In his media schedule at 2023's Wintertime Meetings early last month, Washington Nationals' manager Davey Martinez was asked if he could remember a favorite story of a time he played an inkling, violated the book, and had it repay?" I'll tell you what was crazy, you individuals probably thought I was insane, but when we strolled [Max Muncy and we kind of walked the winning run Nationals Shorts. " - Davey Martinez" Did you watch the Globe Collection in 2019?" Martinez said with a laugh, pointing to the last stretch of the unlikely run from 19-31 to the very first Globe Collection championship for a D. C-based group because 1924. "Yeah, I imply, I can't just return and name one," he claimed, declining at very first to pat himself on the back. "There was a whole lot of hunches. "" I'll tell you what was crazy, you men most likely believed I was insane, yet when we strolled [Max Muncy and we kind of strolled the winning run," Martinez said, describing Video game 2 back in the '19 'd he 'd had better Daniel Hudson provide a deliberate walk to the LA Dodgers' slugger, with a runner on 2nd and one out in all-time low of the ninth inning with a 4-2 lead in Chavez Ravine. Image by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Muncy struck a beast crowning achievement off of reducer Sean Doolittle in the bottom of the seventh, to make it a 3-2 video game before the Nationals racked up an insurance policy operate on an RBI solitary in the top of the 8th by Asdrbal Cabrera). That evening, Martinez told press reporters placing the possible connecting run on base, and bringing the possible winning go to the plate as he did, was actually an easy decision. " There's truly very little to think of," he described. "There's actually not much to consider," he described. "Muncy tossed-- Muncy hit a sphere 400 feet versus Doo. We simply really did not want that to occur. " - Martinez" Muncy tossed-- Muncy struck a ball 400 feet versus Doo. We simply didn't desire that to happen. [Muncy is a heater player. We understand that. Hudson tosses fastballs. "So I suched as the other competition. " The "various other match" was Hudson vs Dodgers' catcher Will Smith, who attracted a four-pitch walk to load the bases for Corey Seager, that was 0 for 3 with 2 Ks to that point in the video game, and 1 for 7 to that point in the collection, and 0 for 4/1 for 8 after he set out to finish their eight-pitch 's club held on for the win in Video game 2, night things up in the ideal of five collection they at some point won with a come-from-behind win in Game 5 in Los Angeles. After that it was 4 straight straight over St. Louis, and a series gain Houston in the Loss the manager claimed, he played a great deal of suspicions that season. Yet the one he played in the 2nd video game of the NLDS was the first ahead to mind. " I was not going to allow that person [Muncy defeat us again," Martinez claimed. "So it worked out. "