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More than an opportunity to spoil things for their opponents, Davey Martinez talked about the last few weeks of games against postseason-bound clubs as a good test and a chance for his young club to gain much-needed experience playing teams who are at the level his own ballclub wants to reach.

“For me, we don’t want to be in the position that we’re in, we really don’t,” Martinez said of the Washington Nationals potentially playing a spoiler role.

“We want to be headed to the playoffs, but what I like is our guys are young, they’re getting experience of still playing some pretty meaningful games, and they’re getting to learn to do this.