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Here's the pitch. Swing and a miss and a high fastball. He struck him out. Josiah Gray has another strikeout himself and that is seven for the afternoon and a swing of to drive deep left

center field this one way back bell to the wall it is gone goodbye kee

Hernandez turns around a 97 mile an hour fastball that is his 20th home run of the year

and the nationals bullpen has failed them here in the late going.

They now lead it by the score of 5 to 1.

And welcome to Natchat for Sunday, October 3rd, 2021, along with Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman

of Massensports.com.

I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al- Galdi podcast for the second time in as many games

in this season ending series for the Nationals against the Boston Red Sox at Nationals Park.

A playoff-like atmosphere announced attendance of 41,465. Those fans got treated to plenty of baseball.

Three hours, 53 minutes, Nats, did not get their first

base runner until a pinch hit by the returning Harardo Parra with two outs in the bottom of the six.

Josiah Gray ended his season on a high note, but Tana Rainey and Mason Thompson combined to

allow four runs in the top of the ninth. And the result was another Nats loss. Five three,

the final. That's now 65 and 96 and the result was another Nats lost. Five-three, the final.

That's now 65 and 96 on the season. The Red Sox in this ultra-tight American League wildcard

race now are guaranteed to at least play in a tiebreaker game on Monday. Davy Martinez made news

in his pre-game press conference on Saturday. We have a lot to get to of this, the penultimate game

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