GRAY’S FIRST HOME START:
“[My biggest takeaway is] getting the responsibility of being able to go out there and try to put the team in a good position from Game 1,” Josiah Gray told reporters, as quoted by MLB.com’s Jessica Camerato, after he went four innings for the Nationals on Opening Day, giving up seven runs on eight hits (two of the homers) and two walks in what ended up an 8-2 loss to the Reds in Cincinnati.
“I failed to do that today.”
“Overall, look, it was his first Opening Day,” manager Davey Martinez said as he discussed Gray’s initial outing of the 2024 campaign.