Weekday Morning Sports – Monday 10/30/17

95.7 & 1400 WSJM Sports     @wsjmsports     wsjmsports.com     Monday, October 30, 2017

MLB – Major League Baseball – 2017 World Series (Best of 7)
Last Night
Houston Astros 13, Los Angeles Dodgers 12 – 10 Innings                     (HOU Leads 3-2)

Astros 13, Dodgers 12 – 10 Inn. – Astros blast by Dodgers 13-12 in 10th, lead World Series 3-2
Alex Bregman hit a game-ending single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the 10th inning Monday morning, and the Houston Astros outslugged the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 to take a 3-2 World Series lead. Silent early when ace Dallas Keuchel allowed Los Angeles to spurt ahead 4-0, the crowd erupted over and over as the Astros sent balls careening all around _ and out of _ pulsating Minute Maid Park.  Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, Yuli Gurriel, George Springer and Brian McCann homered for Houston, which tied the score 4-4 against Clayton Kershaw, fell behind 7-4 on Cody Bellinger’s three-run homer, then rallied again to lead 11-8 after seven innings and 12-9 after eight. Yasiel Puig’s two-run homer in the ninth off Chris Devenski was the record 22nd of the Series, and Chris Taylor tied the score with a two-out, two-strike RBI single. Jensen hit McCann with a pitch with two outs, George Springer walked and Derek Fisher pinch ran for Bregman at second. Bregman won the 5-hour, 17-minute marathon with a liner into left field.  Joe Musgrove, Houston’s seventh pitcher, threw a scoreless 10th for the win.  Game 6 is Tuesday featuring the same pitching matchup as game 2 with Justin Verlander for the Astros and Rich Hill for L.A.

NFL – National Football League – Week 8
Last Night
New Orleans Saints 20, Chicago Bears 12
Cincinnati Bengals 24, Indianapolis Colts 23
Pittsburgh Steelers 20, Detroit Lions 15

Saints 20, Bears 12 – Brees leads Saints past to 5th straight win
Drew Brees completed 23 of 28 passes for 299 yards against a Bears defense that ranked sixth against the pass, and the New Orleans Saints beat Chicago 20-12 Sunday for their fifth straight win.  Running backs Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara each ran for touchdowns for New Orleans. Ingram finished with 99 yards from scrimmage, including 75 on the ground, but his two late fumbles kept the Bears in the game into the final minutes. Kamara had 76 yards from scrimmage, 48 receiving. The Saints were threatening to score twice in the fourth quarter when the Bears stripped the ball from Ingram. Chicago converted the first fumble into its only touchdown with 3:43 to go on Tarik Cohen’s short dive over a pile of players at the goal line. The second turnover occurred with a little more than two minutes left on the Bears 30, but Chicago was unable to get a first down as rookie Mitchell Trubisky’s fourth-and-1 pass fell incomplete.

Bengals 24, Colts 23 – Dunlap’s interception rallies Bengals over Colts 24-23
Lineman Carlos Dunlap returned an interception 16 yards for a TD with 6:58 left before the extra point gave the Bengals a 24-23 win over the Colts. Andy Dalton was 17 of 29 for 243 yards with a pair of touchdowns in a game that featured four lead changes before Cincinnati improved to 3-4 and dropped Indianapolis to 2-6. Colts tight end Jack Doyle had 12 catches for 121 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown.

Steelers 20, Lions 15 – Lions get close but can’t reach end zone against Steelers
JuJu Smith-Schuster scored on a 97-yard touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger late in the third quarter, and the Pittsburgh Steelers forced the Detroit Lions to turn the ball over on downs twice in a 20-15 win Sunday night.  Smith-Schuster, selected No. 62 overall out of Southern California, had season highs with seven receptions for 193 yards. Pittsburgh’s defense put up a curtain in front of it end zone, forcing the Lions to settle for field goals. When they went for touchdowns, the Steelers stopped them.  Detroit put up 482 yards of total offense but went 0 for 5 in the redzone on touchdowns, scoring 5 Matt Prater Field goals.  The Lions fall to 3-4 and will travel to Green Bay for a game on Monday Night Football

Tonight
Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:30 p.m.                95.7 & 1400 WSJM Sports 7:45

NBA – National Basketball Association
Last Night
Indiana Pacers 97, San Antonio Spurs 94
Detroit Pistons 115, Golden State Warriors 107

Pacers 97, Spurs 94 – Oladipo lifts Pacers over Spurs
Victor Oladipo scored 23 points, including the decisive 3-pointer, to lift Indiana past San Antonio 97-94.  LaMarcus Aldridge scored 26 points lead San Antonio, which lost its second game in a row after a four-game, season-opening winning streak.  Oladipo sank a 3-pointer with 10.3 seconds to go to give Indiana a 95-94 lead. Aldridge missed a jumper with 5.1 seconds left. Cory Joseph was fouled with 3.4 seconds remaining and hit both free throws to push the lead to three. Patty Mills missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer just before the buzzer.

