Nats' Radio Call of Kurt Suzuki's Walk-Off Home Run Was Absolutely Electrifying
By Jerry Trotta
We're sure you've heard the mind-boggling story by now, but it's so bewildering that's it's worth describing once more.
The Washington Nationals were trailing the New York Mets 10-4 in the bottom of the ninth inning on Tuesday, when the likes of Paul Sewald, Luis Avilan and Edwin Diaz combined to give up seven runs out of the pen for Mickey Callaway. The killer blow came on a Kurt Suzuki three-run walk of homer after the Nats cut the deficit to 10-8.
In short, the Amazins' had never blown such a ninth-inning lead in franchise history, and Washington had never managed to pull of such a comeback. Yes, that includes their time in Montreal. Therefore, the radio call on the game-winner had to be invigorating to outline all of the emotion. And invigorating it was.
Wow. Take a bow, Charlie Slowes.
Perhaps the best part of the call came at the very end when Slowes called out fans at Nationals Park. "And if you walked out of this ballpark when the Mets scored five runs in the top of ninth inning, you blew it!" he howled at the top of his lungs.
Handing the NL East-rival Mets their worst loss of the season, a defeat that should quite literally push them off the cliff and straight into baseball purgatory, has to feel excellent, right?
Indeed, we'll coin Slowes' call of the dub the song of the summer for the nation's capital.