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Game 120: Gray's Lousy Stretch Continues

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Josiah Gray's rough August continued on Tuesday as his start ended after just the 3rd inning in the Nats lost 5-4 to the visiting Red Sox. Mark & Al scratch their heads as Gray's post All Star Break is nowhere near how his season began. Davey Martinez afterwards harped on the fact that Gray needs to rely more on his fastball. (19:00) The resurgent bullpen pitched well in defeat as they threw 6 scoreless frames. Hunter Harvey returned from the IL and was immediately called upon to pitch the 9th inning instead of doing a rehab assignment in the minor leagues. (25:45) CJ Abrams joined an exclusive franchise club as he stole his 30th base of the season. Will he ever turn into a 30/30 player? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Walter Sports Bar is again this college football season, the D.C. Hangout for Florida State fans.

0:06.1

Make your plans now for Sunday night of Labor Day weekend as FSU takes on LSU.

0:11.6

Will Dylan Cruz be there to cheer on his tigers? Unlikely.

0:18.9

And the one-two pitch, one, got belted a deep right.

0:21.6

Twisting turning is Garrett going back to the warning track at the big wall, and this one is gone.

0:26.6

Goodbye.

0:27.6

A game leadoff, home run into section 141.

0:34.6

And it's Boston 1, Washington nothing. The runners go, the runners go the pitch swing a line drive base

0:41.4

it right field McGuire scores Devers rounding third he'll come in Garrett's throw is cut off

0:47.1

a story will go to third it's three-nothing Boston Tristan Kossis with a two-run single

0:52.6

and Gray pays for the walks and cannot finish off the inning unscathed.

0:57.0

You don't get to this point, especially this, you know, being an All-Star and everything, not having good stuff.

1:03.0

So the command right now is a little bit of an issue, but I know that he could turn that around.

1:08.0

But he's got to trust, he's got to trust his fastball, start using it more and throw

1:12.1

it over the plate. And welcome to Natchchat for Wednesday, August 16th, 2023, along with

1:19.1

MadisonSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nassadles Park. I'm Al Galdi,

1:23.7

host of the Al-Galdi podcast. The Nationals, as you probably know, had one all-star

1:28.6

this season. Josiah Gray, he was having a terrific step forward season. He still could

1:33.8

end up having a terrific step forward season, but Gray right now is in a bad way. And he on Tuesday

1:40.6

night had a third consecutive bad start. The Nats on Tuesday night lost to the Boston Red Sox 5-4 at Nationals Park in game one of a three-game series.

1:49.0

Josiah Gray allowed five runs in three innings.

1:52.8

This episode of the Nats chat podcast is brought to you by Votes for Women,

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