Gore vs Stros:
Mackenzie Gore threw 82 pitches in the fifth inning last week in Atlanta, allowing two two homers in the second inning.
Gore conceded a total of 5 points in the early stages, but finished with 10 outs in a row.
“It’s just another bad inning, right?” Manager Davey Martinez praised Gore’s 13th start of the season, extending his eight-game winless streak.0-4, 4.71 ERA, 4.70 FIP, .287/.335/.521 line vs. 42 IP).
“But what I liked was the fact that Mackenzie was back there and retired for 10 games in a row.” [39] pitch. So that’s what we’re after. If we can keep him there, that’s good. And it was really just a conversation about being aggressive, not afraid to throw strikes, and getting ahead of hitters. And he was really, really good at doing it. So I was proud of him for doing it. ”
“The execution just worked,” Mr. Gore said. Quoted by MASN’s Bobby BlancoWhen asked about finishing out with 10 straight outs.
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“The home run wasn’t a great pitch and it was where they wanted to hit.
“Yes, we finished well and moved on to the next match.”
Next up was last night’s outing at the series finale. Astros. Gore threw 57 pitches to get three clean starts, allowing two hits and two walks, striking out two batters and sending the home team out early.
After Tucker’s lead single, Gore picked Kyle Tucker from the first out with a ground ball out on the third to finish the fourth of 15 pitches for a total of 72 pitches.
After a quick 1-2-3 pitch in the bottom of the fifth, he climbed up to 85 pitches, but took two outs in the home half of the sixth, but had a lead single and a walk before recording two outs. I forgave. , and the left-handed pitcher threw 95 pitches, so the manager went to the bullpen….
Mackenzie Gore quotes: 5.2 IP, 4H, 0R, 0ER, 3BB, 4Ks, 95P, 51S, 7/2GO/FO.
“Mackenzie kept the ball down,” Martinez said after the 4-1 win.
“That’s what we talked to him about. We made it. It was good.”
“When I took him out, we talked a little bit and he said the mechanics were a little out of place, so we’re going to get him back there in a few days, put him in the bullpen, And let’s see if we can.” Maybe we can straighten him out a little. ”
“It wasn’t the greatest game I’ve ever seen, but the Zeros played,” Gore told reporters after the game.
“I wasn’t very good, but it was kind of like those days when I went out and got as many outs as I could.”
Key moments:
• Corey Dickerson started with a single in the top of the second, but was picked out after attempting to steal second base. Keibert Lewis and Dominic Smith both singled off Astros right-hander Cristian Javier in consecutive at-bats with one out, but then Stone Garrett whiffed the batter and CJ Abrams sent a fly to center to end the game. became. threat. 0 to 2 in RISP.
• Javier was the only two runners the Nationals had in scoring position in the first six innings, as he kept the visiting team scoreless in six innings and a total of five hits.
• Mason Thompson pitched for Mackenzie Gore in the bottom of the sixth with two on and two out on the Astros’ side. It was a point. Keep 0-0 until 6 games with strikes.
• With the Astros’ Hector Nellis out in the top of the eighth, Lane-Thomas hit a one-out double off the Crawford Box to put runners in scoring position and give Luis Garcia the third at-bat of the game. , became a ground ball out. to first base. Thomas took third base and Jaymer Candelario hit back from 1-2 to draw the bases and give Corey Dickerson the first RBI for both teams, but he stopped the threat with a ground ball and went 0-for-4 with RISP. rice field.
• In the bottom of the eighth inning for the Astros, Stone Garrett misreads Chas McCormick’s one-outliner to left-center, and McCormick steals second from Kyle Finnegan and Knotts catcher Keibert Lewis after a single. , returned. Two back Ks with Finnegan kept 0-0.
After the second of three games at Minute Maid Park this week, Nationals captain Davey Martinez says any hitter will come at bat as he discusses his approach to Astros closer Ryan Presley. need to know how to attack the
“Presley throws a lot of curveballs, especially left-handed,” Martinez said. “He may need to find a curveball.”
