Game 153: Thomas Hits a Grand Slam in a Rare Laugher

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Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Nats pummeled the White Sox 13-3 for a rare easy victory on Wednesday afternoon. Mark & Al have plenty of fun items to discuss as the offense came through with a trio of homers and 14 hits. Lane Thomas grand slam broke the game open in the bottom of the 3rd to give Washington a comfortable 8-1 lead. CJ Abrams matched Thomas' feat of reaching base four times as he was able to draw a pair of walks in the win. (16:30) Dom Smith homered for the 5th time this month after only having 6 dingers through August. Mark explains why he has a hunch that Smith will be back as the Nationals 1B next season. (22:00) Josiah Gray earned the victory despite only lasting the minimum 5 IP. Gray's ERA is exactly at 4.00 as the season winds down, it was at 3.41 entering the All Star Break. (30:45) For the 1st time since April, the Braves come to D.C. on Thursday for a 4 game series. Ronald Acuna Jr. enters with 39 homers and 67 RBIs. Nobody has reached the 40/40 Club since Alfonso Soriano did so with the Nats in 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Saturday at noon, fourth-ranked Florida State visits Clemson.
0:03.7	Walters is your spot for all FSU football games this fall.
0:10.4	Now pitch with the runner going from first is line to the left center, a base head.
0:14.6	Vargas trotting home from third, Young speeding to third, being waved home.
0:18.2	Thrill goes to second.
0:19.4	Now, Anderson to the plate, not in time.
0:21.6	Young scores running on the pitch, and he scores all the way from first base.
0:28.6	And now it's the Nationals four, and the White Sox won.
0:32.6	Four-one Nationals, base is loaded, the 1-0 pitch.
0:36.6	So in a long drive, left field, forget about it.
0:40.6	This is going to be a grand slam for Lane Thomas.
0:44.9	He brings them all in.
0:47.0	Nationals 8 White Sox 1.
0:51.0	And welcome to Natchat for Thursday, September 21st, 2003, along with Mass and Sports.com,
0:57.2	Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.
1:02.8	We on Wednesday afternoon had something that had become way too rare, a Nationals blowout win.
1:08.4	The Nats entered Wednesday with just six wins over the team's previous
1:11.4	22 games. Five of the six wins were one-run wins, and actually, if it back up a bit further,
1:17.3	six of the Nats' previous seven wins had been one-run wins. Not only had the Nats not been
1:22.8	winning much lately, but the wins had been these, you know, grind them out, white knuckle, grit your teeth
1:28.4	type games. But the Nats on Wednesday afternoon got not just a second consecutive win,
1:33.3	but a rather comfortable win. This most certainly was not a one-run win, a 13-3 win over the
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