For those headed to the National's Futures game on Tuesday, March 26th,

make sure you walk on over to Walters before the noon first pitch.

Walters will start serving beverages at 9.30 and the kitchen opens up at 11 a.m.

Located just across the street from the ballpark.

Gray, a long look in.

Line of the pitch, swing, and a foul tip struck him out with a fastball as Riley Adams

squeezes that one.

And Gray is fan, three of the first four Red Sox in this game.

And welcome to Natch Chat for Tuesday, March 19, 24, along with Mass andports.com, National's Insider Mark Zuckerman, who is in West Palm Beach, Florida, the site of National Spring Training. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. National's opening day is less than a week and a half away. Feels good to say that Thursday afternoon. March 28th at the Cincinnati

Reds at 410. And we now know the Nats starting pitcher for that game, more on that momentarily. A lot

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So I mentioned Nats opening day mark is on March 28. The 2024 M.O.B. regular season actually starts this Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the San Diego Padres in Seoul, South Korea. First pitch, 605 a.m. Eastern in game one of a two-game series.

Will you be up early having breakfast in West Palm watching Dodgers Padres on Wednesday

at 605 a.m. Eastern? Well, not at 605, but honestly, I get up at 6.30 every morning down here because

that's how early we got to get up and get ready to go to the ballpark. They do open clubhouse at

8 a.m. when there's a day game down here. So there's a

decent chance I will be up, not necessarily for the purpose of watching that game, but I'll probably put it on the TV while I'm trying to wake myself up and get ready to go to work. You know, 6 a.m. on the East Coast, that's fine. But if you're a fan of the Dodgers or Padres living in California, That's 3 a.m. I mean, I get it. It's a great thing they're doing this. It's great for the growth of the sport and all that. But my God, if I was a Dodgers or Padres fan living out West, I wouldn't be real thrilled with this, to be honest. Well, we know in the city of Los Angeles, there are all kinds of people who are up at 305 a.m.

Maybe not for reasons for watching baseball, but we get the idea.

So, National's opening day coming up, and we on Sunday morning had some news regarding

National's opening day.

Nats manager Davy Martinez in a session with reporters like Mark on Sunday morning naming Josiah Gray

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