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How the Washington Nationals got back to the .500 mark for a day · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory podcast. I'm your host today,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Shellhouse alongside me Spencer Nusbaum of The Athletic. The
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  Speaker 1: Nationals coming off of a series in which they take
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  Speaker 1: two of three from the Orioles, and as Blake u
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  Speaker 1: Terra said the other day, I think pretty good overall.
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  Speaker 1: Can't have a lot of complaints from this series. But Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: two out of three from the O's, how are we feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the vibe a on the team is really high.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 2: I know they wanted to get over five hundred and
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  Speaker 2: that was whether stated or not, that was obviously a
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  Speaker 2: goal for this team. But as Frannie talked about last time,
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  Speaker 2: you're never going to be upset when you take two
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  Speaker 2: out of three, especially from a team like the Orioles.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Blake.
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  Speaker 2: And the Orioles manager kraud Gobin has obviously go pretty
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  Speaker 2: far back and had joked kind of coming into the season.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Blake is like, hey, you know, like he
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  Speaker 2: has his jaw, he has some josh es right now,
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  Speaker 2: like he probably wants to stay on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the dugout. Alexa Datt did a great segment that
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  Speaker 2: had those two talking smack to one another. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think Blake is obviously going to be rooting for
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  Speaker 2: the Orioles when they're not playing the Nets, but he
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  Speaker 2: was quite delighted to take two out of three from
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  Speaker 2: his friend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two out of three from the Crosstown rivals. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into that rivalry rivalry a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: if you will later on, but give you a quick
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  Speaker 1: look at the National League's standings this morning.
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  Speaker 3: The Nationals twenty three and twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: They did get to that five hundred mark on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: after the victory, but currently nine games back of the Braves.
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  Speaker 1: They sit at thirty two and fifteen, squished in there
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  Speaker 1: between the Phillies and the Marlins. Do want to give
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  Speaker 1: out after Friday's victory, the Nationals winning three to two
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  Speaker 1: that started in the top beg your pardon in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the fourth inning on a sacrifice for sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: fly from Brady House CJ. Abrams tagging up from third base,
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  Speaker 1: you see in right field having to fully extend, allowing
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  Speaker 1: Abrams to score a lot easier, and then later on
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  Speaker 1: Dalan Lyle contributing with a two run homer. When I
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  Speaker 1: was driving to Tucson, I nearly swerved off of the
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  Speaker 1: highway fist pumping. Listening to this on the radio. It
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  Speaker 1: just fired me up because you knew that was the
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  Speaker 1: insurance that the Nationals were looking for at the time.
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  Speaker 1: In the seventh inning, the Orioles had two runners on,
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  Speaker 1: but Andrew Alvarez beg your pardon striking him out. This
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  Speaker 1: was just a terrific game. We're all around and there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of drama at the end. Spencer, We'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that in a moment, But what can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me about You know, Andrew Alvarez is outing on
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  Speaker 1: Friday because he was really spectacular, and as some Nats
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  Speaker 1: listeners may know, he has not been sent back down
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  Speaker 1: to Triple A yet and I'm intrigued as to what
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  Speaker 1: the next correspond move.
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  Speaker 3: Will be there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the the closest thing I was following all weekend
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  Speaker 2: was Alvarez makes his debut last year, pitches in a
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  Speaker 2: shutout the Nationals don't have another shutout until he gets
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  Speaker 2: called up again and pitches as part of that shutout.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed very close to happening yet again over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend or specifically on Friday. This is someone who, again
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think you'll see him or have seen
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  Speaker 2: him on any high up on any prospect lists or
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  Speaker 2: things of that nature. I know his last couple starts
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  Speaker 2: in Rochester haven't been exactly what he wanted. By credit
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  Speaker 2: to him, every single time he's come up to the
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  Speaker 2: big leagues, he has shown that he belongs up here.
