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James Wood's Grand Slam Propels Nats past Mets, Crews returns to DC · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric Shellhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me today Kevin Franzen of Washington Nationals. The Nationals
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  Speaker 1: coming off a split in the first two games against
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  Speaker 1: the Mets. We're going to talk about the next two
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  Speaker 1: against the Mets later on. But a six to nine
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  Speaker 1: victory yesterday and James Wood's first career Grand Slam, although
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  Speaker 1: beit not exactly how we're expecting it to come. But Franny,
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  Speaker 1: how'd you enjoy yesterday's victory.
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  Speaker 2: Like I do all of them?
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  Speaker 3: Very nice, very nice, you know, Like no, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like long baseball season, you get you get
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  Speaker 3: these cool victories like this, you got to celebrate them.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, watching the boys come back early and
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  Speaker 3: not have to wait later and have that drama in there.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a huge part of this. And
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  Speaker 2: so it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's just fun to see, right when you get these
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  Speaker 3: guys doing their thing and loving, loving on each other,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And and I thought yesterday going into it
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  Speaker 3: was probably gonna be the most defining moment of the
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  Speaker 3: season for the Nats based off awful, you know loss
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  Speaker 3: on on Monday night. You kind of you kind of
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  Speaker 3: change up the room for the first time truly, uh,
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  Speaker 3: with with Dylan Cruz and Ono Saparo being in there.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not a negative, it just it changes the vibe.
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  Speaker 3: And however, guy's gonna respond. And they did a great
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  Speaker 3: job yesterday, and I thought, for a defining moment, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty evident that these boys are here.
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  Speaker 2: They're for real. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was tempted to call an emergency podcast yesterday with
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  Speaker 1: all the transactions and stuff, but I wasn't gonna put
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  Speaker 1: us on the spot just like that. Wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: how they'd play. Of course, the big news around the
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  Speaker 1: Nation's capital Dylan Cruz and Andres Chaparro were recalled from
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  Speaker 1: Triple A. The corresponding moves for that Brady House was
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  Speaker 1: optioned to Triple A, which Spencer wrote about over in
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  Speaker 1: The Athletic. Those of you interested can go read it,
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  Speaker 1: and the other corresponding move being Joey Weimer sent down
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  Speaker 1: to Triple A and Jake Mint saying online Dylan Cruz
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  Speaker 1: back up for the Nats today. I remain very high,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps irrationally high on Cruz, and he is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that I also truly have faith in to sort of
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. And it's really exciting to see him
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  Speaker 1: back up at the big league level. I also really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed Joey Weimer's jersey swap that he did for himself
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  Speaker 1: upon the return to Rochester. Kevin, can you kind of
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  Speaker 1: explain this for fans that this is not necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: punishment for Brady House or for Joey Weimer. That is
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  Speaker 1: just a demotion and there are certain things that they
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  Speaker 1: want them to be working on at Triple A, right.
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  Speaker 3: And Joey was going to be a body anyways in
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  Speaker 3: the franchise in a good way too, like having those
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  Speaker 3: guys that are there that could be such a benefit
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  Speaker 3: to the big league team but also a benefit to
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  Speaker 3: the minor leaguers when he's down there and doing his
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  Speaker 3: thing and creating. Look, he's a one war player this year, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean he he's been fantastic, And so you're you're
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  Speaker 3: also looking at it. You you kind of know the
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  Speaker 3: deal when you sign over, like what could happen? You
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  Speaker 3: have options, you have all this stuff. It's on it's
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  Speaker 3: on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: When he gets you know, dfa'd by multiple teams that
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  Speaker 3: get picked up by the nets, and he has options.
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  Speaker 3: That's a huge factor, right, building a healthy roster. A
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  Speaker 3: healthy roster isn't just about like the actual health of
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  Speaker 3: the guy. It's actually having options for guys being able
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  Speaker 3: to set him down do stuff. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Dylan's going to be one that you know is a
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  Speaker 3: centerpiece in this franchise for a while.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe that. I will. I I you know, second, third,
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  Speaker 2: and fourth everything.
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  Speaker 3: That Jake said there. But I've also never waned from
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  Speaker 3: him like I thought. You know, when he got sent
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  Speaker 3: down this year, I thought it was awesome. I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was great because again, a lot of it was orchestrated,
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  Speaker 3: I think, not in the benefit of the player to
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  Speaker 3: be up here in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he needed to earn things in the best of ways,
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  Speaker 3: not like a like he didn't earn us, just just
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  Speaker 3: organically earn it.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like he did.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, the stuff with Brady's a different
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  Speaker 3: deal though, because he did have a lot more issues.
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  Speaker 2: Right than we're really seen.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, did he crush left, he sure, but
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  Speaker 3: right he's just absolutely destroyed him.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the whiff rates, you.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the end zone miss you look at the
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  Speaker 3: errors defensively, and a lot of the stuff wasn't major
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  Speaker 3: league quality, and a lot of that too, is also
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  Speaker 3: rushing up here to the big leagues, and they gave
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  Speaker 3: him a pretty good runway.
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  Speaker 2: But now they have plans.
