Nats Beat Team Venezuela; Second Cuts
With a two-spot in the 1st and three in the 6th, the Nats cruised past Team Venezuela on Wednesday night, 5-1.
Foster Griffin made his Washington debut with two hits and a walk allowed over two scoreless innings, which “earned” him the win. He threw 29 pitches, 15 for strikes.
Three watchlist players came off the bench:
- Cayden Wallace subbed for Nasim Nuñez at 2B and played the last three innings on defense, but did not get an at-bat.
- Phillip Glasser replaced James Wood in LF and grounded out in the 7th.
- Yoyo Morales followed Brady House at 3B and was caught looking to end the 8th.
The Nats return to Grapefruit League action this afternoon against the Mets. Miles Mikolas is expected to make his second appearance, opposed by Justin Hagenman. The will be broadcast on both Nats.tv (Free Game of the Day!) and MLB Audio.
Yesterday afternoon, the Nats reassigned five more guys to minor-league camp:
● OF Warming Bernabel
● IF/OF Phillip Glasser
● 3B/2B Cayden Wallace
● OF Andrew Pinckney
● LHP Shinnosuke Ogasawara
Per Mark Zuckerman (Nats Journal) that leaves 55 players in the MLB camp.
two other watchlisters, Daniel Hernandez and Brayan Cortesia got ABs for team Venezuela, grounding out and striking out respectively. as natives it must have been a tremendous thrill being in the dugout with players who were no doubt among their heroes. good for them!!
in retrospect, I should have referred to them as native-born Venezuelans.
Lots of Nats players ended up in the game for Venezuela.
Though funnily enough not the Venezuelan with the 3 run HR.