Game 84: Offense Lacks Fireworks in Defeat

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Nats lost the home stand opener 3-2 on Monday evening to Cincinnati. Mark & Al begin with the very curious and costly decision by Stone Garrett to try and steal 2nd Base in the bottom of the 9th. Hear how Davey Martinez responded to Garrett getting thrown out for the 2nd out in the final frame. (09:40) Joey Meneses was slotted 5th in the lineup as opposed to his usual placement of 3rd or 4th in the order. Meneses really struggled in June as he only came up with six hits the entire month. (18:50) Jake Irvin took the loss, but pitched decently for the 4th straight outing. A month ago his ERA was at 5.81, but ever since having his spot in the rotation was skipped, it is now down to 4.70. After he departed; the "B" Bullpen held the Reds scoreless over the final three innings. (26:50) Quick turnaround on Tuesday morning as the Nats host their annual July 4th game at 11AM. Are you a fan of the tradition in DC? (30:00) Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline ends the show with an updated scouting report on Brady House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.6	1-1.
0:18.1	Fotto, skies won to left center field in deep, Long Chase Hill. Hill back to the warning track. He's out of room and there it goes.
0:26.1	Down into the Reds bullpen a two-run home for Joey Votto makes it 3-0 Cincinnati
0:31.1	His fourth home run of the season. Diaz coming set first base side of the hill the kick and the payoff pitch swung on ground ball right side.
0:40.6	Right at the second basement, India Fields, throws Tobano, and the game is over.
0:46.7	The Red's taking one of this four-game series.
0:50.3	And welcome to Nat's chat for Tuesday, July 4th, 2023. Happy July 4th, along with Massinsports.com,
0:57.3	National's insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:02.8	So the Cincinnati Reds are what we hope that the Nats soon will be, a young team that is having a surprisingly successful season.
1:11.1	The Reds, as we speak, are tied with the Milwaukee Brewers atop the National League Central at 46 and 39,
1:17.3	although each team does have a negative run differential.
1:21.0	But the Reds now have won 17 of their last 21 games, the latest of which did come at the expense of the Nats, a 3-2
1:30.0	Nats lost to the Reds at Nazitals Park on Monday evening in game one of a four-game series.
1:35.2	That's now 34 and 50, second worst record in the National League, and now are just 13 and 28
1:42.0	at home versus 21 and 22 on the road. Coming up later in the show, the
1:47.6	latest installment of Tim Schover's conversation with Jim Callis, senior writer for MLB Pipeline.
1:52.6	You'll hear Jim talk about that adds number two prospect per pipeline, third basements,
1:56.7	slash shortstop Brady House, who was the number 73 prospect and all of baseball per M will be
2:02.0	pipeline. But Mark, we on Monday evening had good pitching by the Nats. We had some not so good
2:07.2	hitting by the Nats. And we had a rain delay during which there was no rain. The start of the
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