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Fowler’s homer lifts Cardinals to 2-1 win over Dodgers

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dexter Fowler hit tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning to back Carlos Martinez and give the St. Louis Cardinals a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday night.

Martinez (4-4) allowed one run on four hits while striking out nine as he pitched eight innings to help St. Louis snap a three-game losing streak.

Ross Stripling (0-3) lost for the first time since April 26 as he surrendered Fowler’s seventh home run of the season, a 429-foot shot to right-center field. The Dodgers saw their six-game winning streak end.

Seung-Hwan Oh pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save in 14 opportunities this season.

Hyun-Jin Ryu returned to the rotation in place of Alex Wood after earning the save last Wednesday, May 24 versus St. Louis in his first career relief appearance. Ryu allowed one run on three hits in six innings in his first start since May 11 at Colorado.

Cardinals rookie second baseman Paul DeJong drove in Tommy Pham in the second inning after Chris Taylor initially broke in on a ball that ultimately went over his head for a double. The run was St. Louis’ first with Martinez on the mound since May 13.

Los Angeles tied the game 1-1 in the sixth inning on Adrian Gonzalez’s sacrifice fly that drove in Corey Seager.

PISCOTTY RETURNS:

Cardinals RF Stephen Piscotty returned to the lineup after missing the previous five games to be back with his family in California after his mother was diagnosed with ALS.

FORTY-FIVE CANDLES:

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts celebrated his forty-fifth birthday. He said, “I got coffee and scouted the Cardinals,” to revel in the occasion.

PASS OUT THE CIGARS:

3B Jedd Gyorko was back with the club after his wife, Karley, gave birth to the couple’s first daughter, Brooklyn Ellee, at 7:46 p.m. on Tuesday. Gyorko will go on the paternity list and miss the club’s games Friday and Saturday in Chicago before returning to the team on Sunday.

TRAINER’S ROOM:

Dodgers: IF Justin Turner (strained right hamstring) took swings in the batting cage and ran at about 70 percent pregame. “When he’ll return, I still don’t know,” said Roberts. “We’re still for me, realistically, a week away for him to think about being back with us.”

Cardinals: Prior to the game the club released RHP Jonathan Broxton and recalled RHP John Gant from Triple-A Memphis. Gant opened the season on the 10-day disabled list with a strained right groin before being optioned to Memphis on May 16.

UP NEXT:

Dodgers: Brandon McCarthy (5-1, 3.28 ERA) is 0-0 with a 4.15 ERA in three career starts against St. Louis.

Cardinals: Adam Wainwright (5-3, 4.20 ERA) has not lost since April 16 and has gone 5-0 with a 3.21 ERA since then.

— Associated Press —

Mizzou-South Carolina football game set for night kickoff on September 9

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou will face South Carolina under the lights on Faurot Field in its Southeastern Conference opener on Sept. 9, as announced Wednesday by the league. The game is slated for a 6 p.m. CT kickoff on ESPN2.

Kickoff times and television designations for Mizzou’s remaining September contests will be solidified at a later date. The matchup with South Carolina gives Mizzou two games with television plans designated, including the regular-season finale in Fayetteville against SEC rival Arkansas, which will air at 1:30 p.m. CT on CBS.

Television selections for the games following September will be determined on a 12-day advance notice, with a potential for six-day advance selections made by the league office in conjunction with its television partners.

Mizzou is 4-3 all-time against South Carolina. The Gamecocks prevailed in last season’s meeting with a 31-21 victory, but Mizzou won the last matchup in Columbia, Missouri in 2015, downing South Carolina 24-10.

— Mizzou Athletics —

K-State’s first three football game times announced

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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Highlighted by consecutive home games to open the season and a trip to Vanderbilt in week three, game times and television designations for Kansas State’s first three football games were announced by the Big 12 Conference and its television partners Wednesday afternoon.

K-State, which is opening the season with consecutive home games for the first time since 2013, kicks off the 2017 campaign against Central Arkansas at 6:10 p.m., in a game broadcast world-wide on K-StateHD.TV. For ordering information, log on to www.k-statehd.tv and click on the “Subscribe Now” button.

The following week, September 9, the Wildcats host Charlotte at 11 a.m., and the game will be aired by FSN. It marks the fourth-straight year Kansas State will play a member of Conference USA with three of those contests being played in Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

The Wildcats then travel to Nashville, Tennessee, on September 16, to face Vanderbilt at 6:30 p.m., in a game televised nationally by ESPNU. It is the first meeting between the Wildcats and Commodores since 1984 and the Wildcats’ first trip to an SEC opponent since playing at Auburn in 2007.

