Parker Struggles in Defeat

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Nats fell 6-1 in Cincinnati on Friday evening to open the three game set. Mark (From Cincy) & Al discuss Mitchell Parker's second consecutive poor outing as he allowed five runs off of four walks in only four innings on the mound. Parker this past week has been struggling with control and looks like a different pitcher than the one that began the season. (06:40) Michael Soroka struck out 11 Iron Pigs in only five innings of work in his AAA rehab outing in Rochester. He is expected to return to the big league rotation in the near future. (9:45) Jackson Rutledge tossed a scoreless bottom of the 8th and quietly is sporting a 2.38 ERA. Will he start to pitch in more high leverage situations moving forward? (13:10) Reds hurler Hunter Greene dominated Washington as he collected a dozen strikeouts in only six innings of work. Greene now has 55Ks this season, 3rd most in the majors, trailing league leader MacKenzie Gore by four strikeouts. (16:30) Josh Bell homered and the exited the game early due to tweaking his hamstring. (19:40) Trevor Williams is slated to start on Saturday, but there is heavy rain in the Cincinnati forecast.

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0:19.7	Parker comes set, kicks delivers, runners go, swinging swing a line drive base into the left
0:24.9	center field toward the gap wood cuts it off but this is going to score two runs heading
0:30.0	for second diving in without a play is espinal a double two rbis for espinald is 7th and 8th of the year.
0:39.3	The Reds lead by the score of 2 to nothing.
0:42.3	Here it comes.
0:43.3	So we have a line drive hooked over the leaping third base, Mantana.
0:46.3	It's down the line headed toward the corner.
0:48.3	Racing for the plate is Espinall.
0:50.3	Coming around third, Stier, Wood trouble picking it up in the corner so steer will score and in a second
0:55.6	with a two-run double is tyler stevenson five nothing cincinnati all four of the walks have come
1:02.1	in to score and a pair of two-run doubles made it pay and welcome to nat's chat along with massinsports
1:09.9	dot com nationals insider mark zuckerman who was that Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast. The start of the Nationals game at the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night in game one of a three-game series was delayed by rain for an hour and 51 minutes. And things did not get much better for the Nats after that.
1:28.5	A 6-1 loss in a game in which the Nats got work by Reds-Hunter Green and a game
1:33.1	in which the Nats starting pitcher Mitchell Parker struggled for a second consecutive start.
1:38.0	The Nats and M-LB's 20-5 regular season now are 14 and 19.
1:42.8	This installment of Nats Chat is brought to us by the composer
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