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Brandon Woodruff

Brandon Woodruff went seven strong innings and drove in the game’s lone run prior to the seventh inning in the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix Wednesday afternoon.

Woodruff allowed one run on three hits with nine strikeouts.

The win ended a period of sixteen straight games for Milwaukee, who open a homestand Friday against the Colorado Rockies.  It will be the first homestand featuring a full capacity crowd at American Family Field.

Jace Peterson and Tyrone Taylor were both 2-3 at the plate.  Josh Hader struckout two in the ninth for his 19th save.

The Brewers are 42-33 and are a half game better than the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central

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Brewers blanked 3-0; Yelich top seed in Derby

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Cincinnati – Sonny Gray allowed only four hits in eight innings and struck out 12 Brewers hitters to help the Reds beat the Brewers 3-0 Wednesday night in Cincinnati.

Yasiel Puig stayed hot, hitting his 19th home run of the season in the second inning.  Brewers starter Jhoulys Chacin turned in one of his better outings of the season, allowing just two runs over six innings with eight strikeouts.

Milwaukee managed just four singles off Gray, and didn’t have major league home run leader Christian Yelich in the lineup.  He was given the day off.

Cincinnati has won two of the first three games in the series.  They sent Luis Castillo to the mound on Thursday afternoon against Brandon Woodruff.  The Brewers are still a game up on the Chicago Cubs in the National League Central Division.

It’s also been announced that Yelich will be the top seed in baseball’s Home Run Derby, and compete against rookie Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in round one next week in Cleveland.

Brewers blow lead late and fall to Reds 5-4

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Chase Anderson – File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

Cincinnati – The Brewers bullpen let a 4-2 seventh inning lead get away Tuesday night and fell to the Cincinnati Reds, 5-4.

Milwaukee led 4-2 through six innings thanks to more home runs, as Christian Yelich, Mike Moustakas and Eric Thames all went deep off Reds starter Tanner Roark.  It was in support of starter Chase Anderson, who allowed two runs over 5.2 innings and just 72 pitches.

Freddie Peralta allowed a run over 1.1 innings, and Cincinnati tied it with a two out RBI double from Joey Votto in the eighth off Matt Albers.

The Reds winning run scored in the eleventh.  With two outs Yasiel Puig singled to center.  Jose Iglesias singled to right, sending Puig to third.  Yelich’s throw to the infield short hopped Thames at first base, as the ball bounced off his glove and rolled through the infield.  Puig took off and scored from third to give the Reds a 5-4 win.

Yelich’s homer was his 31st.  Moustakas’s was his 24th.  The Brewers are 45-40 and lead the Cubs by a game in the N. L. Central

 

Walker says public safety main priority in Milwaukee

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Gov. Scott Walker

Gov. Scott Walker

Following days of violent protests in Milwaukee, Governor Scott Walker says the most important role of government in the city right now is to protect the safety of the public.

“If you don’t have public safety, you don’t have anything else,” Walker told reporters after a meeting with Milwaukee area law enforcement on Monday evening. “If people can’t live in their communities and their neighborhoods without fear, everything else is kind of irrelevant.”

Demonstrators have been taking to the streets since Saturday night, after a Milwaukee police officer fatally shot an armed black man in the city’s Sherman Park neighborhood. Police have said 23-year-old Sylville Smith was turning towards the officer with a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting. The protests have resulted in multiple injuries and numerous incidents of property damage, including burned buildings and rocks thrown at police squad cars.

Police and the Mayor Tom Barrett have called for the Department of Justice, which is handling the investigation of the shooting, to release footage from the officer’s body camera. Walker on Monday said the DOJ should follow the law and not impeded its ability to conduct a thorough investigation. “We don’t want to rush their investigation, the law is important to have an independent review.”

Mayor Barrett on Monday instituted a curfew for anyone 17 and younger that was set to take effect at 10pm. Walker said his “hope and prayer” for the city is that things will calm down.

Walker also responded to critics who have claimed economic conditions in Milwaukee’s black community have helped fuel some of the violence in recent days. The governor says those concerns are ones he has been working with lawmakers from the city to address, through actions such as job training programs.

Walker said he plans to continue those discussions once safety is restored. “If you want to address poverty, if you want to address living conditions, you want to address housing – all of those things are legitimate issues…but if you’ve got neighborhoods where businesses are burnt down, where people are afraid to live, it’s only going to make those problems more difficult.”

Horizon League men’s tourney tips off tonight

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The men’s Horizon League basketball tournament tips off with four opening round games.  Following are the four first round games. 

(10) Loyola at (3) Detroit  6pm
(7) Green Bay at (6) Youngstown State 6:05pm
(9) Illinois-Chicago at (4) UW-Milwaukee 7pm
(8) Wright State at (5) Butler 6pm

The winners of tonight’s four opening round games will advance to round two on Friday night.

 

Selig will ride out a hero

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Bud Selig’s career as the commissioner of Major League Baseball will end after

Commissioner Bud Selig

the 2012 season.  The man who decided to end the 2002 Major League All-Star game at Miller Park in a tie (7-7), has received some raw treatment during his leadership.

But while the NBA is in the middle of a lockout and the NFL skipped an entire off-season in a labor dispute, Selig has baseball running like a well oiled machine.

The current collective bargaining agreement was scheduled to expire in December.  With little fanfare, Selig, the owners and players kept their negotiations out of the headlines, reaching a new 5-year deal that extends through 2016.  It means baseball, when the new 5-year deal is complete, will have had labor peace for 21 years.

While the NFL can’t seem to get its HGH plan off the ground, Major League Baseball will now become the first of the major pro sports to introduce blood testing for Human Growth Hormone, starting in the spring.  A first failed test will result in a 50-game suspension. [Read more…]

Expanding school choice

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A proposal to expand a program that allows low-income children in Milwaukee to attend private schools using a voucher system is drawing fire at the Capitol. The bill would lift the current cap of 22,500 students who can use the program. It would also allow schools outside of the city, but still in Milwaukee County, to begin accepting students using the vouchers. [Read more…]

In defense of school dinner

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All three meals at school is an option for many Wisconsin kids. What began as a pilot program at four Milwaukee Public Schools three years ago has ballooned into all district schools offering dinner. Jon Janowski, Director of Advocacy for the Hunger Task Force, says the recession has made dinner programs more popular.

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Leadership change at UW Milwaukee

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Universty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago has announced he’ll leave in October to become CEO of the Hispanic College Fund, a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC. Santiago has served as UWM’s leader since July 2004, spearheading a renewed emphasis on the institution’s research mission.

UW System President Kevin Reilly praised Santiago for providing energizing leadership for UWM during a crucial period. Reilly said that under Santiago’s watch, the campus made tremendous progress in helping to strengthen the economy of the city and Southeastern Wisconsin. Reilly plans to identify an interim chancellor as quickly as possible, providing continuity of leadership for the campus. [Read more…]

Southern Wisconsin pounded by storms

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Touchdown over Lake Koshkonong PHOTO: by D-mann courtesy WCLO

Touchdown over Lake Koshkonong PHOTO: by D-mann courtesy WCLO

Southern Wisconsin was hit hard by storm activity that including a stretch of tornadoes, thunderstorms and flooding late Thursday afternoon into the evening.  Six-to-eight tornadoes were reported throughout the state from Ridgeway to Racine County.

“So far it seems like damage from tornadoes have been relatively minor. Most of the damage seems to be from the flooding,” said Wisconsin Emergency Management spokesperson Lori Getter. The National Weather Service is sending out survey teams to determine if there were any tornado touch downs, and assess possible damage. [Read more…]