Game 103: A Miserable July Ends with A Shutout Loss

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Nats fittingly ended a terrible month by being shutout by St. Louis in the series rubber match. Al & Mark begin with with what else..... Juan Soto trade talk. How does his looming situation affect Mike Rizzo's overall game plan this week before Tuesday's deadline. (12:01) Josiah Gray did not pitch very well on Sunday and allowed his MLB high 24th homer of the season. Gray only lasted five frames, but did strikeout six Cardinals. (21:24) Luis Garcia committed another throwing error on a routine play. Why does it seem that his E6s come on the easiest of plays? He has eleven errors in only two months of playing at the Major League level this season. (31:20) If the farm system was in better shape, would trading Soto even be in the table? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Natch Chat is brought to you by Walters.
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0:08.8	Bottomless options include mimoses, bloody marries, trullies, and bud lights.
0:16.2	Gray, very deliberately looking in to get the sign.
0:19.5	Now the 2-1 pitch.
0:21.1	Swing a high drive, right field, deep toward the corner.
0:23.6	Way back it goes toward the foul pole and gone.
0:27.1	Into the second deck above the Nationals' bullpen.
0:30.2	A pair of walks, a three-run homer for Cory Dickerson, makes it 4-0 St. Louis.
0:35.0	And that is Dickerson's fourth homer of the year.
0:39.4	And welcome to Nat's Chat from Monday, August 1st, 2002, along with Mass and Sports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman,
0:45.4	who was at Nationals Park, and Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Well, maybe moving
0:50.4	forward, we could just do away with this month of July. July 2021 was a nightmare of a month
0:56.7	for the Nats, as we have been chronicling with our lookbacks on the Natchat podcast. And July
1:02.3	2022 ends up being one of the worst months in franchise history for a variety of reasons,
1:08.7	including the Nats in the month going six and 19, and the Nats
1:13.0	concluded that month by losing two or three games to the St. Louis Cardinals at Nationals Park
1:17.8	over the weekend. We did have that nice and fun and refreshing 7-6 win on Saturday night,
1:23.4	but then came a 5-0 shutout loss on Sunday afternoon. Nats falling to a major league worst
1:29.1	35 and 68 on the season. A lot is going to happen for the Nats over the 48 hours coming up.
1:36.5	We'll get to all of that shortly. But Mark, I felt like what happened on Sunday afternoon
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