Goa Revenge Tour:
Earlier this season, Washington manager Davey Martinez expressed concern about Mackenzie Gore’s control of his emotions on the mound when heading out. San Diego Padres They traded him to DC last August in a time-limited trade that released Juan Soto to the West.
“We need to control the heart rate a little bit, hopefully today he can calm down early and get the outs we need,” Martinez said.
Gore struggled a bit in his first matchup with his old team, giving up seven hits, four walks and three runs in just four games. 2⁄3 In a pitching inning he threw 103 pitches (60 of them are for strike).
“Throwing 100 pitches in 4 games” 2⁄3 We have a lot of innings,” Martinez said after the game.
“He goes into games and overperforms, so it’s not the first time – we’ve seen it happen, even when he’s playing against his former team. So we just had to calm him down and, like I said, put him in the strike zone.”
The southpaw downplayed the idea that his struggles had something to do with the team that selected him in the first round (3rd overall) of the 2017 draft.
“When I got here today, I was just trying to figure out how to hit hitters,” he said. Quoted by Mark Zuckerman of MASN.
“This wasn’t about me. We’re here to win games. But it was fun. When you know your opponent, it’s fun to play against.”
How can you channel your emotions positively when playing against your former team?
“It’s led in the right direction,” said Martinez (Traded five times in his own 16-year major league career) said before the final game of the series against the Padres.
“Obviously you want to perform really well against your opponent. [old] As a team, the first thing you have to understand is who you are and [two], what you need to do to be successful. Yes, it’s part of who you are and you’re going to compete, so for him it’s just powering up from the start, but he has to control his emotions. “
“Just control your heart rate and you’ll be fine,” he added.
The Padres hitters struggled against Gore early in the third inning at Petco Park, with lefty Gore striking out the first six hitters he faced on 33 pitches.
Nelson Cruz reached safely with a hard grounder to third base, Jaimer Candelario got downed but staggered in the first at-bat of the third inning, but Gore dialed up a 6-4-3 DP. to eliminate the first batter coming to base. He stopped a two-out walk with the power of second base, and ended up with no runs in three innings of 49 pitches.
After two outs in the fourth inning, Gore allowed his first hit on Manny Machado’s line-drive single to left. Next, Xander Bogaerts hit a single over the middle of Gore’s glove, but K No. 8 threw a fastball thrown by Jake Cronenworth, and survived the starting pitcher with no runs on 76 balls and 4 balls.
However, the home team caught up to Gore in the sixth inning, but Kim Ha-sun walked two outs and Trent GrishamHit a ground ball on second base in the previous turn at bat and entered the scoring range) Fernando Tatis, Jr. hit a RBI hit to Right to make it 1-1. Goa’s 9th K (The third is from Juan Soto) stopped the threat at 1-1 at the end of the fifth inning.
Mackenzie Gore quotes: 5.0IP, 5H, 1R, 1ER, 2BB, 9K, 104P, 58S, 3/1GO/FO.
Gore finished the night with 11 whiff strikes (9 from fastball) and 16 call strikes (10 from fastball) in an impressive and sometimes dominant game…
What worked, and what did Mr. Gore think of the expedition as a whole?
“It was fun,” he said after the 8-3 win. “It’s cool. I think about everything little by little. My fastball was obviously good, but I threw a slider there and got a strikeout.
“It still wasn’t the most efficient, but we got rid of the guys last time we didn’t, so we got a good series win for us.”
The manager said he liked the emotional exchange with Soto after Gore struck out the game-winning third of five Padres games.
“It was a big moment for him. I’m proud of him. He came out and checked his emotions and kept us in the game,” Martinez said.
“I like him,” Gore said of a brief, respectful exchange with Soto. “He talks shit and he’s competitive. So I didn’t play against him much, but I liked him. There were a few things, but he was friendly and all good. It’s just.”
No big deal. He just got a traded player (as part of a promising five-man package) with three hits in five innings and a third one-on-one with two on and two outs.
Key moments:
• Jaymar Candelario hit his first home run for the second time in two days at Petco Park.
