Game 17: Offense Lets Down Gray Again + Soto Eyebrow Raising Comments to SI

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Nats were shutout 1-0 by the visiting Orioles and Josiah Gray yet again was given absolutely zero run support. Mark & Al run through another poor evening by the offense and pinpoint just how many things went wrong in the bottom of the 3rd when they had many chances to bring home a run. (14:00) Gray only allowed one run in five innings, but now is 0-4 on the season as the team has only scored one run in his four outings. His ERA is under 4.00 and has pitched well in the past three starts. (20:00) The lone Baltimore run came on an Austin Hays RBI single, but Stone Garrett's throw home was extremely off the mark. Keibert Ruiz though threw out Hays at 2nd base to avoid the big inning. Ruiz also teamed up with Mason Thompson for a 6th inning strike 'em/ throw 'em out. (23:30) Juan Soto was featured in a Sports Illustrated article by Stephanie Apstein chronicling his slow start in San Diego and had rather blunt comments regarding his final month in Washington. Al & Mark respond and we go back down the rabbit hole of last summer prior to the Blockbuster trade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nat Chat is brought to you by Walters. Walters is the spot to be this Friday night to catch the boxing match between Jervante Davis and Ryan Garcia.
0:09.7	Price will be $30 at the door for the fight night on Friday, starting at 9 p.m.
0:18.1	Kramer deals. Swig and a miss, struck him out. Ninety- belt. And the Nationals after runners are second and third. Go down with three strikeouts in a row. What a job by Dean Kramer. We go to the fourth. Swing in a line drive to left. That is going to fall for a base hit in front of Garrett. Rounding third coming home is Mountcastle to throw off line. He's second is Hayes. He is tagged out by Garcia. Over to third goes Frazier. So Mountcastle scores. RBI hit for Hayes. He's out going to second, and it's 1-0 Baltimore. Three balls, two strikes again. Batista ready. So is Ruiz. Here's the pitch.
0:56.4	Swinging a ground ball right side to the second baseman Frazier. He has it and the throw
1:00.8	to all heard it first of the game is over and he went away from the fastball and threw him a splitter.
1:07.1	And Ruiz rolled the ground ball to the right side and the Ori Orioles have won it, taking game one of this Beltway series here tonight at Nationals Park.
1:16.7	And welcome to Nat's chat for Wednesday, April 19, 2023, along with MadisonSports.com, National's insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at National's Park.
1:25.7	I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:28.6	Well, this may not be the last time that I say something like this, this season, but we on
1:33.2	Tuesday night perhaps reached a new low for the Nats' bad offense this season, a one-nothing
1:38.7	loss to the Orioles in game one of a two-game series at Nationals Park. Nats now are five and 12. The Nats in this game,
1:47.2	no runs, Amir, five hits, all of which were singles and no walks. The Nats in this game got
1:53.2	worked by a starting pitcher in Dean Kramer, who had been horrendous this season. Kramer
1:58.3	came into this game with an ERA of 949 over three starts in this
2:04.6	regular season. And amazingly, the Nats in this regular season now have scored one run over the
2:11.2	four games that Josiah Gray has started. Yes, one run. The Nats have been shut out in each of the last three games that
2:19.8	Josiah Gray has started, even though he now has been at least solid, if not good, in each of
2:25.4	those three starts of his bad first start. Look, Mark, we know the deal. The Nats hitting is not good,
2:31.5	but what we had on display on Tuesday night was tough to watch.
2:36.0	Yeah, I think this one was worse than any of the previous shutouts, and there are a few to compare to.
2:41.6	I think this one was worse.
2:44.2	And did you see who was watching the game from the president's club?
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