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  Speaker 2: Now again, I don't know what sort of leash the
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  Speaker 2: Nationals will necessarily give him, but you really have to
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  Speaker 2: give the guy credit. He has been thrown in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of uncomfortable situations. He's been you know, yanked up,
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  Speaker 2: yanked down, you know, asked to pitch out a relief,
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  Speaker 2: all these things that aren't necessarily natural for someone like him,
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  Speaker 2: and he's really shown up in those spots. So credit
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  Speaker 2: to him on the execution, on the game planning, and
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  Speaker 2: really kind of just going out there and giving that
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  Speaker 2: that's what they need.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about how important routine can be for
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  Speaker 1: a pitcher, that guy has been going in and out
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  Speaker 1: of relief and starting, and then I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: many times he's pitched in the ninth inning in his career,
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  Speaker 1: but pitching in a high pressure situation in the ninth
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  Speaker 1: inning on Friday Night. It came down to bases loaded,
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  Speaker 1: nobody out, and the Nats would turn it over to
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  Speaker 1: Gus Varlan, who was not quite able to finish the job.
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  Speaker 1: But you get to self a look at the Friday
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  Speaker 1: self box Friday Night box score those of you watching online.
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  Speaker 1: Zach Lytell was the starting pitcher. He was great five
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  Speaker 1: innings of shutout baseball, and then Alvarez was also terrific
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  Speaker 1: three innings of shutout baseball before turning it over to
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  Speaker 1: his teammates there in the ninth He was not on
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  Speaker 1: the mound as those runs were all out, but it
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  Speaker 1: was second and third with two outs and Taylor Ward
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  Speaker 1: at the bat, and I want to pull up this
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  Speaker 1: look Drew Millis gave the Taylor Ward after the challenge,
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  Speaker 1: sort of just a mutual look of respect, is what
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  Speaker 1: I was feeling when I was watching this. You know
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  Speaker 1: that ABS replay is close on the right side there,
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  Speaker 1: but Nolle's just getting a little look down saying yep,
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  Speaker 1: you had it, because Taylor Ward was getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: head down to first base quite quickly there but yet
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  Speaker 1: bases loaded two outs and Adley Rutchman at the point,
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  Speaker 1: and Richard Lovelady was all of us doing a little
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that is on the three D replay,
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  Speaker 1: a little shimmer step and then a fist pump afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: letting the emotions out of Spencer. What do you hear
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  Speaker 1: from him after the game and how much it's meant
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  Speaker 1: for him to be thrown into these sort of situations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what.
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  Speaker 2: I brought this up when I was talking to reporters
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  Speaker 2: the other day. Richard Lovelady talks as if he's never
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  Speaker 2: watched another player's interview before. And I mean that as
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  Speaker 2: an absolute compliment. He is someone who wears his emotions
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  Speaker 2: on his sleeve. He tells us exactly what he's thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and what he's thinking after a game like this and
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  Speaker 2: in a moment like this is Hey, you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: been does needed for assignment nine times over the last
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  Speaker 2: two years. I've had to pitch in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different roles. I've been yanked up, I've been yanked down,
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  Speaker 2: even from the time he debuted, just optioned again and
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  Speaker 2: again and again. And what he's done over the last
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  Speaker 2: you know, handful of weeks for the Nationals is he's
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  Speaker 2: been trusted with high leverage spots and he said it
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  Speaker 2: means absolutely everything to him, relief. Pitching is an extremely
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  Speaker 2: hard job, again without a lot of job security, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guarantees, and you can feel that every single
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  Speaker 2: time he pitches. And frankly, it's the same with Gus Varland.
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly the same trajectory, but the same sort of vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Again another late round pick. You just you have so
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  Speaker 2: many of these guys on the Nationals who have stepped
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  Speaker 2: up in big spots in part because they haven't developed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, high octane guys who throw one oh one
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  Speaker 2: and had that through the system. And so they're lying
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of these guys who have been counted
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  Speaker 2: out other places or even counted out internally. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when we talk about them get to five hundred,
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  Speaker 2: having a chip on their shoulder, exceeding expectations, that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you see from this bullpen more than probably any
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  Speaker 2: other part of the roster. So it's been really cool
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  Speaker 2: to watch yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Take one more look at that box score from oh
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, yes, that is pit Friday's pitching box score
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  Speaker 1: those of you watching online. That's really good. You take
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  Speaker 1: a look at your starting pitcher he gets a win.
