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Nats Chat

Happ & the Cubs Take the Series Finale

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9574 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Nats dropped Thursday's rubber match 7-1 to the visiting Cubs as Ian Happ knocked in four runs. Al & Mark sort through the sloppy affair, another example of poor defense & base running in defeat. (04:30) James Wood has a hard luck 0 for 4 evening despite every ball he hit having an exit velocity over 97 MPH. (09:20) Why is Davey Martinez not bothered by base running miscues? (12:45) Jake Irvin allowed three runs in five innings of work. Irvin immediately gave up a 2-run homer to Pete Crow-Armstrong; emblematic that he too has 1st inning struggles like some of his teammates. (17:35) Jackson Rutledge gave up a 2-run Happ HR in the top of the 6th and his season has gone sideways a bit recently. (25:00) A familiar face will take the mound on Friday night when Patrick Corbin gets the start for Texas vs. Michael Soroka. Corbin is pitching better for the Rangers than he did last year in Washington, but the hosts explain why a regression to the mean might be around the corner for the veteran lefty.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Join Walters this Sunday night at 6 p.m. for a DC Defender Conference Championship Watch Party,

0:06.5

as they take on the only pro football team in St. Louis.

0:13.7

Now to set the pitch, breaking ball sky to straightaway center and deep.

0:18.2

Hasselback turns around to the wall, and it's gone. Right over the 402 mark and straightaway center, 2. Hasselback turns around to the wall and it's gone.

0:21.6

Right over the 402 mark and straightaway center two nothing comes.

0:25.6

Pete Crow Armstrong with number 16 on the season

0:28.6

to the deepest part of Nationals Park.

0:30.6

So he got a hold of a curveball and crushed it over the center field fence.

0:35.6

Rutledge to the belt, kicks in, in delivers swing and a long drive to right

0:40.8

deep down the line it's going going and it is gone goodbye

0:45.3

in and out of the first row of the third deck and bouncing down below

0:51.3

a bomb of a home run for Ian Hap is fourth of the year.

0:56.1

And he has driven in three runs in the game tonight.

0:59.1

It's now the Cubs five and the Nationals nothing.

1:02.8

And welcome to Nat's chat, along with Massinsports.com,

1:06.2

Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park.

1:09.0

I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. So the Chicago Cubs are what the Nationals are trying to be, a really good team. And the Nats are better, no doubt, but they are not at the level of the Cubs. Not yet, anyway. And we in a now concluded three-game series between the two teams at Nasdaels Park saw the difference between

1:27.8

the two teams. Thursday evening, a 7-1 loss for the Nats to the Cubs to lose two out of three

1:33.0

games in the series. You look at how each team is doing here. The Nats in this regular season now,

1:37.7

29 and 33 run differential of minus 46. The Cubs in this regular season now, National League best 39 and 23, Major League

1:48.0

Best run differential of plus 106. This installment of Natchat brought to us by the D.C. Graze, part of the

1:55.8

Cal Ripkin Summer Collegiate Baseball League. The Grays are playing their games this season at Woodbridge High School

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