Gray takes Petco:
Josiah Gray allowed nine hits (2 of them were home runs) And on the mound before the last match, he recorded a season-high 6 earned runs in 5 innings. San Diego Padres On the road in Petco Park on Saturday. After Gray’s 15th start of the season, the manager said he hopes it will be a learning opportunity for the 25-year-old right-hander, who finished a trip in the nation’s capital with a 3.64 ERA.Up from 3.19 at the start), 4.88 FIP, (FIP before pitching up from 4.77), and .248/.332/.418 lines (Increased from .237/.325/.389).
“Hopefully Josiah will learn from today’s experience and come back on the field, and I know he will be on the field and playing in five days,” said Davey Martinez at Gray. said after a tough start.
“Today was the day he didn’t finish a hitter and got knocked out. So he’ll be back in five days, but he was in good shape.”
Gray took a 1-0 lead on Petco’s mound in the top of the first with a solo shot from Jaimer Candelario and was leading 2-0 in the second. Gray threw a total of 93 pitches, allowing no runs in five innings against the Padres, allowing four hits and three walks in the bottom of the sixth, and walked the first batter he faced on the 98th pitch.
He ran out to Jake Cronenworth on the 99th pitch with the first out, but it was the last out he recorded in the game as the manager went to the pension.
Josiah Gray quotes: 5.1 IP, 4H, 0R, 0ER, 4BB, 6Ks, 99P, 58S, 4/3GO/FO.
Gray produced 13 swing strikes in the game, extending to the sixth pitch scored by Baseball Savin and finished the night with 15 cold strikes.7 sliders, 5 sinkers, 2 curveballs, 1 four-seam fastball).
“Tonight’s story is Josiah for me,” Martinez said after the Nationals won 2-0 to tie the three-game set.
“[Gray] fought through. The number of balls was a little high, but I managed to get through it. He was a tough hitter, but we were able to give him the win. ”
Gray wasn’t particularly competent, but he managed to bounce back from a tight spot and again impress his manager with solid results.
“This is something we’ve talked about and what he’s learned from last year: just stay in the moment and go to the next pitch,” Martinez explained. “He did really well tonight. I know I can win games here, so I did really well.”
“I limited the damage,” said Gray, Quoted by Mark Zuckerman of MASN. “Each time I gave up a walk, a player got stuck in place, but it didn’t add up. You could say they were kind of strategic. They went to base, but I was able to stop them.”
Key moments:
• After last night’s crushing 13-3 defeat, Nationals captain Davey Martinez told reporters the club was on the back foot, trailing 1-0 in two of its three games against the San Diego Padres at Petco. He said he had to try to win.
“Tomorrow we have to come back and try to score first and give Josiah a goal.” [Gray] I took the lead,” said the sixth grade manager.
Jaymer Candelario caught every center-cutting 92.9 mph fastball off Flyers starter Matt Waldron and had two outs in the top of the first inning for his ninth homer of the season into right field at 395 feet, scoring one for Gray. Gave. A 1-0 lead to Work before he pitched.
• Lane Thomas hit his second solo shot from the Padres’ right arm with a one-out in the top of the second inning, earning his 13th HR of the year. Thomas hit the heater on the first pitch and struck out to make the game 2-0 in favor of the Nationals.
Nats captain Davey Martinez said after the win that Thomas and Candelario provided the club with the attack it needed.
“Big, big,” he said of the home run. “I can’t say enough about Lane, and I keep saying it, but if he keeps doing what he’s doing now, he’s an All-Star to me. It really is. He’s really good on the field. They’re playing, they’re hitting big runs, they’re hitting home runs, and Jaymer’s been hitting the ball consistently and defending for us. If we hit a home run on the , we can score too.”
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Bullpen action:
Mason Thompson returned to the mound after six innings and kept a clean sheet in the seventh to keep the game 2-0 in favor of the Nationals. 1 1⁄3 24 balls scoreless.
Kyle Finnigan got his eighth and struck out two of the three batters he faced in 16-ball circle.
Hunter Harvey tried to hold on to a 2–0 lead in the ninth inning, the right-hander earning the save on 12 pitches, eight strikes, and a quick 1-2-3 frame.
“That was good,” said Davey Martinez after the win. “Josiah gave us the five-plus innings we needed. Mason came in and closed the big inning door on the spot, and Finnegan and Harvey closed out the game on a great note.”
Back page – Chad Cool has been DFA’d:
Yesterday, before Game 2 of a three-game series against the Padres, the Nationals will nominate veteran Chad Cool for appointments after the right-handed pitcher allowed four hits, one walk, a hitter and four runs. Just announced an update on a series of roster changes. In San Diego, where Washington lost 13-3, he earned an earned run on an ugly 30 pitches.
“He’s in good shape,” manager Davey Martinez said Friday night.
“But I had to talk to him about leveraging both sides of the plate,” he added.
“But his fastball was great. His slider — he’s throwing a lot of sliders now, but the biggest thing is he’s way behind.”
Cool, who started the season as a starter but moved to the bullpen after being sidelined with an injury, finished Game 1 of the series at Petco Park with a 7.16 ERA, 6.64 FIP and a .308/.425/. . 16 against 492 lines 1⁄3 With IP out of the bullpen, the Nationals decided to make a change and call up Paolo Espino from Triple-A in place of Cool.
“The hardest part of my job is letting players go when I start building relationships with them,” Martinez said at his pre-match press conference on Saturday.
Martinez reiterated the fact that the problem is not with cool, but with his command.
“His stuff is good. Looking back on yesterday, he was throwing 99 [MPH]. Clearly, he has a lot going on. But I can only hope it works out for him and he gets picked up by another team and thrown again. he is incredible So does his whole family. He’s here and he’s given it his all, and I wish him the best of luck. ”
If his work is still good, what went wrong for Cool?
“I think he just couldn’t slow himself down at times,” Martinez said.
“And when the guys got on base and really sped him up, he was overwhelmed. But his stuff was great, he didn’t control the slider. So if he could get the ball in the strike zone, he would be fine and we tried very hard to get him there and it didn’t happen.”