Griffin Throws a Clunker in Blowout Loss

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Nats entered Thursday one game below .500 and for the 15th consecutive (15th!!!!) time they lost when trying to reach that level. Mark (From Cincinnati) & Al recap recap the 15-1 thrashing at the hands of the Reds. (04:15) Blake Butera is not hung up on necessarily reaching .500 right now. (07:00) Foster Griffin had by far his worst start of the season by allowing nine runs in under five innings of work. Griffin issued three walks and gave up a pair of homers against the Cincinnati offense. The outing went so poorly, that his ERA went from 2.12 to up to 3.53 in the process. (15:00) Washington's starting pitching was rough all series despite the two victories. The bullpen was needed a lot this week even though the team is in the midst of a 16 games in 16 days stretch. (17:20) The offense was no match for Reds starter Chase Burns,, who struck out seven hitters in six innings. The Nats only mustered three hits, but Nasim Nuñez did steal his MLB leading 18th base. (21:30) The Nationals welcome Baltimore on Friday to begin their two series/ seven game home stand. The Orioles thus far are four games below .500.

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0:00.0	Walters is open late and a great spot to watch the final rounds of the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs.
0:06.7	Walter's sports bar and restaurant is located just across the street from Nationals Park.
0:15.1	The pitch swung on, hit up the middle. Abrams dives, it's off his glove into center field, a base head.
0:21.1	Steer has scored. Dunn around third. He will score over to the middle. Abrams dives. It's off his glove into center field of base head. Steer has scored. Done around third. He will score. Over to third is McLean.
0:27.3	And indeed, Griffin pays for the two walks. And Trevino comes through with a two out, two runs single to drive in his first two runs of the season.
0:40.3	And it's now the Reds for the Nationals nothing. Here's J.J. Bladay, left-handed batter, and he launches one to right field.
0:44.3	Way back it goes, and this one is not coming back.
0:47.3	It is long gone, about 10 rows into the seats in right field for J.J. Bladay.
0:52.3	It is 9-0 Cincinnati. Yeah, I mean, it's the big leagues, right? Any given day, you don't have your best stuff. They're going to penalize you for it. So we'll take today, maybe go through some videos, see what was maybe off tomorrow, and then from there, we're on the next one. And welcome to Nats chat. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:12.8	I'm joined by Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com.
1:16.9	He's at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, where it happened again.
1:21.7	It is the Nationals losing when having a chance to get to 500.
1:25.8	A 15-1 loss at the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday afternoon,
1:30.2	to deny the Nats a three-game sweep, to conclude a three-and-three road trip,
1:33.8	and to deny the Nats getting to 500.
1:37.0	The Nats in MLB's 2026 regular season now are 21 and 23.
1:41.6	They now have lost 15 straight games when having the chance to get to 500 in a regular
1:48.1	season. That is something, 15 consecutive losses. This installment of Natchchat is brought to us by
1:54.3	the DC Gray's annual fundraiser, Cigars and Curveballs, Monday, May 18th at Shelley's Backroom
1:59.2	in downtown Washington, D.C. at 6 p.m.
2:02.4	We can always engage via email. We always appreciate your emails. You can email us,
2:06.8	Nat's chat podcast at gmail.com. We got this email from Cameron during the game on Thursday afternoon.
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