A day after Game Three of the San Diego Padres-New York Mets Wild Card Series, Brian Kenny appeared on the MLB Network and accused bowler Joe Musgrove of cheating.
Since Game 3 of the Wild Card series between the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets was the only baseball game on Sunday night, there has been a lot of interest in it. On Twitter, there were fans who pointed out that the ears of Padres Joe Musgrove jar looked shiny, and pondered whether it was a substance. Mets manager Buck Showalter asked the stewards to examine Musgrove’s ears in the sixth inning, and after an inspection, they determined there was no illegal substance on him.
That led to another MLB debate.
On the MLB Network, Brian Kenny spent an entire 12-minute segment looking at Musgrove’s turnover numbers. The title of this section was “Nothing good?” Kenny noted the drop in turnover rates after the MLB cracked down on stickiness midway through the 2021 season, and Musgrove’s turnover numbers from Game 3 against the Mets compared to his numbers throughout the entire season.
You can hear Kenny’s full comments in the clip in the YouTube video below that was uploaded by user “Mr. prank.”
Brian Kenny accuses pitcher Padres Joe Musgrove of cheating in Game 3 against the Mets
Paul Hempikidis of ESPN’s “Get Up” on Monday tweeted that Musgrove’s turnover was 5.7 percent higher than it has been throughout the regular season, but noted that turnover was up 5.5 percent in the league in the postseason. Compared to the regular season.
Kenny also appeared on MLB Network’s “High Heat” with Chris Russo. When asked if he thought Musgrove cheated, Kenny simply said, “Yes.” A clip of his appearance can be found below, courtesy of Twitter user “@kennyhyde007”.
“If you’re saying what the greatest leap in faith is,” Kenny said, “the biggest leap in faith is the belief that he didn’t use anything.” And when he was asked after the match last night and they said ‘Hey, what did they find in you? What’s going on in your ears?’ He said ‘I don’t know, they didn’t find anything.’ How about ‘There’s nothing in my ear?’
Musgrove was no exception to Showalter’s sixth inning check. After Thomas Nido struck, Musgrove looked toward the New York bunker and wiped his nose in their direction. As he walked from the hill, he moved his right ear as well.
In seven rounds of action, Musgrove hit five hits, allowed only one hit and didn’t result in a single inning in a 6-0 win.
Musgrove spoke to the media after the match, saying he felt Showalter requested the screening as a “last attempt” to get him out of the game. He also said the Mets “better to be very confident” than to have anyone use anything on the team. You can listen to Musgrove’s comments in the SNY tweet below, which also includes the written quote.
After the match, Padres’ manager, Bob Melvin, defended the Musgrove character. Melvin’s comments come in the tweet below, courtesy of SNY.
“I tend to be a guy on the highway, and I will, but the problem I have is that Joe Musgrove is a guy with character,” Melvin said. “Lee questioning his character, that’s the part I’m in trouble with. And I’m here to tell everyone that Joe Musgrove is above the board like any bowler I know, any player I know. Unfortunately it happened to him, because the reception he got afterwards was not justified” .
The judges checked to see if Musgrove had any sticky substance not only on his ear, but also on his hat and glove. They found nothing, and kept playing.
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