8/28/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
28 August 2024 Sports
The Green Bay Packers have made their 53-man roster for the 2024 season official.
Highlights include placing both RB AJ Dillon and TE Tyler Davis on injured reserve, ending their seasons and releasing both quarterbacks, Sean Clifford and Michael Pratt.
Kicker Anders Carlson was released, as veteran Greg Joseph won the roster position, at least for now. Carlson, drafted in the 6th round in 2023, had a rocky season, missing 11 kicks, more than any other kicker in the league, including five extra points. He also missed a crucial field in last year’s NFC Championship game against San Francisco. In the playoff win over Dallas, Carlson missed an extra point.
In this year’s preseason Carlson kicked three straight field goals before missing badly on a 32-yarder last Saturday against Baltimore.
Joseph was inconsistent in the preseason and actually missed more kicks than Carlson.
Quarterbacks(2)
10 Jordan Love, Malik Willis (pending physical)
Released: 6 Sean Clifford, 17 Michael Pratt
Running Backs (3)
8 Josh Jacobs, 32 MarShawn Lloyd, 31 Emanuel Wilson
Injured reserve: 28 AJ Dillon
Released: 38 Ellis Merriweather, 30 Nate McCrary
Wide Receivers (6)
87 Romeo Doubs, 11 Jayden Reed, 9 Christian Watson, 13 Dontayvion Wicks, 18 Malik Heath, 80 Bo Melton
Released: 86 Grant DuBose, 83 Samori Toure, 81 Julian Hicks, 19 Dimitri Stanley, 2 Jalen Wayne
Tight Ends (3)
88 Luke Musgrave, 85 Tucker Kraft, 89 Ben Sims
Injured reserve: 84 Tyler Davis
Released: 82 Joel Wilson, 43 Messiah Swinson, 44 Henry Pearson
Offensive Linemen (10)
74 Elgton Jenkins, 71 Josh Myers, 63 Rasheed Walker, 50 Zach Tom, 77 Jordan Morgan, 75 Sean Rhyan, 73 Andre Dillard, 62 Jacob Monk, 76 Kadeem Telfort, 79 Travis Glover
Released: 70 Royce Newman, 72 Caleb Jones, 78 Luke Tenuta, 61 Lecitus Smith, 67 Donovan Jennings
Mike Yastrzemski hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning to put the San Francisco Giants ahead for good in a 5-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.
Matt Chapman went 3 for 4 with a homer and Grant McCray also went deep for the Giants. Thairo Estrada nearly homered as well, but Milwaukee’s Blake Perkins reached his gloved arm over the center-field wall to catch the Giants second baseman’s leadoff drive in the fifth inning.
The Giants trailed 4-3 before Chapman opened the seventh with a single off Joel Payamps (3-6), who had been unscored upon in his last 11 appearances. Yastrzemski followed with a drive over the wall in right-center.
Milwaukee’s Willy Adames and Jackson Chourio hit towering two-run homers off Giants starter Logan Webb. Before Tuesday, Webb hadn’t allowed a homer in his last 43 1/3 innings.
Chourio’s 449-foot homer – the longest by any Brewer this season — hit just above the “O” in the “One CallThat’s All” slogan on a Gruber Law Offices ad on the bottom left corner of the 12,077-square-foot, center-field scoreboard at American Family Field.
According to MLB.com, the only other players to hit a homer that long in the 20 seasons since Statcast started measuring such data in 2015 were Carlos Correa, Fernando Tatis Jr., Ronald Acuña Jr. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Chourio’s homer put the Brewers ahead 2-1 in the third. The Giants tied the game on Chapman’s two-out homer in the fourth and pulled ahead 3-2 on McCray’s solo shot in the fifth off Milwaukee’s Tobias Myers.
Myers struck out four and allowed three runs, three hits and one walk in five innings.
Milwaukee regained the lead on Adames’ two-run homer, a 435-foot shot to left-center in the sixth inning. Adames’ blast ended the night for Webb, who struck out four but allowed four hits, four runs and three walks.
The Brewers loaded the bases later in the sixth, but Camilo Doval (5-1) retired Chourio on a fly to deep center to end the threat. That missed opportunity proved costly once the Giants rallied in the seventh.
Milwaukee had two men on in the bottom of the seventh, but McCray caught a long fly from Rhys Hoskins at the center-field warning track to end the rally. The Brewers wasted a leadoff single from Sal Frelick in the eighth.
Ryan Walker allowed a two-out single to Adames in the ninth before for retiring Perkins on a fly to right to earn his fourth save in eight opportunities.
LHP Kyle Harrison (7-5, 4.00 ERA) pitches for the Giants and RHP Freddy Peralta (8-7, 3.86) starts for the Brewers when this three-game series continues Wednesday. In other Brewers news, OF Christian Yelich spoke to reporters for the first time since undergoing season-ending back surgery on Aug. 16. The 2018 NL MVP expressed optimism the procedure will help his long-term fortunes. “It’s almost two weeks out,
I’m walking around pretty normal, so everything on that end is pretty good,” Yelich said.
Elsewhere in the NL Central Tuesday the A’s edged the Reds 5-4, the Cubs beat the Pirates 9-5 and the Padres downed the Cardinals 7-5. The Brewers lead the Cubs by 9 games, the Cardinals by 10 ½, the Reds by 12 ½ and the Pirates are 13 ½ games out.
In the Midwest League Tuesday the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won at home over Quad Cities, 10-4. They play again this afternoon with the first pitch at 12:10 at Fox Cities Stadium.
NBA All-Star Tyrese Haliburton was back in his hometown of Oshkosh Tuesday, serving as the keynote speaker for the Oshkosh Area School District’s staff convocation.
On Friday, he will host a youth basketball camp at his alma mater, Oshkosh North High School.
Last summer, Haliburton signed a max contract with the Indiana Pacers worth $260 million. Most recently, he led those Pacers to the Eastern Conference Finals, and followed that up by winning a gold medal in Paris with Team USA.
When asked which accomplishment of his has been most rewarding — aside from financially, of course — Haliburton said nothing could beat becoming an Olympic champion.
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