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Chuck, how are we doing? We're doing okay. Mike, we were talking about this before the

top of the hour. The wildfires in Canada, the air has been really bad in the Northeast.

New York City apparently is really bad in terms of the air quality index level. Did

your guys notice it last night? We did. There was like a almost like a cloud of smoke

over the ballpark. It's very hazy. Almost looked like a haze in the air. We're preparing

for rain. You could definitely tell and you could definitely see it. It's something.

It's really crazy. Did they was it harder to breathe for those guys? I didn't get any of

that. I didn't get any breathing elements or anything like that. But we did notice that

we didn't notice the air was definitely heavier and different. Did it affect ball flight?

It looked like a bunch of hits. A bunch of home runs. I don't think so. I don't think it

did. It was pretty warm calm night, which the ball flies pretty good when it's warmer

here in the DC. I don't think they had any effect on it. You guys had a big lead last night.

You scored four in the top or the bottom of the first. I think Stone Garrett hit his first

ever grand slam. It could be wrong on that, but I think that's what they said.

But then Irvin got in some trouble in the fourth and then you brought in cool or Ramirez and

then cool. Give me your synopsis on the game last night. Sloppy game, bad game. We had a lead.

CJ had another error. Sucks. They handed us some runs. They walked a bunch of guys in the

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