Mead Goes Deep in 4th Straight Victory

Walter Sports Bar has been recognized by many local publications as one of the best sports bars in Washington, D.C. located across the street from Nationals Park and open year round. Walking to the belt, the two won. Wood chops one past the mountain through the tronet and field. It's a basic out of the center field. Nunez scores. Wood has two RBI's tonight. He's driven in Nunez twice. Nationals get the run back. It's three to one. Here's the set. Here goes. Gaparo swag. Get a long drive. Deep left center field. Way back. Going. Going. Going. Good bye. Look at the label. Bang. Sugeos. Hurtis Meeb. Well, there's an 11th moment of the year. A three run blast RBI's 32, 33 and 34. Imminatials are back in front here in the bottom of the 7th inning. It's Washington six. Kansas City three. There'll be a two to pitch to Collins. Farland trying to finish it. Here he comes. Swing on S. He struck them out. And the Nationals win in 6 to 4. Nationals match their seasons best winning streak in four games. They've won four series in a row. And their four games over 539 and 35. And welcome to Natschad. I'm El Galdi. Host of the El Galdi podcast. I'm joined by Washington. Nationals inside our Marks. Sookermit of Natschernal.com. He's at Nationals Park. We have yet another series win for the Nats who now are nine one and one over their last 11 series. A six four win over the Kansas City Royals at Nationals Park on Tuesday evening in Game two of a three game series. They saw the 7th three win over the Royals at Nationals Park on Monday evening. Now the Natsch on Tuesday evening one despite blowing a 317th inning lead. But the Nats did win. They in M.O.B.s 2026 regular season get to 39 and 35 with a run differential of plus 19. The Natsch now are at least four games above 500 in a regular season for the first time since finishing that 2019 regular season 93 and 69. The Natsch now are 16 and 21 at home versus 23 and 14 on the road. And the Natsch now have a four game winning streak in which they have outscored opponents 31 11. You could always email us at [email protected] from Jay Gillespie writes Jay to echo Al's comments. This team is so much fun. These players don't seem to think they should lose or be rebuilding. They are playing like a competitive relevant team now. Thank you for that Jay. So true. I mean consider this as we are recording this. The Natsch have the best run differential among all non division leaders in M.O.B. You take out each of the six division leaders and the Natsch have the best run differential in the majors at plus 19. Mark the Natsch are rolling right now. This is so much fun to watch. And I think Al, they are starting to establish an identity. I think we're starting to get a sense. I think they're starting to get a sense of who they really are. We know what they're not. They're not a team that's going to win a lot of low scoring games behind dominant pitching. But what they are is a team that is going to find a way to score runs with this lineup more often than not. And even when the bullpen gives up a lead like they did in this game in the top of the seventh. There is a confidence that they're going to come back and retake that lead. And they did it immediately in this game in the bottom of the seventh. And they did it both with power, something we've seen from them a lot this year. But they also did it with good old-fashioned hustle. Running the base is well beating out ground balls. And as Blake Beterra said afterwards in his press conference, that's who we are. That's what we want our identity to be. I mean we talk about that. There are some games earlier this year. We had guys CJB, a ball to second base early in your cruzy. Same thing. They're kind of growing into that right now. And I got to tell you just being in the ballpark for this game, they've had much larger crowds. This is only 25,000. But those 25,000 were fully engaged in this game and reacting in a way that felt like it had entirely to do with the baseball on the field. And as frustrated as everyone was when the bullpen gave up the lead, the top of the seventh, they were equally thrilled when the lineup came right back and took the lead in the bottom of the seventh on Curtis Meets Homer. And stayed with it the rest of the way to where two outs in the ninth, they're on their feet applauding as Gustav Arling gets the final out. That's not the kind of scene that we've had here in quite a while. They are starting to make believers out of everybody. And I think we're all kind of starting to embrace this team, understand what they are, how they're built, and how they're going to go about winning games. So four game winning streak that matches that that's longest winning streak in this regular season. And I had this thought. So for all of the anticipation and conversation of well, at some point, the regression will come at some point, the bottom will fall out at some point. This team will sort of sink back to what it was supposed to be. What if the opposite is true? Like what if this team has just been kind of hovering and now is about to burst now is about to bust out like what if the thing that is coming isn't some losing streak or stretch of losing, but is a surge a winning streak. You know, what if we are in the midst of the Nats winning eight or nine consecutive games or winning, I don't know, 13 out of 15 games or something like that. What if we are in the midst of seeing that puts some distance between themselves in 500 as opposed to the team getting above 500 by a few games and then sinking back down. I think we have to be open to all kinds