Game 129: Keibert Ruiz Getting Called Up + Fedde Loses in NY

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost 9-4 to the Mets, but the big news of the day came during pregame as Keibert Ruiz will make his Washington debut behind the plate on Monday night. Al & Tim react to the mildly surprising news that Ruiz will get called up before the calendar flips to September. Was this decision made for baseball reasons, box office reasons, or both? (16:20) Victor Robles yet again was not in the starting lineup,, are they giving up on him? Luis Garcia has struggled at the plate, can you count on him to be in the 2022 Opening Day lineup? (24:51) Erick Fedde had a mediocre start that ended on a sour note. Do we know how to properly handicap Fedde and where should he be slotted in a typical rotation? (37:12) Josh Bell homered twice on Sunday and leads the team with 23 on the season. Where does he fit into future plans for the organization? (43:05) Listener submitted email asking should we move to an eight man lineup; which would eliminate pitchers hitting/ DHs? Very intriguing question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.9	The kick in the pitch.
0:28.6	The P.R. shoots one toward the gap in left center.
0:31.2	This one is way back, and it is off the top of the wall.
0:34.1	Thomas Bear hands the Karim, throws towards second.
0:36.7	Close play there, and safe is the call.
0:39.9	And now they're going to call it a home run. Smith scores. VR's waiting to take off his armor
0:44.9	and throw it to first page Tony Tarasco. And now he's going to circle the bases. And so now it is
0:49.6	seven to three New York. Final visit of the year for the Phillies, final three meetings of the year
0:54.0	between the two clubs. And it'll be right enterhinter Josiah Gray on the mound for the Nationals with the record of 0-1-1 looking for that first win in a Nationals uniform. It will be his sixth start for the Nationals with K. Bert Ruiz called up from AAA, Rochester, the game of the deal with Gray from the Dodgers, and they will be the battery tomorrow night here at Nationals Park. He's playing really well down there. We want to get him here, get him settled, let him get some of my bass down in Rochester, and, you know, Brise and I, we sat around, and we feel like he's, you know, he's ready to come up and getting up to any play up here and watch him play.
1:28.8	And welcome to Natsch chat for Monday, August 30th, 2021.
1:32.6	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast, joined by the mastermind of the Natchat podcast, Tim Schovers,
1:39.3	as Mark Zuckerman is off for this episode, celebrating his son's 10th birthday.
1:43.2	We say happy birthday to Brian,
1:45.2	and we say happy Caber Ruiz Day to everyone listening because that day is coming. We'll get to
1:52.9	what happened with the Nationals from an on-the-field standpoint on Sunday coming up in a bit.
1:56.9	A 9-4 loss at the New York Mets as the Nats end up dropping two or three in the series.
2:01.4	But the headline item from your National Sunday by far is the news, I would say surprising
2:06.6	news that the Nats announced on Sunday morning, Kbert Ruiz is coming to town. Santa Claus is
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