Gore Clobbered in 6th Straight Loss

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Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Nats were crushed by the visiting Athletics 16-7 on Tuesday night for their 6th consecutive defeat. Mark & Al run through all the awful totals as the Nationals were routed by the last place team in the AL West. (03:20) MacKenzie Gore had a nightmarish start that only lasted three innings. Gore immediately fell behind 5-0 in the top of 1st and ended up giving up eight runs. Gore's ERA is now 4.29 and he did not record any strikeouts in the outings. The lefty's ERA was at 2.89 back on June 15th when he was on his way towards the All-Star Game. (16:00) The bullpen had to go six innings and allowed eight runs in the process. Andry Lara had a brutal outing as he allowed six runs in his two innings of work. The 'pen has an unthinkable 5.98 for ERA this season. (21:05) The offense has been outscored 54-20 in this homestand. Eleven of those 20 runs have come in the bottom of the 9th when the game is already well out of hand; including four in the bottom of the 9th on Tuesday. James Wood had another game without a hit, but did not strikeout in the loss. (22:45) Cade Cavalli will return to the Navy Yard for the first time in three years on Wednesday evening. Cavalli has struggled mightily in Rochester, but there are not seemingly any better options. Cavalli's only Nats start came in August 2022 before he got hurt for the rest of the season.

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0:00.0	Join us at the Nats chat hangout at Walters on Wednesday, August 6th.
0:05.0	We'll get started at 5 p.m. prior to the game against the athletics.
0:08.9	Come share your early thoughts on the Mike de Bartolo era.
0:15.6	The 1-1.
0:17.2	Bernays smokes one to left center field and deep.
0:19.8	Jacob Young on the go to the warning track at the wall.
0:22.6	He leaps and he cannot get it.
0:25.0	This one is gone.
0:26.6	It's a two run over for Hernays and it's 5-0-0 athletics.
0:30.7	And an absolutely miserable beginning to this game for McKenzie Gore.
0:34.8	Six batters in, down 5-0. And the pitch swung on, drilled in the air to deep
0:41.1	center field. Young going back, way back, looking up, and there it goes, a home run. A three-homer game for
0:48.0	Shane Lagaliers. Home runs 20, 21, and 22 each time leading off an inning.
0:55.2	And welcome to Natschat, along with Massinsports.com, Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman,
1:00.6	who is at Nationals Park. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:04.5	We are in the midst of one of the worst stretches of Nationals baseball ever.
1:09.4	That is not hyperbole. That is not overreaction.
1:12.9	That is not exaggeration. That is not a hot take. That is not clickbait. That is quantifiable.
1:19.4	The Nats got hammered by the American League West Worst Athletics 16-7 at Nationals Park on Tuesday evening,
1:45.2	giving the Nats a six-game losing streak during which they have been outscored 70-26. Yes, 70-26. As the Nats ace, Mackenzie Gore had another bad start. He officially allowed eight runs in three innings, and the Nats have reached a new low point in MLB's 2025 regular season, 24 games below 500, 44 and 68. That is the second worst record in the
1:52.4	National League. The run differential now is at minus 143 second worst run differential in
1:58.6	the NL. And understand who pummeled the Nats on Tuesday evening.
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