The DMV’s MLBbros took a couple of hits to contributing starters on both sides of the Baltimore Washington Parkway Wednesday night.
After Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Jack Flaherty was scratched from his scheduled start against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Washington Nationals appear to have lost right fielder Stone Garrett after apparently breaking his ankle against the New York Yankees.
After Jack Flaherty was scratched, Dean Kremer will start tonight’s game.
Garrett was tracking a fly ball into right field that was ripped by DJ LeMahieu’s leadoff home run in the seventh inning. While tracking the ball Garrett made a leaping attempt in the bottom of the seventh to keep the ball in the park. However, Garrett crashed hard into the right field wall and jammed his left leg sending him to the warning track in excruciating pain.
“You never want to see anybody get hurt,” Nationals Davey Martinez said after Washington’s 9-1 loss to the Associated Press. “When he went down like that my heart dropped. He was out there wincing. He’s pretty hurt. Hopefully he’s ok.”
Garrett fell on his back and laid on the warning track with tears flowing for approximately six minutes in front of the stunned silence that was the Yankee Stadium crowd.
Prayers up for Stone Garrett of the Nationals. Looks like a broken ankle. I feel so bad for him. Only his second year in the bigs. Hopefully its not as bad as it looks . 🙏🏼
The athletic training staffs from both teams collaborated to attach an air cast and Washington teammates gathered on the warning track below where they appeared to be distraught while Garrett was helped to his feet and moved to a cart before leaving the field.
“His at-bats have been good but he’s been playing defense really well,” Nationals manager Davey Martinez said after a day where he received a contract according to the Associated Press. “It stinks for us because he is one of our everyday players out there who is having a really good year”.
Garrett was hitting .269 with nine home runs and 40 RBIs in 89 games for Washington before the injury.
Black Jack Flaherty Sidelined
Earlier on Wednesday in Baltimore Jack Flaherty pulled himself from his scheduled start against the Toronto Blue Jays saying that his arm hadn’t recovered from his last start.
Flaherty was supposed to make his fourth start with the Orioles. He had previously allowed 10 runs over eight innings since his one-run debut in Toronto.
Baltimore is currently using a six-man rotation but even with the extra day of rest Flaherty told the pregame reporters that he was dealing with “general soreness” and his body didn’t recover from his last outing. The Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0.
Charles Nyonga gives props to Josiah Gray, Dominic Smith, Stone Garrett and CJ Abrams. These four MLBbros have the Washington Nationals playing great baseball and feeling very optimistic about a quick turnaround back to playoff form.
Mookie Betts danced his way to the top of the Week 19 #HighFive chart after hitting .444 and driving in six runs over his last seven games. His Dodgers have won 10 games in a row and sit in first place in the National League West as they lock in on another playoff run.
1. Mookie Betts
“I feel really good at the plate,” Betts said in his postgame interview after Los Angeles won their 10th consecutive game Wednesday night.
“I am just trying to do good things for Freddie and Will Smith. Our one through three spots in the lineup are really good, but this stretch of success has taken one through nine.”
August could end up being the best month of the year for Betts, which is perfect timing given that the playoffs are inching closer and closer.
In 15 games this month he is slashing .404/.469./.719 with four home runs, six doubles, 13 RBI and has scored 17 runs leaving him two away from joining Ronald Acuna Jr. and his teammate Freddie Freeman as the only players in the Majors to cross the plate 100 times in 2023.
The biggest highlight for Betts this week came thanks to a fan.
A few weeks ago, a guy told Betts he would name his child after him if he hit a homer in his next at-bat and he did exactly that.
On August 7th, 2023 Francesca Mookie Mancuso was born.
2. Marcus Semien
Marcus Semien has reached base in a Major League leading 23 consecutive games heading into the Rangers weekend series against the Brewers. The 2023 season for Semien has a chance to go down as one of the greatest for a second baseman in Major League history.
This season, he’s carried a career-high 33-game on base streak and a 25-game hitting streak, which was the third longest in Rangers franchise history.
Semien was an All-Star starter, is the clear favorite to win both the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards and is currently on pace to break Charlie Blackmon’s record for the most RBI in a season by a leadoff hitter (103).
Semien is tied with Shohei Ohtani for the highest WAR in the American League highlighted his week with a season-high five RBI performance against the Angels Monday night.
3. Josh Bell
After his historic Bro Bombs got him in last weeks #HighFive Josh Bell has continued to terrorize pitchers in his new threads.
On Monday, Bell became the 12th Marlin in franchise history when he hit one of the three back-to-back-to-back homers off of Dusty Baker’s Astros.
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Over his last seven games (before adding a three RBI night against the Red Sox on Thursday) Stone is slashing .391/.464./.739 with two home runs, eight RBI and has drawn four walks.
5. Cedric “The Entertainer” Mullins
Cedric “The Entertainer” Mullins put on an unforgettable show in Seattle Sunday afternoon.
With his Orioles up one in the bottom of the ninth and one out, Mullins made what might be the catch of the year, robbing Ty France of a game-tying home run.
After the Mariners tied the game with two-outs, Mullins came to bat in extras with a runner on third and proceeded to blast a go-ahead game-winning Bro Bomb over the right field wall, his 10th of the year.
Mullins’ Orioles will head into the weekend holding the best record in the American League ahead of their quick trip to the Bay to take on Lawrence Butler and the Oakland A’s.
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