Before the start of tonight’s series opener in St. Louis, the Washington Nationals released an update on the status of second-year manager Davey Martinez, who left the Nats’ dugout in the middle innings of Sunday afternoon’s series finale with the Atlanta Braves in the nation’s capital.
Bench Coach Chip Hale, who filled in as the skipper with Martinez gone, explained after the Nationals’ 7-0 win over their NL East rivals that the manager had been taken to a hospital to get checked out though he didn’t offer any details at the time.
“He wasn’t feeling good, so just for precautionary reasons they took him to the hospital just to see what’s going on,” Hale explained, “but we’re expecting everything will be good.