Tuesday night is open mic night at Walter Sports Bar. Got talent? Bring it to the stage. Come show off your skills or just sit back and enjoy the show while indulging in delicious food and ice cold drinks. Open Mike begins at 7 p.m., located just across the street from the ballpark. (upbeat music) - Now the batter is Tyler Black, the designated hitter. Urban delivers, swinging a fly ball left field toward the line. Lionel on the run, can he get there? No! He'll field it on a hot one run will score. In the third on a dive, his run Evo, and in the second with a second double of the night is Tyler Black, two runs home in the inning. It's now the brewers for the Nationals, nothing. Here's a left left matchup, Ashby against Dalyl. One on one out here it comes. Swing a looping fly ball shallow left, racing in his perkins, he dies, kick it. No deflux by him, toward the left field line. Aiden's racing for third, he'll stop there. And in a second with a pop fly, Blue Double is Dalyl. That's the Nationals first hit. He didn't hit it hard, but it alluded to the diving perkins. The Nationals finally have a hit. Here in the bottom of the seventh inning. We know we can hit, we know what we're capable of putting up some runs. I think we're trying everything we could against and Mr. Alaskan is just really good. - And welcome to Nat Chat, I'm Al Goldie, host of the Al Goldie podcast. I'm joined by Washington Nationals insider Mark Stuckerman of NATSJR.com. He is at Nationals Park where Friday night was fireworks night, but there were no fireworks when it came to the Nationals offense. The Nats did not get no hit, but they floored it with being no hit. A six one loss to the Milwaukee brewers at Nationals Park in game one of a three game series in game one of a six game homestand. The Nats totaled just two hits. They got worked by Brewer starting pitcher Jacob Mizorowski, toss five at a third scoreless and hitless innings with eight strikeouts. Did leave the game though, due to a right hamstring cramp, but the Nats ended up not doing much offensively even with the Miz out of the game. The Nats in this regular season now 15 and 18, three and 11 at home versus 12 and seven on the road is the incredible home road disparity. Now is even larger coming up later in the show and update on the Nats AA affiliate, the Harrisburg senators, a courtesy of the voice of the senators Frankie Vernowski, Frankie Vernowski, not to be confused with Jacob Mizorowski, disappointing outing for Nats starting pitcher Jacob. And he and three Nats relievers combined to throw a whopping 182 pitches over nine innings, including our friend reliever Andre Grineo, allowing two runs, both of which were aren't earned in one inning, a laborious top of the eighth in which he threw 40 pitches. I think Grineo is still out there, but Mark, the Nats had the great three game sweep at the Brewers April 10th through the 12th, but this game on Friday evening was all Brewers. - Well, you know who they didn't see in that series in Milwaukee was Jacob Mizorowski, and if they had, it might have been a very different outcome. That was my first time seeing him in person. It was really something to watch. It's just every single pitch he throws, your eyes immediately go to the scoreboard because you wanna see what the velocity was. 101, 102, 103, he topped out at, even more impressive to me than the fastball. He threw a slider that registered 98 miles an hour, I've never seen anything close to that before, and it changed up that registered 94 miles an hour. What are you supposed to do with that? As Blake butares said after the game, I don't know how anybody ever gets a hit off of him. - Yeah, he's really tough. - Not really sure how anybody hits him. You hate to just chalk it up to facing an incredibly good pitcher, but that's what it was in this case. They looked helpless up there. You felt bad for him that he had to leave the game the way he did, although it sounds like it's nothing too serious with the hamstring. You're glad that that didn't get no hit in the end, but man, they had nothing going. And when you watch that kid pitch the way he did, when he can command that kind of stuff, it is hard to imagine how anybody ever gets a hit off him. What's interesting too is, so you have the velocities at which he topped out, and then you have the average velocities, right? So that's like more of a representative sample of what he did. If you go by the stack cast data, the average foreseen fastball velocity for this game 100.7 miles per hour. The average slider velocity for this game, 96.9 miles per hour, the average changeup velocity for this game, 94.2 miles per hour. And that's what really got me. Like it's one thing that top out at a sky high number. That's impressive enough when you are averaging 97 miles per hour on your slider, 94 miles per hour on your