Keibert Lewis, who hit from the left against a right-handed hitter, got a breaking ball and, on the seventh ball he saw, hit a 2-2 slider low in the zone from 389 feet into the right field. He’s 1-0 in the first run of the game for either team. Lewis 8th 2023.
Davey Martinez had this to say about Lewis’ at-bat and the game as a whole after the win.
“It was big, it was big. His great at-bat there. Stayed on the curve ball, the way he hit, was a line drive, it was great, and he came up again and stayed inside the ball and was in the middle of the field. Stay in and run for us who also hit the big ball, it was a good day and I thought he did a great job catching as well, meaning he controlled the game all through the match. And our pitching staff kept us there.”
• Hunter Harvey came on in the bottom of the ninth to close out the game, but he was down 3-1 and allowed Kyle Tucker to hit the first double to the right field.
Harvey struck out Jose Abreu with a high 99.5-m.p.h. 2-for-2 fastball. Jeremy Peña is out on a ground ball to third base at No. 2. Pinch hitter Yaniel Diaz caught a 2-2 fastball and threw it forward to tie the game 1-1.
I went to extras…
• Ildemaro Vargas’ ground ball moved Manfred Mann (C.J. Abrams) to third base, and Lane Thomas singled to center to put the freerunner in and put the Nationals up 2-1. Luis Garcia then singled, right-hander Phil Maiton hit next hitter Jaimer Candelario to put the bases loaded, and a four-ball walk to Corey Dickerson made it 3-1. Keibert Ruiz also singled to make it 4-1.
Carl Edwards Jr. tried to maintain a three-point lead, but ended the game with three consecutive retirements. Final score: 4-1 Nationals avoid sweep.
“We fought. We fought,” Davey Martinez said after the series-saving win. “We still had some guys on base, a lot of guys, but we got big hits and big walks when we needed them, and it was a lot of fun at the end of the game. not. [Ildemaro] Vargas. I knew this guy would throw a curve ball. We asked him to just try to catch the man.
“I didn’t want to bunt there, and he did a great job getting that guy to third base, and we opened it up a little bit.
“But it’s a good win. It feels good to go home and have a long flight and play tomorrow night.”
BACKPAGE – Meneses takes a breather:
Joey Meneses played in 63 of the Nationals’ first 66 games, missed a few games for the birth of his child, and missed one more, but he’s been the DH for most days this season. The director made the decision ahead of a tight schedule. It made sense to give the 30-year-old a day off last night.
“It’s just one day off for Joey. He’s our daily DH, so I’d like to give him a little bit of a day. We’re arriving late tonight, so I’d like to give him a refresher.” , I can play as a pinch hitter today, but I wanted to keep my form down,” explained Davey Martinez.
Heading into the series finale in Houston, Meneses has been on base in 28 of 31 games, batting .333/.393/.447 with 9 doubles, 1 triple, 1 homer, 22 RBIs, and 12 walks. He was batting .333/.393/.447. He scored 17 runs in the stretch, leaving a .297/.341/.386 line for the entire 23 season. He had a hard time adjusting to the DH role earlier this season, but he seems to be starting to get used to it.
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“He’s definitely getting better,” Martinez told reporters at Minute Maid Park. “He’s starting to understand what he has to do between innings and how he wants to approach things. I’ve seen the difference, he looks a lot calmer in the middle dugout [at-bats] Not the entire map.
“He’s watching videos, he’s watching the guys he’s going to play against, and he’s giving us good at-bats, so I see him making adjustments and trying to get better. It’s a pleasure to see.”
The sixth-year captain said he will be keeping a close eye on his players as they navigate a demanding schedule as the weather heats up and irregular start times over the next few weeks.
“Right now we’re going through everything with this whole team,” Martinez explained. That day, the next day is also a day game, and the next day is also a day game, so it takes a little time. So I’m giving some of them a vacation this weekend and trying to figure out how to keep them strong. We still have a long way to go. We needed a lot of kids to figure it out – CJ Feb [Abrams] For example, he doesn’t know how many games he’s played, but he hasn’t actually played a full season yet. So we had to keep that in mind.Lewis [García]must be aware of it.
“So we’ll try to figure out when we can give them time off.”
