WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, JULY 18TH, 2019
*** EXCESSIVE HEAT WAVE FROM 12 NOON FRIDAY UNTIL
8PM SATURDAY ***
TODAY – SOME MORNING CLOUDS…FOLLOWED BY SOME
AFTERNOON SUNSHINE. A STRAY SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 88.
TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 72.
FRIDAY – HAZY, HOT AND HUMID. A STRAY SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 93.
SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY, HAZY, HOT AND HUMID.
HIGH – 94.
SUNDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY WITH AFTERNOON SHOWERS
OR THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH NEAR 90.
The Beaver County Amateur Astronomers will be holding a Star Party on Saturday, July 20th to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 first walk on the moon. Telescopes will be set up and when the moon comes up we will be observing the area where that first moon landing took place. Prior to the moon’s rising we will have some other activities as well as getting to observe Jupiter and its four largest moons.
The event as always is free an open to the public. It will be held at the Brady’s Run Park Baseball fields which are located off of Achortown Road near the Chippewa/Brighton Township line. Note that there is a detour which needs to be taken if coming from Brady’s Run Park Road. Follow the posted detour signs to get to Achortown Road.
If you have questions call 724-601-2898
The Pittsburgh Pirates Treasure Chest will be making its next stop of the season at Friendly Federal Credit Union in Aliquippa today from 10 a.m. to 12 noon to help celebrate youth day at the credit union.
Beaver County Radio’s host of Teleforum, Frank Sparks and Ed Hermick will do a live broadcast and the Famous Beaver County Radio Prize Van will also be on hand with the Personality Prize Wheel. Stop out and enjoy all of the fun and register for some great prizes and have some refreshments courtesy of Friendly Federal Credit Union.
(Beaver County, PA) The Best of Beaver County is easy to discover; it’s right on your radio! Tune in this and every Thursday from 11 to 11:30 A.M. for “The Best of Beaver County”, an innovative radio program on WBVP and WMBA presented by St. Barnabas. The show is hosted by Jim Roddey and is dedicated to shining light on the great things going on right here in local neighborhoods, and the people that are making it happen. Tune in at 11 a.m. today as Pa. State Representative’s Aaron Bernstine and Josh Kail will be Jim’s guests. Find out what all the buzz is about by joining “The Best Of Beaver County”.
A live video stream of this week’s edition of “The Best Of Beaver County” can be viewed on the WBVP-WMBA Facebook page, plus the radio broadcast will be replayed each Sunday from 11:30 am to Noon from the St. Barnabas Studio on Beaver County Radio.
Goldschmidt’s 3-run homer lifts Cardinals over Pirates 6-5
By JOE HARRIS Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt was looking for a single. He ended up getting a whole lot more.
Goldschmidt hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Michael Feliz in the seventh inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh 6-5 on Wednesday, dealing the Pirates their fifth loss in six games.
St. Louis trailed 4-3 when Tommy Edman singled off Francisco Liriano (4-2) with one out in the seventh and José Martínez walked. Feliz relieved, and Goldschmidt followed with his 18th homer.
“I had two strikes there, I was just trying to put something in play,” Goldschmidt said. “I knew a single would tie the game up there so if I could just put something in play maybe find a hole and at least tie the game up and was able to get enough of it to get it out of there.”
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said Feliz’s stuff matches up better against Goldschmidt and Tyler O’Neill than anyone else out of the Pittsburgh bullpen.
“Goldschmidt and O’Neill were 0 for 5 against him coming in,” Hurdle said. “Unfortunately the fastball location was off on the pitch he threw Goldy today.”
John Brebbia (3-3) struck out four in two perfect innings. Carlos Martínez gave up an RBI single to Bryan Reynolds in the ninth before Starling Marté hit into a forceout, giving Martinez his sixth save in eight chances.
“The bullpen continued to be somewhat the unsung heroes,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said. “They’re not in our clubhouse, but sometimes they get overlooked for doing their job.”