changeup. That is something. I mean, that is really special arm talent right there. The final pitch, he threw the one they got hurt on. You knew something was wrong, 'cause it was only 98.9. That was the slowest fastball of the game. I mean, that's how dramatic that is, that if you were to see 98.9, your reaction is, oh, what's wrong with him? The thing about it, it's not just the velocity either. Everybody was talking about afterwards. His extension that he gets, he's so tall and lanking it so far down the mound that that makes the numbers play up even more. Because it's just the balls getting on you even quicker from that close distance. It really is a remarkable thing. I know he's dealt with a few injuries, but mostly to the lower half, thankfully, as opposed to the upper half, you hope that that doesn't sideline him too long or that it's not anything that comes back to haunt him in the long run, because he has the ability to be something really special. Blake butyre actually saw him in the minor leagues. The brewers when they were faced the raise said this is exactly who he's always been. Dale and Lyle faced him. He thinks the last time in low A ball and said he was just as good back then. So this didn't come out of nowhere. Last summer, face Miss Rousey, and Lyle and he's still the same pitcher until this day. This kid has got one of the most electric arms we've ever seen in the sport. And you hope for his sake and just for baseball's sake that he's able to stay healthy and can continue to go out there and do this because one of these days he probably will throw a no-hitter with that kind of arsenal. So the Natsba the game, one run, two hits, which were a double and a single, oh for five with runners in scoring position, 13 strikeouts, the Nats did work five walks, but they're just with so little happening off and so incredibly for the Nats in this game. They got no hit for six into third innings. The first hit for the Nats, a one out first pitch opposite field double by Dale and Lyle to left field in a one run, seventh for the Nats. And Jacob Isarowski for the game, five out of third shut out and hitless innings, H.D.R.I.K.O.T.S. leaves the game due to what we eventually learned was a right hamstring cramp. I don't know that anyone who was watching that game thought that it was some sort of leg ailment when he left the game. It was concerning the way he left the game. He threw a pitch near 99 miles per hour of memory serves and he leaves the game. And of course your mind immediately goes to some sort of elbow ailment, forearm ailment, but luckily here, it looks like right hamstring cramp. That's a best case scenario. All things considered if you're Milwaukee. - Yeah, exactly. I think when you were watching it live, you didn't know what was going on. If you went back and saw the replay of it, he kind of, I almost thought it was his back 'cause he kind of stretched his back out a little bit as if to say there was something going on there and then he kind of subtly motioned to the dugout. As if to say, "Hey, come on out here and check on me." The trainer comes out and Mizorowsky immediately turns around and walks back towards the mound away from him. The fact that he never even tried to throw a warmup pitch, all that you're thinking, "Oh, this could be something real bad." But obviously in their conversation, he said to him that it was his leg, that it was, as they describe it, a cramp, I'm sure they'll get more testament to make sure it is his right leg, so his push-off leg. When you're generating that much velocity and extension, I'm sure there are things with your body that can go wrong. Everybody, including the nationals, was grateful that it wasn't anything with his arm as much as they were happy to see him come out of the game because maybe they finally have a chance. They still took no pleasure in an opposing player getting hurt and having to part like that. They'd feel that way about anybody, but especially this kid, because of how special he is and how good he looked in this game. - Well, and that's the thing. Mr. Rowsky leaves the game, and you do say to yourself, from a Nats perspective, like, "Okay, this guy's out of the game. Now maybe this offense can get going." And we certainly have seen this offense this season to a lot of good things, seventh inning and later in games, but it never really materialized here. You know, a little bit of action in that seventh inning, like I said, with a libel double in the Nats-2 score run. But beyond that, I mean, it just was like a sleepy kind of offensive outing here for the Nats. Nobody did much of anything. - Yeah, and Aaron Aschby, who came in for him, was throwing 99 himself from the left side. We've seen him as an opener, I think in that last series in Milwaukee. I mean, he came in, he got through the sixth and he struck out