Join us at Walters on Friday, October 4th for our end-of-season podcast party.

Evening is scheduled from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.

And the pitch swung on it high in the air to left field.

Verdugo going back. Still back to the warning track to the wall.

And it is gone.

Goodbye.

Bang!

Soon goes Dylan Cruz with a majestic soaring fly ball that just kept on going.

Into the back of the Yankees bullpen and left center field.

A game leadoff, home run, his first of the major leagues for Dylan Cruz.

He comes set in the pitch and Wood a half swing and a basehead through the hole in the left field.

In comes Nunez to score on a half swing.

RBI single in the left for Wood, who's two for two. Here's the pitch. Cruz hits a line drive. Deep left center field toward the gap. Way back it goes, and it's one hop off the base of the wall. Young will score. Nunez to third. The throw in the second is handled behind the back by LaMayhew. He's going to throw to third, and Nunez is out overrunning the bag. A run does score. Nationals lead five to one on the cruise double. And welcome to Natchchat for Thursday, August 29th, 2004, along with Mass and Sports.com,

Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.

Did we just see the Nationals' best series of the season? The Nats on Wednesday evening beat

the American League leading New York Yankees 5-2 at Nationals Park to win the series two games to

one. I suppose that the Nats losing game one prevents this

from being the Nats best series of the season. But the Nats wins over the final two games

of this series were so good in so many ways. But the principal reason for those wins being so good,

Dylan Cruz. He on Wednesday evening and just his third Major League regular season game was

terrific. Two for four, solo homer, RBI double. Nats win. They for this regular season now

61 and 73. A lot of good vibes at Nationals Park over these last two nights. This installment

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