Tuesday Sports 4/16/19
16 April 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Christian Yelich hit three homers, including a pair of three-run shots, and drove in a career-high seven runs to power the Milwaukee Brewers past the St. Louis Cardinals 10-7 on Monday night.
Yelich, the reigning NL MVP, hit his first three-run homer to cap a six-run second inning. After St. Louis tied it with three runs in the sixth, Yelich answered in the bottom half with a towering three-run blast to right off Mike Mayers (0-1). Yelich capped off his night with his eighth homer this season, going deep to lead off the eighth. He also lined out in the first and was walked intentionally in the fourth.
Junior Guerra (1-0) worked 1 2/3 innings for the victory. Josh Hader struck out the side in the ninth after allowing Marcell Ozuna’s sixth home run to open the inning. In the sixth, the Cardinals loaded the bases with one out. Guerra entered and his first pitch to Paul Goldschmidt sailed past catcher Yasmani Grandal for a run-scoring passed ball. Goldschmidt and Ozuna followed with RBI singles to tie it.
The Brewers erased a 2-0 deficit with six runs in the second off Dakota Hudson. Mike Moustakes opened with his sixth homer. Eric Thames, Ben Gamel, pitcher Freddy Peralta and Lorenzo Cain each singled to account for two runs. Yelich then lined a 1-0 pitch over the wall in left-center. St. Louis made it 6-3 in the third on Yadier Molina’s RBI double.
The Cardinals took a 2-0 lead in the first on consecutive one-out homers by Goldschmidt and Paul DeJong. Goldschmidt has hit five of his seven home runs this season at Miller Park, including a three-homer game on March 29.
Cain robbed Matt Carpenter of a two-run homer with a grab above the center field wall to end the second inning.
Neither starter was effective. Peralta allowed three runs on four hits with three walks in 3 1/3 innings. Hudson was tagged for six runs on eight hits with three walks in 3 2/3. Cardinals: right hander Jack Flaherty, 1-0, will start for St. Louis tonight against right hander Brandon Woodruff, who’s 1-1. The first pitch is at 6:40 from Miller Park. The game can be heard on AM1100/98.3FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central, the Cubs beat the Marlins 7-2 and the Dodgers beat the Reds 4-3.
The Brewers plan to activate right hander Jeremy Jeffress from the injured list for Tuesday’s game against the Cardinals, then will ease him toward the late-inning, high-leverage relief role he filled a season ago. Jeffress led the team with 73 appearances in the regular season last year, during which he put up a 1.29 ERA. He missed the start of this season because his shoulder didn’t respond at the start of Spring Training, but Jeffress reported feeling healthy and strong upon reporting to Miller Park on Monday.
College Softball
Lake Forest College took a doubleheader from Ripon College Monday, winning the first game 1-0 and second game 10-0.
The Green Bay Packers claimed kicker Sam Ficken off waivers from the Seattle Seahawks. Ficken, a 6-foot-1, 192-pound, first-year player out of Penn State, was originally signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2016 but was released late in August that year. He spent part of the 2017 training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs. Late in the 2017 season, Ficken played in two games for the Los Angeles Rams, connecting on two of three field goals, four of five extra points and recording five touchbacks on eight kickoffs. Last season, he appeared in two games for the Rams and made all 10 extra points, one of three field goals and recorded 11 touchbacks on 13 kickoffs. Ficken will wear No. 7 for the Packers.
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