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Game 50: Another 1st Inning Deficit Leads to Skid Reaching Five

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Nationals lost their fifth in a row, a 5-3 defeat in Atlanta on Memorial Day. Mark & Al look at how the lineup was yet again shuffled, headlined by the Juan Soto Leadoff Experiment being abandoned after just one game. Mark then stuns Al with Victor Robles lineup news that is expected on Tuesday. (13:08) Joe Ross had a miserable beginning to his outing and then flipped the switch to finish it in dominant fashion. Why does he have a tendency to be so "Jekyll & Hyde"? Will he keep his rotation spot or will Erick Fedde take it over eventually? (24:41) A preview of Stephen Strasburg vs. LHP Max Fried on Tuesday night. Fried has been pitching well lately, but the Nats hit him hard on Opening Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Walters is back open to full capacity with bar service and their ever so popular self-pour beer

0:05.9

wall. Think you've got what it takes to pour a perfect pint?

0:09.0

Walters is the place to give it a shot from micro to macro and lunch to brunch.

0:13.4

Walters is the place to be in Navy Yard. Reservations now open for the entire Nats homestand

0:18.5

over at opentable.com.

0:21.1

Walters is a great spot to hang out and watch the NBA playoffs with friends while the Nats are on the road. It's free minute third. Alvys in second. Almonte at first. And now the pitch. Swing and a fly ball. Shallow center. Turn around. It's going to fall in a into base hit two runs will score on this play

0:38.8

on a ball hit off the end of the bat by contraris freeman in from third albys around from

0:44.6

second scores and over to third goes almante a single and two runs batted in for william

0:50.9

contraris and it's now Atlanta 3 in Washington, nothing.

0:55.0

And welcome to Natschat for Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, along with Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman

1:00.6

of Massensports.com. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Well, if you are a

1:05.7

regular listener to the Natschat podcast, you heard us in the last installment of the pod discuss,

1:10.5

was this

1:11.3

rock bottom? The answer is no. We now wonder if now is rock bottom because a losing streak is at

1:17.5

five. The record is at 21 and 29. That's a season worst, eight games below 500. And the nationals

1:23.4

now have totaled six runs over the course of the five games and the five game losing streak.

1:28.8

A five three loss at the Atlanta Braves on Monday in game one of a big four game series.

1:33.8

So Mark, with all the uncertainty with an answer, at least we can say what happened on Sunday was not rock bottom in this season.

1:40.0

Maybe this needs to be the new intro to every episode.

1:43.2

We'll just start with the question, is this rock bottom? Yes or no? And that'll give you the general state of things before we then move on to discuss that day's game. And as I told you, it can always get worse. And it is. Although, I mean, in a weird way, this game had like a little bit of a glimpse of something there in the middle as Joe Ross suddenly

2:02.1

figured it all out after a terrible first inning and after the lineup suddenly figured it out

2:06.6

after a terrible first couple innings. But it just poof went away after that and there was

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