Baseball: this week’s games. LLWS.
Football: Week 0 for CFB. NFL preseason ends.
Golf: TOUR Championship – finally for Fleetwood!
Other headlines: UFC, US Open.
Baseball – MLB:
- This week’s games:
- The Cardinals were on a 5-game losing streak after last week but they managed to snap that on Monday with an 8-3 win over the Marlins. The Rockies broke their 10 game losing streak to the Dodgers with a 4-3 defeat of them that same night. We had some high scoring games on Monday as well. The Phillies, led by Trea Turner with 4 hits himself, put up 12 runs on the Mariners who lost only by 5. The White Sox shockingly put up 13 runs on the Braves who still managed 9.
- The Braves would get the better of the White Sox the next night though in another offensive game. ATL wins that one 11-10. The Cubs would win both of their double-header games over the Brewers. The first one was 6-4 and the next was 4-1. The Yankees tied their club record of 9 HRs in a single game on Tuesday. They would beat the Rays 13-3. Ohtani would get his 44th of the season in the Dodgers 11-4 win over CO.
- Ohtani would not have a good night on the mound the next night though as CO would win 8-3 and hand Shohei his first loss of the season. Phillies star Trea Turner was on fire this week. On Wed, he had a 5-hit day. He was only 5 of the 20 for the entire team who would beat the mariners 11-2.
- A’s LF Tyler Soderstrom was on a 19 game hitting streak after Thursday’s win over th Twins 8-3. He also would go a perfect 4-4 at bat.
- The longest game of the week was on Friday only going 11 innings between the Reds and the DBacks. But it was a great game with each team getting 1 in the 10th before AZ would win 6-5.
- In the hated rivalry, the Red Sox would get major bragging rights after Saturday’s game, winning 12-1 over the Yankees. But the Yankees would get the better of BOS on Sunday 7-2. The other NY team, the Mets would have 6 HRs in their 9-2 win over the Braves. We had a number of teams hit the double digits Saturday. The Rangers would shutout the Guardians 10-0, the Dbacks would almost do the same to the Reds 10-1, the Cubs would crush the Angels 12-1.
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- Cal Raleigh made history with the most HRs by a Catcher ever! The Mariners would win 11-4 on Sunday too so that’s a nice bonus!
- LLWS: Nevada won the US title and advanced to the World Championship on Sunday to play CHN Taipei. NV smoked CT 8-2 to get there while CHN Taipei snuck in a single-run win over Aruba. But it was flipped in the final. NV would be scoreless while Taipei put up 7 runs to win their 18th LLWS!
Football:
- Week 0 and already a loss in the Top 25 in the books! The Aer Lingus Classic was is in Ireland and this year we had a ranked vs ranked match up and Farmegedon going #22 Iowa ST vs #17 K St. And it was as good as predicted. It started in the pouring rain, both teams had 2 turnovers and we were tied at 7-7 and again at 14-14. K St QB Avery Johnson went 21/30 throwing 2 TDs but Iowa St’s QB Rocco Bect would do one better adding in a rushing TD on top of 2 passing TDs as well. Iowa ST would hold off the Wildcats by a FG.
- The only other noteworthy football moment was Hawaii with a walkoff FG to win as the clock struck 0 to beat Stanford. Week 1 awaits!!
- Preseason NFL is now over so you will start to see a lot of dropping, moving players around. Shadeur Sanders went 3/6 takign 5 sacks for 41 yards. Yikes! To be fair he did start their first game and played well but still this one was ugly and made headlines.
Golf:
- This one will make you feel good. And no Scottie Scheffler didn’t win again although I wish (he T4). Tommy Fleetwood, the English golfer who was notorious for how many times he has played on the PGA Tour without a single win (164 to be exact), finally got his day! He has won 7xs on the European Tour but never on the PGA. He also had 30 Top 5 finishes which is the most of anyone on the PGA tour in 100 years without a victory. Until he would win the biggest prize ever with the TOUR Championship. He shared the lead going into the weekend with a -7 round on Friday (8 birdies will get you in a great spot). He would finish with a round of –2 to win by 3 over the next closest competitor.
Quick Highlights:
- UFC: Heavy weight champion and Olympian, Gabe Stevenson, will be competing in UFC this year.
- Tennis: US Open started Sunday and already we have a notable upset. #13 Medvedev lost to FRA Bonzi in 5 sets after losing the opening 2. On the women’s side, #6 USA Madison Keys went out in the first round to MEX Zarazua. It was a long match though but Keys is now out!
What to watch this week
Baseball – MLB:
- Wed 8/27
- Pirates at Cardinals @ 6:45pm on FS1
- Fri 8/29
- Braves at Phillies @ 5:45pm on Apple TV+
- Orioles at Giants @ 9:15pm on Apple TV+
- Sat 8/30
- 3 games @ 6:15pm on FOX
- Mariners at Guardians
- Tigers at Royals
- Orioles at Giants
- 3 games @ 6:15pm on FOX
- Sun 8/31
- Braves at Phillies @ 6pm om ESPN
Football – NCAAF:
| Top 25 | |||||
| Week 1 | |||||
| Top 25 Games | |||||
| Visitor | Home | Day | Time (CT) | TV | Line |
| 1. Texas | 3. Ohio St | Sat 8/30 | 11:00 AM | FOX | OSU -2.5 |
| 8. Alabama | Florida St | Sat 8/30 | 2:30 PM | ABC | Bama -13.5 |
| 9. LSU | 4. Clemson | Sat 8/30 | 6:30 PM | ABC | Clem -3.5 |
| 6. Notre Dame | 10. Miami | Sun 8/31 | 6:30 PM | ABC | ND -2.5 |
| *GameDay indicated in bold* | |||||
Football – NFL:
- none
Motor Sports:
- Sun 8/31
- F1: Dutch GP @ 8am on ESPN
Olympic Sports:
- Sun 8/31
- Volleyball: AVP Beach @ 1pm on CBS
- NCAA Volleyball: TCU vs Pitt @ 1pm on FS1
Soccer:
- Sat 8/30
- Premier League: Chelsea vs Fulham @ 6:30am on USA
- Premier League: Sunderland vs Brentford @ 9am on USA
- Premier League: Teams TBA @ 11:30am on ABC
- Sun 8/31
- Premier League: Nottingham vs West Ham @ 8am on USA
- Premier League: Liverpool vs Arsenal @ 10:30am on USA
- NWSL: Washington Spirit vs CHI Stars @ 3pm on CBS
Tennis:
- Mon 8/25
- US Open – 1st round
- @ 10:30am on ESPN
- @ 6pm on ESPN
- US Open – 1st round
- Tues 8/26
- US Open – 1st round
- @ 10:30am on ESPN
- @ 6pm on ESPN
- US Open – 1st round
- Wed 8/27
- US Open – 2nd round
- @ 10:30am on ESPN
- @ 6pm on ESPN
- US Open – 2nd round
- Thurs 8/28
- US Open – 2nd round
- @ 10:30am on ESPN
- @ 6pm on ESPN2
- US Open – 2nd round
- Fri 8/29
- US Open – 3rd round
- @ 10:30am on ESPN
- @ 6pm on ESPN2
- US Open – 3rd round
- Sat 8/30
- US Open – 3rd round
- @ 10am on ESPN2
- @ 6pm on ESPN2
- US Open – 3rd round
- Sun 8/31
- US Open – Round of 16
- @ 10am on ESPN
- @ 2pm on ABC
- @ 5pm on ESPN2
- US Open – Round of 16
- Mon 9/1
- US Open – Round of 16
- @ 10am on ESPN
- @ 6pm on ESPN2
- US Open – Round of 16