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  Speaker 1: To take a look at the two guys between the
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  Speaker 1: save they get credit for a hold. And of course
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  Speaker 1: that's Alvarez his first of the season and Richard Lovelady's
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  Speaker 1: second save. He's been flipping in and out of that
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  Speaker 1: opener's closers roll a little bit this season. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: into that later on in the show. But quickly, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about Saturday's game, or excuse me that Sundays tweet.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about Saturday's game really quickly, which was the second
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  Speaker 1: straight sellout for the Nationals, forty thousand fans in attendance,
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  Speaker 1: and the Nationals put on quite a show for them,
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  Speaker 1: winning thirteen to three bottom of the second inning.
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  Speaker 3: They showed off some.
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  Speaker 1: Really clean deferent Yeah, really clean defense, Jose Teena getting
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  Speaker 1: a five to four to three double play started with
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  Speaker 1: runners at the corners and one out, a scoring opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for the Orioles there, and then that's had a response
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  Speaker 1: to that is cavert ruiz. This ball, had a launch
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  Speaker 1: angle of forty degrees off of the bat, just a
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  Speaker 1: towering shot, a three run bomb. But he is really
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  Speaker 1: starting to get it going right now, Spencer. Is this
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  Speaker 1: something that you think he can sustain?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean I'd have to wait to see it.
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  Speaker 2: But you're seeing a lot of good signs with k
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  Speaker 2: Beert in terms of consistency. He hasn't stopped chasing in
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  Speaker 2: every single game, but in the games where he has
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  Speaker 2: shown up, it's been a lot better. He actually drew
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  Speaker 2: a walk yesterday, which is just his tenth walk over
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  Speaker 2: the last two years, and so that's again a small
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  Speaker 2: butt encouraging sign. And one of the biggest things I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at him with too, is the bat speed. It's
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  Speaker 2: always been part of his game to have a slow
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  Speaker 2: bat speed that allows him to make really good contact,
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  Speaker 2: to make contact with any pitches, but that's also been
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  Speaker 2: a bit of an achilles el as I think we've
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  Speaker 2: both seen and I think you've seen. When he's been
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  Speaker 2: able to tap into some of that power, it's to
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  Speaker 2: the poll side and he's been letting it rip a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more than he has in the past. So yeah, again,
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  Speaker 2: I think it speaks to good coaching, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it speaks to good process from k Bert. That that said,
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  Speaker 2: I still think it's a small enough sample that we'd
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  Speaker 2: probably want to see a little more to say this
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  Speaker 2: is sustainable, especially with given how slow the season started.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's very encouraging to see what he's
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  Speaker 2: what he's done so far. And as you've seen too,
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  Speaker 2: like the catching has been a real problem in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the entire output, Millis has also struggled at the plate.
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  Speaker 2: He too has turned around a little bit. So if
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  Speaker 2: they can get that from the eight nine spots in
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  Speaker 2: the order, I mean, it just makes offense all the
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  Speaker 2: more deeper.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and as we know I mean not as we know,
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  Speaker 1: but his national stands, I mean over the years, kra
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  Speaker 1: Ruiz is a bit of a streaky player from an
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  Speaker 1: offensive standpoint, and so to just see him get rolling
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  Speaker 1: on another one of these streaks again and collecting so
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  Speaker 1: many RBIs in the process certainly gets exciting to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing I wanted to get into in that
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  Speaker 1: recap is in the sixth inning, Cabert turned a walk
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  Speaker 1: into a strikeout. We've been talking about that decent bit
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  Speaker 1: on this show, but how meaningful that can be an
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  Speaker 1: impactful for the game. But Cabert turned to walk into
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  Speaker 1: a strikeout to start the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 3: That was the first out that was huge.
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  Speaker 1: Game Day three D replay doesn't really do it justice,
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  Speaker 1: but dalan Lyle made an incredible, incredible catch sliding into
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  Speaker 1: the left field corner. You see the umpire signaling for
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  Speaker 1: a catch there. And then cj abrams with two outs
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  Speaker 1: in the dangerous Pete Alazzo at the plate, laying out
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  Speaker 1: and making a diving play to his left, firing across
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  Speaker 1: the diamond and boom.
