Davey Martinez told reporters before last night’s game, with the threat of rain in the forecast on an already-soggy day in D.C., that he would, of course, prefer that the Nationals and their opponents for the long holiday weekend play the first of four as scheduled to avoid having a doubleheader with the Los Angeles Dodgers at some point in the next three days. Though it obviously wasn’t up to him, since the weather is out of his control.
“You’d want to play today,” Martinez said. “Honestly, these doubleheaders puts a damper on our pitching, especially our bullpen, but like I said, I can’t control the weather, so we’ll see in the next couple hours what happens.