James Wood, got Luis Garcia, comes back out for the seventh strike out. As you said, he did go up the double. That was a bloop double the libel. It was a few inches away from being caught by Blake Perkins in shallow left field. So who knows what happens if he makes that catch. So I think Aschby was just as big a part of this, the collective effort. I felt like, okay, they're probably not gonna get no hit. But in the background, mine, I'm also thinking, you get to the seventh inning. This may be one of those combined no hitters before it's all said and done thankfully, didn't come to that. But it's not like to that point that we're a lot of close calls. They, I suppose, hit a couple of balls hard, but there wasn't like one or two moments that you said, oh, that should have been a hit. Or the ball,
made a spectacular play to keep the no hit or alive. It was complete domination up until that point, until the Lyle double. Yeah. And so we continue on with this journey with this Nats offense from a standpoint of going really well, then a five game stretch during which the Nats totaled 14 runs. Then the Nats had the 14 run outburst in the 14 to win at the Mets this past Wednesday, five four win at the Mets on Thursday afternoon. Now back to the offense looking pretty bad here with what happened on Friday evening. So you know, this is, you know, a long term or deal here of what exactly is the offense, but a little bit of an up and down nature here lately where we have seen it be really good, but we also lately have seen some outings in which the offense doesn't do much. Right. And that was kind of the pattern last year. It felt like they were either really good or had nothing going probably more to the extremes than we've seen so far this year. As we've noted, when James Wood and CJ Abrams have a good game, then that's generally have a big offensive night. When those two guys don't do it, it's kind of hard to make up for that lack of production and obviously they didn't do much in this game. Let's see what happens Saturday. You know, I think you do chalk this one up to who they were facing and you hope that's not a sign of anything else to come over the rest of the weekend. If they struggle again on Saturday, then you start worrying what's going on. And especially this whole thing of like, why are they just playing so horribly at home? Like it doesn't add up. There's no good reason for that to be the case, but it's undeniable 3 and 11 at home, 12 and 7 on the road. I don't have an explanation. I'm not sure they really have an explanation for it themselves. No, and Blake butera talked about it a bit during his pregame press conference with you guys. And I don't want to say that butera sounded annoyed, but he has been asked about this now multiple times. He doesn't have an answer because I think as we have discussed, I don't know that there is an answer. It's a weird quirky, fluky thing probably going to change at some point. Tim Schovers is messaging us butera was annoyed. OK, he did sound a little annoyed and how he answered that. These guys are going to play hard and try to win every single game, whether the rest of the games are here or in Chicago or in New York or wherever they might be. I promise you, we're not trying to lose at home and win on the road. We're just going to try to play our best baseball regardless where we are. Because it is one of these deals where it's like, I don't know why. You know what I feel like that's what he wants to say. Guys, I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to any of us. It just is the way that it is right now. But yeah, that kind of discrepancy. I mean, the Nats are one of the best road teams in the majors with the record that the Nats have on the road, 12 and 7. And the Nats are one of the worst teams in the majors at home. And it just is completely bizarre that this is the case. And I don't know which one is more bizarre with the expectations what they were for the Nats coming into this season. Three and 10 at home, maybe doesn't shock you. The 12 and 7 on the road, I think, is what really overwhelms you. Like, wow, that is so good for this team to be that good on the road. And then you say to yourself, all right, if you didn't know the home record, you say, well, this team must be over achieving. The home record must at least be like 500. And no, it's three and 10. Yeah, and they've faced like good teams on the road. You know, they played the Cubs, the pirates, the, I know, the Phillies are not playing well. And right now and the Mets are not right now. But you would think those are still kind of intimidating teams. The Brewer is obviously sweeping them there. It doesn't add up. The thing about the home games, I think what stands out more than anything, I think the defense has been much worse at home. I think the base running has been