of possibilities with this team with how well it's playing right now because make the mistake. This team is getting better. This team is not getting worse. This team is getting better as this season goes on. Yeah. And as you've pointed out, things like Dylan crew starting to get productive. All the other guys in the line of paper, Ruiz, Nassim Nunez in this game. You add that's what they've already had here. And yeah, there's a scenario out there where you could say that we're just now starting to really get a sense of how good they could be. I also start thinking about this. I know we have mentioned in the past comparing this team to prior teams in national history. And I think the two that we've thought about the most are the inaugural team from 2005 and then the 2011 team that was a year away from actually contending and making the playoffs. And it strikes me that those two teams had something in common. They both got red hot in June. Three, two pitches of any drilled a left field way back Berkman looking up. It is going goodbye. Oh, five. That was the 10 game winning streak that propelled them into first place in the NL East. It made RFK Stadium bounce and shake every night. And it suddenly became the place to be for the team. Now we know what happened. The second half completely bottom fell out from underneath them. And it wasn't the start of anything. Unfortunately. In 2011, they were on a really nice run. And then remember it all got brought to a halt when Jim Brighamon resigned. And that was in late June. We're coming up on the anniversary of that. And then Davey Johnson took over and they were competitive the rest of the way for sure. And they finished just a game under 500. But they never did fully take off. But both those teams their best months was June. And we're kind of starting to see that with this team. It's a great position to be in. And then the question just becomes can they continue that and sustain that? We don't know the answer to that yet. But the fact that we can even ponder that possibility, I think is really exciting. We're 74 games into the 162. I mean, we are approaching the numerical midpoint of the regular season here. It's not early anymore. You know, it's not late. That's true. But it's not early anymore. The season is happening. The season is developing. And the Nance are 39 and 35 more good offense on Tuesday evening. Six runs, 10 hits, which were home run two triples, a double and six singles four walks two for nine with runners in scoring position three for three on stolen bases. The Homer was by Curtis Mead. He is an at starting third baseman. And number three batter went one for three with a three run homer and a walk mead in the Nance three run seven. Peta went out three run homer to left center field on a one two pitch to put the Nance up six three. The three run homer broke a three old tie. The Homer went a projected 424 feet per stat cast and consider the circumstance. So the Nance blew a three one seven thinning lead by allowing two runs in the top of the seventh. But then struck right back with the Mead three run homer in the bottom of the seventh. And this is something that we've talked about previously. But man was this on display in this game. The Nance have been so good at answering at being scored upon. And I don't know if that's a skill. Okay, honestly, I'm not sure if that's a thing or if it's not a thing, but if it is a thing, then that's have that thing this skill, this thing of being good at answering at being scored upon. I mean, heck, then that's earlier in the game. I let her run in the top of the fifth, but then scored a run in the bottom of the fifth from an emotional standpoint as you watch these games, even if the Nance gets scored upon slash give up a lead, you're like, okay, the offense is coming up soon. And the offense is about to do some damage and sure enough, the offense did some damage, Mead hitting a home run, another home for Mead, his OPS now at eight twenty one. What a season he's having and just the resilience of this offense and up this team overall really is impressive. And as you said, like we can all feel it, I can tell you they feel that in the dugout, the same thing. Yeah, they're disappointed that the bullpen gave up those two runs. But the There's a confidence now. They know how good this lineup is and they know it's just a matter of time until they put it together. The awful loss in San Francisco last week, which almost feels like ancient history at this point given everything that's happened since then. There's kind of no doubt in my mind that if that had been a home game and the Nats got to come up to bat again after all that drama, the heartache of blowing that huge lead, but they would have at least made it interesting and had a chance of coming back themselves. I think they feel like just give us one more at bat and we're going to find a way to do that. So, yeah, I don't think they worry when they find themselves trailing like that because there is a confidence that this lineup is too good to just be shut down after that. And especially again, let's be honest, not a great Royale's pitching staff that's not an elite bullpen they're going up against. I think there was even more sense of confidence in that regard. They're facing a left-hander in the seventh inning in Lynch and Blake B. Tara, he's got exactly what he wants. He's got Nassim Nunez leading off. We're going to get to his night. He had an incredible night all around, but he gets on base and then starts creating havoc on the bases. James Wood grounds out, but then he's able to pinch hit under Chapparo for Luis