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Here it comes.

Swinging a fly ball on the infield.

Stewart slams his bat down as Candelario. The third baseman drifts inside of the mound. Bings the catch. And Josiah Gray has tossed six shutout innings here in New York for the second time this season. Thompson to the belt. Here's the pitch. Swing and a line drive facing into the right field. This will tie the game. Up with the ball is Thomas, throwing in behind the runner. Alonzo in second, who dives back in safely. Finnegan sets. He kicks, he delivers. Swing and a fly ball to right. Thomas having to his left toward the line. He'll make the catch. The runner will tag. Here comes the throw toward the

plane on one hop. The tag is not in time. Diving across the plane is Pete Alonso scoring with a go-ahead

run. And welcome to NatSchat for Friday, July 28, 2023, along with Mass and Sports.com,

Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who is at City Field in New York City. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. There have been many themes to this 2023 that season. One of those themes lately, unfortunately, has been rain. Way too many rain delays. And that's games lately. We on Thursday night had yet another rain delay. This one lasting for an hour and 37 minutes. And coming at quite the time, Kyle Finnegan, he was all set to come into the game in a big spot. Bottom of the eighth, bases loaded, one out. The game tied at one. He was warmed up. He was ready to go. And then, right as his outing was about to begin, we got the rain delay.

Again, one hour, 37 minutes. And yet after the delay, Finnegan still pitched.

Face two batters, got two outs, but the first out was a tie-breaking, one-out RBI sack fly by Mark Kana for a 2-1 Mets lead, and that was the final.

Two-one loss for the Nats at the Mets.

The Nats fell to 43 and 60.

Mark, that must have felt like the longest two-batter outing for Kyle Finnegut ever.

He pitched 97 minutes after he was supposed to pitch.

And had 97 minutes to contemplate a bases loaded jam in a tie game. That's what made this so

weird out. I've never seen anyone have a situation quite like that. There have been rain delays

late in games and all that kind of stuff. I don't think I've ever seen it with the bases loaded

in a tie game after the guy had already been summoned from the bullpen. It was so unusual. And throughout

that time, we're all wondering, okay, are you going to let him come back and pitch? And if not him,

who else do you even have at that point? Now, I guess fortunately, for a reliever, it's not as big a deal because, as Kyle

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