{"id":121419,"date":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121419\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","slug":"nick-mears-joins-long-list-of-brewers-relievers-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121419\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mears joins long list of Brewers relievers on injured list"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — Right-hander Nick Mears<\/a> has become the latest Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> reliever to go on the injured list.<\/p>\n

The Brewers announced before their Friday night game with the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> that Mears had back tightness and was going on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to Tuesday. The Brewers recalled right-hander Carlos Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> from Triple-A Nashville.<\/p>\n

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Mears, 28, joins All All-Star closer Trevor Megill<\/a> (right flexor strain), left-hander DL Hall<\/a> (right oblique) and right-handers Grant Anderson<\/a> (right ankle) and Shelby Miller<\/a> (right elbow) as Brewers relievers on the injured list.<\/p>\n

Miller went on the 60-day injured list Wednesday<\/a> with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament and said he’s facing the possibility of a second Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

The Brewers are hopeful Megill could return by mid-September. Anderson is expected to throw an inning in a rehabilitation assignment Saturday. Hall could return in late September.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee entered Friday’s action owning the best record in the major leagues and leading the NL Central by 5\u00bd games over the Chicago Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mears is 5-3 with a 3.42 earned run average in 59 appearances with 43 strikeouts over 52 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez, 23, is 1-0 with a 9.95 ERA in two games with Milwaukee. He has gone 3-4 with a 3.86 ERA and one save in 15 games with Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH — Right-hander Nick Mears has become the latest Milwaukee Brewers reliever to go on the injured list.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-121419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}