Attendance: 33,032
Duration: 3:22
Weather: 88 degrees, Partly cloudy
Wind: S 7 MPH
Umpires: HP: Hoberg. 1B: Knight. 2B: Whitson. 3B: Carlson.
Game notes – Nats starter Jefry Rodriguez walked the first two batters
of the game, both of whom scored on Mike Moustakas’s single … Nats narrowed the
deficit an inning later on Difo’s homer, and took the lead with 3 in the in the
3rd, on singles by Soto and Reynolds after loading the bases … the
Brewers basically put the game away by scoring 7 runs with 2 out in the 5th
inning, starting when Rodriguez yielded a 3-run homer to Keon Broxton … things
went from bad to worse when Tim Collins relieved Rodriguez with 2 on, walked
the next batter on 4 pitches, then served up a grand slam to Christian Yelich …
Washington pitchers tied a team record for a 9-inning game by walking 11 (7 by
Rodriguez) … Austen Williams made his major league debut and provided 2
scoreless innings in relief of Collins
Note – After the game, Davey said that several relievers were
unavailable, which led him to keep Rodriguez (whose 100 pitches included 50
balls and 50 strikes) in the game even after the Broxton homer. There’s really
no excuse for a major league team to be short of pitchers in September with the
25-man roster limit no longer in effect, but the team’s decision to delay
calling up additional bullpen help (beyond Williams) is on management (and
ownership?), not on Martinez.
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