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Nats Chat

Game 8: Strasburg Struggles in St. Louis

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Nats were routed 14-3 by the Cardinals Tuesday evening as Stephen Strasburg had one of his worst career starts, allowing 8 runs in 4+ innings. Al & Mark run through Strasburg's outing and the camera controversy in the tunnel that dominated the postgame conversation. Anything physically wrong with Strasburg or was it just poor mechanics? (13:37) The 5th inning was a nightmare for Washington reliever Luis Avilan and the guys recap the 9 run frame for the Cardinals. On the bright side, the bullpen was effective in the final 3 innings of work, including a memorable bottom of the 8th pitched by a position player.  (22:56) Finally, a preview of the series rubber match Wednesday afternoon as Joe Ross takes on veteran right-hander Adam Wainwright, and an update on Will Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Walter Sports Bar is excited to welcome Nationals fans back to the ballpark this spring,

0:04.8

located directly across the street from Nationals Park.

0:07.4

Walters is the preeminent sports bar in Navy Yard, boasting over 35 televisions, both indoors and out.

0:13.4

Walters is a great location to cats the gnats all season long.

0:17.0

Walters encourages all fans to check out coronavirus.d.c.gov to get up-to-date information on current dotting

0:24.0

restrictions. Go next.

0:26.8

Avila with an outside target, the 3-1 is cracked high in the air to right field.

0:30.8

Deep toward the corner goes Soto, looking up at the wall, and this one is gone. It hits the foul pole.

0:40.2

Home run number one for Carpenter in the the second two run homer of the inning makes it five to one and avila was set up to the outside that pitch

0:45.5

missed middle end and another missed location results in a cardinal long ball their third homer

0:50.7

against strasburg and welcome to nat's chat for Wednesday, April 14th, 2021, along with Matt's insider Mark Zuckerman

0:59.1

of Massinsports.com.

1:00.7

I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.

1:03.7

And boy, do we have a lot to unpack off what was a hideous Nationals loss on Tuesday night?

1:10.7

14-3 ends up being the final.

1:13.5

We have a television camera controversy.

1:16.7

We had Arnon Perez pitching.

1:19.4

We have a Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine theory that was floating, that that's the

1:24.7

reason the nationals were basically no-shows for this game. And oh, yeah, Stephen Strasbourg got shelled. Mark, this podcast may take about two and a half hours to go through everything. Maybe not that long. But anyway, good to be with you, man. How you doing? Oh, just fine. Hey, I'm doing better than Steven Strasberg at the end of that night. Boy, I've covered his whole career. I have

1:45.4

seen him have good starts and bad starts. There are very few starts this bad that he's had

1:50.8

in his career. In fact, only twice has he given up more than eight runs that he allowed in this

1:55.6

game. One time it was in Colorado and it turned out he was injured that we found out after the fact.

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