In his second straight solid outing, after a long stretch of less-than-stellar starts, 25-year-old lefty MacKenzie Gore put together a six-inning, two-run, 102-pitch turn in the Washington Nationals’ rotation in D.C. last week in which he issued just one walk and struck out six of 26 batters he faced in a 5-2 win over NY’s Yankees.
“He threw strikes, he made some really good pitches,” manager Davey Martinez said after Gore’s 27th start of the season.
“Changeup was really effective. Slider was good. But his fastball is always electric. That’s his pitch.”
Gore collected 14 swinging and 18 called strikes overall against the Yankees, eight of each on his four-seam fastball, which he threw 53% of the time, with his velocity up a tick on his average velo for the year.