Mackenzie Gore allowed six hits, three walks and seven earned runs in two games. 2⁄3 The innings he pitched at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday afternoon suffered in the second and third of a 19-4 loss. Philadelphia Phillies. Gore struck out two of the three batters he faced in the first inning, but it was a mental mistake. The director ended up withdrawing Gore. 37 strikes on a rough pitch.
Gore hit the first double in the 2nd of 3rd inning at CBP, allowed a hit by a batter and allowed an RBI to tie the game 1-1, but a back-to-back hit in the 3rd broke things down. . He has no outs and bases loaded on singles and walks.
The left-hander hit the first grounder and Dom Smith threw to second base, but shortstop CJ Abrams realized that Gore hadn’t scored and there was no one to take the throw. suddenly lifted. He was on his way to cover first base. A Gore RBI, an RBI single, a sack fly, a two-run home run, a walk, and an RBI double followed, and when Gore got off the mound with a hit, the score was 7-1.
“We were out because he didn’t cover first base,” manager Davey Martinez explained at the postgame press conference. “I thought maybe he did something to his ankle.
“I went out and saw him shaking hands. His fingers have what look like little blisters.
“So I wanted him to come and see it. But he says it’s okay.”
“It’s something I always deal with. Yes, it’s fine. It’s not related to the case…”
So… what happened?
“We just couldn’t do it,” said the 24-year-old Starter. “We went in. We got pretty far out. And I caught up behind them, but I just didn’t execute the pitch. So I just got a bad count. And it’s just big.” It was an innings, I didn’t do a good job of minimizing the damage, it’s just a big deal.”
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“The biggest thing is the insurmountable,” he added at another point. “We talk about doing the little things right, but it just can’t happen, and that’s why instead of getting two outs, we only get one out. And then there was the suck fly, which would have been very different if it was a two-out suck fly.
“It’s just one of the things I can control and I have to do no matter what happens.
“You’re going to get hit at some point in this league, but that one stings a little bit.”
Yes, it bothered him.
“I thought maybe he landed his ankle wrong. He’s done that before,” Martinez said of how he reacted to the starter’s mental error.
“And I was looking at him and I was like, ‘It’s kind of crazy for him to do that because he’s really good at it.'”
His assessment of what went wrong for pitchers echoed Gore’s own.
“He fell behind a few times, but then he was in a different position than he was five days ago,” Martinez said.
“We talk about this all the time. He starts working much sooner when things start to accelerate, and he has to learn how to keep it simple.”
Gore told his manager the same thing he told reporters about the blister on his left middle finger.
“He kept saying okay, okay. He’s just a kid who just wants to compete. He never wants to be pulled out,” Martinez said.
“When I saw it, I said, ‘I’m going to take you so you can see a doctor.’ So I’m going to talk to him again tomorrow and see how he’s doing.”
Gore (and the rest of the Nationals) were ready to take the next step as soon as the game was over.
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“I’ll be back in five days,” he said. “But I had some things to do today and I understand that’s what made this trip. We need to do a little bit better.
“And we will definitely get over it.”
