Adrian, MI – Check-out today’s Inside the Cave Sports Update for Tuesday, July 8th…
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After winning four out of six games in their series against the Columbus Clippers, the Toledo Mud Hens will begin a road series against the Omaha Storm Chasers today at 1:05pm.
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Keider Montero and three relievers combined on a five-hitter and the Detroit Tigers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 on Monday night.
The Tigers have won four straight games while only allowing four runs, improving to 24 games over 500 for the first time since 2013.
Montero allowed one run and four hits and a walk in six innings while striking out four. After losing his first start, Montero is 4-0 with a 3.31 ERA in 11 outings as a starter and bulk reliever.
Tyler Holton, Brenan Hanifee and Will Vest each pitched a scoreless inning to complete the win. Javier Báez, Colt Keith, and Zach McKinstry each homered for the Tigers, who improved to 58-34 on the season.
Detroit’s Jack Flaherty gets the start today against Tampa Bay.
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The Dallas Wings will try again showcasing a Caitlin Clark-Paige Bueckers matchup at the home of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.
The Wings said Monday the club is moving the August 1st game against Clark and the Indiana Fever to American Airlines Center.
What was supposed to be the first matchup of the past two No. 1 picks in the WNBA draft was held at the AAC on June 27. Clark missed the Fever’s 94-86 victory with a groin injury. Bueckers scored 27 points, the second-highest total of her rookie season.
If Clark returns this week from the groin injury that has sidelined her the past five games, the first meeting with Bueckers could come Sunday at Indianapolis.
Despite Clark’s absence last month, the Wings’ first game at the home of the Mavs drew 20,409 fans. It was the eighth regular-season game in WNBA history to draw at least 20,000.
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The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming ‘human error’ for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.
The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said Monday that the technology was “inadvertently deactivated” by someone for three points at Centre Court during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s three-set victory over Sonay Kartal a day earlier in the fourth round.
On one point, a shot by Kartal clearly landed past the baseline but wasn’t called out by the automated setup — called Hawk-Eye — because it had been shut off.
Hours after Bolton spoke with reporters, the club issued a statement to announce that it “removed the ability for Hawk-Eye operators to manually deactivate the ball tracking,” meaning “this error cannot now be repeated due to the system changes we have made.”
Bolton declined to say who made the mistake on Sunday or how, exactly, it occurred or whether that person would face any consequences or be re-trained.
She did note that there were other people at fault: the chair umpire, Nico Helwerth, and two who should have let him know the system was temporarily down — the review official and the Hawk-Eye official.
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