Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday 7/16/19
16 July 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Freddie Freeman hit his 25th home run of the season, Max Fried pitched five scoreless innings and the Atlanta Braves’ relievers hung on for a 4-2 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night. The win marked the fifth straight for the first-place Braves who are now a season-best 21 games over .500. Fried (10-4) gave up three hits and struck out five in just 78 pitches. The left-hander is now 2-0 with 11 shutout innings pitched against Milwaukee this year. Luke Jackson pitched the ninth for his 17th save of the season. Freeman put Atlanta on the board first in the fourth with a three-run homer to center field. The blast scored Ronald Acuña Jr. and Darby Swanson who each reached on a base hit. The Braves improve to a major-league best 40-17 since manager Brian Snitker moved Acuña Jr. to the top of the order on May 10. Right-hander Adrian Houser (2-4) fell to 0-4 as a starter this season after allowing four earned runs on eight hits in six innings. Milwaukee, which stranded seven baserunners, has now dropped five of their last six and eight of their last 10 games. Ryan Braun hit his 13th home run of the season in the sixth and Keston Hiura hit an RBI triple that pulled Milwaukee to within 3-2. Austin Riley singled on a fly ball off Braun’s glove in the seventh. The base hit scored Ozzie Albies. Christian Yelich had two hits on the night and added a stolen base, his 22nd of the season.
Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff (10-3, 3.67 ERA) will face right-hander Bryse Wilson (1-0, 6.14 ERA) this evening in the second game of the three-game series at Miller Park. Wilson will be recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett. Tonight is expected to be a spot start for Wilson. First pitch is at 7:10 and the game can be heard on AM1100/98.3FM, WISS.
Meanwhile, Brewers left-hander Gio Gonzalez pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowed one run on five hits and struck out four in a rehab start Monday for the Triple-A San Antonio Missions. Gonzalez surrendered a home run in the start against Nashville. He threw 68 pitches, 44 for strikes. The two-time All-Star hasn’t pitched for the Brewers since being placed on injured list June 1 with left arm fatigue.
Elsewhere in the N.L. Central on Monday, the Reds beat the Cubs 6-3 and St. Louis shut out Pittsburgh 7-0. The Cubs lead the Cardinals by two games, while the Brewers are 2 ½ out and Cincinatti and Pittsburgh are 5 ½ games behind.
The Midwest Conference (MWC) announced its Academic All-Conference honorees
for the 2018-19 academic year, which includes 1,469 student-athletes,
representing the MWC’s 10 core institutions, plus two affiliate schools, in
20 sponsored sports. Ripon College earned 132 honors on this year’s
Academic All-Conference team, which is five more than they received last
year.
The criteria to become an Academic All-Conference selection includes a
minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.33 which is calculated only in the
awarded academic year. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors who letter
in any of the MWC’s fall, winter or spring sports are eligible for the
award.
Menominee Nation Arena, the home of the Wisconsin Glo, has been chosen to host the 2019 Global Women’s Basketball Association Playoffs.
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