“Today was a hitters’ duel, basically,” Davey Martinez said after his club’s 11-8 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the series finale in the nation’s capital. “I’m glad we ended up on top.”
Trailing 6-1 after two and a half, with starter MacKenzie Gore done after just three innings in which he gave up six hits, two walks, and six runs, two earned, with a costly error in the top of the second, on which one run scored, and after which the Jays added four on a Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. grand slam, the Nationals were once again in a big hole early.