Game 81: Gray, Garrett, & "A" Bullpen Get it Done

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The enter the Halfway Point on a high note as they eked out a 2-1 win in Philadelphia for their 5th victory in the past six games. Mark & Al start with Josiah Gray's solid start on Friday night where he struck out 8 Phillies while only issuing 1 walk. Gray's ERA at 3.30 on the season through 17 starts. (10:50) The "A" Bullpen came through with the final nine outs spread out between Mason Thompson, Kyle Finnegan, and Hunter Harvey. Harvey has appeared on the mound in all five Nationals victories this past week. (19:45) The offense did very little, but Stone Garrett did come through with an early 2 run HR to get the job done. Dom Smith did have a trio of hits on Friday and the pair of Lane Thomas hits lifted his average to .302. (26:20) A quick look halfway through the season at the Core 5 (Gray, Gore, Garcia, Abrams, and Ruiz). (33:00) Josh Whetzel, the Voice of the AAA Rochester Red Wings, gives an update on Jackson Rutledge, Blake Rutherford, Matt Adams, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.7	Pitch to Garrett, swung on, hit in the year to deep left field.
0:19.5	Schwabers going back.
0:20.5	He's at the wall.
0:21.2	He's looking up and it is gone.
0:22.9	Goodbye.
0:24.5	Bang!
0:25.2	Zoom goes Stone Garrett.
0:27.3	On a 1-1 pitch gets a hold of a change-up and drives it out of here to straightaway left field.
0:33.6	For Garrett, it's his fourth home run of the year.
0:35.6	RBI's 18 and 19.
0:43.3	The Nationals immediately cash into the Tray Turner error with Ruiz scoring in front of him. It's the Nationals 2 and the Phillies, nothing.
0:46.3	The matter at hand is Stott with a 3-2 count.
0:48.3	Runner's second and third.
0:50.3	Gray fires.
0:51.3	Swing and a miss, he struck him out in a high fastball. What an escape by Josiah Gray. He's fired up heading back to the dugout. Here's the one two. Swinging a ground ball to the second base, when a two hopper glove by Garcia, he'll underhand the ball to Smith, and the side is retired. So the Nationals' bullpen combo of Thompson and Finnegan working around the leadoff double,
1:11.5	the Phillies strand the tie run at second.
1:14.4	And welcome to Nat's chat for Saturday, July 1st, 2020, along with Massinsports.com,
1:20.4	Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
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