Chad Kuhl gave up three straight hits at the start of his first outing of the season last week, and he allowed three runs in the opening frame, then another in the second, before a solid end to his appearance, with three scoreless and 10 of 11 set down in what ended up a 10-6 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
“He competes, and he battled back and kept us in the ballgame, which was awesome. The first couple innings didn’t go his way and then he started making pitches and he kept us in the game so I thought he did well,” Davey Martinez said after the veteran righty’s debut for the Nationals.