Milwaukee, WI
One Offseason Signing is Starting to Come Up Big for the Brewers
MILWAUKEE – Gary Sánchez was a late and somewhat pricey addition to the Milwaukee Brewers’ roster but boy, has he been a good one.
The veteran slugger has been swinging a hot bat for the Brewers of late, batting .316 (6-for-19), and he has also been coming up big when the team needs it most, no more so than Thursday afternoon when he broke a 4-4 tie with a two-run home run in the eighth inning that proved to be the difference in Milwaukee’s 6-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs at American Family Field.
Gary Sánchez for the lead! pic.twitter.com/sBYS8ObcrG
— MLB (@MLB) May 30, 2024
It was the second time this season that the Brewers won a game on a late Sánchez homer. It was also the second time he did so on a two-strike, two-out pitch that was outside of the zone.
“Anytime you’re on the field you have the opportunity to help the team win,” Sánchez said. “If that’s not today, the opportunity can be tomorrow. I’ve been able to get some opportunities of late and hopefully that can continue to get there.”
Gary Sánchez Coming Up Huge for Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee signed Sánchez to a one-year, $7 million contract at the start of spring training, in large part to help rectify a longstanding issue with hitting left-handed pitching. But his late signing, combined with a wrist injury suffered while working out prior to signing, left him playing catch-up when Cactus League play got underway.
Regular season starter William Contreras’ scorching-hot bat and iron man durability behind the plate, as well as a steady dose of right-handed opposing starters, initially limited Sanchez’s playing time.
Opportunity presented itself, though, when first baseman Rhys Hoskins landed on the injured list. Sánchez started making more frequent appearances in manager Pat Murphy’s lineup, both at first base and designated hitter, with the occasional start behind the plate on days when Murphy moved Contreras into the DH role.
As Sánchez’s playing time has increased, so has his production and in turn, Murphy’s confidence in giving him more opportunities against right-handers.
“He’s proven time and time again he’s very very capable against lefties, for sure, but also he’s capable as he proved against righties,” Murphy said. “He can hit in the clutch and gives you a good at-bat. He’s gonna have some strikeouts but the guy is dangerous and everybody in the league knows it. I’m happy for him. He’s kind of shoved it in our faces a little bit like, ‘Hey, I can hit more than lefties.’”
Hoskins Getting Close
Speaking of Hoskins, Murphy said there’s a good chance he’ll be back on the active roster next week when the Brewers travel to Philadelphia, where Hoskins played six seasons before signing with Milwaukee in January.
In fact, there’s an outside chance that Hoskins could return as early as this weekend for Milwaukee’s interleague series against the Chicago White Sox.
“No decisions have been made but he’s been trending in the right direction,” Murphy said.
Roster Moves
The Brewers added a fresh arm to their bullpen before the game by recalling right-hander Kevin Herget from Nashville. Herget appeared in two games for Milwaukee earlier this season and allowed two runs over 3 ⅔ innings of work.
To clear a roster spot for Herget, Milwaukee designated right-handed reliever Mitch White for assignment.
On the Farm
Right-hander Craig Yoho earned a promotion to Double-A Biloxi after an impressive showing at High-A Wisconsin, where he posted a 0.44 ERA in 16 appearances this season. The former Indiana University standout was Milwaukee’s eighth-round pick in last year’s MLB Draft and went on to post a 10.13 ERA in three appearances for the Brewers’ Arizona Complex League squad after signing.
In Biloxi, Yoho will join a pitching staff headlined by Milwaukee’s top overall prospect, right-hander Jacob Misiorowski who allowed two runs (one earned) while striking out seven in four innings against Pensacola Thursday night. Misiorowski, the Brewers’ second-round pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, has a 2.52 ERA and has struck out 54 batters over 39 ⅓ innings this season.
Up Next
The Brewers welcome another rival from just down I-94 when they open a three-game interleague series against the Chicago White Sox Friday night at American Family Field. Tobias Myers (1-2, 4.43 ERA) gets the start for Milwaukee (32-23, 1st NL Central) with right-hander Erick Fedde (4-1, 2.80) getting the nod for Chicago (15-42, 5th AL Central).
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Drone video shows dug‑up yard at former Michael Lock home
Drone video shows a dug‑up yard at a Milwaukee home once owned by Michael Lock, following a police search for possible homicide victims.
Milwaukee police on Monday, April 20, began digging up a home once owned by notorious Milwaukee drug dealer Michael Lock.