As in years past, all remaining Big 12 game times and television information will be selected on a 12- or six-day basis throughout the season.

Season tickets for the seven-game home slate in 2017 are on sale now through the K-State Athletics Ticket office online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the main ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum. Public single-game tickets will go on sale beginning June 19 exclusively for Ahearn Fund members, to all fans online only on June 20 and over the phone on June 21.

Television Selections for First Three K-State Football Games
Date Opponent TV Time (CT)
Sept. 2 Central Arkansas K-StateHD.TV 6:10 p.m.
Sept. 9 Charlotte FSN 11 a.m.
Sept. 16 at Vanderbilt ESPNU 6:30 p.m.

— KSU Athletics —

Game times announced for four Kansas football games

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Big 12 Conference released the early television broadcast assignments for the 2017 college football season, with Kansas being tabbed for live broadcasts in each of its first three games plus its Nov. 11 matchup with Texas.

Kansas, playing under third-year head coach David Beaty, will open the 2017 football season with a home game versus Southeast Missouri State on Saturday, Sept. 2 at 6 p.m. The KU-SEMO game will be broadcast live on the Jayhawk Network in the state of Kansas and the Kansas City metro area and is available outside of the state lines to a national audience on ESPN3. More information on the Jayhawk Network (JTV) and its affiliates is available at KUAthletics.com/TV.

The Jayhawks will host Central Michigan in their second contest of the season on Saturday, Sept. 9. KU-CMU will be televised on Fox Sports Net (FSN) with kickoff slated for 3 p.m.

Additionally, the Jayhawks have a road game at Ohio the third week of the season and the Mid-American Conference designated it for a 1 p.m. start time with a broadcast on ESPN3.

The Nov. 11 matchup at Texas has been set for 5 p.m. and will be broadcast on the Longhorn Network (LHN) and JTV.

Kansas made two appearances on FSN in 2016 and one on JTV. KU was featured on FOX Sports 1 in five of its 2016 games, ESPNU in two games, ESPN2 for one game and kicked off one time on a split ABC/ESPN2 window.

Following nonconference play, five Big 12 rivals will visit Lawrence, including West Virginia (Sept. 23/Jayhawks for a Cure), Texas Tech (Oct. 7/Homecoming, K-Club Weekend), Kansas State (Oct. 28/Sunflower Showdown), Baylor (Nov. 4/Salute to Service) and Oklahoma (Nov. 18/Senior Day, Youth Football Day).

Kansas Athletics is offering a Pick 3 Flex Pack ticket package for Jayhawk football games for the 2017 season. As part of the Pick 3 Flex Pack offer, fans have the chance to pick any three home games on the 2017 schedule for one low price. Select a Tier 1 ticket for any three home games for $180 or a Tier 2 ticket to any three home games for just $150. Flex Packs will be available for purchase to the general public starting Thursday, June 1.

Season tickets for the seven-game home schedule are now on sale for as low as $110. Single game tickets will be available starting August 1.

For additional information regarding Kansas football tickets contact the Kansas Sales Team by calling 800-34-HAWKS or in-person at the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office. Tickets can also be purchased via KUTickets.com.

Kansas Athletics will also be offering group discounts and unique fan experiences to Kansas football games for any group, business or organization of 15+. To inquire about bringing your group to Memorial Stadium, please contact the Group Sales Department at 785-864-6221 or dpaul@kuathletics.com.

2017 Kansas Football Schedule
Date Opponent Time TV
Sept. 2 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE 6 p.m. JTV
Sept. 9 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 3 p.m. FSN
(Family Weekend/Band Day)
Sept. 16 at Ohio 1 p.m. ESPN3
Sept. 23 WEST VIRGINIA* TBA TBA
(Jayhawks for a Cure)
Oct. 7 TEXAS TECH* TBA TBA
(Homecoming/K Club Weekend)
Oct. 14 at Iowa State* TBA TBA
Oct. 21 at TCU* TBA TBA
Oct. 28 KANSAS STATE* TBA TBA
(Sunflower Showdown)
Nov. 4 BAYLOR* TBA TBA
(Salute to Service)
Nov. 11 at Texas* 5 p.m. LHN/JTV
Nov. 18 OKLAHOMA* TBA TBA
(Senior Day/Youth Football Day)
Nov. 25 at Oklahoma State* TBA TBA

— KU Athletics —

Kickoff times set for five Nebraska games

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Nebraska has learned the start times for five of its 2017 football games as part of announcements on Wednesday by the Big Ten Conference and its television partners, as well as the Pac-12 Conference.

