Sports – Friday, April 30th, 2021

The Salem Baseball Tigers will be at Willow Springs on Saturday afternoon at 1:00. Salem is 6-12 on the year and 4-2 in the SCA. The game can be heard on KSMO Radio and online at ksmoradio.com starting at 12:45 with Tiger Talk and Coach Phillip Karr.

The Salem Tiger Tennis Team beat Mountain Grove Thursday, 9-0. They will be at Houston today at 4:00 and Coach Hubbs said the Osage Tournament on Saturday has been cancelled.

The Salem Track team meet with St. James Thursday was cancelled. Salem will host the SCA Conference meet on Monday at 1:00.

Matt Carpenter hit a three-run homer and Tyler O’Neill scored on a wild pitch in the 10th inning in a 4-3 win for the Cardinals over the Phillies. The Red Birds begin a weekend series in Pittsburgh today at 4:40. Saturday’s game will start at 4:40 and Sunday’s game begins at 11:20 and all three games can be heard on KSMO.

Kansas City had Thursday off and the Royals will be in Minnesota to begin a weekend series with the Twins tonight at Target Field.

Ryan O’Reilly’s overtime goal gave St. Louis a 5-4 win over Minnesota Thursday night. O’Reilly finsihed with two goals in the game. The Blues had goals from Sammy Blais, Tyler Bozak and Marco Scandella. The Blues will be in action again Saturday night against Minnesota at 8:30 on a delayed basis.