Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez talked before the series finale in St. Louis, about the importance of scoring first, which the Nats failed to do in any of their previous three games with the Cardinals, all of them losses.
When they do score first, the Nationals were 47-23 on the season before the start of the series finale in Busch Stadium.
Asked what he wanted to see from his team in the fourth of four with the NL Central’s third- place team, who’d won eight-straight overall to put themselves back in the picture for the postseason, the first-year skipper said he wanted to see the Nationals, “.