Irvin Shines in his Hometown Return

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Nats took their second straight series after winning Sunday's rubber match in Minnesota. Mark (From Target Field) & Al examine the Nationals 7-2 victory that saw Bloomington, MN native Jake Irvin impress on the mound in seven innings of work. (08:00) Konnor Pilkington & Kyle Finnegan each tossed scoreless frames to preserve the big lead. Pilkington has already been on the mound four times since getting called up from AAA earlier this week. (12:45) CJ Abrams homered on the first pitch of the game and filled the box score from there. Abrams stole three bases on Sunday and this game serves as a great example of all that Abrams brings to the table. (15:15) Josh Bell picked up three hits to continue his red-hot July. Bell is leaving the quite the impression to opposing GMs just ahead of Thursday's MLB Trade Deadline. (18:30) James Wood went 0 for 4 with all strikeouts on Sunday and this weekend he struck out ten times in the series. Wood showed a rare case of his frustration when arguing with the home plate umpire following on his Ks. He has struck out 134 times this season, second to only Detroit's Riley Greene. (22:25) Dylan Crews will make a rehab start this Tuesday night with Rochester. Crews has been out since May 20th due to an oblique injury. (26:00) The Athletic reports that the Cubs has interest in MacKenzie Gore. What would it take for the Nats to deal the lefty? (30:45) Jim Callis from MLB.com provides a brief scouting on Eli Willits, who the Nationals picked at #1 overall a few weeks ago.

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0:00.0	Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Nats chat podcast.
0:05.6	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.
0:19.6	Nats trying to add to a 4-2 lead.
0:21.5	Here's the pitch.
0:22.2	Call swings rounds it up the middle.
0:23.8	Gets a good hop over the second baseman into center field, a base head.
0:27.6	Garcia scores from third, Bell around third.
0:30.0	He'll come into score, and over to third goes Nathanielo.
0:33.6	Alice Cole delivers with a shot off the middle.
0:36.1	It took a high hop over the glove of the second baseman Lee
0:39.1	It's a single to center two runs batted in for Alex call and it's now the national six of the twins too
0:45.8	Irvin takes a deep breath
0:47.8	He turns into his motion and brings it home
0:50.4	Swing a soft ground ball torch short Abrams plays it into his left
0:53.8	Triggers on to first and the
0:55.2	inning over Jake Urban has pitched seven strong innings in his first ever started target field
0:59.6	and the urban fans behind the third base dugout rise to give the hometown hero a standing ovation
1:05.2	and welcome to nat's chat along with massensports.com, Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman,
1:11.3	who was at Target Field in Minneapolis, I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:15.8	The Nats now have won four of their last six games with the team totaling exactly 16 runs over two wins,
1:23.0	then getting shut out in back-to-back games games and then totaling exactly 16 runs and two more
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