worse at home. Obviously, the pitching has been worse, especially the bullpen. I don't know there's an explanation. And yeah, I think, but Tara, I don't think he is bothered by the people asking the question. I think it's bothered by the, I don't have an answer for it. Nature of this whole thing. If he did, they would certainly be trying to figure it out. I think it's the kind of thing that should even out over time. I don't think they're going to go through this whole season as one of the best road teams in baseball and one of the worst home teams in baseball that should balance out over time. But for now, it is a real head scratcher. And then the thing you worry about is, it doesn't get in their heads at any point. And now for some reason, they think, man, we can't win at home. Why is that? Now they start pressing or doing things that they wouldn't otherwise do. I don't know. I would love to see that turn around here soon because that's not a narrative you want to keep going for much longer. No. And that's fans have been through a lot. Ticket paying that fans, especially deserve to be rewarded for paying hard earned money for tickets. You want to reward those fans with victories, not losses and a lot of losses so far. You know, in the NFL teams for home games stay in hotels. I bet most people know that, but maybe you don't for a home game. And NFL team still stays in a hotel together. You don't get that in MLB. Maybe the Natsy to start doing that, you know, staying in a hotel together before each home game. And maybe somehow that'll bring the team together and we'll get some home wins here. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO] >> Urban Deliverers breaking ball low gets away from Millency didn't realize it at first and in from third to scores Mitchell and the Brewers lead one to nothing. So the Nats starting pitcher for the 6-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers at Nationals Park on Friday evening was Jake Irvin four runs three earned in five innings. So he gave up six sets, which were three doubles and three singles. He issued four walks and the walks were very much the biggest negative for him in this outing. He did record five strikeouts. So again, a good number of strikeouts from Irvin, but the pitch count got high 98 pitches over the five inning 60 strikes, 38 balls. Irvin in the top of the first a ladder run. It was unearned. He gave up a lead off double by Garrett Mitchell off the right field warning track and then Mitchell scored from third base on a one out pass ball by Cater Drew Millis. And this was interesting. Millis initially didn't recognize that the ball had gotten by him. He whiffed on catching the ball didn't realize that he had whiffed on catching the ball. And especially if you watch the game on TV, you can hear Irvin yelling at Millis. I think Irvin said something like Millie back to alert Millis to the fact that the ball was behind Millis. So that was an interesting scenario there. And then Irvin in the top of the third a ladder run on a lead off walk. A David Hamilton a win out walk. A Bryce Tarrang and a win out RBI single by William Contreras to center field and Irvin in the top of the fifth allowed two runs. Win out single by Bryce Tarrang through the right side of the infield on an 0-2 pitch. That was disappointing. Win out single by Contreras to left field. Win out walk. A Jake Bowers. Win out RBI. Win out first choice, grounder by Luis Renjifo into two out first pitch, opposite field RBI double by Tyler Black to left field for a four nothing, Brewers lead. Would you think a Jake Irvin in this game? It wasn't that his best obviously, but I don't think he was at his worst either. There wasn't a ton of loud contact. The walks certainly hurt him. The defense did not help him in a lot of ways. And really more than anything, I think he fell behind the count a little too often. And that's where the damage came when he got ahead in the count. He seemed to do fine. He had the opportunity. He gets to the fifth inning. He's given up two runs. The pitch count's getting up there and you know, okay, they're probably just going to ask for one more out of him. And he had a chance to get through that fifth inning, keeping it as a two nothing game. And you walk away from that and say, okay, that was good enough. You kept us in the game. And that fifth inning did not go well at all. Now some of it's, you know, again, weak contact, but there's another walk in there. A fielders choice, a little looping double. All of a sudden a two nothing game is a four nothing game. And I think that changed the whole idea of what that start was for him. Four runs and five innings is not good. Two runs and five innings you can live with and say, that's all right. Four and five looked a little uglier, I think. And I know he would have been perfect on this