Just in case you didn’t see it elsewhere, read it, or hear Davey Martinez say it himself, Luis García sat out of the Nationals’ series finale with the Reds on Sunday, but not because he had a flare-up of the groin strain which landed him on the IL earlier this month, but rather because of a decision by his manager to take a beat, and a couple days off, after the 22-year-old played a lot the past week after rehabbing the injury.
“I just wanted to get him [a day off],” Martinez explained.
“He went down to rehab [at Triple-A Rochester], played three days in a row, he’s been playing here, so just thought it would be good day to give him a day off, this way he has two, and we’ll get him back in there Tuesday.