Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez talked after Victor Robles’s 0 for 2 game at the plate this past Saturday in Pittsburgh’s PNC Park about seeing some positive signs from the 24-year-old, who has been hard at work trying to get to a better place with the bat in his hands.
Robles went 0 for 2 with a walk and a K (on some questionable called strikes) in Saturday’s loss to the Pirates, but Martinez said he did like some of what he saw from Robles, even if the results weren’t necessarily there.
“He’s staying on top of the baseball, which is good, and I told him, ‘As long as you’re hitting balls like that, they’ll start falling, don’t,’ — I don’t want him to get upset, just keep getting ready to hit and stay on top of the baseball, and those will come,” Martinez said.