95.7 & 1400 WSJM Sports @wsjmsports wsjmsports.com Monday, May 01, 2017
MLB – Major League Baseball
Yesterday
Detroit Tigers 7, Chicago White Sox 3
Boston Red Sox 6, Chicago Cubs 2
Tigers 7, White Sox 3 – Iglesias drives in 3 to help Tigers end streak
Jose Iglesias doubled and drove in three runs, and the Detroit Tigers ended a four-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday. Jordan Zimmermann (3-1) picked up a sloppy victory, allowing three runs on seven hits and two walks in five-plus innings. He struck out five and gave up one homer. Miguel Gonzalez (3-1) allowed seven runs on a career-high 14 hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out one as the White Sox lost their six-game winning streak. The White Sox took a 1-0 lead in the first when Melky Cabrera singled with two outs and Jose Abreu followed with a triple off the out-of-town scoreboard in deep right-center. Justin Upton’s fifth homer tied the game in the second. He then led off the fourth with a single, moved to second on Alex Avila’s hit and scored on Jim Adduci’s double to left-center field.
Red Sox 6, Cubs 2 – Red Sox take weekend series against Cubs with 6-2 victory
Marco Hernandez scored the go-ahead run on Pedro Strop’s wild pitch in Boston’s four-run eighth inning, helping the Red Sox beat the sloppy Chicago Cubs 6-2 on Sunday night. The Red Sox took two of three in the lively weekend series that featured a strong showing for Cubs fans, chants in support of each side and the World Series trophies that ended long title droughts for the once-frustrated franchises. Hanley Ramirez hit a two-run homer for Boston, and the Red Sox got two more runs on shortstop Addison Russell’s throwing error in the eighth. Kris Bryant hit a solo homer for Chicago, extending his hitting streak to 11 games. The Cubs closed a nine-game road trip at 5-4.
Tonight
Cleveland (Bauer 2-2) at Detroit (Norris 1-2), 7:10 p.m. WSJM Sports/Cosy-FM 6:45
Philadelphia (Velasquez 1-2) at Chicago Cubs (Anderson 2-0), 8:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Covey 0-1) at Kansas City (Vargas 3-1), 8:15 p.m.
NHL – 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs – Round 2 (Best of 7)
Last Night
Nashville Predators 3, St. Louis Blues 1 (NAS leads 2-1)
Anaheim Ducks 6, Edmonton Oilers 3 (EDM leads 2-1)
Tonight
Washington Capitals at Pittsburgh Penguins, 7:30 p.m. (PIT leads 2-0)
NBA – 2017 NBA Playoffs
Last Night – Round 1
Utah Jazz 104, Los Angeles Clippers 91 (UTA wins 4-3)
Last Night – Round 2
Boston Celtics 123, Washington Wizards 111 (BOS leads 1-0)
Tonight
Toronto Raptors at Cleveland Cavaliers, 7:00 p.m. (Game 1)
Houston Rockets at San Antonio Spurs, 9:30 p.m. (Game 1)
NASCAR – Logano pulls away to win at Richmond
Joey Logano won Sunday’s Monster Energy Cup race at Richmond despite starting near the back of the line. Logano pulled away after a restart with about 20 laps to go and finished ahead of teammate and runner-up Brad Keselowski. Logano qualified fifth but had to start 37th after making a transmission change. Keselowski had the dominant car for the second half of the race, but he got stuck behind some slower cars on the late restart, letting Logano pull away. Denny Hamlin was third, followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kevin Harvick. Pole-sitter Matt Kenseth led the first 163 laps to win Stage 1 and raced in the top 10 all day until a flat tire with 35 laps to go. He finished 23rd.
