These Nationals are 1-8 in one-run games, a record that has rendered “being close” an inadequate form of consolation. “I got nothing to say except for those guys are playing with heart,” Martinez said without animosity — but without answers, either. It will change.’ ”Like Adams, Martinez had to answer for a mistake that ultimately cost the Nationals, both coming in the 10th inning. So a game the Nationals could have won headed to the 10th inning, and that is where Martinez erred. Adams had been warming in case the Diamondbacks opted to go with a right-handed pinch hitter ahead of the right-handed-hitting Pollock.

Source: Washington Post April 29, 2018 00:07 UTC