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  Speaker 3: They have plans for you know, Joey, they have plans
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  Speaker 3: for Dylan when they was down there. You have plans
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  Speaker 3: for every one of these guys. And they've shown us
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  Speaker 3: as far as Paul Tavoni, Devin Pearson, Justin Horowitz, that
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  Speaker 3: the plans are they're working right. Doesn't mean to work
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  Speaker 3: on every guy, but they have a plan they set
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  Speaker 3: out for and they're consistent with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think a lot of things that I
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  Speaker 1: heard from Nats fans over the last couple of days
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  Speaker 1: with the frustration that Brady could be helping us right
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  Speaker 1: now at the big league level because he's crushed left
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  Speaker 1: handed pitching, And to Bony's explanation of that, if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see him speak about it, was sort of we
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  Speaker 1: know that he can crush left handed pitching, but we
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  Speaker 1: want him to be able to crush right handed pitching too,
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  Speaker 1: and to be able to do it at the big
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  Speaker 1: league level, and we don't think that it's in Brady's
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  Speaker 1: best interest or quite frankly, the franchise's best interest to
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  Speaker 1: be forcing him into a platoon situation as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: getting him the reps every single day at Triple A.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's pretty fair to take away from
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  Speaker 1: Paul's comments the other day?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean he's been getting dominated by velocity too, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's the special and what are you going to go
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  Speaker 3: up against the next couple of weeks is the high
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  Speaker 3: end you know, velocity for the franchise that you're going
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  Speaker 3: up against.
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  Speaker 2: So again, like.
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  Speaker 3: I've been saying it on air, I haven't really you know,
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  Speaker 3: veered from you know, NAT's fans want to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: crush me for a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 2: I tell the truth as much as.
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  Speaker 3: I can, and the one thing I will say is
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  Speaker 3: that I'm very honest when it comes to he needs
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  Speaker 3: to get better and he needs to hit right handed pitching.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't been good against it. He cannot be mental defensively,
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  Speaker 3: and he's been mental. And this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a good breather for Brady. Brady's fantastic. He's an awesome individual.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody has spent any time around him, And the one
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  Speaker 3: thing I will say is if he takes this with
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  Speaker 3: in stride, if he takes this as a true like
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  Speaker 3: I gotta get better, things are gonna go great for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Listening to Paul talk about Brady the other day, just
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  Speaker 1: when he's at his best, it's this cocky but not
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  Speaker 1: overly confident guy over at third base. It says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to swallow everything up it comes in my direction.
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  Speaker 1: And right now it just seems like there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of pressing perhaps, and there's a tensity that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I better not screw it up, but just go be yourself,
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  Speaker 1: because when you're Brady House, that's when you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: your best version of you. Go ahead and remind you
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies winning getting over the five hundred mark last night,
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  Speaker 1: and the Mets at the bottom. There twenty one in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, So get into a recap of Monday's game
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  Speaker 1: really quickly. Sixteen to seven was your final, but that
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  Speaker 1: was not the score. Early on, the Nationals struck first.
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  Speaker 1: It was Jose Tina getting the party started with an
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  Speaker 1: RBI double in the second inning. I believe check you
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  Speaker 1: mind notes really quickly top of the second inning, and
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  Speaker 1: then Joey Weimer would add more in the sorry in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the second inning and the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the third inning, Joey Weimer would add more with an
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  Speaker 1: RBI double to right field that made it a three
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  Speaker 1: to nothing game. But the Mets would start to chip back.
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  Speaker 1: Brett Batty, that is Brett Bitte as Jake Gervin gets
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  Speaker 1: onto the mound would lead off the four inning with
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  Speaker 1: a solo shot that made it a three to two
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  Speaker 1: game at the time, and then they kept rumbling back
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  Speaker 1: as Juan Soto laced a single into center field that
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  Speaker 1: made it a four to three game put the Mets
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  Speaker 1: back on top. Curtis Mead came off of the bench
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  Speaker 1: to deliver in many ways that he has this season,
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  Speaker 1: and I was not able to grab the b roll
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  Speaker 1: footage of that play, but Franny it seems like so
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  Speaker 1: often Curtis this season, his most meaningful hits have come
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  Speaker 1: off of the bench, and not necessarily in his first
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  Speaker 1: at that, but just once he comes into the game,
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  Speaker 1: he seems to be really really dialed in for those
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  Speaker 1: late inning at bats. Is there a clutch team going
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  Speaker 1: on there or something?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's been he's been good.
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  Speaker 3: I think the bats have been consistently great. You know,
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  Speaker 3: having a traject machine downstairs is huge for those guys
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  Speaker 3: to get a bats against guys during the game and
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  Speaker 3: work and continue on and do things. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: chase a whole lot. If he does, it goes to
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  Speaker 3: the spots that he can handle the most. I just
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  Speaker 3: think that they, you know, clutching, sure, But I also
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  Speaker 3: think that he's put in avantageous spots. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's a huge factor in this as you look at
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  Speaker 3: guys like him and you're going, oh, okay, why is
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  Speaker 3: this such a big deal, Because oh, he has better
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  Speaker 3: matchups for himself, because that's what the coach is going
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  Speaker 3: to do. And I feel like they've done that consistently
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  Speaker 3: all year and something not to shy away from.
