MacKenzie Gore has shown flashes that he could be a front-line starting pitcher. He’s doing so while wearing No. 1 on his jersey, the first Nats pitcher to wear a single-digit number. The Nats host the Padres, who traded Gore last season, at 7:05 p.m.
“Four?” he guessed. The answer is six. Gore must not have had posters of Matt Young , Jack Jenkins or Ed Gallagher on the wall in his childhood bedroom.
The other three pitchers: Gore, Luis Patiño and Shun Yamaguchi . Gore, a 24-year-old lefty, is the first Nationals pitcher to wear any single-digit number. He’s already the first major league pitcher to wear No. 1 in more than one season. And if his career stays on its current track — key part of Washington’s rebuild, potential front-line starter — he will wear it for a long time.Gore wore the number when he debuted for the San Diego Padres in April 2022.
Now, three pitchers wear No. 0: Adam Ottavino for the New York Mets, Marcus Stroman for the Chicago Cubs and Domingo Germán for the Yankees. Blake Snell, Gore’s former teammate with the Padres, wears No. 4. Righty Alek Manoah wears No. 6 for the Toronto Blue Jays. Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Julio Urías sports No. 7, as does Mariners lefty Marco Gonzales.
And then there’s Gore with No. 1 for the Nationals, maybe hoping it matches his spot in future rotations. Call it the numbers version of letting the kids play. “To each his own,” said Martinez, who wore No. 1 as outfielder with the Expos, San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers. “Numbers are just numbers. If you like No. 1, wear No. 1, if you’re a pitcher, a catcher. … I don’t know MacKenzie other than him wearing No. 1. He loves it. It’s good.”
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