7/27/23 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday
27 July 2023 Sports
Freddy Peralta pitched six scoreless innings and matched a career-high with 13 strikeouts, Tyrone Taylor hit a two-run homer and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 on Wednesday.
The Brewers (57-46) took two of three games in the series and extended their lead in the NL Central to 1 1/2 games over the Reds (56-48). This marked the final matchup of the season between the teams, with Milwaukee winning the season series 10-3. It was the Brewers’ 12th shutout victory of the season.
After Abraham Toro singled with one out in the seventh off Cincinnati starter Ben Lively (4-6), Taylor followed with a 417-foot blast to left field on the first pitch from Lively to break a scoreless tie. It was just the second home run of the season for Taylor. Taylor entered the day with a .153 average.
Milwaukee extended the lead on Andrew Monasterio’s run-scoring double in the eighth.
Peralta was in a groove from the start. He struck out the side on 11 pitches in the first inning and whiffed the first two batters in the second before Joey Votto’s single.
The 13 strikeouts matched the total Peralta had in his major league debut on May 13, 2018, against the Rockies in Colorado. It was his ninth career game with 10 or more strikeouts and third this season. Peralta and three Brewers relievers combined for 18 strikeouts.
Peralta gave up four hits and didn’t walk a batter. He threw 89 pitches, 60 for strikes. T.J. Friedl had two of the Reds’ four hits off the right-hander, a bunt single and a double.
Manager Craig Counsell said he struggled with the decision to pull Peralta. Elvis Peguero, Joel Payamps and Devin Williams completed the shutout for the Brewers. Peguero (2-3) got the win while Williams retired the side in order in the ninth to record his 26th save in 28 attempts.
Lively gave up eight hits and two runs in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out three and didn’t walk a batter.
The Brewers and Reds won’t meet again over the final two-plus months of the regular season. In other team news the Brewers placed OF Jesse Winker on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Tuesday, with back spasms and recalled Toro from Triple-A Nashville.
Brewers RHP Adrian Houser (3-2, 3.88) gets the start as Milwaukee opens a three-game series on Friday at Atlanta. Houser is 0-3 with a 3.42 ERA in five career games (four starts) against the Braves.
Elsewhere in the NL Central on Wednesday the Cardinals beat the Diamondbacks 11-7, the Pirates edged the Padres 3-2 and the Cubs downed the White Sox 10-7. The Brewers lead the Reds by 1 ½ games and the Cubs are 6 games back.
In the Midwest League Wednesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home over Cedar Rapids 8-7. The T-Rats improve to 39-51. The two teams are back in action tonight with the first pitch set for 6:40.
The Packers opened training camp on Wednesday as Jordan Love takes over at quarterback. The 4th year player received some advice via text from his predecessor, Aaron Rodgers.
The text simply telling Love to “be yourself.”
“He said just be yourself, have fun, enjoy it. It’s obviously my time now, and he just said be yourself. And I mean, that’s all you can do,” said Jordan Love.
Love had an up-and-down day on the field. Fumbling the first snap of team periods in camp. Then Completing half of his passes, but not connecting on any of the deep balls into a stiff wind.
“Just day one that was one thing, I know we have to lock in on that. Day one you have to have those reps on that on deep balls. It takes time. It’s not going to be perfect on the deep ball. After today looking back i feel that was one thing with the throws i missed, wasn’t right over the shoulder like I wanted. The wind accounts for that. you’ll never make excuses for that. You just have to be able to play through it,” said Love.
On Wednesday, the New York Jets announced they had restructured quarterback Aaron Rodgers ‘ contract. That’s not an unusual occurrence and would have passed largely unnoticed around the NFL if not for the numbers that were released. Rodgers wound up taking a pay cut of roughly $35 million to help the Jets out. The Green Bay Packers are probably not to happy to find that out.
When Rodgers was traded from the Packers to the Jets this offseason, he agreed to move a $58.3 million option bonus to 2024 to help the Jets fit him under their salary cap limit. That meant he’d be owed $107 million in 2024. That was untenable, so something had to change. Today that change was announced and it’s mind-boggling. Rodgers and the Jets have agreed to a two-year deal with $75 million in guaranteed money. It will cover the 2023 and 2024 seasons and has two option years tacked onto the end of it to help prorate the signing bonus over a longer time period. His cap number in 2023 will only be $9 million, helping the Jets out tremendously by providing them with a ton of flexibility.
Rodgers had roughly $110 million guaranteed on his old contract, so he’s basically giving up $35 million. The Jets have to be thrilled after they surrendered significant assets to acquire him (first-, second-, sixth-round picks in 2023 and a conditional second-rounder in 2024). The four-time MVP will be 40 by the end of the season but it appears he plans to play multiple years in New York.
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