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  Speaker 1: And he came in in the seventh inning and drew
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  Speaker 1: a walk in place of Luis Garcia. I assume facing
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  Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher at the time. My Mets box
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  Speaker 1: score was not really up to date in this game,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all over the place. This was a wild game,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll go ahead and jump into extra innings here.
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  Speaker 1: It was the tenth inning and the Nationals had bases
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  Speaker 1: low with two outs. CJ. Abrams was not abrile to
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  Speaker 1: put across the winning run or I guess, go ahead run,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it in that situation. So
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  Speaker 1: we played into the eleventh. The Mets took the lead
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  Speaker 1: in the top half of the inning on a Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Simeon sackfly, but Joey Weimer getting the job done again
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  Speaker 1: later on an infield single. That's that's not Joey hanging
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  Speaker 1: out in front of home plate on the replay for
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  Speaker 1: those of you watching online. But the Nats would tie
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  Speaker 1: it yet again. Then in the twelfth inning, Carson Bene
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  Speaker 1: was the one who delivered the blow on frankly, just
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  Speaker 1: a funky play, gets a hard ground ball right back
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  Speaker 1: at the picture, and hey, sometimes there's a guy there
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  Speaker 1: at second base, and unfortunately Nas was going to back
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  Speaker 1: up there, so that ball just died on the infield
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  Speaker 1: and then it kind of just filed out of control there.
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  Speaker 1: But we were talking about this before the game, Franny.
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  Speaker 1: The Nats went and pitched before the pod. Jorbet Vivas
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  Speaker 1: was pitching in the in the late innings there, and
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  Speaker 1: the umpires got a little bit confused about the rules.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if you can break this down for fans,
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  Speaker 1: because some people online seem to be like, there's this
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  Speaker 1: sense of embarrassment for the Nationals or that you tear
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  Speaker 1: didn't know the rules.
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  Speaker 2: The rules.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those fans need to shut the you know what up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired of it. It's it's they they're oh god,
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  Speaker 3: I need to.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you again.
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  Speaker 3: You get in these situations and you're going, okay, so
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  Speaker 3: what is the whole deal? What is the rule? What
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  Speaker 3: is everything? And they made us question ourselves and in
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  Speaker 3: the rule, we knew the role. I think that's the
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  Speaker 3: part that really upsets me, is that we knew the
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  Speaker 3: rule about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: So if you.
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  Speaker 3: Are down by ten in regulation, you are allowed to
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  Speaker 3: throw a position player, right, So game is an extra innings,
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  Speaker 3: So here it is if you really want to know,
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  Speaker 3: only an extra innings, or if his team was trailing
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  Speaker 3: or winning by at least six runs. You know, outside
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  Speaker 3: of that. In twenty two you were able to do that. However,
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  Speaker 3: position players now have to go through these certain rules
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  Speaker 3: to pitch. It's team trailing by at least eight runs
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  Speaker 3: at any point, team trailing, team winning by at least
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  Speaker 3: ten runs in the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: You could throw a position player, if the game is
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  Speaker 3: in extra innings. You could throw a position player at
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  Speaker 3: any point in time. And the part that upsets me
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  Speaker 3: is that it is such an easy rule that Blake
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  Speaker 3: knew it. He tried to get as much as he
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  Speaker 3: could out of packs. The Schultz going back to back
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  Speaker 3: to back days for the first time in his career,
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  Speaker 3: first time by any Nats pitcher. He did not want
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  Speaker 3: to see. He could not do it anymore. To him,
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: Like he he knew the rule.
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  Speaker 3: And then the fact that the umpires did that was
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  Speaker 3: the one that made Blake I feel like, look like
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  Speaker 3: an idiot and tried to and he knew the rule
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. Stayed there and it to me was
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  Speaker 3: like the umpire screwed this one up, and they screwed
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  Speaker 3: it up bad. They could have this done well in
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  Speaker 3: advance if they knew that extra innings everything's allowed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and umpiring is a really really, really really difficult job.
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  Speaker 1: As someone who did it twice and then quit immediately afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: it's a thankless job and you're gonna have people upset
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  Speaker 1: at you on both sides. But as an umpire, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta know the rules, Like that's the only rule, is
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  Speaker 1: the umpire, right, You got to know.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing too, is like Carlos Mendoza knew the rule,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what I thought it was something that
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  Speaker 3: needed to be highlighted too, is that Carlos Mendoza talked
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  Speaker 3: about it afterwards, saying like like I'm glad he got
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  Speaker 3: the the you know, his guy in there, he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to save his guys, you know, like he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to do the best for his team and his
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  Speaker 3: pitcher's health and all that stuff. And it's like it
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  Speaker 3: does it gets a little bit overlooked in the whole situations,
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  Speaker 3: but truly like Blake Blake was doing, I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was a fantastic I actually thought he was gonna go
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  Speaker 3: to an earlier because we know I've told you the deal.
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  Speaker 3: If you score two or more runs in a inning,
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  Speaker 3: not throughout the entire extremes, but in an inning in
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  Speaker 3: the top half of the inning and extra innings, you're
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  Speaker 3: twenty six and now twenty seven and one.
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  Speaker 2: This year.
