NATs cannot maintain a strong start, lose the seventh time in a row (updated)

Atlanta-Die citizens thought that to achieve their six-game loss series, they needed better bats from their line-up. In particular, they had to accept their walks, bring the ball into the strike zone and score first.

Well, the nationals were able to do all three things in the second this four-game set against the good. But you wouldn’t know that it wasn’t enough when the Nats had a loss of 5: 2 for their seventh defeat in a row and since July 7th to 16th, 2022 (nine) marked their longest defeat.

This night immediately started positively when CJ Abram’s Spencer Schwellenbach’s first game of the game hit the right field wall for a Leadoff -Homerun. And just like that, for the fifth time in their last 17 games, the Nationals scored the first course of the competition.

“I wanted to do things,” said Abrams. “Stay aggressively on the fastball. It was a little outside the zone, but I got a good swing and it went out.”

Abrams ’10. Leadoff Homer is second in the history of the Nationals (2005), only for Trea Turner’s 14th funny that both shortstops originally started their career in the Padres system.

Then, you wouldn’t know, James Wood played a leadoff walk in the fourth and came by the RBI single from Amed Rosario to give Nats a 2-0 lead.

Certainly the Nats had finally turned their fortune.

Not so fast.

“We couldn’t maintain,” said manager Davey Martinez. “As I said, get good bats in between and carry it over. I have removed the game with a Homer. We have achieved another run, we have achieved a HIT-and run base from Rosie, and then we simply couldn’t maintain our offensive. So, as I said, we said with the Stipero-Stiper. We have tried with the Stiper. too much.

It was an emotional night for starter Michael Soroka, who started his 20th start in Truist Park, but his first as a visitor.

Soroka, who spent the first six years of his major League career in Atlanta, was allowed to face his former team for the first time. But after a strong excursion in his return from the injured list last week, the right-hander was forced from a high number of pitch from this start after four innings.

“I was excited,” said Soroka. “Obviously it was a while ago that we were here. You took this hill. And yes, there are not a lot of people I have played with all the years. But still, certainly some that I came up with and with whom I made good memories. But I wanted to give them my best tonight and the feeling that we just had come away from me somehow.

With the early tour, Soroka kept the Braves goalless in the first three innings on 48 parking spaces. But an extensive fourth inning briefly cut his night and left the good again in this.

Three consecutive seven-pitch bats led to a strike, single and drake Baldwin’s two runs to bind the game with 2-2 and energetic the amount of 32,725. Soroka then needed 12 more parking spaces to complete the 33-pitch frame and leave it at 81.

“Aggression and trust that my things are good,” said Soroka about the positive aspects he took away. “I’m not being beaten. And of course this is a good recipe for the success that is ahead of the boys. Obviously, not in this fourth inning. I fell behind a few boys and the inning has long been.

Since he is still quite fresh from the IL, Martinez would not push the 27-year-old. So he brought the fifth starter for the fifth, the turned off starter reliever-starter-starter brad Lord.

“Soroka has a few good things today,” said the skipper. “His pitch was high. We had to take it out after the fourth. As I said, he was coming from the IL, so I thought that would be good enough for him.”

Thanks to a four-pitch leadoff walk, the braves immediately took the lead, a single that Rosario should have caught on the third base and an RBI single that José Tena should have stopped in second place.

Lord gave up another run in the sixth, although it was another one who should have been stopped. With runners at the corners and two outs, Eli White seemed to make an offer twice, which gave him a strange spin of The Bat. That was enough to confuse Abrams at Shortstop when he left the ball past him and allowed the run.

“The line to Rosario was smoked. The ball knew on him at the last minute,” said Martinez. “And then Tena only took a funny route. He really tried to bend two right there. He just has to catch the ball and try to just get one. And the ball who was hit on CJ, man, I don’t know what this ball did, but he just made it funny and it was funny on him.”

Jorge López gave a further run in the eighth. But it was not much important because the crime could not maintain the progress that it used to be at night.

And so the suffering continued when the Nats fell nine games under 0.500.

“We are a bit of radio,” said Martinez. “We have to come out tomorrow and, as I said, continue to play baseball and do the little things. Do the little things right.”

“Nobody wants to lose. We want to win,” said Abrams. “And we’ll start and play together tomorrow. Just hold your head up and continue …”