Walters is the spot to be before and after opening day this upcoming Friday afternoon.

Walters is located just across the street from the ballpark right off South Capitol Street.

Until ready, he kicks at pitches.

He's made a ground ball to first. Garcia boots the ball.

To flex off his glove right toward the second base bag,

Crawford scores, three-nothing Phillies.

Any chance for a double play lost when Garcia could not field the ball at all.

The long hole, the kick in the pitch.

Swing in a fly ball left field, sending Marsh back toward the warning track, reaches out,

makes the catch, and then braces up against the fence.

Brandon Marsh saves today for the Phillies, and they win at 3 to 2.

And welcome to Nats chat, along with Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com.

I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Mark is at Citizens Bank Park,

where the Nats have fallen to three and two in Mbleby's 2006 regular season, a three-two loss at the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday evening in game two of a three-game series.

We on Tuesday evening, as anticipated, had something special, had something different,

the Nats going with an opener, the opener strategy popularized by the Tampa Bay raise in 2018,

a season in which both current Nats general manager, Anirud Kalambi and current Nats manager,

Blake Butera, were working for the raise. The idea of an opener, as I'm sure many of you

know, is for a reliever to start the game and go all out for an inning and facing the opposing

team's first three batters who presumably are three of the opposing team's best batters. The

strategy for the Nats worked, but they lost the game. Pitching was not the problem. Offense was the problem.

And how about how the game ended? Top of the ninth, James Wood with Nassim Nunez on second base

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