WASHINGTON - The first three starts of this season didn’t go very well for Mitchell Parker, a fifth-round pick of the Nationals in 2020.
The left-hander from New Mexico pitched a total of 12.2 innings for low Single-A Fredericksburg and gave up 13 hits, eight walks, and seven earned runs.
That called for some changes.
“We made some really short, quick adjustments and they worked,” Pat Rice, the pitching coach for Fredericksburg, told Federal Baseball this week.
“Sometimes it doesn’t work but it worked pretty quickly.”
In his fourth start, Parker went six innings on May 25 and gave up just one hit and no earned runs.