Bell's Pinch-Hit Homer Stuns Wrigley in Comeback Win

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Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Nats trailed the Cubs 3-1 entering the 9th inning, but a couple of homers later, they emerged victorious by a score of 6-3 Sunday afternoon in Chicago. Mark (From Wrigley Field) & Tim recap the Nationals 5th win in the past six games to take their second straight series. (03:00) Josh Bell's gave Washington the lead for good with a pinch-hit 3-run home run in the 9th. Bell was given was the day off, but hit for Riley Adams in the 3rd spot in the order. Robert Hassell III began the rally with a solo homer and the Nats ended up scoring five runs in the final frame. (05:45) Daylen Lile singled, tripled, and scored a pair of runs in the win. Lile impressed the Chicago crowd by tripling three times over the weekend and his OPS is now up to .770 in his rookie season. (08:15) Brady House started all weekend at 3B and came through on Sunday with a pair of sacrifice flies. Paul DeJong meanwhile did not play at all in the series. (14:00) Andrew Alvarez lasted just under five innings in his 2nd career start. The lefty made two starts this past week and is expected to take the mound this upcoming Friday vs. Pittsburgh. (17:45) The bullpen came through again and only allowed one run in just over four innings of work. Clayton Beeter recorded the first four outs and he has been a success for Washington since they acquired him in the Amed Rosario trade with the Yankees in late July. (20:30) The Cubs used lefty Drew Pomeranz as an Opener on Sunday in the top of the 1st. Will the Nats give this a shot this month in a different game? (23:10) Josiah Gray made his rehab stint of the season with High-A Wilmington on Sunday. Gray lasted just over an inning and threw 34 pitches for the Blue Rocks.

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0:00.0	Make Walters your spot for this NFL season.
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0:11.0	Here's the pitch to Carson Kelly drilled to deep left field.
0:17.0	This one way out of here.
0:19.0	Khan goodbye. His second home run of the day and Carson Kelly has given the
0:26.9	Cubs a cushion a two-run league. Palencia kicks and he fires and hassles drives it in the ear to left
0:32.5	center field this is deep this is way, and this ball is gone. Goodbye.
0:42.7	Into the first row of the bleachers in left center, just to the left of the 3168 foot marker.
0:45.5	It's already been thrown back out onto the field.
0:50.4	Robert Hassel III has his third home run of the year, and his 15th run batted in,
0:52.3	brings the Nationals to within a run.
1:12.6	A leadoff Homer in the ninth inning. And now the top of the order coming up. It's the Cubs three and the Nationals two. Here's the set. The pitch. Swang and a high fly ball to deep left center field. Way back onto the warning track. Alcunter and leaps. He can't get it. It's in the basket. It's over the's over the fence it's gone goodbye it's a pinch hit three run home run for Josh Bell bang zoom goes Bell with a blast a soaring high
1:23.5	fly ball to the air for a long time at a hundred miles an hour off his bat. And the Nationals with a
1:30.8	four-run top of the ninth inning, two home runs of Palencia. It's now the Nationals five
1:37.5	and the Cubs three. Hello and welcome. Don't be alarmed. You are listening to the correct
1:43.6	podcast. I'm Tim Schovers in for Al Galdi, who is merely receiving a well-deserved and overdue day off from the Nats chat podcast. I will have the pleasure of sharing with you how the Nats stage is dramatic. Ninth inning comeback win.
1:58.2	Pass the Cubs on Sunday afternoon in Chicago, but for those like Al who were thrilled to see
2:03.0	the commanders 21-6 week one victory over the New York football giants, the Al-Galdi podcast
2:08.8	has you covered for that all football season long.
2:12.6	But to baseball, we bring in Mark Zirkeman live from Wrigley Field on the north side of Chicago to talk about
2:19.1	the National's fifth win in the past six games, a heck of a start to September. Mark, it's a
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