{"id":771261,"date":"2026-08-06T05:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/771261\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:18:27","slug":"former-richmond-reliever-dom-ruggerio-signs-with-penn-state-baseball-penn-state-baseball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/771261\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Richmond reliever Dom Ruggerio signs with Penn State baseball | Penn State Baseball News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State has made another pitching move in the transfer portal, as the team announced the signing of former University of Richmond standout Dom Ruggerio on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Happy Valley, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ruggierodom44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Ruggierodom44<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/WeAre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#WeAre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckh1xo7PQr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ckh1xo7PQr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Penn State Baseball (@PennStateBASE) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PennStateBASE\/status\/2085051823761580135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ruggiero is a 6-foot-2 left handed relief pitcher from Royersford, PA, where he attended Spring-Ford Area High School. He&#8217;ll be a sophomore in his first year at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>In his first collegiate season at Richmond University Ruggerio posted a 3.76 ERA in 26.1 innings of work, and ended his season with 28 strikeouts and 15 walks.<\/p>\n<p>Ruggiero will add more proven collegiate experience to Penn State&#8217;s bullpen for 2027 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE BASEBALL COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psucollegian.com\/sports\/baseball\/penn-state-baseball-signs-michigan-state-transfer-infielder-ryan-mckay\/article_16775629-f1ec-4512-b336-278cef841238.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Penn State baseball signs Michigan State transfer infielder Ryan McKay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Penn State baseball signs Michigan State transfer infielder Ryan McKay\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/67fc2e92922ec.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">An eventful day for coach Gambino and his staff continued on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in submitting a Letter to the Editor, click here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psucollegian.com\/form\/letter_to_the_editor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                Submit<br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State has made another pitching move in the transfer portal, as the team announced the signing of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2314,2317,2313,2413,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,29693,56771,1039],"class_list":["post-771261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-pennsylvania-state-university","tag-university-of-richmond","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}