8/16/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
16 August 2024 Sports
Jackson Chourio and Wiliam Contreras homered in the first inning and scored again in an eighth-inning comeback as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied for a 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday.
Devin Williams earned his third save in as many opportunities and ended the game by striking out Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani. That save came one day after Williams preserved a 5-4 triumph by retiring Ohtani, Betts and Freddie Freeman in order.
By winning both games, the Brewers earned a split of the four-game series between division leaders.
The Brewers trailed 4-3 when they loaded the bases to start the eighth as Chourio doubled, Garrett Mitchell walked and Contreras beat out an infield single that went off the left leg of reliever Daniel Hudson (6-2).
Willy Adames’ single to left brought home Chourio with the tying run. Dodgers third baseman Kiké Hernández then dove to his left to field a ground ball from Tyler Black, but didn’t have enough time to throwing to the plate.
Hernández threw to first instead as Mitchell scored the go-ahead run on the fielder’s choice. Contreras scored an insurance run from third when Rhys Hoskins grounded out with a batted ball that also hit Hudson’s leg.
After falling behind 3-0 in the first inning, the Dodgers had rallied to take a 4-3 lead when Hernández greeted Elvis Peguero with a tiebreaking two-out single in the sixth inning.
Milwaukee built the early lead when Los Angeles’ Jack Flaherty gave up homers to two of the first four batters he faced.
After Brice Turang doubled to lead off the first, Chourio hit a 421-foot blast to left center for his 15th homer of the season. The 20-year-old rookie also has 16 steals. According to MLB.com, the only players that young ever to have seasons with at least 15 homers and 15 steals are Andruw Jones, Adrian Beltre, Bryce Harper, Ken Griffey Jr. and Phil Cavaretta.
One out later, Contreras sent a 417-foot drive into the second deck of the left-field seats for his third homer of this series.
But after the Contreras homer, Flaherty didn’t allow another hit until Turang delivered a two-out single in the fifth. The Brewers didn’t score again until their eighth-inning comeback.
Brewers starter Tobias Myers allowed four runs, two earned, and gave up eight hits and one walk while striking out one in 5 2/3 innings. That ended a string of three straight starts in which the rookie right-hander allowed no more than one run.
Bryan Hudson (5-1) earned the win by pitching two innings of scoreless relief.
Brewers: Open a three-game home series with the Cleveland Guardians. The scheduled starting pitchers Friday are RHP Aaron Civale (3-8, 5.02) for the Brewers and RHP Gavin Williams (2-4, 4.38) for the Guardians. First pitch is at 7:10.
The Milwaukee Brewers will be without their star outfielder as the race for the postseason heats up.
The Brewers and Christian Yelich both posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Yelich has opted for season-ending back surgery.
The surgery will be performed in Milwaukee on Friday by Dr. Brandon Rebholz.
The Brewers posted a statement from Yelich, with the outfielder saying “I ultimately felt it was in the best interest of myself and the Brewers with the expectation of being back at 100% for next season.”
In 73 games this season, Yelich hit .315 with a .406 OBP.
The Brewers and Christian Yelich both posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Yelich has opted for season-ending back surgery. The surgery will be performed in Milwaukee on Friday by Dr. Brandon Rebholz.
The Brewers posted a statement from Yelich, with the outfielder saying “I ultimately felt it was in the best interest of myself and the Brewers with the expectation of being back at 100% for next season.”
Meanwhile, reliever Trevor Megill pitched with Timber Rattlers on Thursday as he rehabs from injury.
Megill earned 20 saves in place of an injured Devin Williams earlier this season. Then he landed on the injured list due to a back issue on July 29th.
The right hander took a step wards a return to the big league mound by pitching a scoreless inning in Grand Chute. Megill threw 15 strikes in his 18 pitches, and hit the 96 miles an hour or more 11 times. He finished with one strikeout and allowed one hit in the Timber Rattlers 6-3 win.
There were no other games played in the NL Central Thursday. The Brewers lead the Reds and Cardinals by 9 games, the Cubs are 10 1/.2 out the Pirates are 12 ½ games behind.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home over Peoria at Fox Cities Stadium Thursday, 6-2.They play again tonight with the first pitch at 6:40.
The Packers are practicing with the Broncos today at Broncos Park in Englewood, Colorado. It will be Green Bay’s second preseason game after opening up with a 23-10 win last Saturday in Cleveland against the Browns.
Quarterback Jordan Love is not expected to start. Instead Sean Clifford will be the first quarterback in the game. Following Clifford will be rookie Michael Pratt as they battle for the backup job. The pair split reps with the second unit Wednesday as the coaches continued to mix things up in terms of personnel.
Sunday night’s game begins with the pregame show at 5:00 and the kickoff at 7:30 from Empower Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver and can be heard on FM 102.3, The Bug.
In Thursday Night Football Philadelphia came back late to edge the Patriots 14-13 Foxboro.
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