When he spoke before the start of the World Series, Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez declined to name a starter for Game 3, after acknowledging that it would be Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg in the first two against the Houston Astros on the road in Minute Maid Park.
Asked if there was any chance he’d use Patrick Corbin in relief in the first two games if the game situation warranted it, Martinez would only say, “We shall see.”
His approach all season has been to try to go 1-0 every day, of course, and the second-year skipper said that wasn’t going to change.