Nats Bring the Bats to Philly

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Nats extended their strong start with a 13-2 victory in Philadelphia on Monday night. Mark (From Citizens Bank Park) & Al note how this is the first time that the franchise has been two games over .500 since.... the summer of 2021! (06:00) Joey Wiemer's streak of reaching base made it to ten consecutive plate appearances. Wiemer had two hits in the victory, part of the 17 hits that the offense collected. (08:40) The Nationals properly pulled off the steal attempt in order to bring the runner home from 3rd (!) (14:20) Seven Washington starters had multiple hits and Luis Garcia Jr. led the way with a trio of them. (17:45) Foster Griffin impressed in his team debut on Monday night. Griffin allowed a pair of runs in five innings of work to earn the win. The lefty spent the past few seasons in Japan after many different MLB stops to start his career. (21:30) Brad Lord tossed three frames in the win and is establishing himself as potential force out of the 'pen. (25:15) Mark's prediction was correct and the Nats will utilize an "Opener" on Tuesday night. PJ Poulin will start the game and it is possible that he will hand the ball off to Zack Littell.

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0:00.0	Walters is the spot to be before and after opening day this upcoming Friday afternoon.
0:06.0	Walters is located just across the street from the ballpark right off South Capitol Street.
0:12.0	Short beat B-Boss, left-handed batter, here's the pitch.
0:19.0	B-Boss hits one in the air to straightaway center, should be deep enough to score Abrams. Marks makes the catch. He'll throw it in toward third. Abrams will dash into score and the Nationals lead at 4 to nothing. Sacrifice Fly. Jorby B-Boss, first RBI as a national. Outfield is straightaway on Weimar. Straight up stance. stance beat close together stance a bit open to the box
0:40.7	wearing number 21 here's the pitch swing and a line drive into center field it's another hit for Joey Weimer
0:48.3	B-Boss makes the turn at second to hold as Marsh charges in to pick it up. Joey Weimer on base for 10 consecutive bats to begin his Nationals career.
1:01.7	And welcome to Nats chat along with Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com.
1:07.5	I'm Al Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Mark is at Citizens Bank Park where the Nats have
1:12.4	improved to three and one in MLB's 2006 regular season. Yes, I said three and one. And yes,
1:20.2	I am about to say 13-2. That was the final of the Nats game at the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday
1:26.9	evening in game one of a three-game series.
1:29.9	A 13-2 dropping of the Phillies by the visiting Nants.
1:34.1	The Nats in their three wins have outscored the opponents 29-9.
1:39.0	The new process under Paul Toboni and Adirud Columbian and Blake Butera doing quite well. And the new
1:47.2	process is giving us something special. As predicted by Mark, the Nats new process will give us an
1:53.9	opener for game two of this series. Game two for the Nats at the Phillies, Tuesday evening at 640.
1:59.3	The NAD starting pitcher will be an opener, reliever, PJ Poole. All kinds of things are happening with the Nats. All kind of exciting things are happening with the Nats. And it's good to have you with us. Get on board. If you'd like to sponsor this podcast, we'd love to have you. Contact the man who runs this podcast, Tim Schovers. You can email them Nats chat podcast at gmail.com.
2:21.4	All kinds of ways that we can serve you and all kinds of good things happening with the Nats on Monday evening.
2:28.2	Joey Weimer made MLB history.
2:30.7	Foster Griffin look good in his Nats regular season debut. Might we have a new secret
2:36.1	weapon for the Nats in Brad Lord, but Mark three and one, all four games on the road, and these
2:42.1	first two series at Win Now teams in the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies. Not bad.
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