The game times announced Wednesday include four of Nebraska’s first five games of the season, as well as its Friday, Nov. 24 regular-season finale with Iowa.

The kickoff times include Nebraska’s home games against Northern Illinois, Rutgers and Iowa. The Sept. 16 matchup with Northern Illinois at Memorial Stadium will kick at 11 a.m. CT and be telecast on FS1. The following week, Nebraska will play host to Rutgers on Homecoming in Lincoln, with the Huskers and Scarlet Knights to kick off at either 2:30 or 3 p.m. CT, with the network to be announced at a later date.

Nebraska’s matchup with Big Ten West Division rival Iowa on the Friday after Thanksgiving will start at 3 p.m. CT, with FS1 providing the national television coverage.

Game times for Nebraska’s first two road games were also announced on Wednesday. The Huskers’ Sept. 9 matchup at Oregon will kick at 3:30 p.m. CT (1:30 p.m. PT), with the game televised nationally on FOX. The kickoff time for NU’s Friday, Sept. 29 game at Illinois has also been set. The contest from Illinois’ Memorial Stadium will begin at 7 p.m. CT with television coverage on FS1.

The new media rights agreements between the Big Ten and its television partners will allow for more national exposure for more teams on big national platforms. There will also be more games played in prime time as part of the new agreements, but in no case may a network select a game for prime time less than 12 days prior to it being played. In past years, the entire Big Ten prime time schedule was released in April, while the new agreement allows for games starting in Week 4 to be announced 12 days prior to game day.

Nebraska will likely also learn the kickoff time and television information for its Sept. 2 season opener against Arkansas State at Memorial Stadium in the near future.

Nebraska 2017 Game Times/TV Information
Sept. 9 at Oregon 3:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m. PT FOX
Sept. 16 Northern Illinois 11 a.m. CT FS1
Sept. 23 Rutgers (HC) 2:30 or 3 p.m. CT TBA
Sept. 29 at Illinois 7 p.m. CT FS1
Nov. 24 Iowa 3 p.m. CT FS1

— NU Athletics —

Royals’ Skoglund wins big league debut, beats Verlander, Tigers 1-0

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eric Skoglund wasn’t sure what was going on when he was scratched from his start for Triple-A Omaha.

He quickly found out he was headed to the majors.

Skoglund pitched 6 1/3 innings of two-hit ball in his big league debut, helping the Kansas City Royals beat Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers 1-0 on Tuesday night.

“Once I found out I was facing Verlander, it was like, `Bring it on baby,” Skoglund said. “That’s something I’ve always dreamed about. The guy is going to be a Hall of Famer one day. It’s a special night for sure.”

Skoglund, a 2014 third-round draft pick out of Central Florida, struck out five and walked one. The 6-foot-7 left-hander was promoted from Omaha when the Royals placed Danny Duffy on the disabled list Monday with an oblique strain.

“I think he was a little sneaky,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said of Skoglund. “It looked like he had two-seam, four-seam, slider, curve, for the most part. He hides the ball well so he can get in on righties.”

Verlander (4-4) left after seven innings, allowing one run and six hits. He struck out five and walked one.

The Royals jumped in front in the sixth. Alcides Escobar and Mike Moustakas began the inning with singles, but Lorenzo Cain rolled into a double play. Eric Hosmer got Escobar home with a single to center.

“I didn’t talk to our lineup about what he (Skoglund) was doing, but I knew he was putting up zeros in a hurry,” Verlander said. “It was kind of a back and forth and the first person that blinked was me, unfortunately. You’ve got to tip your cap.”

Skoglund walked Miguel Cabrera and yielded a single to Victor Martinez with two out in the first. J.D. Martinez went down swinging to end the inning for Skoglund’s first big league strikeout.

“He’s so tall, when he throws 89, 90, it looked like 93, 94,” Cabrera said. “When he throws 93, 94, it looked like 97. But he’s so tall and he leaves the ball like, so close. He was good.”

The Tigers did not have another runner touch second base. Skoglund retired the next 14 batters before Dixon Machado’s one-out single in the sixth.

After Victor Martinez flied out to left to begin the seventh on Skoglund’s 90th pitch, manager Ned Yost summoned Peter Moylan from the bullpen.

Skoglund walked off the mound to a standing ovation and doffed his cap to the Kauffman Stadium crowd before going into the dugout.

