Marlins Walk Off Nats, 9-8
Oh, look - the bullpen blew a lead. Twice.
The Marlins scored twice in the bottom of 9th to turn an 8-7 loss into a 9-8 win over the Nats on Monday afternoon. Wander Suero was charged with the loss as he retired just one of six batters faced and gave up three hits total while hitting a batter and walking a batter.
It was the second blown lead, with first coming in the 6th when Miami strafed Erick Fedde and Jimmy Cordero for five runs to turn a 4-2 deficit into a 7-4 lead.
Jeremy Hellickson started and gave up the first of three home runs in the 2nd and went three innings total with two hits and no walks allowed and four strikeouts.
The meltdown erased Victor Robles’s two-out, two-run single in the top of the 9th that had given Washington an 8-7 lead. Robles was the second DH, taking over for Yan Gomes.
Three other watchlist players came off the bench:
● Carter Kieboom followed Wilmer Difo at SS and went 0-for-1 with a walk.
● Jake Noll subbed for Adrian Sanchez at 2B but was 0-for-2.
● Jose “Orange” Marmolejos took over LF from Andrew Stevenson but extended his 0-for-Spring to 16 AB’s with a flyout in the 9th.
The Nats return to West Palm Beach this afternoon to host the Red Sox. Max Scherzer is scheduled to make his third start for Washington. The game will be on MASN and you can put it on mute and listen the Red Sox via MLB Audio.
It wasn’t just the Marlins, but the Marlins’ scrubs. That’s like getting walked off by the Bsd News Bears. Blowing huge dough on Kimbral might not be the answer, but this group is thinner that a Paris fashion model.
And since even several of the Marlin starters would be considered scrubs on most decent teams . . .
Suero had a reasonable chance to be in the mix for one of the last reliever slots, but this won’t help his chances.
Meanwhile, Fedde has been awful. There’s no other way to put it. At least theoretically, there was a chance he could beat out Hellickson and Ross for the 5th starter slot, but not now. Yet another of the Nats’ highly rated starter prospects seems to have slammed into the AAAA wall.
Bullpens evolve. Let’s see how the winds of March shift into April and May regarding Glover and Miller aches .
What is set up in April rarely looks the same in August
Fedde needs to be situated in one spot such as F troop without the yo- yo up and down spot/ emergency go .
Hard to call Fedde AAAA when he hasn’t even been good at AAA.
I agree with everyone here on Fedde. Awful is the polite word. You almost have to start thinking of not burning his last option and keeping him in Fresno for the whole year.
The yo-yoing has made it worse. Right now you have to think Fedde is maybe the #8 or 9 starting pitcher.
There is always an arm or two discarded off another org. Camp list.
Look at all the arms Texas brought into camp to kick the tires on
Since Fedde is on the 40-man, he has to be “optioned” to go to Fresno, even at the start of the season, even if he’s never called up. The only way for them not to burn his last option would be to keep him on the 25-man roster all season.
If they could just send a 40-man guy to AAA and not call him up, there’d be no problem with guys like Severino who are out of options. But unless there’s a catching conflagration, knocking out two guys ahead of him, Sevy will either have to be DFA’d or traded at the end of camp. If he is DFA’d and passes through waivers, he could then be sent to AAA but would no longer be on the 40-man.
As for Fedde, there’s always been somewhat of a disconnect with him. Even in 2018, some of his peripheral stats were good at all levels (FIP, xFIP, K/9), but his results weren’t. In big-league games he started, the Nats went only 3-8, and he posted a 5.54 ERA and 1.53 WHIP. Those aren’t good, no matter how much xFIP likes you.
Maybe Sevy could bring a service able reliever to push Logan O @ F troop
I watch Fedde, and I think, “I like that breaking ball.” The problem is the hitters seem to think so too.
Haha!
A new betting line in Vegas??
Sleeper 7-8 IP role guy ??
My money on Scott ” Not Aaron” Copeland …