Sports – Monday, May 5th 2025

The Salem Tigers Baseball team well be on the road this afternoon to play the Zizzers in West Plains. Listen to this game live on KSMO Radio 1340 AM & 95.7 FM with first pitch at 4:30 and Tiger Talk with Coach Tony Edwards at about 4:15. An audio stream will be available, visit KSMOradio.com to select a streaming platform.

The Salem Tiger Boys Golf team will be in Willow Springs today for the Willow Springs Open.

Also in Willow Springs today will be the Boys Tennis team who are seeded fourth in the SCA Class 1 District 5 Tournament. Their first match will be against the fifth seeded Willow Springs. There will be five matches today, with the first game set to start at 1:00. 

The SCA Tournament for the Boys and Girls Track and Field teams will begin today in Mountain Grove at 1:30 this afternoon.

The St. Louis Cardinals started a new series with the Mets on Friday, and lost 9-3. Saturday’s game was rained out setting up a doubleheader yesterday. In the first game the Cardinals held off a late Mets rally for a 6-5 win. The late game was just as close with a 4-4 tie going into the bottom of the sixth when a Victor Scott II double allowed Yohel Pozo to score the final run of the game for a 5-4 Red Bird winner. The Cardinals will be starting a new three game series with the Pirates this evening that you can listen to live on KSMO Radio following the Salem Tiger Baseball game.

The Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles faced off over the weekend in a three game series that started with a 3-0 Royal shutout on Friday. The Royals returned the favor with interest shutting out the Orioles 4-0 on Saturday.Then yesterday the Royals only had two innings that they didn’t contribute to their score, defeating Baltimore 11-6. Kansas City will host the White Sox tonight at 6:40.

The St. Louis Blues took on the Jets in Winnipeg for the seventh game of the tied playoff series. Jordan Kyrou and Mathieu Joseph each scored a goal in the first to give the Blues an early two goal advantage. Cole Perfetti responded for the Jets on a power play in the second with a tip-in shot. Going into the third it was 3-1 Blues when the Jets rallied and in the last three seconds of the game, a Cole Perfetti goal, forcing overtime. It took 36 minutes and 16 seconds of extra play over two overtime periods before the Jets’ Adam Lowry would score the final goal on the night, ending the Blues season, 4-3.