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Benches Clear Before Pirates Slam Dooms the Nats

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9574 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost 6-1 on Wednesday night in Pittsburgh. Mark (Live from PNC Park) & Al recap the hectic bottom of the 7th that saw the benches & bullpens clear shortly before an Oneil Cruz Grand Slam broke the game open. Jorge Lopez was ejected after throwing inside on Andrew McCutchen and that was presumed to be retaliation for Paul DeJong getting hit by a pitch in the face on Tuesday night. (13:10) The Cruz Grand Slam came against Eduardo Salazar who relieved the ejected Lopez. Salazar has had a bad series and his ERA this season is a staggering 7.56. Salazar has options remaining and is a candidate to be demoted in the near future. (17:00) Mitchell Parker had a fourth straight quality start to begin his 2025. The lefty only allowed one run in six innings of work on Wednesday. Parker's ERA is an extremely impressive 1.85 and has been the team's best pitcher so far. (20:10) Davey Martinez confirmed that DJ Herz has undergone Tommy John surgery and is out for the year. Herz was placed on the IL just a few days prior to Opening Day. (23:00) The hosts reset the ever increasing increasing amount of injuries within the organization.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Walter Sports Bar has been recognized by many local publications as one of the best sports bars in Washington, D.C., located across the street from Nationals Park and open year-round.

0:15.2

And now the pitch. Inside to the backstop on the flies. Somehow, McCutche gets down and out of the way on a wild, wild pitch.

0:25.4

And the Pirates have runners on second and third.

0:28.7

They're coming out to check on McCutcheon to see if he was hit by the pitch.

0:32.3

Well, Derek Shelton wants Lopez ejected from the game.

0:36.2

He's thinking this might be retaliation for DeYoung getting hit in the face last night. That's what Shelton is thinking. This would not be the spot to do it, though, in a one-run game, two-run. The umpires are huddling. That's what the pirates want. And now Lopez is talking to McCutcheon, and this is going to get interesting. It's going to empty the dug dugouts here they come with Ruiz pushing Lopez away back to the mound the umpires getting

0:57.8

front of the pirates trying to say stop and the nationals they all meet between home plate

1:03.9

and the pitchers mound now they pitchers come streaking out of the bullpins everybody

1:09.3

from the bullpins is coming well with the caps here

1:12.1

they said that that's not how you do this clearly mccutcheon is steamed and now fam Tommy fams

1:17.2

the one who's hot fam and O'Neill cruz was holding him back pushing him away fam is on the peripheries

1:23.4

pointed yelling at somebody now I'm at rosario talking talking with McCutcheon has his arm around him.

1:29.0

And now Ron Culpus, the crew chief, is talking this over to the other umpires,

1:32.3

and he's he's ejected Lopez.

1:35.0

Cruz has won for three single to right center last time up against Parker, the starter.

1:39.3

And swings and lines one to deep right.

1:40.9

Downline toward the corner.

1:42.2

Going, going gone goodbye.

1:48.5

Six rows deep over the 21-foot wall. It is a grand slam for O'Neill Cruz. It's now the Pirate Six and the Nationals

1:57.2

nothing. And welcome to Natsch, chat, along with Massensports., Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, I'm Al-Galdi, hosted the Al-Galdi podcast. It was a few episodes ago that Mark and I said that the Nats on their on-paper manageable 10-game road trip needed to go at least six and four. The good news is that the Nants on this road trip

2:19.0

still can go 6-4. The bad news is that the Nants, in order to go 6-4 on this road trip, must win

2:24.6

each of the final four games on the road trip. The Nants in this regular season fell to 7 and 11,

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