MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers sent pitcher Brandon Sproat back to Triple-A Nashville after he allowed four runs in the ninth inning of an 8-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
Sproat pitched a scoreless eighth inning and went back out for the ninth with the Brewers leading 8-1 on Wednesday. Sproat walked four of the five batters he faced in the ninth and had a throwing error and a wild pitch during that stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable,\u201d Brewers manager Pat Murphy said after the game. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to throw the ball over the plate, or you can\u2019t be a major league pitcher.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sproat left the game with the bases loaded and one out in an 8-2 game. Abner Uribe eventually got the final two outs after the Cubs scored four runs and brought the potential tying run to the plate.<\/p>\n
The Brewers called Sproat up from Triple-A Nashville on Monday and wanted to see how he would adjust to a bullpen role. Wednesday\u2019s game marked his first appearance since that move.<\/p>\n
Sproat had spent much of the season in Milwaukee\u2019s starting rotation before getting sent to the minors in early August. He now owns a 3-7 record and 5.57 ERA in 22 appearances, including 19 starts.<\/p>\n
The Brewers acquired Sproat as well as infield prospect Jett Williams before the season in a trade that sent two-time All-Star pitcher Freddy Peralta to the New York Mets. The Mets sent Peralta to the Tampa Bay Rays at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers sent pitcher Brandon Sproat back to Triple-A Nashville after he allowed four runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,535,50,4259,4,169,536,185,558,1519],"class_list":["post-801897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117249697617652423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801897","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=801897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}