NFL – Bears move up for Trubisky remains controversial with fans
As for the head scratchers, the Bears take the prize. They so coveted North Carolina QB Mitchell Trubisky _ he of the 13 career starts, although impressive ones _ that they spent lavishly to move up one spot from third to second overall for him. That move came in part because GM Ryan Pace felt other teams were desperate to get up to the second spot. Some say he panicked. San Francisco took in that haul, then got the guy it wanted anyway at Number 3, Stanford defensive end Solomon Thomas. Chicago also took Adam Sheehan, a 6-foot-6, 278-pound tight end from Division Two Ashland in the second round. He certainly is a physical specimen, but what a challenge moving up in level of competition he faces. The Bears also took two other small college guys in the first five rounds.
NFL – Buffalo Bills fire general manager Whaley 1 day after draft
Buffalo Bills have fired general manager Doug Whaley one day after the end of the NFL draft. The move appears to solidify rookie head coach Sean McDermott’s control over the team. Team owner Terry Pegula says he reached the decision after a lengthy review of the team.
Golf – PGA – Monday playoff to decide tourney
The PGA’s Zurich Classic won’t be decided until Monday. That’s because Kevin Kisner chipped in for eagle on the 18th hole as darkness fell Sunday night. The chip put Kisner and teammate Scott Brown into a playoff with Jonas Blixt and Cameron Smith. Both teams were 27 under through regulation after Blixt and Smith carried a four-shot advantage into the final round.
Golf – LPGA – Nomura outlasts Kerr near Dallas.
Hara Nomura two-putted for birdie on the sixth playoff hole for her third LPGA Tour victory, the Texas Shootout near Dallas. Cristie Kerr briefly took the lead on the 72nd hole before Nomura birdied the par-5 18th to force the playoff. Nomura recovered following a double-bogey on 17. Kerr and Nomura finished regulation at 3-under 281 at Las Colinas Country Club.
MWL – Midwest League Baseball
Last Night
Fort Wayne 8, South Bend 5
West Michigan 5, Lake County 1
Dayton 7, Great Lakes 1
Lansing at Bowling Green, ppd.
Tonight
No games tonight
MHSAA – High School Sports
Tonight
Girls Soccer
St. Joseph at Lakeshore, 6:45 p.m.
Niles at Portage Northern, 6:45 p.m.
Mattawan at Battle Creek Lakeview, 6:45 p.m.
Kalamazoo Central at Battle Creek Central, 6:00 p.m.
Gull Lake at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:45 p.m.
Edwardsburg at Otsego, 6:45 p.m.
Sturgis at Paw Paw, 6:45 p.m.
Plainwell at South Haven, 6:45 p.m.
Dowagiac at Three Rivers, 6:45 p.m.
Allegan at Vicksburg, 6:45 p.m.
Cassopolis at Berrien Springs, 5:00 p.m.
Covert at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m.
Hartford at Bangor, 6:00 p.m.
Fennville at G.R. Covenant Christian, 6:45 p.m.
Kalamazoo Hackett at Lawton, 6:00 p.m.
Schoolcraft at Watervliet, 5:00 p.m.
Baseball
Cassopolis at River Valley, 4:15 p.m.
Fennville at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Christian at Coloma, 4:30 p.m.
Schoolcraft at Decatur, 4:30 p.m.
Watervliet at Eau Claire, 4:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Hackett at Gobles, 4:30 p.m.
Galesburg-Augusta at Hartford, 4:30 p.m.
Saugatuck at Lawrence, 4:30 p.m.
Constantine at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m.
Delton-Kellogg at Martin, 4:30 p.m.
Softball
Brandywine at Lake Michigan Catholic, 4:15 p.m.
Fennville at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Christian at Coloma, 4:30 p.m.
Schoolcraft at Decatur, 4:30 p.m.
Watervliet at Eau Claire, 4:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Hackett at Gobles, 4:30 p.m.
Galesburg-Augusta at Hartford, 4:30 p.m.
Saugatuck at Lawrence, 4:30 p.m.
Constantine at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m.
Delton-Kellogg at Martin, 4:30 p.m.
