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Abrams hits 3 Home Runs in Tampa, Nats Return Home to Host Philly · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast and good morning,
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  Speaker 1: happy Monday to all our listeners. I'm Mark Shellhouse from
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  Speaker 1: the Bat Boys and joining me Spencer does Bound from
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  Speaker 1: the Athletic Hope.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone had a good Father's Day.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I was down enjoying some baseball in Fredericksburg at
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals High A affiliate, Gavin faith enjoined his first
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  Speaker 1: career multi homer game professionally in the big leagues. It's
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  Speaker 1: not an incredible weekend for the Nationals. They did win
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday by a score four to three, dropped today
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's contest four to three, and dropped the opener on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: But let's jump right into it. Sunday's game. As I said,
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  Speaker 1: Nationals lost four to three, but it was the third
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  Speaker 1: game in a row in which shortstops CJ. Abrams hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run, but unfortunately the bottom seventh inning, it
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  Speaker 1: was Johnny de Luca with the one out, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: home run for the Rays off of Orlando Robalta, who
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  Speaker 1: has been quite reliable down there. But Spencer, what was
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  Speaker 1: game like for you today? And how was it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a change of pace for the Nationals.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a while since they've actually dropped a series
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  Speaker 3: at home. They had they had been on quite a
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  Speaker 3: run here of just looking so dominant against road teams. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: this was a change of pace in the sense that
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  Speaker 3: I think the the offense wasn't quite as sharp as
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  Speaker 3: it usually was. And where if we're looking at like
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  Speaker 3: the trends of the season and the big picture stuff,
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  Speaker 3: where maybe my attention turns from here is the bullpen again.
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  Speaker 3: You you saw kind of the best of what it
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  Speaker 3: could be in game two of his series, where you had,
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  Speaker 3: as I'm sure we'll talk about, you know, Brad showing
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  Speaker 3: up and you know, Clayton closing it out and Mitchell
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  Speaker 3: having his best outing in a while. But today you
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  Speaker 3: saw the bolt to struggle and again the stuff was up.
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  Speaker 3: He was kind of touching one hundred, which we haven't
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  Speaker 3: seen from him in a long while. But yeah, at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, they're a bullpen that has
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  Speaker 3: a lot a lot of homers. They've given up a
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  Speaker 3: lot of walks, and they haven't struck a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys out and so yeah, there's a lot of room
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  Speaker 3: to grow in this bullpen. And I think even if
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  Speaker 3: they're trending in the right direction. Like you know, Game
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  Speaker 3: one and Game three of this series are kind of
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  Speaker 3: a worry in that sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as Franny had mentioned in Friday's episode, I think
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  Speaker 1: the Rays are a team that every year you circle
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  Speaker 1: on your schedule as a team to kind of keep
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  Speaker 1: yourself honest as far as where the season's at. They
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  Speaker 1: just always year in a year out play really good baseball.
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  Speaker 1: There was a moment earlier in the game, Spencer you
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  Speaker 1: were tweeting about, in which Drew Millis, the Nationals catcher,
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  Speaker 1: got clipped on the wrist. But seemingly things are all right.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a chance to talk with Blake ye
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  Speaker 1: terror about that in the post game at all?
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  Speaker 2: But seems like Millie's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not really, just because again it seems like everything's fine.
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  Speaker 3: As we've talked about before, Millis gets nicked up all
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's just yes, good catcher, the perks of the job,
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  Speaker 1: I guess if you will, But yeah, that's just part
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  Speaker 1: of the gig. Nothing to be concerned about their Nationals fans.
