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Pitch. Swinging a fly ball, deep left field toward the corner. Chasing McCutche and, he's not going to get it. It's down for a hit. McCutcheon cuts it off on the warning track. Hernandez scores. Franco dashes into third, and in it's second with another RBI double as Lane Thomas. Thomas picks up his second RBI of the game at his 15th of the season. 2-1 delivery from Souter.

His line to left field toward the line, that's going to be a base hit. McCutcheon angles to cut it off on the warning track. Strange Gordon will score. Hernandez for third. He'll stop there. And in it second with an RBI double is K. Bairt Ruiz. Ruiz stays hot and so to the nationals in this inning. six consecutive hits, and they lead this ballgame six to nothing.

And welcome to Natschats. Ruiz stays hot and so do the Nationals in this inning. Six consecutive hits, and they lead this

ballgame six to nothing. And welcome to Natschat for Monday, May 23rd, 2022, along with Madison

Sports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at American Family Field in Milwaukee. I'm Al-Galdi,

host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Well, sometimes in life, the why behind the what does not matter.

It's just the what that matters. And on Sunday, the what was the Nats offense waking up and

busting out. Davy Martinez changed the Nats lineup for this game in a pretty significant way.

Moved Cabot Ruiz up to the number two spot, Juan Soto to the number three spot.

Whether the lineup changes in relation to the Nats' offense doing well were causation or just

correlation. The bottom line is this. The Nats offense did well. Just one run total over the

first two games in the series, but the Nats on Sunday afternoon scored eight runs and eight

to win at the Brewers to avoid a three-game sweep and improved to 14 and 28 on the season. You know, Mark, knowing Davy, as we do, we know how much he likes to stick with a lineup off at having a good game. I would say the safest bet on the planet right now is that Kbert Ruiz on Monday night will bat second. Juan Soto on Monday night will be

batting third. I would agree with you on that, Al, and I'll just tell you, you know, what I

wrote in my game story, because I think it applies in this time, and I know you'll enjoy the

reference. Sometimes when you keep doing something and it's not working, you're just left with

one choice.

Do the opposite.

And as George Costanza famously found out, if every instinct you've ever had has been wrong,

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