Game 101: Soto Rumors Swirl As Trade Market Heats Up

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost 6-2 to the Cardinals to open up a six game home stand. Mark & Al begin with the latest in the Juan Soto trade rumors as the deadline approaches (6pm Eastern on Tuesday August 2nd). Al asks Mark why ownership is acting like their is such urgency in the Soto situation? (18:30) Anibal Sanchez faced St. Louis for the first time since Game 1 of the 2019 NLCS and the results were a bit different this time. He was one out away from a quality start, but back to back HRs to sullied his pitching line. Mark explains a major flaw with Sanchez and how the Cards took advantage of it. (25:40) The Nationals bullpen continued their solid stretch as they combined for another scoreless effort. The hosts shine a spotlight on Hunter Harvey, who has a WHIP of 0.72 on the season. (30:35) Elijah Green, who the franchise drafted at 5th overall a few weeks back, was in Navy Yard on Friday night. Hear what Mark had to say about his physical stature and how his batting practice went before the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:19.2	Runner's second and third now infield back. The O.1 to Goldschmidt. Bounces away, gets away from Ruiz. He doesn't know where it is. It's toward the first base dugout. And so Edmund's going to score on the wild pitch. I think that ball hit the home plate umpire, and Ruiz was looking behind him. And the ball deflected off to the first base side. So the Cardinals take a 2-1 lead on the wild pitch. Now the 2-1. Swing to drive right center toward the gap. No one's going to catch this one. It's way back, and it is gone. A line drive home run. One pitch after the pop-up has dropped, and it's 6 to 1 Cardinals. Lars Neutbar with his fifth run of the season. And the Cardinals with back-to-back homers against Sanchez here in the sixth. And welcome to Natschat for Saturday, July 30th, 2020, along with MadisonSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.
1:13.1	The Nats have begun what is perhaps their final full series with Juan Soto as a Nats.
1:18.8	We on Friday had more chum in the water regarding the Juan Soto situation. We'll get to the latest shortly.
1:24.7	We also on Friday had the future of the Nats. Their 22 first round draft pick, Elijah Green at Nationals Park. And he put on quite the show during batting practice. That was fun to see. But we also on Friday night had a rematch of game one of the 2019 NLCS. Annabal Sanchez of the Nats versus Miles Michaelis of the St. Louis Cardinals in game one of a three-game series at Nationals Park.
1:50.0	If only Friday night's game had gone as 2019 NLCS game one had gone.
1:56.4	Interestingly, that game was on a Friday night, just like this game was on a Friday night.
2:01.0	Here's the O2.
2:02.8	Swing at a ground ball roll to first.
2:04.2	Sermerman has it down to a knee.
2:05.4	He'll step on first.
2:06.7	Annibal Sanchez has tossed seven hitless shutout innings here at Bush Stadium in St. Louis.
2:12.6	Friday night's game here in 2022, nowhere near as sweet as 2019 NLCS game one. There was no Nats win. There was no
2:20.3	Annabelle Sanchez of flirting with a no-hitter. There was only the Nats 19th loss in 24 games.
2:26.5	6-2 was the final. A few things have changed more since that Friday night in October of 2019,
2:32.7	I guess. Just a little bit, Al.
2:34.9	I mean, we weren't doing a podcast back then, so that's changed, obviously.
2:38.8	Yeah, it was pretty striking to see that and consider just how much has changed for both
2:44.5	franchises, but for this one in particular in the wrong direction.
2:47.8	Since that night, that was a great night.
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