7-11-24 WIMA THURSDAY MORNING AM SPORTS

Todd Walker reports:
Reds rally falls short in loss to Rockies.
Guardians rally falls short in Detroit.
Locos rained out, will play DH today.
Lima City Champ Zach Miller playing well in Ohio Amateur.
Summer League action set to tipoff for Mathias and Simpson. 

Episode Transcript

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From the Wyoma Sports Desk. TheReds fell to the Rockies last night in
Cincinnati, six to five. TheReds scored three runs in the bottom of
the ninth inning, but ultimately cameup one run short. Tyler Stevenson led
off the ninth with a home run. Later in the inning, Santiago Espinal
knocked in a run, and sodid Jonathan India. That brought la daylor

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Cruz to the plate with a chanceto tire or win the game, but
he grounded out to shortstop and theRockies hung on for the win. Speaking
of Stevenson, he let off theseventh inning with a shot to right field,
and the outfielder made a diving attempton it and missed it, and
Stevenson tried to stretch it to aleadoff triple and he was thrown out at

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third, ultimately costing the Reds arun and possibly the game. Afterward,
manager David Bell talked about that particularplay. I thought, off the bat,
you know, when the rightfielder divesfor a ball like that, he
gets all the way to the wall, I'm thinking triple all the way.
We got turnout. You know,obviously we would prefer to have Steve rostad

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second there, but off the bat, like I said, I was taking
triple, and if I was thehitter, I would be taken a triple.
When Tyler reached second base, Istill thought it was a triple,
but his tried broke a little bitcoming around the second slowed up a little
bit, and that was probably thedifference there why he was thrown out of
third. So the Reds need towin today's game to take three out of

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four in the series. Game timeis one ten. We'll have it with
the pregame At twelve forty. AustinGomberg goes for the Rockies against the Reds.
Hunter Green turning to the Guardians.They were in Detroit to continue their
series with the Tigers. Detroit scoredtwo in the first and two and the
third off starter Tanner Biby, andwent on to post a five to four

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victory. Ultimately the winning runs scoredin the bottom of the eighth. Cleveland
tried to come back in the ninthinning, as they scored a run to
get back within one, but JasonFoley came in for Detroit got out of
the jam without any further damage topreserve the victory. After the game.
Tribe manager Stephen Vode said he likedwhat he saw from Tanner Bybee. Despite

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the early struggles, he gave theTribe seven solid innings. He knows how
to make adjustments, you know,and you know, you're not always gonna
have your a stuff every time youtake the mound, and but he found
it, you know, and youdidn't have the change up early. The
spider was kind of cutterish early,like you said, it just wasn't quite
finishing. But he made a greatadjustment. Cleveland will try to split before

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game set this afternoon in Detroit atWon ten as they send out Spencer Howard
against the Tigers Jack Flaherty. Asfor the Lima Locos, they were rained
out yesterday at home with Southern Ohio. Elsewhere in the Great Lakes League,
yesterday Muskegon won. They moved afull game ahead of Lima for second place
in the Great Lakes League. TheLocos lead Southern Ohio by four games for

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third place. The Locos and theCopperheads will make that game up today as
a double header at Simmons Field andLima. First pitch at five oh five.
If you're looking for a hoops fix, the NBA Summer League in Las
Vegas will tip off tomorrow among thegames Indiana and Brooklyn at eight o'clock.
The Pacers Summer League roster includes Eliaand Purdue grad Dakota Matthias. Meanwhile,

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Lima Senior grad and Michigan product XavierSimpson will be playing with the Charlotte Hornets
in the Summer League. Their firstgame is Saturday at five pm against the
Knicks. That game will be onESPN two. The Ohio Amateur is being
contested up at Sylvania Country Club nearToledo, and Lima City golf champion Zach

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Miller is in good stead to makethe cut. Yesterday's second round was curtailed
by rain. Miller was two underthrough seven holes for his second round and
two unders for the tournament. Headinginto the completion of the second round today,
Miller stands tied for thirty second.The top sixty plus ties will make

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the cut. If if you justcan't get enough of Pete Rose, HBO
has released a trailer for an upcomingfour part documentary on Pete. The project,
called Charlie Hussel and The Matter ofPete Rose, features Rose, his
son, and Marty Brenneman, amongothers. The documentary is scheduled to debut
on HBO Max on July twenty fourth, with eleven fifty Wyam a Sports I'm Todd Walker