By the time Josiah Gray worked his way into and out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the fourth inning in Kansas City, the Washington Nationals’ 25-year-old right-hander was up to 91 pitches, having given up four hits, two walks, and two runs in a game his club would go on to win, 4-2.
“Today, he did a great job keeping us at 2-0,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters after the game.
“Things could’ve imploded there for us [in the fourth], but he did a great job of getting the outs we needed.”
“I think today was a good test,” Gray said, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman.