Sports briefs
Wild Things
release pitcher
The Wild Things are already shuffling their starting rotation as the Frontier League team released Ryan Castellanos Monday after two rocky outings.
Castellanos had an 0-1 record and a 19.89 ERA in 6 1/3 innings. He gave up 15 runs. Castellanos, whose brother, Nick, plays in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers, started the Wild Things’ third game of the season at Evansville and Friday at Lake Erie.
Washington also placed relief pitcher Garrett Krieg on the disabled list Sunday, leaving the roster at 22 active players, the league minimum.
The Wild Things resume play Wednesday with a doubleheader at home against the Southern Illinois Miners. Southern Illinois recently added to its roster starting pitcher Williams Perez, who had a 7-6 record in the major leagues in 2015 with the Atlanta Braves.
Olympian says USA hid coach abuse
Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors Smith sued USA Swimming on Monday, alleging the sport’s national governing body knew her former coach sexually abused her as a minor and failed to protect her while shielding him.
Kukors Smith alleges Sean Hutchison, who began coaching her at a swim club near Seattle, groomed her for sexual abuse when she was 13, started touching and kissing her when she was 16, and engaged in sexual activity with her when she was 17.
Hutchison has denied the allegations, which emerged earlier this year when Kukors Smith, now 28, posted an emotional essay online. Hutchison, assistant coach on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, has not been charged with a crime.
Wickens crashes
at Indy
Robert Wickens crashed Monday during the second-to-last practice for the Indianapolis 500, another headache for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports just two days after top driver James Hinchcliffe failed to make the field for the showcase race.
In addition to finding a way to get one of its two Canadian drivers into the 33-car starting field, the team now must repair Wickens’ car, too. The final practice is Friday, two days before the race.
Wickens hit the outside wall coming out of the second turn, then hit it again in the back straightaway when the No. 6 car made an abrupt right turn because of a broken right front suspension and rolled to a stop in the third turn. Phillips called the car a “mess” and said there was “fairly severe” damage to the right side. As for Wickens, it was his first taste of real taste of trouble on the 2.5-mile oval.
There was no sign of a new ride for Hinchcliffe. As the drivers rolled out to pit lane for practice, he walked around in street clothes promoting a blood drive in the Gasoline Alley suites. A life-threatening leg injury he sustained at Indy in 2015 gave him the idea.