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Nats Chat

Pitching Implodes in the 6th

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9574 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Nats led 3-0 entering the top of the 6th, but in less than a half hour they yielded eight Guardian runs on their way to an 8-6 loss. Mark & Al evaluate Michael Soroka, who initially seemed to have an excellent outing coming off the IL, but his scoreless effort turned into being tagged with four Cleveland runs. Soroka took the mound in the 6th after needing only 67 pitches prior to that frame. (9:25) Jorge Lopez & Andrew Chafin each struggled mightily in the nightmare inning, including a run scoring wild pitch. The low key positive came from Cole Henry, who tossed three scoreless innings to keep the game in striking distance. (13:30) The offense scored six runs off of 13 hits, but Davey Martinez was critical of their 4 for 19 effort with RISP in his postgame press conference. (23:00) What is swirling in GM Mike Rizzo's head regarding the state of the bullpen? (31:30) Washington hosts St. Louis & Erick Fedde on Friday night. Fedde has made seven starts this season and is sporting a 4.78 ERA.

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0:00.0

Walters is the place to be this time of year, across the street from Nationals Park and near

0:05.2

Audi Field, open daily from 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. and on the weekends, closing time is at 3 a.m.

0:16.1

Now the pitch. Swinging a line drive. That's going to be a base hit down the right field line on a slider

0:22.6

into the corner gross cruise to dig it out and this is going to clear the bases this is going to

0:28.1

tie the game that throw to the plate not in time as ramirez scores in front of him quatt and

0:33.6

steven and carlos santana who delivered that three-run homer last night to break a scoreless tie has tied this game with a basis clearing three-run double into the left field corner just like that it's the guardians three in the nationals three chafing up to 16 pitches delivers in a swing of line drive one-up a base in left field

0:55.0

rounding third quad heading for the plate here comes the throw and the tag will not be

1:00.0

made it's not in time and a little offline and quad scores and it's a basic RBI for

1:07.1

Jose Ramirez is 17th of the year. And the Guardians continue to pour it on.

1:12.5

Eight runs home of the sixth inning is now Cleveland 8 in Washington 3.

1:18.0

And welcome to Nats chat along with Massinsports.com Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman,

1:22.7

who was at Nationals Park of Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast.

1:26.4

And Nats just played three games in a span of less than 24 hours, and the team probably feels like it played about five games during that span. Wednesday afternoon and 8-6 lost to the Cleveland Guardians at Nassaddles Park to lose two out of three games in the series. This was a game at which the Nats blew a 3-0-6-inning lead by allowing

1:44.6

eight runs in the top of the six. And this game was off a double-heder split between the two teams on Tuesday, including a 10-9 Nats win in a game one in which the Nats blew a 6-2-7th inning lead, but then overcame an 8-6-7th inning deficit. The Nansen MLB's 20-25 regular season now are 17 and 21.

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