Weekday Morning Sports – Monday 5/15/17

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95.7 & 1400 WSJM Sports     @wsjmsports     wsjmsports.com     Monday, May 15, 2017

MLB – Major League Baseball
Last Night
Los Angeles Angels 4, Detroit Tigers 1
Chicago White Sox 9, San Diego Padres 3
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Chicago Cubs 0

Angels 4, Tigers 1 – Trout, Meyer propel Angels past Verlander and Tigers, 4-1
Mike Trout homered in his third straight game and Alex Meyer pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning of the Los Angeles Angels’ 4-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.  Danny Espinosa hit a tiebreaking homer off Justin Verlander, helping the Angels to just their fourth win in 12 games. Andrelton Simmons added an RBI single to chase Verlander (3-3) in the seventh as the Angels split four games with the Tigers, who haven’t won a series in Anaheim in eight tries since 2009. Verlander yielded five hits and walked five while pitching into the seventh inning of his first loss in four starts. With seven strikeouts, Verlander passed Tommy John and pulled even with Eddie Plank for 53rd place in baseball history with 2,246 career strikeouts.

White Sox 9, Padres 3 – Cabrera keys rally as White Sox top Padres 9-3
Pinch hitter Melky Cabrera had a key two-run single in Chicago’s eight-run eighth inning, helping the White Sox beat the San Diego Padres 9-3 on Sunday. Cabrera, whose hit went through the right side of the infield, was one of 14 batters in the inning against three San Diego relievers. The rally denied Jered Weaver his first win with the Padres after his best outing of the season. Ryan Buchter (2-2) took the loss, walking three batters while recording only one out. Shortstop Luis Sardinas committed an error on a potential double-play ball that could have made it a scoreless inning for the Padres.

Cardinals 5, Cubs 0 – Molina homers twice to help Cardinals beat Cubs
Yadier Molina homered twice and Adam Wainwright threw seven shutout innings to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday. Matt Carpenter also homered for St. Louis, which won for the eighth time in nine games. Chicago has lost three of four. Molina recorded the third multi-homer game of his career. His last came on Aug. 21, 2011 at Wrigley Field. He drilled a two-run homer off Jake Arrieta (4-3) in the second inning and added a solo blast in the eighth. Wainwright (3-3) allowed four hits in a 102-pitch stint. He struck out three and walked four. Carpenter’s two-run drive came in the third. He was 1-for-31 before the round-tripper against Arrieta, his friend and college teammate at TCU.

Tonight
Chicago White Sox (Pelfrey 0-3) at L.A. Angels (Chavez 2-5), 10:07 p.m.
Tigers and Cubs are off

MLB – Yankees retire Jeter’s number
The New York Yankees retired Derek Jeter’s jersey No. 2 before Sunday’s game against the Houston Astros. Jeter captained the Yankees during much of a 20-year career that ended in 2014 and included five World Series titles and a team-record 3,465 hits. The Yankees also unveiled a plaque in his honor that will be placed in Monument Park behind center field.

NBA – 2017 NBA Playoffs
Last Night – Western Conference Finals
Golden State Warriors 113, San Antonio Spurs 111                              (GSW leads 1-0)

Warriors 113, Spurs 111 – Warriors rally to beat Spurs
The Golden State Warriors trailed by 25 before taking Game 1 of the NBA’s Western Conference finals, a 113-111 decision over the visiting San Antonio Spurs. Stephen Curry scored 19 of his 40 points in the third period and hit a game-tying 3-pointer before Draymond Green followed with a three-point play that put Golden State ahead to stay. Kevin Durant scored 10 straight during a key fourth-quarter stretch on his way to 34 points.

Tonight – Eastern Conference Semifinals
Washington Wizards at Boston Celtics, 8:00 p.m.                                 (Series tied 3-3)

NHL – 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs – Conference Finals (best of 7)
Last Night
Anaheim Ducks 5, Nashville Predators 3                                                 (Series tied 1-1)

Ducks 5, Predators 3 – Ducks knot WCF with Predators
Nick Ritchie scored the game-winner and Ryan Getzlaf had three assists as the Ducks downed the Predators, 5-3. Nashville led 3-2 midway through the second period before Ondrej Kase and Ritchie scored about 6 1/2 minutes apart to give Anaheim its first lead in the series. John Gibson stopped 30 shots for the Ducks, who head to Nashville for Game 3 on Tuesday.

