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.

Friday night, Walters is the place to be. Grab a bite to eat and watch the caps puck drop in Boston before walking over to the ballpark for Nats and O's.

Schwabers won for nine in the series and swings in East, guys one to left field, toward the corner,

way back and gone goodbye.

Back-to-back home runs.

Just a few pitches apart.

Schwabber goes yard to left on a 1-0 pitch from Williams.

It's the Nationals, two of the Cubs, nothing.

Ross trying to end it here, his 2-2 pitch,

is hit deep to right field toward the corner, way back there, and it is gone.

Ian Hap with a line drive to run, Homer, his fifth of the year, and the Cubs lead for the first time, three to two.

And welcome to Natschat for Friday, May 21st, 2021, along with Nationals insider Mark Suckerman of Massensports.com.

I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.

A road trip that had promised, a road trip that offered hope, ends up being a

three and four trip for the nationals. They lose for an 11th time in 16 games, end up dropping

three of four games at the Chicago Cubs, a five-two loss at Wrigley Field on Thursday afternoon,

as the national score three runs or less for a 12th time in 17 games.

You know, we asked the Nats to score early. They actually did that on Thursday afternoon,

back-to-back homers from Josh Bell and Kyle Schwerber with two outs in the top of the first,

but that ended up being it for the National's offense in the game. And another loss is the ultimate

result. This has actually happened a few times now, Al, where they do take the early lead, just like Davy's been pleading with them, and then they go silent the rest of the way. That's a troubling trend in itself. We've brought this up numerous times, but it's like they get their one or two chances a game to do something offensively. And if they don't get it,

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