Gore VS Phillies:
Mackenzie Gore told reporters after pitching 111 pitches with nine strikeouts in six innings at Fenway Park that there were some things he needed to improve on, but overall he thought the game was good. He said he was satisfied.
“I just have to sort out a few things here and there,” the 25-year-old left-hander said.
“There were some balls I gave up after two strikes, so my content wasn’t good, and there were things I could have improved on.”
When I asked him to elaborate on what they were, he elaborated a bit more.
“We just have to make it happen with two strikes,” Gore reiterated. …We have to keep improving. ”
Before this year’s No. 9 southpaw started for the Nationals, the manager asked how he could keep opposing teams in check and minimize damage this year, pitching explosive innings and allowing no more than three earned runs in each inning. He talked about how he was able to suppress the Started his first eight games.
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“The important thing for me is that he doesn’t get too far ahead of himself and stays in the moment,” Davey Martinez told reporters. “He understands that instead of worrying about the outcome, you have to work on the next pitch. And he did that really well. I mean, you’re just concentrating on that one pitch. Just understanding that, he’s giving himself a chance to get out of a big jam. And he’s done a good job. Then again, he’s really trying to attack the strike zone early, and Right now, we’re talking a lot with him about finishing batters within three or four pitches, so he can stay in the game a little bit longer.”
“The other day he struggled a little bit early and we got him out six innings, just because he was so efficient in the last few innings,” Martinez continued. “So we had to get him to understand that he can do it. His stuff is so good that he can do it. He keeps saying, this is very difficult. is [Phillies’] lineup, he has to navigate it.
“But he needs to get strikes early and hopefully swing early and get some outs.”
Gore walked the leadoff batter in two of the three games this weekend against the Nationals at Citizens Bank Park, but was stranded after pinch-hitting for Kyle Schwarber, giving up eight consecutive batters and giving up two at-bats. broke through. 2⁄3 Hitless. He walked Schwarber in the third inning, ending the batter’s streak, but was stranded again.
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Philadelphia’s fourth consecutive single ended Gore’s early no-hitter, and Bryce Harper, who hit the first of two singles, stole third base without pitching, and in his next at-bat, Bryson Stott. He scored on a grounder into a double play. Joey Meneses hit a RBI hit in the first inning to take the lead and tie the score at 1-1.
Gore held the Phillies to one run in the fourth inning, and after the Nationals took a 2-1 lead in the first inning with an RBI single by CJ Abrams, he struck out two in the fifth inning, 1-2-3, and then walked. avoided. He was hit by Schwarber with no runs in the 6th inning, but allowed a game-tying home run off the bat of Bryson Stott with one out in the 7th inning. It was the starting pitcher’s 93rd pitch and the last pitch of the game.
“He was really good,” Martinez said after a 4-3 overtime loss to the Phillies.
“He got to the 90-pitch mark and gave us everything he had. But if he stays there, he’s going to win a lot of games. He’s going to win a lot of games. You’ll win.
“That was great.”
“The last two trips, and even the one in Boston before that, he understood what he could do when he was efficient. He was very efficient today. They He can hit, and it was fun to watch what he did today. He really was. He’ll come back in five days and do it again, but he’s pitching really well.”
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Rest of the game:
The score was still tied at 2-2 after the eighth inning, but the Nationals came back and took the lead with one out on Riley Adams’ single. Following Joey Gallo’s HBP, Nasim Nunez served as a pinch runner at second base, and then Eddie Rosario hit a ground ball to shortstop and ran to the front, but just as Gallo hit a hard hit at second base, Phillies shortstop Bryson Stott hit the ball. Ta. Because he took a few extra steps, his throw to first was delayed. Rosario struck it out to keep the inning alive, and Nunez scored on Jesse Winker’s double to make it 3-2.
Davey Martinez talks about Rosario’s success: “[Rosario] Break up that double play. That was outstanding. he was flying I really like that effort because it allowed me to score big points. ”
Kyle Finnegan came in with a one-run lead in the bottom of the inning and struck out Cody Clemens with two outs, but the reliever hadn’t given up a run (earned or otherwise) since April 12. In that stretch (only two hits allowed in 12 IP), Clemens hit a 1-0 outside fastball 413 feet to center field, giving up his first run in months to tie the game.
Martinez prevents Finnegan’s save: “I really can’t blame him. We had a chance to end the game early and we didn’t do it, but we had a chance to bring in our closer and could have ended it with one more pitch. , that didn’t happen tonight. But he was outstanding. He’s been a big part of the games we won, but today wasn’t his day.”
In the bottom of the 10th inning, with the score tied at 3-3, there was a double with a free runner, and JT Realmuto’s center field fly put him out, but the free runner was out and he was on third base, and then Bryce Harper was sacked by Finnegan. He scored on a fly ball to make it 4-3 Phillies.
Did Davey Martinez even think about walking Harper?:”[Alec Bohm, due up after Harper] It was really good. I think he has 37-38 RBIs, so if he had given Harper two strikes and then fallen behind 2-0, 3-0, things might have been different. But he had two strikes.He couldn’t get the splitter down where he wanted it, you had to put the barrel over the ball, so like I said, that was a good thing [Finnegan] I don’t blame him today, he was outstanding. ”
“We fought,” Martinez said, summing up the loss. “We played against a really strong team. We were right there and just couldn’t get it done.”