In his one start this season, after the Nationals tried him as a reliever earlier this year, Joe Ross gave up eight hits, two walks, and three earned runs in a 7-1 loss in Atlanta, and the right-hander struggled coming in after an opener in Washington last week, allowing nine hits, two walks, and seven runs, (six of them earned), when he came on in the third inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the nation’s capital.
“I really think for Joe he needs to identify whether he wants to be a two-seamer or a four-seam guy,” Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez told reporters after a 9-3 loss to LA.