New York Mets vs Washington Nationals- FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS - August 19, 2025 MLB Season

Homestand continues. How about this weather? It feels like October around here. The Mets in town for the first of three. Mets coming off an interesting four-game weekend against the Phillies and lately against some pretty good competition like the Giants contending team most of the year, the Royals, and now the Phillies. It sets them up for some success tonight. And here at Nationals Park as usual we are right on time at 6.45. Francisco Lindor last week just a little bit to his right CJ Abrams for that first out. Young but you know he's just maturing a little bit more you know he's gone through you know his career and he's more than Daryl Strawberry and 12 more than your old friend David Wright. This one's going to stay in the ballpark. Ryan Zimmerman told me the yards in those games New York is 12 and 1 against Washington. Strike three call. I mean. And then with two strikes he goes to the slider down and out of the zone that he tries and get for a chase. Yeah look like CJ didn't want to get it to two strikes. So StatCast 3D was powered by Goops on this ball club he is right now. Well just an excellent leader for these young guys to follow. Right now everybody trying to follow David Peterson's pitching. It's unbelievable how big of a difference it is. Hot shot left side. Brady House on the young and the Nats go around the horn. And you know I think what Jake has done so well in his career is pitch deep into games. And even if you have a four ERA if you're going to throw 200 innings you're valuable. I mean it's so big down there but he's a baseball guy and always has been. Gets around it. Tricky little hop. Bounces up on Brady. Just a little short of getting. Or Felipe's son. Riley Adams. That'll send Lindor to his left. So throw a lot of the infield at. Here's Dylan Cruz. He's going to chop that one in the dirt. The race is on. Lindor knows it. Look at that flush. Off the pitcher. CJ grabs it. How's that for a 1-6-3. Lindor jerks one to right. Ball hooking. And it'll stay fair into the corner. Hitting high off that wall on the foul side of the pole. And Francisco Lindor had three doubles last week. Their best hitter at the two spot. That's cleanly to left center. Lindor had to hold up. He's got plenty of time to score. Might have a play at third. It's not close. And that gets Nimmo into second. He did pitch in. And nobody really pitches in anymore. Alonzo pops it up. This is playable for Andres Chaparro. Right near the coach's box where Antoine Richardson just got out of the way. Give that duo. And that will put the Mets on top 3-0. McNeil hitting it cleanly and really hard into the right field corner. His 36th and 37th RB. And there's a high drive to left. Even on this cool night, the ballpark can't hold it. 5-0 New York on Vientos' ninth of the year. Mets are a slugging team. They've had 161 this year. Fourth most in the National League. Huge inning for New York. 3-2 again. And Brady Howes rips it. But that's over to the hot corner for Beatty. And it's turned by McNeil. Jacob Young to left. Pretty well hit, but Brandon Nimmo is there. And Mets fans, over the weekend, Luis Terrence. First pitch, fly ball, left field. It's hooking away from James Wood. Long way to go, but those big strides are going to get him there. 1-2 to Lindor. Well, that's what you would call a pretty quick break. But it's strike three to Lindor, who couldn't pull the trigger. Those were the days of Richie Ashburn and the Philadelphia Phillies whiz kids back in the early 50s. They were an exciting ball club that did a lot of running back then. To lefties, he's basically a fastball slider. Oh, that's a perfect fastball. Wow. Support me, you know. I think this is probably the most nervous I've ever felt in this ballpark, so I had to have the family here, you know, to support me. Those sliders down and in, to keep you honest, but mostly away. Fastball away, not reachable. Two Ks in the inning, four on the night, and retired. Six of the last seven Mets since the home run. Vientos, pardon me, and this one in the right, handled by Dylan Cruz. All right, 4-5-6 coming up. Top six. First pitch, Brett Beatty. That ball is smoked to the first row of the second deck. His 14th, RBI number 40. Two more homers by the Mets tonight, and it's 6-0. 3-2. Pretty well hit the other way, but James Woods stalking it, and back to his right. After the homer, two balls in the air, and here comes Lindor again, so aware of his surroundings, and he's such a good person. And that's not a bad way to end it tonight, either. Which, yeah, been one of the most consistent hitters in the lineup for the last month. There's Chaparro with a nice drive to left. That's not reachable for Brandon Nemo. Gonna slam off the wall. Chaparro, hello again. Will not be in the zone. Brady House takes it. Off-speed inside edge, and he walks away. Strikeout number six. Yeah, it's everybody's best bolt, doesn't he? Yep. Can't reach that one. That ball was cutting away from him. That's pretty well hit out to right center, but gonna take more than that to get one out of here. Mullins has it. Nats get two hits for the first time. This is the best way to put it. Yeah. Just an incredible amount of maturity. And then there are things like this, the other way. And Juan Soto has 31 home runs. I was about to say, the first time I saw him double and homer the other way. Third pitch, we've seen a lot of development from some of the pieces that Nats got in the Juan Soto trade, and there's still more to come. They've all been in the big leagues, except for Zuzana, and his time will come. Is which, I don't know if a lot of those fans would trade that either. From way behind the bag, Abrams. And finally, the top of the seventh is over. Soto. Yeah, Bill, I do have a Ryan Zimmerman Nats question for you, and that's easy for Nimmo. It's one of the coolest things. It's in my parents' house, actually. April 5th of 2006, there's a strikeout. Zim's homer, by the way, put that game into extra inning. Good right-handed bat against this lefty tonight. This one to the gap. Here on the top of the eighth by Luis Terenz on the first pitch from the lefty, P.J. Poulin. Breaking ball, strike three call. A little delay. Mullins couldn't pull the trigger, and then... That's a great breaking ball, diving on Lindor. Front door breaking ball. Jacob Young. Well back. And we go bottom eight. The Nats will have Cruz, Chaparro, and House. Six runs, and you're thinking, oh great. Because those things seldom don't lead to a great outing the next time. This one off the scoreboard by Dylan Cruz. And he is in Cruz control. Over to third. Struck beautifully, second triple of the year. Sack fly is sort of the goal. Well, a run will score. And with House digging to first, the Mets are going to turn to... For a relatively short history, we had some good ones. Oh. Jacob Young thought he had walked. Peterson gets strikeout number 10, a season high. He's been throwing this entire half inning. And a ball driven to right center. Dylan Cruz checking it out, and the Mets are homered again. Well hit, off the mound, and a really big hop for Paul DeYoung. So the Mets score eight on 11 hits. What an eight innings by David Peterson. Oh, okay. Let's just reach over and grab it barehanded on the first pitch. And James Wood is 0 for 4. Go ahead and take second, Paul. Well, he's going to wait. And this one popped up to the left side, on the way Beatty. Ball twisting around like crazy. And this one is over. And for all intents and purposes, it was over back in the third. When McNeil drove in two, and Vientos homered.