Weekday Morning Sports – Friday 7/1/16

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95.7 & 1400 WSJM Sports     @wsjmsports     wsjmsports.com     Friday, July 01, 2016

MLB – Major League Baseball
Last Night
Detroit Tigers 10, Tampa Bay Rays 7
Chicago White Sox 6, Minnesota Twins 5
New York Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 3

Tigers 10, Rays 7 – Comeback cats! Tigers use 8-run 9th inning to beat Rays 10-7
Cameron Maybin capped a dramatic eight-run ninth inning with a tiebreaking three-run double, and the Detroit Tigers overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-7 Thursday night. Detroit trailed 7-2 entering the ninth and opened the inning with four consecutive hits off Ryan Garton, including Victor Martinez’s RBI single. Erasmo Ramirez (7-7) replaced Garton and allowed Justin Upton’s run-scoring single, Steven Moya’s sacrifice fly and an RBI single to Jarrod Saltalamacchia that made it 7-6. Jose Iglesias drew a walk to load the bases, and Ian Kinsler got another free pass on a 3-2 pitch to tie it 7-7. Maybin’s drive to left-center cleared the bases to put Detroit up 10-7. Winner Anibal Sanchez (5-8) gave up two runs in two innings. Francisco Rodriguez got the final three outs for his 22nd save.

White Sox 6, Twins 5 – Shuck’s RBI single in 8th lifts White Sox over Twins 6-5
J.B. Shuck’s two-out single scored the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning, Todd Frazier hit his 23rd home run and the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5 Thursday. Fernando Abad (1-2) got the first two batters in the eight before consecutive walks. Shuck’s career high-tying third hit of the game to left scored Avisail Garcia from second. Nate Jones (4-2) allowed a hit while getting four outs and David Robertson worked around a single in the ninth for his 21st save in 23 tries as the White Sox won their third straight series for the first time this season. Tim Anderson added three hits and Matt Davidson had an RBI single in his White Sox debut before leaving with a sore right foot. Brian Dozier homered and drove in two runs and Eduardo Nunez had RBI singles in the sixth and seventh innings as the Twins rallied from a 5-2 deficit to tie it.

Mets 4, Cubs 3 – Mets rally, hold off Cubs 4-3 to stop skid in NLCS rematch
Jeurys Familia pitched out of a huge jam in the ninth inning, sending the New York Mets past the Chicago Cubs 4-3 Thursday night in their first meeting since last year’s NL Championship Series.  Chicago put runners on second and third with no outs against Familia, who got two strikeouts and a bases-loaded popup for his 27th save, most in the majors. He screamed and pumped his arms repeatedly after Javier Baez popped up to end it. Baez’s throwing error at second base allowed Brandon Nimmo to score the go-ahead run, and the Mets overcame a 3-0 deficit to stop their four-game slide. New York, which swept Chicago last October to reach the World Series, had lost nine straight regular-season games to the Cubs dating to August 2014.

Tonight
Detroit (Michael Fulmer 7-2) at Tampa Bay (Drew Smyly 2-8), 7:10 p.m.    WSJM Sports/Cosy-FM 6:45
Chicago Cubs (Jason Hammel 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Jacob deGrom 3-4), 7:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Miguel Gonzalez 1-3) at Houston (Mike Fiers 5-3), 8:10 p.m.

MLB – Chad Curtis challenges Michigan judge over new sentence
Former Major League Baseball player Chad Curtis wants a judge to step aside if he decides to seek a new sentence for criminal sexual conduct. Curtis appeared in Barry County court Thursday and accused Judge Amy McDowell of bias. She declined to recuse herself. Curtis was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to at least seven years in prison. But the Michigan Supreme Court sent the case back to McDowell to conform to a statewide change in sentencing procedures. It’s up to Curtis to decide whether to ask for a new sentence. The risk for him is that the punishment could be worse.  Young women said they were inappropriately touched by Curtis when they were high school students in western Michigan. The next hearing is August 29th.

WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association
Tonight
San Antonio Silver Stars at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m.
Washington Mystics at Chicago Sky, 8:30 p.m.

NBA – Detroit’s Hilliard to miss summer league with back problem
Detroit Pistons guard Darrun Hilliard will not participate in summer league because of a stress fracture of his lower back. The Pistons announced Hilliard’s injury Thursday, saying he’ll be evaluated by team physicians, and his timeline for returning to basketball will be determined when his diagnosis is done. The 6-foot-6 Hilliard was a second-round draft pick by the Pistons last year. He played in 38 games as a rookie, averaging 4.0 points and 10.1 minutes.

NBA – Free agent frenzy begins
The NBA’s free agent signing period has begun as teams opt to keep players or ink new ones. Kevin Durant met with Oklahoma City GM Sam Presti yesterday but gave no indication he would definitely stay with the Thunder. The four-time scoring champ has spent his entire career with the Thunder and is one of the best free agents on the market.

NHL – NHL Free Agency to open
A day after Steven Stamkos disappointed possible free agent suitors by staying with Tampa Bay, other name players will be up for grabs when free agency opens Friday. Forwards Milan Lucic, Loui Eriksson and Kyle Okposo to defensemen Brian Campbell and Dan Hamhuis are in the pool of talent available. St. Louis Blues captain David Backes and right wing Troy Brouwer, Chicago Blackhawks left wing Andrew Ladd, New York Rangers forward Eric Staal are also expected to draw interest.

NHL – Blackhawks agree to 1-year deals with Rozsival, Mashinter
The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to one-year contracts with veteran defenseman Michal Rozsival and forward Brandon Mashinter. The 37-year-old Rozsival had a goal and 12 assists last season _ his fourth with the Blackhawks and 15th in the NHL. The 27-year-old Mashinter, an enforcer, had four goals and an assist in his first season with Chicago. He played parts of three seasons with San Jose (2010-11) and the New York Rangers (2012-14). The deals were announced Thursday. Chicago finished third in the Western Conference before losing to St. Louis in the first round of the playoffs.

Prosecutors want records sealed in Mateen Cleaves sex case
Prosecutors want a judge to seal some court records in a sexual assault case involving former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves after his accuser’s name was made public this week in a court filing. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office filed the motion Tuesday, the same day a judge canceled a hearing to determine whether the case would go to trial.

NCAA Baseball – Chanticleers celebrate
Coastal Carolina has become the first team since Minnesota in 1956 to win the College World Series in its first appearance.  The Chanticleers capitalized on two errors on the same play to score four unearned runs in the sixth inning of a 4-3 triumph over Arizona in Game 3 of the finals. Andrew Beckwith improved to 15-1 with his third CWS victory, working 5 2/3 innings after pitching two complete games in the tournament. Beckwith finishes the season as the NCAA leader in victories. It’s the first NCAA title of any kind for Coastal Carolina, which became the first Big South school to reach the College World Series.

Tennis – Wimbledon – French Open champ loses
French Open champion and 2015 Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza has been stunned in the second round at the All England Club by a qualifier ranked 124th. The second-seeded Muguruza lost 6-3, 6-2 to Slovakia’s Jana Cepelova in less than an hour. Muguruza made 22 unforced errors and produced nine winners, less than a month after winning her first Grand Slam title

MWL – Midwest League Baseball
Last Night
Bowling Green 12, West Michigan 2
South Bend 1, Lake County 0
Great Lakes 7, Lansing 6

Tonight
West Michigan at Dayton, 7:00 p.m.
Bowling Green at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m.
Lansing at South Bend, 7:35 p.m.