8/11/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
10 August 2022 Sports
Sports for August 10th
From Wayne Mausser
Practice continues for the Packers as they gear up for Friday’s opening preseason game at San Francisco against the 49ers. Aaron Rodgers was given a day off Tuesday in the 12th day of training camp.
“I told Matt (LaFleur) I’m never going to ask for a vet day but I think I am the oldest player on the team,” the Packers QB1 said. “If he was thinking about it, this week being the most difficult week with Sunday indoors, then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday indoors with pads basically, that I wouldn’t mind it. That being said, the work that goes on in the Hutson Center verses outside is probably more strenuous than practice. It’s not exactly a vet day when it comes to cardio.”
Jordan Love got the first team reps Tuesday, which are valuable with him starting the first preseason game Friday in San Francisco.
Rodgers hasn’t played in a preseason game since 2018 against the Steelers where he completed two passes for 35 yards. Coach Matt LaFleur said he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of Rodgers playing in the preseason, but number 12 doesn’t see it as being much of a help, especially if it’s just a few plays.
“I definitely don’t see any benefit to playing one series. If we’re going to play, we should play, and play a quarter, a couple series, two or three series. Just suiting up for four plays to me is a waste. When you have a stinker like we did last year in week one, there’s always going to be the second guessing of what happens at training camp, should we have played more, should we have played in the first game, second game, whatever it might be. If we feel like we need to play a quarter or more, that’ll be Matt’s call.”
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ use of the hallucinogenic drink ayahuascaduring an offseason retreat isn’t considered a violation of the NFL’s drug policy.
Rodgers discussed on “The Aubrey Marcus Podcast” last week how he went on an ayahuasca retreat to Peru in 2020, before the third of his four MVP seasons. Ayahuasca is defined as a psychoactive beverage native to South America and is often used for religious, ritualistic or medicinal purposes.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Monday that it wouldn’t have triggered a positive test result on either the substance abuse or performance-enhancing substance policies collectively bargained by the NFL and its players’ association.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported McCarthy’s comment.
Rodgers said on the podcast that the retreat gave him “a deep and meaningful appreciation for life” and added that “I came back and knew I was never going to be the same.” Rodgers said he believed the experience helped pave the way for his success that year.
Andrew McCutchen and Kolten Wong each drove in two runs and the Milwaukee Brewers broke out of their slump to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 on Tuesday night. The Brewers won for just the second time in eight games. They’re 2-5 and have fallen out of first place in the NL Central since trading four-time All-Star closer Josh Hader to the San Diego Padres last week.
Yandy Díaz hit a two-run homer for the Rays. Brewers center fielder Tyrone Taylor made a leaping catch to rob Tampa Bay’s David Peralta of a homer in the second inning.
Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta (4-2) struck out four while allowing two runs, two hits and no walks over five innings in his second start since coming off the injured list. Peralta, who threw 65 pitches Tuesday, had missed nearly 2 1/2 months with a shoulder injury.
Matt Bush struck out two and retired the side in order in the ninth to earn his second save of the season. His other save came on April 23, when he was still with the Texas Rangers, who traded him to the Brewers last week.
McCutchen hit an RBI ground-rule double in the first inning and put the Brewers ahead for good with a run-scoring single in the fifth. His double hit the warning track and bounced over the center-field wall to bring home Christian Yelich, who had drawn a leadoff walk. The run was unearned because Yelich had advanced to second on pitcher Jimmy Yacabonis’ errant pickoff throw.
Yacabonis was filling the role of an opener and worked only the first inning before giving way to Ryan Yarbrough.
Peralta led off the top of the second with a drive to right center, but Taylor timed his jump correctly and reached his glove over the wall to make the catch and prevent a game-tying homer. Taylor added a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the second to extend Milwaukee’s lead to 2-0.
Díaz tied it in the third when he broke out of an 0-for-21 slump with a homer to right center.
The Brewers regained the lead in the fifth. After Willy Adames singled and Rowdy Tellez walked against Yarbrough (0-7), McCutchen greeted Ryan Thompson with a single to center that brought home Adames. Wong followed with a two-run double into the left-field corner to make it 5-2.
Tampa Bay’s Jose Siri hit a one-out RBI double to right in the seventh, but got thrown out attempting to stretch it to a triple. Adames took the throw from right fielder Hunter Renfroe and fired to third in time to retire Siri.
Meanwhile, Manager Craig Counsell said C Omar Narváez will probably remain on the injured list beyond the minimum of 10 days. Narváez went on the injured list Thursday with a strained left quadriceps. P Adrian Houser (right elbow) will make his next rehabilitation appearance for Triple-A Nashville on Thursday.
LHP Jeffrey Springs (4-3, 2.50 ERA) starts for the Rays and RHP Brandon Woodruff (9-3, 3.49) pitches for the Brewers as this two-game series concludes Wednesday afternoon. First pitch is at 1:10 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the Mets beat the Reds 6-2, the Nationals nipped the Cubs 6-5, the Diamondbacks over the Pirates 6-4 and the Rockies pounded the Cardinals 16-5. St. Louis leads Milwaukee by a game in the division.
In the Midwest League Tuesday night South Bend edged the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 8-7 at Fox Cities Stadium. The teams meet again tonight with the first pitch slated for 6:40.
The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters scored six unanswered runs over the final three innings to sweep the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders, 12-6, at Witter Field on Tuesday night. The loss puts the Dock Spiders two games out of a playoff spot with four games remaining. With the loss, the Dock Spiders fell to 34-33 on the year, two games behind the Wausau Woodchucks, who finished a three-game sweep of the Lakeshore Chinooks Tuesday night. The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters wrapped up the Great Lakes West Division second-half title with the win and improved to 54-14.
The Dock Spiders return home Wednesday night for the start of a two-game series against the Lakeshore Chinooks at Herr-Baker Field. First pitch is slated for 6:35.
Another home run, another pitching win, another spot in the history books. Just another night for Shohei Ohtani..
The two-way sensation from Japan withstood another injury scare and pitched six scoreless innings to go with his team-leading 25th home run, reaching yet another monumental milestone as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1 on Tuesday.
Ohtani joined Babe Ruth (1918) as the only players in major league history to have at least 10 home runs and 10 wins in the same season. According to the Angels, two players from the Negro Leagues also did it: Bullet Rogan of the 1922 Kansas City Monarchs and Ed Rile of the 1927 Detroit Stars.
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