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Game 61: Robles TOOTBLAN Caps Frustrating Evening

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Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Nationals dropped the 2nd game of their doubleheader, 2-1 in extras to the Giants. Al & Mark spend plenty of time scratching their heads over Victor Robles decision to tag up from first base in the 8th inning, which led to a backbreaking double play. Will he be benched on Sunday for the crucial mental error? (13:02) Jefry Rodriguez was called up from AAA and threw four shutout innings in a spot start. Will he continue to get opportunities in Washington this season? (22:28) Preview of Joe Ross vs. Johnny Cueto on Sunday as the Nats look to split the series. As Al coined, it's the latest installment of "Joe Ross, Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal" as you never know what to expect from the right hander. Plus, Mark explains why Yadiel Hernandez was sent down to Rochester. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Nationals are back home and Walters is the place to be.

0:03.6

Swing by before the game for a cold one or come afterwards to catch late-night NBA playoffs.

0:08.3

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0:15.3

Walters is a great option not only during Nats games but also to watch Euro 2020 matches.

0:56.3

Castro at second. Robles at first, no-outs, 2-1 Giants, the pitch. Swinging a high drive, right-center field. This is playable. Difting back is Slater, near the track. He'll make the catch. Both runners tag to throw in towards second, and Robles alludes to tag with overslides the bag. running toward 30s got nowhere to go he is tagged out and Victor Robles has cost the nationals big time on the base pass trying to go from first to second he overslides the bag and so it turns into a double play Castro's at third but now two outs in the inning. And it's up to Trey Turner. And welcome to Natschat for Sunday, June 13th, 2021, part two, along with Nationals

1:03.5

insider Mark Zuckerman of Massinsports.com. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. The

1:08.7

National League split a doubleheader with the National League leading San Francisco Giants at Nationals Park on Saturday. The focus of this installment of the podcast is game two, the loss, a two-one, eight-inning loss on Saturday night. Remember, eight-innings means extra innings when you're playing seven-inning games. Thankfully, the Nationals are no longer winless in seven inning games this season.

1:29.2

The game won victory, the doubleheader improved the Nats to one and five in seven inning games.

1:33.3

But the Nats now are one and six in seven inning games in no small part because of a major

1:39.4

base running blunder by Victor Robles in the bottom of the eighth inning.

1:43.4

Now, this is not the only

1:44.4

reason that that's lost the game. Let's be clear about that. But this certainly stands out. Robles

1:49.1

gets hit by a pitch because that's what he does in the bottom of the eighth. Then inexplicably

1:54.2

tries tagging up from first to second with a runner on second on a first pitch fly up by Josh Bell,

2:00.7

gets tagged out in a rundown

2:02.5

between second and third for a killer of a double play. Just a brutal base running blunder.

2:09.2

This is the two-plan of maybe all two plans for the Nationals so far this season.

2:14.0

Davy Martinez in his post-game press conference calling Robles' decision to try to tag a

2:18.3

poor and not a very smart decision. I thought it was a poor right there. I mean, that's not a very smart decision. You know, we had top of the order coming up. Man, our first and third. You just let the game play out of it. If the nationals are a better offensive team, this isn't that big of a deal, but because the nationals are a

2:34.7

putrid offensive team, this is a very big deal. And also because Robles has done this kind of thing

2:40.1

before, it stands out big time. That was a bad moment. Yeah, I mean, put this one on the list of the

2:45.9

most agonizing moments of a season that has had way too many agonizing moments already. But

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