Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez knows that some of his players start slowly, so he’s not panicking over the fact that the Nats’ offense is struggling to score runs, string together hits, and support their starters.
After all, in the first-time manager’s 16-year career as a player in the majors, his own April numbers were —
“You don’t want to look up my April [stats], they were awful,” Martinez joked with reporters before the start of the second of four with the Colorado Rockies in the nation’s capital last night.