In the bottom of the seventh inning, with the score 2-0 NY, the home team rallied with hits by Dominic Smith and Jake Alu, an RBI single by Ildemaro Vargas, and a game-tying single by CJ Abrams knotting things up at 2-2 in the second game of the quick, two-game set. “The starting pitching is the key to this thing, they need to keep us in the games and give us a chance to grind out some wins,” he added.Īs if on cue, Joan Adon took the mound last night in the nation’s capital and gave the Nats five strong, allowing a run in the first, but holding the New York Mets there through four in the second of two in D.C., before allowing a second run in his final inning of work in the top of the fifth.Īdon, 26, walked three batters, struck out six total, and threw 80 pitches overall in the start, 45 for strikes, generating 12 swinging strikes on the night, and seven called strikes. and we’ve just got to get our starting pitching in order and be able to give us a chance to win those games.” “To go down 3-4 runs in the first or second inning, it’s tough for any team to come back,” Rizzo explained, “. Shaky starting pitching, with some of the young starters as Rizzo noted, reaching inning-levels they haven’t reached before, and a tendency to fall behind early have doomed the Nationals recently. Starting pitching is the key to this whole thing, I’ve said that for years, and when our starters give us a chance to win we play very, very well and we win our share of games.” That’s how we won a majority of our games in August. “The secret of when we played well in July and August was that our pitching kept us in the game close,” Rizzo told the Junkies, “and then at the end we’d get some timely hits and RBIs and we’d win those games. Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo, in his weekly visit with 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies on Wednesday morning, talked about what has been different for his club now ( six straight losses and losses in 8 of 10), as compared to the run they went on in July/August ( a 29-25 record overall, 17-11 in August).
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