Washington Nationals’ starter Joan Adon, 23, needed just 12 pitches in a 1-2-3 first last night in Miami, but he labored in the second, giving up back-to-back, one-out singles, and a base-loading, two-out walk which loaded them up in front of catcher Nick Fortes, who hit the 95 MPH fastball Adon threw him to right field for an opposite field RBI single and a 1-0 Marlins’ lead in the bottom of the first innings in loanDepot park.
Adon fell behind Jazz Chisholm, Jr. 3-0 in the next at-bat, and threw one a little outside, at 96 MPH, but pretty much over the middle of the plate.