A Loss in Boston but Impressive Outing by Irvin

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Nats lost 4-2 in Boston on Saturday afternoon to return to .500 through 38 games. Al begins with Davey Martinez's decision to pitch Robert Garcia for the entirety of the bottom 8th as a tied game became 4-2 before the end of the frame. (05:00) Jake Irvin lasted a career high seven innings and exited the game when it was tied 2-2. Irvin struck out six and threw 103 pitches in the outing. Al notes how big it is that it seems that Irvin can be a long term rotation piece as it shows the improvement in the franchise's player development. (09:30) How much credit should we give Sean Doolittle for the pitching staff's performance thus far? He was hired in the off season as a "Pitching strategist". (14:00) The offense had just two solo homers and only once had a runner in scoring position. Eddie Rosario homered for the third time in May and he is hitting .409 this month after hitting .053 in April. (20:00) James Wood homered twice in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday. Wood has seven homers on the season and five of them have come this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Walter Sports Bar in Navy Yard offers $5 happy hour in both snacks and drinks.
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0:13.2	Now a payoff pitch coming, swinging a high fly ball, left field deep.
0:17.6	O'Neill back.
0:18.7	Now we're going to play a caram if there is one and this one
0:22.4	bounces off the wall it is all run and hit the top of the walls out of play the
0:27.9	signal by the third base up by our Chris Conroy and so bang zoom Eddie Rosario
0:33.5	with his fourth home run of the year his third home run in his last six games.
0:39.3	And the Nationals are back in front here with an opposite field.
0:43.3	Leadoff home run down the left field line for Eddie Rosario.
0:47.3	RBI number eight, it's the Nationals two and the Red Sox won.
0:51.3	The O2 pitch, swinging a ground ball toward the middle ranging Garcia. He circles it, He has it. He throws to first, and it's in time to get Hamilton. And that's seven in the big leagues for the first time for Jake Irvin as he retires the final seven batters that he faced. Devers with that open stance. Garcia sets, kicks, delivers, and the pitch swung on line to left field Rosario back it's
1:12.1	gonna be over his head and the Red Sox are gonna take the lead ref Snyder has scored
1:17.2	O'Neal is breaking for the plate he will score on an opposite field to run double for
1:23.5	Raphael Devers and the Red Sox are in front for the first time in this game.
1:29.2	Played the percentages going left on left, did not work out, eighth double of the year for Devers.
1:34.6	He drops in his 13th and 14th runs of the year.
1:37.9	And the Red Sox lead by the score 4 to 2.
1:42.5	And welcome to Nat's Chat for Sunday, May 12th, 2004. What is Mother's Day,
1:49.0	2004, a happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi
1:55.6	podcast. Mark Zuckerman is off for this installment of the podcast. Coming up later in the show, a James Wood update.
2:04.6	The Nats number one prospect is going nuclear at AAA Rochester. You know, the Nats may have
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