Both 24-year-old starter MacKenzie Gore and Nationals’ manager, Davey Martinez, pointed to the southpaw’s four walks in five innings last time out, on the road in NY (NL), as one of the main issues in a solid-ish outing.
Gore tossed four scoreless innings to start in Citi Field, stranding two of four free passes, including a leadoff walk in the third, but back-to-back walks which started the fifth both came around to score on a two-out, three-run home run by Pete Alonso, who crushed a hanging slider.
“Well, a slider down the middle is a big no-no for [Alonso], and that’s what he got.