5/28/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
28 May 2024 Sports
From Wayne Mausser
Willy Adames hit a three-run homer during Milwaukee’s five-run eighth inning, and the Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 5-1 on Monday in Craig Counsell’s return to American Family Field.
Counsell, the winningest manager in Brewers history, left Milwaukee after last season when the Cubs signed him to a five-year contract worth over $40 million. He already had managed against his former team when the Cubs took two of three from the Brewers at Wrigley Field from May 3-5.
The Brewers welcomed Counsell back with a brief thank-you video message on the scoreboard that was accompanied by a chorus of boos from Brewers fans in the sellout crowd of 41,882. Counsell was booed every time he left the dugout.
The Cubs lost their fifth straight and wasted a brilliant performance from Justin Steele, who spent most of the day in a pitchers’ duel with Robert Gasser. The Cubs didn’t arrive in Milwaukee until early Monday morning following a 4-3 loss at St. Louis in a rain-delayed game Sunday night.
The NL Central-leading Brewers lead the Cubs by 4½ games.
Steele pitched seven innings before the Brewers broke through against Mark Leiter Jr. (1-3) and Hayden Wesneski in the eighth. Milwaukee’s Bryan Hudson (3-0) worked his way out of a jam in the seventh and worked a scoreless eighth for the win.
Cubs starting pitchers have combined to throw 25 1/3 shutout innings in four games against the Brewers this season. Milwaukee went scoreless against Wesneski, Jameson Taillon and Javier Assad at Wrigley Field earlier this month.
But the Brewers have feasted on the Cubs’ bullpen. They did it again on Monday.
Sal Frelick started the eighth with a pinch-hit single, and Brice Turang walked against Leiter. William Contreras then hit a potential double-play grounder that went off the glove of third baseman Nick Madrigal and headed into left field, with Frelick scoring on the error.
After Leiter struck out Christian Yelich, Adames greeted Wesneski with a 427-foot drive over the center-field wall on a 3-0 sinker. Jackson Chourio capped the rally with a two-out double that brought home Joey Ortiz.
Seiya Suzuki walked and Cody Bellinger singled off Hoby Milner to start the ninth. After Christopher Morel struck out looking, Patrick Wisdom hit a sacrifice fly for the Cubs.
The game ended with Dansby Swanson flying out to the warning track in left.
Gasser struck out seven and walked none in six innings. The rookie left-hander has a 1.96 ERA through his first four career starts.
After allowing one hit in the first six innings, Gasser allowed consecutive singles to Suzuki and Bellinger to open the seventh.
RHP Ben Brown (1-1, 3.20 ERA) pitches for the Cubs and RHP Freddy Peralta (3-3, 3.81 ERA) starts for the Brewers on Tuesday. First pitch is at 6:40 from American Family Field.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Monday there was just one game as the Reds beat the Cardinals 3-1. The Brewers lead the Cubs by 4 ½ games, the Cardinals are 5 1.2 out, the Pirates 6 ½ and the Reds are 7 ½ games behind.
There were no games Monday in the Midwest League. Tonight the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are at Fort Wayne tonight with the first pitch set for 6:40.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders opened the their 8th season in the Northwoods League on Monday, losing at home to the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. Tonight, the Dock Spiders travel to Wisconsin Rapids with the first pitch slated for 635.
In the NBA Eastern Conference Finals Monday night the Celtics advanced to the NBA Finals with a 105-102 win at Indiana and sweeping the Pacers 4-0. Jaylen Brown led Boston with 29 points and Jayson Tatum scored 26 to lead the way. Brown was also named the series MVP, averaging 29.8 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists
Andrew Nembhard led Indiana with 24 points and Pascal Siakam had 19. The Pacers played game’s 3 and 4 without their leading scorer, former Oshkosh North star Tyrese Haliburton, who was out with a hamstring injury.
The Celtics will play the winner of the Western Conference Finals. Dallas is leading 3-0 in against the Minnesota Timberwolves and can sweep the series tonight at home.
Bill Walton, who starred for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins before becoming a Hall of Famer for his NBA career and one of the biggest stars in basketball broadcasting, died Monday, the league announced on behalf of his family. Walton, who had a prolonged fight with cancer, was 71.
He was the NBA’s MVP in the 1977-78 season, a two-time champion and a member of both the NBA’s 50th anniversary and 75th anniversary teams and a Hall of Famer. That followed a college career in which he was a two-time champion at UCLA and a three-time national player of the year.
After his playing career ended he had a successful career in the broadcast booth.
Josef Newgarden once again brought his victorious Team Penske car to a stop on the Yard of Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He found that same hole in the fence, climbed through, and was pummeled by fans celebrating his second consecutive Indianapolis 500 triumph.
Everything about his victory Sunday — right down to the last-lap duel, this time with Pato O’Ward — seemed just like last year.
The only difference was the circumstances.
A year ago, Newgarden was the hard-luck driver who had accomplished so much yet never won “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” On Sunday, he was the superstar winning the race in the shadow of a cheating scandal that kept his race strategist from even being inside the speedway for the rain-delayed race.
Newgarden put the cheating scandal behind him to become the first back-to-back winner of the Indy 500 since Helio Castroneves 22 years ago and give Roger Penske a record-extending 20th win in the biggest race in the world.
