Joe Musgrove

Joe Musgrove brought this one home for San Diego and really stuck it to the New York Mets.

Padres: All-Star 3B Manny Machado, who had an RBI single, limped back to the dugout after striking out in the ninth and appeared to be favoring his right leg. “Tony was one of the best, so give us some support from up above.” “Joe Musgrove is a man of character,” Melvin said. Musgrove has said he feels uncomfortable wearing his Astros championship ring after their cheating scandal rocked the sport. They’re on their last leg, they’re desperate, they’re doing everything they can to get me out of the game.” Marquez, the crew chief, felt Musgrove’s glove, cap — even his ears — searching for any unauthorized sticky substances. He was 0-5 with a 6.33 ERA in five previous starts against the Mets. Relegated to the wild-card round, New York never fully recovered. For the Mets, a scintillating season ended with a whimper at home in front of empty seats. Austin Nola and Juan Soto each had a two-run single. “He was on a mission today.” Article content

San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove said the New York Mets' decision to call for a sticky substance check didn't affect him so much and understood why ...

"The problem I have is Joe Musgrove is a man of character and questioning his character, to me, that’s the part I have a problem with," Melvin said. "I’m here to tell everybody that Joe Musgrove is above board as any pitcher I know, any player I know and unfortunately that happened to him. [Mets manager](https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/mlb/new-york-mets) Buck Showalter called for a substance check in the fifth inning with the team down four runs. I’m going to do what’s best for our players and the New York Mets. "If it makes me look however it makes me look or whatever, I’m going to do it every time and live with the consequences. At the point of the game when it happened, I was so dialed in already.

It was all a very weird, sad night at Citi Field for New York Mets fans. Down to a final Wild Card game in their three-contest series against the San Diego ...

[October 10, 2022] [The manager had umpires check,](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/buck-showalter-joe-musgrove-ears-substances-check-umps-fans-reaction-mets-padres) and Musgrove was allowed to continue.

San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove shared his thoughts on the New York Mets having him checked for foreign substances.

The Mets certainly were desperate. The 29-year-old chalked it up to the Mets being “desperate.” San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove dominated the New York Mets on Sunday night both before and after he was checked for foreign substances.

San Diego Padres pitcher trended on Twitter for a glossy ear. Baseball fans worldwide wondered what substance was on his ear; apparently, officials did too, ...

“The problem I have is that Joe Musgrove is a man of character,” Melvin said. The Padres are now moving on to a battle with division rival Los Angeles Dodgers behind a 6-0 win. San Diego Padres pitcher trended on Twitter for a glossy ear.

San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove dominated the New York Mets on Sunday night both before and after he was checked for foreign substances.

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Was San Diego Padres ace Joe Musgrove cheating on Sunday night against the Mets with a foreign substance on his ear? Either way, Dodgers' problem now.

Now, nothing changes the Dodgers’ dominance of the Padres in recent seasons. They’re in the vault. Look on the bright side, though. Musgrove then retired the side in order in the sixth, gestured to the Mets’ dugout, and woke nobody up; New York continued slumbering until their postseason lives were over. The game halted, and the umpires gave Musgrove a rubdown. [the first time Musgrove has been a thorn in the Dodgers’ sides](https://dodgersway.com/2022/10/08/dodgers-joe-musgrove-astros-backtracking-cheating-padres/), either.

The San Diego Padres pitcher was about to face the Mets in the sixth inning when Buck Showalter asked an umpire to check for evidence of cheating.

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Padres-Mets: Explaining Joe Musgrove's bizarre ear check during postseason elimination game ... In the bottom of the sixth inning of the win-or-go-home Game 3 of ...

](https://twitter.com/973TheFanSD/status/1579299188038246402) Musgrove and the Padres are moving on to the NLDS to face the Dodgers. [per Sarah Langs](https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1579289201614327808). [Mets](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/NYM/new-york-mets/) manager Buck Showalter had a quick conference to request the check with the umpires, who chatted together and then checked Musgrove. [MLB](/mlb) rules: "Any pitcher who possesses or applies foreign substances will be subject to immediate ejection from the game and suspended automatically in accordance with the rules. After the check, the umpires cleared Musgrove of any wrongdoing and he stayed in the game.

San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove had his ears checked by the umpires for foreign substances after the Mets requested a check.

And the umpires thought he was doing it without any foreign substances. But Mets manager Buck Showalter asked the umpires to check out Musgrove, and the umpires complied. Musgrove had been pitching brilliantly for San Diego.

Umpire Alfonso Márquez checks for substances behind the ears of Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove. I feel ya, Joe. I wouldn't want to have a random person rub my ear ...

[Inside the Mets’ Clubhouse After the End of Another Fruitless Season](https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/10/10/mets-loss-nlds-game-3-padres) by Stephanie Apstein [I declared Trent Grisham the most statistically representative hitter of 2021](https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/11/12/mlb-most-representative-hitter-stats-2021), dead-on average in every way. [Dodgers](https://www.si.com/mlb/team/los-angeles-dodgers). If you have any questions or comments, shoot us an email at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). In the meantime, share this newsletter with your friends and family, and tell them to sign up at It was the combination of dysfunction, desperation and unintentional comedy that has [defined this organization pretty much since its inception 60 years ago](https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/09/16/new-mets-daily-cover). Perhaps it’s best for all of us to take a day and try to catch our collective breaths. “One of them is bringing this thing back to San Diego and giving them a postseason experience, which they deserve.” Musgrove’s ratio was up 0.8, well within the acceptable range of variance. Eno Sarris, who has written a lot about the impact of sticky stuff on spin for The Athletic, The more pitches spin, the more they move, which in turn makes them more difficult to hit. Musgrove had allowed just one base runner through the first five innings, his spin rate was up from his seasonal average and his ears appEARed shiny on the broadcast.