Monday Sports 4/22/19
22 April 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Cody Bellinger saved a run with his glove and nailed down a series-clinching win for the Los Angeles Dodgers with his bat. Bellinger reached over the right field wall to rob Christian Yelich in the eighth inning of yet another home run, then hit a solo drive off Josh Hader with two outs in the ninth to lift the Dodgers over the Milwaukee Brewers 6-5 on Sunday. Bellinger connected for his 11th home run after pinch hitter Eric Thames launched a three-run homer off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen (2-0) with two outs in the eighth that made it 5-all. Bellinger hammered a two-strike slider from Hader. On Friday night, the hard-throwing Hader (0-2) gave up a three-run homer to Enrique Hernandez in the eighth that led Los Angeles to a 5-3 win. Joc Pederson hit two home runs on his 27th birthday Sun day, including a drive to begin the game, and tied a career high with four hits. He scored three times as the Dodgers won for the seventh time in eight games.
Los Angeles took three of four games at Miller Park. Last year, the Dodgers won Game 7 of the NL Championship Series in Milwaukee. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw allowed two hits and two runs in six effective innings in his second start of the season. The lefty opened on the injured list with left shoulder inflammation.
Pederson homered to straightaway center on the second pitch of the game against Brandon Woodruff. Corey Seager followed with a double and scored on Bellinger’s single. Seager’s RBI double in the second extended the lead to 3-0. The cushion grew to 4-0 on Bellinger’s run-scoring single. The Dodgers tacked on another run on Pederson’s second homer of the game, a leadoff shot off Woodruff in the fourth. After failing to get a hit off Kershaw through four innings, the Brewers broke through in the fifth. Orlando Arcia led off with a triple and Lorenzo Cain homered into the Milwaukee bullpen in left-center with one out to cut the lead to 5-2.
Adrian Houser will be recalled from Triple-A San Antonio and make his first career start on Monday against the Cardinals Jack Flaherty in St. Louis. First pitch is at 6:45 and the game can be heard on AM1100/98.3FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the NL Central, the Giants edged the Pirates 3-2, the Cardinals beat the Mets 6-4, the Cubs shaded the Diamondbacks 2-1, and the Padres nipped the Reds 4-3.
The Bucks will try tfor a series sweep tonight in their first round playoff series with the Pistons in Detroit. Milwaukee has a commanding 3-0 lead after winning Saturday night 119-103. Khris Middleton had 20 points and nine rebounds while Brook Lopez and Eric Bledsoe each scored 19 points for Milwaukee. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 14 points and 10 rebounds, struggling with foul trouble. Andre Drummond had 12 points and 12 rebounds. The Bucks have won the first three games by an average of 24 points. The Bucks hadn’t won the first three games of a playoff series since a three-game sweep of the New Jersey Nets in the 1986 first round.
In golf, C.T. Pan rallied in the final round to win the RBC Heritage for his first PGA Tour victory by one stroke over Matt Kuchar. Pan finished at 12-under 272. Third round leader Dustin Johnson had a 77 to tie for 28th at 4 under. He played a five-hole stretch on the back nine in 7 over, making bogeys on Nos. 11-13 and double bogeys on Nos. 14-15.
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