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Nationals’ starter Joan Adon out early, but cleans up mechanics in 5-1 loss to Marlins

“He couldn’t repeat his delivery,” Davey Martinez said after Joan Adon struggled through 3 23 innings against the New York Mets in the nation’s capital, giving up three hits, five walks, and three earned runs in an 84-pitch outing in what ended up a 4-1 loss.

“He was flying open, a lot of arm-side misses, a lot of yanked curveballs, like I said, he just couldn’t really get into his body today and mechanically he just wasn’t there today.”

Adon, 23, finished the outing with a 7.03 ERA, a 5.45 FIP, 23 walks, and 24 Ks in seven starts and 32 IP on the season, over which he had a .