Ruiz Walks-off Oakland

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Nats rallied against Oakland on Saturday for a 3-2 victory that abruptly concluded with a Keibert Ruiz lead-off homer in the bottom of the 9th. Al & Tim dive into Ruiz's hot month; where he is slugging .605 so far in August. It was Ruiz's 16th HR of the season, good for 6th most among NL catchers. (08:30) Lane Thomas was a late scratch in the starting lineup, but came through as a pinch hitter with the game tying RBI in the bottom of the 8th. Thomas currently has the 4th most hits in the NL (132) and the top 7 all are players from the NL East. (12:00) Blake Rutherford finally got his 1st career MLB hit after starting 0 for 16 since getting called up. Rutherford received strong applause from the home crowd and followed it up with another hit later in the game. (23:00) Jake Irvin pitched well and almost lasted for 7 IP vs. the Athletics. Has Irvin made his case to be in the 2024 starting rotation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Not only should Walters be your spot before and after every Nats game, but also Walters is an avenue for cheaper Nats tickets.
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0:17.2	Stone Garrett is at third. Jake Lewis second and Blake Rutherford at first. Two balls, two strikes. Nobody out. The kick in the pitch. Swung on line. Drive right field. Butler coming on. Can't get there. Drops in for a hit. Garrett down the line. He scores. It'll be station to station. The runner's had to freeze making sure it drops in and on at first with a game
0:38.6	tying pinched RBI single is Lane Thomas K. Bair Ruiz leading all first pitch
0:44.4	hit to deep right field this is way back this ball is going going goodbye bang zoom goes Kbert Ruiz.
0:57.1	On the first pitch from Lucas Erzag, with his 14th home run of the air, an absolute rocket,
1:05.1	into the Nationals bullpen and a curly Ws in the box.
1:11.3	And welcome to Natschat for Sunday, August 13th, 2023.
1:16.2	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:18.4	Mark Suckerman is off for this installment of the pod.
1:20.9	But I am joined by the man who runs the Natchat podcast Enterprise, Tim Schover,
1:26.5	and we have a walk-off Nationals victory to discuss,
1:31.0	a 3-2 walk-off win over the Major League worst Oakland days at Nationals Park on Saturday night
1:36.9	in game two of a three-game series. The Nats improved to 52 and 66. They now are 14 and 8 over their last 22 games. The Nats now are a mere half game
1:48.9	behind the many hundreds of millions of dollars payroll spending New York Mets, if you can
1:56.9	believe that. But this walk-off win on Saturday night for the Nats was something.
2:01.2	This was a game in which the Nats overcame a 2-1-8- inning deficit. This was a game that the Nats won,
2:06.6	despite going two for 15 with runners in scoring position. This game actually was so frustrating
2:13.5	from a Natt standpoint, give it all of the squandered opportunities. But then, K. Bert Ruiz, in the
2:19.3	bottom of the ninth, a leadoff, first pitch, walk off homer to right field for a three-two,
2:26.2	Nats win. All of these fails with runners in scoring position. And then on the first pitch of an
2:32.5	inning, the Nats end the game. Amazing. Tim, this was some night at National's Park.
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