C.J. Abrams has been called up,
he's going to be the at
shortstop.
It appears every day for the
rest of the season.
We are all plenty excited to see
what he does in his Nationals
debut Here tonight.
Nick Madrigal, right handed
hitting 2nd baseman reaching out
, hitting the ball well up the
middle to his left.
Well you go to a new ball club
and the baseball will find you.
C.J. Abrams handles that one
very smoothly.
Here's Willson Contreras the
cubs catcher hitting second in
the order, swing and a miss on a
good slider ground ball.
The short swinging strikeouts,
good start for josiah Gray
retiring the first two cubs and
now Ian half will come to the
plate.
The one thing about great he's
given up 29 home runs, the most
of the national drilled out
there towards right field.
This is well struck that one
back that one on its way and
it's gone In half with a home
run number 11 and the Cubs jump
out front.
It is one to nothing Jose Gray
allows his major league leading
30th home run.
So now the banner is the cleanup
man.
Say a Suzuki, the right fielder
on the ground to third.
Pretty nice play over there,
vargas safe at first.
And there is say a Suzuki using
the legs, that ball is drilled
right field, that one back that
one is off the wall, Reyes
crushes one that's extra base is
Suzuki and two score.
Here's the big fella, it's a
triple A three bagger for the
Franmil The starting pitcher for
the cubs is mentioned, Marcus
Stroman, let's take a look at
his arsenal.
You see the fastball there, he
does a lot of different things
with it.
That slider has always been a
big pitch.
If he needs a strikeout, he'll
go there.
Hernandez tap back to the mound.
The gold glover fields unloads
in a hurry And one up and one
down.
Bring up the new national
sensation, the 30 year old
rookie Joey G??nesis there's
another base hit.
Name of part of the ballpark he
has not visited yet.
So Voit works a walk against
Stroman putting runners on 1st
and 2nd with one out and
bringing up Daniel.
Hernandez Marcus steals good job
out of his swing and miss and a
strike out.
There's two away two outs, two
on the batter is nelson cruz,
that one line caught out of the
air by magical might have broken
his back there, cruise lines out
that ends the inning one away.
The batter is C.J. Abrams, one
of the six players acquired for
juan soto chopper out to short
horner fields fires on the move
Abrams can really scoot and
there's two away, brings up lane
thomas playing center field,
batting eighth inning 2, 31
thomas hits, one hard beyond the
reach of McKinstry and as it
gets by Ian Happ.
It will be an easy two out
double for lane thomas with a
rope to left Second with two
out.
It brings up tomorrow, Vargas on
the ground, magical takes in the
big hop over to wisdom and
vargas retired run to hit a man
left lead.
Game one of the series to
nothing with the cleanup batter
CIA Suzuki facing Gray.
Oh everybody thought maybe hook
and it's a sinker in there and
through three innings, seven
strikeouts, Franmil Reyes, the
big D.H. Will lead off for
Chicago.
Top of the fourth to nothing,
lead on the ground, softly hit
Abrams and he throws it away
pretty sure that one went into
the camera well.
And so I think Reyes will get
second base, he will.
Horner is out.
Reyes holds its second and the
batter is McKinstry.
Here it comes swinging.
A ground ball up the middle
deflects off the mound.
Abrams comes back to the left
side of second, throws on the
run low and it's picked by void
out of the dirt.
So the ball is finding C.J.
Abrams in this inning and Voit
has saved him to errors and
couldn't save him a 3rd 2nd walk
for Gray brings in the center
fielder Christopher Morel and
this one to the right side for
Cesar Hernandez.
So an adventure on the infield
that inning, but josiah showed
some moxie and contreras has
retired two away here in the top
half of the 5th inning comes up.
He's just done an unbelievable
job this year, both left handed
and right handed with the
ability to make contact that is
clobbered out toward right field
and forget it way out of here
into the second deck in on loads
and the Nationals have the bases
loaded with no one out here in
the bottom of the fifth inning.
And the heart of the Washington
lineup with the cubs up to right
center, his first time up struck
out a big spot and he gets the
ball in play here, got to come
out of this situation with a
runner to third double clutch
and Voit will beat it out if
McKinstry handles that cleanly,
the inning might be over and the
nets get on the board.
So it's 1st and 3rd, 2 outs and
a big spot for Hernandez who
hammered a single up the middle
last time up and a base hit by
Yasiel.
Hernandez vargas scores voit
stops at second and the nets are
back to within a run and the
nets Not Marcus Stroman out who
had a three run lead.
The new pitcher on the mound for
the cubs is the right hander
Mark Leiter Jr and he comes in
with a couple of men on base
faces NElson Cruz here, NElson
Cruz is one for three career
against Mark Leiter Jr, deep
into the corner and the
Nationals are going to take the
lead following home Washington
total of quality start since the
fifth of july by josiah and if
he gets one more out without the
run scoring, he gets the quality
start, but he's not going to go
through six it appears with two
outs in the sixth.
Is this a done deal?
Maybe not?
No sir, he's going to stay.
Has struck out wisdom.
He has walked wisdom.
Now it's up to the starter to
let them know that the skipper
made the right decision For
number 10 on the night.
And you might say against the
Cubs slugging first baseman, a
very wise decision by Dave
Martinez.
Overall for Hunter Harvey This
will be appearance No 19 at the
Big League level.
No record 3.24 E.R.A. With a
chance to get even an extra base
knock could give the cubs the
lead.
Suzuki at the plate on the
ground up the middle, off the
glove of Abrams base hit Magic
sprinting around to score.
Suzuki comes through and we're
tied at four.
We go to the bottom of the
eighth inning and the cubs have
a new pitcher will be left
hander Brandon use on for the
cubs to make his 34th appearance
one down and here's nelson cruz
Cruz huge to run double last
time the nets on top bottom of
the fifth got a breaking ball
and he ran out to the gap in
left center.
See you later for nelson cruz
back on top, Kyle.
Finnigan will get the ninth
inning assignment seeking his
fifth save of the year 91 and to
do up for the cubs and now it
comes down to Finnegan against
Willson Contreras, who is one
for one career against Kyle with
an R.B.I. Single up the middle.
Abrams first night is a net,
takes care of business and the
Nationals take Game one from the
cubs.
The ball found him on the first
batted ball tonight and the ball
found him on the last batted
ball tonight.