Josiah Gray struck out a season-high 10 batters in 5 2⁄3 IP when he faced the Miami Marlins in D.C. back on April 26th, but he took the mound tonight coming off a rough outing in his previous start, which saw the 24-year-old right-hander give up six hits (three homers), two walks, and six earned runs, five of them in a rough first in which he struggled to command his pitches against a strong Houston Astros’ lineup.
“I tried to look at the game to see what was going on,” Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez told reporters after Gray’s seventh start of the year, “.