The Tennessean passed O’Ward on the final lap to become the first driver to win consecutive 500s since Castroneves did it for Penske in 2001 and 2002. Newgarden also celebrated last year by climbing through a hole in the fence to celebrate with fans in the grandstands.
O’Ward has finished second to Newgarden in six different races and was still struggling with his emotions an hour after the race. He said he’s battled the flu the last week and barely slept the last five days.
Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing finished third as the highest-finishing Honda driver and had empathy for O’Ward. Dixon is a six-time IndyCar champion who is considered the greatest driver of his era, and he has one win in the Indy 500.
For just the third time in program history, the UW-Oshkosh softball team punched its ticket to the DIII College World Series.
After being shut out by Trine University in the Super Regional on Thursday afternoon, the Titans completed the double header sweep on Friday to knock off the defending champions and keep their national title hopes alive.
The Titans won the first game 3-1 and the second game 5-2.
The Titans play Virginia Wesleyan University today at Marshall, Texas with the first pitch at 130. Their previous two appearances came in 1988 and 2021.
Christopher Bell won the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway after the race was called around midnight due to wet weather with 151 laps remaining. The race had been red-flagged for more than two hours following a steady downpour.
Attempts to dry the track were unsuccessful after Bell led a race-high 90 laps in his Joe Gibbs Racing
No. 20 Toyota for his eighth career Cup Series win, and his first crown jewel race.
Fans booed loudly after it was announced the race would not continue.
Brad Keselowski finished second, followed by William Byron, Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin.
The race was red-flagged just as Kyle Larson arrived at Charlotte Motor Speedway to take over driving Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 5 Chevrolet.
Larson had hoped to become the first driver since Tony Stewart to run all 1,000 laps as part of the Indianapolis 500 Cocal Cola 600 double but bad weather in Indianapolis quickly nixed those plans.
After finishing 18th at the Indianapolis 500, Larson was shuttled out of the track and one plane and two helicopter rides later arrived at the 1.5-mile oval at Charlotte to cheers from the crowd.
He jogged to his pit stall in his fire suit and strapped on his helmet — only to have the race halted moments later by a heavy downpour.
He never got a chance to turn a lap at Charlotte.
David Riley got his first individual victory on the PGA Tour after playing in the final group Sunday with Scottie Scheffler. Riley shot even-par 70 to finish at 14-under 266, five strokes ahead of the world’s No. 1 player and Keegan Bradley.
After beginning the final round with a 4-stroke lead, Riley gave up a stroke with a bogey on the second hole when he drove into the right rough then hit into the bunker. But that was the closest Scheffler — or anybody else — would get with wind gusts of 20 mph and greater blowing throughout the day, and with firm greens.
The 27-year-old Riley’s only other PGA Tour win came when he and Nick Hardy won the Zurich Classic team event in New Orleans last year. The Mississippi native’s win at historic Colonial, which had been completely restored since last year’s tournament, earned him $1.638 million, the traditional winner’s plaid jacket and a fully restored and modernized 1975 Stingray car. The final round was played on the same day that Grayson Murray’s parents said their 30-year-old son took his own life Saturday, a day after the two-time PGA Tour winner had cited illness when withdrawing from the event with two holes left in his second
round. The family had insisted to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan for play to continue.
Richard Bland had time off from LIV Golf and made it pay off in a major way Sunday when he won the Senior PGA Championship in his senior major debut, closing with an 8-under 63 for a 3-shot victory at Harbor Shores.
In a final round delayed by about an hour because of storms, Bland hit what amounted to the winning shot on the par-5 15th, an approach to 6 feet for eagle. That took him from 1 shot behind Greg Chalmers to a 1-shot lead when Chalmers could manage only a par.
Richard Green shot 65 and took second place alone without ever having a serious of chance of winning.
Wisconsin/s Steve Stricker played a clean round Sunday with birdies on the second, 11th and 15th holes with pars the rest of the way. Stricker shot 274 (66-69-71-68) and finished eighth with his daughter and professional golfer Bobbi Stricker as his caddie.
Jerry Kelly finished tied for 11th.
WIAA Baseball Regionals (Tues.)
Berlin at Kiel
Grafton at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Kewaskum at University School
Edgerton at Waupun
Catholic Memorial at Campbellsport
Wautoma at Laconia
Clinton at Lomira
Mayville at Lake Country Lutheran
Saint Mary’s Springs at Cedar Grvoe-Belgium
Winnebago Lutheran at Kohler/Sheboygan Christian
Cedarburg at Beaver Dam
Oshkosh West at Menasha
New London at Little Chute
Fox Valley Lutheran at Seymour
Shawano at Notre Dame
Xavier at Luxemburg-Casco
Oshkosh North at Fond du Lac
Green Bay Preble at Hortonville
Appleton East at Kaukauna
Sheboygan South at Neenah
Freedom at Mosinee
Lodi at Mauston
Catholic Central at Central Wisconsin Christian
Fall River at Oakfield
Belleville at Pardeeville
Horicon at Kenosha St. Joseph
Softball Sectionals (Tues.)
Plymouth at Waupun
Oshkosh West at Beaver Dam
New London at Mosinee
Seymour at Freedom
De Pere at Kaukauna
Adams-Friendship at River Valley
Johnson Creek at Oakfield
Waterloo at Horicon
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