Nats Reportedly Pick a New Head of Baseball Ops While Wood Homers Twice in Win

The Nats won 4-3 in Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, but the major news came from ESPN's Jeff Passan.  Mark & Al spend plenty of time reacting to the report that Paul Taboni, Red Sox Asst. GM, will take over as Washington's new head of Baseball Operations. Taboni is 35 years old and has spent the last decade working in the Red Sox Front Office.

(21:10) James Wood homered twice to reach the 30 home run milestone.  Wood homered as many times this series (three) as he had in the past two months.  Wood also did not strike out all series and remains eight Ks behind Mark Reynolds' 2009 record pace.

(25:50) Josh Bell hit his 21st homer of the season in the win. It is the 5th year in which Bell surpassed the 20 homer plateau.

(30:20) Andrew Alvarez lasted until the bottom of the 5th and did not allow a run.  Alvarez was called up on Labor Day and had 2.31 ERA in five starts.

(35:30) Joe A. Ferrer notched his 7th Save of the month and his 10th of the season. It was a rough day for the bullpen as they allowed a trio of Braves solo homers.