Short Outing for Mikolas in Defeat

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Nats ended a disappointing 1-5 home stand on Wednesday afternoon. Mark & Al analyze the 6-1 loss against the visiting Cardinals that meant the team has dropped seven of their past eight games. (05:00) Miles Mikolas was pulled after the 3rd inning in favor of Brad Lord. Blake Butera afterwards said he wanted Lord to get more work on the mound and that the plan was for Mikolas to face the St. Louis lineup just twice. Will the tandem type start become more normal for the franchise in the near future? (13:10) Cionel Perez allowed a run in the top of the 7th and his ERA so far is up to 13.50. The 'pen got beat up all series vs. the Cardinals and Wednesday was no different. (17:20) The offense had a quiet game and the only run came from an early Luis Garcia Jr. RBI forceout. James Wood was the only player with multiple hits as he had a pair of doubles. (22:00) Washington is off on Thursday and on Friday will begin their two-city road trip in Milwaukee. They will face the Brewers this weekend and then open a four game series in Pittsburgh on Monday. (25:30) Davey Lopes, who had a distinguished career in Baseball, passed away this week at age 80. Lopes stole a ton of bases as a player and later on had two stints as the Washington Nationals 1st Base Coach (2006, 2016, 2017).

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0:00.0	Walters is back as the official bar of the Natschat podcast for our sixth season of coverage.
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0:15.3	A one-strike pitch.
0:17.5	So we had a shot up the middle and over the leaping Abrams.
0:19.7	Base hit center field.
0:20.8	So J.C. scores. Church to the plate to throw into second base. Safe there, two-run score on the base hit by Burleson, and the Cardinals lead two to nothing. Walker stands tall in the box, big right-handed hitter, the pitch to him, is blasted in the air straightaway center and deep. Jacob Young tracking it back toward the warning track at the wall.
0:39.7	He leaps, can't get it.
0:40.8	It's gone.
0:42.4	Young tried to rob it.
0:43.6	Couldn't quite get high enough.
0:45.4	And it's another home run for Jordan Walker and the Cardinals lead three to one.
0:49.6	He is homered into each game of the series.
0:52.0	He has five home runs this year.
0:56.6	And welcome to thatatsch chat,
1:01.7	along with Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com. I'm Al Galdi host of the Al Galdi podcast. Mark is at Nationals Park with the Nats first homestand of the season has ended, and
1:07.4	the homestand ended up being a one and five homestand, a six one loss to the St. Louis
1:12.5	Cardinals at National's Park on Wednesday to lose two out of three games in the series.
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