Without questioning the effort any of his players put forth in Saturday’s dispiriting 9-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants, fifth-year Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez did make it clear that the results were unacceptable.
The night before, they broke an eight-game losing streak with a 22-hit, 14-run explosion in the series opener, but the following night things didn’t go their way, and the Nats put up a total of 3 runs on 11 hits, going 4 for 10 with runners in scoring position, and three errors in the field in a sloppy loss.
“We had a couple opportunities to break the game open early, we hit into a double play with bases loaded, but the last two days I thought the at-bats, they’re coming,” Martinez said.