers. First pitch is at 6:40 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the Pirates beat the Reds 6-2 and the Twins downed the Cubs 9-5.
The Packers are back on the practice field today getting ready for Sunday night’s matchup in San Francisco against the 49ers. Green Bay (1-1) is coming off at 35-17 Monday night win over the Lions while the 48ers (2-0) won at Philadelphia 17-11.
The Packers have released TE Jace Sternberger, who missed the first two games for violating the league policy on substances of abuse. Sternberger was a third-round pick in 2019. Meanwhile, Green Bay signed S Shawn Davis and DL RJ McIntosh to the practice squad and released DL Abdullah Anderson and G/T Jacob Capra from the practice squad.
Davis is a 5-foot-11, 202-pound rookie out of the University of Florida who was originally selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the fifth round (No. 165 overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft. He was released following training camp and was on the Colts’ practice squad until Sept. 16.
McIntosh is a 6-foot-5, 286-pound fourth-year player out of Miami who was originally selected by the New York Giants in the fifth round (No. 139 overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft. He played in 18 games for the Giants (2018-20), recording 18 tackles (10 solo) and two sacks. After being released by the Giants this past August, McIntosh was claimed off of waivers by the Saints, but was released following training camp.
Fueled by the memory of his father, Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones put on a career night during Monday Night Football. He also lost a little piece of his father on the field. Jones was wearing a necklace with his father’s ashes and it fell off in the end zone during a touchdown. Jones said Packers grounds crew staff combed the field to look for it. On Tuesday morning, Jones told the Steve Czaban Show on 97.3 in Milwaukee that the necklace had been found. The Packers say head trainer Bryan Engel found the necklace. Matt Schneidman of “The Athletic” tweeted video of Engel on the field at 2 a.m. looking for the necklace.
Jones’ father, Alvin Jones, Sr., passed away in April due to complications from COVID-19. Since then, he’s been wearing a pendant with Alvin’s ashes.
Against the Lions Jones had 67 rushing yards, scoring one touchdown and had 48 receiving yards with three touchdowns.
J.J. Redick, the sharpshooter who was The Associated Press college player of the year at Duke before embarking on a 15-season NBA career, announced his retirement Tuesday. The 37-year-old Redick played with six NBA teams — Orlando, the Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Milwaukee and Dallas. He averaged 12.8 points in 940 regular-season games, and his 1,950 career makes from 3-point range rank him 15th in NBA history in that category. Redick is Duke’s all-time leading scorer, with 2,769 points in his college career. He also remains Duke’s all-time leader in 3-pointers by a wide margin with 457 and free-throw accuracy at 91.2%. Redick averaged 26.8 points — another Duke record — as a senior, on his way to the AP player of the year honor, before being selected with the 11th pick by Orlando in the 2006 NBA draft.
He appeared in the NBA playoffs in each of his first 13 pro seasons, got to the NBA Finals with Orlando in 2009 and had a career-high 40-point game for the Clippers in an overtime win over Houston on Jan. 18, 2016.
Injuries limited him to 44 games for the Pelicans and Mavericks last season, when he shot 37% — the second-lowest mark of his career — from 3-point range and averaged only 7.4 points, the first time he wasn’t a double-digit scorer in more than a decade.
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