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Mistake-Filled Offense Comes up Empty in Extras

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Nats made too many mental mistakes to count in their 7-6 Saturday afternoon loss to the visiting Giants. Mark & Al examine the puzzling extra inning defeat where there were plenty of examples of terrible fundamentals. The Nationals had poor base running, awful bunting, and overall came nowhere close to playing smart Baseball. Curtis Mead had a shockingly terrible base running mistake in the bottom of the 9th and Jorbit Vivas almost out did him in the 10th. (13:40) James Wood homered again for the 7th time this season, tied for the 2nd most in the National League. (17:00) Cade Cavalli had another disappointing outing as he only lasted four innings despite being given an early four-run lead. Cavalli was charged with three runs allowed after yielding seven San Francisco hits. Cavalli has only tossed 19.2 IP in five starts so far this season. (24:00) Mitchell Parker lasted three innings in relief of Cavalli and gave up three runs in the process. The bullpen the rest of the way did a solid job, including two perfect innings by Richard Lovelady. (26:30) Miles Mikolas will take the mound on Sunday as Washington looks to avoid getting swept.

Transcript

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0:00.0

For the sixth season in a row, Walters is the official bar of the Nats Chat podcast,

0:05.5

located across the street from the ballpark, just off South Capitol Street.

0:13.1

The kick in the pitch, swinging a ground ball, past the third baseman Chapman,

0:17.9

between him and the line and in the left field for a basehead.

0:23.6

Wood scores from Garcia stops in second. On a nice piece of hitting by Jose Tater going the other way.

0:26.6

He drives in his sixth run of the year.

0:29.6

And the Nationals now lead by the score of 5 to 1.

0:32.6

Field shades toward right, gap and left center on Ramos.

0:35.6

The O2. So you have a fly ball deep left field toward field toward the corner trouble if it's fair and it's gone and this game is tied

0:43.3

Ramos is homeward again second time in the series he's sprinting around the bases

0:48.3

it's now the Nationals five and the Giants five here's the set of the pitch

0:53.3

swing at a ground ball towards short. Adamas has it.

0:56.0

Races to the bag. Safe there, toward it first, but he's out. The Nationals would have won the

1:01.1

game, but Bebas slowed down, and they're out at first, and the inning is over. Young beat the

1:06.0

play at second, but Bebas slowed down, and he's thrown out at first base to end the inning.

1:17.1

If Bebas runs through the bag, the Nationals win, but he slows down thinking the play was over.

1:22.1

Young was safe at second, but Bebas is out at first and we'll go to the 11th.

1:23.8

Why did he slow down?

1:27.4

Long look at the runner Arise and the pitch pitch home. Swain a ground ball base in

1:29.4

a left field. Arise will come around third, he will head home and he will score. And for the

1:34.7

first time in extra innings, a run on the board. RBI single leading off the inning for Matt

1:40.1

Chapman and at 7-6 Giants. And welcome to Natsch, along with Washington Nationals Insider, Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com.

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