Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday 8/5/19
5 August 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Jason Heyward drove in three runs, Yu Darvish pitched five effective innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the slumping Milwaukee Brewers 7-2 on Sunday to sweep their weekend series. Heyward and Kyle Schwarber homered as the NL Central leaders won for the 11th time in 13 games at Wrigley Field. Anthony Rizzo collected four hits. Christian Yelich hit his major league-best 37th homer for Milwaukee, which has dropped four straight and six of seven. The third-place Brewers trail the Cubs by four games. Milwaukee rookie Trent Grisham picked up his first major league hit in the first and his first homer in the eighth. He went 3 for 4 in his third big league game. Darvish (4-5) allowed one run and five hits, struck out eight and walked none. He retired 10 straight batters at one point. Since the beginning of July, the right-hander has 44 strikeouts and just two walks over six outings. Chicago starters have gone six straight games without issuing a walk, which the team says is its longest such streak since at least 1905. Derek Holland pitched a scoreless inning and Tyler Chatwood finished for his second save. Milwaukee starter Adrian Houser (4-5) allowed four runs and nine hits in five innings. With two outs in the first, Yelich homered to left on a 3-2 pitch from Darvish. Heyward tied it with his second leadoff homer of the series, driving Houser’s first pitch over the wall in center for his 17th homer on the season. The Cubs grabbed a 3-1 lead in the second. Heyward drove in the first run with a triple and then scored on a single by Nicholas Castellanos. Schwarber’s solo drive to right in the fifth – his 25th homer on the season – made it 4-1. Heyward drove in another run in the sixth on a fielder’s choice grounder. Chicago added two more runs in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Tony Kemp and an RBI single by David Bote off Alex Claudio. The Brewers open a three-game series at Pittsburgh tonight. Right-handed pitcher Jordan Lyles (6-7, 5.15 ERA) will start for Milwaukee against another righty, Dario Agrazal (2-2, 3.65 ERA). First pitch is at 6:05 and the game is heard on AM1100/98.3FM, WISS.
Elsewhere in the N.L. Central on Sunday, the Reds beat the Braves 6-4, the Mets pounded the Pirates 13-2 and Oakland beat St. Louis 4-2. The Cubs lead the Cardinals by 1 ½ games and the Brewers by four.
The Green Bay Packers will hold two training camp practices with the Houston Texans on today and tomorrow. Both practices will take place at 10: 15 a.m. The Texans will begin practice on Clark Hinkle Field and then will join the Packers on Ray Nitschke Field for the joint portion of each practice. The first practice is scheduled to last 2 ½ hours. The two teams will do 7-on-7 drills, 1-on-1’s offensive line versus defensive line drills. LaFleur made it clear there will not be any wide receiver versus defensive back 1-on-1 drills. The two teams will have both fields at Ray Nitschke Field with offense vs. defense drills competing against each other groups. The second practice will be “tapered back” compared to the first joint practice according to LaFleur. This is the first time the Packers will host another NFL team for training camp practices since 2005 when then head coach Mike Sherman had the Buffalo Bills for practice and a Family Night scrimmage.
Former wide receiver Jordy Nelson, who played 10 seasons (2008-17) in Green Bay, has informed the club of his decision to retire with the Packers. The announcement was made Sunday by General Manager Brian Gutekunst. Nelson, who was selected by the Packers in the second round (No. 36 overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft out of Kansas State, played in 136 regular-season games with 88 starts during his 10 seasons with Green Bay. He ranks No. 3 in franchise history in receptions (550), No. 5 in receiving yards (7,848), No. 2 in touchdown receptions (69) and No. 3 in 100-yard receiving games (25). Nelson is the only player in team annals to record three seasons with 13-plus touchdown receptions (2011, 2014, 2016). He and Sterling Sharpe (1992-94) are the only players in franchise history to register three straight seasons with 85-plus receptions (2013-14, 2016).
In Northwoods League baseball action on Sunday, the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders beat the Kalamazoo Growlers 6-3 to complete a sweep. The victory was their fourth straight. The Dock Spiders play the Kokomo Jackrabbits tonight. First pitch is at 6:35.
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