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By the time Josiah Gray pinched and pulled the bases loaded two-out in the fourth inning against Kansas City, the Washington Nationals’ 25-year-old right-hander had thrown 91 pitches and had given up. In the game, the team won 4-2 with 4 hits, 2 walks and 2 runs.
“He did a great job today and kept us 2-0,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters after the game.
“Things could explode there for us [in the fourth], but he did a great job of getting us the outs we needed. ”
As quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman, Gray said, “I think it was a good test today.”
“It was a poor batting line, and I think I had a couple of at-bats with 8 or more pitches, so I probably got knocked out a little earlier than I expected. But I think the content was better than the last game.”
In the turn before the rotation, Gray gave up six walks, but gave up only one run on three hits in five innings of 88 pitches.
After 11 starts and before last night’s series opener, Philadelphia PhilliesIn 1961, Gray had a 2.77 ERA, 4.50 FIP, 31 walks, 51 kicks, and a .241/.333/.371 batting average. 2⁄3 IP.
The starting No. 12 got off to a rocky start with a single from Kyle Schwarber and an eight-ball walk to Bryson Stott, but Gray let neither runner advance and slammed the next three batters in order. However, he ended up throwing 24 pitches. first pitch.
Gray’s manager was asked at last night’s pregame press conference how the starter managed to dodge all his walks (4.52 BB/9 at the start of the match, 4.60 BB/9 after the first BB), finding a way out of difficult situations this season, which may have been rattled so far.
“He’s learned a lot about controlling his emotions on the field,” Martinez explained.
“When he’s going through these types of innings and hitters, the way he tries to get through it with a little bit of control over his heart rate is to his credit. You need to attack, use your fastball, and stay ahead of hitters while holding down the ball.
“It’s pretty tough when he gets ahead of the hitters, but we need to get him ahead of the hitters and keep getting ahead of the hitters.”
Gray came on the mound in the second inning with a 2-0 lead and was taken off the bat after allowing a single and two walks before Kyle Schwarber, who singled for the first time tonight. His hands are another Keibert Lewis and Dom Smith (+ this time with CJ Abrams) back pick at first base. Drew Ellis fell asleep after walking two outs…
With nine pitches and a 1-2-3 third, Gray threw a total of 57 pitches and kept no runs in three innings, but the 58th pitch of the game fell on a straight ball, and Nick Castellanos went in the opposite direction for a solo home run. let go and the Phillies won. On the board we lost 6-1 to the Nuts. The next three Phillies hitters fell in order, ending up with an eight-ball frame.
13 pitches, 78 pitches for the 5th left gray of 1-2-3. He was singled first by Stott in the top of the fifth at 7–3 and hit a two-run homer to left by Castellanos, earning Nationals pitching coach Jim Hickey and starting pitching visits. He allowed a double to Trea Turner on the final 94th pitch…
Josiah Gray quotes: 5.1 IP, 6H, 4R, 4ER, 2BB, 4K, 2HR, 94P, 58S, 4/4GO/FO.
Gray scored 13 swings and 14 call strikes in the match, both distributed fairly evenly across the four pitches.
Key moments:
• Lane Thomas’ career-high 26-game streak and 15-game hitting streak, both of which ended in 0-nos in the final game of the series in LA, still batted .324/.376/. It was 602. Consecutive on-base percentage (In 26 games, he recorded 7 doubles, 1 triple, 7 home runs, 15 RBIs, 8 walks, and 21 RBIs.) has put him in the .284/.340/.456 line this year, and last night he set a new streak by walking nine on Philadelphia starter Zach Wheeler. After one out, Thomas made it 1-0 on a left double by Jaimer Candelario, and Candelario scored three on Joey Meneses’ single before scoring on Corey Dickerson’s sack fly to make it 2-1. It became 0 against.
• had to be in bold Somewhere in a Phillies scouting report, there was a letter about Keibert Lewis and Dominic Smith saying, “Watch out for back picks!” But Philadelphia third baseman Drew Ellis was caught in the top of the second after walking two outs with a runner off. Lewis and Smith got him, and CJ Abrams pushed Ellis to the third out, kind of rescuing starter Josiah Gray.
• In the bottom of the second, CJ Abrams doubled with one out in the Nationals’ half, then Alex Cole’s RBI singled to make it 3-0, and Luis Garcia singled to 2nd down to get Candelario back on his feet again. He repelled a point double. It ended up on the right side of the out-of-town scoreboard, with the home side leading 5-0. Joey Meneses battled Wheeler for 12 pitches before hitting a two-out RBI single to left field on Wheeler’s 57th pitch to bring the Candelario home 6–0.
• Luis Garcia entered the field opposite Wheeler in the fourth home half and hit a 95 mph belt-high outside-angle fastball from Philadelphia’s right arm into the left field seat for his fifth hit of 2023. Garcia exited to the left of the stage after the match. The Nationals won 7-1.
