Sports - Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

The Brewers bats continue to me MIA as they collected just three hits in a 5-1 loss to the Rays last night in Tampa.  Matt Garza got the Crew through seven innings, giving up just 1 run and five hits.   Will Smith was charged with all 4 runs the Rays put up in the 8^th to get hung with the loss.  The series wraps up this morning as Yovani Gallardo takes on David Price.  Coverage begins at 10:35am on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ.   With the loss the Brewers lead in the NL Central is down to just 1 game over Pittsburgh, 1.5 games over St. Louis and 5 games over the Reds.

NL Central

Reds 3 Arizona 0

Cubs 4 Rockies 3 – 16 innings

San Diego 3 St. Louis 1

With the trade deadline swirling, a few big name pitchers are on the block.  The Red Sox have scratched Jon Lester from his start today with a deal possibly on the horizon.  Pittsburgh and St. Louis are possible destinations.  The Brewers opponent today, David Price is also on the block.

After taking Tuesday off the Packers are back on the practice field this morning.    Green Bay will have workouts at 8:20am today, Thursday, and Friday before Saturday’s Family Night Scrimmage. 

The breakdown of Jordy Nelson’s new four-year, $39 million dollar contract extension have been released. The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports Nelson will be worth $14.75 million dollars in the first year of the extension and then about $7.25 million each of the final 3 years. His signing bonus was $11.5 million dollars.