Among the options on the beer wall at Walter's Sports Bar are Annapolis IPA, Green City IPA,

raised by Wolves, and Vienna Lager. Walters is located across the street from Nationals Park.

The two-two pitch. Svina Crown ball left side. That's through for a base in for Ramirez. National's take

the lead. Yep, as scores, Ramirez delivers. The Nationals two, the Reds won. Ramirez doing the hip shake at first. He's had a big series. That's RBI 23. Ten since joining the Nationals' clutch, two-out RBI single. Finnegan ready. He kicks, and he fires at a pitch, chumped back to the mound.

Finnegan leaps, he has it.

He jogs toward first.

He under-hens it to Juan Yippez and a curly W.

And a three-game series sweep of the Reds are all in the books here in Nationals Park.

And welcome to Natschat for Monday, July 22nd, 2004, along with Mass and Sports.com,

Nationals insider Mark Suckerman, who was at Nationals Park.

I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.

We now are exactly 100 games into the Nationals, 2,024 regular season, 100 games down,

62 games to go, and then we'll see 100 games down, 62 games to go.

And then we'll see if there are any more games after that.

The Nats still are six games below 500, but the Nats now have won five of their last six games.

Sunday afternoon, a 5-2 win of the Cincinnati Reds at Nassadles Park to complete a three-game sweep.

And a hero of the game, I'm happy to say, was James Wood.

The Nats for this regular season now are 47 and 53. So things had not been going so well for James Wood.

He entered Sunday with an OPS of just 604 since the Nats on July 1st announced that they had selected the contract of Wood

from AAA Rochester. Wood in the Nats' 8-5 win over the Reds on Friday evening as the

that's starting left-fielder and number five batter, one for four with a two-run single, yes,

but also three more strikeouts. And so Davy Martinez actually dropped Wood to the number seven

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