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Newsweek
3 hours ago
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- Newsweek
Padres Acquire Veteran Catcher From Royals at MLB Trade Deadline: Reports
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The San Diego Padres, after completing a blockbuster trade earlier in the day, are adding to their depth at a key position in a trade with the Kansas City Royals. Catcher Freddy Fermin is going to San Diego in exchange for right-handed pitcher Ryan Bergert, according to multiple reports Thursday. The Padres shocked the baseball industry earlier in the day by acquiring All-Star closer Mason Miller from the Athletics. General manager AJ Preller had no incentive to approach the 6 p.m. ET trade deadline with caution from that point on, making it sensible that he would add to one of the team's weakest positions. Freddy Fermin #34 and Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals celebrate a Perez run on a Fermin sacrifice fly in the eighth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on July 7,... Freddy Fermin #34 and Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals celebrate a Perez run on a Fermin sacrifice fly in the eighth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on July 7, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. MoreFor all their game-calling skills and defensive prowess, neither Martin Maldonado nor Elias Diaz are talented major league hitters. Now the Padres will add a 30-year-old veteran with a .255/.309/.339 slash line this season (.268/.314/.383 career) to the mix. More to come on this story from Newsweek Sports.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nine pitchers, one shutout: How the Royals made history against the Braves with a 1-0 victory
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — With a rash of injuries to his starting rotation, Royals manager Matt Quatraro put together a plan to rely exclusively on his bullpen when Kansas City played the Atlanta Braves in their series finale on Wednesday. He never could have imagined nine relievers would execute it so perfectly, nor tie a major league record in the process. But by the time struggling reliever Sam Long escaped a two-on, no-out jam by retiring three straight Braves in the top of the 10th, and Salvador Perez slapped a single to right to score MJ Melendez in the bottom half and give the Royals a 1-0 win, they had done exactly that: tied a big league record by using nine total pitchers in a shutout. The only other club to use that many in a shutout was Cleveland, which also did it in a 10-inning game in 2016. 'Not only did they pitch incredibly well today,' Quatraro said, 'but they had a huge workload these last four or five days. I can't credit them enough, and keeping in the right frame of mind down there, and just the plan these guys had to execute.' The nine Royals pitchers combined to allow five hits and one walk while striking out 10. Long finished off — he of the 7.40 ERA this season — to earn the victory. It came 2 hours, 38 minutes after fellow reliever Angel Zerpa, pitching on no rest, breezed through the first inning and into the second to set the tone. Jonathan Bowlan was the only Royals reliever to retire more than three batters, going two full innings. John Schreiber struck out the side in the fourth. Hunter Harvey escaped a two-on, no-out jam in the sixth. And the two primary Kansas City closers, Lucas Erceg and Carlos Estévez, made some important pitches and plays in the late innings. Erceg allowed a pinch-hit single to Drake Baldwin with one out in the eighth, then watched pinch runner Luke Williams swipe second base. But he bounced back to retire Jurickson Profar and Matt Olson and keep the game scoreless. Estévez managed to snare a liner by Michael Harris II that appeared destined for a one-out single in the ninth. 'I'm glad he caught it,' Quatraro said. 'You're going to throw a shutout, you need some good defense behind you.' They certainly needed them the way Joey Wentz was pitching for the other side. Wentz, who was claimed off waivers by the Braves earlier this month, allowed one hit and three walks over 6 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts in a return home. Wentz was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and played at Shawnee Mission East High School in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, where had one of the best prep baseball careers in Kansas history. The Braves drafted Wentz in the first round in 2016, but he has largely failed to live up to expectations. He has bounced around several clubs, including Pittsburgh and Minnesota this year, and had a 5.76 ERA heading into his fourth start for Atlanta. 