Austin Voth, who’s battling for the fifth spot in the Washington Nationals’ 2020 rotation this Spring, struck out back-to-back batters for the second and third outs of a quick, 10-pitch, 1-2-3 first yesterday in West Palm Beach, FL.
Voth, 27, worked around a hit batter for a second scoreless frame as well, throwing a total of 11 pitches to the four batters he faced, leaving him at 21 total on the day when he was done.
Davey Martinez told reporters last week that Voth, (who was included on the Nationals’ NLDS and NLCS rosters last October, though he didn’t actually pitch in the postseason, and was left off the roster in the World Series when he had an issue with shoulder tendinitis), looks good early in Spring Training.