Strasburg Officially Retires

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost 5-2 to the Phillies but afterwards in a very subtle manner, it came across the MLB.com's transactions log that Stephen Strasburg is retiring. Mark & Al react to the news that the Strasburg saga has finally been wrapped up. The next homestand will serve as the 5th anniversary celebration of the World Series title as Houston will be in town and they wonder if the timing of that weekend played a role in the eventual resolution. (15:40) CJ Abrams was a late scratch due to a bone bruise in his pinky finger. Lane Thomas was moved up to the lead-off spot and responded with his first multi hit game of the season. (20:00) Joey Gallo homered for the 2nd time this week and it is the 200th of his career. (22:00) Nick Senzel seems to be on track to return to action quicker than initially expected. If Senzel returns to Washington, what will happen to Trey Lipscomb? (29:00) Jake Irvin gave up four runs in 6 IP and took the loss. Irvin's outing was part of a troubling trend by the Nats starters who do not seem to be taking advantage of the cold weather, which typically leads more dominant pitching. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Make sure this season to check out Walter's self-pour beer wall, which includes 24 different
0:05.4	items, including fireside chat, Vienna Logger, and Green City IPA. Visit waltersDC.com for more
0:13.9	information. Two on, two out, oh, to the count. Irvin pitches. Swing to drive to drive, left center field and deep. Way back goes Winker. This one's back. It's got a chance and it's gone. Just to the right of the 377 mark, into the Phillies bullpen. On an O2 pitch, a three-run homer for J.T. Rio Mito makes it 4-0-0 Phillies.
0:41.2	Floral delivers. Swinging to a chopper hit the mound up the middle.
0:42.8	Out through into center field at BASIC.
0:48.7	Rounding third and coming home, Estani will score.
0:51.6	Over to third on the play is Castellanos.
0:55.3	It's a single up the middle of run batted in for Marsh's fifth of the year. And the Phillies extend their lead. It's now five to two. And welcome to Natschat for Sunday, April 7,
1:04.8	2004, along with Mass and Sports.com, National's insider Mark Zuckerman, who was at National's Park.
1:10.7	I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.
1:13.6	So Saturday was final four Saturday in college basketball, but that number four on Saturday
1:19.8	also turned out to be appropriate for the Nats because they, on Saturday, totaled just four hits.
1:25.9	This is a day after totaling just two hits.
1:28.1	Friday evening, a 4-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Nationals Park.
1:31.6	Saturday, a 5-2 loss to the Phillies at Nationals Park,
1:35.3	dropping the Nats to just 2 and 6 in this regular season.
1:39.1	However, before we get to the game as we are recording this installment of the Nats chat podcast on Saturday
1:46.1	evening, major breaking Nats news. The Stephen Strasbourg saga is over. M-LB's official
1:54.0	transactions are showing Strasbourg as having retired on Saturday. So this is a done deal.
2:03.6	And as was reported by Mark on Saturday evening,
2:10.2	the Nats and Strasbourg have agreed on a financial settlement with his contract in this,
2:20.9	the fifth season of the 70-year, $245 million contract to which he was resigned in December 2019. So we soon will be having a five-year anniversary celebration of the 2019 World Series Championship Nats. That celebration
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