Luis García had a six-hit night — including two doubles in the sixth inning, a franchise first — as the Nationals held off the Kansas City Royals for a 12-10 win.
The bullpen was short after Hunter Harvey and Kyle Finnegan each pitched Wednesday and Thursday. And before Kuhl started his very long warm-up, Patrick Corbin couldn’t quite give the Nationals seven innings against the Royals; Erasmo Ramírez couldn’t record an out behind Corbin; and Carl Edwards Jr. couldn’t finish the seventheighth, when Kansas City loaded the bases with one out and Salvador Perez and Bobby Witt Jr. coming up.
on Thursday. Martinez also wanted to stay away from Mason Thompson, who briefly warmed in the eighth, meaning only three of eight relievers were available without restrictions. That’s why Martinez pushed Corbin to a season-high 108 pitches, trying to squeeze a seventh inning out of him. And why, while Edwards stumbled in the eighth, coaches informed Kuhl that he had Perez, the fifth batter of the inning, no matter what. Martinez just didn’t expect that to come with the bases juiced.
No one warmed in the bullpen while the Nationals batted in the top of the ninth. The last three outs, like the two tenuous outs before them, belonged to Kuhl.“That was pretty impressive for him to do that,” Corbin said. “To come in with some guys on base, get out of a jam there, go on the dugout and sit down. With the game was going, it was kind of strange, it seemed like no lead was safe. So for him to go out there and go one-two-three in the ninth was huge.
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