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  Speaker 3: Then that's rut of that inning.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like that inning really exemplified how good
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  Speaker 1: their defense was over the weekend because I wish Franny
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  Speaker 1: was on today that I feel like for a three
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  Speaker 1: game set, this might have been the most sound defense
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  Speaker 1: we've seen from the squad all season.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly what I was going to say. It's
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  Speaker 2: so good too, because you look at the players who
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  Speaker 2: stepped up. Again, you mentioned Dalan Lyle. He's someone who
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  Speaker 2: really struggled on defense last year, knew it going into
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  Speaker 2: the offseason and really worked on it. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: worked with a trainer who helped him with his reaction time.
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  Speaker 2: Corey Ray has been out there all the time helping
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  Speaker 2: him with that, and he needs it on that play.
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  Speaker 2: You look at CJ again, another one who I think
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  Speaker 2: over the last four years by outs above average, is
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  Speaker 2: graded out as the worst defensive player in baseball. Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's no sugarcoating that. Necessarily. He's someone where again it's
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  Speaker 2: taken some time this season too, but I keep working
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  Speaker 2: on him, with him on his aggressiveness, on the preparation,
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  Speaker 2: on all these sort of little things that make a
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  Speaker 2: good defensive player. And the biggest thing for CJ is
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  Speaker 2: he is athletic enough to know that he can get
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  Speaker 2: to almost any ball if he really needs to. And
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  Speaker 2: so to see that aggressiveness, to see that show up again,
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  Speaker 2: you want it to be sustainable. But man, is this
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  Speaker 2: a really good sign that they have a handful of
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  Speaker 2: guys who have taken a coaching who have taken it
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  Speaker 2: upon themselves to really work hard in that aspect, especially
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  Speaker 2: for CJ since the start of the season. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's encouraging. It's a small sample, but you know
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  Speaker 2: they've given up a lot of runs this year because
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  Speaker 2: of it, So I'm sure the pitchers are happy I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure Nationals fans are happy, and I know they're happy
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  Speaker 2: in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And for those of you that were not watching over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, there were several balls that outfielders played off
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  Speaker 1: of the wall that were just fantastic, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: Lyle Wood or Jacob Young making some incredible plays from
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  Speaker 1: a defensive side that the defense in the outfield was
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  Speaker 1: terrific this weekend, and it's all around, it was terrific.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the seventh inning here things started
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  Speaker 1: to get a little interesting. There's three nothing Nats, I
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  Speaker 1: believe at the time or four nothing Nationals at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel Basio came up and k Cavali allowed just his
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  Speaker 1: second home run of the season. I remember I was
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  Speaker 1: surprised when I heard that just his second. And just
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  Speaker 1: as many batters later, O'Neill would go ahead and smack
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  Speaker 1: a home run, this one going to wopping one ten
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  Speaker 1: off of about four h two into the left field bleachers.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the Orioles had something cooking, and
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  Speaker 1: then Kobe Mayo hit a very long foul ball that
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  Speaker 1: went to replay, and the Nats and Orioles broadcast may
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  Speaker 1: have had some different opinions and thoughts on this, but
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate call was a foul ball and the game
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  Speaker 1: remained four to two, thank Phili, courtesy of a Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Young catch here in centerfield. This replay is not going
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  Speaker 1: to do it justice as it sort of just goes into.
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  Speaker 3: The wall there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, NAT's fans, over the years, we become
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  Speaker 1: very accustomed to plays like this from Jacob Young, and
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  Speaker 1: then Young would go on to add his fourth home
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  Speaker 1: run of the season that was a screamer off of
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  Speaker 1: the bat, and then Brady House getting in the party
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  Speaker 1: as well, the Nationals winning thirteen to three on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Give you a quick look at that box score. It's crowded,
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  Speaker 1: so it takes a second to digest. But he got
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hits, thirty eight at bats, and four walks in
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  Speaker 1: the process only five strikeouts too. Were able to put
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  Speaker 1: the ball and play pretty well over the weekend. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, final thoughts for you on Saturday, Spencer, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that that was the one that got us to
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  Speaker 1: the five hundred mark, and you heard few terrorist comments
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  Speaker 1: after the game, giving a shout out to the fans
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  Speaker 1: and just really really hearing and feeling the noise and
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  Speaker 1: energy in the ballpark that day totally.
