Game 87: Rain Delay Shortens Gore's Outing

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Nats were swept by the Reds and Thursday's finale was a 5-4 extra inning defeat for their 14th loss in their past 15 home games. Mark & Al recap the odd affair, that saw a nearly two hour rain delay in the top of the 2nd; thus prematurely ending MacKenzie Gore's start. This is his final schedule start until the All Star Break and his ERA is now at 4.42. (10:15) The rain delay caused the afternoon to become a Bullpen Game and the "A" Bullpen took the mound in addition to a few others. Hunter Harvey threw a perfect top of the 9th, but in the 10th immediately surrendered a 2 run HR to Nick Senzel. This does create plenty of complications for this weekend's upcoming series vs. Texas. (20:00) Keibert Ruiz went 0 for 5 while DHing and his OPS is a troubling .639. What to make of him at the moment at the plate? Why isnt' Riley Adams getting more chances at 1B? (25:50) Alex Call homered, stole a base, and walked twice. Call's HR briefly gave the Nationals the lead and this came one day after returning from Rochester. (28:00) Mark gives an update on Jeimer Candelario, who left in the 10th inning after taking a fastball to the kneecap while up to bat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.0	Offield shades right.
0:19.4	D'Warte fires home.
0:22.6	Sway to blast to left field for call. Way back Benson, to the track, to the wall.
0:25.6	It's long gone.
0:28.6	Nationals back in front, three to two.
0:30.6	Alex Call puts one four rows deep over the Reds bullpen in Section 102.
0:35.6	The kick and the pitch, swinging a line driving the right,
0:39.5	a base hit.
0:41.1	That will score Benson from third of the Reds
0:44.5	have tied the game again at 3 and 3.
0:47.7	The pitch from Harvey is blasted to left field,
0:50.3	back Dickerson to the warning track.
0:52.4	He's at the wall, and it is gone. First pitch in the 10th inning, a two-run homer, and it's 5-3 Cincinnati.
1:00.0	Senzel saves the game in the bottom of the ninth and puts them ahead in the top of the 10th with his seventh home run of the season.
1:07.7	And welcome to Nat Chat for Friday, July 7, 2020, along with Massensports.com,
1:13.5	Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. If there's such a thing as a four-game series that felt like a 10-game losing streak,
1:22.6	this just concluded four-game series for the Nats against its Cincinnati Reds at Nationals Park.
1:27.7	Is it the Nats off that terrific six and three road trip swept by the Reds in four games?
1:34.1	So 5-4-10 inning loss on Thursday in a game in which the Nats blew a three-two-eighth inning lead
1:39.5	and a game that was plagued by a rain delay, a rain delay of one hour and 43 minutes. Nats now 34 and 53.
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