“Walking off the mound is when it all hit me,” Skoglund said. “All the guys embraced me, all the infielders. It was a very special moment for me. They just told me to take it all in and enjoy the moment. I definitely did that.”

Moylan struck out J.D. Martinez and Justin Upton on six pitches to end the seventh. Mike Minor worked around a single in the eighth. Kelvin Herrera pitched a spotless ninth for his 12th save in 14 opportunities.

NOT BAD AT ALL

Royals second baseman Whit Merrifield extended his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games with an infield single in the fifth. Merrifield also forced Verlander to throw 12 pitches before walking in the third.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Tigers: OF Jim Adduci, who went on the disabled list May 12 with a right oblique strain, tried hitting off a tee. “He still feels it,” Ausmus said. “He’s still a ways away.”

Royals: RHP Nathan Karns went on the disabled list with a forearm strain retroactive to May 21, but has yet to throw off a mound. “Everything is going well,” Karns said. “I’m playing catch right now. I’m building it up. We’ll see (what) the timetable is from the training staff is and what they feel is appropriate and go from there.”

UP NEXT

Tigers: LHP Matt Boyd is 0-4 in his past six starts since an April 16 victory at Cleveland.

Royals: RHP Ian Kennedy is 0-2 with a 3.04 ERA in four home starts this season.

— Associated Press —

St. Louis drops second straight game to Dodgers

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chase Utley, Logan Forsythe and Chris Taylor combined to reach base 11 times and totaled six runs, helping the streaking Los Angeles Dodgers rally past the St. Louis Cardinals 9-4 on Tuesday night to move into first place in the NL West.

Utley finished a homer shy of the cycle as the Dodgers won their season-high sixth straight game. Forsythe reached five times, including three walks, and Taylor reached three times.

The Dodgers moved ahead of the Colorado Rockies, who lost 10-4 to the Seattle Mariners.

Adrian Gonzalez’s sacrifice fly and Utley’s RBI double started the Dodgers comeback in the third. Enrique Hernandez tied it at 3 with a single, and Paul DeJong’s throwing error on the same play scored Utley to give the Dodgers a 4-3 lead.

The Dodgers scored three more times behind one hit in the fifth as relievers Tyler Lyons and John Brebbia each walked in a run.

Kenta Maeda spotted the Cardinals three first-inning runs for the second straight start, but once again held them scoreless after that to give the Dodgers a chance to come back.

Brandon Morrow (1-0) led a parade of six Dodgers relievers. The Dodgers bullpen gave up one run in five innings, the third consecutive game Los Angeles relievers had to get more than nine outs.

The Cardinals, who’ve lost 10 out of their last 13 games, capitalized on a fortunate call and a couple of Dodgers errors to take a 3-0 lead in the first.

Dexter Fowler appeared to be thrown out trying to steal second following a strikeout, but umpire Mark Wegner called a close 3-2 pitch to Tommy Pham ball four. Matt Carpenter followed with a single, Taylor’s throwing error scored Fowler, and Pham and Carpenter took an extra base on Maeda’s throwing error on the same play. Yadier Molina drove them both home with a single.

Molina had three RBI, and his homer off Chris Hatcher in the eighth broke the Dodger bullpen’s scoreless innings streak at 24 2/3 innings.

Michael Wacha (2-3) needed 77 pitches to get through three innings, the shortest outing for a Cardinals starter this season. Three of the four runs he allowed were earned.

DODGERS BLUES

Wacha has blown 3-0 leads in consecutive starts against Los Angeles.

MAEDA LOSES GRIP

Maeda made throwing errors in the first and second innings. It is the first time Maeda has had two errors in a game and his first error since June 30, 2016.

TRAINING ROOM

Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (hamstring) will go on a rehab assignment, but a beginning date has not been determined.

Cardinals: 2B Kolten Wong (left elbow strain) had an MRI on Monday that revealed no structural damage. OF Stephen Piscotty (personal) is expected back Wednesday.

UP NEXT

Dodgers: LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-5, 4.28 ERA) starts in place of LHP Alex Wood (left shoulder inflammation). Ryu is 1-1 with a 1.50 ERA in three career appearances against St. Louis.

Cardinals: RHP Carlos Martinez (3-4, 3.32 ERA) has received zero run support in his last two starts. He is 2-2 with a 3.55 ERA in seven career games against Los Angeles.

