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Nats Chat

Garcia Sent to Rochester After Wacky Walk-off Win

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It ended up being a busy Wednesday afternoon in Navy Yard as initially the Nats had an unorthodox walk-off winner over Milwaukee by the score of 3-2. Then roughly an hour after the game; it was announced that Luis Garcia is being sent down to AAA and Corey Dickerson was unconditionally released. Mark & Al examine why Garcia will be headed to Rochester and what that means long term at 2B in Washington. (16:50) The offense had some rather creative ways to defeat Brewers All Star Closer Devin Williams in the bottom of the 9th. Alex Call is credited with an unusual scoring, a walk-off fielder's choice grounder. Ildemaro Vargas not only scored the winning run, but had very heads-up base running along the way. (24:30) MacKenzie Gore threw a solid outing as he allowed just a pair of runs in 6 IP. An encouraging element to his start is that he only needed 89 pitches to get through the top of the 6th; a frame where he struck out the side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Walters is open for every U.S. Women's World Cup match, including this Sunday morning's 5 a.m. start.

0:10.6

One ball, two strikes. Now the kick, here's the pitch. Swing to ground ball, chopped the third.

0:16.5

They're going to throw home. The throw is wide off the glove of the catcher rolling the backstop here comes

0:21.8

fargus to the plate he is a two run score on a ground ball and a third and a wild throw to the plate

0:32.1

and bang zoom a curly d'us in the books The Nationals out of the field to celebrate.

0:40.0

A Bob Alex call for putting the ball in play and chopping it to the third base side.

0:46.3

A curly W in the books.

0:48.7

The final score, the Washington Nationals 3, the Milwaukee Brewers 2.

0:56.5

And welcome to Nats chat for Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, along with MadisonSports.com,

1:02.5

Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park, I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.

1:07.5

Thursday is the Nats first scheduled off day since July 20th, but the Nats on Wednesday

1:12.5

packed about two days worth of stuff into the one day. First came a three-two walk-off win over

1:17.8

the Milwaukee Brewers at Nationals Park to win two of the three games in the series as the Nats

1:22.9

overcame a 2-1-9th inning deficit with a two-run bottom of the ninth. But then shortly after the game,

1:29.4

but long enough to where reporters already had spoken with Davy Martinez and Nats players,

1:35.3

the team announced two significant moves. So the team announced that it had optioned second

1:41.2

baseman Luis Garcia to AAA Rochester, and the team announced that it had

1:44.9

requested unconditional release waivers on outfielder Corey Dickerson. Neither move necessarily shocking,

1:53.0

but each move, certainly a significant move. This episode is sponsored by Montgomery County

1:58.0

Little League. Montgomery County Little League, two wins away from making the

2:02.7

Little League World Series. Visit mc.little league.org for more information. You know, Mark, I was

2:09.6

reminded of a similar situation 12 years ago, June 2011, a weekday afternoon, a walk-off win, this one

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