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  Speaker 2: And again, as I've talked about before, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these Nationals play with a chip on their shoulder because
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  Speaker 2: they want to prove people wrong. They also want to
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  Speaker 2: prove each other right, they want to prove the fans right.
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  Speaker 2: And so when they have forty thousand people in the stands,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that guarantees a win by any stretch,
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  Speaker 2: but it does feel different in that building, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say they play a little
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  Speaker 2: different in that building when that's when that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was really cool to see them finally
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  Speaker 2: get over to that five hundred mark. As I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember if we touched on last time, but they'd been
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  Speaker 2: zero to fifteen before and over the last two years
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the game. To get to five one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: When they were a game under and they were tested again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they went up for nothing. Oils brought it
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  Speaker 2: back to four to three, and that's where the Nationals
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  Speaker 2: folded in the same exact situation a week before. They
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  Speaker 2: did it there, and again, just just want to give
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  Speaker 2: more credit to the hitting side of things. It's been
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  Speaker 2: an exceptionally deep lineup as of late. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: probably the key indicator that has helped them get to
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  Speaker 2: that point. And you've seen a lot of guys who
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  Speaker 2: the league made adjustments to them in late April early May,
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  Speaker 2: and they struggled, and then they struggled for about four
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  Speaker 2: days and then they turned it right back around. That's
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  Speaker 2: not something we saw the Nationals do in years past,
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  Speaker 2: at least not to this degree. They're the highest scoring
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  Speaker 2: offense in baseball, and yeah, they deserve a ton of
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  Speaker 2: credit for what they've done. It's been really encouraging to
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  Speaker 2: watch them adjust four games in games, do the sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things that professional offenses do without a veteran in
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  Speaker 2: the lineup. It's been really cool.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back. Let's talk about Sunday a
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: little bit. Spencer, you know, only got to take some
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: bad with the good. The Nationals not able to get
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: over that five hundred thresholder as we were talking about
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: before the break, but able to get back to five hundred,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: which was a nice relief for Nationals.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Fans.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: So on Sunday, the Nationals dropped the game seven to three.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: The Orioles bats finally woke up. Gunnar Henderson got the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: party started with a third deck home run. When I
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was watching this, I'm wondering, does he get a seat
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: up there? I think they do that for the away
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: teams as well, but they put a red commemorative seat
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: up there for those of you that don't know. And
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: then Kobe Mayo schmack and won off of the bat,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and yeah, he had no doubt about that one.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: But the Nationals had a response for that.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: In the bottom half of the inning, Jacob Young his
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: second home run in his many days, this one a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: screaming line drive off the bat one oh three, his
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: fifth home run in the season. Spencer, This is quite
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a power surge that he's been on recently. I believe
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: he's on pace for close to twenty five home runs,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the twenty to twenty five ballpark when I
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: was doing it before. But it's it's impressive what we've
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: been seeing from Jay lately in terms of a slugging standpoint.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and again.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: That's never been part of his game. He's been the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: first to admit it. It's funny, even when we were
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: in Miami. So he hits this homer. Forget if it
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: was to left center, right, but he hits it, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: he forgets. You're always supposed to give credit to the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: bullpen as you run first base. Sean Doolittle in particular,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: was out there that day and he forgot to put
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the finger up. So you see him, you know, walk
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: back to the dugout, pick up the pick up the phone,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and he has to call out there to apologize. When
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I talked to him after the game that day, he said, yeah,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you know, I just don't hit many homers, so I forget.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: But I think that's going to have to change. Like
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: do I think Jacob is a twenty homer a season header. No,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: And I think that he would probably couldncur with that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: But he's someone who's tapped into a lot more power
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: this season. He's someone where if I'm looking at some
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of these big picture trends that I like to talk about,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he added a ton of bat speed this offseason, maintained
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: it in spring training. I think he's up like a
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: mile and a half, which you know, for people who
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: don't look at the numbers all the time. What does
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: that mean. That's a pretty drastic improvement, and it's helped him,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: you know, lift the ball in the air more. He's
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: pulled the ball in the air more, which is again
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: another big part of his game, or hasn't been a
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: big part of his game, but he wants it to be.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: So Yeah, again, it's just I hate to keep saying
