Irvin Blanks the Pirates

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Nats ended their three game skid with dominant pitching in Tuesday night's 3-0 victory in Pittsburgh. Mark (From PNC Park) & Al have plenty of praise for Jake Irvin, who lasted seven frames and only allowed three hits. This was Irvin's 4th outing of the season and by far his best. (07:00) Following a pregame meeting, the bullpen responded with two scoreless innings by Jose A.Ferrar & Kyle Finnegan. Finnegan is 6 for 6 in save opportunities and trails only San Diego's Robert Suarez for the league lead. (12:45) James Wood led the game off with a towering 445 foot home run. Wood has six homers already this season and is tied for the 2nd most in the majors, trailing Tyler Soderstorm of the Athletics who has hit eight home runs. (17:00) Dylan Crews went 1 for 3 while hitting 7th and playing RF. Alex Call was the odd man out of the lineup as Jacob Young got the nod in CF. (22:05) Nasim Nunez continued to do a solid job filling in for the injured CJ Abrams at SS. Nunez gave Washington insurance with a 2-run single in the top of the 6th at the end of a 10 pitch plate appearance. (24:30) Paul DeJong exited the game early after getting hit in the face during an at-bat. He was sent for a CT scan and it is unclear whether or not he is headed to the IL. (28:00) A quick update on Andres Chaparo, who was placed on the IL the day before Opening Day due to an oblique strain. (31:45) Josh Whetzel, the Voice of the Rochester Red Wings, provides an update from the Nats AAA affiliate. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Natschat podcast.
0:05.7	Walters is the best spot to go before and after home games located at the southeast corner
0:11.4	of Capitol and End Streets, right across the street from the ballpark.
0:19.5	And the pitch. Breaking ball pulling the ground right side.
0:22.6	Garcia and knee has it.
0:23.6	He straightens.
0:24.6	He throws to first to low on the side retired.
0:27.6	Jake Irvin threw seven innings in Pittsburgh.
0:30.6	One ball, two strikes on Jack Swinck.
0:33.6	Finnegan ready?
0:34.6	A long hold. Here he comes.
0:36.6	Check swinging a ball in the dirt. Strike three says the umpire at third. Manning
0:40.3	Gonzalez, Ruiz applies the tag and this ball game's over.
0:43.3	Kyle Finnegan nails down the save. The Nationals win at 3-0.
0:46.3	As Jake Irvin gets win number one, the Nationals end their three-game losing streak.
0:51.3	And this series is square to win a piece with two to play. Terrific pitching performance as the Nationals record their first shutout of the season. And welcome to Nats chat along with Massinsports.com Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who is at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. The Nats three-game losing streak is over. A three-nothing win at the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday evening in game two of a four-game series on what was 2025 Jackie Robinson Day and MLB. The Nats and M-LB's 20-25 regular season now are seven and ten. You can find us on X at Nats underscore chat. You can find us on Blue Sky at Nats Chat
1:28.9	Podcast. You can email the show. We always enjoy hearing from you, Nats chat podcast at gmail.com.
1:34.9	And we have a website that we invite you to check out Natschatpodcast.com at which you can
1:39.1	purchase the Nats chat podcast t-shirt coming up later in the show and update on the NADS AAA affiliate,
1:44.5	the Rochester Red Wings, from the radio voice of the Red Wings, Josh Wetzel. So the Nats
1:49.7	during their now concluded three-game losing streak allowed 28 runs, but the Nants on Tuesday
1:54.9	evening got excellent pitching. Jake Irvin, seven scoreless innings, the bullpen, two
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