Joan Adon pounded his glove repeatedly, pumped his fist, and let out a scream after he’d picked up back-to-back Ks with runners in scoring position in his sixth and final inning on the mound in D.C. in the nightcap of last Saturday’s twin bill with the Rockies in Nationals Park.
“It’s one of those things you don’t control. It’s just emotions take over,” Adon explained, via interpreter Octavio Martinez, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman following the six-inning outing in which just two unearned runs scored with him on the mound. “It just happens. It’s something you don’t have control over.