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  Speaker 1: With only one game getting extended where it didn't end
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  Speaker 1: in that So yeah, yeah, yeah, extra innings is honestly
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  Speaker 1: one of the most interesting talking points with this team
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  Speaker 1: right now. There's certainly a lot of them. You talk
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  Speaker 1: about most runs scoring in MLV, but yeah, this you
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the pitching box score from Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't show you the pitch count for each individual guy.
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  Speaker 1: But as you were just saying, but Blake had kind
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  Speaker 1: of exhausted all of his options at that point, didn't
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  Speaker 1: really so much to.
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  Speaker 3: Day prior to that point, and who a day prior
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  Speaker 3: Richard Lovelady had gone an updown, right like he was
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  Speaker 3: the opener. And then you had Brad Lord who went
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven pitches. They did not want to go to
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  Speaker 3: him because he had an updown as well, and that
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  Speaker 3: matters in this whole thing. So you have you had
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  Speaker 3: kind of two guys that were out there, you had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, six to kind of play with you try
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  Speaker 3: to you're trying to mix and match a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that they were able to get, you know, Ribalta Varland
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  Speaker 3: out early, Andrew Alvarez is kind of safe for today.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So you had let's say you had seven guys, so
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  Speaker 3: you're down to you know, two more so you're down
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  Speaker 3: to five. You had a five man pen that day,
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  Speaker 3: and Mitchell Parker right like, so there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things that you had going in your way, pooling going.
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  Speaker 3: I I thought Blake played it great, Like this is
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  Speaker 3: more of an issue of like the team not getting
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  Speaker 3: it done in the moments they had, but they also
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  Speaker 3: were in a game where they had four errors and
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  Speaker 3: it shouldn't have been in right, like, you make all
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  Speaker 3: those airs and mistakes that they did. You had, you know, Dalen,
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  Speaker 3: you know, tumbling over the base at third, that could
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  Speaker 3: have been a huge moment, a run on Joey Weimer's double.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that you got the experience is still one
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  Speaker 3: of those crazy things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you said it in livetime on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: He said, well, hopefully that that doesn't hurt us here
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  Speaker 1: because I believe running third one out, and it did.
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  Speaker 1: There was a one run game going into the extra innings.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's jump into yesterday's victory, because, as Spencer tweeted
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: out before the game, as I go to bring it up,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: this is a game that you almost forget the Nats
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: for trailing five to nothing, hit one point, improve the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: record to twenty four and twenty five, just one game
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: off that elusive five hundred mark again. And you take
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a look at the lineups before they even took the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: field yesterday. A couple new faces in there, Dylan Cruz
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: making his season debut and Nick Morrivido, the loco local kid,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: not the loco kid, the local kid. He might be
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: a loco after some of the balls that he was
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: going after yesterday.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: That guy, he plays balls the wall the entire time.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Holy hell Yeah.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I met him at WBC, not not for an interview,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: but just got to shake his hand. And my friend
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: went to the same high school as him, so he
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: just got to talk to him there for a second
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: about gonzag and be like, they're waiting for you, man,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Not in New York, maybe in DC. You get the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: call in front of the hometown crowded like certain things
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: that that line up like that. That that to me
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: is the amazing part, right. And you had a lot
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of Nationals fans giving him an ovation yesterday.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And it's awesome. Tell that you could tell to me
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: that that.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know how how it is for you, But
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: like like the harp stuff, it still pisses me off
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: that that we we boo him.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: There's no reason to, right, Uh, he was an.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Old timer here and and you know you could have
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: all these personal issues and all this stuff, like start
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: cheering him at some point. Please give the because they
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: give the respect to one, right. But last night was
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: one of those moments that I just looked at and
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I was very proud of the Nats fans for, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: doing what they did. And it's a kid's debut, not everybody.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: His debut is the same, right for for a Gnats
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: fan when it's one of your own.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, celebrated exactly. And Liam texted the group chat
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the other day and not Liam, Hana Liam Fish and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Lem said, I getaranteed they did that on purpose. Liam,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think they did do that on purpose. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: think that I don't think they did.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I forget.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it absolutely worked the way that it
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: did for them.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I'm glad it did because we got to see this.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, he's a huge part of the game
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: because of a certain particular play, but I mean the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: play he made going into foul territory later on was
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: absolutely ridiculous. So Cora's Nick Barbito a DC kid. Those
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: those things are awesome. But glad you lost.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe better luck today, Nick, or come to come
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: over and do in DC some time. But yeah, let's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: jump into the recap because Bobashett got things going in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a big way early on. That is Boba Sheet at
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the plate there, swinging and lacing a ball out to
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the right center field gap to run Homer right, just
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: off the bat like that. Ay, and then you had
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: later on. I'm trying to get the numbers that I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: had for these home runs in front of me. This
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: one was four hundred, one oh three off of the bat.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: That last one, for those of you watching online, four
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: oh six, just straight away right center fields. There's five
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: nothing and Franny you said, hey, we can get back
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: in this game. With the bases loaded, Nationals fans watch
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: him run fifteen point five. The sprint speed around the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: bases here, and not to say that he was dogging
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: it down to first base, but he certainly was not sprinting.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: He thought, Okay, this ball is going to be caught
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: or it's a home run. As we've seen so many
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: times this season, lacing balls off of the top of
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the fence there and then they fall back into play.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But Franny, you know what was going through your head
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: as you were watching this play because Grand slams are exciting.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: First career Grand slams are really exciting, your first career
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Grand Slam being an inside the parker, I've never seen.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: That before, No I had.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I hadn't seen a Grand Slam a long time as