'We never could solve him,' Quatraro said. Yet they didn't need to the way the Kansas City bullpen was performing. The Royals had the luxury of relying on their relievers with a day off Thursday before their series this weekend in Toronto. And they needed to rely on them with injuries beginning to take their toll on their starting rotation. Cole Ragans, an All-Star last year, has been on the injured list with a left rotator cuff strain, and Michael Lorenzen recently joined him with a left oblique strain. Then on Monday, the Royals announced that All-Star left-hander Kris Bubic would be placed on the IL with his own rotator cuff injury, one likely to end his season. So, it fell upon a Royals bullpen that wound up with only one player — Thomas Hatch — still available by the time Perez singled off Daysbel Hernández in the 10th inning to give Kansas City the victory. 'It wasn't easy. There was danger at times there,' Quatraro said. 'But you go backwards and see what Sammy did there, and to really execute — that was enormous. But even more so than the 10 shutout innings, the workload they have had and they way they responded, especially a day game after a night game.' ___ AP MLB:
Associated Press
a day ago
- Sport
- Associated Press
Nine pitchers, one shutout: How the Royals made history against the Braves with a 1-0 victory
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — With a rash of injuries to his starting rotation, Royals manager Matt Quatraro put together a plan to rely exclusively on his bullpen when Kansas City played the Atlanta Braves in their series finale on Wednesday. He never could have imagined nine relievers would execute it so perfectly, nor tie a major league record in the process. But by the time struggling reliever Sam Long escaped a two-on, no-out jam by retiring three straight Braves in the top of the 10th, and Salvador Perez slapped a single to right to score MJ Melendez in the bottom half and give the Royals a 1-0 win, they had done exactly that: tied a big league record by using nine total pitchers in a shutout. The only other club to use that many in a shutout was Cleveland, which also did it in a 10-inning game in 2016. 'Not only did they pitch incredibly well today,' Quatraro said, 'but they had a huge workload these last four or five days. I can't credit them enough, and keeping in the right frame of mind down there, and just the plan these guys had to execute.' The nine Royals pitchers combined to allow five hits and one walk while striking out 10. Long finished off — he of the 7.40 ERA this season — to earn the victory. It came 2 hours, 38 minutes after fellow reliever Angel Zerpa, pitching on no rest, breezed through the first inning and into the second to set the tone. Jonathan Bowlan was the only Royals reliever to retire more than three batters, going two full innings. John Schreiber struck out the side in the fourth. Hunter Harvey escaped a two-on, no-out jam in the sixth. And the two primary Kansas City closers, Lucas Erceg and Carlos Estévez, made some important pitches and plays in the late innings. Erceg allowed a pinch-hit single to Drake Baldwin with one out in the eighth, then watched pinch runner Luke Williams swipe second base. But he bounced back to retire Jurickson Profar and Matt Olson and keep the game scoreless. Estévez managed to snare a liner by Michael Harris II that appeared destined for a one-out single in the ninth. 'I'm glad he caught it,' Quatraro said. 'You're going to throw a shutout, you need some good defense behind you.' They certainly needed them the way Joey Wentz was pitching for the other side. Wentz, who was claimed off waivers by the Braves earlier this month, allowed one hit and three walks over 6 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts in a return home. Wentz was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and played at Shawnee Mission East High School in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, where had one of the best prep baseball careers in Kansas history. The Braves drafted Wentz in the first round in 2016, but he has largely failed to live up to expectations. He has bounced around several clubs, including Pittsburgh and Minnesota this year, and had a 5.76 ERA heading into his fourth start for Atlanta. 'We never could solve him,' Quatraro said. Yet they didn't need to the way the Kansas City bullpen was performing. The Royals had the luxury of relying on their relievers with a day off Thursday before their series this weekend in Toronto. And they needed to rely on them with injuries beginning to take their toll on their starting rotation. Cole Ragans, an All-Star last year, has been on the injured list with a left rotator cuff strain, and Michael Lorenzen recently joined him with a left oblique strain. Then on Monday, the Royals announced that All-Star left-hander Kris Bubic would be placed on the IL with his own rotator cuff injury, one likely to end his season. So, it fell upon a Royals bullpen that wound up with only one player — Thomas Hatch — still available by the time Perez singled off Daysbel Hernández in the 10th inning to give Kansas City the victory. 'It wasn't easy. There was danger at times there,' Quatraro said. 'But you go backwards and see what Sammy did there, and to really execute — that was enormous. But even more so than the 10 shutout innings, the workload they have had and they way they responded, especially a day game after a night game.' ___ AP MLB:
