Finnegan Blows the Rubber Match

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Nats came one out shy of winning the opening series of the season as they lost 6-5 on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati. Mark (Live from Cincy) & Al recap the loss where a 5-3 lead with two outs in the 9th quickly turned into a Reds walk-off HR given up by Kyle Finnegan. (07:30) Trey Lipscomb homered in just his 2nd career game and continues to impress at 3B. (11:00) CJ Abrams also homered on Sunday, but Al takes issue with a decision for him to attempt a sacrifice bunt despite it working out. (20:00) Jake Irvin allowed 3 runs in 5 IP in his first start of the season. This leads to a discussion of what to expect from the rotation in early April. (25:00) The weather forecast this week in D.C. is not great for Opening Day and Monday could potentially be a long one at the ballpark if Tuesday's forecast does not improve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Walters will be open at 10 a.m. for opening day on Monday, well ahead of the 405 start against the Pirates.
0:07.0	Plus make Walters your spot to watch the NCAA tournament if you're down in Navy Yard.
0:13.5	Comes the one-two pitch.
0:15.4	Sween a blast to right center field and deep.
0:17.5	Benson going back to the warning track, to the wall.
0:20.3	He leaps, and he did not
0:23.9	catch it it's gone it's a home run for Lipscomb Trey Lipscomb has his first big
0:29.3	league home run it gives the nationals the lead four to three everybody deep
0:34.8	now playing no doubles the pitch swing and a fly ball to deep center
0:38.3	Robles going back he's on the worry track he's at the wall and it is gone goodbye
0:43.3	a game tying opposite field holder to left center off a first pitch splitter
0:50.3	and it's a blow save for fitting in we're all even the Nationals five and the Reds five.
0:57.0	Now Finnegan ready.
1:00.0	Here's the pitch.
1:01.0	Swing and a long drive. Deep left field down the line.
1:04.0	Going, going, gone goodbye.
1:08.0	A walk-off game winning home run off the splitter for an Internacion Strand after going
1:16.0	over 12 in the series. And welcome to Natsch chat for Monday, April 1st, 2024, along with Mass and
1:25.3	Sports.com, National's insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Great American
1:28.6	Ballpark in Cincinnati. I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast. If you caught our last
1:34.4	installment of the podcast, you perhaps recall a brief conversation late in the show about Kyle
1:40.5	Finnegan, how his good is quite good, but when he's bad, he is quite bad.
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