WASHINGTON– The World Series champ Washington Nationals are 1-4 after losing 3 video games in a row. It matters more in a 60-game, pandemic-shortened season.
Missing slugger Juan Soto, theyve scored a grand total of 4 runs during the skid, consisting of a 5-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday that included 2 outfielders colliding on a home run by Torontos Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 2 errors by 2nd baseman Starlin Castro that resulted in 3 unearned runs and one hit for Washington after the 3rd inning.
” In a longer season, you get time to feel these things out,” said Nationals shortstop Trea Turner, who was captured stealing in the sixth, among the gaffes supervisor Dave Martinez kept in mind afterward. “Now its certainly magnified.”
Theres no doubt that Sotos lack is a big deal. He has been out since Opening Day because of a favorable COVID-19 test.
” We certainly miss him,” Turner stated, “and we need him back.”
Martinez concur, however he also desired to reserve the scoring problems because, as he put it, “The hittings going to come and go.”
More worrisome to a skipper who turned this club around after it opened 2019 with a 19-31 mark were the other problems.
” The overall play. The defense. The baserunning. Weve got to clean up that up. Weve got to play better,” he said. “Weve got to play much better. Cant make those mental errors. Those are mental errors to me. And well get it. In some cases when youre trying to create something, make things happen, you begin overanalyzing or overthinking, simply trying to do something aggressively. I want these people simply to play and unwind baseball. Just have some fun.”
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WASHINGTON– The World Series champ Washington Nationals are 1-4 after losing three video games in a row. It matters more in a 60-game, pandemic-shortened season.
Weve got to play better,” he said. “Weve got to play much better.