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  Speaker 1: But I know a lot of a Knats fans have
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  Speaker 1: been asking about Harry Ford. We do need to do
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  Speaker 1: like a fully dedicated Prospect episode, but Trade Deadline's coming
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  Speaker 1: up will definitely have to do some trade focus once.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Saturday's victory really quickly four to three
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  Speaker 1: though a game of unsung heroes. As you mentioned, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: but how long has it taken the Nationals to win
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  Speaker 1: forty wins in some of the last few seasons. Took
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  Speaker 1: them seventy seven games this season. That's a record pace
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the last five games. But Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: you tweeted that out during Saturday's game. What do you
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  Speaker 1: make of, you know, the National's ability to have reached
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  Speaker 1: forty wins as quickly as they have this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, I think, like we've talked about in the past, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's an entirely new administration, and it's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: players who were already kind of maturing, But I hadn't
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  Speaker 3: maybe taken that like that you needed to to get
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  Speaker 3: to a spot like this. They've talked all year about
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  Speaker 3: how in that building and specifically in that clubhouse, they've
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  Speaker 3: found something like this as possible, and I think those
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  Speaker 3: of us on the outside, whether we're looking at the
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  Speaker 3: computer models or we've been on the team last week,
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  Speaker 3: we'ven't seen anything like this before, and so I think
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  Speaker 3: this caught a lot of us on the outside by surprise,
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  Speaker 3: but to them, hey, this is just, you know, another series,
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  Speaker 3: and it's It's funny how they've kind of not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: down played it because I think they're very proud of
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  Speaker 3: the accomplishments. But one of the strengths of this team
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  Speaker 3: is that it doesn't get too high after wins and
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't get too low after losses. So you see
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  Speaker 3: them loose today and like, the vibe in there is fine,
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  Speaker 3: and you see them, you know, beat the brakes off
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  Speaker 3: some of these teams, and yeah, the vibe is great,
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  Speaker 3: but they know that there's always another game ahead. So
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  Speaker 3: they've done a really good job at kind of regulating
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  Speaker 3: this year, and I think that's also a big part
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  Speaker 3: of why they're, you know, at this point forty and
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Season and as we mentioned earlier in the show, was
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  Speaker 1: just an incredible series for CJ. Abrams. This was his
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth homer of the season. Of course, he walked out
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  Speaker 1: of Tampa Bay with seventeen, but a big reason for
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  Speaker 1: part of that success is his swing rate. This season,
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  Speaker 1: he has been chasing balls a whole lot less, but
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  Speaker 1: not just that Spencer. He's also swinging a little less
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  Speaker 1: at pitches in the strike zone. But talk to me
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  Speaker 1: about CJ's approach at the plate this season and how
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  Speaker 1: that's led to more success for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so CJ's been i would say, more careful this season,
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  Speaker 3: and he really saw this in April in the early
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  Speaker 3: part of May, where even if he went through a
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  Speaker 3: game of two game or two of chasing, he would
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  Speaker 3: always revert back to hey, heart of the zone, heart
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  Speaker 3: of the zone, heart of the zone. I'm only going
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  Speaker 3: to swing at something over the middle of the plate,
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  Speaker 3: as something they preached all year. And while maybe his
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  Speaker 3: chase rate didn't, you know, go crazy in one direction
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  Speaker 3: or another, you saw him swing less, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that kept him more patient and more balanced and poised
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  Speaker 3: at the plate. Now, again we don't necessarily have the
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  Speaker 3: graphic up now, the chase rate's gone way up this month,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is in kind of an interesting note,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's almost hard to process because he's had
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  Speaker 3: these last three games where he's hit three homers. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure maybe he's chasing less in these games, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's almost this is kind of the whole week
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  Speaker 3: or handful of weeks in the season for CJ. Where
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  Speaker 3: it's in years past you would see the chase rates
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  Speaker 3: skyrocket in the second here it's of, hey, this is
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  Speaker 3: kind of the time for him to get it together, right.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not to say like, oh, CJ, you have
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  Speaker 3: to get it together, Like you just hit three homers,
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  Speaker 3: like I think everything is gonna be all right, but
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  Speaker 3: this is kind of a pivotal time to work on
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  Speaker 3: those swing decisions. And to his credit, every time you
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  Speaker 3: asked her about it, he said, yeah, like he knows
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  Speaker 3: what's going wrong, he knows how to fix it, but
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  Speaker 3: you can just kind of get some of these roulls
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  Speaker 3: because of everything that's involved with mechanics and mentality as
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  Speaker 3: he's trying to figure this things out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I believe he's still first in the National
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  Speaker 1: League All Star Game voting, But Nationals fans, while you're listening,
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  Speaker 1: make sure to go vote. That's at some point today
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  Speaker 1: you get five opportunities a day. I believe that guy
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  Speaker 1: deserves to be an All Star Game starter and one
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  Speaker 1: of the other unsung heroes. In Saturday Night's victory, Dylan Cruz.
