8/5/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
5 August 2024 Sports
Luis García Jr. homered for the second consecutive day, rookie James Wood hit a bases-loaded triple, and the Washington Nationals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on Sunday.
Mitchell Parker threw six shutout innings for his first victory since June 16 for Washington, which has won back-to-back games since a five-game skid that matched a season high.
Gary Sánchez homered for the NL Central-leading Brewers, who dropped the final two of a three-game series and have lost four of five overall. Milwaukee went 2-4 against Washington this year, the first time the Brewers lost a season series to the Nationals since 2015.
García put Washington up in the first when he ripped Tobias Myers’ 3-1 fastball to center for his 13th home run of the season. The second baseman, who homered in Saturday’s 6-4 victory, had his seventh multi-hit game in his last 10 outings and is hitting .398 (33 for 83) with six homers and 17 RBIs since July 3.
It was all the Nationals managed against Myers (6-5), who allowed four hits and struck out two in five innings. But Washington immediately pounced when left-hander Hoby Milner entered to start the sixth, loading the bases with three singles.
Wood then laced an opposite-field fly down the left-field line. It got past a diving Jackson Chourio and clattered around the corner, allowing all three runners to come around on the triple to make it 4-0.
Milwaukee scored three runs in the eighth off Robert Garcia, including Sánchez’s two-run shot to left-center.
Parker (6-6) allowed three hits and three walks, struck out three and permitted only one baserunner past second base. The rookie was winless in his previous seven starts, including a July 13 outing at Milwaukee when he yielded five runs in two-thirds of an inning.
The Brewers are off today.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Sunday the Giants beat the Reds 8-2, the Diamondbacks shaded the Pirates 6-5 and the Cubs beat the Cardinals 6-2. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by 5 ½ games, the Pirates by 6, the Cubs by 8 ½ and the Reds are 9 games out.
In the Midwest League Sunday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home in a slugfest over South Bend 15-12 to improve to 65-36. There are no games scheduled in the Midwest League today.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders fell to La Crosse to close the home stand and split the two-game series with a 21-11 loss. The Dock Spiders’ record moved to 25-38 with the loss and 12-18 in the second half. The Dock Spiders head to Madison for their second to final road game of the season on Monday with first pitch against the Mallards at 6:05 p.m.
The Packers held their Family Night Saturday evening in front of sold out Lambeau Filed crowd. Fans took advantage of all the activities on hand, like hanging out on Ariens Hill, throwing around the pig skin, or even painting the wall on the east side of Titletown Football Field.
It was a good night for third year wide receiver Romeo Doubs. He made several big plays under the Saturday night lights, but his back-to-back touchdown catches during an early red-zone period ranked among the offense’s biggest highlights of the evening.
Doubs opened with a 6-yard TD off a slant from quarterback Jordan Love before skying for a 3-yard score off a quick fade on the next play. He put an exclamation mark on the two scores with a Lambeau Leap.
Christian Watson also brought fans to their knees when he looked in a near-perfect TD pass from Love against Alexander in 1-on-1s between the receivers and cornerbacks.
The No. 1 offense was clicking early, but the defense made things difficult from then. There was one injury scare, but everybody’s fine. When Love tried a really tight throw down the middle seam for Watson and rookie safety Evan Williams came over to break it up, the collision near midfield wasn’t exactly kind to Watson, who was between multiple defenders.
Holding his right side, he was checked out on the sideline and eventually returned to practice, but it looked like it could’ve been worse.
Kicking at different intervals throughout the practice, Greg Joseph and Anders Carlson both made their field goals from 43, 45, 47, 49 and 52 yards to start. Then came the really tough ones.
Carlson was good from 54 but Joseph missed wide left. Then they both hit from 55, with Carlson’s sailing through with plenty to spare. Unfortunately, they ended practice with both missing from 57.
Joseph’s two misses on the night broke a long streak of makes that dated back several days. He’s now missed four field goals in camp. Carlson has missed seven.
Defensively, a hat tip to rookie cornerback Kalen King, who showed as he’s done all camp that he’ll just keep battling. Early in practice, in one-on-ones near the goal line, King was beaten twice on inside moves that are difficult to defend with no one else out there. But he battled back to get a breakup before that period ended, and then he broke up two passes in 11-on-11 with tight coverage, one on a fade to Julian Hicks.
The U.S. continues to lead in the medal count at the Paris Olympics. with 72, including 19 gold, 27 silver and 26 bronze. China is next with 48 medals and leads with 20 gold medals. France has 44 medals. The Olympics end Sunday
Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says a Mississippi judge improperly blocked his lead attorney from representing him in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover misspent welfare money.
Using another of his attorneys, Favre filed an appeal Thursday asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn the ruling that Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson issued July 11.
The Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit in 2022 against Farve and more than three dozen other people, groups and companies. The state auditor has said welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest residents in the U.S. was spent instead on projects pushed by wealthy and well-connected people, including a university volleyball arena backed by Favre. Peterson wrote in her order that one of Favre’s New York-based attorneys, Daniel Koevary, had violated rules for Mississippi civil court procedures by repeatedly demanding hearings “for matters unrelated to and not within the jurisdiction of this Court to resolve.” Peterson also wrote that she deemed the behavior “an attempt to manufacture discord.”
One of Favre’s Mississippi-based attorneys, Michael J. Bentley, wrote in the appeal Thursday that Peterson’s order causes irreparable harm.
Mississippi Auditor Shad White said in 2020 that Favre, a Pro Football Hall of Fame member who lives in Mississippi, had improperly received $1.1 million in speaking fees from a nonprofit organization that spent welfare money with approval from the Mississippi Department of Human Services. The welfare money was to go toward a volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre agreed to lead fundraising efforts for the facility at his alma mater, where his daughter started playing on the volleyball team in 2017.
Favre repaid $500,000 to the state in May 2020 and $600,000 in October 2021, White said in a court filing in February that Favre still owes $729,790 because interest caused growth in the original amount he owed.
Favre is not facing any criminal charges.
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