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The set for Gray, his first pitch, is nubbed off the end of the bat, third base side.

Keeboom cuts it off to his left, fires to first in the inning over.

Jojo Gray with a fistpump as he departs the mound.

He works out of his first big time jam. First and second no outs. The Phillies do not score. Sim wiggles the bat behind his ear. Here comes the 2-1. Swinging to ground ball to third. It's true. A base in left field. Keybone scores. Headed at home, Garcia. He will score. And the Nationals lead. Ryan Zerman drives in the tying and the go-ahead runs. It's the Nationals three and the Phillies two. Swero already down. The pitch. Swinging a line, drive to the left center field. That's going to be a base hit off the change up. Routing third is Harper Hill score. The third Rio Muto, he'll stop there and holding it first with a

single to left center and a run batted in is Alec Bone. Four runs home in the inning.

Runners on first and third. It's now the Philly six in the Nationals three.

And welcome to Natschat for Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021, along with Nationals Insider. Mark Zuckerman of Massinsports.com. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. We come to you off a 7-5, or was it 6-5. We're still trying to figure that out. Nationals lost to the Philadelphia Phillies at Nationals Park on Monday night in game one of a four game series. No, the score was 7-5. There was confusion at the end of the game. In addition to there being a praying mantis on the cap of Victor Robles, and that became all the rage on social media. I'm not sure what a bigger deal was at the end of the game mark, the mantis or the score, but at least we had some things to distract us from the implosion of the nationals bullpen and the end of the game mark the mantis or the score but at least we had some

things to distract us from the implosion of the nationals bullpen in that top of the ninth inning

boy al this was shaping up to be a really like uplifting optimistic night for them you get a

great you know impressive performance from josiah gray in his debut you get the old man

ryan zirman comes through with the bases loaded to give him the lead and it debut. You get the old man, Ryan Zerman, comes through with

the bases loaded to give him the lead. And it's like, here's the old and the new coming together. And then you get to the ninth inning and you realize, wait a minute, who did they still have to pitch at this point? And the answer was not Kyle Finnegan because he's gone six times in eight days. and so Davy was kind of in a bind

and he thought he could maybe get away with

Gabe Clovisitz gone six times in eight days. And so Davy was kind of in a bind, and he thought he could maybe get away with Gabe Klobouss for two innings, and that didn't work. And the last man standing is Wander Swaro, and we saw how quickly that devolved. And as I wrote in my story at Mastonsports.com, and we're going to have to remember these things. This is going to happen. There are going to be nights like this. And we're going to have to separate the end result with the good things that happened in a game that, to be honest, at this point, that's the stuff that's going to matter more in the big picture, how the young guys do. And as agonizing as that ninth inning was in the bigger picture, it's far more important what Josiah Gray did in

innings one through five than what Wander Swero did in inning nine. I think that is 100% the way

to look at the national season the rest of the way. You need to try as an ads fan, and it's not easy.

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