Pistons 115, Warriors 107 – Warriors handed second loss at home, fall 115-107 to Pistons
Avery Bradley scored 23 points, Reggie Jackson had 22 and the Pistons handed the defending NBA champion Warriors their second home loss of the season by the score of 115-107.  Tobias Harris hit a 3-pointer for Detroit with 1:27 remaining that all but sealed it after Kevin Durant fueled a late Warriors rally.  The Warriors lost only twice total at Oracle Arena in both their 2015 championship year and again in the 73-win season that followed, and then just five times at home on the way to another title this year.  Klay Thompson scored 29 for Golden State and became the 11th player in franchise history to eclipse 9,000 career points. Durant wound up with 28 points.

NASCAR – Kyle Busch advances in Cup playoffs
Kyle Busch is the first driver into NASCAR’s championship race after using an overtime pass of teammate Denny Hamlin to win at Martinsville Speedway. Hamlin and Chase Elliott had a heated conversation after the checkered flag because Hamlin wrecked Elliott out of the lead to send the race into overtime. Hamlin restarted as the leader, but Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Busch ran inside of him to snatch the lead away. Martin Truex Jr. went with Busch, and Hamlin faded all the way to seventh.

NCAA Football – Bulldogs move to No. 2
The SEC now boasts the top two teams in the AP college football poll after Georgia climbed one spot to No. 2.  Top-ranked Alabama picked up 59 of 61 first-place votes, but the Bulldogs received two first-place selections after the Crimson Tide had been the unanimous No. 1 selection the previous two weeks.  The Tide are the only top-10 team to retain the same position it held last week. Ohio State climbed to third, followed by Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Clemson, Penn State, Oklahoma, Miami and TCU. The Nittany Lions dropped five spots with Saturday’s loss to the Buckeyes, and the Horned Frogs sank five notches by losing to Iowa State. The Cyclones jumped from 25th to 14th.

Golf – PGA – Armour gets first PGA win
Ryan Armour has earned his first victory in 105 PGA starts by taking the Sanderson Farms Championship by five strokes over Chesson Hadley.  Armour closed with a 4-under 68 for a 19-under total after beginning the final round with a five-shot advantage.  Jonathan Randolph cut into Armour’s lead with seven birdies on his first nine holes before finishing third at minus-12.

Golf – Champions – Langer goes back-to-back
Bernhard Langer sank a 30-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to beat Miguel Angel Jimenez in the PowerShares QQQ Championship. Langer and Jimenez both shot 5-under 67 in the final round to force the playoff at 11-under.  It was Langer’s second victory in two events of the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs. He is followed in the standings by Scott McCarron, Kenny Perry, Jimenez and Kevin Sutherland.

MHSAA – High School Sports
Tonight
Girls Volleyball – Districts
Class A at Kalamazoo Central
Portage Northern vs. Mattawan, 5:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Central vs. Portage Central, 6:30 p.m.

Class A at Gull Lake (1st round at local sites)
Sturgis at Gull Lake, 6:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Battle Creek Central, 6:00 p.m.
Battle Creek Lakeview at Battle Creek Harper Creek, 6:00 p.m.

Class B at South Haven
Berrien Springs vs. Buchanan, 5:30 p.m.
Niles vs. South Haven, 7:00 p.m.

Class B at Three Rivers
Vicksburg vs. Edwardsburg, 6:00 p.m.

Class B at Hopkins
Allegan vs. Otsego, 7:00 p.m.

Class C at Bridgman (1st round at local sites)
Hartford at Bridgman, 7:00 p.m.
New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 6:00 p.m.
Cassopolis at Watervliet, 5:30 p.m.

Class C at Galesburg-Augusta
Bloomingdale vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 5:30 p.m.
Gobles vs. Kalamazoo Hackett, 7:00 p.m.

Class C at Constantine
Lawton vs. Marcellus, 6:00 p.m.
White Pigeon vs. Schoolcraft, 7:30 p.m.

Class C at Saugatuck
Holland Black River vs. Saugatuck, 6:00 p.m.

Class D at Lake Michigan Catholic (1st round at local sites)
Lawrence at Lake Michigan Catholic, 6:00 p.m.
Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 6:00 p.m.
Countryside Academy at River Valley, 6:00 p.m.

Class D at Martin
Burr Oak at Colon, 5:30 p.m.
Climax-Scotts vs. Kalamazoo Heritage Christian, 7:00 p.m.