MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers left-hander Robert Gasser is heading back to the minors one day after he was unable to protect an early three-run lead in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Brewers announced Sunday they were optioning Gasser to Triple-A Nashville and recalling right-hander Carlos Rodriguez. Later on Sunday, the Brewers reinstated outfielder Akil Baddoo from the 60-day injured list and optioned him to Nashville.
Gasser, who turns 27 on May 31, went 0-1 with a 6.48 ERA in two games with Milwaukee. He struck out seven but walked six over 8 1/3 innings.
Rodriguez pitched two innings of scoreless relief Sunday in the Brewers' 5-1 loss to the Dodgers.
Gasser gave up three runs, two earned, in four innings in a 5-4 loss at Minnesota on May 17. He followed that up by allowing four runs over 4 1/3 innings in an 11-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.
He held the Dodgers scoreless for the first three innings as Milwaukee took a 3-0 lead, but the Dodgers scored four runs against him in the fourth. Gasser allowed a three-run homer to Teoscar Hernández that put the Dodgers ahead for good.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy said after Saturday’s game that he believed Gasser might have been tipping his pitches. Los Angeles’ Andy Pages was on second base and appeared to be motioning with his arms or making some type of signal while Hernández was at the plate.
“There’s a huge emphasis on making sure they can’t get your signs from second base — there’s a huge emphasis on it,” Murphy said. “Pitchers have to be able to not give away anything. It’s gotten to (be) a science. Every team does it. We do it. Every team does it. Some teams do it less subtle than others. He got caught up and gave away some pitches, and it ended up hurting him.”
Gasser said after the game that he did notice Pages making hand signals, but the left-hander added that he didn’t know whether he was tipping anything off.
“It’s definitely something that’s come up before, and I thought I had a good grip on it and was covering it up,” Gasser said. “I don’t know. Maybe they had something. Maybe not.”
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was asked Sunday whether the Dodgers had noticed a way in which Gasser was tipping his pitches or if they were simply bluffing.
“Whether you have them to disguise or act like you have them, (there’s) the gamesmanship part of it,” Roberts said. “If you can kind of make a pitcher feel that you’ve got their signs, then you’ve already won. Honestly, right there, I don’t think we had the signs. I think Teo took a good swing and it wasn’t really a great pitch. Yeah, I’m honestly not certain.”
Rodriguez had gone 0-0 with a 2.25 ERA in two relief appearances with Milwaukee earlier this season. His performance Sunday improved his ERA to 1.50. He was 0-3 with an 8.03 ERA in five starts and three relief appearances with Nashville.
Gasser is 0-0 with a 3.74 ERA in six starts with Nashville.
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Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Robert Gasser throws to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Robert Gasser throws to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
A bystander who was struck by gunfire after a man fired on a checkpoint outside the White House and was fatally shot by U.S. Secret Service officers remained in serious but stable condition Sunday.
The Secret Service said the bystander, who has not been identified, suffered a gunshot wound described as not life-threatening. It was not clear how he was shot.
Authorities have released few additional details about the early Saturday evening shooting. The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department said the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best, started shooting toward a White House security checkpoint when Secret Service officers returned fire. Best, of Dundalk, Maryland, was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
No officers were injured, Secret Service Director Sean Curran said in a statement posted on social media. “Our thoughts are also with the innocent bystander who was wounded during this incident,” Curran said. “The Secret Service is hopeful he will make a full recovery.”
President Donald Trump was in the White House at the time of the shooting.
It was the third shooting near the president in the past month, after a man stormed the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April armed with guns and knives, and Secret Service officers shot and wounded a man who fired at them earlier this month near the Washington Monument.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the suspect in Saturday’s shooting had a “possible obsession with our Country’s most cherished structure.” He also used the shooting to promote the ballroom he is seeking to build on the site of the White House’s former East Wing, saying the shooting “goes to show how important it is, for all future Presidents, to get, what will be, the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C.” Trump is asking Congress for $1 billion for security additions for the White House campus, including the ballroom.
Best had a previous run-in with law enforcement near the White House, according to District of Columbia court records. He was arrested last July for attempting to enter White House grounds near a different checkpoint. He failed to heed officers’ commands to stop, claimed to be Jesus Christ and said he wanted to be arrested.
Best was a track and field athlete at Dundalk High School, from which he graduated in 2023.
A woman who identified herself as Best’s mother told The Washington Post that she learned about the shooting on social media and was in disbelief. She said her son “was never violent, regardless of what people are posting.”
People walk past a hole in the wall of a building near the scene of a shooting close to the White House, Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
People watch as U.S. Secret Service Police place crime scene tape after a copper jacket of a bullet was found near the scene of a shooting close to the White House, Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Blue tape is pictured around a possible bullet strike near the shooting scene near the scene of a shooting close to the White House, Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A copper jacket of a bullet is found near the scene of a shooting close to the White House, Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
U.S. Secret Service Police officers place crime scene tape after a copper jacket of a bullet was found near the scene of a shooting close to the White House, Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
