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For the visiting Dodgers, Dave Roberts, we'll have Mookie Betts lead off in right field. Batting second, Freddie Freeman, the first baseman. Freeman facing the Nationals for the first time as a Dodger. Hitting third shortstop, Trey Turner. Here's the pitch. Swing and a drive to right center field. This is deep. Soto racing back on the run to the warning track near the wall. He leaps and he can't get it. It's off his glove and rolling along the warning track. Heading home is Bellinger and racing for third with a stand-up triple is Chris Taylor. Dodgers lead 3-0. Soda made a leaping try at the wall. Just couldn't quite come up with it. The 1-1. Swing to drive right center field.

This one is way back toward the gap, is not going to be caught, and it's off the top of the wall.

Headed home is Lux.

Betts rounding third hill hold, the throw into the plate is cut off.

Freddie Freeman narrowly misses a three-run homer.

He doubles off the top of the right center field wall, and the Dodgers tack on one more and leads seven to nothing. And welcome to Nats chat for Tuesday, May 24th, 2022, along with MadisonSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who is at Nationals Park. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Well, it was at National's Park on Monday night.

The Nats, welcome back and old friend. Shortstop, Trey Turner was back. It was last July 30th,

the Nance and the most prominent trade of their mega sell-off, officially Deltre and Max Scherzer to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

And here we are now, just about 10 months since the trade.

And the difference between the state of each team really could not be clear. The Nats have the

second worst record in the majors. The Dodgers have the best record in the National League. And

all of that was reflected with what happened on Monday night, a 10-1 loss for the Nats to the Dodgers in game one of a

three-game series and of a seven-game homestay. And Nats this season, now 14 and 29. Dodgers this

season, now 28 and 13. And Mark, I mean, I had to laugh. This feast or famine, Nats offense,

we've talked about it so much. We went from

this glorious Thanksgiving-like feast on Sunday to basically starvation on Monday night. Man,

it's amazing how things are with this Nats offense this season. Right back where we started out.

It's literally been one step forward, two steps back, because like we said, it's one out of every three games, essentially one game per series.

They hit really well, and the other two, they do almost nothing.

This one was the most nothing performance they've had, maybe all year.

They literally were having a perfect game thrown against them until the sixth inning.

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