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Carlos Lopez Ramirez's avatar

Hope to see more Crews and Ortiz reps in latter half of the game

is1human's avatar

I called it with Nunez leading off!

gonatsgo1's avatar

Looking forward to seeing C Harry Ford.

The OG NY Nat's avatar

No excuses for Parker today - fantastic defensive lineup

gonatsgo1's avatar

Let's just hope he covers on those 1-3 ground outs. -:)

Anthony's avatar

Everything I'm reading from Mark makes me think that while the Nats have lots of choices and many potential breakout years from among their infielders and outfielders, aside from Cade Cavalli, starting pitching remains a major question. Yesterday's two games were encouraging for Nats pitchers -- no one got blown out -- so I hope that all the new stats and machines and coaches are able to wring out some improvement. Parker today will be interesting.

Gary Langston's avatar

To add to the options to hear the radio broadcast, it looks like audacy (free with ads) and Sirius (paid, app or satellite) are likely to work

pat's avatar

I'm still all in on Mitchell Parker. He's shown some bursts of real talent. I hope the new system helps him.

Noodles & Cabbage's avatar

Hopeful, I believe. "All in" is 👀.

Richard Boriskin's avatar

Hi Mark. During the regular season will you still be able to sit in the press box or will you be sitting with the fans?

Mark Zuckerman's avatar

Yep, I've got full, regular media access as a member of the BBWAA.

stoat's avatar

It’s the Nasim Nuñez show!

gonatsgo1's avatar

Successful challenge for Nunez on strike three and gets a base hit!

stoat's avatar

Brady goes House!

Take that, Sandy.

Carlos Lopez Ramirez's avatar

Oh my goodness extended at-bats from potential Nats regulars?? Stringing together hits into first inning runs?

CBinDC's avatar

IT'S A FULL HOUSE

aNatsFan's avatar

That was a nice home run for Brady.

Mark Zuckerman's avatar

Quite a start to this one for the Nats. Nasim Nuñez opened the game by successfully challenging Ramon De Jesus' strike three call and getting it changed to a ball. Then he singled up the middle, stole second and took third on Daylen Lile's grounder. And with James Wood also in scoring position after drawing a walk, Brady House worked an impressive, seven-pitch at-bat against Sandy Alcantara and blasted a 415-foot, three-run homer off the pitch clock to the right of center field. The wind is blowing out that way today, but that was still a big-time poke to cap a really good AB against one of the game's best pitchers.

stoat's avatar
5dEdited

Does anyone know if Substack comments have a way to default to “newest first” like disqus, or do I have to hit the button every time I refresh?

First world problems, I know.

gonatsgo1's avatar

You read my mind.

david behnke's avatar

I'm on natsjournal.com and the option is on the right just above the comment box

gonatsgo1's avatar

What we're asking is trying to make it default so it automatically loads the page with newest comments first.

jamie yeager's avatar

i don't know how i told it to, but it's already doing that for me on my desktop.

stoat's avatar

If you hit "refresh" to view new comments does it still sort by "newest first" or revert to "oldest first," as it does for me? I moved from my iPad down to my desktop to see if it's any different, but it doesn't appear to be.

I don't mean to belabor the question but it would be nice to have that default option... not such a big deal now but I expect these threads will be MUCH more active by the time we're playing baseball that counts.

Dave Nemec's avatar

I'm on the app, and there are two opposing arrows in the upper right corner. That gets you to the sorting options.

gonatsgo1's avatar

Right, we get that. What the issue is is there a way to automatically use some settings to automatically have the Comment Page default to "newest first" with no clicking every time.