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Ronald Acuna Jr. standing in from the right side of the play.

Patrick Corbyn is ready to go. The left-handers into the windup. The first pitch of a new season is Swung on and missed for strike one. One ball and no strikes the pitch. So we're in a chopping ground ball slowly hit. Abrams charges in gloves and can't make a play. All are safe now the next offering swung on line to right

toward the line thomas back to his left makes the catch runner tags he's going to try and go to

third throw to abram's relay throw past everybody nationals will be charged with their third error

of the game and the Braves lead, 7-2.

I talked to CJ after the double play should happen. Look, I'm going to be honest with you, they had a tough time seeing the ball as well. But I told him, I said, we played day games here. Those are plays that we need to make. And welcome to Natschat for Friday, March 31st, 2020, along with MadisonSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. Well, Patrick Corbyn lasted for just three

innings. C.J. Abrams committed three errors. The Nats went one for 11 with runners in

scoring position and had one extra base head. And Kyle Finnegan had a bad top of the

9th. Other than those things, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? But hey, it was opening day. Thursday was a

beautiful day in the Washington, D.C. area. We did get a nice crowd at Nationals Park, 35,000, 756. But yeah, the Nats did lose to the Atlanta Braves 7-2. Mark, it wasn't

all bad on Thursday afternoon, but a lot was bad. This was a weird one now. The quality of play was

not up to standard for what they were hoping for, what they were preaching all spring long.

The defense was sloppy, and it was Abrams primarily, but not just him. And it was actually on both sides. There was a lot of trouble in the field that the sun had something to do with it. The at-bats were not what you're looking for when you have opportunities to score runners, advance them with runners in scoring position, drive them in from

third, less than two outs, all that kind of stuff. So that wasn't good. As you said, Patrick Corbyn

doesn't make it through the fourth inning. And yet, until that blow up in the ninth, they're right

in it. And you're thinking they may somehow find a way to pull this thing off. Obviously,

they did not. It was just a strange game, a strange vibe, and it felt

like, and there was a little bit of anecdotal evidence of this afterwards, that some of the guys,

particularly the younger guys, maybe let their nerves get to them in an opening day game.

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