Game 99: Lane Thomas & the Nats Finally Get a Sweep

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Get out your brooms as the 2+ year sweep drought in a 3 game series is thankfully over as the Nats took care of the Giants 6-1 on Sunday afternoon. Al & Tim have plenty to revel in, but especially Lane Thomas' unforgettable day where he tied a franchise record with 4 stolen bases, 3 hits at the plate, and flashed the leather in the field multiple times. However, the conversation quickly morphs into... should they trade Lane next week before the Deadline? (15:00) Riley Adams homered on Sunday and his OPS is well above .800 despite having fewer than 100 plate appearances. What can the Nationals do to get him more playing time? (22:30) MacKenzie Gore had a good outing as he threw 5 shutout innings with 8 Ks and only allowed 4 hits. Gore lasted 90 pitches and then handed it off to the bullpen. This was his best outing since last month in San Diego (June 25th). (29:00) The highlight of the sweep might be how effective the bullpen was all weekend. On Sunday, they shouldered 4 IP and only allowed 1 run in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Make Walters your spot for the Women's World Cup as Team USA looks to three-peed,
0:05.2	located across the street from Nationals Park and opened seven days a week.
0:12.2	Long hold now the pitch.
0:14.2	Swing a blast down the left field line chasing toward the quarterback, his Slater, reaches up,
0:17.9	can't get it. It's by a one-hop off the fence Scoring is Garcia, and in its second with a double as Lane Thomas.
0:24.6	Nationals five Giants nothing.
0:27.6	Thomas comes through again with a screaming double
0:30.6	just out of the reach of the lunging Austin Slater.
0:33.6	Now the 3-2 with Thomas running.
0:35.6	It's inside. The throw to third is not in time.
0:38.3	Clayton Thomas has his fourth stolen base on ball four to chamber Candelario.
0:44.2	Fitzwagon driven deep to right. Thomas going back into the warning track. A leap and he makes a back-handed catch. A step from the fence. He's firing back to it first on three hops and that is in time a double play if the inning is over
0:59.2	A spectacular finish to the top of the eighth inning with a terrific running
1:04.2	Backhanded leap and a catch a step from the fence in right center and Wilmer Flores was gone he couldn't get back
1:11.4	Thomas with his ninth outfield assist to end the inning now the source of kicks
1:16.4	to the risk swing to ground ball the first fielded by Smith going to the bag on
1:20.4	assisted and bang zoom a curly W and a three-game series sweep are in the books here in Nationals Park.
1:30.4	And welcome to Natchat for Monday, July 24th, 2020.
1:35.6	I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:37.8	Mark Zuckerman is wrapping up a nice vacation, but I am again joined by the brains of the
1:43.2	Natschat podcast, Tim Schovers, and I am happy to say that the drought is over.
1:48.8	The Nationals had not authored a sweep of a series, any series, since August 2021.
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