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Brewers to extend protective netting at Miller Park

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Miller Park

The Milwaukee Brewers announced plans on Friday to extend the protective netting on the Field Level at Miller Park for the 2020 season.

The netting will be extended an additional 105 feet on the first-base side to the aisle where Sections 108 and 109 meet.  Along the third-base side, the netting will be extended an additional 145 feet to the aisle of Sections 128 and 129 (extending past the area where the tarp is located).

The height of the extension will be the same as the net that is currently in place.

The project will be completed in time for the exhibition games against the Kansas City Royals on Monday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 24, 2020.

Bakhtiari returns, listed as questionable for Sunday

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David Bakhtiari

After missing practice on Thursday with a sore back, Green Bay Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari returned to practice with the Packers on Friday and is officially listed as questionable on the team’s Friday injury report.

Bakhtiari said his back began “not cooperating” after a practice this week.  He was a limited participant on Wednesday.

“I think we’re going to monitor the next 48 hours and see how it is.  Obviously, we have a lot of time.  So, hopefully,” Bakhtiari said.

Bakhtiari missed the practice reps that would have helped him prepare for Minnesota defensive end Everson Griffen. [Read more…]

Braun, bullpen power Brewers to 7th straight win

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Ryan Braun – File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

Ryan Braun clubbed a two-run homer in the third inning and the Milwaukee Brewers held on to knock off the Miami Marlins 3-2 in Miami on Thursday.

Mike Moustakas drove in the first run for the Brewers with a sac-fly in the first as Milwaukee swept the four game series with the Marlins, extending their win streak to seven straight games overall.

Gio Gonzalez started and worked four innings and the Brewers bullpen didn’t allow a single base runner over the final five innings, striking out ten of the 18 batters they faced.

Freddy Peralta picked up the win and Josh Hader posted his 31st save.

Hernan Perez came up with the key defensive play in the bottom of the first.  The Brewers second [Read more…]

Rodgers not excited about Packers early home-heavy schedule

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Starting with this week’s home game against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field, the Green Bay Packers will play 5 of the next 6 games at the friendly confines.  Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he’s not thrilled with the home heavy schedule because those games could be best served later in the season when the temperature dips below freezing.

“Being an elder statesman,” Rodgers said, “You’d like it to be the opposite.  You’d like it to be the stretch run, five of six at home, as cold as possible, under 32 (degrees) and make some of these teams come play us.”

Now the Packers will finish with a heavy road schedule, which means they need to make hay early.

The Packers will host Denver a week from Sunday, followed by a quick turn-around against the Philadelphia Eagles the following Thursday night.  After a trip to Dallas the following week, the Packers return home to face Detroit and Oakland.  That’s five home games in seven weeks.  After that, the Packers will be forced to play six of their final nine games away from Lambeau Field.

AUDIO: Aaron Rodgers not a fan of 5 of 6 at home right now :16

 

 

Moustakas leads Brewers to 6th straight win (AUDIO)

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Mike Moustakas returned to the Brewers lineup on his 31st birthday and celebrated by clubbing two home runs in a 7-5 Milwaukee victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night.  It was their sixth straight victory, drawing even with the rival Chicago Cubs for the final wild card playoff spot in the National League.

Chicago fell to the San Diego Padres 4-0 in San Diego.

The Brewers played for the first time without star Christian Yelich, who is sidelined for six weeks with a fractured right kneecap.

Moustakas’ first home run of the night came in the third.  Cory Spangenberg singled to lead off and Yasmani Grandal followed with a walk to bring [Read more…]

Wisconsin’s Neuville is calling it a career

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Zander Neuville (Photo by David Stluka).

Wisconsin tight end Zander Neuville was attempting to make yet another comeback.  The sixth-year senior was attempting to make it back after gaining another season from the NCAA after suffering season-ending knee injuries in 2017 and 2018.

Neuville had spent the last month getting back into football shape and was just about ready to return to the field when he suffered another season ending injury.

