Game 111: Winless Road Trip Continues

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Nats lost 6-3 at the Cubs for their sixth consecutive defeat. Al begins by pointing out to Mark (Live from Wrigley Field) that a bright spot emerged on Monday in the new prospects rankings by Baseball America. Washington has five of the top 55 prospects, with four ranked ahead of Cade Cavalli (C.J. Abrams the highest at #11). (07:30) An emailer asks if Cade Cavalli remaining in AAA has anything to do with MLB service time stipulations. Is it more baseball reasons or service time reasons? (12:40) Two Natonals went deep at Wrigley Field, Luke Voit & Joey Meneses. We are looking to come up with a nickname for Meneses; after he spent the past decade toiling in the Minors. Email us at natschatpodcast@gmail.com (19:05) Anibal Sanchez had a decent outing until it fell apart in the sixth inning. He has allowed a staggering amount of homers this season and his ERA is above 7.00. This leads to a familiar discussion about how poor the starting pitching has been as of late, (27:50) Maikel Franco made a big time mental mistake as the Cubs executed a double steal without a pitch being thrown. Mark explains what occurred on the bizarre play in the 7th inning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	That's chat is brought to you by Walters.
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0:16.0	One-nothing Cubs.
0:17.2	Here's the set.
0:17.7	The runner doesn't go and the pitch is blasted.
0:19.9	Deep left center.
0:20.8	Forget about it. A long home run for the rookie Christopher Morell makes it 3-0-0-0-Cubs. The set, the 0-1 to Contreras. Sway in a ground ball, base hit in the left field. Morel, rounding 30s being waved in by Willie Harris. He will score as Hernandez lobs it in toward third. RBI single, Wilson Contreras,
0:39.4	Cubs 5, Nationals 1. And welcome to Natschat for Tuesday, August 9th, 2022, along with Massinsports.com
0:48.6	Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Wrigley Field in Chicago. I'm Al-Galdi, host of of the Al Galdi podcast. Before we get to another Nats loss in a season that is overflowing with Nats losses, I am happy to share some good Nats news with you. Yes, there is still such a thing as good Nats news. Baseball America on Monday put out an updated list of the top 100 prospects in
1:13.4	baseball. The Nats had five players among the top 55, never mind five in the top 100, five in the top
1:22.4	55. So as we now are at a week since the Nats traded Juan Soto, at least there is that
1:28.5	an organization that not long ago was like Barron in terms of prospects, now boasts five
1:33.6	of the top 55 prospects in the sport per baseball America.
1:38.4	Unfortunately, the Nationals organization also continues to lose games at the Major League
1:43.9	level at a, shall we
1:45.4	say, frightening pace. 6-3 loss at the Chicago Cubs on Monday night in game one of a three-game series.
1:51.4	That's now a Major League worst 36 and 75. That works out to a winning percentage of 324, which
1:58.0	works out to 110 losses over 162 games. Yeah, the Nantes we speak on pace for a 110
2:06.6	loss season. And Mark, I don't know mentally how much you've budgeted in terms of losing,
2:12.5	but I guess that we shouldn't dismiss, I don't know, 115 losses, maybe even more. I mean, we don't know
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