Game 153: Soto Bolsters MVP Case w/ 2 HRs in Win

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Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Nats edged the Reds 3-2 for their 3rd straight victory. Al & Mark search for the proper superlatives for Juan Soto as his torrid stretch continued on Thursday night. He yet again reached base four times, set a franchise record in walks, and has lifted his average to .325. Is it fair to say he is the NL MVP frontrunner with a week to go? How does this recent run affect potential extension talks? (22:52) Patrick Corbin did not allow a run as he almost lasted seven innings. Can fans be optimistic about the lefty for next season as he has had three good outings this month? Corbin looked like the 2019 version of himself while on the mound in Cincinnnati. (28:01) Tanner Rainey pitched a scoreless eighth inning while Kyle Finnegan struggled to lock down the save. Will we see Rainey become the closer in the final week? (34:44) Carter Kieboom went 0 for 4 Thursday night and his September stats are not looking good. Do we have a feel for how 3B is stacking up for Opening Day next season? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.1	There comes Sessa's three to pitch. Swinging a high drive, left field, deep toward the corner.
0:33.0	The Shield's back, looking up, and it is gone. Right down near the foul pole, Soto has done it again.
0:39.8	His second opposite field Homer in a row, his 29th of the season, RBI 92,
0:46.9	and Juan Soto's reached base in 10 consecutive plate appearances.
0:51.0	Nationals lead 3 to nothing, and they chose to pitch to him, and he made them pay.
0:55.8	And welcome to Natschat for Friday, September 24th, 2021, along with Nationals insider, Mark
1:01.3	Sukerman of MadisonSports.com. I'm Al Galdi host of the Al Galdi podcast. Well, when we saw
1:06.7	Kyle Schwerber do what he did this past June, I think we all said to ourselves, man, this is one of the
1:11.8	greatest months that any Nationals player has ever had. This certainly is going to prove to be the best
1:17.6	month that any Nationals player has this season. Maybe that's going to end up being the case,
1:23.3	but that's certainly not a certainty at this point, because Juan Soto right now is in another universe
1:30.1	and he continued an amazing tear and a Nationals win on Thursday night.
1:35.5	A 3-2 victory at the Cincinnati Reds in game one of a four-game series.
1:40.4	Soto continues to put up video game numbers and I just want to make this point about the Schwerber June.
1:46.1	So Schwerber and June hit 16 home runs and slugged 760.
1:50.2	Juan Soto now in this month of September is slugging 8.38. He has a 473 batting average this month.
1:58.1	He has a 608 on base percentage this month. The numbers are
2:01.8	incredible. The frequency with which this guy is getting on base is remarkable. And Mark,
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