It was a 1-1 fastball that the switch-hitting third baseman hit 395 feet into right-center at home to the Padres last night.
This time, Candelario made it 2-0 with a low in-the-zone fastball from Seth Lugo, who hit only once. MetsIn the final game of the series in San Diego, he hit a 427-foot two-out shot to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead. No. 10 of 2023.
Coming into the game, Candelario has had 11 hits in 33 at bat (.333 batting average), 6 doubles, 1 homer, 3 walks, 3 RBIs, and 5 runs scored in his last nine games.
• In the sixth inning, which was a 1-1 game, Luis Garcia led Lugo’s 1-1 fastball in the zone with a reverse base single, and Candelario advanced the runners with a 1-1 curveball to right field. Garcia scored on Joey Meneses’ RBI to center and made it 2-1, 3-1 on Stone Garrett’s sack fly. When Tatis, Jr.’s throw to home was interrupted, Meneses was thrown out for a double and Keibert Lewis’ right fly ended the inning.
Bullpen action:
In the Padres’ sixth inning, Mason Thompson walked three with two outs and the bases loaded, and as the manager turned to the pen again, lefty Joe La Sorsa hit pinch-hitter Gary Sanchez with a 3-2 slider and was ejected. . ” After 6 points to go, the Nuts held the lead at 3-1.
Derek Hill (ROE) and CJ Abrams (HBP) scored in the top of the seventh on a Rane Thomas (Hill) RBI single and a Candelario (Abrams & Thomas) two-run double to make it 6-1 and Joey scored. Meneses brought on Luis Garcia (who had reached on an error) and Thomas to take an 8-1 lead over the Padres after 6.5 hours.
The right-handed hitter went 0-for-20 this season against Jordan Weems, but in the Padres’ seventh first at-bat, going 8-2, Kim Ha-sun hit a 97 mph 2-for-2 fastball to left. He hit a solo homer by going 380 feet. .
Paolo Espino struggled in the ninth inning, allowing a double, a walk, and an RBI, but it was carried over in favor of Hunter Harvey with two on and two outs in an 8-3 game. Harvey outed No. 3 on a fly to center, where Stone Garrett and Derek Hill collided and were caught by Hill to finish.
Return page:
From opening day 30 March to 30 April, Lane-Thomas played 25 games (Pitched in 107 plate appearances) in which he didn’t hit a single home run. But he hit a homer on May 1 and hit 12 more for a total of 13 in 49 games heading into Sunday’s series finale in San Diego, Calif. There he homered one of the two points the Knots scored in a 2-0 victory. win Saturday night.
In those 49 games, the 27-year-old right fielder hit 62 for 198 (.313/.351/.606), 15 doubles, 13 homers, 10 walks and 53 K.
Entering his third of three games at Petco Park, Thomas said, “…he had hits in 11 of his last 12 games, going 18-for-47.” [.383 AVG] 6 doubles, 4 homers, 8 RBIs[s]1 walk, 1 stolen base and 9 runs scored,” the Nationals stressed in their pregame notes.
Add to that the fact that Thomas “…recorded seven outfield assists, which is tied for most outfielders in the National League,” and was the defensive RBI leader among right fielders before Sunday’s game. was ranked ninth in the major leagues in-2 at DRS), and the former Cards outfielder, acquired in exchange for Jon Lester at the 2021 trade deadline, is putting together a season worthy of at least some form of recognition across the league, he says. manager.
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What’s the difference for Thomas now as opposed to the first month of the season?
“Be confident,” Martinez said Saturday night. “He’s really got a lot of confidence out there. He’s getting ready to hit a fastball. He said his swing was too slow, so I gave him the signal to hit the fastball. Then he went up and hit a fastball. But he’s a good fastball hitter, and when he’s ready to hit a fastball, he hits the ball hard. “
“I can’t say enough about Lane and I keep saying this,” Martinez added at another point in his post-match press conference, “…if he continues what he’s doing now. For me, he’s an All-Star.”