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it over and over because it's not just coaching, it's
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the players themselves. But it speaks to some of these
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: big picture philosophies that we've been talking about with the players.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: And yeah, Jacob's been pretty fired up about it. Obviously,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: again someone who hasn't hit a ton of homers in
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the past and makes jokes about that as well. But yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: super encouraging to see what he's been doing.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark Zuckerman tweeting this out during the game. In
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: his one hundred and sixty six or part of me
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: played appearances in twenty twenty six five home runs over
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: his big league career from twenty three to twenty five,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: just five home runs. So hey, this is a new
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: corner or a new turn for Jacob perhaps, And yeah,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: if he can even be a ten home run a season,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: guy would certainly be a new player or refreshing new
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: player for Nats fans a few years past. This was
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: an interesting place. I just wanted your thoughts on it, Spencer.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Samuel Bisio tracking a pop up from CJ. Abrams having
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a little trouble with it in making the catch. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: just thought that looked silly on the three D replay.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily a significant play. But was there anything
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you noticed of like, that's what they call a big
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: league pop up?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: That thing took a second to come down. Yeah, no
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: big thoughts.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But anytime a ball gets hit up to where we
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: are in the press box or about that eye level,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: as you well know, Eric, it's that ball can move,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: it can trend. It's not quite Wrigly in terms of wind,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: but man is it is it hard to track some
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: of those.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could attest to Wrigley, I
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: still haven't been yet, but I didn't need to get
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: out there later on in the game. Colton Kowser, this
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was really the big blow, a three run homer or
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: maybe a two run home At the time. It put
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the Orioles up six to one, which again it didn't
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: feel like the game was out of reach at that point.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: The Nationals would get another run later on a wonky
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: play CJ abrams RBI base hit, but it kicking off
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of the glove of CJ.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, CJ rounding first.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: They're kicking off the glove of Pete Alonzo there at
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: first base. It was just a wonky play all around.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't get an angle at James there at second.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: But the NAT's had runners on for Dalen Lyle, who
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: has just been so hot lately, unfortunately not able to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: come through in that moment. We were talking about Dalen
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit before the show, but you know, he's
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: been so hot. You know, you can't blame him for
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: coming up short there in that situation. But yesterday was
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: an interesting game. It just never really had the feeling
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: like the Nationals got clicking, as opposed to other games
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: over the course of the season, like the game where
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: they are getting wolved in Sincy the other day, where
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I was like this, this game doesn't really feel over
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: just yet, like they feel like they're in this And
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I never really got that sense from yesterday. And I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: wondering if you can help sort of stort me through
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that maybe where I'm thinking that or where it's coming from,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: because it just never had the sense that they were
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: gonna make that thrust back into the game yesterday. And
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it has to do with if
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you tear a strategy or with the lineup he ran
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out or anything, but what are your thoughts?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point. And the thing too, was
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the top of the lineup was pretty decent. Again Again,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's that we've seen a sort of inevitability
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: with this Nationals offense because the bottom of it has
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: been so productive, and it seems like these innings go
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: on and on and on, because you have, like a
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: if a Jose ten is hitting seventh, like he has
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: an OPS around eight hundred. If you have Jorbert Vivas
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: like he's been struggling recently, but he's getting on base.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Kber is trending up. Like all these guys who you
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: weren't necessarily counting on coming into the season have been
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: able to extend innings. Bring bring up James, bring up
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: guys like Curtis and Louis towards the top of the lineup,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and that, you know, I think you saw a lot
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of these innings fall a little short because the bottom
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: half lineup just wasn't able to uh to produce and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: show up. But again, I think for me, so much
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: of what I look at in that game was more
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the inevitability of the pitching woes. And that's not to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: say like, oh, obviously every time you throw Miles Micheliss
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: out there like he's gonna struggle, Like he's had some
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: good outings recently, but just not a ton of swing
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: and miss in his arsenal. Not a ton of swing
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: and miss throughout the Nationals arsenal. And that's something I
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: wrote about a little bit today. You know, for all
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the improvements we've seen, if you aren't striking a ton