Last Night
Ottawa Senators at Pittsburgh Penguins, 8:00 p.m.                               (OTT leads 1-0)

WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association
Last Night
Minnesota Lynx 70, Chicago Sky 61
Seattle Storm 87, Indiana Fever 82

Lynx 70, Sky 61 – Fowles scores 26 points, Lynx beat Sky 70-61 in opener
Sylvia Fowles had 26 points and 10 rebounds and Minnesota beat Chicago 70-61.  Fowles had seven points in the fourth quarter, scoring each time after the Sky twice pulled within three points. Rebekkah Brunson scored four straight to give Minnesota a 69-59 lead with 2:20 remaining. Maya Moore added 11 points, but was 1 of 11 from 3-point range, for the Lynx in the opener for both teams. Tamara Young scored 14 points, and Jessica Breland had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Sky.

Storm 87, Fever 82 – Jewell Loyd, Briana Stewart lead Storm to 87-82 win over Fever
Jewell Loyd scored 27 points, Breanna Stewart made several key plays down the stretch and the Seattle Storm turned back the Indiana Fever 87-82 on Sunday.  Stewart, who missed Seattle’s season-opening loss in Los Angeles when Loyd scored 25 points, hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:38 to go after Indiana scored eight straight to take a 77-76 lead.  Langhorne finished with 17 points and Stewart 15 for Seattle, ranked fifth in the AP preseason poll. Shenise Johnson had 24 points and January 23 in the first game for the Fever, ranked seventh.

IIHF – US beats Slovakia 6-1 for 5th win at ice hockey worlds
The United States has defeated Slovakia 6-1 to stretch its winning run at the ice hockey world championship to five games ahead of its Group A showdown with Russia. The U.S. is now at the top of Group A, a point ahead of Russia. The two teams meet Tuesday in Cologne. The Russians first face Latvia on Monday, when the U.S. is not in action.

Golf – Kim becomes youngest Players Championship winner
South Korea’s Si Woo Kim has become the youngest winner of The Players Championship. The 21-year-old Kim was nearly flawless in his final round at TPC Sawgrass, closing with a 3-under 69 with no bogeys for a three-shot victory over Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen. Kim gets $1.89 million for his second PGA Tour victory, and a three-year exemption to the Masters.

NASCAR – Almirola out of hospital after fracturing a vertebra
NASCAR driver Aric Almirola has been released from the University of Kansas Medical Center a day after fracturing a vertebra during a fiery wreck at Kansas Speedway. Almirola was trailing Joey Logano and Danica Patrick on Saturday night when they were sent into the wall in the first turn. Almirola plowed into Logano’s car, the force of the impact lifting his No. 43 car into the air. Safety crews removed the top of Almirola’s car so they could remove him. He was taken by helicopter to the hospital, conscious and alert the entire time, and Richard Petty Motorsports said Almirola had a compression fracture of his T5 vertebra. He was returning home to Mooresville, North Carolina, and will follow up with doctors in Charlotte.

MWL – Midwest League Baseball
Tonight
Bowling Green at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m.
Dayton at South Bend, 7:05 p.m.
Fort Wayne at Lansing, 7:05 p.m.
Lake County at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m.

MHSAA – High School Sports
Tonight
Girls Soccer
SMAC Tournament – Round 1
Lakeshore at Gull Lake, 6:45 p.m.
Mattawan at Portage Central, 6:45 p.m.
Battle Creek Lakeview at St. Joseph, 6:45 p.m.
Portage Northern at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:45 p.m.
Battle Creek Central at Niles, 5:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Central (bye)

Berrien Springs at Lake Michigan Catholic, 5:00 p.m.
Buchanan at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m.
Parchment at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m.  Moved to Tuesday
Otsego at Allegan, 6:45 p.m.
Edwardsburg at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m.
Dowagiac at Sturgis, 6:45 p.m.
Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:45 p.m.
Three Rivers at South Haven, 6:00 p.m.
Bangor at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Christian at Schoolcraft, 6:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Hackett at Watervliet, 5:00 p.m.

Baseball
Benton Harbor at St. Joseph, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Paw Paw at Gull Lake, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Bangor at Delton Kellogg, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Fennville at Galesburg-Augusta, 4:30 p.m.
Bloomingdale at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Lawrence at Hartford, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Watervliet at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Coloma at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Saugatuck at Kalamazoo Hackett, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Eau Claire at Constantine, 4:30 p.m. (DH)

Softball
Lakeshore at Caledonia, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Paw Paw at Gull Lake, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Coloma at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH)
Eau Claire at Constantine, 4:30 p.m. (DH)