Game 74: Gray Dazzles But the Rangers Walk It Off

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Nats lost a heartbreaker to the Rangers 3-2 as Adolis Garcia hit a walk-off HR against Kyle Finnegan in the bottom of the 9th. Mark (Live from Texas) and Al take a glass half full approach to Saturday as Josiah Gray struck out nine in seven innings, only allowing four hits in the process. Does it seem like he's elevated his game this past month? (11:30) Finnegan got the nod in the 9th instead of Tanner Rainey. Is he taking Rainey's spot as the ace reliever on the staff? (16:30) Washington was on the wrong end of a controversial call in the top of the 8th that potentially cost them the go ahead run. Why wasn't Nelson Cruz's hit reviewable? Mark relays what the team was feeling about the play afterwards. (24:15) Juan Soto doubled, but also immediately hit into a 5-6-3 double play. We revisit our ongoing conversation about Soto's struggles so far this season. He is shocking 7 for 56 with runners in scoring position this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Natch Chat is brought to you by Walters.
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0:08.8	Bottomless options include mimoses, bloody marries, trullies, and bud lights.
0:14.0	Walk on over to Walters for game six of the Stanley Cup finals.
0:17.8	Puck drops at 8 p.m. on Sunday night.
0:22.8	Long look. Gray fires. Swing and a miss. He struck him out on a ball in the dirt. Ruiz
0:28.3	will pick it up. He will throw down to first. The strikeout completed. And so is seven
0:32.5	innings for the first time in the big league career of Josiah Gray. Here in the seventh,
0:36.7	strikeout 7-8 and 9. And he strands to go-ahead run at second base in the big league career of Josiah Gray here in the seventh strikeout seven
0:37.7	eight and nine and he strands to go ahead run at second base in the bottom of
0:41.5	the seventh here's the set now the pitch swing and a drive deep left center
0:46.0	field Robles on the run way back this ball is gone goodbye it's a game-winning walk-off home run for Adolos Garcia.
0:58.5	And the Rangers have themselves a one-run win today.
1:03.0	And welcome to Natschat for Sunday, June 26, 2022, along with MadisonSports.com,
1:08.9	Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Globe Life Field
1:11.7	in Arlington, Texas. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. If there's a good thing
1:17.1	about the nationals being a bad team this season, that thing is that tough losses don't have to feel
1:23.0	so bad, especially if within those losses are good things. And I thought what we had on Saturday was a tough
1:29.0	loss for the Nats. Yes, but a tough loss for the Nats that featured a very good thing. So the Nance
1:34.2	lost at the Texas Rangers on Saturday. 3-2 was the final in this game two of a three-game series.
1:40.9	The Nats lost on a walk-off home run. Bottom of the ninth, Kyle Finnegan face one batter, the result, a lead-off walk-off homer by Adolice Garcia, aka the great
1:50.0	bombino on a bomb to center field for a three-two Nads lost. So not a pleasant way for the
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