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: of guys out and you're giving up some of these homers,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you're going to really struggle to win baseball games. I
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: know it's something they're focusing on the minor leagues. I
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: know it's something they're focusing on here, But yeah, like
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you go back to the miclist at bat against Mayo.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: He throws nine pitches, he throws basically every single pitch,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: and his arsenal backs it back to back to back
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: to back, just can't get him out. It's a situation
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: where when you when that's going on, Like a home
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: run feels inevitable as much as a national has comeback
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: feels inevitable. So something to focus on and something that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: they're obviously working on heading into the rest of the year.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in Blake, Butira's words, Mayo is a really good hitter,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and miles through everything he had. He certainly through everything
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he had on me and at that that one was
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a grimy one and a gutsy at bat. I want
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to give a shout out to the Orioles pitching really quickly.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I did not update that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, it looks like I do not have the Orioles
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: pitching box scoring here, but I am going to shut
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: out the Orioles of pitching really quickly because they stepped
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: up in a big way on Sunday and you know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: they shut down some really hot bats of late, and yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to shout out the Orioles pitching for
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that really quickly. Yeah, then that's done with the Orioles,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: revitalizing the rivalry that maybe he has been lacking a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: little bit and the past few years recently, but you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: certainly felt that energy at the ballpark this weekend.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: The Nats fans.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Wasn't a take back the Park campaign from twenty twelve,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: but it was definitely you know, get fans in here.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Where the colors that the guys are wearing down on
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the field. The fans were asked to color coordinate with
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the different uniforms that the Nats had going on, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: overall just looked like a bustling weekend at the ballpark.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I was jealous I couldn't be there. You know, Beltway
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Beltway battle is always a good one.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt different in there, and that again, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: don't blame Nationals fans who don't show up to games
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: all the time. I get the on field products the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: past few years hasn't been great. But regardless of where
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the blame wise or you know, any of those discussions
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: that you know you want to get into or don't like,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the place feels different when it's full, like day game,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: night game, doesn't matter. It's a really cool environment when
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: they pack forty thousand people in there. Again, the players
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: feed off it to the extent that any baseball player
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: does feed off it, and they really appreciate when fans
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: do show up. So yeah, they still have one of
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the lower attendance numbers in baseball even after this series.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens during the Mets series too. That's
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: always an interesting one. But yeah, it was for three days,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: very cool to see people show up.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean not the first time in a long time,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: but you know, for an entire weekend, it just felt
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: like the ballpark everyone was extremely invested in the game
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and how the team is playing on the field, which
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: was just exciting. It was really exciting to watch. You
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: take a look at the upcoming schedule. If you're still
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: in the DC area or around the ballpark, you can
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: still catch the Mets in town before the Nats hit
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the road and take off for Atlanta and then Cleveland.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: As we mentioned a few shows ago, I believe it's
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: a seventeen game stretch, a sixteen game stretch.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Not really sixteen in a row. Sixteen in a row.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: So a grueling stretch of baseball here, but they have
• 27:11
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• 27:13
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  Speaker 3: Spence, do you have any thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I'd never want to give out advice
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: per se. But if I'm going based on what I think,
• 28:09
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  Speaker 2: a risk issue right now and somehow is still hitting
• 28:17
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• 28:21
  Speaker 2: where can it feels like every at bad or so
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: he's shaking his wrist after a swing and just waiting
• 28:27
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• 28:29
  Speaker 2: pain goes away, he gets some big hit. He got
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: a hit off Rico Garcia, who had given up one
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: hit all season. Again, we saw him hit some homers
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: recently right after doing that, So yeah, I think he's
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: due for a big game. And yeah, we'll see if
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: it happens, but man, he's been impressive as of late.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I like that pick. That's a really good pick.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I'm gonna go with Dylan Lyle because
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: why not, you know, the home run guy for in
• 28:55
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  Speaker 1: All right, Spencer, we're back, just as we were talking
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: before the break there, Mets come to town and give
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you a look at the National leaguee's standings one more time.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The Mets sitting at the bottom, but of course they
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: are looking to scrape out of a cellar there at
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: twenty and twenty six. They're gonna avoid the nineteen and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: thirty one clip, so who knows, maybe they can find
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: themselves back in the playoff picture come season's end. But
