You can try all you want, but Davey Martinez’s focus will always be on the game at hand, so when the Washington Nationals’ manager was asked after Sunday’s postponement of their series finale with the Baltimore Orioles in D.C., how he would approach the resumption this coming Friday in Oriole Park, the third-year skipper had already moved on tonight’s opener with the New York Mets in Citi Field.
“We’ve got to focus on tomorrow, obviously, we’ve got to play the New York Mets and worry about that first game of a four-game series,” Martinez said, “and then when we get to Friday, you kind of pick up where you left off, basically.