Davey Martinez sat down with reporters for his daily pregame Zoom call just as Nationals’ ace Max Scherzer went out to the bullpen in Nationals Park to test his injured groin after tweaking it 12 pitches into last Friday night’s start against the San Francisco Giants in the nation’s capital.
A reporter wondered why the Nats’ skipper wasn’t out there watching his ace test the groin.
“Because I’m coming to talk to you so that I can go out there,” Martinez joked. He did note that the fact that Scherzer was able to head out and test it was a good sign that the injury, as they’d suggested last weekend, wasn’t a serious one.