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Nats Chat

Abrams Ends April on a High Note

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Nats won another road series after rallying for a 5-4 victory over the Mets on Thursday afternoon. Mark (From Citi Field) & Al open with CJ Abrams, who crushed a 2-run HR in the top of the 8th to put the Nationals up for good. Abrams' OPS is up to .961; which is 5th best in the NL (Ildemaro Vargas has the lead believe it or not). (13:15) Sloppy base running in the top of the 9th; which cost the team chance at insurance runs. (15:45) James Wood made two excellent defensive plays in RF. (20:00) Miles Mikolas pitched competitively and ultimately allowed three runs in four innings of work. Mikolas struck out three Mets and his ERA currently sits at 8.23. (23:00) The bullpen only gave up one run the entire series. Gus Varland notched a four out Save, his 3rd of the year. (25:35) After a 4-2 road trip, the Nationals return for six game home stand on Friday. This weekend they host Milwaukee, who they swept last month on the road. Minnesota comes to town on Tuesday for a three game series on South Capitol Street. Washington will enter May at a surprising 15-17. (28:00) The Juan Soto trade and its after effects seemed to be in the background this series more than past meetings against Washington.

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0:00.0

Walters is open until 2 a.m., making it a great spot to watch the NBA playoffs.

0:06.1

Walter's sports bar and restaurant is located just across the street from Nationals Park.

0:14.0

And now the one-two, breaking ball, broken bat loper to left. That's a base head.

0:19.8

Garcia jogs in from third to score

0:22.2

CJ Abrams trades a bat for a base hit and his 24th run

0:26.6

batting into the year and it's now the nationals three

0:29.4

and the Mets nothing and the first pitch swung online right

0:32.8

center field toward the gap and it's going to be in for extra

0:35.8

bases to the wall rounding third Soto he score easily. Viantos into second with a double. And for the first time today, the Mets have the lead. It's New York four in Washington three with one out here in the bottom of the sixth. Nationals would love for Abrams to get one up in the air and carry out. Mets lead at 4-3 in the 8th. The 2-1 pitch. So we had a long drive, right center field. Going back on it, his bench to the wall, he leaps and it's gone. It's into the Nationals' bullpen, and they take the lead, 5 to 4. C.J. Abrams delivers home run, or eight.

1:15.4

And the Nationals have turned this game around against Weaver here in the top of the eighth inning.

1:19.0

What a blast for Abrams as Nationals back in front.

1:19.9

It's fun.

1:25.3

I looked at the dugout and pointed to them, got them all hyped, and finished it off.

1:27.1

And welcome to Nat's Chat.

1:45.0

I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. I'm joined by Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com. He is at City Field where the Nats just won two out of three games at the New York Mets, a 5-4 win at the Mets on Thursday afternoon to wrap up a four-and-two road trip. The Nats now have won four of their last five games. The Nats now are through about a fifth of their 2026 regular season, 32 games down,

1:51.6

130 to go. The record is 15 and 17. That works out to 76 and 86 over the 162. All things considered, not bad for a team in season number one

2:05.5

of a restarted rebuild. The 15 and 17 is comprised of the Nats being 12 and 7 on the road versus

2:12.4

3 and 10 at home. The Mets, by the way, they now are, and M will be worst 10 and 21. Good to have you

2:18.9

with us. You can hit us up on X at Nats underscore chat. You can find us on Blue Sky at Natschat

2:24.0

podcast. You can email us Nats chat podcast at gmail.com. We have a website you could check out

2:29.4

to Natchchatpodcast.com at which you can purchase a Natch Chat podcast t-shirt. So plenty of heroes for the

2:35.8

Nats in this game on Thursday afternoon. What was another crazy game for the Nats, they blew a 3-0

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