Call Homers off of Corbin in Speedy Shutout Victory

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Nats blanked the visiting Rangers 2-0 on Friday night in the quickest game in stadium history. Mark & Al begin with a familiar name as Patrick Corbin returned to D.C. and only allowed a pair of runs in eight innings of work. Corbin needed just 89 pitches and the last time he tossed eight innings was May 4th, 2022 in Colorado. (4:15) The official scorer determined the game length as 1 hour, 50 minutes and Mark feels that it should be one minute shorter. The official start time was 6:45PM and Mark says the final out came at 8:34PM. The official time ties the fastest game in franchise history as opposed to it being the stand-alone record. (14:35) Jacob Young singled in his return to the lineup and Daylen Lile was sent back to AAA to make roster space. Lile hit .194 in 31 at-bats in his brief stint in Washington. (18:20) Michael Soroka ended his outing well unlike previous ones as he struck out seven Rangers in six scoreless innings of work. (22:45) Brad Lord tossed another scoreless inning in a high leverage spot in the top of the 7th. Kyle Finnegan notched his 18th save of the season; which is tied for the 2nd most in all of MLB. (25:40) An update on Josiah Gray, who had surgery last summer. Gray only made two starts season and his last appearance on the mound came on April 4th, 2024. (31:00) Arizona Ace Corbin Burnes will need "Tommy John" surgery after injuring his elbow last weekend vs. the Nats. Burnes is in his first year of a six year/ $210 Million contract.

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0:00.0	Join Walters this Sunday night at 6 p.m. for a DC Defender Conference Championship Watch Party,
0:06.5	as they take on the only pro football team in St. Louis.
0:13.7	Two balls, two strikes, two outs, two on, one-nothing nationals.
0:19.2	Soroka holds. Here he comes. Swinging a fly ball right field.
0:22.6	Hassel is there.
0:23.6	Moving in on it.
0:24.6	He will make the catch and the inning is over.
0:27.6	Soroka survives his first spot of the trouble.
0:30.6	Six scoreless in the books for the Nationals right-hander.
0:33.6	The left-hander winds, kicks, throws.
0:36.6	And a swing at a long drive. Left
0:38.2	center field for call, racing back Langford, to the track, to the wall, and there it goes.
0:44.3	Alex Call's first homer of the season, drops down to the Rangers bullpen. And the Nats have a key
0:50.2	insurance run and lead it two to nothing. Alex Call's been waiting for that first home run and he
0:56.0	gets it in his first big league game as a designated hitter. And welcome to Nats chat, along with
1:02.6	massensports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. Amalgaldi, hosted the Al-Galdi
1:08.2	podcast. My plea to the Nats on the last installment of the podcast was for them not to get fettied, not to get worked by a former NAD starting pitcher, as was the case about a month ago. When they had a 10-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at National's Park on a Friday evening, May 9th got shut out by Eric Fetty. He in that game tossed a six-hit shutout with eight
1:27.7	strikeouts versus no walks. Well, the Nats on this most recent Friday evening at National's
1:32.7	Park did struggle against another former Natt starting pitcher, this time Patrick Corbyn. He allowed
1:38.6	two runs in eight innings continuing his shockingly good season. But the Nats got a very good starting
1:46.1	pitching performance of their own, and the Nats won the game. A two-nothing win over the Texas
1:51.3	Rangers at Nationals Park on Friday evening in a game that lasted for just one hour and 50 minutes
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