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All right. Andrew Golden covers the Nats for the Washington Post. The Nats beat the Pirates last night, 3-0.

James Wood with a lead-off home run to open up the game last night.

Jake Irvin, outstanding last night.

Seven innings complete, three hits, no earned runs, no runs, period.

Six strikeouts in just one walk. The Nats are 7 and 10.

A competitive start to their season. Andrew Golden joins us right now at Andrew C. Golden on X on Twitter. So 17 games into it, and it does start to fly by. It's amazing because it seems like

it was opening day just yesterday. But I would say, and I'm curious as to whether or not you would agree

with me, but this has been a much more competitive team to start the season than maybe some of

the experts thought it would be. You say what? Yeah, I think I'd expect that they're supposed to be a little bit more competitive this year.

I think that they have the talent, too, just a matter of chemistry together.

I think what you saw, the Diamondback series, the Dodgers series, is that they can't compete,

and they do have the talent to keep themselves in the mix, but they do have to do that consistently.

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