Josh Bell went for another MRI (his second in a week) after tweaking his right hamstring in the Nationals’ loss to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday in Washington, D.C., but it was clean, apparently, (as the MRI on his left knee was earlier in the week), and as Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez explained before Sunday’s game, he just wanted to give the first baseman two days off to recover with an off-day on Monday as well providing extra time to rest up and recover.
“He’s going to — we’re going to try to get him to run a little bit today and see how he feels,” Martinez told reporters before the series finale with the Giants in Nationals Park, “.