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Game 37: Lester & Schwarber's Spoiled Return to Wrigley

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost 7-3 as the Cubs hit Jon Lester hard in his return to Chicago. Mark & Al run-through the lefty's long evening despite being given a hero's welcome at Wrigley Field. (11:26) The offense had another low scoring game and the hosts discuss if fingers will start to get pointed at Kevin Long, the team's hitting coach. Why so many ground balls as opposed to utilizing launch angle? (18:07) Trea Turner hit his 10th homer of the season and his future value seems to go up by the day. What sort of contract would he fetch right now if he were a Free Agent? Is the price getting too high for Washington? (21:57) Kyle Schwarber homered in his return to Chicago as similar to Lester, he was showered with praise. Should Nationals fans be optimistic as his stats continue to improve? PODCAST T-SHIRTS FOR SALE: https://natschatpodcast.square.site/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Walters is open for lunch. Monday through Friday, Walters opens at noon for lunch, midday baseball watching, and even the occasional European soccer match. So if you find yourself around the ballpark during the day, make sure you walk on over to Walters.

0:13.5

Walters is the place to be tonight. You can watch both the Nats and Wizards, and on Wednesday it's loaded to the caps and the Nats each play, plus catch some

0:21.5

of LeBron versus Steph.

0:23.3

Here's the set.

0:24.2

Three-two, runner holds.

0:25.4

We're going to drive to left field deep.

0:27.3

Schwabber going back.

0:28.3

He's at the wall, looking up, it is gone.

0:31.2

Goodbye.

0:32.7

A home run, the opposite way to left center field for Jason Hayward.

0:39.3

It is his fourth home run of the year and a two-run shot and it's now the Cubs three and the nationals nothing now the set of the one-one

0:45.7

swing and a line drive oh diving stop Horner and shallow right gets up throws the first in time for the outs

0:53.4

it looked like a head off the bat in the right.

0:57.3

And Nico Horner to his left, makes a diving stab of it, gets to his feet and throws out Castro to end the inning.

1:05.7

And welcome to Natschat for Tuesday, May 18, 2021, along along with Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of

1:11.4

Massinsports.com. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. Another loss for the

1:16.7

nationals on Monday night. Where is a winning streak that we can sink our teeth into?

1:21.0

The Nats, they giveeth, and the Nats takeeth away. Fall to 16 and 21, a 7-3 loss after

1:26.9

Chicago Cubs on Monday night. Game 1 of a four-game series.

1:30.5

John Lester shelled in his return to Wrigley Field. Nats did hit two home runs, but otherwise,

1:36.1

just four singles and not much more, just two at-bats the entire game with runners in

1:41.1

scoring position. And Mark, here we are again with another lackluster performance in another Nationals loss.

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