“At some point we need to stop having these conversations about making progress,” left-handed starter MacKenzie Gore told reporters after giving up eight hits (two of them HRs) two walks, and five runs (four earned) in five innings on the mound against San Francisco last week in Nationals Park, “... because I’m better than this.”
“I’m better than the way I’m pitching right now. I do need to pitch better,” he added.
“Of course I want to pitch better,” he said. “But I did figure out a way to get through five, I got after people, and hopefully build off of this.