Forced to play catch Alex Avila at second base on Thursday with both Trea Turner and Jordy Mercer injured in Wednesday afternoon’s game, and with injuries throughout multiple levels of their minor league system limiting their infield options, Washington’s Nationals had to do something before the second game of four this weekend with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the nation’s capital.
“We’re working through some stuff. Hopefully something will work out for us, but we’ve got a lot of decisions to make tonight,” Martinez told reporters after a rain-shortened loss to LA on Thursday.
With Turner, Mercer, Carter Kieboom, Luis García, Adrían Sanchez, and Jackson Cluff all in some way injured, the manager was asked if the answer would have to come from outside the organization.