O’Neill also homered for the Cardinals, who won two of three from the Pirates.
O’Neill singled in a run in the first and hit a solo homer in the fifth. He is 10 for his past 20 with four home runs.
“I’m just trying to see the ball and keep things simple,” O’Neill said. “Just hit it where it’s pitched and good things are going to happen off of that.”
Daniel Ponce de Leon made his first start since the Cardinals announced he was joining the rotation and gave up four runs, eight hits and two walks in 3 2/3 innings.
Pirates starter Chris Archer allowed three runs and five hits in six innings. Archer had a pair of hits, including an RBI single in a three-run fourth, after starting the season 1 for 25 at the plate. Reynolds chased de Leon with a two-run single.
“O’Neill got me,” Archer said. “He’s hot right now. I definitely want to execute better in that situation.”
Marte homered in the first, his fourth home run on a six-game trip.
“It’s good to win this series,” Goldschmidt said. “Yesterday we were right there, just couldn’t get the hit. Today we were able to. That’s what we’ve got to find a way to go is win those close games.”
MILESTONE HIT
Cardinals C Andrew Knizner got his first major league hit with a double in the second inning that set up José Martínez’s sacrifice fly.
TRAINING ROOM
Pirates: OF Gregory Polanco stopped his rehab at Triple-A Indianapolis because of left shoulder soreness and will be evaluated in Pittsburgh. … INF Erik González (broken left clavicle) was to resume a rehab assignment at Indianapolis on Wednesday night. …. RHP Chad Kuhl and RHP Edgar Santana threw off a slope for the first time since Tommy John surgery.
Cardinals: INF Jedd Gyorko (right wrist surgery) hit off a tee for the first time since getting hurt. “I don’t want to get too excited about anything yet because there’s still a lot of steps to go,” Gyorko said. “But we’re definitely I think on the mend. Everything is feeling better than what it used to so we’re headed in the right direction.”
UP NEXT
Pirates: RHP Jordan Lyles (5-6, 5.16 ERA) starts a homestand opener Friday night against Philadelphia. Lyles gave seven runs in two-thirds of an inning in a loss to the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.
Cardinals: RHP Dakota Hudson is to start Thursday night at Cincinnati and RHP Tanner Roark (5-6, 3.99 ERA). Hudson is 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA in three career appearances against the Reds.
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EARL, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania town official has given up a municipal job over online comments he made about a pregnant woman who died along with her 9-year-old son when her car was swept away by flash floodwaters. Earl Township Supervisor John Hetrick stepped down Monday from his appointed position as the town’s emergency management coordinator. In the now deleted post he made on the emergency management’s Facebook page, Hetrick wrote that almost everyone who dies in their car in flooding did so because they “made a very bad choice.” Critics called the post insensitive. Hetrick says he wasn’t trying to blame the woman, but wanted to spread the word about potential dangers in such situations.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With tweets and a vote, President Donald Trump and House Democrats established the sharp and emotionally wrought contours of the 2020 campaigns. They have created a fraught political frame: “racists” vs. “socialists.” Trump’s attacks on women of color left House Democrats to declare his actions “racist.” But pushing the House majority to embrace its squad of liberal freshmen, Trump linked them as “socialists.”
NEW YORK (AP) — The notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence Wednesday. Guzman was convicted in February in an epic drug-trafficking case that triggered a mandatory sentence of life without parole. He spoke briefly before he was sentenced, saying he was denied a fair trial.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticized the increasing intolerance and absolutism of world politics, in a message many will see as aimed at her successor as Britain’s leader and at President Donald Trump. May, who is due to leave office in a week after a three-year premiership dominated by Brexit, has condemned the “politics of division” and says “some are losing the ability to disagree without demeaning the views of others.”
A new report shows that repealing the Affordable Care Act would cost hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians their health insurance, raise health-care costs and do other serious damage in the state. Andrea Sears reports…