Williams in LA:
Trevor Williams had a modest but solid 94 pitches, allowing 3 hits, 3 walks and 3 runs on 5 runs. 2⁄3 Last week against San Diego in Washington, D.C., he pitched an inning that was enough to give the home team a 5-3 win.
“He gave us everything he had today,” Davey Martinez told reporters after making the 10th start of the season for the 31-year-old right-hander. – plus innings, that’s what we needed. ”
Even more impressive to the Nationals manager was the fact that Williams did it against a left-handed Padres batting lineup.
“He mixed his repertoire quite a bit, but still attacked with fastballs inside and out, and threw some great sliders, but I thought he did a great job just mixing his pitches. rice field.”
Last night at Dodger Stadium in LA, Williams pitched four straight innings. dodgers He hit four balls until the 4th inning, and after the top of the 2nd inning, he defended a 1-0 lead, but from the bottom of the 5th inning, Jason Hayward walked on base and hit Miguel Vargas’ bat, citing the possibility of a double play grounder. Abrams gave home with a misplay. James Outman hit a sack fly to left field in front of the team runners in the corner to tie the score at 1-1.
In the second half of the fifth inning, Mookie Betts singled from two outs, Freddie Freeman made the most of the inning, and Williams hit a 1-1 inner angle fastball to the right front to become a two-run double, leading 3-1.
Next, JD Martinez hit a 3-run home run with a high outside fastball to make it 6-1 in favor of the home team.
Trevor Williams quote: 5.0 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 3 Ks, 1 HR, 90 P, 55 S, 7/3 GO/FO.
Williams and Abrams discussed their costly mistakes after the 6-1 loss to the Dodgers.
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“It happens. It’s baseball,” Abrams said. Quoted by Sarah Wexler of MLB.com. “We have to learn from it.
“[Williams] I feel like I’m responsible because I’ve had a great match so far, but I have to keep going. You just have to keep your head down and keep going. ”
Williams took the blame himself for not picking up his teammate after the error.
“We’ve been picking each other up all season,” Williams said. “The defense will pick me up, the offense will pick me up, and the pitchers will help each other. As a learning moment, I need to do better and not let that inning spiral out of control.” You have to pick up CJ there, and we all trust each other that way.
“So it’s a learning moment,” Williams added. “It’s a moment when the hand slips away. But I think moving forward, it’s something we both grow from.”
Key moments:
• Of course, Joey Meneses singled and Corey Dickerson doubled after one out, but while Dodgers outfielder Jason Hayward struggled to get the ball back, third-base coach Gary Disarcinna blew up. Menceses seemed to have missed me waving my hand. Meneses finally scored. CJ Abrams hit an RBI with two outs, but Dickerson was thrown trying to score on Abrams’ hit when Meneses stopped at third base, so instead of a possible 2-0, it was 1-0. became. .
• [See Abrams’ error in the 5th above, and the six runs that scored in the inning, all of them unearned].
Martinez said of the mistake that cost Abrams after the 6-1 loss.
Davey Martinez said of the tide turning after E:6, “My focus was on double plays, but we didn’t turn.” Quoted by Mark Zuckerman of MASN.
“As we spin the ball, the next player appears and [Williams is] Finish the inning with 60 or more pitches. It was a pity, but things settled down from there. ”
Knotts skippers and coaches dealt with the 22-year-old shortstop’s mistake. Via Nationals.com:
“We talked to CJ about this and he said it’s a fast field here. I think that’s why I missed the ball, but it’s just another learning moment for young kids, and it’s actually really well done.”
Here is the heater:
Bobby Miller, 24, the 29th pick in the first round of 2020 from the University of Los Angeles, made his MLB debut on May 23 in Atlanta and led the Braves to four hits, one walk and one run in five innings.
Miller displayed a 99 mph fastball (30.5% pitched), a mix of sliders (26.3%), changeups (24.2%), curveballs (11.6%), and threw some sinkers (7.4%). won his first match. ”He became the first Dodgers starter to win a major league debut since Jose de Leon on September 4, 2016.‘” the club wrote in last night’s match notes.
Miller, who is ranked 19th overall in baseball on MLB.com’s Pipeline Scouts list heading into the season, had at least one person on the Nationals’ bench excited to see him pitch.
“He’s got electric stuff,” manager Davey Martinez said before last night’s game. “He’s got a real fastball and a good curveball. We need to get him in the strike zone. He throws a lot of high fastballs, so we had to get him in the zone. , I had to put him in the strike zone instead of chasing him, but his stuff is really good and I’m looking forward to seeing it live.”
Nationals hitter? Maybe you’re not so thrilled to see Miller live. The Dodgers’ right-hander held the Knots to one with four hits through the fifth inning, then came from behind in the sixth, leading 6-1, and hit the first walk of the game to walk Luis Garcia. One-out free pass.
The Dodgers starter had eight whiffs and 16 cold strikes on the night.
Back page – Robles has been around for a long time:
Before last night, the last update on Victor Robles was announced during the series in Kansas City, when Washington captain Davey Martinez was initially expected to help the 26-year-old center fielder recover from back pain. Said it was taking longer than it should have. We returned him to IL on May 8th.
“We thought he would get over it.” [back] I had a cramp that something was wrong, but it’s definitely going to take some more time,” Martinez explained.
“We want to be very careful with him because we are dealing with past issues, but he said he felt better today. I’m going to do it and then hopefully soon.I know he took some swings off the tee, very light.I hope that progresses.”
Robles had a good start to the season before the injury, batting .292/.388/.360 in 107 at-bats with four doubles, eight stolen bases, 10 walks and 14Ks.
Ahead of last night’s series opener in Los Angeles, Martinez said Robles was still working on his return…and it could be a while yet.
“He was hitting,” Martinez said. “He was hitting his tee shot. He’s doing some flips.
“So he’s definitely making some progress,” added the coach. “I feel a lot better, which is a great sign. I think I can do the flip.”
“I think it’s all about him,” Martinez said when asked what the biggest hurdles for Robles are at the moment.
“It’s his back,” explained the sixth-year captain.it will be all [of it].
“So we’re going to have to prepare him and make him really strong so that it doesn’t happen again.”