Walters would like to wish Juan Soto and Josh Bell all the luck in San Diego and look forward to their returns to Nationals Park next weekend.

Walters will never forget the memories of 2019 Soto helped create and appreciate everything you both did in the community since your arrival.

The 1-1.

Swing a high fly ball, left field deep. Back one Thomas to the track feeling for the wall and there it goes

5-2 Phillies three-run homer alec bohm is eighth of the year now the pitch inside lorette gets away from riovuto through his legs here comes void he slides in without a play and the Nationals are now within a run

Now the pitch to Palacio swung on hit in the air to right field coming up Castiano's not deep

He makes the catch runner Ted's gonna try and score throw to the plate

Riyomito has it and the tag on Yadio Hernandez coming in standing.

He is out and the inning is over.

Well, as Palo Espino was warming for the bottom of the fifth inning, the heavens have opened

and rain is coming down and the Phillies grounds crew is scurring to get the tarp

on the field.

So at 8.47 p.m. Eastern time, we go into a rain delay after four and a half innings with the

Phillies leading the Nationals by the score of five to four.

And welcome to Natchchat for Friday, August 5th, 2020, along with Mass and Sports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman,

who actually is at Nationals Park, where he hosted Nat's Extra Pre and Postgame shows,

Amalgaldi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Well, when it rains, it pours. And this week,

it now has rained both metaphorically and literally for our nationals.

Thursday night, game one of a four game series at the Philadelphia Phillies.

And that's lost 5'4 in a rain-shortened game that lasted for just four and a half

innings.

Time of game, one hour 39 minutes, time of rain delay, two hours, six minutes.

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