Gallo Homers as Trevor Williams Earns the Win

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday was filled with rain in the DMV, but the skies were clear enough in the early evening for a 5-3 Nationals victory over Pittsburgh. Mark & Al start with Joey Gallo as his first hit with the franchise was fittingly a solo HR. He then later added two more hits after beginning the season 0 for 12. (08:00) Luis Garcia Jr. doubled three times and knocked in a run. It is the first time in Garcia's career that he pulled off that feat. (11:40) CJ Abrams had another impressive performance as he had a pair of hits and knocked in two runs. His RBI single was the capper to the four runs that Washington scored in the bottom of the 2nd. (14:30) Victor Robles exited the game early due to a left hamstring injury and will receive a MRI on Thursday. If he lands on the IL, this would mean the team needs to likely call up another outfielder to fill his spot. (20:15) Trevor Williams threw the best outing of any Nats starting pitcher so far this season and was rewarded with a victory. He allowed two runs in 5.1 IP and it is his first victory since August 20th of last season. (24:30) A very encouraging sign was how effective Hunter Harvey and Kyle Finnegan were in preserving the victory after some rough moments so far this season. Finnegan impressed many with his new "sweeper" pitch while notching the Save. (30:30) The series wraps up on Thursday afternoon as Josiah Gray will take mound. Gray did not pitch well on Opening Day in Cincinnati as the Nationals seek their first series victory of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Make sure this season to check out Walter's self-pour beer wall, which includes 24 different items, including fireside chat, Vienna Lager, and Green City IPA.
0:11.0	Visit waltersDC.com for more information.
0:17.3	Here's the wine and the pitch to Gallo swung on in high in the ear to deep right field.
0:22.0	Reynolds going back, way back, looking up, going, going, and gone goodbye.
0:27.5	That one is in and out of the second deck and section 239 in right field.
0:35.4	Bang, zoom goes Joey Gallo, his first hit in a nationals uniform is a solo
0:42.2	home run off of Mitch Keller to get the nationals on the board here in the bottom of the second
0:46.2	inning it's now Pittsburgh 2 and Washington 1 Keller coming set at the letters he
0:52.1	fires swing a crown ball third base side fair past the diving third baseman Hayes down the line. Garcia's going to score. The throw towards second. The tag attempt by Triolo, safe is the call. It's an RBI double for Hildomargo, Vargas. The Nationals get that run back. It's now the Nationals five and the Pirates three.
1:16.6	Finning in the bell. The one-two pitch. Swag and a miss. He struck him out with a slider.
1:24.7	And bang, zoom a curly Ws in the books. The first win at home in 2024 for the Nationals. As Kyle Finnegan comes on, strikes out two in the ninth inning, gets around the
1:30.4	error, and the Nationals get a win for Trevor Williams as they defeat the Pirates to even this series.
1:37.9	And welcome to Natschat for Thursday, April 4th, 2024, along with Mass and Sports.com, National's Insider Mark
1:45.7	Suckerman, who was at National's Park, I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. The Washington,
1:51.5	D.C. area, as you surely know, has been blasted by rain over the last three days. And yet,
1:58.0	somehow, some way, the first two games of the Nats three game series
2:02.5	against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Nationals Park have happened as scheduled with zero rain delays.
2:08.7	And we now have a Nats win in a game in this series to discuss a 5-3 win with the Pirates at
2:15.3	National's Park on Wednesday evening to get to 2 and 3 in this regular season.
2:20.7	This episode of Nats chat is brought to us by the Fred Nance, the National Single A affiliate in Northern Virginia.
2:26.8	Their opening weekend begins this Friday night.
2:29.3	See the future stars of the Washington Nationals right down the road in Fredericksburg.
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