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out appreciate you listening and we'll talk to you soon as we recap now the nat's nine eight loss

to the rockies the o one runner goes from first now stops and a drive well hit to left center

field ranging back hampson to the warning track to the the wall, climbing the wall, and there it goes.

Lane Thomas with a three-run over to the first row of the Brewhouse Red Seats,

and the Nationals lead it now 6 to 2.

Two balls, two strikes.

Alvinato holds his high set.

He deals.

So we got a long drive to right. This is way back and it is long, long gone.

Off the facing of the upper deck, Rockies are in front on Sam Hilliard's 11th home run of the season.

Finnegan looking in series of signs. Runner's second and third one out. A run home. The score tied 8-8, top of the ninth.

Here's the set. Here's the pitch. Swinging a line, drive into left field, a base hit.

That'll score one run, and the Rockies are back in front here at the top of the ninth inning.

It's Colorado 9 in Washington 8.

And welcome to Natchchat for Saturday, September 18, 2021, along with Nationals Insider, Mark Zuckerman of Massinsports.com.

I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.

Well, the Nationals on Friday night, a 9-8 loss to the Colorado Rockies in game one of a three-game series.

The series is taking place at Nationals Park, although if you just look at the box score, you'd think that

maybe this happened at Corse Field. This was a Coors Field S game, a whole lot of offense,

a whole lot of back and forth, not a whole lot of pitching. Mark, I guess you could say that

the Nationals were gracious hosts and that they made the Rockies fill just at home on Friday night.

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