Garcia to get the righty lefty matchup. Chapparo draws a walk himself and now Meade comes up and Meade, who started the game against the righty Michael Walker. And as we've seen, it's become essentially an everyday player for them, but he really kills left-handed pitching. And so that's the perfect matchup from the Nats standpoint to have him up against an inferior left-handed reliever. Not saying he's going to hit a homer every time, but you had a pretty good sense that he was going to come through with a good quality at that in that situation. That's a good matchup for him. And he's really contributing to this team right now. He'd extent that like outside of Wood and Abrams, he might be next on the list of who you want up in that spot. On March 28th, the Nats announced having traded minor league catcher Boston Smith to the Chicago White Sox for Curtis Meade. I'd say that that trade looks pretty good right now. I'd say that we can call that trade a win for the Nats, presented in a baseball operations pulled to Boni. Algolde here to tell you about windowedations by 4get4free sale that's going on this summer during the heat. But before that, the windowedation look into the future. 1 is hammered. Deep out to left field as seal goes over to the wall and that is gone. Clear's just about everything and headed over to the front gates. Caleb Lomovita homers once again this week and the senators are now up 3 to nothing. Window Nation has a great offer for listers of the Nats Chat Podcast. The buy 4get4free sale during which you could replace all of your home's windows and get half of them for free. Plus you can get your windows with no money down and no payments or interest for 2 years. The sale ends soon so call 8669DNation or visit windownation.com now. To book a consultation 8669 windownation or windownation.com to book a consultation and tell windownation that you want the deal that you heard about from Algolde on the Nats Chat Podcast. 2 is in a third with a triple. His second of the year and his 23rd run batted in and the nationals lead one to nothing. That's him. He was the Nats starting second baseman at number 9 better. He had maybe the best game of his career, 2 for 2 with an RBI triple, another triple and two walks and he had a stolen base and he did even more than all of that. But just specific to the triple. So Nunez in the Nats 2 run third and RBI triple to no man's land in right field for a one-duffing Nats lead. And if there is such a thing as a hustle triple, you know you hear about a hustle double sometimes, this was a hustle triple. The speed that Nunez put on display was something. He first had cast went from home to third in just 11.11 seconds. That is the fastest a Nats player has gone from home to third on a regular season triple since tray turner went from home to third in 11.08 seconds on a triple on June 30th, 2021. And the kicker is that each triple came off the same guy. Nunez picked Michael Walker with the odds of that. But this was not some triple where you know Nunez lined the ball into a corner or smacked the ball deep into a gap. No, this was into no man's land and the speed was would generate the triple as much as anything. And then Nunez did have a more traditional triple. He and the Nats 1 run fifth had a lead off triple off the outfield wall in right center field despite having been down in the count at 1.12. And he did more than all of that. He made a standout defensive play. Nats manager Blake butar during his post game press conference could not say enough good things about the game that not seem Nunez had can't take one spot because he did all night. Look, we know the deal. He might be the worst hitter on the team. Okay, if we're being objective about things, but the guy has talent and the guy has had some big moments this season and man, what a show he put on display on Tuesday evening. Well, he's also come on strong offensively in the last couple of weeks. So yeah, overall he's still not where you'd want an everyday big league or to be, but he has been getting better. And as we've seen from him, it may not be a whole lot of production, but the production he does provide you is significant and important stuff. I got so much to talk about with him. The first triple, you call it the hustle triple. Really impressive. I also want to credit on that play Drew Millis, who's the runner from first base. Now that's a catcher. There are plenty of catchers in the big leagues who would not have been able to score on that ball. And if you have to hold him up at third, then Nunez never even has the chance to go for three. So the fact that Millis is a good running catcher, allowed Victor Estevez to wave him around third, which then allowed Nunez to reach third himself. So we'll start with that. The second triple almost was a home run as first to the year. If it's possible to be like deflated by a triple, that was it because everybody thought, "Oh, here it is. Naseem Nunez is first homer of the season. He'll just settle for his second triple of the game." The defensive play at second base and the second inning. So we got a soft line drive. A looper chasing Nunez. Dives. He caught it. It was officially when it was a line drive. I'm thinking of it more as a pop-up. Whatever you want to call it, that's one of those that like off the bat, you're just not thinking anybody's going to catch this. And then he just goes after it. And he said that it's a play that he's thought he's had a shot at before and never been able to make it. And as this one was playing out, he realized he had a shot at it and he made this spectacular catch on that. Honestly, I've