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Right fielder number 22, Juan Soto.

It's a standing ovation for Wad Soto who has taken off his helmet, pointed it to the first base side, the third base side.

And now Soto ready to shovel some dirt in the batters box here at national's pocket of his inning uniform three balls two strikes runner goes the pitch swung on line to left that's going to be a base hit in front of Hernandez pro far around second

slams the brakes on as yadi fields it on one hop and we'll throw it in towards second base so Soto

two for four is second into the game and second hit of the inning now clippard ready here's the

pitch swing and a long drive to left down the line toward the corner Hernandez going back at the

wall and it is gone goodbye brand and jury turns on it it's a two-run homer. His 23rd of the year. Andre's ad two. It's now San Diego 10 in Washington, too. And welcome to Natchat for Saturday, August 13th, 2022, along with MadisonSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi

podcast. Well, we on Friday night at Nationals Park had the return of someone who proudly wore the

Nationals uniform for years, someone who can proudly say that he's one of the best hitters of his

generation. Matt Williams was back at National's Park. He's the

Padres third base coach. Did you know that? And oh yeah, Juan Soto and Josh Bell, they on Friday

night were back at National's Park, too, and they were on hand for a bludgeoning of the Nats, a 10-5

Nats lost to San Diego in game one of a three-game series in a game that really wasn't

as close as that score would indicate. Nats fell to a major league worst at 37 and 77 with a

major league worst run differential of minus 205. There was a lot happening at Nationals Park

on Friday night. We had the scoreboard not working for a good chunk of the

game. We had the time of the game being four hours, three minutes. Friday also was Mark's

birthday. Happy birthday, Mark. Did you get a birthday greeting from Matt Williams? I did say hi to him.

Yeah, I had a nice little chat with him. I don't think he realized it was my birthday. I'm sure at the

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