Shutout for the 18th Time

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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For the third straight game the Nationals couldn't plate a run in their 3-0 loss to Kansas City on Wednesday night. Mark & Al dive into the continuing offensive ineptitude as the team is now 8-14 in September. (07:00) The lack of runs leads to re-visiting the conversation about the decision in August to bring back the entire coaching staff in 2025. (14:10) DJ Herz only allowed one run in his start of the season. Herz was called up in early June to replace the injured Trevor Williams and ended the year with an ERA of 4.16 (22:45) Cade Cavalli was at the stadium on Wednesday and Mark gives an update after the right hander met with the media. How much was this missed season due a to "dead arm"? (31:00) Thursday afternoon will be Patrick Corbin's final start in a Washington uniform and it will be interesting to see how the home crowd receives him when he exits the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join us at Walters on Friday, October 4th for our end-of-season podcast party.
0:05.8	Evening is scheduled from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.
0:12.0	Two balls, two strikes. And now the pitch. Swing and a squibber back toward Arsick has it jogging toward first.
0:20.1	The underhead tossed to Guriel in plenty of time for the out.
0:23.6	And the Royals have won it.
0:25.1	They have taken the first two games of these three-game interleague series.
0:29.8	And they have shut out the Nationals for a second straight game.
0:32.9	And the Nationals are blanked for a third straight game.
0:36.9	Defense was good. We just, once again, we can't get and score. I mean, that's the biggest thing. You got to score. Here, you got to score runs. We just can't get no runs across the board. And welcome to Natschat for Thursday, September 26, 2024, along with Massid Sports.com, Nationalals insider Mark Zuckerman, who is at Nationals Park.
0:55.4	I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. So the 2024 nationals are not the worst offensive team in Nats history.
1:03.4	If you go by Team OPS Plus, the 2007, 2008, and actually, 2011 Nats were significantly worse. the 2024 Nats are quite bad offensively.
1:14.6	And they now have reached a new offensive low point. Wednesday evening, a 3-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals at Nationals Park in game two of the three-game series.
1:23.3	This was the Nats's third consecutive shutout loss. The Nats now have scored one run or less in seven of the team's last nine games.
1:30.4	And the September swoon continues.
1:32.9	The Nats now are 69 and 89, 20 games below 500, most games below 500 that the Nats have been this regular season.
1:41.1	The Nats now have lost eight of their last nine games.
1:43.6	The Nats in this month of
1:45.0	September now are just eight and 14. And it sure is looking like the Nats will not be surpassing
1:51.3	last regular season's record. The Nats must go at least three and one over their final four
1:56.0	games in order to surpass 71 and 91 of last regular season.
2:01.3	But the kicker to what happened with the Nats on Wednesday evening is that what happened,
2:06.0	despite the Royal starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen, who remember last season,
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