Sports – Thursday, May 9th, 2024

The Salem Boys Baseball Tigers are scheduled to play the Willow Springs Bears today at 4:30 at the Salem High School Baseball Field Complex. It will be the final game of he regular season before the Tigers play the winner of the Cuba/Oensville game on Monday at St. Clair in District Play. You can hear the game on KSMO Radio AM 1340 and 95.7, and video stream the game on KSMO Media featuring KSMO Stream Page, ksmoradio.com and KSMO YouTube. Should the game be rained out, the Senior Activities will still be held starting on the field at 5:30.

The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets game Wednesday was postponed due to rain and will be made up at 4:15 on August 5th. The Cardinals begin a four-game series in Milwaukee tonight. You can hear the game on KSMO immediately after Salem Tiger Baseball.

Brady Singer went 5 1/3rd innings of one run ball, Bobby Witt Jr homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday, 6-4. The Royals took two of three from the Brewers. They will start a four game series in Anaheim against the LA Angels tonight.

The St. Louis Blues have announced they have signed Coach Drew Bannister to a two-year contract to make him the 27th head coach in franchise history. This past season, Bannister guided the team to significant improvements in several categories, including a climb from 23rd to 12th in goals-against per game, 31st to 13th in power play, 20th to 13th in penalty kill, and 21st to 16th in the final regular-season standings with a record of 43-33-6.