pictured making that play like in past games, I've been telling myself, like, that's one of those plays that I kind of envision myself making, but it never happened until today. He also teamed up with CJ Abrams on a key double play in the ninth inning. It was not a routine 4-6-3. It required some skill on both guys' part to pull that off, to kind of help Gus Varlin escape or could have been a dicey situation there in the ninth. And then maybe the most impressive thing that he did, and it doesn't show up anywhere officially, after drawing the walk in the seventh. This is when they're now in a tie game. James Wood hits a grounder up the middle and Bobby Whit goes to field it and Whit's going to try to turn the six-three double play and just step on the bag and throw it first. That Nunez beat him to the bag. With a head-first slide, you don't see that very often a little dangerous as Whit's about to step on the base. He beat him to the bag and what that did. It's not only not a double play. Now he's in scoring position. He ends up stealing third as well. It set the whole stage for that rally that was culminated by the Meade Home run. That's the kind of play that Blake B. Tara was talking about and saying, "That's our identity, that's who we want to be. That's just pure hustle." I know he has skill. I know he's got the ability run faster than almost anybody. You need commitment on a ground ball that you think about, double play. I guess I can't do anything about it. He busted it, not knowing if he'd make it there in time and he actually did make it and that changed the complexion of that entire inning, I think. He is such a fun guy to watch play. He has such a joy when he plays. There's a charisma to him. That's infectious. This really was his night. Good for him for doing what he did. What he did was part of a NADS bottom of the lineup that did quite well in this game. Drew Millis, you mentioned him. He is an NADS starting catcher and number eight batter, two for four with a double and a single. Jacob Young, he is an NADS starting center fielder and number seven batter, one for four with a single and a stolen base. This was a game in which it wasn't necessarily the big boys who came through. James Wood had a decent game. He went one for four, had an RBI single, also had an RBI sack fly. He was a NADS starting right fielder and number one batter. He and the one run fifth had an RBI single in the center field to put the NADS up three, one. CJ Abrams has cooled off a bit, layly did have a hit in this game, but his numbers have come down a bit. The NADS have continued to roll offensively and something that I thought was really interesting. If you watched the game, you perhaps noticed this. If you have access to the telecast of the game on nationals.tv, I would encourage you to go back and listen to this. Some of the eight Kevin Franson is talking about how the NADS this season, when they have two strikes on them are playing with a freedom and the implication was that the freedom was not there in the past and that guys when they have two strikes on them are not afraid to strike out or not afraid to strike out. to make mistakes or still encouraged to swing and swing hard. And if you notice the specifics of a lot of the great offense of exploits we're talking about. So many of these hits are coming with two strikes. I mean in this game, the Nunez triple in the one run fifth came of him having been down at 1.12. We mentioned the Curtis Mead Home run. The Curtis Mead Home run in this game came on a 1.2 pitch. The Nats as we all recording this are number three in the majors in team OPS with two strikes. And when we talk about like the improved coaching, it's not just about you know, technical stuff. It also can be about mindset. It can be about what is encouraged and what is discouraged. The Nats have a new hitting coach and Matt Borg-Schulti. The Nats have two assistant hitting coaches as well. And I thought it was really interesting the way that friends and talked about this because you can listen between the lines when a guy like friends and is saying this, I don't think he was just saying that that's feel a freedom right now to do things a certain way when down two strikes or when having two strikes. I think he also was implying that freedom did not exist in the past. And the things that are being encouraged right now with two strikes were not necessarily being encouraged in the past. And it really stood out that he was talking that way. And again, the results speak for themselves that the Nats have had so much production in two strike counts so far this season. Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't obviously watch the broadcast. I didn't hear that comment. I can't say that I've heard anyone reference that specifically, but it does make sense. It does kind of jive with what we've seen here over the last few years. The previous administration did kind of frown upon strikeouts and especially when you got the two strikes, it was about contact and put the ball in play force the defense to make a play. And I want to say a few years ago, they had like maybe the fewest strikeouts in baseball as a lineup. But you know, I remember they had all the singles, but they weren't hitting for power. They weren't necessarily scoring runs. And now you see the most productive lineup in baseball. And I couldn't tell you off top of my head where they rank in strikeouts, but they probably do strike out more than they did in the past. That's a modern way of thinking. The modern hitting coach would say it's better with two strikes to try to still hit the ball hard, even