Nationals manager Davey Johnson expressed concern about the status of starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg following Monday's start against the Braves. Strasburg, who took his first no-decision of the season, labored through forearm tightness.
"He always has a tendency to shake his right arm, and him being wild, he doesn't look right to me," Johnson said, per MLB.com. "He's still throwing the ball real hard, but I told him when I went out in the sixth, 'Get them out this inning, we'll get you out of there and we'll get you a win.' I think he was in there with the doctor, he's got a little tightness, I think, in his forearm. So they're going to put him on some medication. That was a bad thing in the game. He was throwing good but his command was way off, so I knew something was off on him."
Strasburg said afterward he was fine and seemed to downplay the arm issue.
"I smoked the umpire in the first AB. You don't want to go out there and do that," Strasburg said. "I was pulling the ball. I can't really say why I'm having a tough time right now in the first inning, but I am. I just have to keep grinding and figure it out."