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Bryan Reynolds watched Washington Nationals rookie pitcher Jackson Rutledge try to gather himself after taking a throw off the back of his head from a teammate and wondered if a little baseball justice was about to be served. Rutledge had tried to make himself as small as possible — no easy task at 6-foot-8 — when catcher Drew Millas fired the ball toward second base in an effort to throw out Pittsburgh's Ji Hwan Bae with one out in the bottom of the fourth inning on Wednesday night. Instead, it caromed off the back of Rutledge's red cap and rolled into right field while Bae raced to third.
PITTSBURGH Manager Dave Martinez thought back to 2019 when he met a 20-year-old Jackson Rutledge, who had been selected 17th overall by the Nationals in the MLB Draft, for the first time.
“I told him, ‘Your job now is to go down and knock the door down, and next
Austin Riley homered and drove in three runs as the Atlanta Braves defeated the host Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 on Wednesday to clinch their sixth straight National League East crown.