if it means if it wants to allow you are going to strike out or maybe even more than once in a while you're going to strike out, it's worth it for the chance that you might hit the ball hard and create some real damage. So that does kind of fit in with what we've seen from them so far this year. One of a lot of things that they've done with a different kind of mindset that's a more forward thinking mindset. And that's as we are recording this are a 12 at a 30 MLB teams and fewest strikeouts at 601. To on to out on two on Tyler Tolbert right handed hitter. The left hander kicks and fires. Breaking ball checks wing. They'll appeal. He went too far. It's strike three and the inning is over. So Tolbert out on strikes. Foster Griffin with his sixth strike out of the game and probably the final pitch he throws. The net starting pitcher in this six four win over the Royals at Nationals Park on Tuesday evening was foster Griffin and he was good again. He was good for a third consecutive outing of having struggled in three or four outings. He allowed one run in six innings with six strikeouts. He gave up six hits all of which were singles. Issued two walks and the hit by pitch. But he threw a lot of strikes 100 pitches. 74 strikes just 26 balls. Griffin in the top of the fifth. A lot of run on two singles into walk including a two out opposite field RBI single by Bobby with junior to right field on an O2 pitch to cut the Nats lead to two one. But Griffin otherwise did well. I mean a lot to like your one run six innings. Six strikeouts in six innings. The only hits that he gave up were singles. He threw a ton of strikes. The only run that he gives up comes on an opposite field single by one of the best players in the sport in Bobby with junior and foster Griffin just continues to plow forward 15 games all starts ERA of 3.32 whip of 1.11. He has become extremely reliable and dependable had those few rough outings a few starts back. But otherwise has been like rock solid for the Nats here. You said dependable. You want to know what's dependable. His last start which was that Wednesday afternoon game in San Francisco. He goes six innings. He gave up one run. He threw 100 pitches exactly and he wound up not getting the win even though he departed with the lead on Tuesday night against the Royals. He went six innings. He gave up one run. He threw exactly 100 pitches. He departed with the lead and did not get the win. So you can't get more reliable dependable than that. They were carbon copies of each other. And thankfully the end result of this one was better than that one. It wasn't spectacular. He had to work a little bit. The pitch count was maybe a little bit high for the six thinnings and there were some long at bats thrown in there. But he was really good with his breaking balls. His sweeper and his curveball I think had a combined 10 swings and misses on those pitches. And so he was able to dig deep and get those when he needed them. He's just he's Mr. Reliable for them. And like the team as a whole, when you get to this point you say, okay, we're almost halfway through the season. I think you want to believe that this is real. What we're seeing from them. I think on an individual level we're getting to that point with Griffin. I don't think there's that much conversation anymore about well, once the league figures him out, you know, that this won't work anymore. And, you know, he's clearly not as good as he's shown. No, I think he's kind of showing who he is. And that's a guy who's going to give you a chance to win every single time he takes the mound. He's not a number one starter, of course. But he's a really solid pitcher and a workhorse to have on your team. And if I'm the nationals, this is a guy who won around, not just this year. I want him around in the future. I think he can be an important part of this as they move forward. And starting pitching, good starting pitching is so hard to find. And they found it in the most unlikely place at a very affordable price. If it's me, I'm doing what I can to try to keep him around here. I don't know why you just want to give that up when you know how difficult it is to find somebody who can do what he does. Yeah, I mean, we've talked about this, you know, to what extent might he be open to doing an in-season contract extension, especially if he's feeling a comfort here. And he likes working with the Nats coaching staff. And maybe, you know, it doesn't want to be out there lingering in free agency. It can happen with starting pitchers. So that's going to be interesting to see. But he has been the best pitcher on the staff, right? I mean, there's no debating that at this point. Like if you're saying, who has been the number one pitcher on this pitching staff so far this season? Is the answer not foster Griffin? I don't even know how you'd argue anybody else at this point. Yeah, it's him. Kate Cavalli's best starts are better, but they're not consistently to that extent. Whereas with Griffin, a couple of outliers, but for the most part, he's given you this similar to this kind of outing almost every time. And so yes, that's why I said he's not a number one. But he is a solid middle of the rotation arm who is going to give you a chance. He's going to give you innings. He's been everything they could have asked him to be so far this year. I know there were high hopes for him that they may have found something, but this is above and beyond. And again, the looks sustainable. I don't think we need to talk too much more about well when, when is it inevitably going to fall apart for him? And maybe it will. But you don't really