8/2/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday
2 August 2022 Sports
Sports for August 2nd
From Wayne Mausser
The San Diego Padres acquired All-Star closer Josh Hader from the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday in exchange for recently benched closer Taylor Rogers and three other players in a blockbuster deal between NL playoff contenders.
The NL Central-leading Brewers shipped one of the game’s top relievers to the Padres for Rogers, right-hander Dinelson Lamet, outfielder Esteury Ruiz and pitching prospect Robert Gasser. The trade features the two big league saves leaders. Hader has 29 saves while Rogers has 28, though the Padres recently removed Rogers from the closer role after he blew consecutive opportunities in a series at Detroit. The Padres obtained Rogers from Minnesota on opening day.
San Diego also finalized a $100 million, five-year contract with right-hander Joe Musgrove that starts next year. The 29-year-old Musgrove is 8-4 with a 2.65 ERA in 18 starts this year.
Hader, the NL reliever of the year three times in the last four seasons, has a career-high 4.24 ERA after enduring one of his worst slumps just before the All-Star break. The left-hander allowed five homers and 12 runs over 4 1/3 innings in a stretch of six appearances in early July, increasing his ERA from 1.05 to 4.50. Hader otherwise has allowed just four runs in 29 2/3 innings. Hader has struck out 59 batters in 34 innings. He has blown only two of his 31 save opportunities.
We felt this was the right time, and it was only a player of that caliber that could garner such a significant return to make such an impact on the future of the organization,” Brewers President of Baseball Operations David Stearns said.
The Brewers also might have been convinced by the emergence of All-Star reliever and 2020 NL Rookie of the Year Devin Williams, who has 30 consecutive scoreless appearances. Stearns declined to speculate on whether Williams or Rogers would take over as closer, saying that decision would be left up to manger Craig Counsell.
Hader issued an Instagram post thanking the city of Milwaukee for embracing him. He had spent his entire major league career with the Brewers, who acquired him along with Adrian Houser, Brett Phillips and Domingo Santana in a 2015 trade that sent Carlos Gomez and Mike Fiers to the Houston Astros.
“Thank you for the support throughout my career,” Hader said. “Y’all have been great to me. The people, the energy, the love! There will always be a special place in my heart for MKE.”
Rogers is 1-5 with a 4.35 ERA and seven blown saves. After a strong start to the season, Rogers posted a 5.59 ERA in June and a 9.31 ERA in July. He can become a free agent after the season.
Lamet has struggled this season with an 0-1 record and 9.49 ERA in 13 appearances, well above his career ERA of 4.08.
The 23-year-old Ruiz has hit well above .300 at both the Double-A and Triple-A levels this season and was hitting .222 in 14 games with San Diego. Gasser, a second-round draft pick last year, has gone 4-9 with a 4.18 ERA at the high Single-A level this year.
The Brewers will assign Ruiz to Triple-A Nashville and Gasser to Double-A Biloxi.
Musgrove has an $8,625,000 salary and was on track to be eligible for free agency after the World Series. He gets $20 million annually from 2023-27 and in the final year of the deal gets a limited no-trade provision allowing him to block a trade to 13 teams. However, that provision would have significance only if Musgrove has been traded before then — if he remains with the Padres, he would have the right to veto trades starting midway through the 2026 season as a 10-year veteran who has been with his team for at least five seasons. In addition, Musgrove gets a hotel suite on road trips.
In the second Milwaukee Brewers trade the day prior to the MLB trade deadline, the team acquired right-handed pitcher Matt Bush from the Texas Rangers in exchange for infielder Mark Mathias and left-handed pitcher Antoine Kelly.
Bush, 36, has spent his entire five-year Major League career with the Rangers, going 12-7 with a 3.34 ERA and 12 saves in 180 games. He has 188 strikeouts in 177.2 innings pitched while holding opponents to a .227 batting average.
Bush has gone 2-1 with a 2.95 ERA and 1 save in 40 games. Opponents have batted just .199 with 45 strikeouts in 36.2 innings pitched. He has inherited 11 runners this season with none scoring. He has not surrendered an earned run over his last 12 games.
Bush was the first overall selection by San Diego in the 2004 First-Year Player Draft out of Mission Bay (CA) High School. He was drafted as a shortstop and converted to pitcher in mid-2007.
Mathias appeared in 6 games with Milwaukee this season, including 5 starts at second base. He had two stints with the team, coming from May 24-30 and June 11-23. He made his Major League debut with the Brewers in 2020 before missing all of last season with a torn labrum in his right shoulder.
Kelly, 22, was selected by Milwaukee in the second round of the 2019 First-Year Player Draft out of Wabash Valley (IL) College. He was 2-4 with a 3.86 ERA in 19 starts at Class-A Wisconsin this season and was an All-Star Futures Game selection.
