4/19/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
19 April 2022 Sports
Sports for Tuesday
The Brewers’ hopes of making the playoffs for a fifth straight season depend at least in part on whether Christian Yelich can return to form. Yelich took a step toward that goal on Monday night. The 2018 NL MVP belted a grand slam for his first homer of the season in Milwaukee’s 6-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yelich also had a double and walked.
Yelich’s two-out slam capped a five-run rally off Pirates starter Zach Thompson (0-1) in the fourth inning. The 429-foot blast was Yelich’s fourth career grand slam. Yelich has struggled the last two seasons after leading the league in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS during each of his first two years in Milwaukee. He batted .248 last year after hitting .205 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
Yelich’s slam was enough support for Eric Lauer (1-0), who gave up one run and five hits in six innings while striking out five and walking one.
Pittsburgh got its only run in the fourth on rookie Diego Castillo’s first career homer, which came one pitch after Castillo swung at a slider from Lauer that hit him in the knee.
Milwaukee’s Jandel Gustave, Hoby Milner and José Ureña each pitched one inning of scoreless relief.
The game was tied 1-1 when Milwaukee’s Omar Narváez singled to center and Lorenzo Cain hit a deep fly that bounced off the glove of right fielder Cole Tucker for a double. Kolten Wong’s sacrifice fly brought home Narváez. After Willy Adames walked, the left-handed Yelich sent an 86 mph changeup off the right-handed Thompson into the second deck of the right-field stands. Thompson struck out five but allowed six runs, six hits and four walks in four innings.
JT Brubaker (0-1, 9.82 ERA) starts for the Pirates and Corbin Burnes (0-0, 2.25) pitches for the Brewers on Tuesday night. First pitch is at 6:40 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Monday the Cubs beat the Rays 4-2 and the Padres downed the Reds 4-1.
Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady are teaming up for Capital One’s The Match Golf outing. The G.O.A.T. team will face off against Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen and Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes. The golf extravaganza will air June 1 at 5:30 p.m. on TNT. The Match will take place at Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas. It’s a 12-hole game. Rodgers and Brady were rivals in last year’s The Match. They were teamed up with professional golfers. Rodgers defeated Brady for The Match glory. Now, they’re teaming up to see which QB team is the best on the links.
The Green Bay Packers have finalized their coaching staff by hiring John Donovan as a senior analyst. The last two seasons, Donovan was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the University of Washington. the last two years (2020-21). Prior to his time with the Huskies, Donovan was an offensive assistant with the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2016-19, working with the tight ends in 2016, the quarterbacks in 2017-18 and the running backs in 2019.
Evans Chebet, of Kenya won the 126th Boston Marathon Monday. His time was 2:06:51 In the women’s race, Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, beat out Ababel Yeshaneh, of Ethiopia, Jepchirchir bested Yeshaneh by a mere four seconds at the finish line and finished with a time of 2:21:01.
In the Men’s wheelchair: Daniel Romanchuk, of the United States, secured his second-ever Boston win. The 23-year-old won in 2019, when he became the youngest winner in the division ever, and finished second in 2021.
In Women’s wheelchair: Manuela Schär, of Switzerland, handily protected her champion status to land her fourth Boston Marathon win. Schär finished over five minutes ahead of the pack.
The Wautoma Middle School track meet at Tri-County is postponed.
High School Baseball (Mon.)
Pacelli 7, Adams-Friendship 1
High School Baseball (Tues.)
Ripon at Winneconne
Berlin at Waupun
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Cedarburg
Plymouth at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Lomira at Campbellsport
Laconia at North Fond du Lac
Winnebago Lutheran at Mayville
Saint Mary’s Springs at Omro
DeForest at Beaver Dam
Green Bay East/West at Menasha
Weyauwega-Fremont at Roshholt
Fond du Lac at Oshkosh North
Hortonville at Oshkosh West
Kimberly at Kaukauna
Appleton East at Neenah
Wrightstown at Clintonville
Marinette at Fox Valley Lutheran
Oconto Falls at Freedom
Luxemburg-Casco at Little Chute
Denmark at Waupaca
Adams-Friendship at Wautoma
Mauston at Wisconsin Dells
Westfield at Nekoosa
Wayland Academy at Green Lake/Princeton
Girls Softball (Tues.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran at Ripon
Berlin at Wild Rose
Waupun at Plymouth
Kewaskum at Winneconne
Lomira at Campbellsport
Laconia at North Fond du Lac
Winnebago Lutheran at Mayville
Saint Mary’s Springs at Omro
Beaver Dam at DeForest
Green Bay West/East at Menasha
Xavier at New London
West De Pere at Seymour
Weyauwega-Fremont at Rosholt
Fond du Lac at Oshkosh North
Oshkosh West at Hortonville
Kimberly at Kaukauna
Appleton East at Neenah
Clintonville at Marinette
Little Chute at Fox Valley Lutheran
Denmark at Freedom
Waupaca at Luxemburg-Casco
Nekoosa at Wautoma
Mauston at Adams-Friendship
Westfield at Wisconsin Dells
Lourdes Academy at Oakfield
Markesan at Johnson Creek
Rio at Fall River
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