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Charlie Slowes On Dylan Crews' MLB Debut
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Charlie, what'd you make of Cruz's first ever game? I thought he was very poised. He looked very comfortable. He looked like he'd done it before the bat where he walked. He looked some close pitches over. He didn't really chase anything out of the strike zone. It was kind of a routine night for him like he'd done it before, batting second in the order last night. Maybe he's dropping him down today to the number seven spot. Maybe take a little pressure off if there's any against the right hander he's facing today. But all in all, he talked about it being a great day. The only thing he wished that would have happened is they won the game. Charlie, you've been there for these milestone games. Whether it was Strasbourg getting called up or, you know, playoff games there at Nats Park, World Series games, et cetera. Last night didn't feel like the 132nd game of the season, right? It was more special than that, both with Soto in town and, you know, a bunch of these young nats sort of the new era ushering that in hitting to the top of the order. What did last night mean? Oh, it's definitely you're moving forward in this rebuild with the future nucleus of this team starting to take shape. The players that you hope they're going to be part of this team for the next decade. And, you know, as Ryan Zimmer and has said to us when he was on this last night, the group that's going to make the next run of contention for a long time. So I think we're really just scratching the surface here so far and, you know, more to come. I think, you know, the fact the Nationals have used only nine starting pitchers this year despite the injuries they've had with Kate Cavalli not making it back. Trevor Williams getting hurt, Josac Roy getting hurt. But then the guys that they brought in have been in the rotation all year. And so I think that's a big step forward for the future. Maybe the most positive thing you take out of this season for the Nationals is how far along the starting pitching is. Charlie, what did you make of the response to Juan Soto returning to Nats Park? You got the largest ovation of the night in the first inning. Yeah, there's no question. People from New York could cover the Yankees say, well, it's different when you return to your home stadium, your whole, your original club home stadium. When you're in a Yankee uniform, you'll get food. And I said, there is absolutely no chance that a million that Juan Soto would ever get food in this park, no matter what he had done after he left the Nationals. And that was proven to be true. I mean, he is who he is. Great player. One of the biggest moments in franchise history is hit off Josh Hader. Three runs score and they win the wild card game in the big moments he had in the home runs he hit in the World Series. He'll always be loved here. That's the case with most everybody who was a part of that World Championship. They can never do wrong here. No way. Lost in all that, you know, sort of under the headline is Mitchell Parker's final line didn't look that unbelievable to me, Charlie. But I was encouraged by what I saw last night after a couple rough outings. What did you see from it? Well, I thought he pitched well. I mean, the second innings jumped his pitch count off and you know, that's had a couple of miscues in the inning. One for him, when he dropped the ball covering first, but he got out of that bases load of jam. You know, he didn't really seem to be much affected after giving up the home run to start the game. The guitar is on a three one pitch and you know, it's a really tough lineup to get through to navigate through. And I thought he, you know, did a good job. You know, they're watching his pitch count at this point of the year. So he's over 80 and four innings. They decided to go to the bullpen, but you know, he certainly gave you a respectable performance and he's done that a lot this year. So again, he's one of the guys that you look at and you could say, yeah, he can be riding your rotation next year. That's what you want to do. Charlie, I haven't seen the lineup against Garrett Cole. Is it the same as it was yesterday for Davey with Abrams, Cruz and Wood 123. And then also, what can you tell us about tonight? Well, you're going to have Abrams and Wood at the top of the order. He dropped Cruz down the seventh. I haven't talked to Davey about that yet. But that's what he decided to do. He gets to the left hand hitters up against that tough right hand or at the start of the lineup. So we'll see how that plays out. But you're going to get wood more at bats. I know, Grant, that's you want to see wood bat is high in the order as possible. As often as we can more at bats. Yep. Yep. And you know, we'll see if this is, you know, just for today that Cruz is batting seven and in the lineup that that Davey's going with or whether there's something else they would, I still think Cruz is going to end up at the top of the order. Maybe even a lead off batter for a while, you know, and ultimately, that could be Jacob Young too. Maybe not this year. But if you progress as a hitter with that speed, you're going to want to get him up more and more. So I mean, you're seeing the nucleus of what's to come. Now these these babes just have to play and, you know, learn and learn and learn and get that experience. Charlie, thank you as always, man. Have a great call tonight. All right, guys. Talk to you soon. Sounds good, buddy. See you soon. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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