Washington got Hunter Strickland and Roenis Elías back in the bullpen before the first of three with the Miami Marlins in D.C. last night, but Nationals’ closer Sean Doolittle decided that he needed more work after throwing a sim game this past week, so he headed out for the start of a rehab assignment with the High-A Potomac Nationals.
“The sim game the other day was kind of a mixed bag,” the 32-year-old left-hander said of the 16-pitch session against his teammates in Nationals Park.
“It went well — physically I felt good, my knee and my arm felt really good,” Doolittle said, “but as far as execution, mechanically, I wasn’t where I wanted to be in order to help this team in a playoff run, so I’ll need — we’ll see how tonight goes, and then kind of go from there.