Wednesday Sports 4/3/19
3 April 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Six games into the season, Orlando Arcia was still waiting for that first hit. The Brewers shortstop finally got it, connecting for the biggest one in Milwaukee’s latest win.
Arcia ended his season-opening slump with a three-run homer in the sixth inning, and Milwaukee extended its domination of the Cincinnati Reds by holding on for a 4-3 victory Tuesday night. Arcia was 0 for 16 when he connected off Michael Lorenzen , who was brought in to face the shortstop with two outs after left-hander Zach Duke (1-1) gave up a walk and a single. Arcia’s opposite-field homer barely cleared the wall in right field and snapped a 1-1 tie.
Milwaukee has won the first two games of the series and 15 of 21 against Cincinnati over the last two seasons. The defending NL Central champions are off to a 5-1 start, one game better than a year ago when they tied the club record with 96 wins.
Jhoulys Chacin (2-0) gave up three hits and a pair of runs in 5 1/3 innings, including Eugenio Suarez’s RBI double . Suarez added a solo homer off Junior Guerra in the eighth. Josh Hader gave up a walk in the ninth while getting his fourth save in four chances, leaving the Reds with a 1/3 start — same as last season.
Christian Yelich singled and doubled, leaving him the only Brewer to hit safely in all six games. The NL MVP is batting .409 with four homers and three doubles.
The team’s wrap up their series today. Freddy Peralta (0-0) starts for Milwaukee against Luis Castillo, (0-0)
First pitch from Great American Ball Park is 11:35 this morning. You can hear the game on AM 1100 and 98.3, WISS.
Sandy Cohen hit a 15-foot jumper with 1.5 seconds remaining to send the Phoenix to the CIT Championship game with an 87-86 overtime win over Texas Southern at the Kress Events Center Tuesday night.
Green Bay’s largest lead was 9 points with a little over 4 minutes to play in regulation, but the Tigers scored 8 straight points to set the stage for a back and forth finish. Tyrik Armstrong scored with 7 seconds remaining to tie the game at 76. Green Bay’s Kam Hankerson missed a shot at the buzzer, although it appeared there was contact, to send the game into overtime.
The Phoenix will play at Marshall Thursday night in the championship game of the College Insider.com Tournament.
The Milwaukee Brewers Single-A Affiliate, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers will begin the 2019 season at Beloit on Thursday, April 4. Wisconsin’s home opener is Saturday, April 6 at 4:05pm against the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
Ripon Sophomore Andew Fuhrmann has been named Midwest Conference Outdoor Track Performer of the Week, as released Tuesday by the conference office. Competing at Thursday’s Carroll Invite, the Exercise Science major from Nekoosa opened Ripon’s outdoor season in style, winning the 400 meters with a lifetime PR of 49.15 seconds, which is tops in the conference this season. He also finished fourth in the 200m (third in the MWC this season), while running a leg on Ripon’s first-place 4×400 relay, which boasts the top time in the MWC this year.
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