8/15/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
15 August 2022 Sports
Sports for Monday
From Wayne Mausser
Albert Pujols homered twice and Miles Mikolas tossed eight effective innings, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 on Sunday. Dylan Carlson and Tyler O’Neill also connected for St. Louis, which pushed its NL Central lead over second-place Milwaukee to 1 1/2 games.
Carlson broke a 2-all tie with his eighth homer of the season, a drive to left against Taylor Rogers (1-6) in the eighth.
Hunter Renfroe and Rowdy Tellez homered for Milwaukee, which beat St. Louis 3-2 in 10 innings on Saturday night.
Pujols hit a solo shot in the second and a three-run drive in the eighth to give him 689 career homers. It was his 63rd career multihomer game, tying him with Willie Mays for fifth all-time. The 42-year-old Pujols ranks fourth on the career homer list behind Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Alex Rodriguez (696). Pujols has 10 homers and 30 RBIs in what he has said will be his last season. Pujols has reached 10 homers for the 21st time in his career.
Milwaukee starter Aaron Ashby gave up two runs and three hits over 6 1/3 innings. Rogers gave up four runs on three hits in 2/3 of an inning.
Brewers RHP Freddy Peralta (4-2, 4.37 ERA) faces Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Julio Urias (12-6, 2.49 ERA) in the first of a four-game set on Monday in Milwaukee. Peralta will be making his 11th start of the season. First pitch is at 7:10 and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Reds beat the Cubs 8-5 and the Giants nipped the Pirates 8-7. The Brewers trail the Cardinals by 1 ½ games in the division.
Drew Rasmussen took a perfect game into the ninth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays expanded their lead over Baltimore for the final AL wild card to 1½ games with a4-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday. Rasmussen allowed his first baserunner when Jorge Mateo doubled down the left-field line on the first pitch of the ninth. Mateo, who went 5-for-5 on Friday night, later scored on a Rasmussen wild pitch.
In the Midwest League Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers defeated South Bend 5-3 at Fox Cities Stadium. There are no games scheduled today.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders defeated the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters, 10-4, in the season finale at Herr-Baker Field. The win ended the Dock Spiders season at 36-35 and continued their streak of finishing above .500 in every year of the franchise’s existence (since 2017). With the win, the Dock Spiders finished the season with the third-best overall record in the Great Lakes West Division. The Dock Spiders also drew 1,684 fans, which marked the fifth straight game with over 1,000 fans at Herr-Baker Field to end the season.
The Packers were back on the practice field Sunday after Friday’s opening preseason loss at San Francisco 28-21 to the 49ers.
Head coach Matt LaFleur announced that OL Elgton Jenkins, TE Robert Tonyan and WR Christian Watson are off the PUP list and were able to get some individual work on Sunday.
“It’s the next step in the process,” LaFleur said. “It’s not like they will be out there in the team drills but they’ll do some individual and with them being back now it allows you to do some walkthroughs which is going to be obviously very beneficial, especially for a guy who hasn’t played in the National Football League like Christian.”
Jenkins and Tonyan are coming off ACL injuries they suffered during the 2021 season. Tonyan tore his ACL week eight and Jenkins suffered his injury in week 11 against the Vikings. Watson had a procedure on his knee before training camp started.
In other injury news, LaFleur said safety Dallin Leavitt will be out “a while” after suffering a shoulder injury in the preseason opener.
The Packers have their own preseason home game this Friday night against New Orleans with the tipoff at 7:00.
Trey Lance flashed his big arm in a brief preseason stint for San Francisco with a 76-yard touchdown pass to speedy rookie Danny Gray that helped the 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 28-21 on Friday night.
Lance played just two series in the game but that was enough to show why the Niners made the decision to transition from Jimmy Garoppolo to Lance at quarterback. Lance delivered a perfect deep strike to Gray on San Francisco’s second possession and Gray raced the rest of the way for the score. The pass traveled 34 yards downfield, longer than all but one of Garoppolo’s completions the past two seasons for San Francisco.
The ability to throw it deep was one reason why San Francisco traded three first-round picks to draft Lance third overall in 2021 to replace Garoppolo. Lance spent most of his rookie season on the bench but has taken over the offense this year as the Niners look to trade Garoppolo. Lance finished 4 for 5 for 92 yards, a TD and a perfect 158.3 rating. He ran it once for 7 yards.
Green Bay’s young quarterback wasn’t as sharp on a night when both teams played only a handful of starters.
Jordan Love threw three interceptions to go along with two TD passes in one half of action with starter Aaron Rodgers sitting out the exhibition game. Love found rookie Romeo Doubs on a 33-yard TD on Green Bay’s second drive and then connected on another 33-yarder to Danny Davis at the end of the half. But he had three interceptions in between those TDs, including one that went off tight end Tyler Davis’ hands. Love, who has thrown just 61 passes since being drafted in the first round in 2020, went 13 for 24 for 176 yards.
The teams then traded TD passes in the fourth quarter, with Danny Etling throwing a 22-yarder to Amari Rodgers to give Green Bay a 21-20 lead and San Francisco answering with Brock Purdy’s 5-yeard TD to Tanner Hudson..
It was an up-and-down debut for Doubs, who has impressed in training camp after being drafted in the fourth round. The highlight was the TD catch but he also dropped a pass and had a ball ripped out of his hands for an interception by Samuel Womack.
One of the big focuses this training camp for Green Bay has been on the special teams after that unit struggled mightily last season and was a major reason why the Packers lost in the divisional round to San Francisco. It didn’t start well in the debut under new coordinator Rich Bisaccia with a holding penalty on the opening kick. But Amari Rodgers did provide a bright spot with a 50-yard kick return.
Backup kicker Gabe Brkic also missed a 32-yard field goal in the third quarter. He was released on Sunday. The Packers then announced the they had signed kicker Ramiz Ahmed (ru-MEEZ ah-med).
On the PGA Tour Sunday Will Zalatoris won the St. Jude Classic in a three-hole playoff over Sepp Straka. He finished at 265 to pick up his first PGA win.
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