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There's the set, the one-two pitch. So we had a line drive, left field that's down for a base in. They're going to wave Wood in. Beliger throwing home toward the plate wood comes in the

tag is on him and he slides into it for the out belliger guns him down with a one-hop

strike and it was not all that close so bell singles to left wood cut down seven to two

belliger picks up the outfield assist his fourth of the year year, and the Nationals denied, and the fifth.

Now the set.

Here is the pitch.

Swing in a long drive.

Deep left center field.

Get out the tape measure.

It is halfway up the bleachers above the visitor's bullpen in left center field.

And one of the list of home runs against

nationals pitching over the years for Jean Carlos Staten with an epic Titanic

451 foot home run leaving the yard at 113 miles an hour it's the Yankees 5 and the Nationals won.

And welcome to Natschat, along with MadisonSports.com,

Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman.

I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.

So we've been talking about this rather challenging 13-game stretch for the Nationals,

a 13-game stretch against the National

League East leading Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Mets, and the New York Yankees. The Nats have

one game left in this stretch. The Nats, over the first eight games of the stretch, went five

and three, but the Nats have lost four consecutive games. The latest of 5-1 loss at the Yankees

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