MacKenzie Gore wasn’t happy with the decision to stop the game because of rain just 1 1⁄3 innings into the series finale with the Cincinnati Reds in Washington, D.C.’s Nationals Park Thursday afternoon, and the 1-hour, 43-minute delay which followed ended any possibility the 24-year-old southpaw could return to the mound when/if play resumed.
His manager, in Davey Martinez’s post game press conference after what ended up a 5-4 loss in 10 innings, said there was no argument to made by the starter.
“No. After an hour and a half — we talked to him and he was good,” Martinez told reporters.