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  Speaker 1: This home run his fifth of the season, traveling four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty two feet off of the bat, just
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  Speaker 1: an absolute, no doubt or as soon as he connected
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  Speaker 1: with it, and at the time it was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: nice little patting of the lead and it ended up
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  Speaker 1: mattering quite a bit in the ninth inning. But Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: what have you noticed from him lately? It seems like
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  Speaker 1: he is really starting to turn a corner. And how
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  Speaker 1: much does it mean to be getting that production from
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  Speaker 1: guys further back in the order when it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: been a custom from James C. J.
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  Speaker 2: Meat and those guys at the top.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think Dylan hasn't put a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: pressure on himself since he's been up here, which has
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  Speaker 3: been really important to his success, again because of howeveryone
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  Speaker 3: else in the lineup has been hitting. That being said,
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  Speaker 3: there's always going to be pressure, especially when you're a
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  Speaker 3: former number two pick, and so I think as he
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  Speaker 3: worked through these things, the most important thing for him
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  Speaker 3: was to not change his routine. You know. I even
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  Speaker 3: asked him the other day, like, Hey, something must be
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  Speaker 3: different in your routine from the time he came up right,
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  Speaker 3: because the results are better and even the underlying stuff
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  Speaker 3: is better, and he said, maybe like a minor tweak
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  Speaker 3: here and there, but basically nothing's changed, Like this is
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  Speaker 3: the hitter he's always known he could be. Now you're
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  Speaker 3: just kind of seeing him execute in the spots. You're
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  Speaker 3: seeing the ball fall a little bit more, even though
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  Speaker 3: he's still been a little unlucky, and yeah, he's he's
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  Speaker 3: really turned his season around at this point. So it's
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  Speaker 3: been really kind of a pactful to have him in
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  Speaker 3: the the middle and bottom of the lineup doing what
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  Speaker 3: he's done. And I think that things are trending that way,
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  Speaker 3: even if at times he still whiffs and chases too much.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is still a version of Dylan that
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  Speaker 3: you can absolutely be happy with if you're the Nationals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for the Nats fans that have been
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  Speaker 1: paying attention every single day, you've been seeing the hard
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  Speaker 1: lineouts and the hard groundouts. Now that we're finally seeing
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  Speaker 1: All right, and we are back another one of the
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  Speaker 1: heroes from Saturday night's victory, Brad Lord. You take a
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: look at the Nationals pitching box score from Saturday. Kid
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  Speaker 1: Caavali got himself into a little bit of soup in
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  Speaker 1: the first inning, was able to work out of it
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  Speaker 1: just two runs over the course of the day. Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: Parker two and a third scoreless innings. But Brad Lord
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  Speaker 1: three innings of shutout baseball out of the bullpen and
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  Speaker 1: vibes strikeouts to go along with it in his last
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  Speaker 1: fifteen games, pitching to a two of a one to
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  Speaker 1: ten er. Some fantastic numbers up on your screen there.
