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The Kevin Sheehan Show

HR2: Mark Zuckerman analyzes the Nationals hot start to the MLB season! | Commanders might be waiting a while for Brandon Aiyuk

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

Sports, News

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

3.31.26 Hour 2, Mark Zuckerman from Nats Journal joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to analyze the Nationals hot 3-1 start to the MLB season after being projected as one of the worst teams in the league. Kevin Sheehan reacts to some more Dan Quinn comments on Commanders’ players he is high on going into next season. Kevin Sheehan discusses the Brandon Aiyuk and 49ers saga where it looks like the 49ers are in no rush to release him in hopes of getting a trade done.

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0:00.0

And now the runner first goes pitch outside runner stops runner from third breaks to the play he will score B'Boss still on the run down

0:08.0

they throw it back to Harper chasing him and Harper tags him on the back the inning is over for the Nationals execute the play to score the run and Bbas ends up being out two four three to retire the side. The nationals get two runs in the inning.

0:27.6

The Nats beat the Phillies last night, 13 to 2. Let me just mention that, yes, there are 158 games left in the year.

0:34.8

They've only played four, they're three and one. But currently,

0:41.9

they're second in the National League in batting average, second and actually tied for first in total home runs, second in RBIs, and first in hits. They've unloaded on people here

0:50.0

in three of the first four games. 13 to 2 was the final last night with Joey Weamer

0:57.3

tying the Major League record for reaching base on his first 10

1:02.2

plate appearances of the season.

1:05.3

Joining us to help us with what the hell's going on here

1:09.0

in a four-game sample size, I understand very small,

1:12.8

is Mark Zuckerman, who covers the Nats for himself now.

1:17.4

Substack, totally worth it. You should subscribe.

1:20.6

It's literally just a few bucks a month, and you get Mark doing a phenomenal job covering this

1:27.0

baseball team. Get a link job covering this baseball team.

1:28.3

Get a link to gnatsjournal.com at Mark Zuckerman on X.

1:33.8

So obviously it's just four games.

1:38.0

We know that.

1:38.9

But tell me what's happened in these four to where they look like they're a capable offensive baseball team.

1:48.3

Yeah, and they're doing it against two of, you know, what in theory should be two of the top teams in the National League, the Cubs and the Phillies, which maybe adds a little bit extra to this.

1:58.7

It's not like they're doing this to the Marlins and the Rockies or anything like that.

2:03.4

So they're just getting contributions from everybody.

2:06.7

And I think that's maybe the most notable thing about what's happened so far

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