8/23/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday
23 August 2024 Sports
Rookie Victor Scott II had three hits and scored the run that snapped a scoreless tie in the seventh, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday.
Masyn Winn and Alec Burleson each added two hits apiece in the nine-hit attack for St. Louis.
The Cardinals won the final two games to take the series after losing seven of their previous nine games.
The Central Division-leading Brewers had won six consecutive games before the consecutive losses to the second-place Cardinals, who still trail Milwaukee by 10 games.
Milwaukee recorded just three hits, with only one after the first inning. After William Contreras, their third batter in the lineup, singled, the Brewers did not get another hit until the ninth inning with one out.
Andrew Kittridge (2-4) picked up the win with one inning of work. Ryan Helsley pitched the ninth to earn his major league-leading 39th save in 42 opportunities.
Nick Mears (1-5) gave up all three runs on three hits and a walk while recording just two outs in the Cardinals’ three-run seventh.
The Cardinals loaded the bases on three singles with one out. Willson Contreras drew a walk on a 3-2 fastball to score Scott for the game’s first run. Brendan Donovan hit a bloop to shallow center, but Garrett Mitchell threw out Contreras at second base. Winn scored on the force out to chase Mears.
Nolan Arenado singled off reliever Bryse Wilson for the final run.
Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta threw 92 pitches in five innings in his 26th start of the season. He allowed three hits and no runs with two walks and two strikeouts.
Miles Mikolas went six innings. He gave up no runs and allowed two hits with three strikeouts and a walk, throwing 90 pitches. He hasn’t defeated the Brewers at Busch Stadium since Aug. 14, 2022.
The Brewers optioned INF Tyler Black to Triple-A Nashville. OF Blake Perkins (right calf strain) was reinstated from the 10-day injured list.
Brewers: RHP Aaron Civale (4-8, 4.78) will face A’s LHP JP Sears (10-8, 4.15) in Oakland. Civale is 0-0 with a 6.75 ERA in two career starts against Oakland, both coming with Cleveland. First pitch is at 8:40 CDT.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Thursday the Cubs pounded the Tigers 10-2 and the Pirates blanked the Reds 7-0. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by 10 games, the Cubs by 10 ½, the Reds by 11 ½ and the Pirates by 13.
In the Midwest League Thursday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at Great Lake 5-4. They play again tonight with the first pitch at 6:05 CDT.
In NFL Thursday Night Football the Colts beat the Bengals 27-14 and the Bears downed the Chiefs 34-21.
There are three games tonight, Jacksonville is at Atlanta, Miami is at Tampa Bay and the 49ers play the Raiders in Las Vegas.
The Packers had a better performance in their second joint practice of Training Camp.
Fresh off a lackluster trip to Denver a week ago, Jordan Love and company rebounded on Thursday. This with one of the best teams in the NFL from Baltimore, and reigning MVP Lamar Jackson.
Love recovered from an early interception by linebacker Roquan Smith, and threw four touchdown passes in the Red Zone period. Two went to Romeo Doubs.
The others went to Tucker Kraft and Christian Watson, who hauled in a 50-50 ball against Ravens star safety Kyle Hamilton.
Now the attention for the offense turns to Saturday’s preseason game against Baltimore, and the question of whether or not Love and the starters will suit up.
The defense also made their fair share of plays against Jackson and the Ravens offense Thursday. The pass rush caused plenty of havoc in the backfield against Jackson in the red zone period, and didn’t allow a point in all three two-minute drill drives. That included rookie safety Evan Williams picking off back-up QB Josh Johnson in one of the final possessions for Baltimore.
Saturday’s pregame starts at 10:00 with the kickoff at noon and can be heard on FM 102.3, The Bug.
The Green Bay Packers signed DL Keonte Schad. General Manager Brian Gutekunst announced the transaction on Thursday.
Schad (6-2, 284), a first-year player out of Oregon State, played for the New Orleans Breakers of the USFL in 2023, finishing No. 2 in the league with 7.5 sacks. In 2024, he played in the UFL for the Houston Roughnecks, posting 19 tackles (seven solo), a tackle for a loss and a half-sack. The Madison, Wis., native played at Ellsworth Community College before playing in 17 games over two seasons at the University of Minnesota (2019-20) and then one season at Oregon State (2021), where he earned All-Pac-12 honorable mention from the coaches and fourth-team All-Pac-12 honors from Phil Steele’s College Football. He will wear No. 98 for the Packers.
Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant Jon Budmayr are suspended for the Hawkeyes’ season opener as part of a school-imposed penalty for a recruiting violation in late 2022.
Ferentz, the longest-tenured coach in the FBS who has led Iowa since the 1999 season, admitted to a Level II violation for contacting a player and his family prior to him entering the transfer portal.
Iowa did not identify the player, but sources told ESPN that it is quarterback Cade McNamara, who transferred to Iowa from Michigan three days after formally entering the transfer portal.
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