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: far as inside the parker. But let's let's be honest here. Okay,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: this is not making fun of you, but a fifteen
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: point five feet per second is like a walk.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Like he's walking.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So nine point four per second is what he
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: was around the base. That's what he his sprint speed was.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: He was home to first or home to home in
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: fifteen one five. I laughed because I'm like, it was
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: a five to one seven home to first and all
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the metrics that we we used to get on our
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: research app didn't have his second to Home because that's
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: that was the impressive part for fans that didn't get
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: to see it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: If you get an opportunity.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: To try to find it and watch it and see
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: him from second to Home, it is one of the
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: most incredible things.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Because it might be ten strides.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I can I can do a little replay work one
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: like it's it's the This doesn't do it just because
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think it gives the height. It doesn't truly
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: give the hype. Here at the end. It does get
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the height though, because look at this, look at that,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: look at Yes, I mean he's a special player, as
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: we've said many times on this podcast before, but it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was really cool to see him get to show off
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the speed part of his game because you forget that
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it's there. Sometimes you just see him over to these
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: balls and then casually lean back and take back a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: home run and you're like, yeah, I didn't have to
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: draw him for that ball or anything. I just waltzed
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: right over. It's so what a special guy. I don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know, No, I mean, he's I hope people
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: don't take it for granted. For what they have with him.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: He's only twenty three years old and he's only getting better,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and it's it's just ridiculous where he's at right now.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: The person's even better. The family's awesome, you know, Paula
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and Kenny, they they're always there. And I could just
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: with Kenny, you could always sense the smile, just a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: pride and he has in his son. So yeah, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: don't I know for a fact, I don't take you
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: for granted watching any of his games and his swings
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and his ability, and uh, he and I jostle back
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of forth a lot. It's funny because like I just
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I love the person and so seeing him have the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: success is just tremendous. Yeah again, fifteen point five sprints
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: speed around the bases there three from fifteen fifteen one,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: five fifteen one to five fifteen point from home to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: home from home twenty nine point four feet per second
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: is his sprints beat.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Fifteen point five is a walk. It's a walk.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, that was It's a walk, okay, okay.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Fifteen point five is like, uh.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: This half of the time on the bases there. For
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: those of a few listening or watching half of his
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: time his journey around the bases was first to home there.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I misread the stats, so you got to play pay
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: coast attention. Like you said to me at the start
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of the game on Monday and not said to me
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: but on the broadcast. Those things on the left, those
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: numbers matter, so that made it does mattered, They matter, I.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Mean because that, Like I Alexis said the same thing
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: to James afterwards. I was waiting for him to like
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: look down at her and go like that was slow
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: as you know, what if it's fifteen point five, I'm like, no, no, no,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: it's twenty nine point four. It's elite speed like it
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: they got right now in the lineup. They have six
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: guys that are twenty nine or over on the sprint
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: speed twenty nine feet per second or over. Jacob, Jacob,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: CJ Dalon, Dylan, Dylan, the Seam and James.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But James' sprints beeds average sprint speeds down this year.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's when he it's for me, it's when he gets
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: after it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I look at that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Because he's one of those guys that I don't want
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: him to get after it on stupid balls. I don't
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I don't save your lakes, jeez, James save your legs.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Well, Nationals fans, we've seen it before, that reckless hustle.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget Bryce going into the wall at Dodgers seeing.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like that was so he missed some time for that,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and we're like, hey, man, got a tone it back.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: At times when the scoreboard says so so I made
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it a five to four game and the Nationals were
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: not done. That's not Brett Batty, that's jose Tana. That's
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Jose TYA time they came up.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Amazing at five to five is the hole in the air.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: It is still just floating out there in the air.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And then later on Jorbert Vivas without a sacrifice fly
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that added to the Nationals lead, made it six to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: seven to five at the time round Day. That's the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: play by Nick Morbdo right there into the stands. It
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: was God, it was ridiculous. You say that like did
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: in a really I don't know. Three D game Day
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: does not do it justice every time there. Sometimes it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: can be a little slow updating. But I was not
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: able to get b roll of an interesting inning and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: play in which the Nationals pushed across two looking at
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the wrong half here pushed across two runs on only
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: two hits, but had two errors in the three errors
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in the process. There's only two in the box score.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: It could have been it could have been three. It
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: could have been two on the same play by Marcus Simeon. Uh,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: but they got it right ground ball but by Luis
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Garcia Junior or no ground ball by tennah right at Yes,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Marcus Simmons, he bobbled it, picked it up, had time
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: to get James at second, and overthrew Bobachette and in
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: that time everybody was able to move up. So then
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: you you know, technically could have given him two.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Arison it they gave him one.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Guy's been ridiculous if he had only thirty five airs
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: in his career at second base. Marcus Simeon is just
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: he's so good.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But then then the play that that got it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Was the how about the play in the first inning
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: that he made though, really was what I was gonna say.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: With the the last there was the Bobachette. They gave
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: it to Bobachette, but it was really on Luis Ferrenz.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Bobachev made a gret play going on the backhand on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: he was like a like he was in a three depth,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: so like maybe a step or two behind the baseline
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that shortstop. It was groundball to him, and he came
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: in on perfectly and just absolutely threw a dart to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: home and Torrenz it went off his glove and they