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  Speaker 1: But Spencer, this is a guy that we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: the rotation before. But the overwhelming what I hear on
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  Speaker 1: social media's people saying leave him in the bullpen because
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals need the bullpen help. But how exciting has
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  Speaker 1: it been to see him progress this season and how
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals have used him pretty much exclusively as a reliever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been huge. Right, And we think about Brad's
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  Speaker 3: development journey right like he's an eighteenth rounder, the sort
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  Speaker 3: of guy that not only the Nationals haven't really developed
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  Speaker 3: into big leaguers in recent seasons. But like no one
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: develops into big leaguers in recent seasons, I hear again
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  Speaker 3: and again years or years. Brad is as mentally sound
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  Speaker 3: as they come. He is as I don't know, physically
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  Speaker 3: sound as they come is the right word. But like
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  Speaker 3: has been the big leagues with just a few twe
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  Speaker 3: weeks and then has that you know, productive rookie season.
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  Speaker 3: But both he and the Nationals realized, hey, there's more
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  Speaker 3: in the tank. And I'm actually writing about this for
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  Speaker 3: Monday morning in the Athletic They've implemented a new pitch
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  Speaker 3: design team up in Washington where they're helping a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys, whether it's in the minor leagues or the
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  Speaker 3: major leagues, add new pitches. And so Brad, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as we see again and again, has really linked to
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  Speaker 3: that new sweeper of his where they basically showed him
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  Speaker 3: the grip and one throw. I think it was he
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  Speaker 3: found it like he had right away. It's helped his
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  Speaker 3: sinker be one of the best pitches in baseball because
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  Speaker 3: they move in opposite directions. The sweeper itself, I think
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  Speaker 3: there's three hits against it all year, and it's not
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  Speaker 3: like he's never thrown it, So again, it's a huge
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  Speaker 3: credit to how hard he works, how flexible he is
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  Speaker 3: with his role, and exactly what the Nationals are trying
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  Speaker 3: to do in twenty twenty six and beyond, and that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, be one of the smartest organizations in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: So Brad is a credit to them. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's also obviously a credit to Brad first and foremost
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  Speaker 3: for everything he's accomplished this year. It's been unbelievable to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and seeing him just as a reliever this season,
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  Speaker 1: I think baseball fans turned the clock back about a decade.
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  Speaker 1: You remember how disgusting Andrew Miller was for that Cleveland bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Really reminds me of that kind of guy who I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if it's a riety or a lefty and
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  Speaker 1: I'm throwing him in for two or three innings. But
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  Speaker 1: adding that additional pitch spencer, do you ever think there's
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  Speaker 1: a universe where the Nationals might consider working him back
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  Speaker 1: into the rotation. It's just interesting to me that they
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  Speaker 1: haven't considered using him as one of the openers at
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  Speaker 1: some point the season. How frequently they have used one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's just so important to that bullpen
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  Speaker 3: with how much they've struggled elsewhere. Right, Like, you have
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of when you know that you can throw
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  Speaker 3: a guy four innings at the start of a game,
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  Speaker 3: maybe don't have to extend him beyond that because you
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  Speaker 3: have nine automatic outs following right after, which is basically
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  Speaker 3: what Brad has been during this time span. There's no
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  Speaker 3: real reason to open up with him. It's more like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: here's the fire, and ready to put out the fire,
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  Speaker 3: I will say. And the Nationals worked a little bit
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  Speaker 3: with Brad on trying to adjust his change up entering
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  Speaker 3: the season, And I think ultimately, if we think ahead
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  Speaker 3: to next season, like if there's a theoretical world where
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  Speaker 3: he is a starter again, that's the sort of thing
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  Speaker 3: it's going to take. It's going to need like one
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  Speaker 3: more elite pitch because he's clearly even durable enough to
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  Speaker 3: do this. Right. But I just think he's been so
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  Speaker 3: important to this version of this team that you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to move him at any point in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: But hey, I think it's fair to ask the question,
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  Speaker 3: you know, next year, the year after, whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 3: He's seems like he's going to be in Washington for
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  Speaker 3: quite a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think is a key part of this team
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  Speaker 1: moving forward really quickly. On the note of Friday's loss,
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  Speaker 1: which Nationals lost five to two, they were winning it
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  Speaker 1: to nothing at one point. Luis s Garcia Junior with
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  Speaker 1: his tenth home run in the season, just another guy
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  Speaker 1: checking into the double digit department. But Jonathan Oranda with
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  Speaker 1: this home run that just stayed fair inside of the
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  Speaker 1: ball or rather off the pull I suppose at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the third ending gave them a three to
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  Speaker 1: two lead and they would go on to win five
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  Speaker 1: to two. But Spencer Louis with his tenth of the season.