After an off-day Monday the Brewers are back in action tonight in Pittsburgh. Corbin Burnes (8-4. 2.31 ERA) will start for the Brewers against fellow right-hander Bryse Wilson (1-6, 6.31 ERA. First pitch is at 6:05 CDT and the game can be heard on AM 1100/98.3 FM, WISS.
In the only NL Central game played Monday the Reds beat the Rays 3-1. The Brewers lead the Cardinals by three game in the division.
There were no games Monday in the Midwest League. Tonight, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers play at Quad Cities. First pitch is at 6:00.
When the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders entered the bottom of the ninth inning down 11-2 against the Battle Creek Battle Jacks, the last thing anyone expected was a 10-run, 13-batter, record-tying performance, but when Bennett Thompson (Oregon) lined a double to the wall to score Nolan Tichy (UMass), the improbable became a reality in a 12-11 Dock Spiders win at Herr-Baker Field on Monday night.
Per Matt Menzl, the comeback tied the Northwoods League record for the largest comeback in a nine-inning game, set on June 30, 2018, when the Kenosha Kingfish scored 10 in the top of the ninth to beat the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. With the win, the Dock Spiders improved to 33-27 overall, and 14-12 in the second half. The Battle Jacks fell to 28-32 with the loss, 10-14 in the second half.
Both teams will take Tuesday off for the Major League Dreams Showcase before they meet on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. for the final game of the season series. Wednesday also marks Weaver’s Birthday, with special appearances from mascots across the area.
The Packers were back on the practice field Monday and the defense prevailed over the offense as the second week of training camp got underway. Players had pads on for the first time.
Meanwhile the Packers offense is hoping to have tight end Robert Tonyan back at some point. Tonyan tore is ACL in Arizona last year and is now ramping up the rehab and trying to get back on the field as soon as possible.
A Packers cheerleader from the past has died. Mary Jane Sorgel, called the original “Golden Girl,’ was one of the Packers cheerleaders from 1961-1972. In 1949, at the age of 17, the director of the Packers Lumberjack Band discovered her and invited her to perform with the band at halftime the following week and thus her nickname. Then came a new challenge that Sorgel couldn’t refuse.
“Coach Lombardi decided that it would be nice that I could start a group to be pom-pom girls and he’d like that so much,” Sorgel told NFL Films.
The Packers Golden Girls were formed and under Mary Jane’s direction became a shining light during the team’s golden era.
“Coach Lombardi wanted to get the fans going and then I decided we’d do ‘Go Pack Go,’ and to this day I keep seeing they’re doing it again,” said Sorgel to NFL Films. Mary Jane Sorgel was 89.
Six Ripon College men’s basketball players have been named to the 2021-2022 NABC Honors Court by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). This honor recognizes men’s collegiate basketball student-athletes from all NCAA divisions and the NAIA for their excellence in the classroom this past season.
Ripon’s honorees are Ryan Mahoney ’22 of Suring, Wisconsin; David De Valk ’23 of Appleton, Wisconsin; Drew Jorgensen ’23 of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Jack Brady ’23 of Brookfield, Wisconsin; Justin Bartol ’23 of Berlin, Wisconsin; and Ryan Steffes ’23 of St. Cloud, Wisconsin.
To receive Individual Honors Court recognition, a student-athlete must academically be a junior or senior varsity player who has earned a grade-point average of 3.2 or higher at the end of the academic year. Players also must have been enrolled at their current institution for at least one year while playing for an NABC-member coach in their NCAA Division.
The Red Hawks men’s basketball team also earned the NABC’s Team Academic Excellence Award, which requires a team cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better during the 2021-22 school year.
“Achieving a balance in your academic and athletic pursuits at Ripon College is something we take great pride in,” said Athletic Director and Men’s Basketball Coach Ryan Kane. “What is remarkable about this group’s achievement is that we did it at a high level while capturing a conference championship for the first time in 23 years and not sacrificing that balance.”
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve a six-game suspension without pay but will not be fined for violating the league’s personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct, disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson ruled Monday.
Robinson issued her ruling in a comprehensive 16-page report . She wrote that the NFL recommended Watson be suspended for the entire 2022 regular season and postseason.
The NFL Players Association and the league have until Thursday at 9 a.m. ET to file a written appeal of Robinson’s ruling. In a statement Sunday night, the union made it clear that it will “stand by” her decision and urged the NFL to do the same. The league, in a statement Monday, said it was determining its next steps.
If an appeal is made, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell or his designee “will issue a written decision that will constitute full, final and complete disposition of the dispute,” per terms of Article 46 in the league’s collective bargaining agreement.
The Green Bay Packers are awarding a quarter-million dollar grant to St. John’s Ministries through its Green Bay Packers Give Back program. St. John’s, which started in 2005, says it must make significant changes to its buildings and programming to continue to address the increasing needs of those experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. The $250,000 grant will be used for the ministries’ capital projects, which aim to create socially-inclusive housing as well as provide space for mental health services and gender-specific programming.
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