Washington Nationals news & notes: Off day quick hits and Nats bits…

Fish problem:

Miami won four straight season-ending series against National League East rival Washington, D.C., and won 11-2 against the Nationals this season after the Marlins won 15 of 19 games against them. left a losing record.really very different)’s team will decide in 2022, what’s Fish’s reason for causing nuts problems this year?

“It’s their pitching right now,” Davey Martinez told reporters last weekend.

“Their pitching is very consistent. We have to keep fighting, we have played some tough games against them and if we can finish it and score one more than the other players at the end of the day. it was good.”

What about last weekend’s disappointing result and Sunday’s final loss?

“I did everything I could to win,” Martinez said of how he bounced back from an early setback to equalize but lost in the final stages of four of his four games against Fish.

“And we did some things to keep us from winning the game.”

Those things?

“Today I lost my life on a mistake, I lost my life on a walk,” he said. “We’re just coming back. Tomorrow is a day off. I hope the players will take that to heart, get some rest and come back fresh to be ready to go on Tuesday.”

Miss Turn from Goa:

As of Saturday afternoon, Nats captain Davey Martinez is back from the bereavement list in time for lefty Mackenzie Gore to make his next start after a routine rest period in tonight’s series opener against New York. leaves the possibility to

“It’s still a question mark,” Martinez told reporters in the capital.

“At the moment, I’m more likely to push him back later in the week.

“We have already spoken [Patrick] As for Corbin — he’ll start that day if he has to, but he’ll definitely make more sense tomorrow. “

When the club announced their possible starters for the two games in D.C., Corbin was indeed listed in the starting lineup for the season opener.

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“when [Gore] When we come back, we’ll figure out where he is,” Martinez explained. “I want him to do his routine and then we’ll figure out where to hit him. If you need to pull a few guys apart a little bit, put him in the middle of those guys. It would actually be good if we could, but let’s see how he feels when he’s back.”

As Martinez explained, the club is trying to carefully manage the workload of its young starters (Especially since Gore returned from an elbow injury last season.), resting a little extra wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, and giving yourself time to deal with your personal loss was the most important consideration.

“It’s a shame, given what he has to go through,” Martinez said. “But it helps a little bit for us to be able to give him a few days off to recover. And when he comes back, we’ll throw him in when he feels ready. I intend on doing it.”

Rainey Rehab Update:

Tanner Rainey has eight appearances in rehab (as of Monday morning) as he recovers from Tommy John surgery, but as the manager said in his pre-match comments on Sunday, the club said the 30-year-old reliever was are taking a cautious approach to recovery. .

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“I talked to him today,” Martinez said on Sunday. “He will continue to pitch there.” [in the minors] And let’s go out a little more. he feels better. After he went out for the last time, he said he was in a little pain but thought it would be normal. That’s what we all thought. He’s getting closer, but we want to get him out of all his pain and all that before he gets a chance to come back here. “

Watch the call-up:

So when the club calls up some young up-and-coming players at the moment, with the club rebooting its organization, Nats manager Davey Martinez will assess them and see how they develop. What are you observing when you are doing this? Have they improved since the last time you saw them play in person?

“I’m actually looking for improvements from the last time I saw them and what they’ve been doing,” the sixth-year captain told reporters. next year too. Like I said, they’re important to our future and they’re still developing, so we have a game plan moving forward into the winter so they’ll be ready when they come to spring training. want to leave them with Spring training next year is going to be really great for me. Because there are so many young talented kids to work with. “