Game 28: Gore Struggles vs. the Cubs

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

MacKenzie Gore was dealt a loss by the visiting Cubs as he was not able to make it through five innings. Al & Mark examine the left hander's difficult outing as opposed to recent starts by Gore. His ERA currently sits at 3.77 on the season. (09:15) Lane Thomas homered, but that was the only offense in the 5-1 defeat. It is surprisingly his firs homer of the year after he slugged 17 of them in 2022. Dominic Smith had two hits on the evening; including a double in the 7th. (15:00) Chad Kuhl was placed on the IL and his replacement was Cory Abbott, who took the mound out of the bullpen on Monday night. Wednesday's night starter vs. Chicago remains TBD and Mark explains all the scenarios at play. Where does Mason Thompson fit into all of us this? (23:45) Carter Kieboom will make a rehab start on Wednesday with AA Harrisburg. He has been out for over a year due to "Tommy John Surgery" on his elbow. A few years ago he was the hot prospect in the team's farm system at 3B, but Brady House now seems to be the plan of the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.5	Left day, their kicks, delivers.
0:18.4	Swinging a fly ball, left center field deep.
0:38.1	Back goes Robles to the warning track. At the wall, he leaps, he can't get it. It's off the wall in play. Bancini to second, he'll make the turn and hold there. Scoring easily was Suzuki, and the cops lead two to nothing. Gore kicks and delivers a swing and a long drive to left center field.
0:42.9	Call is back to the warning track at the wall. He leaps and can't get it. It is gone goodbye into the visitor's bullpen right over the 377 foot marker.
0:49.4	Dan Svison with his second home run of the year is a two-run shot. And the Cubs add to here at the top of the fifth.
0:56.0	It's now Chicago 4 and Washington won.
1:00.2	I think a lot of his misses today, and when I go back tonight and watch the game,
1:05.2	we're more over the plate.
1:07.6	And welcome to Natschat for Tuesday, May 2nd, 2003, along with Mass and Sports.com
1:12.9	Nationals insider Mark Suckerman, who is at Nationals Park. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.
1:18.9	So we on Monday night at Nationals Park had a starting pitching matchup of a guy named Smiley
1:24.3	versus a guy named Gore. And fitting enough, each guy ended up having a night
1:29.0	worthy of his last name. Smiley's performance was worthy of smiles. And Gore's performance was
1:35.4	maybe not gory, but certainly not good. A 5-1 loss for the Nats to the Chicago Cubs at Nationals Park
1:42.1	in game one of a four-game series, and that's now 10 and 18.
1:46.6	Mark, I guess we maybe have become spoiled to an extent by McKenzie Gore and Josiah Gray lately,
1:51.7	so we expect really good outings, and when we don't get a really good outing, we're
1:56.0	disappointing.
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