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Christian Scott will get the rock for them later on.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: He has no decision yet this season, a three four
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: five R, but he's a pretty sharp. Last time out
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: chasing Detroit Tigers, saw the lineup went four and two thirds,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: allowing two earned runs.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Over the outing.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Jake Irvin, he had to gut through his last outing
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati was a win for the Nationals, though he
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: was not the recipient of the win. But he's been
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: one and four with a five to nine to one
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: er this season. So we've talked about Jake a lot
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: on this show before, Spencer, but you know what's going
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to be key for him getting through the lineup the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: first time, but also the second and the third time
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and hopefully giving the Nationals some innings tonight as there
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: right in the midst of a stretch here with not
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of off days.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, again, it's almost as if Jake needs to both
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: recognize that he needs to throw a lot of innings
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: and pitch as though he's just going from one batter
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: the next. I think you see Jake run into trouble
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: when he tries to just get the ball, throw the
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: ball for as long as he can and succeeds when
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: he pitches with intent, when he attacks the zone with
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: out throwing too many, too many pitches over the heart
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: of the plate. So yeah, I'm looking at the intense
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and night I'm also looking at the velocity and like,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: maybe that's just the new brain, new era part of me,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: But Jake pitch is better when he throws harder, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the velocity dipped off a pretty significant amount towards the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: end of last start. When that happens in back to
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: back starts, you start to worry, both mechanically and from
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: a standpoint of injuries, which, again, everything since has suggested
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: that he's fine. But if it happens in back to
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: back starts, I'm definitely keeping a close eye on it
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: because you don't want to see Jake go down and
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: you don't want to see him struggle with that. So
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: that's what I'm keeping an eye on. And there's a
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of good matchups ahead for the series,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: so it should be a fun one. Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: That reminds me like one of the first questions I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: had written down in my notes, which are long gone
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  Speaker 1: by now, but is cav gonna be all right? He
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: really wore a foul tip that in yesterday's game. For
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: those of you that weren't watching but stayed in for
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the rest of the game, I kind of anticipate that
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: this is gonna he can't be in the lineup later today.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he's earned a day off, especially with
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the offensive production over the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he has gotten hit so many times over
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  Speaker 2: the last few years, and again you had the concussion
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  Speaker 2: problem last year, which is obviously serious, but something like that. Again,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: if he's out of the lineup, it probably isn't because
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: of that. Like the trainers didn't even come out yesterday
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  Speaker 2: when he got hit.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they tried to give him a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone on the field tried to give him a second.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it was a tough, Yeah, tough one to watch,
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  Speaker 2: but again that feels like we get that every three
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  Speaker 2: days with Kbert Millis too, has you know, played through
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: some injury which is been tough. He's got a he's
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: got a finger that looks like you know, I won't
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: say what it looks like, but it does not look good.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And so again you got you got you guys really
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: gritting it out back there. So I don't think you're
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: ever going into a game with the catchers one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent healthy, but if they're ready to go, they're ready
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, got to give Drew some credit as well. Thank
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  Speaker 1: your catchers. If you're a pitcher out there, youth baseball
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: pitcher coming up and high.
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  Speaker 3: School ball, you know they're out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I remember Liam used to do a lot
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of catching growing up. For those of you that know
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: me from the bat Boys, Lian did a lot of catching.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: So make sure to thank your catchers. But yeah, one
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: more look at the National LEAGUEE standings for you, Nationals
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  Speaker 1: twenty three and twenty four, the Mets twenty and twenty
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  Speaker 1: six as they come to town later today for a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: four game set. So this is going to be interesting,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: It's going to be exciting. Stay tuned for Wednesday's episode,
• 33:44
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• 33:47
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• 33:50
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• 33:52
  Speaker 1: figured out just what yet, but I am getting Sarah's
• 33:55
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• 33:58
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• 34:00
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• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to toss them before we take off.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: No shout out Sarah, congrats, shout out Sarah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you you were You were the first person
• 34:10
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• 34:13
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• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Friday for the next one, and we'll see out peace.
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  Speaker 2: H m hm
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  Speaker 1: Hm