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: gave Tonza fielding air for that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: They updated it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave. They gave technically, I guess they gave
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: everyone an air on the play. It also says Bjet
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Bichett has a throwing air, but they're also calling it
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a fielding air. It's interpretive that that's the beautiful thing
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: about baseball, I guess. So that made it. Yeah, that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: was all the offense that the nets we're going to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: add over the course of the game. That was nine
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: runs and the Nationals would pull that lead. Swan Soto
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: later on contributing a solo shots to the effort, as
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: he's done in this ballpark many times before. It was
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: after a big double play though that Brad Lord got
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and we've talked about and I'm not sure we have
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: talked about his ability to get ground balls before, but
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: something that he's really good at, and obviously sinking up
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a double playball before the home run there. It mattered
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: with soda, with the dish it did.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Is the last thing you wanted was, you know, want
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: to be up there with anybody on to make it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: You know, we talked about solo shots so often, about
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: being you know, not the disruptor of a game. Really
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: two run shots, three run shots. Yeah, the three run
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: shot is the one that like is the game changer
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: for them all. So getting guys off the base huge.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Brad's ability to get ground balls is a huge weapon.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Last night his stuff was awesome. He had an awesome
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: sweeper going also with the slider, like he mixes in
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: both and to me, that's the part when you have
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: both of those, it's hard to discern both of them right,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Like one has a little bit more break to it
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: than the other, the ones more a little straight down.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: But yeah, the ground ball is gonna be huge always
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: for Brad and when he's able to tie it dollot
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: up when he needs to me, is it like that?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Is it great? Three innings of one run baseball from
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Brad there the other day? And then my man, Richard Lovelady,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I'm becoming a big Richard Lovelady fan very quickly. Here
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: his third save of the season, and you take a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: look at the hitting box score, it was crowded, very crowded.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Three hits for James, a multi hit day for Nas
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: there at the bottom of order, and CJ flirting around
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the three hundred mark there still picking up a walk.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: You know, he gets on base. As they say in Moneyball,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: that's what matters Jacob Young.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing this year though, That's the biggest
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: thing for him this year is he just is finding
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: ways to get on basin and it is God, it's
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the truth. I think I've said this multiple times about him.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: It is so much different to watch him in such
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: a treat to watch CJ pla hit at least right
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: now and have his consistent abs.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Right and just being productive in every single at bat,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: bases loaded, nobody on, whatever the scenario is. He seems
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to be coming through for this team and I love it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And yeah, Jacob Young did come into the game in
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the ninth inning, I think just just for three innings.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: But as Spencer's figured out, I guess that his X
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: rays really were negative. No ten day I l I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: don't know if people were pressing Blake about that for questions,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: but I was pretty concerned when he got flunked by
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that ball. Franny And I know a lot of people
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: are talking now about what the outfield situation might look like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: potentially dhing Dylan or James or Lyle on days off
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: when they needed and just sort of circling around there.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But it seems to me like for the time being,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: probably just maybe he could Jacob another day off. I mean,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I was shocked to see him even come into the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: game there. I get that it was, you know, a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: defensive move at that point, that that he was going
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to be a defensive upgrade. But I guess he's healthy.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, again, he's he's put himself in this spot
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: where he's done a lot this year for him and
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: he's changed a lot of things, and obviously his defense
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: is always going to play a huge factor in this.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: You know, An got hitting the ribs the other night,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: everyone was worried. I texted with him back and forth
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: and he was good.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Uh, so you know I had to pop off to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: him because that's that's just what I do.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: But the one thing I will say is it's a
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: little similar to last year in how they'll have the
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: four man outfield and they'll rotate and it's gonna be
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: James Dalen probably in the DH role more times than not,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: you know, and then when you truly need to give
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: their days off to get Tenna in there, because we
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: know Tenna's hit. What he's done offensively is something that
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: you cannot shy away from. So it's gonna be Jacob
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: when he's healthy. He's gonna be in center field quite often.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Let's I'm not gonna let's cap it like maybe five
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: six games a week, right uh, maybe a day off
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: in there, because we'd already seen that out of him,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Like we've seen that there's gonna be days that they
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: gave him off anyways.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: So I like that Dylan's gonna play center and right.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, and he showed that he could play left
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: field in the minor leagues too, if they need that
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: to happen, you know, because James is to me, James
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: has played so well up until the other night. It
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: was his first true bag game out there in right field.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: But like, he's playing fantastic out in right field. So
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to change that up
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: completely with him, but you put you know, Dylan in
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: left at times, or you know wherever he might, he
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: might move around. He's showing the versatility and how great
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: he could be because his arms an asset and they
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: need that and uh yeah, it's it's a let's just say,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: it's a great benefit to have for the for the team.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. I think the conversation, really, yes, starts
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to become when Jacob gets back to full health, like
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: he's in center field. There is it is it like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a dylanan left and then a James and right maybe
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: DH Lyle on those days sort of thing or those
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: two dh I don't think. I don't think I wouldn't
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: move James around either, just as the point to the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: un making he seems really comfortable out there, and.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It's a lot more comfortable in left field, you think
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: for James.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, so you would rather see Dylan Cruz a right
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: field James?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: No?
