Finnegan Gives up 5 Runs in Loss

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

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4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Nats opened the 2nd half much with a 7-2 loss to the Padres after Kyle Finnegan made a mess of a tied game. Mark & Al recap the closer falling apart in the top of the 9th while other teams keep a close eye on the right hander ahead of the Trade Deadline. Finnegan only recorded one out while giving up a grand slam to Manny Machado and his ERA is now up to 4.37. (14:30) C.J. Abrams 2-run homer tied the game in the bottom of the 8th, but the Nats ran themselves out of a chance to the take lead. Josh Bell was picked off while curiously taking off for 2nd base with James Wood standing on 3rd. (19:30) Wood struck out three times and has the 3rd most Ks in all of Baseball. (23:00) Michael Soroka had a decent outing as he lasted five innings. Is he someone that can be dealt at the Deadline? (25:30) Brad Lord has been moved back into the starting rotation as Shinnosuke Ogasawara is remaining in AAA. Why Is Cade Cavalli still in Rochester and not in the Washington rotation? (32:45) Analysis of the team's draft approach. Eli Willits will be introduced on Saturday afternoon shortly after he is expected to sign.

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0:00.0	Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Natschat podcast.
0:05.7	Walters is the best spot to go before and after home games located at the southeast corner of Capitol and End Streets, right across the street from the ballpark.
0:19.9	Adam, straight sets at the belt.
0:22.6	2-2 to Abrams.
0:24.6	He's a high drive, deep right center field.
0:27.6	Way back it goes, and this game is tied.
0:32.6	C.J. Abrams stings his former team with a two-run shot. The Nationals two, the Padres two. Finnegan, the set at the letters. He kicks and he deals. Diaz squares. He bunts it toward the first basement. It's a beauty. The run scores. Lowe's only play is to first. In time for the out. And the Padres back in front, three to two. He fires. Swain a long drive left
0:56.8	field way back it goes and this is a grand slam into the Padres bullpen seven to San Diego.
1:08.0	And welcome to Nat's chat along with Massinsports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman,
1:12.8	who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. We are back from the MLB
1:17.7	All-All-Star break. We hope that you had a nice all-star break. The Nats on Friday on X put up a pretty
1:23.6	funny post that they then actually apparently deleted. The post was a meme based on the astronomer CEO who got caught cheating on his wife at a
1:34.1	cold play concert.
1:35.2	And the theme of the post essentially was that the Nats' pre-all-Star break portion of the season
1:39.6	was very bad.
1:41.0	Well, the Nats post-all-star break portion of the season got off to a rough start,
1:45.8	a 7-2 loss to the San Diego Padres at Nationals Park on Friday evening in game one of a three-game
1:51.5	series. This in a game in which the Nats overcame a 2-0-8th inning deficit by scoring two runs in the
1:57.1	bottom of the eighth, but that allowed five runs in the top of the 9th. The Nats now, again,
2:03.1	at a new low point in MOP's 2025 regular season, 21 games below 538 and 59. But good to be with you.
2:11.8	You could find us on X at Nats underscore chat. You could find us on Blue Sky at Nats Chat podcast. You can
2:17.1	email us Nats Chat
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