Bullpen action:
With the Nationals leading 7-3, Carl Edwards Jr. came in for Gray on second base runner-first and third base, and after a right-hander got one out, Brandon Marsh’s two-out RBI made it seven. -4 games in favor of the Nationals.
In the seventh, Edwards Jr. hit a double to Kyle Schwarber and a single to Bryson Stott before walking Hunter Harvey to force the bases loaded and allowing a single to center. 7-6 to Nick Castellanos on a 0-2 slider.
With a tie at third base, Trea Turner pinch hitter and took aim before JT Realmut grounded out to third base to end the threat.
Mason Thompson got a big spot in the top of the eighth, giving Brandon Marsh the leadoff walk and allowing a one-out single to Drew Ellis. That was all Davey Martinez should have seen, replaced by Kyle Finnegan. , quickly…
Finnegan’s next at-bat was grounded by Kyle Schwarber, but C.J. E: 6,7-7.
In the Nationals’ eighth, with Alex Cole walking from two outs and Philadelphia right-hander Conor Brogdon coming to relief, Cole stole second base on a dirt pitch and Lane Thomas scored on a double. Inside corner 2-2 changeup, 8-7.
Finnegan turned the game around with a one-run lead and Nick Castellanos hit his fourth one-out double of the night into the right-center row. Trea Turner made a full count in her next at-bat, but ran out to right to number 2 and JT Realmut to 1st base to end the game. ball game.Finnegan played 34 pitches. Final Score: 8-7 Nationals.
Their manager was impressed with their overall effort in the series opener.
“Today is a big win for us,” Martinez said. “Because I feel like, ‘When you play against a team like that, you have to score as many goals as you can, if you come out like us, we have to keep chasing and we did it’. It’s the body.” That won’t happen tonight, but we got one more player than the others tonight. ”
And what did he learn about his players in this match?
“It tells us a lot about our club and about the minds of these players,” Martinez said.
“Finnegan,” he added. “Honestly, I didn’t want him back in the game after the ninth inning and he was determined to come back. didn’t want to send him back, but he wanted the ball, and that shows me something, and shows me how they’re relentlessly coming back and doing little things. Alex Cole walked and stole a base and Lane struggled to score and we’re playing good.
“Look you look over there and I looked up and down that batting line, there’s no easy outs over there…so we have to make a pitch, we We have to play our defense well and we have to throw our strikes.”
4th place Phillies:
Philadelphia’s Phillies won 13 of 16 games against Washington’s Nationals last season, but going into the first game of 2023 between NL East rivals, the Phils beat the Nationals just one game in the district standings. They have outdone themselves and ended a season lasting 10-16 months in May. Philadelphia. [ed. note– “The D.C. crew went 14-15 in May.”]
A reporter tried to bite Nationals manager Davey Martinez when asked that both teams could be tied for fourth place if the home team wins the series opener. Good luck, Interpid Reporter…
“I think it means a lot to win 1-0 today,” said Martinez, who deftly changed direction and continued to defend the brand.
“That’s how I look at it, right? So yeah, we just have to — what I want to do is play a little better at home. We’re pretty good on the street. I’ve been playing
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“Let’s win 1-0 today and start playing better at home.”
Won the final game of the series los angeles dodgers500 road trips to Kansas City and Los Angeles, the Nationals went 13-15 on the road and 11-17 at home in the capital this season.
And what is his assessment of what the 2023 Phillies have been up to this season and what his club was battling for this weekend?
“They are good ballclubs,” Martinez said. “They’ve been struggling, but they’ve got a lot of good things, so we just have to focus on ourselves and take care of ourselves and play baseball like we’ve been doing. We’ve been doing pretty well. Like I said in Los Angeles, we have to limit our mistakes, we have to catch the ball, we can’t let them go 28-29-30, because that’s going to pay the price. I mean, they’ve got guys like, they can hit the ball so far, some guys I know so well, so let’s go out and play baseball tonight, Josiah Just get a good starting pitcher and go from there.”
Emotion:
Bryce Harper (2012-18), Trea Turner (2015-21) and Kyle Schwarber (2021) all returned to the capital last night.
Before the series opener, Knotts skipper Davey Martinez and reporters in Washington, D.C., talked about reunions like this weekend and how the manager was with all the former players returning to play for other teams. I told him how I was going to meet him.
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“They will always be important to me,” Martinez said. “We have had this relationship over the years together. We’re trying to find out on a regular basis, especially now that we have to face them, but you’re talking about three elite players who were here, and I said earlier so one of them is [Turner] we won world series The other two are very special to me.I have had Schwalber for a long time. [first in Chicago then in D.C.], it was amazing just to be able to work with the harp.And their careers are all going well, so it’s good to see [Turner] And hopefully I can say hello to him today or tomorrow, but again today I hope to be 1-0 out of the top end. ”