The dig marks another chapter in Lock’s long criminal history in Milwaukee, which has included convictions for homicide, drug dealing, kidnapping, torture and running a prostitution ring.
As of 6 p.m., April 20, police had partially dug up the concrete driveway and yard in Lock’s former home. Lock has been convicted of murders of other drug dealers whose bodies were found under concrete slabs at a different home he owned.
As the dig continues, here’s what to know about Lock:
Who is Michael Lock?
Lock was the head of a murderous criminal organization known as the “Body Snatchers” and one of the leading criminal operators in Milwaukee until his 2007 arrest.
Over the course of a decade, Lock’s organization sold large volumes of cocaine, tortured and killed other dealers, prostituted women across the Midwest and ran a mortgage fraud scheme.
A jury convicted Lock in July 2008 in the homicides of two drug dealers in 1999 and 2000, whose remains were found in 2005 under concrete slabs in the backyard of a home once owned by Lock at 4900 W. Fiebrantz Ave. He has also been found guilty of running a prostitution ring, various kidnapping and drug dealing charges and mortgage fraud.
Where is Michael Lock now?
Lock is is serving multiple terms of life in prison at Waupun Correctional Institution without the chance of parole.
Where are Milwaukee police digging on April 20?
Milwaukee police confirmed they are executing a search warrant at the home on 4343 N. 15th St. in Milwaukee’s north side. City tax records show the property is owned by Shalanda Roberts, formerly Shalanda Lock, Michael Lock’s former wife.
Why are police digging up the yard of Lock’s former home?
There has long been suspicion on the part of law enforcement that there are additional bodies buried under the yard. In 2011, police dug another Milwaukee yard looking for remains.
In that warrant 15 years ago, investigators said at least four victims are buried somewhere in Milwaukee. Before that, police had dug a half-dozen other yards. Police have found no remains in the other digs.
Who lives at the property now?
It is unclear if anyone currently lives at the North 15th Street property. Shalanda Roberts told the Journal Sentinel she owns the property where police are digging, but it is a rental and she lives out of state now.
She said she has no information on the dig and has not spoken to her former husband in years.
Read the Journal Sentinel’s past coverage on Michael Lock
The Journal Sentinel documented the case against Lock in a five-part investigative series, “The Preacher’s Mob,” published in 2009.
You can read the series below:
Marvin Bynum, adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, was named to BizTimes Milwaukee’s list of Notable Leaders in Law.
Bynum, shareholder and real estate attorney with Milwaukee-based Godfrey & Kahn, teaches a course on real estate transactions at Marquette. He has experience with a range of property types, from sports facilities to manufacturing plants and office spaces, and works to help clients navigate transactions including development, financing, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions and low-income housing tax credit-financed projects.
Notable Leaders in Law is part of BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable series, which recognizes leaders in the southeastern Wisconsin business community.
Six alumni were also named to the list:
- Jim Brzezinski, managing partner and CEO of Tabak Law
- Adam R. Finkel, partner at Husch Blackwell
- Jeremy Guth, shareholder and attorney at O’Leary-Guth Law Office S.C.
- Keith Kopplin, shareholder at the Milwaukee office of Ogletree Deakins
- Isioma Nwabuzor, associate general counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Modine Manufacturing Co.
- Joe Pickart, partner at Husch Blackwell
Milwaukee Wave coach Marcio Leite 2025-26 team’s evolution in MASL
See first-year Milwaukee Wave head coach Marcio Leite discuss the roles of younger players and veterans as the 2025-26 MASL season begins.
The Milwaukee Wave had been in the awkward position of trying to sell tickets to the MASL championship series without knowing when it would actually host a game.
The questions were answered late April 19, when the San Diego Sockers beat the St. Louis Ambush in the other semifinal in overtime. Their series didn’t even start until four days after the Wave eliminated the Baltimore Blast with victories in a regulation Game 2 and knockout Game 3 at the UWM Panther Arena.
Now the finals are set for two of the most decorated teams in arena soccer.
The Wave will host Game 1 at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 and then the series will finish at the Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California, with Game 2 at 9:30 p.m. April 24 and a potential Game 3 at 9 p.m. April 27.
Three versions of the Sockers have totaled 16 championships in various indoor league with the latest iteration founded in 2009 owning six of those. The Wave has seven.
First-year Wave head coach Marcio Leite has won titles with both franchises.
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