Paul Menhart watches his starting pitcher; Photo by LEGNats for TalkNats
Click here to watch Nats win #58 on August 2nd on MASN via MLB.TV at 6:30 pm tonight with the rest of us. Just a quick reminder of what we are doing if this is your first time: As a group, we are going to be re-watching all 105 wins from the Nats 2019 season in chronological order at 6:30 pm each night. We will all try to sync up to the same point in the game, and this is a work in progress to maneuver to the same point in the game. Feel free to ask in the comments section where everyone is in the game so you can sync up. Many people are joining in at different points, and most people are not commenting — rather just following along.
The MLB.TV library is unlocked and free to everyone for the 2018-2019 season courtesy of MLB. This win #58 game in the 109th game in the 2019 season, and the Nats took the a 57-51 record into this game. Manager Dave Martinez was preaching “Go 1-0 every game” and eventually the Nats turned their losing record into a winning record. It took the Nats until June 28th to reach a winning record and they got to 12 games above .500 on August 21st. They dug themselves a deep hole, and it took much longer to dig out of it. Now the Nats were believing they could be a postseason team.
The starter for this game was Joe Ross who needed to stop the Nats slide with two straight losses. Ross would bend but did not break. He surrendered one-hit over 5 1/3 innings but 5 free passes. Usually, you don’t survive a walk per inning rate, but Ross did thanks to one doubleplay and some good defense behind him.
In this one, Nats pitching held the Diamondbacks to just one-hit in the game.
This was the first win after the trade deadline expired. The Nats acquired Daniel Hudson, Roenis Elias, and Hunter Strickland before the trade deadline.
