Gore Strikes Out 9, Garcia Jr. Homers, & Finnegan Nails Down the Save

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Nats won their first road series of the season after a 4-1 victory over the Reds on Sunday afternoon. Mark (From Cincinnati) & Al note the bullpen having a solid weekend and instilling a bit more confidence as of late. (04:40) MacKenzie Gore extended his MLB lead for strikeouts this season by whiffing nine Reds in the series finale. Gore fought through muddy conditions to make it through the bottom of the 5th as the rain intensified in what was his last inning of work. (13:00) Three Nationals relievers combined for four scoreless frames after Gore departed. Jorge Lopez tossed two innings on his way to earning the win. Lopez has five consecutive scoreless appearance and all of them have come in high leverage situations. (16:10) Luis Garcia Jr. hit the go ahead solo homer to give Washington a 2-1 lead in the top of the 7th. Garcia hit two homers on the road trip and his OPS this season is at .642. (20:00) The Nats begin a three game series vs. Cleveland on Monday night in Navy Yard. There is some mystery as to who will start on Wednesday afternoon as it could either be Trevor Williams or Michael Soroka. Brad Lord is slated to start the middle game on Tuesday evening. (26:30) Jim Callis from MLB Pipeline previews the options for the Nationals this summer when they select the top pick in the Draft on July 13th.

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0:00.0	Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Natschat podcast.
0:05.7	Walters is the best spot to go before and after home games located at the southeast corner
0:11.4	of Capitol and End Streets, right across the street from the ballpark.
0:19.8	McKenzie Gore delivers on three and two a swing and a miss,
0:23.8	struck him out on a curve ball on Gore's 100th pitch of the afternoon.
0:29.2	33 of them come in that bottom of the fifth inning.
0:32.7	That's his ninth strike out of the game.
0:35.1	Here's the set at the belt and the O2.
0:38.3	Breaking ball, looping line drive.
0:40.3	Base in left center field.
0:41.3	It's down and this will bring home two.
0:43.3	The ball past the center fielder done, backed up in left by Lux as Abrams goes sliding into second with a clutch, two out, two run double.
0:51.3	And the Nationals lead at four to one.
0:53.3	Two huge insurance runs delivered by Abrams.
0:56.2	It's now a 10-game hitting streak as Rogers left a slider over the plate,
1:00.3	and CJ dropped into the left center field for a huge hit.
1:04.3	And welcome to Natschat along with Massensports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman,
1:09.0	who was at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
1:11.5	I'm Al Galdi host of the Al Galdi podcast for just the second time in MLB's 2025 regular season.
1:17.4	The Nats have won a road series. Sunday, a 4-1 win at the Cincinnati Reds in a game for
1:22.6	which to start was delayed by rain for 22 minutes. But the Nats won two out of three games in this series to
1:28.6	improve to 16 and 19 overall, 9 and 7 at home versus 7 and 12 on the road. You can find
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