Coming off back-to-back shutout losses in Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field, Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez acknowledged the obvious, the club’s offense is sputtering, and as all the innings without runs pile up so does the pressure to produce.
“It does boil down to just getting that one hit, and I think we score a couple runs, everybody relaxes, things start happening. We just can’t get it done,” Martinez said after Wednesday’s 2-0 loss to the White Sox.
Martinez’s club was in each of the three games with the Sox, and they won one of the three because the pitching kept the score close while they all waited for the bats to come alive at the right time.