6-16-25 MONDAY MORNING SPORTS

Reds win rubber game in Detroit; Tribe swept in Seattle; Locos split DH in Xenia; Arkansas, Maxwell handcuffed by LSU in CWS opener; Game 5 of NBA Finals tonight in OKC; Spaun wins U.S. Open

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the WIMA Sports desk. The Reds took advantage of
some shaky Tigers defense to score four runs in the
eighth and two in the ninth, and pull away for
an eight to four win yesterday in the Motor City,
taking the rubber game in the series. Eli de la
Cruz homeward and drove in three. Three Tiger errors led
to five underned runs for the Reds, adding injury to insult.

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Tigers reliever Will Vest left the game with a possible injury.
It was a breakout road trip for de la Cruz,
who at four sixty two with four homers and six
RBI and eight runs scored during the six game road
trip to Cleveland and Detroit. That's aw the Reds go
four and two. The Reds are two games over five
hundred now at thirty seven and thirty five. They are

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off today. They begin a home series with the Twins tomorrow.
The Tigers still have the best record in baseball despite
losing two out of three. They are forty six and
twenty seven. As for the Guardians, they slipped back to
five hundred at thirty five and thirty five, losing in
Seattle yesterday six to nothing. That's a Mariners sweep. The

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Guardians had a tough week after losing two of three
to the Reds. They went out West and got swept.
They're off today and they're at the Giants beginning tomorrow.
Speaking of the Giants, yesterday they acquired Rafael Devers from
the Red Sox in exchange for right hander Jordan Hicks,
lefty Kyle Harrison, and a couple of prospects. Devers is

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in the second season of a ten year, three hundred
and thirteen million dollar contract that the Giants are fully
taking on. Devers visiting two seventy two this year with
fifteen home runs and fifty eight runs batted. In The
Lima Locos and Xenia Scouts were rained out on Friday
and Saturday. They made up one of those games yesterday

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down in Xenia. Both games went to extra innings and
used the special Great Lakes League extra innings tiebreaker procedure.
Loco's winning Game one, the Scouts took Game two. The
Locos have the best record in the league at seven
and one. They are off today, back in action tomorrow.

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They'll host the Hamilton Joe's and host them again Wednesday
night before going to Hamilton to wrap up that series
on Thursday. Then it's a busy weekend for the Locos
home Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for the Southern Ohio Copperheads.
As for the college World Series, we have a local
rooting interest with shawnny Grad Logan Maxwell playing for the

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Arkansas Razorbacks. They had their first game of the World
Series yesterday in Omaha. They lost to LSU four to one.
Maxwell was zero for four, the Razorbacks were held to
just four hits. They're right back in action tonight and
the elimination game against Murray State also tonight. A winners
bracket game features LSU and UCLA High school baseball. The

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state tournament was held over the weekend in Akron and Canton, Coldwater,
and wap if A. Canetta fell in the semifinals, however,
Minster claimed the Division seven state championship, their fourth state
championship in baseball. The NBA Finals resumed tonight, Oklahoma City
hosting Indiana. The series is tied at two apiece. The

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Stanley Cup Finals are back in action tomorrow with Edmonton
at Florida. The Panthers trying to wrap up their second
straight Stanley Cup Championship in Game six. The Bengals are
back at the negotiating table with Trey Hendrickson. ESPN says
contract talks resumed on Sunday. The sides reached an impass

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during the offseason and Hendrickson missed mandatory mini camp. Also,
rookie defensive end Shamar Stewart remains unsigned due to his
contract dispute with the team. JJ Spahn won the US
Open yesterday at Oakmont. He was the only golfer under par.
He shot one under to win by two shots over

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Robert McIntyre. And on the track, Kyle Kirkwood won the
IndyCar Race at Saint Louis, and Shan van Gisbergen won
the NASCAR Mexico Road Course Race, the first points race
outside of the US in the modern history of NASCAR,
with eleven fifty WYMA Sports. I'm Todd Walker.