Facing one of his last tune ups before the regular season, Clarke Schmidt just didn’t have much to fool his opponents in this one. The presumed fifth starter for the Yankees fought through a bunch of contact in this one, while his lineup failed to produce much of their own behind him in a 5-2 loss to the Nationals.
Schmidt ended up going 3.2 innings in his outing, but it didn’t start auspiciously. He induced a groundout to open the game before Dominic Smith lined a single to left, but Schmidt managed to erase him from the basepaths on a pickoff to quickly take back control.