Walters is open during the week from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. and open until 3 a.m. on the weekends,

making Walters a great spot to watch the Olympics this month in Paris.

Here's the set. He fires. Swing in a slow roller left side. Lipscomb has it. He throws to Abrams for the out at second. The throw to first gets by Yeppez. It hits the screen and that'll allow Gorman to score.

One-nothing St. Louis. Nationals cannot turn the double play. Abrams bounces and throw it gets by Yeppes and the Cardinals take advantage of some sloppy Nationals defense in this inning and have the game's first run.

So infield in with one out and Alec Berlus in the batter.

A long home run to right center last time up one out of four.

So we're going to ground ball right side to Garcia's left and on through a base in

and a right field.

This is going to score both runners.

Gorman from third, Seale around third coming in to score on a single right for

Alec Berluson through the drawn-in infield.

And the Cardinals add two more here on the top of the ninth.

It's now St. Louis 6 in Washington, nothing.

And welcome to Natschat for Tuesday, July night, 2004, along with

MadisonSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at Nationals Park of Al Galdi, host of the

Al-Galdi podcast. We now are one week away from the 2004 MLB All-Star Game, which is on Tuesday

night, July 16th. And for the Nationals, the All-Star break likely

cannot come soon enough. The Nats on Monday concluded a three-and-five homestand with a six-nothing

loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at Nationals Park, as the Nats lost three of the four games in the series,

the Nats for this regular season now are 42 and 49. This installment

of the Natch chat podcast brought to us by the D.C. Grays this Saturday at the Washington

National's Baseball Academy on Fort DuPont, the Grays are honoring the newly recognized batting

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