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: No, if Lyle is.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: No no no no no no, James is a lot more comfortable
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: in right field.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, yes, yes, so we are agreeing. We're agreeing
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: on that topic.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I thought you were saying more comfortable in left field,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and I was like, whoa wait, whoa hold on? Because
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I say I want to see Cruise in left field.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Get Dalen into d h and this hypothetically right handed
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: pitcher on the matter something, get Cruise in uh left field,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and Jacob and centerfield. Obviously, we know the sprint speed
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: in the ground that he's able to cover out there,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and that's the critical to put him. So can Dylan.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: You know he could pick it up and put it
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: down too with the best of them. Oh yeah, oh
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: we will and and he he yeah. I'm excited to
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: see him back in the big leagues. And this excited
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: me this morning too when I flipped over my tearway calendar.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I love when I get a baseball stat, and I
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: love when I get a National's met stat that Max
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Sures are tied a major league record with seventeen strikeouts
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and his no hitter. That's that's not a strikeout record,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: that's a no hitter strikeout record for those of you
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: paying attention. But yeah, I love when I tear it
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: over and I get a baseball stat. But it makes
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: it a lot more sweeter when it's a Nats related
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: stat and against the Mets of all teams. I was like,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: this is going in the show, This is going better
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: truly nothing better. Give you a look really quickly at
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the upcoming schedule again. The Nats have two more at
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: home here against the Mets before they travel to Atlanta
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: for three there and then three in Cleveland against the Guardians,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: wrapping up a long sixteen game stretch, and they come
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: back for William and Marry Day, c J Abrams baseball card, bobblehead,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and then the Racing President's Hat on Sunday next week.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: But give you a look at Oh that's not Monday.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: One thing I forgot to update Wednesday Nights pitching preview.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: We have Zach Littel on the mound for the Nationals
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and Zach Thornton on the bump for the New York Mets,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: making his major league debut. I believe right from what
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I could find before.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Franny, they are infusing as much energy as they
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: can into this roster right.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Now, which was it was confusing to find before too,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: because there's a Zach Thornton, the relief pitcher for the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: New York Mets that's like in the system quite recently
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to multiple zach Thornton's in the New York organization. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: haven't done much of a scouting report on him. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: wish we had Spencer because I know he's very tapped
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: into those guys down on the farm and stuff. But
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: what can the Nationals do? I don't want to say
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: fresh meat, but I'm sure that's what you guys were
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: thinking in the dugout Franny a guy making his major
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: league debut tonight against the Nats. The Nats a game
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: off of five hundred. How can they take advantage of
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: this opportunity and try and pick up a win later today?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you got to get as much conversation as you
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: can with one another, because I mean a lot of it.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: When you don't face a guy is like what everyone sees.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: So he drafted what in twenty four had seven starts
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: this year, five in Binghamton and inn and two in
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Syracuses year was it thirty seven eight thirty two?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Hits?
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Forty punch outs? So there's a lot of things that
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: you could always look at. Look, there's so much more
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: information these days, which is insane to think about.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Like all these guys, you've seen video on them.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna do like for me, I do
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: my like video prep right probably right after this, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I start watching a bunch of games of his and
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: just to see it, just so I know that you
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: know what what he has and how he's going to
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: go about things, and uh, maybe get a good view
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: on it and then talk to some guys that have
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: faced them, because I think that's a huge part of
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: this six three, one hundred and seventy pounds, twenty four
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: years old pounds of strike zone. Then he only walked
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: three guys in his two starts, has a little what
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: has a little cutter, a little.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Change up his fastball is okay.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: I mean there's gonna be a lot of things that
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: we just don't know until you see it, right, because again,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: you have all this information, but you only have one
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: major league debut yep.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: And know what that and you know what's what it's
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: going to be.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I mean he's like ninety I want to say, he's
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: like average of ninety one on his fastball, ninety four
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: tops on it, a little sinker to go along with
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: the cutter. So I think you got you got three fastballs, right,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: you got the three fastball mix that we've talked with,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: like Cam Schlitzler, those type guys, you know, not a
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: crazy extension guy, not a you know it. It's got
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: a he's what the kids would call Verdie, like almost
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: a nineteen on his on his fastball.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: So that's that's a pretty good one.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: That's one that you got to get a couple of
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: balls above to try to hit that one. You'll see
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: a lot of guys swing underneath it because that has
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: that carry on it.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting to see, definitely.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: For those of you going over the ballpark, make a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: note keep your ticket stuff. You're witnessing a major league
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: debut tonight. That all of the acts they have take stubs.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they do. Did you see that
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: story with the Dodgers Seeson ticket fan? No, he would
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: did the Dodgers would. The Dodgers would not this season
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: ticket holder's tickets for a while, about a month into
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the season, until he said, He's like, I have a
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: cell phone, but this is he goes, I can't get
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: tickets on this thing. But eventually the Dodgers made right
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: on that and printed out the season ticket. So if
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I was still a season ticket holder, if I was
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: ever a season ticket holder for the Nationals, I would
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: want the physical tickets. I remember my dad's friend would
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: have that back in the day, and opening up the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: box was just like part.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Of the bestivity.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: You're like, well, okay, here's the ticket. Oh we used face,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: but it was like it was based on that one.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Wasn't it like a big giant thing of it or
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: it wasn't just like all of them peeled off together.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: No, it was it was like, yeah, it was like
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: a booklet almost, and then you kind.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Of just tear it away and uh.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Then it came with the little, you know, season ticket
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: holder gift, which we still cherished to this day.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I still get my my season tickets stuff for my
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: niners and stuff, and every year I get my little
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: gift and I love it.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: And then I'm going, did I pay for that?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Did I sign up for forty nine?
