By winning 10-7, boston red sox Washington’s Nationals won six straight at home on Thursday afternoon. “[The Nats] They have won 14 of their last 17 home games up until July 8 against Texas. [and they] 5 of 6, 10 of 13, 12 of 18, 18 of 26, 27-20 (.574) since 24 June,” the club stressed in its post-match notes. did. It was a pretty meaningful win for Martinez’s team in Davey, but he didn’t understand why it was such a big win in some people’s minds.
‘Do you know how many wins?’ Martinez asked after final game against Sox in DC
“No,” he said. “We won today.”
It was the 55th win of the season for the Nationals in 2023, tying their total wins in 162 games last season (55-107). And there are 40 games left on the schedule.
“I love what I see,” said the sixth-year captain of the effort the club sees on a daily basis this season. “I love how they play. I love watching young players step up.
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“Our starters have given us a chance to win some games, and our bullpen has been really good. I’m proud of these guys.”
“They keep playing, they keep playing hard, good things are happening.”
It will be important for the club’s growth as a group and as an organisation, for the team to play as they have in the last few weeks.
“It’s fun,” Martinez said. “Because I preach about doing this all the time.” [little] Keep things simple and do little things that consist of base running. throw a strike. take out. played good defense. And it paid off. So if you can do these things, you have a steady chance of winning. And we’ve been doing that for the last month. It was a lot of fun. These guys are stepping up.
The Nationals got off to a good start on Thursday afternoon with Patrick Corbin throwing 96 pitches in six innings (59 strike), allowing only 4 hits, 0 walks and 1 earned run.
Corbin struck out six times and had 15 whiff strikeouts (9 on slider, 4 on fastball, 2 on sinker), get 10 Cold Strikes (5 on the sinker, 3 on the four seam, 2 on the slider).
“I can’t say enough about what Patrick did today,” Martinez said.
“Our bullpen was really short,” he explained.
“So [Corbin] will be released today, [he] Given up to 6 innings, hit a baseball.Joey [Meneses](2 at bats in 5, 2 doubles, 5 RBIs), all of them, [Stone] Garrett, (2 hits 4, 3 RBI) everyone was swinging the bat really well. ”
Five runs in the fifth inning broke the 1-1 tie, and the home team scored three in the sixth to make it 9-1. Added a point. At the end of the game, he won the second game of the three-game series.
“To beat them two out of three games is pretty impressive,” Martinez said. Corbyn told reporters: Quoted by Mark Zuckerman of MASNhe hoped the progression of things over the past month would boost the team’s confidence.
“I hope some of them understand that we can compete with anyone,” said the 34-year-old veteran of 11 years. “We have played a lot of games and I think we could have won more.
“These things I hope everyone in this clubhouse is learning from and striving to be better.”
