Late Blown Lead in Philly

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Nats had a gut punch extra-inning loss on Wednesday afternoon. Mark (From Philadelphia) & Al react to the 6-5 defeat where the Nationals blew a 5-1 late inning lead. (05:00) The bullpen did not get it done as four relievers gave up a run. Cole Henry took the loss after giving up a RBI leadoff single in the bottom of the 10th. (09:45) Could Brad Lord have taken the mound late in the game? (12:40) CJ Abrams launched a 3-run HR to put Washington up 5-1 for his first of the season. (13:30) Dissection of Daylen Lile getting thrown out on the bases in each of the final two innings. (18:00) Cade Cavalli had a much better outing than Opening Day as he only allowed one run in six frames. (22:05) Friday is the Nats home opener against the two-time defending World Series Champion Dodgers. Who will get the nod on the mound and what will the attendance be? (30:30) Tim is joined by Robert K. Fitts, award winning author, who has extensively written about Baseball in Japan. Robert talks about just how big Shohei Ohtani actually is in his native country.

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0:00.0	Walters is the spot to be before and after opening day this upcoming Friday afternoon.
0:06.5	Walters is located just across the street from the ballpark right off South Capitol Street.
0:14.3	Runner at first goes, swinging a try by Abrams, deep right center field.
0:18.5	Way back goes the right fielder Garcia looking up, and it is gone.
0:22.5	Goodbye.
0:24.9	Bang, zoom goes CJ Abrams.
0:28.0	That's his first home run of the year.
0:30.3	Bang, zoom goes Abrams.
0:32.0	A three-run home run here in the top of the seventh inning.
0:35.3	And the nationals have a four-run cushion.
0:37.4	It's Washington 5 in Philadelphia one. Sosa digs back. here at the top of the seventh inning and the nationals have a four-run cushion it's
0:37.6	Washington five and Philadelphia one Sosa digs back in Henry sets at the belt
0:43.4	the O2 pitch swing in a line drive left field base in Turner scores coming home is
0:48.8	more Woods throw to the plate is too high it goes to the backstop Henry's got a
0:53.7	back up to play bulb Boom goes to third,
0:55.8	so to the second, the game is tied. House is in the cutout at third. Garcia just to the left of the
1:02.7	cutout at first. Now the pitch, he shows no button and swings and runs it past the diving
1:08.2	Nunez into right center field of base end.
1:11.3	That scores Marsh and the Phillies have won it.
1:14.2	And they're out of the dugout to Bob the 22-year-old rookie Justin Crawford,
1:19.8	who has his first walk-off hit in the major leagues.
1:24.1	And welcome to Natch Chat, along with Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natsjournal.com.
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