day because Miss Rowsky was so good. But if you can just keep that a two nothing, you've done your job. You're given your team a chance. They've been much, much better the last few times out. This to me was a bit of a regression for Jacob. Yeah, put a lot of guys on base and the pitch in efficiency, which, you know, we've talked about with other guys. He hasn't necessarily been like a primary culprit in that, but in this game, I mean, 98 pitches over five innings and four walks. We haven't necessarily seen him struggle with the walk that much, but in this game, obviously four walks and five innings, not good. And then that's relief pitching in this game. So three Nats relievers combining to allow two runs, both of which were unearned in four innings. Sino Perez, two scoreless innings. He tossed a perfect top of the six and tossed a scoreless top of the seventh. Despite giving up two singles and issuing a wild pitch, I mentioned what happened with Andre Grinillo. I mean, this was rough. Two runs, both of which were unearned in one inning. Top of the eight, he threw 40 pitches and giving up three singles and issuing a walk. Now also in the inning was a fielding year by second base, but not seen new years. But man, Grinillo was out there forever. He gave up a two out bases loaded opposite field to run single by William Contreras in the right field on a one two pitch for a six one brewers lead and then packed in Schultz tossed a scoreless top of the ninth. Despite a two out fielding year by first baseman Curtis Mead and despite giving up a two out single, I mentioned the total pitch count for the Nats in this game. Four pitchers over nine innings, 182 pitches in average of more than 20 pitches per inning. That's just way too much. I mean, you know, in baseball, you will see pitchers throw like eight pitches in an in like that does happen. That seems to rarely if ever happen with this pitching staff. It certainly is bullpened. We haven't seen very much of that. And that's how you end up in a game that which there was a no hit bid into the seventh inning, how it still wound up as a three hour game because of what was happening in the top half of each inning. That Grinillo eighth inning, yes, very tough to watch, but it also included an infield single and air on nasim dunias and then the
a bunk play. I want to talk about this one. It's too on nobody out. Number nine hit her up David Hamilton. He bunts it towards third base and you saw Brady House not know what to do essentially. He backed up then he charged then he backed up again. The ball just kind of laid there. Nobody touching it for the you know as cheap of a single as you're ever going to get. That's going to be one of those that on Saturday Blake, Teara. It's going to have a video of that to show to Brady House and the rest of the team and they're going to discuss, okay, what's the proper way to make that play? Clearly there was either miscommunication about whether House's responsibility was to charge the ball or to cover third base instead. But that was ugly. That prolonged the inning. It didn't go well from that point on. But it was kind of emblematic of another sloppy game in the field for this team. Yes, nothing much matter because they weren't going to hit in this game, but they didn't help themselves out in the field on multiple occasions. That includes Millis with the pass ball in the first inning. As you said, just an inexcusable one that not only didn't catch the ball, but then didn't even know where it was. And it really wasn't that bad of a pitch by Irvin. It was low, but it wasn't like in the dirt. You know, it was initially ruled a wild pitch and you're like, huh? That's not a wild pitch. That's a pass ball. And thankfully that did get changed. So I do think it's still too early to do a deep dive on the advanced defensive metrics. You really want more of a sample size before you really start doing that. I'll just ask you this from what you're seeing. How would you evaluate the NADS defense so far? I think there are probably things about it that are better, but there's still some pretty big red flags out there more so with individuals. I think that maybe as a team, but it's a reminder that you can work on this stuff all you want and the coaching staff is working over time to try to get better at this. But there are just still things they don't do right plays. They don't make and sometimes you have to acknowledge that maybe they're just not good defensive players. In some cases, we've talked about first base that it's a problem. Their first basement or not good defensive first base. We know that catchers. It's been an issue. I think Brady House. I know it was a bad play in this game tonight, but overall, I've been impressed with him. Nunez had the air, but we know he's in the lead second baseman. Abrams has been better. I