— Associated Press —

Missouri’s Battle Line Rivalry set for November 24 at 1:30 p.m.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – The fourth-annual Battle Line Rivalry, presented by Shelter Insurance, between Mizzou and Arkansas has been slated for Friday, Nov. 24, with kickoff set for 1:30 p.m. CT, as announced Tuesday. CBS will bring the Battle Line rivalry to a national audience for the fourth consecutive year on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Mizzou is 2-1 vs. the Razorbacks since the annual rivalry game was established, with both wins coming at Faurot Field. Mizzou prevailed in the most recent meeting with a come-from-behind, 28-24 victory last November. Head coach Barry Odom’s squad ripped off 21 unanswered points to complete a comeback and end the 2016 campaign with a thrilling win.

Mizzou and Arkansas have faced eight times in the programs’ storied histories and three times since the Tigers joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012. Mizzou owns a 5-3 edge in the all-time series. The two programs have met twice in bowl games, with Arkansas winning the 2003 Independence Bowl, 27-14, while Mizzou claimed the 2008 Cotton Bowl title, 38-7.

— Mizzou Athletics —

Royals lose back-and-forth game to Detroit 10-7

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Miguel Cabrera and J.D. Martinez each drove in three runs as the Detroit Tigers came from behind to beat the Kansas City Royals 10-7 on Monday night.

The Tigers scored four runs in the eighth, highlighted by Cabrera’s two-run single. Cabrera, who reached base four times, walked with the bases loaded in a six-run Detroit fifth inning.

Joakim Soria (2-2), who is 0-for-3 in save situations, retired none of the five batters he faced in the eighth and four scored. He allowed three singles, walked two and allowed a run on a wild pitch.

Martinez hit a three-run homer in the fifth off Mike Minor to give the Tigers a 6-3 lead.

Whit Merrifield homered, tripled and doubled in his first three at-bats, but flied out to end the seventh. No Royal has hit for the cycle since Hall of Famer George Brett in 1990.

Francisco Rodriguez (2-5) was credited with the victory.

— Associated Press —

Missouri State earns NCAA Tournament berth in Fayetteville Regional

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – For the 10th time in program history, the Missouri State Bears have been selected to play in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The Bears drew the No. 2 seed in the Fayetteville (Ark.) Regional as part of the 64-team NCAA field that was announced Monday morning.

Making their third NCAA Tournament appearance in the last six seasons, the Bears (40-17) will face the Big 12 Conference Tournament champion Oklahoma State Cowboys (30-25) in opening-round action at 2 p.m. (CDT) Friday (June 2). The top-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks (42-17) and fourth-seeded Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (42-14) will meet Friday evening at 7 p.m. in the other regional pairing. All Fayetteville Regional contests will be streamed live online through ESPN3 (WatchESPN.com).

In their last Championship appearance in 2015, the Bears swept the field as host of the Springfield Regional, defeating Canisius in the opening round before knocking off Iowa twice to earn their second Division I regional crown. Missouri State, No. 8 overall national seed, came within one victory of punching its ticket to the College World Series, dropping a hard-fought Super Regional series with Arkansas in three games.

The Bears captured the MVC regular-season crown for the fifth time in program history, posting wins in each of their first 18 Valley games this spring as part of a conference-record 22-game MVC regular-season win streak. MSU is 17-19 all-time in NCAA Division I Tournament play and has won at least two games in six of their last seven trips to a regional since 1996.

Missouri State was one of two Missouri Valley Conference teams selected for the NCAA Tournament, marking the third time in the last six seasons the league has earned multiple postseason bids. MVC Tournament champ DBU drew the No. 3 seed in the Fort Worth Regional and will face Virginia as its opening-round opponent.

Regional play continues through Monday (June 5) with a double-elimination format. The 16 regional winners will advance to the Super Regional round, which will be contested June 9-12, with the eight winners of the three-game, head-to-head series moving on to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Neb., June 17-28.

2017 NCAA Fayetteville Regional Schedule

Friday, June 2
Game 1 – No. 3 Oklahoma State vs. No. 2 Missouri State, 2 p.m. CT (ESPN3)
Game 2 – No. 1 Arkansas vs. No. 4 Oral Roberts, 7 p.m. CT (ESPN3)

Saturday, June 3
Game 3 – Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 2 p.m. (ESPN3)
Game 4 – Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 7 p.m. (ESPN3)

Sunday, June 4
Game 5 – Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 3 p.m. (ESPN3)
Game 6 – Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4, 8 p.m. (ESPN3)

Monday, June 5
Game 7 – Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary), 6 p.m. (ESPN3)

— MSU Athletics —

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