Nashville Sounds manager Rick Sweet moved into third place all-time in minor league managerial wins Tuesday, when Music City’s Triple-A team downed Louisville 7-3 at First Horizon Park.

Sweet, who passed Buddy Bailey (now in his 35th years of minor league coaching), has a career record of 2,418-2,225 over his 35-year career as a minor league manager.

This is Sweet’s fifth straight season leading Nashville, where he has guided Milwaukee’s top affiliate to a 464-370 record.

The Sounds’ all-time winningest manager has led Nashville to a 65-54 overall record this year. Nashville was 44-29 in the season’s first half, winning the International League’s West division and securing a playoff berth.

With 29 games remaining this season, Sweet is 79 wins behind second-place Bob Coleman in minor league managerial victories and 113 wins behind first-place Stan Wasiak.

How long will the 72-year-old Sweet continue to manage?

Here’s what Sweet said in a 2019 interview with MiLB.com, after earning his 2,000th career victory.

“As long as I keep loving the game,” Sweet said, “as long as I keep coming to the ballpark and working with these young kids, I will continue to do this as long as they’ll have me.”

A Washington native, Sweet was a third-round draft pick of the San Diego Padres in 1975. He would go on to play three seasons of Major League Baseball, hitting .234 with six home runs and 57 RBI.

He began his managerial career in 1987 and has captured numerous awards over the years. Sweet has three times been named the International League manager of the year, once with Nashville in 2022.

That same year, Sweet received minor league baseball’s Mike Coolbaugh award, given annually to an individual who has shown outstanding baseball work ethic, knowledge of the game and skill in mentoring young players on the field.

“I love going to the ballpark every day,” Sweet said in 2019. “The fact that I get to help and be a part of so many young people’s lives, even when I started managing 30-something years ago, that’s what resonates with me. That’s what drives me every day.”