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Kevin McGovern is getting a chance to extend his baseball season — although it won’t be with the Winnipeg Goldeyes.
The ace of the pitching staff was traded to the Atlantic League’s Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Friday in exchange for future considerations.
The Goldeyes (54-42) will miss the playoffs for the second consecutive American Association season. However, the Atlantic League plays a 140-game regular-season schedule that continues through late September. The Blue Crabs are members of the Freedom Division and have climbed to within just 4.0 games of first place in the second half of the season.
McGovern was sensational Thursday night in his swan song, surrendering just four hits in eight shutout innings to pace Winnipeg to a 2-0 victory over the Gary SouthShore RailCats at Shaw Park.
He was 12-7 with a 3.85 ERA for the Goldeyes in 20 starts and one relief appearance this season, his fourth in a Winnipeg uniform. The triumph was McGovern’s 46th of his six-year stint in the American Association, moving him into third place on the league’s career win list.
McGovern, 30, owns the franchise record for strikeouts (467) and was a member of the Goldeyes’ back-to-back championship teams in 2016 and 2017.