Reuters
a day ago
- Sport
- Reuters
Royals use 9 pitchers to shut out Braves in 10-inning win
July 30 - Salvador Perez lashed a walk-off single in the 10th inning, and nine Kansas City pitchers combined on a five-hit shutout as the Kansas City Royals blanked the visiting Atlanta Braves 1-0 on Wednesday afternoon. Scoreless after 9 1/2 innings in a day of very little baserunning and lots of light contact, pinch runner MJ Melendez was placed on second base to start the bottom of the 10th -- the first time a Royals baserunner reached scoring position. Perez then lined an 0-1 slider to right center off Daysbel Hernandez (4-2), just the Royals' third hit, for his 10th career walk-off winner to lift them to their third straight series win. Reliever Sam Long (1-2) escaped a first-and-third, no-out jam in the 10th with two strikeouts and a lineout. In a bullpen game, reliever Angel Zerpa served as the opener and tossed one-plus inning, allowing just a single. The bullpen finished with 10 strikeouts and a walk in the club's ninth shutout. Making his third straight start since being inserted into the Atlanta rotation this month, Kansas City area native Joey Wentz was outstanding over 6 2/3 innings. The left-hander allowed only a leadoff single to Maikel Garcia and three walks as the Royals never put a runner in scoring position against him. He posted season highs with seven strikeouts and 95 pitches. The Braves' Drake Baldwin produced a pinch-hit single and extended his on-base streak to 11 games as Atlanta fell to 2-9 in the past 11 games. With All-Star outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. (right Achilles inflammation) sent to the 10-day injured list after Tuesday's 9-6 loss to the Royals, Eli White replaced the 2023 National League MVP and went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, including one in the 10th. After combining for 32 runs in the first two matchups, the teams' bats were quiet as both Wentz and the home team's bullpen were impressive in the getaway game. Wentz went about his business working ahead of Kansas City batters and retired eight straight after Garcia's hit. In the sixth, the visitors generated the rubber game's first offensive threat when Nick Allen and Jurickson Profar opened with singles, but reliever Hunter Harvey buckled down and put away Matt Olson, Austin Riley and Michael Harris II. --Field Level Media
Al Arabiya
a day ago
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
Perez's single in 10th lifts Royals over Braves 1-0. Kc ties record by using 9 pitchers in shutout
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Salvador Perez drove in MJ Melendez with a single leading off the 10th inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 on Wednesday while matching a major league record by using nine total pitchers in the shutout. Sam Long (1-2) was the last of the relievers for Kansas City. He had runners on the corners with nobody out in the 10th before striking out Sean Murphy and Eli White and getting Luke Williams to line out to left field. Kansas City put Melendez on second base as a pinch runner in the bottom half, and Perez rapped the second pitch from Daysbel Hernandez (4-2) into the gap in right field to give the Royals the win. The only other club to use nine pitchers in a shutout was Cleveland, which also did it in a 10-inning game in 2016. Joey Wentz, claimed off waivers by the Braves earlier this month, dazzled while pitching a mere 25 minutes away from Shawnee Mission East High School where he put together one of the best prep pitching careers in Kansas history. The former first-round draft pick has largely failed to live up to expectations, and he carried a 5.76 ERA into his fourth start for Atlanta. But Wentz allowed just one hit and three walks over 6 2/3 innings, striking out seven. With their rotation ailing, the Royals countered with a contingent of relief pitchers. Angel Zerpa started on no rest and pitched into the second, and Jonathan Bowlan was their only reliever who retired more than three batters—he went two innings. John Schreiber struck out the side in the fourth, and Hunter Harvey escaped a two-on, no-out jam in the sixth by recording three consecutive outs. Key moment: Long's escape in the 10th set up Perez's winning hit in the bottom half. Key stat: The low-scoring affair came after the Braves won the series-opener 10-7 and the Royals won 9-6 on Tuesday night. Up next: The Braves have not announced their starter for Thursday in Cincinnati, though newly acquired RHP Carlos Carrasco is likely to get the ball. The Royals have the day off before opening a series Friday night in Toronto.
