All of the NBA finals matchups this month between the Celtics and Mavericks will be on at Walter Sports Bar in the Navy Yard district.

Walters is open late, so no closing before the end of the game.

The one-two pitch.

Swaying a ground ball to third.

Since Elle has it, looks at home, has no play.

Now he has to hurry to first, and he gets the out there with Gallo the stretch

so Juan scores on the ground out Freeman holds at second and it's 2-0 Cleveland here's the pitch to David Frye and it's blasted in the air deep left center field way back this one goes

Rosario at the wall looking up, see you later.

Home run number eight for Frye, 6-1 Guardians.

And welcome to Natcht chat for Saturday, June 1st, 24, along with Massensports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Progressive Field in Cleveland.

I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.

And that's on Friday night lost at the American League Central leading Cleveland Guardians 7-1 in game one of a three-game series.

And that's for this regular season fall to 26 and 30. But, you know, it almost feels like the Guardians

deserve a half- win for this victory.

And the Nats' previous opponent, the Atlanta Braves, deserve the other half of the win.

The Braves in Miami Marlins are notorious for hosting getaway night games as opposed to

getaway day games. The Nants 3-1 win at the Braves on Thursday night started at 7.21 p.m. Eastern on Thursday,

didn't end until 9.56 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

And the Nats did not get to their hotel in Cleveland until about 5 a.m. Eastern on Friday.

And so the Nats, who, who of course aren't exactly gangbusters

offensively to begin with, were rather lifeless offensively on Friday night. One run,

a mere four hits, which were a double and three singles, one walk, 11 strikeouts,

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