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Nats Chat

Brooms Brought Out in Cincy

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Nationals pulled off a road sweep for the first time in almost 4 years as they doubled up the Reds 6-3 on Sunday afternoon. Mark & Al open with Davey Martinez's aggressive managing in pushing many of his top bullpen arms for a 3rd straight day. Kyle Finnegan pitched the 9th inning all weekend without giving up a run. (10:45) CJ Abrams and Lane Thomas homered on the opening 2 pitches of the game, the first 2 ever MLB pitches thrown by Cincinnati starter Lyon Richardson. Abrams went 4 for 5 on Sunday; matching a career high from September of last season. (17:30) Jake Alu was back in the lineup at 2B and contributed with a RBI for the fourth straight start. Ildemaro Vargas meanwhile was at 3B all weekend, should that continue to be the case? (31:00) Paolo Espino was released by the organization to make roster space despite being on the IL. We salute Paolo's time in D.C. despite unlikely odds that led to him being part of the starting rotation for an extended time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:17.1

Lion Richardson ready to go into the lineup. His first pitch in the big league swung on it deep to right way back going going and gone goodbye

0:27.2

A tremendous home run by CJ Abrams way up toward the bleachers and out of sight

0:35.0

Bang zoom goes Abrams with his 11th home run of the year, and the Nationals with instant offense in the first inning on the first pitch of the game. Two outs, runner at second. Two won the count to Thomas. The pitch. So we had a line drive hook to left, that's going to be a fair ball and go to the corner. Abrams will trot in and score. Thomas around first on his way to second with an RBI double.

0:57.6

The Nationals now lead at 5 to 3.

0:59.9

Again, Machado to the belt.

1:02.1

Runner dancing off third to pitch.

1:04.5

Strike three called, caught him looking at the fastball.

1:09.0

98 miles an hour with the heater.

1:11.6

And what a job by Andres Machado.

1:14.1

He strands the two runners on the hits against Urban at second and third.

1:18.2

Two on, two out for the Reds.

1:20.7

Here's the set.

1:22.1

The kick and the two-two pitch.

1:23.9

Swung on line to right field.

1:25.4

Thomas going back on the track.

1:27.0

He's there. And he makes the catch.

1:30.0

And bang, zoom a curly Ws in the books.

1:33.5

And so is a three-game series sweep on the road for the Nationals

1:37.6

for the first time since August of 2019.

1:42.5

And welcome to that, Chad, from Monday, Augustth, 2020, along with Mass and Sports.com,

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