Routed in Chicago but Wood Homers

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Nats were trounced 10-2 on Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field for their first loss of the season. Mark (From Chicago) & Al discuss a sloppy affair for the visitors. One of the runs came courtesy of James Wood, after connecting on his first homer of the season, while hitting in the leadoff spot. (10:15) Drew Millas was a very surprising choice to bat 2nd in the lineup. It is expected that Millas and Ruiz will split catching duties to begin the year. (14:00) Nasim Nunez made an incredible defensive play at SS late in the game. Nunez got the nod due to a recent death in CJ Abrams' family and came through with a RBI single at the plate. Abrams also apologized to Blake Butera for the mental lapse on Opening Day. (20:45) Miles Mikolas lasted five innings in his Nats debut, but allowed allowed six hits and four earned runs in the process. Mikolas was plagued with poor defense behind him in the pivotal bottom of the 2nd. (29:05) The bullpen yielded four runs, but Cole Henry did retire the heart of the Cubs order in the bottom of the 8th. (31:00) Washington acquired utility man Curtis Mead, who has previous big league experience.

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0:00.0	Walters is back as the official bar of the Natschat podcast for our sixth season of coverage.
0:06.1	Located just across the street from the ballpark, Walters is the best sports bar in Navy Yard.
0:14.9	Shortstop, Nunez well toward the middle. House off the line.
0:18.7	At third. Now the pitch swung on in high in the air
0:22.1	left side Nune is going out coming in is Lyle who's gonna catch it look out
0:27.2	they collide on the ball drops two runs are gonna score on the play and the
0:32.8	Cubs lead 4 to nothing by Asteros from third of Maya from first and Bush the hitter ends up at second base
0:40.7	Well, Lyle looked like he was trying to call off Nunez
0:44.7	I don't know if Nunez could hear but Nuneo's gonna make the catch and then Lyle and Nunez collide the ball hits off the glove of Lyle
0:54.0	with Nunez basically landing on topping hits off the glove of Lyle, with Nunez, basically landing on topping him, have been pinning him to the ground.
0:59.4	And welcome to Natch Chat, along with Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com.
1:04.6	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Mark is at Wrigley Field, where the Nats off their 10-4 opening day win at the Chicago Cubs on Thursday
1:12.4	fell to 1-1 with a 10-2 loss at the Cubs on Saturday afternoon. So for the Nats so far,
1:18.3	a six-run win and an eight-run loss, though the loss did include a home run by James Wood and
1:24.2	an RBI single and an outstanding defensive play by Nassim Nunez.
1:29.3	But before we go any further, we want to say thank you.
1:32.9	Our last installment of the podcast, the show in which we discussed that opening day win
1:37.0	is our most downloaded show for an opening day game in the six-season history of this podcast,
1:42.8	which as of late Saturday morning, was the number 30
1:45.8	baseball podcast in the country per Apple podcast. Yes, number 30 in the ultra-competitive
1:52.0	landscape that is baseball podcasts in this country. So again, thank you. We hope that those of you
1:57.4	who had trouble watching the opening day win due to problems regarding
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