Friday’s game did not start-off the way you pencil it up. There was not the normal pleasantries that you would expect in a workplace. If a baseball dugout was a typical workplace, H.R. would get an urgent call, and MacKenzie Gore would probably be fired for fighting. Dugouts allow spitting on the workplace floor, and cursing is a norm — and they draw the line there to not allow fighting or gambling — two no-no’s. Actually nothing is normal in that concrete alcove. Every work day is unpredictable.
Third baseman Nick Senzel did not know the speed of the opposing catcher and lollipopped a throw to first base with two outs — and Nick Fortes beat the throw to score a run — the only run that the Miami Marlins would score in that game. The Washington Nationals would win 8-1, but Gore did not know it would turn into a laugher. After that throw by Senzel, there was a little physicality in the Nats’ dugout between Gore and Senzel. That got the juices flowing, and the Nats woke up, and never looked back after scoring 7-runs the next inning.
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