feel like, especially those routine plays that he would get lazy at last year. That has not happened so far, we're only a month in. So I think he's been better and I think James Wood has been certainly better in right field. It's just not quite as crisp as you'd like it to be, but we got to remember they were starting from a point of basically the worst, if not close to the worst in baseball. I do think there's been progress in that department, but you can work with them all you want. Ultimately are the players good enough to become good defensive players. In some of those cases, they just may not be good enough to ever become good defensive players. Wood had a play in this game where he came in and was a fairly routine play became dangerous and he had to lift out his arm. I forget if you had to actually jump or not, but it was a scary look in play because the ball nearly went over his head, but it did not. When you have very long arms as James Wood does, those can really come into play in a positive way. That certainly was the case on that play. Only a six foot seven guy makes that catch. If he's six foot five, it's not going to happen. So he was able to recover because you're right. He did take a bad break on the ball. Two instances of the Nads being no hit in terms of since the franchise came to Washington, DC August 9, 2023, a seven nothing loss at the Philadelphia Phillies. Michael Lorenzen, no hit the Nads. And then July 25, 2024, a three nothing loss to the San Diego Padres at Nashville's Park. Dylan Seas, no hit the Nads. Did you think that Jacob Mizorowski was going to do it as you were watching this game? I didn't only because the pitch count was high. So I've been complimenting him so much, but if you actually go back and look at it, there were some good quality long at bats early in the game that drove his pitch count of CJA rooms in the first inning had an 11 pitch at bat. He fouled off seven of them. So Mizorowski threw 22 pitches to only four batters in the first. He's at 39 after the second 56 after the third. So maybe there was a shot at a combined no hitter, but even if he doesn't get hurt, I'm not sure he's going more than seven at best for them and knowing they're going to want to protect their young pitchers. So, you know, you always start to get a little worried as the game goes on and that's at play. But I was confident that it wasn't going to be Mizorowski alone. If they did it, it was going to be a combined no hitter. And thankfully, I have yet to knock on wood actually be present for the nationals being no hit in their 21 plus seasons. The one in Philly, I was scheduled to be on that trip. I wound up getting COVID while in Cincinnati, the series before that. I covered the Cincinnati series from my hotel room and then went home and my former colleague at Mass and Bobby Blanco got to cover the no hitter in Philadelphia. And the Dylan Cees one was a weekday getaway game right before a road trip that I was on and I often take those games off. And so Bobby, once again had the honor of that. But I was sharing the story in the press box tonight with some of the younger writers. I have covered a no hitter for the opposing team before it just wasn't the nationals. When I first started in 2001 covering the Orioles, their very first series was against the Red Sox. And Pedro Martinez started opening day and the running joke among all of us was like, Oh God, the Orioles are going to get no hit on opening day. This is peak Pedro Martinez. Well, they didn't. But then game two, they did get no hit by Hideo Nomo. And it was literally my first game as a baseball beat writer on deadline night game was a no hitter by the opposing pitcher. And I was very much not prepared for that in the moment. And so ever since I have felt like I would be better able to handle that, I've covered the Mac Shers or no hitters, Jordan Zimmerman and all that. But not since that night in April of 2001, have I covered the team that I'm covering getting no hit. And hopefully that won't ever happen again, right? I remember that Orioles Red Sox no hitter well. And that was a bad Orioles team. That was Cal Ripken Jr's final season. So he kind of sent a mental season for sure. But yeah, that team got no hit was not exactly shocking. But to your point, who did the no hitting was a bit surprising because that was Nomo past his peak. And he was able to know hit what was a pretty bad Orioles team. Here's the pitch to Tena swing the ground ball of the second basement to rank. He goes to second for one, the relay ball. Teased to first. That's a double play. And that is the end of this ball game. Tena grounds into the 4 6 3 twin killing. And the national's opportunity to sweep a season series from the Brewers halted here in game one of this three games at Nationals Park. Can the Nats get the ever elusive win number