Layla Rahimi

and i think it kept some of the some of the contact not scoring and not as powerful and then unfortunately in that fourth inning things just went from bad to worse 11 of his outs were recorded by strikeout he had seven strikeouts in that three and two-thirds and it's not good when on opening day you give up more runs and you gave up in any single start in 2025 these are the bad things that being said

The reason the Nationals are so bad isn't because of their offense.

It's because their pitching's terrible.

It's because they had the worst bullpen in all of baseball last year.

And say what you want about Matthew Boyd not pitching well and Ben Brown not looking great in his first appearance in 2026.

Layla, to me...

the overarching story here and the one that's more concerning than what matthew boyd looked like for me personally is the fact that there were a bunch of games played yesterday nobody had more at bats with runners in scoring position than your chicago cubs who had 19 at bats with runners in scoring position they had four hits and only one of those hits was for an extra base hit and that's not necessarily why they lost the game but that's why the game wasn't

as close as it probably should have been in the latter innings.

That's the one that killed me is when Bregman tried to go from first to third.

I was like, this is what we call a rally.

Things are going positively for your offense.

You just stopped the rally with a bad out at third base.

I know we weren't together yesterday watching this game, but I was like, I hope Layla's going easy on the third base coach today.

That was my prevalent thought.

Yeah, I was just saying, because of the number of base runners that were on base and the things that were happening on the base pass, I was just like, ah, let's try to take each of these situations and single them out as opposed to saying it's just a bad base running day all along for the Cubs.

I think for...

the different examples of things that we saw in this game that didn't make sense.

Moises Ballesteros out here trying to bunt?

That's one.

And at the same time, in that same breath, I had no problem with Pete Curl Armstrong seeing what the field looked like and bunting for an RBI single.