While acknowledging the emotions of going up against his former team may have played a role in Josiah Gray’s rough, 3-inning, 90-pitch outing against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night in the nation’s capital, the Washington Nationals’ manager, Davey Martinez, also offered more tangible explanations for what led to the starter’s struggles.
“A lot of arm-side misses,” Martinez said. “Didn’t execute well tonight. Could have been a little bit that he was amped up to face his old team, but coming into the series we know about the Dodgers, and they walk, and they hit homers, and if you look at what they did, walk, home run, walk, home run, hit batter, walk, home run.