see signs of that. What I'm seeing from him suggested he can keep doing this. Well, the negative for the Nats in this six four win over the royals at Nationals Park on Tuesday evening was guess what? Yes, the relief pitching four Nats relievers combined will allow three runs in three innings or land or a ball to officially allowed two runs in a third of an inning. He would end up being a two run seventh for the royals face three batters. But got just one out as the issue to went out walk and then gave up a one out single. Richard Love Lady officially tossed two thirds of a scoreless inning. But he and that royals two run seventh gave up a two out two run single by Isaac Collins to left center field to tie the game at three as love lady continues to do his love lady thing. He's not officially allowing runs. But he is officially putting guys on base his ERA two fifty three his whip one point eight eight as the whip is so close to that ERA. It is just amazing to me that we have that with Richard Love Lady Paxton Schultzie toss the scoreless top of the eighth despite giving up a one out double and Gus Vorland allowed one run in one inning here in the top of the night gave up a lead off full count homer by X Nat Lane Tom is to left field to cut the Nats lead to six four something that does make with the Nats are doing even more impressive is that the bullpen is faltering here the bullpen in recent weeks has not been good and off showing signs of improvement. We've seen the bullpen come back down. We've seen regression here from the bullpen and yet the Nats still are winning. It is a credit to the starting pitching. It is of course a credit to the offense. You just would like to see the bullpen calm down a little bit here way too many games here lately the bullpen is giving up multiple runs. Yeah and I feel like it's not just one guy. This is several of them Orlando Rebalto who was so good for them for a while. I feel like he hasn't been the same in recent outings. I think Clayton Beater has been solid for the most part. Varland I know he gets the ninth a lot but I don't know that I feel like he's the guy you feel most confident in with the game on the line right now. Now to his credit after gave the lead off homer to Lane Thomas and then the walk to Bobby Whit. It's now a time run at the plate nobody out in the ninth and he did get the ground ball that led to the nice 463 double play and then he strikes out Isaac Collins to end the game. So he did kind of flip that switch and get it back to not let that thing completely fall apart. You know and it's funny because that that game in San Francisco that we keep referencing. He's He started that inning, didn't retire any of the first three batteries he faced, and that's when Buter made the switch to Mitchell Parker. And in this case, not that there really was anybody else to go to, but he did kind of sink or swim with Varlond and Varlond found a way to swim. He found a way to get through it even though it was not real pretty there at the start of the inning. So maybe he can take something from that. I think this is going to be the summer of Hope the Line Up takes the lead and then Hope the Bullpen can just hang on. Hope the lineup comes back and makes up for it after the fact. And to be frank, it's not the first time the Nationals have been in this position. We saw this plenty of times in years where they were very good playoff contending teams and they had to do it in spite of their bullpen. Well we don't know yet and there's still a ways to go. Microsoft was pretty good at fixing a bullpen in season at the trade deadline. Is that where Paul Taboni's mind is going to be going? From the end of July beginning of August, again, long way to go. But if they continue on this path, that to me is the one obvious area that you would hope he could try to address. And we'll get plenty of time to talk about this stuff. But to me, we've discussed it before. It's probably the easiest thing to fix in baseball. It doesn't cost that much usually to acquire some decent relievers at the trade deadline. It doesn't have to be big name guys. They're just good solid relievers having good seasons that would help this team. That feels to me like where this is headed, but it's June 16th going into 17th. There's still a month and a half to go until the trade deadline. Let's see where they're at at that point. Your Nats relief pitching ERA now at 471. Your Nats relief pitching whip now at 141. But how about this? The Nats on saves are 22 for 41. Love Lady officially got a blown save in this game. The Nats nearly have as many blown saves as the Nats have saves. 22 saves versus 19 blown saves. That is rough man. And yet this team is four games above 500. Pretty impressive. You tell us what you think. You can hit us up on exit Nats underscore chat. You can find us on blue sky at Nats Chat Podcast. You can email the show. Nats Chat Podcast at gmail.com. You can check out two Nats Chat Podcasts.com at which you can purchase a Nats Chat Podcast T-shirt. All Nationals Radio highlights on Nats Chat courtesy of 1067 The Fan. For Mark Superman on Algololi, we thank you for listening and we'll talk to you next time on the Nats Chat Podcast. The 22 Nunez golf's one of the air to right center field well hit. Thomas going back to the warning track. It's over his head and off the wall. Carams passed him. Nunez rounding second trying for third. The throw in is cut off the relay toward third. Not in time. It's a stand up triple. Nats team Nunez is two for two with two triples here tonight. He almost hit a home run. He'll settle for his second triple tonight.