Badger coaches were hoping Neuville would be able to join them on the field soon after the position’s depth had been challenged by injuries.  He had put his plans of attending medical school on hold for a year, while attempting his comeback.

Now, Neuville is ending his football playing days and will watch his team from the sidelines.  He’ll begin medical school next fall.

Badgers pegged as WCHA preseason favorites

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Abby Roque

Fresh off winning its fifth NCAA title, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team has been picked to win its eight WCHA regular-season title, according to the league’s annual preseason coaches’ poll that was announced Wednesday.

The Badgers earned 36 points and six first-place votes, while Minnesota earned 31 points and the other first place vote.  The two Border Battle rivals will rekindle their rivalry with a series on Nov. 2-3 in Minnesota and a series Jan. 24-25 in Madison.

Abby Roque was named the Preseason WCHA Player of the Year along with Ohio State forward Emma Maltais.  Roque, who was the league’s forward of the year in 2016-17, was second on the Badgers last year with a career-high 43 points.

The Badger forward was one of four Badgers named to the Preseason All-WCHA Preseason Team along [Read more…]

Brewers will have to deal without Yelich the rest of the way

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Christian Yelich File Photo

Milwaukee Brewers standout Christian Yelich will miss the rest of the season after fracturing his right kneecap in Tuesday’s 4-3 win over the Marlins in Miami.

Yelich is scheduled to return to Milwaukee on Wednesday for additional tests.  At this point, it’s not yet known if he’ll need surgery.  Yelich suffered the injury when he fouled a pitch off of his knee in the first inning.

“First and foremost, we feel awful for Christian,” said Brewers general manager David Stearns.  “This is a guy who’s carried us in a number of ways over the last two years.  He could’ve been two and a half weeks away from a repeat Most Valuable Player award.  So that’s where our thoughts are first.

“From a team perspective, we’ve got a lot of guys in that clubhouse who will hurt tonight.  This is a gut punch for a night.  And then we need to recover and play really strong baseball.  We’ve been through this before as an organization.  Two years ago, almost to the day, we lost Jimmy Nelson to a similarly freak injury, and we competed at a very high level for the remainder of the season.  And I expect our team to compete at a similarly high level going forward.” [Read more…]

Pankowski named top-30 finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year

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Annie Pankowski (Photo by David Stluka).

Wisconsin women’s hockey standout Annie Pankowski has been named a top-30 honoree for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year.

Pankowski captained the Badger women last season to their fifth NCAA title.  She was named All-American three times, was a three-time finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, a Hockey Humanitarian Award finalist and was named the 2019 WCHA Player of the Year.

The Laguna Hills, California native is the second UW student-athlete to be named a top-30 finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year as former women’s hockey player Sara Bauer was an honoree in 2007.

Pankowski ranks sixth in school history in points with 206 while her 95 goals rank fifth in the UW record books.  She also set the school record for most short-handed goals with nine, while her plus/minus rating [Read more…]

Grisham leads Brewers past Marlins

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Trent Grisham finished a home run shy of the cycle, going 5-for-6 and driving in two runs, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to a 8-3 win over the Marlins in Miami.

Yasmani Grandal clubbed a two-run homer and Lorenzo Cain had three hits and drove in a run for the Brewers, who extended their winning streak to four games.

Grisham started the night hitting just .222.  Five hits later and his average climbed to .260.

Matt Albers got the final two outs of the fifth to get the victory in relief.

The Brewers couldn’t make up any ground on the Cubs in the Wild Card race.  The Cubs knocked off the San Diego Padres 10-2 to stay two-games in front of the Brewers.

Miguel Rojas went 3-for-5 with two RBI for Miami.  Ryan Duggar was the first of nine Marlins pitchers and took the loss.  Miami has dropped three of their last four games.

Chase Anderson pitches game two of the series for the Brewers on Tuesday night.