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3-2 coming to Swanson. This has hit high in the air to deep left field. Harrison back, looking

up, and there it goes. That is long gone. About 12 rows deep, which match the Swanson hitting streak now.

Twelve game hitting streak, home run number 10, and a two-run bomb is broken and open.

It's four to nothing.

And welcome to Natschat for Friday, June 4th, 2021, along with Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman

of Bassensports.com.

I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al Al Galdi podcast. Well, a three-game

winning streak was not to be so much for the Nationals offense having been better the last two

games. Back to what we have become way too accustomed to were we with the Nationals offense

on Thursday afternoon, a 5-1 loss at the Atlanta Braves, and that's end up splitting their four-game series

at the Braves. That's loose for a six-time and eight games fall to 23 and 30 on the season,

including three and seven now against the Braves on the year. Mark, it was nice. Well, it lasted

that two-game winning streak. It was nice. This one had no resemblance to those two games at all,

and that I think was frustrating. But I think also, if I said you going into the series, if they

split it, go two and two, especially knowing that Strasbourg wasn't going to make it out of the

second inning in his start, you'd say, of course you'd take that. So I think that part of it,

you know, you can take sort of a you'd take that. So I think that part of it, you know,

you can take sort of a glass half full approach, but by the same token, given what we saw on Tuesday and Wednesday, and knowing they were facing a starting pitcher that most of us had

never heard of before, on Thursday, you'd say, man, there's a chance to win the series.

And so that makes it a disappointment. So it depends how you want to look at it. You can afford to lose some games every now and again that you think you should win, but they've already used up a lot of those this year. And if they are going to actually get back in this thing, they're going to have to win more of these games that are there for the taking. So to that point, there's a reality that's starting to settle in here.

And I felt like Davy Martinez sort of spoke to it during his postgame Zoom press conference.

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