No Sweep in Cleveland

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost to the Guardians 3-2 on Wednesday afternoon to snap their four game win streak. Mark & Al take stock in the 4-2 road trip where the Nationals only played 1st place teams. The team went 10-6 during a sixteen day stretch without a day off. (05:30) The offense was only 1 for 8 w/ RISP, but the big stars each doubled. CJ Abrams doubled Wood into score in the 3rd and his 47 RBIs are the second most in all of Baseball. (12:00) PJ Poulin tossed a scoreless 1st and then handed it off to Miles Mikolas. The Guardians scored all of their runs in the bottom of the 5th and two of those runs were charged against Mikolas. (16:00) Six pitchers were used and after the game Poulin was optioned to AAA. (20:15) Andrew Alvarez will take the mound on Friday to begin the six game homestand. San Diego is in town for the first three and then Miami comes to D.C. on Monday night. (24:20) When will Yohandy "Yo Yo" Morales get called up to Washington? Morales' OPS is currently at 1.018, but there are questions as to where he fits in defensively.

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0:00.0	Walter Sports Bar is available for private events. Visit waltersDC.com slash private events for more
0:07.1	information.
0:11.8	Williams to the belt. The kick in here it comes. Swing and a line shot up, base hit down the right
0:18.8	field line into the corner. bases for abrams as wood
0:22.2	crosses the plate and cj coasting into second with his 12th double and his 47th run batted into the
0:29.2	year and the nationals do not waste the lead off double by wood they are on the board first here
0:35.6	on the top of the third in cleveland it's the nationals won, and the Guardians nothing. So Martinez digs in. Here's the pitch to him. Fastball, line drive, shallow center. It's twisting away from Young and it drops him for a hit. Young knocks it down with his bare hand. Run will score, that's DeLauder. Manzardo stops at second, and the Guardians have three hits in a row and a 3-1 lead.
0:56.0	The Nationals trying to keep this game alive and the hope for a sweep.
1:00.0	Here's the set for Smith. He's ready, he fires. Strike three called right down the middle.
1:06.0	The Guardians win at 3 to 2. They salvage the finale. The Nationals will take two of three and settle for a four-and-two road trip.
1:14.6	They left home under 500.
1:16.2	They'll go home over 500.
1:18.3	Their comeback bid comes to run short here today in the ninth inning.
1:23.8	And welcome to Natch Chad.
1:25.4	I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:27.2	I'm joined by Washington
1:28.3	Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com. The Washington Nationals, yes, did lose on Wednesday
1:34.1	afternoon. Their four-game winning streak, their longest in MLB's 2026 regular season, did come
1:38.9	to an end. A three-two loss at the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday afternoon to deny the Nats,
1:43.9	a three-game sweep. But let us take stock on Wednesday afternoon to deny the Nats a three-game sweep.
1:45.1	But let us take stock of the road trip that the Nats in this season number one of a restarted rebuild just wrapped up.
1:52.4	A four-and-two road trip on which the Nats won two out of three games at the National League leading Atlanta Braves
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