Sports Briefs: GCC product picks up first MLB victory
Sherriff bounces back for win
Four days after suffering his first Major League Baeball loss, Glendale Community College alumnus Ryan Sherriff notched another first.
The left-handed reliever for the St. Louis Cardinals picked up victory No. 1 in the Cardinals’ 3-1 victory over the Padres in San Diego on Wednesday evening.
Sherriff, who was called up to the majors on Aug. 24, pitched two innings of scoreless relief, walking two and striking out two while not surrendering a hit.
Sherriff’s outing helped avenge a defeat to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday in which he was tagged with the loss after allowing one run on one hit with one strikeout over 2/3 innings.
Through this season, Sherriff is 1-1 with a 1.29 earned-run average with eight strikeouts and three walks over seven innings pitched in five games.
GCC’s Reid, Chiefs hammer defending champs
Las Vegas listed the Kansas City Chiefs, coached by former Glendale Community College standout Andy Reid, as nine-point underdogs when the team opened the season Thursday evening at the defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots.
It stood to reason that Kansas City would need a spectacular effort to win and, on cue, received one in a convincing and shocking 42-27 victory in Foxborough in the NFL season opener.
According to the Kansas City Star, no AFC team had won a game in New England in which Tom Brady had played all four quarters since 1997, while the Patriots surrendered the most points since 1993 and hadn’t lost by such a margin since 1984.
Quarterback Alex Smith completed 28 of 35 passes for 368 yards and four touchdowns, while the team racked up 537 yards of total offense.
“All in all a very good win against a real good football team [and] a Hall of Fame football coach,” Reid said in postgame comments. “I have a ton of respect for [Bill Belichick] and his program and he’s got good players. Like we talked about in the lockkeroom before coming in here, this is one out of 16 [games]. We’re going to enjoy the heck out of it, but it’s one out of 16.”
The only negative Thursday was the season-ending loss of star safety Eric Berry, who tore his Achilles tendon.
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