MacKenzie Gore stumbled into the All-Star break, and came out of it with a bullpen-killing, two-inning outing in his first start of the so-called second-half of the season.
“I have to be better,” Gore told reporters after throwing 67 pitches to 12 batters in the two innings he was on the mound (2 H, 4 BB, 3 ER) against Cincinnati’s Reds in Nationals Park.
“I understand what I’m doing wrong. I think we all do. But I just have to figure out a solution, because this is enough. I can’t keep doing this.”
Gore’s manager, Davey Martinez, told reporters before the series opener in St.