Make Walters your spot for Monday night football next week as the commanders aim to go two and one.

They visit Joe Burrow and the Bengals at 8.15 p.m.

Here's the set. The kick in the pitch.

Swing in a tapper. Third base side. It's to be a tough one. It's a spinner. It's picked up by Irvin.

The throw to first is in time for the out. And Ervin is fired up about it. He just raised his palms to the sky with a heck of a play to throw out Vientos on the swinging bun up the third base line. A rare show of emotion. Really reminiscent of the 4th of July when Ervin pumped up the crowd after eight innings. Here finishing off the fourth, he was so fired up about it. Here's the pitch. Swing and a miss. He struck him out with another sinking fastball. So Jake Irvin works through the top of the Mets order very quickly, and he has five strikeouts through six shutout innings. Winning run at third, last to the 10th. Barnes sets at the letters.

He deals. Swing in a line drive left field, down the line toward the quarter, and this ball game is

over. Bader scores the winning run as Marte is being mobbed rounding first. The Mets rally to beat

the Nationals 2 to 1. And welcome to NASCHchat for Tuesday, September 17th, 2004, along with Mass and Sports.com Nationals Insider, Mark Zuckerman. It was at City Field in New York City. I'm Al-Galdi, hosted the Al-Galdi podcast. Well, it is official. The Nats have clinched a fifth consecutive losing regular season. Monday night,

a 2-1-10 inning loss at the New York Mets in game one of a three-game series. The Nats fell to 68 and 82,

including just 5 and 11 in extra inning games. The Nats in this game blew a 1-0 8th inning lead.

But also in this game was a terrific outing by Nat starting pitcher Jake Irvin.

This installment of the Nat Chat podcast brought to us by Mason Calphus and his team of 10 legal

recruiters at Zenith Legal in Washington, D.C. Check out Mason's website today, zenithlegal.com,

or call or text Mason anytime 202-486-3535. The Mets right now

are in quite the battle with the Atlanta Braves for the National League's third and final

wildcard spot. Jake Irvin on Monday night found himself pitching in a game with postseason

implications. And Irvin was up for the challenge, one run, and seven and a third inning.

Mark, yes, the Nats did lose this game, but the story of the game from a Nats perspective was Jake Irvin.

What a job by him in this game.

100% this was Jake Irvin game that deserves all the attention that we can give to it and heap all the praise we can keep upon him.

As you said, this is a big game for him and for the team to be facing a Mets team that is desperate to win every game it can down the stretch.

That probably, if you were to ask them deep down would

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