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  Speaker 1: The power is nothing new for him. We known that
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  Speaker 1: he could be a twenty maybe even a thirty home
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  Speaker 1: run guy. But to see him getting into a nice
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  Speaker 1: groove like this headed the trade deadline two really begs
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  Speaker 1: the question of where he fits into the future of
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  Speaker 1: this organization.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a fair question to ask in
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  Speaker 3: something I've been thinking a lot about recently. What I
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: will say is it's a little still hard to parse
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  Speaker 3: out what his value will be. And I understand for
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: a Nationals fan, you look at Abby Rts in Rochester
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  Speaker 3: and you say, hey, that's the obvious, you know, easy
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  Speaker 3: replacement when you know when Louis traded. But there's there's
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  Speaker 3: no guarantee Louis going to command that sort of value
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  Speaker 3: in the market. Right Like I was, I was kind
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  Speaker 3: of doing a not a deep dive, but I was,
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of perusing other teams and seeing the
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  Speaker 3: sort of production they'd get from a guy like Louis
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  Speaker 3: right teams that may struggle to hit, you know, right
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  Speaker 3: handed pitching, particularly first base DH spot, and they're just
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  Speaker 3: there aren't a ton of teams out there that are
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  Speaker 3: looking for a player like that, or at least that's
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: that's what their rosters and their production would suggest. So
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I haven't even found out really what the answer will be.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think the Nationals know whether or not he'll
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: be on the roster come August third, August fourth, But
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: they're in an interesting spot here where if they do
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: want to trade Louis, he's going to have to produce
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: even more than he has now. And he's he's been
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: a good hitter, but is there another level in there?
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: And be on that also figuring out first base, whether
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: a team is willing to put him there. I think
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: that's all TVD So he's he's one of the most
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: kind of interesting characters ahead of this deadline as to
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: what the Nationals will be able to do and what
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: you know, whether or not he's on the roster come
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: mid August. I guess we'll see.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: There's one thing I jumped over really quickly, and this
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: was in Saturday's victory. I believe when Jacob Young just
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: went crashing into the wall Nowfield, I don't I don't
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: have a picture of that play. I don't have the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: footage of that play, but man watching it on TV
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: thought something could have been really bad at first, the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: way he just went into the wall with the shoulder
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: butt spencer. He's considered day to day, but just what
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: an what an impactful play you think about where the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: game was at that moment, But what'd you notice, Like
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: did the crowds silence at that point?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah? A little bit? Right again, he was down for
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: about as long as I've seen a player go down for,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: and frankly as long as I've seen a player go
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: down for and also be fine, right, he said, he
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: you know, we talked to him today and he said
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: he basically like couldn't breathe in that moment, or it
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: was really hard to breathe because of how hard he
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: went into the wall. And you know that told him
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: two things in that moment. It was a like, he's
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: probably gonna be fine, is what he thought, because that's
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: you know, when the wind gets knocked out of you,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: that usually means you know, generally you're fine elsewhere. But
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: in the the other half of that is, hey, I
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: still can't breathe in this moment. How am I going
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: to get out of this? So a tough scene for
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: for Jacob, but you could argue that that like was
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: one of a few things that won them the game.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: So again, he's been someone who's been willing to put
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: his body in the line. I don't think that's going anywhere,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: but I do wonder a little bit if there's going
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: to be a little PTSD next time he has to
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to jump up at a wall, because that, you know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: it was a scary site there that.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch Top ten on Sports Spend Sports Center
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: later that night, but I got a mad that was
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: representing on the National's behalf and on Jacob's behalf.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Just what an.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Incredible play phenomenon, and it really stirred a good debate
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and argument on my friend's couch at the time, whether
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it was the left side or the right side he
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: was feeling, whether it was the wind getting knocked out
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of him, which was what my friend was saying.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, he's good. You know he's a tough cookie.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: But I was worried about the ribs the way he
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: was just holding there for a second. But very grateful
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that Jacob is okay. Really quickly, We're going to take
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back, talk about the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Phillies coming to town later today.
