KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eduardo Rodriguez pitched capably into the seventh inning, Mookie Betts had a career-best four hits and the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Friday night.
Rodriguez (3-1), who gave up nine runs in 4 2-3 innings in his previous start against Toronto, allowed one run and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. Alcides Escobar’s RBI-double in the fifth was the first run he allowed on the road in 18 1-3 innings.
The Red Sox batted around in a five-run second inning, which included an RBI-single by Betts. Blake Swihart contributed a two-run double, while Mike Napoli drove in two runs with a single.
Betts is 13 for 22 in his past five games, raising his average to .267.
Boston’s Hanley Ramirez hit his 14th home run in the fifth.
DENVER (AP) — Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer and Taylor Jungmann threw six innings to help the Milwaukee Brewers snap a six-game losing streak with a 9-5 victory over the scuffling Colorado Rockies on Friday night.
Aramis Ramirez added a solo shot as the Brewers rediscovered the long ball after hitting only one homer in their losing streak. They had two off Jorge De La Rosa (4-3) in a three-run first inning.
Ben Paulsen finished a homer shy of the cycle for the Rockies, who have lost five straight.
Relying almost exclusively on his fastball, Jungmann (2-1) handcuffed Colorado’s potent offense before losing steam. The right-hander allowed four runs and eight hits.
A bull rider competes at the 2015 Buffalo Bill Rodeo. The rodeo, an inductee into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, kicks off the ten days of NebraskalandDays activities in North Platte. Photo by George Hipple.
North Platte, Neb. (June 19, 2015) – After competition at the third night of the Buffalo Bill Rodeo, several cowboys slipped into the money, coming in second and fourth place in their respective events.
North Platte played host to several top fifteen cowboys, including bareback rider Seth Hardwick and saddle bronc rider Heath DeMoss. Hardwick, Laramie, Wyo., and currently fourth in the world in his event, scored 81 points to hold the fourth place spot in the rodeo so far. He rode Queen Molly, a little bay horse owned by Beutler and Son Rodeo Co., the stock contractors for the rodeo. “I’d heard from a few guys she was a little bucky. But it’s Bennie’s (Beutler) pen, and I guess they’re all like that,” he said.
The 26 year old cowboy is having the best year of his rodeo career, and if he can stay away from injuries and keep in the top fifteen in the world, he’ll be headed to his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in December. He credits it to not being injured, working out more, and drawing good bucking horses. He’s had a good start, winning second at San Antonio, Texas earlier this winter and winning the Champions Challenges at Redding, Calif., and Spanish Forks, Utah. But there’s no letting off the pedal now. The North Platte rodeo “pretty much starts our Fourth (of July) run, so I’ll rodeo till the end of September, for the most part. A guy can just about go to a rodeo every day, if he wants,” Hardwick said. “We try not to do that, because you can get too tired, but we go to plenty of them.”
Lincoln, Neb. – Nebraska volleyball senior Alicia Ostrander is one of 36 athletes who will head to New Orleans, La., for the U.S. Collegiate National Team (CNT) program that will train and compete in conjunction with the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships from June 21-29.
For the fourth consecutive year, USA Volleyball will have its U.S. Collegiate National Team program (formerlyknown as U.S. Women’s National A2 Team) represented at the USAV Girls’ Junior National Championships.
The Bob Devaney Sports Center will have a new and improved look for the upcoming 2015 Nebraska volleyball season. As part of an effort to enhance the fan experience, the University of Nebraska Athletics Department and Husker volleyball program announced a new center-hung video scoreboard, a new sound system and completion of the exterior siding of the Devaney Center in 2015.
The high-definition video board by Daktronics will hang directly over the center of the Devaney Center court. The board is trapezoidal in shape and will be 13’6″ tall and 28′ wide on the two sides. The ends of the board are 13’2″ wide on top and 9’5″ wide on bottom.
Troy Vaira of Richey, MT riding the the bareback event of this year’s Nebraskaland Days Buffalo Bill Rodeo. Photo by George Hipple
North Platte, Neb. (June 18, 2015) – A newcomer to the pro rodeo world showed the rest of the bull riders at the second performance of the Buffalo Bill Rodeo how to get it done.
Luke Bradley scored 84 points on the Beutler and Son Rodeo Co.’s bull Drop Tine to take the lead after two nights of rodeo.
His eight second ride was only his second qualified ride in Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association competition, and the North Platte rodeo was only his fourth rodeo of his pro rodeo career.
And it was a rough ride. “It was kind of scratching and clawing, but everything worked out,” he said. “He had me bucked off three or four times, but it seems like he wanted me to ride him.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alcides Escobar had three hits and scored twice and Jeremy Guthrie pitched six effective innings as the Kansas City Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 on Thursday night.
Escobar doubled to lead off the Royals’ two-run first then scored on Lorenzo Cain’s sacrifice fly. Escobar singled in the second, stole second base and scored on Mike Moustakas’ two-out single.
Kendrys Morales’ two-out single in the first drove in Eric Hosmer, who had doubled, with the other Royals’ run.
Guthrie (5-4) picked up his first victory since May 20, allowing two runs and seven hits, walked none and struck out four.
Greg Holland worked the ninth to earn his 12th save in 13 opportunities.
With the victory, Ned Yost surpassed Whitey Herzog as the winningest manager in Royals’ history with 411 wins.
DENVER (AP) — Preston Tucker homered and drove in three runs, pinch-hitter Domingo Santana got his first major league home run and the Houston Astros beat the Colorado Rockies 8-4 Thursday for their fifth straight win.
Carlos Correa stole three bases, and George Springer extended his hitting streak to 11 games as the Astros swept the four-game, home-and-home series with the reeling Rockies. The Astros hit six homers in two games at Coors Field, raising their AL-leading total to 97.
Collin McHugh (7-3) treated himself to an early birthday present by getting the win despite allowing three runs four hits and a season-high five walks in six innings. McHugh, who turns 28 on Friday, settled down after surrendering a three-run homer to Carlos Gonzalez in the first.
David Hale (2-2) gave up a season-high five runs in five innings and struck out nine. Rockies pitchers struck out 17 hitters, a Colorado record for a nine-inning game.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eduardo Rodriguez pitched capably into the seventh inning, Mookie Betts had a career-best four hits and the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Friday night.
