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The Sports Junkies

What Are Realistic Expectations For The Nationals?

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The Sports Junkies debate some realistic expectations for the Washington Nationals.

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0:00.0

look at the Major League Baseball standings and then you look at where the nationals are.

0:07.3

If you're just looking at the division, you're not going to get overly excited, but if you look

0:10.8

at Wild Card, they're half game back right now.

0:14.0

That's about seven teams that are within two games.

0:19.0

But they got a big series coming up against the Padres who are 500 also in wild card contention and

0:27.1

maybe this is a series where you kind of see are you going to be a contender all year or are you a pretender? I think they're going to

0:37.6

be contender all year just because the starting pitching now tonight Corbin's

0:41.2

pitching and that's always shaky.

0:43.7

And he's pitching.

0:44.7

He did and he's pitching against a really good lineup.

0:47.5

Padres have a good hitting team but they're pitching has struggled because they've got

0:51.4

injuries.

0:52.4

But yeah I would expect the gnats to they're pitching as struggled because they've got injuries.

0:55.9

But yeah, I would expect the gnats to kind of, you know, the first two games in Colorado,

0:58.3

I just chalk it up to be playing on the moon, right?

1:01.3

So it's high scoring games.

1:02.2

They're usually gonna play those four, two, three, one. the if the pitching can hold up. You look at their starters, Jake Irvin, who I think had 10

1:13.6

strikeouts in six innings. Yeah, it was good. He's got a 3.13 ERA. Mackenzie

1:18.8

Gore is at 3.49. Mitchell Parker is at 3.3. Trevor Williams, who's got 11 starts,

1:24.0

is at 2.2.

1:26.0

I mean, outside of Corbin,

1:28.0

their staff has been strong,

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