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Tuesday’s Games
Oklahoma City 6, Iowa 4, 19 innings, 1st game
Oklahoma City 3, Iowa 1, 2nd game
Colorado Springs 4, Omaha 3
Wednesday’s Games
Iowa at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m.
Omaha at Colorado Springs, 7:35 p.m.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brandon Moss hit a three-run walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth, giving the St. Louis Cardinals an 8-5 win over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. The NL Central-leading Cardinals have won nine of 10 and lead the division by six games. They’ve won nine in a row over Washington, coming from behind the last two nights.
Moss, who struck out with the bases loaded to end the third, homered off Casey Janssen (1-4) to straightaway center on a 1-0 count. Janssen took the loss on Monday, allowing four runs in two-thirds of an inning. Mitch Harris (2-1) worked the last two innings, allowing two hits. Ryan Zimmerman homered and Anthony Rendon had a two-run double in a four-run third for Washington.
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Mark Reynolds of the St. Louis Cardinals was taken out for a pinch-hitter two innings after being hit by a pitch on the right wrist in the third inning against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. Reynolds was plunked by Joe Ross with the bases loaded. He stayed in the game until the fifth when Tommy Pham pinch-hit and grounded out. The team said X-rays were negative, calling the injury a contusion, and that Reynolds was day to day.
The Iowa Hawkeyes open the new season with a new quarterback when the host Illinois State on Saturday in Kinnick Stadium. It will be their first game since junior C.J. Beathard was given the keys to the offense just days after a Taxslayer Bowl loss to Tennessee. Saturday’s game will be Beathard’s second start under center. He replaced an injured Jake Rudock in last year’s 24-10 win at Purdue.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says Beathard will get better as he gains experience. Iowa is familiar with Illinois State quarterback Tre Roberson. As a freshman at Indiana back in 2011 Roberson passed for 197 yards and rushed for 84 in a 45-24 Hoosier loss in Kinnick Stadium.
Illinois State lost to North Dakota State in last year’s FCS title game. The Hawkeyes have two new tackles on offense and senior center Austin Blythe becomes the leader of the offensive line. LeSun Daniels and Jordan Canzeri give the Hawkeyes a one-two bunch at running back that should give the ground game a boost.
Beathard says the Hawkeyes are getting excited as game day approaches. Not only will Beathard’s family be at the game but his uncle, Kurth Beathard, is the offensive coordinator for Illinois State. Beathard says the Hawkeyes are anxious to erase the memories of last season’s three game skid to end the season.
(Learfield Sports)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa wide receiver Tevaun Smith made waves this offseason by catching 41 passes in 60 seconds with just one hand for a video that’s been viewed over 200,000 times on YouTube. Hardly anyone outside of Iowa City has seen much from of the rest of the Hawkeyes receivers.
One of Iowa’s biggest question marks is who besides Smith is going to emerge from an inexperienced group of wideouts. Senior Jacob Hillyer and junior Matt VandeBerg, the two starters listed alongside Smith for Saturday’s opener against Illinois State, combined for just 25 receptions last season. Junior Riley McCarron, the first guy off the bench, didn’t catch a pass last year.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Carlos Martinez has been scratched from his scheduled start on today (Tuesday), with a sore back. Martinez (13-6, 2.91) suffered the injury in his last start Thursday in Arizona.
Left-hander Marco Gonzales will be recalled from Triple-A Memphis to make the start against Washington. Gonzales is 1-4 with a 5.20 ERA in 13 starts. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said Martinez is expected to miss just one start, adding “We’ve had our eyes open looking for a time to get him some rest.”
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jason Heyward hit a two-run, tie-breaking double in the seventh inning to key a five-run rally, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 8-5 on Monday night. St. Louis won for the eighth time in nine games and moved five games ahead of the idle Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Central.
Washington, which had won six of its previous eight, fell 6 1/2 games behind the New York Mets in the NL East. New York beat Philadelphia 3-1 on Monday. The Cardinals sent 10 batters to the plate in the seventh and erased a 5-3 deficit with five two-out runs. Kolten Wong followed Heyward’s hit with a run-scoring single to push the lead to 8-5.
Stephen Piscotty and Jhonny Peralta had RBI hits off Casey Janssen (1-3) to tie the game. Felipe Rivero gave up the double to Heyward. Kevin Siegrist (6-1) picked up the win despite allowing three runs in the seventh.
Monday’s Games (8/31):
Iowa 9, Oklahoma City 3
Colorado Springs 5, Omaha 3
Tuesday’s Games (9/1)
Iowa at Oklahoma City, 4:35 p.m. CDT, 1st game
Iowa at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m. CDT, 2nd game
Omaha at Colorado Springs, 7:35 p.m. CDT
UNI coach Mark Farley may wait until right before Saturday’s kickoff at Iowa State to name a starting quarterback. Sawyer Kollmorgan, Aaron Bailey, Dalton Demos and Eli Dunne are all vying for the job. Dunne is a redshirt freshman from Grinnell who Farley says has stepped up his game.
Kollmorgan has started 27 games over the past three seasons. Farley had said he wanted to trim the competition down to two quarterbacks by game week. If he has done that he’s not letting on.
(Learfield Sports)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An internal email says University of Iowa athletics department administrators ordered a female be hired for an assistant track coaching job in 2013. Attorneys for Mike Scott, a male coach who says he was illegally passed over for the job, received the email last week and provided it to The Associated Press. They’re portraying it as a strong piece of evidence that will help prove his gender discrimination allegations.
In the email, Head Coach Layne Anderson tells assistants that he had rewritten the position’s job description in a way to attract more female candidates. He writes that the change “is once again largely driven by the mandate from the administration to hire a female (qualified to them being optional).” A female was eventually hired.
The university has denied illegal discrimination.
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