Game 149: Paolo Blanks the Rockies

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Nats shutout Colorado 3-0 as Paolo Espino earned his fifth victory of the season. Al & Mark tip their caps to Espino, who held a potent Rockies lineup scoreless in almost six frames. Who could have ever guessed the season that Paolo is having? It was the first shutout pitched by the Nationals staff since mid June. (11:03) Tanner Rainey returned to the mound after a lengthy stay in Rochester. He struck out the side in an encouraging outing. Will we see him get a save opportunity before the end of the season? (19:01) Juan Soto launched a mammoth HR that traveled over 450 feet. His OPS is creeping towards 1.000, which is a surprise based upon how his season started off. (25:47) The offense otherwise had a quiet series, but the hosts take this opportunity to assess two of the young pieces who have had prominent roles post trade deadline. Luis Garcia's stock is up, Carter Kieboom's is going in the other direction. (34:40) Alex Avila announced that he will retire at the end of the season. Avila had an unusual start to his career as his father was the Tigers GM while playing in Detroit (who then traded him away). Avila made one All Star game and received MVP votes in 2011. (41:33) A look at attendance for the past few months and how the rebuild might affect ticket sales for the 2022 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.3	Here's the set of the pitch.
0:21.5	Swing and a miss, strike him out, running the fastball in on Hilliard.
0:26.5	So Espino tied him up, even though it was 88 miles an hour.
0:30.0	Again, you throw him enough off speed.
0:32.0	The idea is to make that 88 to 90 mile an hour fastball look that much faster,
0:37.1	and it's worked most of the day for him.
0:39.3	Hilliard way late on that pitch.
0:41.1	Tying his career high with seven strikeouts, six of the Ks on fastballs, and most of them have been elevated fastballs.
0:48.4	And welcome to Nat's chat from Monday, September 20th, 2021, along with Nationals Insider, Mark Suckerman of Massinsports.com.
0:55.3	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
0:58.3	Well, for the first time in more than three months, the Nationals have themselves a shutout win.
1:03.4	And that perhaps says as much as anything about the state of the Nationals pitching this season.
1:08.5	But a 3-0 shutout win over the Colorado Rockies
1:11.1	at Nationals Park on Sunday afternoon to avoid a three-game sweep and two inch ever so closer
1:16.8	to making sure that the nationals do not have a 100 lost season in this 20-21 season. That's now
1:23.5	61 and 88 on the year. Mark, we are not used to this. Zero's being put up across the board by
1:30.6	the Nats pitching staff. And in a series in which we saw some of the worst of the Nats pitching staff,
1:35.2	we see some of the best. And I guess nothing epitomizes the Nats pitching staff this season
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