Game 37: Gray & the Offense Carry the Day

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Nationals cruised Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco 11-6 in the series rubber match. Mark (Live from Oracle Park) & Al start with Josiah Gray's victory; where he lasted seven innings and struck out three Giants in the process. Gray continues to pitch well and his ERA sits at 2.96 for this season. The Nats so far in the month of May are 6-4 and have a chance to leapfrog the Mets this weekend in the standings. (14:30) The offense had huge game as they scored eight runs by the 3rd inning. Ildemaro Vargas was a HR shy of hitting for the cycle and Riley Adams went deep while getting a rare start behind the plate. Vargas started at SS as CJ Abrams got a day off after struggling on Tuesday evening. (30:00) Where does the "Rebuild" currently stand? How tethered is the timeline due to prospects in the minors as compared to the quality pitching they are getting at the Major League level? We dive into after a fun day at the Ballpark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nat Chat is brought to by Walters. Make Walters your pregame stop before this Saturday night's
0:05.3	DC-nighted match at Audi Field.
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0:18.2	Now the set and the pitch. Swinging a long drive. Deep left field. If it's fair, it's gone. Way back, down the line, and it is gone. Goodbye. A tremendous home run for Riley Adams. A three-run blast here in the top of the second inning. Swinging it's golf to the air to right center field. Long chase for Slater on the go. Way back there. He dives. He can't get it. It's by him and rolling to the wall. This will clear the bases. Smith has scored. Garrett will score. Vargas to third ahead first dive with a triple. Another four-run inning for the Nationals. Their second in the first three inningsx-0-1 to Thomas has hit in the air down the left field line toward the corner.
0:58.0	Way back it goes. This has got a chance. It is back there and it's gone.
1:02.0	Halfway up the bleachers and straightaway left. A home run for Lane Thomas. His fourth of the season makes it 10 to 1 Nationals.
1:10.0	They hit double digits as Thomas has flexed his muscles
1:13.5	on this road trip. And welcome to Natsch chat for Thursday, May 11, 2023, along with Mass
1:22.3	and Sports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who is at Oracle Park in San Francisco. I'm Al-Galdi host of the
1:28.6	Al-Galdi podcast. So Thursday marks the Nats first scheduled off day since April 24th. Make no
1:34.9	mistake, the Nats have earned this off day. They on Wednesday won for a seventh time in 11 games,
1:41.1	improved at 12 and 10 since the 4 and 11 starred an 11 6 win at the San Francisco
1:47.6	Giants to take the series two games to one. Josiah Gray was terrific. The Nats numbers 7, 8,
1:54.1	and 9 batters, Stone Garrett, Yaldemarro Vargas, and Riley Adams, a combined 6 for 13 with a walk, eight RBI, and four runs.
2:03.6	Nats wrapped up a three-and-three trip out west.
2:06.5	You know, last season, the Nats did not get their 16th win until game number 46.
2:11.8	This season, the Nats have their 16th win by game 37.
2:16.7	Mark, we call that improvement.
2:18.7	Dare I say, Al, this team is playing good baseball and is doing it over a prolonged stretch
2:24.1	right now, the kind of stretch that we really didn't see at all last season. Now, they're not
2:29.5	perfect. They're not suddenly looking like a contending team, but they are pretty consistently playing
2:36.6	good competitive baseball.
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