• 19:31
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• 20:32
  Speaker 1: And we are back, as I mentioned right before to break.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: The Phillies are coming into town later today, a four
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: game set. We got NAT's basketball jersey giveaway tomorrow, lots
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: of good giveaways this home stand soccer jersey on Thursday.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to tell Matts fans, you got
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to get out to the park, Trea like it's twenty
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: twelve take back the Park sort of campaign, because you
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: take a look at the current and this is very
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: current National LEAGUEE standings. The Mets and Phillies are playing
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: right now, so this will change by mine day morning.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But the Nationals nine games back in the National League
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: East and just to half a game out of the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: wildcard spot. They now have the same record as the Marlins.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: How about the scrappy little Marlins. I don't mind using
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that adjective to describe them, But the Phillies have been
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: playing a terrific series against the Mets. I don't have
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a live score in front of me right now. Bryce Harper,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: former national with his first career cycle last night, Trey Turner,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber come into town. But preview this team for
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Nats fans a little bit, Spencer if you have.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: One, Yeah, I mean, I think Matts fans are intimately
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: familiar with the top of the Phillies lineup right Schobers
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: having another historic home run season. The Phillies pitching has
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: always always the season, whether they've looked good or bad.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: They're basically always liable to really shut a lineup down.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I have the propos ahead of me, and right now
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the Phillies are listed is t B A, t B A,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: t B A and t B A. So I'm not
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: actually entirely sure who's going up against you know, Foster
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: and and Lttel and the next few guys in the rotation.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think a big key in this series
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: is going to be quieting those bats, right, I think
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: if the Phillies have had an Achilles all this year,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: it's been that their lineup has been very streaky and
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: their their defense hasn't been very good. But yeah, if
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: you can, you know, put shar Burn base without letting
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: him homer, if you can keep Bryce quiet because outside
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: of the cycle, I know it hasn't been the season
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: that he was hoping to have. Trey Turner like all
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: these guys, they're big names, and I think they are
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: always capable of turning it on, but they haven't really
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: put it together for like a multi week stretch here,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and so I think if you're the Nationals, so much
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: of this is going to be contingent on the bullpen,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: which is, you know, we'll see how tax it is
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: come fourth game in series, but a lot going to
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: be asked frount of them. It's a lot out of
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: the starting rotation, and yeah, the Nats will have to
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: figure it out from there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for our viewers and listeners, I wasn't able to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: prepare like a pitching preview because the Phillies as of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: right now don't have a probable listed. The latest I've
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: been able to find has Jesus Lizardo going for them
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and Lttel and as Spencer just mentioned, Foster Griffin
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: is the nast probable pitcher to get the Rocky seven
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to two with a three point thirty two ERA in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: six innings, I believe of one run or two run ball.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I started preparing the Monday preview graphic, but the Phillies
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just they never helped me out on the left side.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I saw Griffin Jack's hanging out there, so so don't
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: pay attent don't pay any attention.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: To that NAT's fans.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It's not up to date, but I think that's all
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: we have. Just you got guffs. I caught a T
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: shirt giveaway T shirtarlier today. I was pretty proud of that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: It the Fred NAT's game. Spencer, anything you want toss
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: him before we head.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Out, that's all I got.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we will see you all on Wednesday.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we got Franny back. Maybe we'll have some sort
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: of Phillies guest star if I can figure that out. Unfortunately,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Guthrie was at the College World Series last week,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: so that's a pretty reasonable excuse excuse as to why
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: he couldn't hang out for the Royals. Episode, but we'll
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: see you all then see you later.