Gore Takes the Mound but the Offense Gets Shutout

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Nats had to settle for a series split in Miami after dropping Thursday night's finale 5-0. Al & Tim gather after Washington was shutout for the 12th time this season to conclude their otherwise winning road trip. (04:00) MacKenzie Gore returned from the 15-Day IL to toss five innings in the loss. Gore allowed two runs in the first inning and struck out four Marlins in the outing. (08:05) CJ Abrams had a throwing error and it was his 18th of the season. Abrams has the 3rd most errors in Baseball and his defense is called into question. Abrams did however steal his 30th base of the season, reaching the milestone for the 3rd straight year. (11:20) James Wood had the day off and the offense was quite anemic in his absence. RIley Adams was back behind the plate and hit 3rd in the lineup. (14:30) Response to a report by the Washington Post's Barry Svrluga about the latest phase in the GM search. (23:45) Terry Byrom, the long time voice of the AA-Harrisburg Senators, is calling his final game on Sunday. We replay an interview that Tim held with Terry back in late May of 2023 when James Wood was still in AA.

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0:00.0	The Nats Chat, end-of-season podcast party will be at Walters at 7 p.m. on Friday night, October 10th.
0:07.4	Spread the word among your friends. We're aiming for our highest attendance yet to celebrate our fifth season of coverage.
0:14.1	Walters is located across the street from the ballpark.
0:20.8	The pitch.
0:21.8	So we have line drive up the middle.
0:23.3	Base in center field.
0:24.6	This one to Young on two hops.
0:25.9	Marcy trying to score.
0:27.0	Young trying to throw him out.
0:28.3	The throw through is offline and not in time.
0:31.1	Marcy scores RBI single for Wagamon and it's 2-0 Marlins.
0:35.4	Be through pretty good.
0:37.1	You know, we just, we didn't hit today. But, you know, it's just, we got a good road trip,
0:42.3	you know, a winning road trip and the guys are playing hard.
0:45.3	You just haven't done that in two weeks, you know, it's much different being out there than, you know,
0:50.3	on a side in between, so, but that was expected.
0:53.3	We figured we didn't think we'd be just, you know, dialed in right away. And welcome to Nats Chat. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. My usual co-host, Massensports.com, Nationals, insider Mark Zuckerman. He is off for this installment of the podcast, but I'm joined by the owner and executive producer of Nats Chat, Tim Schovers.
1:12.0	The Nats on Thursday evening suffered their 12th shutout loss in MLB's 2025 regular season,
1:17.7	in which the Nats now are 60 and 86, worst record in the National League East,
1:22.6	second worst record in the National League.
1:25.0	A 5-0 loss at the Miami Marlins for a split of a four-game series, though.
1:30.0	We did have a good return outing for starting pitcher McKenzie Gore from the 15-day injured list,
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