7/19/23 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
19 July 2023 Sports
From Wayne Mausser
Aaron Nola struck out six in 7 1/3 innings, Kyle Schwarber homered and the Philadelphia Phillies moved a season-best 10 games over .500 with a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.
Bryson Stott, Trea Turner and Alec Bohm each had two hits to help the defending NL champion Phillies improve to 52-42 with their fourth consecutive victory. Philadelphia began play a half-game out of a playoff spot. All nine Phillies starters had at least one hit.
Andruw Monasterio had two hits and drove in a run for the NL Central-leading Brewers. Milwaukee had won four in a row.
Nola (9-6) retired the first 14 batters, getting the second out in the fifth inning on Schwarber’s leaping catch against the left-field wall to rob Owen Miller of extra bases.
Raimel Tapia followed and reached on an infield single. Shortstop Turner was shifted up the middle, and he wasn’t able to throw out Tapia at first base after fielding the ball deep in the hole at short.
Monasterio got the Brewers on the board with a double off the center-field wall that scored Tapia, and Milwaukee pulled to 3-2 when Monasterio scored from second on Brice Turang’s grounder that was scored a hit and error on first baseman Darick Hall after Hall dropped the throw from second baseman Stott.
Nola took over from that point, retiring the next seven batters before Monasterio and Turang hit consecutive singles to lead off the eighth. He said one key to his success on the night was slowing down his delivery.
Nola gave up five hits and walked none. Craig Kimbrel pitched around a pair of errors in the ninth for his 16th save.
The Phillies gave Nola an early cushion with single runs off Julio Teheran (2-4) in each of the first three innings. Schwarber led off by driving the first pitch over the wall in left for his career-best fourth straight game with a homer. It was the 26th dinger of the season for Schwarber, who has 26 career leadoff homers and six this year.
Bohm’s RBI groundout in the second, and Nick Castellanos’ RBI single in the third made it 3-2. After Milwaukee closed within a run, Stott hit an opposite-field, RBI single in the fifth to make it a two-run game.
With Nola lifted after 98 pitches with one out in the eighth, the Brewers cut it to 4-3 on Christian Yelich’s groundout off Gregory Soto.
Brewers RHP Colin Rea (5-4, 4.71) opposes Phillies LHP Cristopher Sanchez (0-3, 3.26) on Wednesday night in the second contest of the three-game series. First pitch is at 5:40 CDT.
RHP Brandon Woodruff (right shoulder strain) is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment at High-A Wisconsin on Saturday. Woodruff last pitched April 7.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the Giants took a doubleheader from the Reds, 4-2 and 11-10, the Guardians pounded the Pirates 10-1, the Cubs blasted the Nationals 17-3 and the Cardinals over the Marlins 5-2. The Brewers lead the Reds by 2 ½ games in the division, the Cubs are 7 ½ back, the Cardinals 10 and the Pirates are 11 games behind.
In the Midwest League Tuesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at Dayton 9-8 to improve to 36-47 on the season. They play again tonight with the first pitch at 6:05.
In the Northwood’s League the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders fell to the Kingfish 5-1. The Dock Spiders will be back at home on Thursday night as they take on the Lakeshore Chinooks. First pitch is at 6:35. The Packers will have an MVP quarterback on the roster this season. That’s with the addition of USFL QB Alex McGough.
Green Bay will sign the 2018 seventh round pick, according to a report by Bill Huber of Sports Illustrated.
This spring McGough threw for 2,104 yards and 20 touchdowns while rushing for three more as Birmingham went on to win the USFL title.
He joins a quarterback’s room that is now led by Jordan Love with rookie Sean Clifford and Danny Etling. According to Huber’s source the Packers would carry four quarterbacks into camp.
A corresponding roster move would need to be made to clear room on the roster for McGough.
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