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, so I wonder.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Anyways, that's pretty much all I got. We'll be back
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: on Friday, recapping the rest of the Mets series and
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: previewing that Atlanta sat over the weekend. Have Franny anything
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: you want, toss them well, but give away on Friday.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it's gonna be yet, but I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: got to figure that out.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Oh I can't wait, I can't wait.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: No, I I just think that, you know, watching this
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: series and watching the boys be competitive, especially after a
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: awful night on Monday Night, was one of my favorite
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: things I've seen this year. There's there's true fight in
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: grit with this team. That is, uh, what you want
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: to see from a group that is not taking it
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: for granted. Where they are in the moment and they're
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: working hard, they're playing hard, and this coaching staff is
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: for real.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: They they have doesn't mean that it's going to be
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: all great all the time, No doesn't. But it also
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: means that you've seen guys adjusting, not allowing those those
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: bad times to happen as a consistent unit. And I
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: think that's a huge part part of this.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, every game I either say this is the best
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: game we've played all season or this is the worst
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: game we've played all season.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: There's not a lot of in between.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of in between.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I would say Monday Night.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Monday Night could have been the most in between game
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: until the twelfth, right, Yeah.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: No, that was that one was gave me some gray hairs,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say. But I was
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: like that one, that one took some years off my
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: life for sure. On Monday that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Was that was for Monday night.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: That was Monday night. Each one it was stressful. But
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: you know there's one hundred and sixty two of them
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: for a reason. And again just like everyone ripping Blake
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: or whatever out there, for maybe the position player pitching,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: that was by design. I was by strategy so that
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: we could win six to nine on Tuesday and hopefully
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: win later today in the philip A sixteen game stretch.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: As you said, so it's it's by design Nats fans,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do something here.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: By the way, fans, I've said it on air and
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: I'll say it again, if you score two or more
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: runs in an inning in extra intings, if you're the
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: visiting team, you are twenty seven and one this year.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: So therefore, when that second run happened, it was like,
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: guys kind of cut just call ball games.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: So we.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: The longest. Also, I didn't have that stout ready from Spencer,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: but it was the longest game the Nats had played
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: in the pitch clock era.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: And no, no, wasn't it.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I think it was the longest pitch clock era game,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: I think, so, I thought, so that's longest but good,
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: like that four hour game game, that four hour game.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Doing it on air is like a five hour game
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: back in a couple of years ago.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah it was. I can't even imagine, well because
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: there's like so many like miss moments, and you know,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the game was.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Already you know, kind of weird and in general.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: So one other one, another stat I stole from you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: all the other day was when and there's still the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: most runs in Major League Baseball, but I believe that
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: most two out runs in Major League Baseball after military second,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: there's a second. Those two out RBIs the matter. Are
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the big ones.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Those are the ones that keep you afloat as a
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: as a as a team, as a whole. Yeah, they've
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: done it. They've done a tremendous job all season. They
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: they continue to because again, the two out runs just
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: this let.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: You know that.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: We are going nowhere right and in and I've said this,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: and and I don't want to, like, you know, re
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: keep rehashing the whole thing. But other third Yankees are
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: one O eight, Brewers are one oh four. Nationals are
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: one O two with two.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Outs hopefully more tonight, or they could do it without
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: two outs, whatever.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: They want, right, But think about the last couple of
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: years and like it felt. How many times did it
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: feel like we're gonna get no it through the first
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: five months?
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't get it happened twice exactly, It's happened.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: And it's one of those things that I just I
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: always keep in mind is that nothing's ever guaranteed in
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: this game. But watching some guys, you know, grind it
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: out and not given early and just feel like it
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: was done. That's been fun to watch these guys. These
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: guys feel like they're in it every time.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm done yapping for today, but I think the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: best part of the loss was the fact that they
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: scored a run at the bottom of that inning and
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: had and kept playing baseball because they did not roll
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: over despite giving up ten or eleven run ten runs
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: in the top of the twelfth inning. That's going to
• 43:40
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• 43:47
  Speaker 1: of Bobblehead. I still got to pick out what it's
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: going to be, but I'm thinking of Bobblehead of some kind.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: So stay tuned like that and we'll see in the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: next episode.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Peace