“Lucas has continued to make strides in all phases of the game”, Nationals farm director Mark Scialabba wrote in an email to The Sports Xchange on Monday night. They sit in third place behind the Marlins and the Nationals.
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NY is 40-36 overall, 21-20 on the road and 40-35-1 with the under. It can get worse. The Nationals tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the eighth when Wilson Ramos delivered a two run double off of Hansel Robles to cap the scoring.
Giolito was on deck when the rains came again and forced a delay that would last nearly an hour and a half. Manager Dusty Baker visited the mound after the first four hitters reached in the third inning, and Ross got the next nine batters out and completed six innings.
“He’s come a long ways from when we saw him in spring training”, Baker said of Giolito after the game, which Washington won 5-0 to clinch the series victory over NY.
LHP Steven Matz has a bone spur in his elbow and had his start pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday….
Chicago manager Joe Maddon was forced to use three pitchers in left field over the final two innings as the Cubs had used up all their position players. He needs rest for now, surgery later.
WASHINGTON-Mets fans have become familiar with almost every part of the human body this season amid the team’s catalog of ailments.
Despite his denials, Syndergaard is dealing with a bone spur in his elbow, according to Marc Carig of Newsday.
“To the extent that he has in the past said, ‘Look, I don’t have this or I don’t have that, ‘ really what he’s been trying to do is not use that as an excuse”, Alderson said. “He’ll either be able to pitch and tolerate the discomfort, or he won’t”. Guys in our organization were asking, ‘Who is this guy?’ I was impressed with how he commanded his pitches that day.
Unfortunately Matt Harvey got the loss tonight, making him 4 – 10 on the year. He gave up 67 hits and struck out 72 in 71 innings pitched. The Mets bullpen couldn’t do much to keep the Nationals at Bay as both Robles and Blevins gave up 2 runs each. “I think that’s one thing I talked about with Terry that we’re going to just treat this like I’m cleared to go”.
Stop throwing away your shot.
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Washington’s Lucas Giolito briefly showed the promise that has him regarded as baseball’s top pitching prospect as he got through four scoreless innings in a rain-shortened major league debut to help the Nationals beat the New York Mets 5-0 on Tuesday and stretch their lead in the National League West division.
