Wood Homers Again in Afternoon Defeat

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Nats lost 7-2 to the Braves on Thursday afternoon to conclude another disappointing home stand. Al examines the bullpen meltdown in the top of the 7th where Atlanta scored four runs to break the tie. Gus Varland & Cionel Perez were the culprits in the pivotal frame. (08:10) Cade Cavalli struck out 10 in just five innings for his best outing of the season. Cavalli gave up two runs and his ERA dropped down to 4.01. (14:00) Mark gives a quick update on Riley Cornelio, one of the organization's top pitching prospects, who will join the Nationals on Friday in Chicago. (16:30) James Wood homered for the 10th time, which has him atop the NL. CJ Abrams hit his 7th homer of the year in the bottom of the 4th. (21:40) The Nationals will start a two city road trip tomorrow night at the White Sox before moving to the Mets on Tuesday. (23:45) Tim is joined by Bob Black, the Voice of the Richmond Spiders, to talk about the new AAA Ballpark in Richmond and if one day the Nats could get an affiliate there.

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0:00.0	For the sixth season in a row, Walters is the official bar of the Nats Chat podcast,
0:05.6	located across the street from the ballpark just off South Capitol Street.
0:12.8	The pitch.
0:14.2	Swing and a drive hit well.
0:15.6	Right center field.
0:16.9	No one's getting this one.
0:18.3	Going, going.
0:19.5	God, goodbye.
0:21.7	Off the facing of the second deck in right center field,
0:25.5	carripping down into section 142 above the Big Walden right center field.
0:31.8	Bang, zoom goes, C.J. Abrams with his seventh home run of the year,
0:35.7	RBI number 20, and he has tied this game here with one out of the bottom of the fourth inning
0:40.6	It's now the Nationals two and the Braves two
0:44.7	Now the fifth inside gets away from Ruiz and here comes the runner Baldwin to score and the Braves
0:56.7	Take the lead here in the top of the seventh inning it's Atlanta three in Washington two and Barland delivers swing and a drive-hill
1:02.1	well right center field no one's catching this one it's down and one up off the
1:06.5	big wall all be streaking for 30s being w Relay to Abrams, can't control the ball.
1:13.2	Alby slides across the plate head first. Harris is at second with a double to right
1:18.8	center field, his third hit of the game, drives in his second run of the day. And the Braves
1:24.4	played their fourth run of the inning. And it's now Atlanta 6 and Washington, too. And welcome to Nats Chat. I'm Al Galdi, host of Al Galdi podcast. My usual co-host, Nats insider Mark Zuckerman of Natchjournal.com. He is off for this installment of the podcast, but it is nice to be with you. This episode is brought to us by the golf yards in Boston. The DMVs do home for elite
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