Mark Reynolds homered twice and drove in a career-high 10 runs
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beat the Miami Marlins 18-4 on Saturday night.
Washington has won three straight and scored a combined 35 runs since calling a players-only meeting on Wednesday after falling under .500 for the first time
since May 2.
Reynolds (5 for 5) tied his career high for hits and equaled the Nationals’ RBI record.
Reynolds hit a two-run homer in the second inning into the same visitors’ bullpen where his walk-off homer landed on Friday. He followed that up with an
RBI double in the second, a two-run single in the fifth, a three-run homer in
the sixth, and a two-run single in the seventh.
Washington, which has won 14 straight against Miami, broke it open by batting around the order and scoring a season-best seven runs in the fifth inning.
Scherzer (11-5), who was 0-4 in his previous five starts, pitched seven innings, allowing four runs on four hits – three of which were home runs. The
Nationals had been shut out in three of Scherzer’s previous five starts.
Miami starter Wei-Yin Chen (2-6) lasted 4 1/3 innings, allowing seven runs on seven hits.
Bryce Harper had three hits and an intentional walk.
Starlin Castro and J.T. Realmuto hit the first back-to-back home runs of the season for the Marlins in the fourth inning. Yadiel Rivera hit his first homer
of the season in the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: OF Brian Anderson was out of the lineup for the first time this season. After playing in Miami’s first 90 games
Cheap Baker Mayfield Jersey , manager Don Mattingly said it was time for a breather. . Mattingly said OF Lewis Brinson (right hip) is still sore and
”doing a little treatment, and that’s all.”
Nationals: Manager Dave Martinez said that RHP Stephen Strasburg (shoulder inflammation) is scheduled to go on a rehab assignment Tuesday with the goal of
throwing 50-60 pitches. . OF Victor Robles (hyperextended left elbow) and RHP
Koda Glover (right shoulder tendinitis) both played in a Gulf Coast League game
Friday. Martinez said Glover is ”progressing well” but that he wouldn’t be
pitching in back-to-back games. . C Matt Wieters (left hamstring strain) went 1
for 4 in a rehab start with Double-A Harrisburg and is expected to play again on
Sunday before being re-evaluated.
UP NEXT
Marlins: Rookie RHP Trevor Richards (2-5, 5.26 ERA) makes his first start against the Nationals in the series finale.
Nationals: RHP Tanner Roark (3-10, 4.60 ERA) is looking for his first win since June 6. Roark is 5-8 with a 3.99 ERA in 22 games against the
Marlins.
Christian Scotland-Williamson looks the part.Standing on the practice field with the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the rookie tight end blends in seamlessly. The 25-year-old is tall (6-foot-9), big
(275 pounds) and athletic.
Then Scotland-Williamson opens his mouth. A polite British accent comes out, the kind that would go unnoticed on a soccer pitch, but on a field crammed with
dozens of players practically weaned on America’s Game, it raises eyebrows. Lots
of eyebrows.
Scotland-Williamson gets it. The former rugby player who was raised in the London suburbs understands he’s a bit of a curiosity as a member of the second
graduating class of the NFL’s International Player Pathway program. At the heart
of it all, however, Scotland-Williamson figures the only thing separating him
from his teammates is experience. Not passion. Not athleticism. And certainly
not drive.
”It’s one of those things where when I was younger
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earlier age,” Scotland-Williamson said. ”But being a British kid, it’s not at
your doorstep, so it’s quite hard.”
So Scotland-Williamson opted for rugby. He turned professional at 20 and spent four seasons with the Worcester Warriors of the English Premiership, the
top rugby division in the United Kingdom. Then cameras caught him making a
monster tackle in a game last spring and his phone rang, with folks wondering if
he’d like to come to the U.S. and join the IPP.
Started in 2017, the IPP selects a handful of athletes from other countries to come to the U.S. to learn the finer points of pro football. If they make it
through a four-month boot camp at IMG Academy in Florida, they can be assigned
to an NFL club, where they will spend a season on the practice squad to prove
themselves in what amounts to one of the most unusual internships on the
planet.
Though Scotland-Williamson’s rugby career appeared on the rise, the prospect of heading overseas was simply too tantalizing to pass up.
”It’s kind of like that movie `Inception,’ once one plants that seed
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a bar with your mates and think, `Oh no, what if I could have done this but
didn’t.’ So that’s why I’m here really.”
The initial IPP graduation class last spring included three athletes from the United Kingdom and another from Germany. The current group includes
Scotland-Williamson and Australian rugby player Jordan Mailata, who impressed
the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles so much they used a seventh-round
draft pick on him to make sure he didn’t end up somewhere else.
Scotland-Williamson is not quite as polished. He understood little about the game outside of what he occasionally saw on TV when he arrived in Florida in
January. The highly regimented day started with a 6 a.m. walkthrough and often
lasted until a film session at a coach’s house that wouldn’t wrap up until
around 9:30 p.m.
”We learned a hell of a lot in a short amount of time,” Scotland-Williamson said.
Just not everything. Though he’s studied up on the 100-plus page NFL rule book, he admits he’s still a little fuzzy on details in some spots. And while
the film work certainly helps, it’s quite a bit different when you have your
helmet on standing in an offensive huddle listening to a quarterback bark out a
play that has very specific instructions. Compared to rugby’s more free-flowing
style, it’s a lot to take in.
The evidence can be found on the practice field. While Scotland-Williamson thinks he’s handling his business just fine as a blocker, route running is
another matter. The player who never donned so much as a football helmet until
rookie minicamp earlier this month practically staples himself to tight ends
coach James Daniel, hoping to soak up as much as he can as fast as he can.
Yet Scotland-Williamson understands he can’t rush things. That’s why he’s grateful the opportunity didn’t arise until his mid-20s. Spending four years as
a professional rugby player taught him how to deal with bumps in the road.
”I have a better perspective
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You have to have quite thick skin, so that’s helped.”
So does a bit of a thick head. When he told his parents he was putting his rugby career on hold to give football a try, his father balked.
”I had to give him a massive sales pitch,” Scotland-Williamson said.
That included one very important point: This wasn’t a lark or a publicity stunt or fulfilling some bit of wanderlust. This was real.
”I don’t think you go into this half-hearted,” he said. ”You want it all. You want to make the 53 (man roster). You want to go to Super Bowls. You want to end
up being the first international player to make it big. That’s the biggest
thing, not only to represent myself, but it means a lot for the international
players who were born outside of America who don’t think they have a
chance.”
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