Dave Martinez

Jeltz is giving chase, so is Schmitty, and nobody can get there.

Not high enough to allow the fielders to move into position, and the count is one ball and two strikes on Dave Martinez.

The late Chicago lineup change was due to the fact that, uh, Leon Durham has come down with a case of flu.

They don't think it's anything serious, but he is being held out of tonight's lineup, and you probably realize that Andre "The Hawk" Dawson is not in there tonight, the league's top home run and RBI man.

He is simply getting a night off, and probably will get in there sooner or later.

Dave Martinez hails from Manhattan.

He's only 22.

Sharing center field now with Bob Dernier.

Durham, Davis, Moreland, Dunstan.

David Martinez, who is hitting well, but Gene Michael prefers to keep him in the eighth spot rather than elevating him and putting any additional pressure on him.

Good defensive outfielder.

And Ed Lynch, of course, the pitcher.

He said, teams think it's chic to release Mickey Mailer.

And he was released about 10 or 11 times from different organizations.

Young center fielder David Martinez takes ball one inside.

He went to the Ivy in dead center to make a nice running over-the-shoulder catch on a drive hit by Deion James here yesterday.

Bob Engel who was behind the plate last night

First base, Dave Martinez

... down the line in right

Third, Mike Torrez

There's names you can throw out there.

Is it really going to be Alex Cora? nationals guy dave martinez but that's the thing you've heard so much from like definitively from yes the bob nightingales of the world but still that alex cora not only is like the philly's top choice is their choice and they already offered him the job before they even fired rob thompson they offered him the job yeah so It's kind of tough to imagine anybody other than him coming here with the obvious connection being that Dombrowski and Cora won a World Series together in Boston.

So until that evaporates or you see even one crack in that being the case, I'm kind of just not even considering anyone else is going to be the manager.

Now, does that mean I'm excited about Alex Cora? Yeah.

He said, "The thing is, the problem is that your instinct takes over when you're at bat.

When you swing the ball, when you swing the bat and hit the ball, your first instinct is to explode out of the box." He said, "Dave Martinez, I'm telling you, be calm, walk out of the box." He said, "That's how I re-appropriated it." He said, "I consider myself very fortunate to have gotten two at-bats to play on this leg." But the Yankees will certainly miss him tonight and tomorrow.

The three-two strike three inside corner.

Dylan James now looking.

You have got yourselves a manager who I think is the exact need for what the Nationals are.

We talked about this a lot going into after the Nationals fired Davey Martinez about a year and a half ago.

The number one knock on Davey was he was not able to adjust to the analytic ball era, and he just wasn't really an analytical forward thinker, and the coaching staff and the people that he surrounded himself with were not analytical thinkers.

When you hire a 33-year-old, and which the Nationals did last off-season, coming from the Tampa Bay Rays, someone who has worked in a front office, who has been a minor league manager, something was very specific there.

Like, Butera, in my opinion, this is one of the best moves that the Nationals have made outside of hiring Paul Toboni.

I think Paul Toboni, it all starts at the top there, but then that second hire of getting your manager right is a massive, massive deal.

And also, I just think that when Davey Martinez was here, again, I love Davey Martinez, brought a World Series here.

He was an awesome manager when he had the tools to work with.