Josiah Gray acknowledged there were some real emotions involved in going up against the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first time earlier this season, after the Dodgers traded him to the Washington Nationals in the deadline deal last July 30th which sent both Max Scherzer and Trea Turner to LA.
“There were a lot of emotions, honestly,” Gray told reporters after a rough outing at home in Nationals Park back in late May, in which he surrendered five hits (three of them home runs), three walks, and seven earned runs in just three innings of work against the Dodgers, who’d acquired the right-hander, selected in the 2nd Round of the 2018 Draft by Cincinnati’s Reds, in late December trade later in ‘18.