four at home in this regular season? Game number two of this series Saturday afternoon at 405. Foster Griffin will be the Nats starting pitcher. You know, we had Strasmus back in the day. I don't know if we need to come up with a name for when Foster Griffin pitches, but he has been an at best pitcher. He has been a pleasure to watch facing the Brewers for a second time. So this will be interesting. I don't know if Griffin's going to tease us with a no hit bid, but he's been really good. And it'll be, I think, exciting to see him pitch. And hopefully he puts forth another good outing here. Gryffness. Right. I mean, that's, that's right there on a platter for you. I was thinking like, you know, foster care or foster day. I don't know. We got to come up with something for Foster Griffin. But now to me, the real storyline of this is that he's facing the Brewers for the second time. And he did have a no hit bid against them. It didn't go as far. I think he breached the sixth inning in that one. But this is the first time now that he has faced a team twice. And it's relatively, you know, short amount of time was about three weeks ago that he did that. So I'm very interested to see both from his standpoint. Does he attack them the same way? And from the Brewers standpoint, do they go after him? And he differently now they have a little intel on him. This is the underlying story to foster Griffin's entire season. At some point, do other teams start to figure him out? And how does he counteract that so far? It hasn't really had to come up. This will be the first time for it. And I'm really interested to see how that goes. Well, Griffin will not be averaging 101 miles per hour in terms of his average four-seam fastball velocity. I think it's safe to say that. But he will be giving us, we believe, his array of seven different types of pitches, which is still just amazing that that's how that guy does what he does. But as we've been saying so far, he's done a nice job. You tell us what you think? Hit us up on X at Nats_Chat. 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[email protected]. All Nassau-Ratial highlights on Nats_Chat or courtesy of 1067 The Fan for Mark Cercerman on Algoldi. We thank you for listening. We'll talk to you next time on the Nats_Chat podcast. And we'll leave you now with an update on the Nats. AA affiliate, the Harrisburg senators courtesy of the voice of the senators. Frankie Bernowski deals that breaking pitch launch dots left center field. Hillsson, the center field, are chasing deep in the gap. He leaves the can't make the catch on the warning track. It rolls out to the 405 marker. He's around third. He's coming to score. The throw gets away from the cutoff. John at the Thomas around third. He scores. Frankie Bernowski for the Nats_Chat podcast with an update on the Harrisburg senators. AA affiliate of the Washington Nationals. This Friday night is game 4 of 6 this week between the senators and the Akron rubber ducks in Akron, the AA affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians. The senators are 15 and 8 through the first month of play. The rubber ducks are 14 and 10.
offense has certainly been a huge part of the story for the senators through the first month of the season. And last night's four to two win over the rubber ducks in field or Caden Wallace blasted his team leading sixth home run out to left field and Caden has shown good power through the first month of play outfielder Jonathan Thomas has also really heated up a good start to the season overall. But over the last couple of weeks Thomas is hitting three seventy five and in fact is nine for his last eighteen after putting up his first career four hit performance in the win last night Jonathan Thomas going for four for four with the double in last night's win. The biggest performance to probably note from this week's series so far at seven seventeen credit union park is left hander Alex Clemmey who was fabulous in Tuesday night's ballgame to start off the series and what eventually was a senators win three to nothing the third shut out that the senators have thrown this season. But Clemmey pitched six innings scoreless baseball and was perfect through the first four and two thirds retired the first fourteen batters he faced and did not allow a hit until there were two outs in the fifth and it was certainly the best that we've seen from the young left hander between his month or so at the end of last season and the month to begin this season out determined really attacking the strike zone and getting ahead of hitters. Breaking ball lifted into the air out to deep left center field to be true and Hilsen going back it's out of here. Caden Wallace's fourth home run of the season sends pouring it on it's twelve to three in the eight.
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