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Nats Chat

Smoked & Swept

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9574 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Nats were blown out on Sunday afternoon 14-1 by the Cubs to complete the three game sweep. Al & Mark discuss the poor defense, that saw three more errors (two by Jose Tena). The Nationals have 61 wins and need 11 more to improve on their win total from last season and there are 25 games remaining. (07:00) Washington was charged with three errors and it easily could have been five. Davey Martinez expressed his displeasure at the poor team defense afterwards. (14:10) Mitchell Parker committed his fifth error of the season and only has had a dozen defensive opportunities. Why is he so bad at fielding the position thus far? (25:00) Darren Baker, son of Dusty, singled on the first pitch he saw in his MLB debut in the bottom of the 9th. Baker was drafted in the 10th round of the 2021 MLB Draft and was hitting .285 this year for Rochester. (34:05) Derek Law is expected to be activated and join the bullpen in Miami on Tuesday. The Nationals are oddly enough off on Monday's Labor Day Holiday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On Labor Day night, Walters is the spot for disappointed Florida State fans to watch their team bounce back against Boston College.

0:07.9

Walters will be open through the entire game.

0:13.2

And the pitch, he squares. He bunts it up the third base line. It's a spinner. It's a fair ball. It's

0:17.4

clubbed by Tana. The throw to first is by Yefez and down the line.

0:21.0

Harder, rounding, second. Going to third, he's going to try to score Cruz, fires toward the plate, the slide, and he's in there. And over to third goes Crow Armstrong. So on a bun up the third base line, the Cubs score a run, and they have Crow Armstrong at third, and they leave four to one and the pitch swing and a groundballed hard

0:38.6

diving stop Abrams no off his glove all hands will be safe trotting in from third the scores of maya

0:44.6

and it's now the Cubs 14 of the national one and welcome to that chat from monday september 2nd

0:51.1

2004 what is labor day 2004 i'm al gi, host of the Al Galdi podcast,

0:57.7

joined by Massinsports.com. Nationals insider, Mark Zuckerman, was at Nationals Park. This is a

1:02.9

Labor Day on which the Nationals do not have a game, kind of odd, but then again, given how the last

1:08.0

three days just went, maybe it is a good thing that the Nats do not have a game on Labor Day. A six-game homestand for the Nats that began in such a good way,

1:16.3

right, winning two out of three games against the American League leading New York Yankees.

1:20.7

That homestand ended in a rather bad way. A 14-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Nationals Park on Sunday afternoon to complete a three-game sweep.

1:31.0

This was a game in which the Nats' defense was horrendous.

1:34.0

This was a game in which the Nats allowed seven runs in the top of the ninth, concluding a series in which the Nats got victimized by a big inning in each of the three games.

1:42.4

Friday evening, 7-6 loss.

1:45.0

That was a game in which the Nats allowed seven runs in the top of the second. Saturday, 5-3 loss, a game in which the

1:49.0

Nats allowed four runs in the top of the fifth. The Nats for this regular season now, 61 and 76,

1:56.1

with a run differential of minus 75, third worst record, third worst run differential in the National League.

2:04.1

We on Sunday afternoon did have a feel-good moment, courtesy of Darren Baker, who got a hit

2:08.3

on the very first pitch that he saw.

2:10.7

That was cool.

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