Talking before Josiah Gray struggled in a second consecutive outing, Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez explained to reporters on his daily pregame Zoom call how he will try to find positives to take out of even the rough outings for his starters or games for any of his players.
“I always tell them, ‘Focus on the things you did right,’” Martinez explained, “‘don’t focus so much on your mistakes.’
“Every time he pitches,” Martinez added about Gray in particular, “... we always talk about, I said, ‘Tell me something positive that happened today and he’ll run off a lot of different things that he felt he’d done right, and I’ll say, ‘Let’s build off of that and we’ll go from there.