Padres, who had scored 23 runs in the previous two games, can't score a single run in support of Matt Waldron, who was making his big-league debut
The Padres welcomed Matt Waldron to the major leagues by treating him as they have so many of their starting pitchers.They lost 2-0 to the Nationals Saturday at Petco Park, not because their young pitcher didn’t do well.That’s all.They had four hits against a young starter and then went meekly into the night against three members of the National League’s worst bullpen.
Numbers for a pitcher in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, where most ballparks are located in the desert and mountains and the average ERA is 6.00 this season, generally do not tell a full story. The Nationals missed on just one of their seven swings on the knuckleball, but they did not get a hit off it. Waldron finished three of his final six outs with the pitch.Padres left fielder Juan Soto takes a ball against the Nationals during the first inning of Saturday’s game.
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