was doing. baseball, basketball, track, every sport you have. but i coached all three of mine. so it was a lot of fun. >> adam said his dad has given him a lot of good advice. take the walk and if you get on base you can score. he also said that he appreciates the time that he spent with his dad, having coached him so often and especially now he himself is a dad and expecting a second child. johnny. >> johnny: thank you debbi, very much. we will be talking about adam dunn all throughout the ballgame and give you some information and insights you are not aware of. he would have played for mack brown in texas. >> rob: yes, he would have. >> johnny: i think he threw something like 44 touchdown passes. one of the top quarterbacks coming out of high school. >> rob: my good friend and my accountant out in los angeles is a texas alum and another one of

my accountants was a lineman on texas that would have played with adam and they are still upset that he didn't play there. they wanted him to be the quarterback. thought they could have won some national championships. >> johnny: what is your tax man's name? >> rob: steve and associates. >> johnny: his dad was talking about taking walks. he has walked a lot. he has 48 now this year. where mon hernandez -- ramon hernandez back where he longs behind the plate today. the reds catcher leads off the top of the second with a scoreless ballgame. manny acta's club trying to slide a three-game slide. across the adam dunn and there's

one down. nice to have you with us today afternoon game at nationals park, johnny holliday along with ron dibble. happy to have you along on masn. hope the weather will stay nice as it is now. and you guys hit a plane and fly down to florida for the big weekend series against tampa, beginning tomorrow night. and that saturday night game will be joined in progress after 7 p.m. because of major league baseball rules and regulations. jay bruce the right fielder. he leads the ball club with 15 rbi -- 15 homeruns with 32 rbis far guy that only hits .218. gonzalez on to dunn and two quick outs. >> rob: 14 homeruns off right-handed pitchers. detwiler had a good night

against him two nights ago. shy ron martis. airon martis. >> johnny: the key is how you bounce back after that. >> rob: he was fantastic. steve mccatty and manny acta could tell you it is what he learns after that. it is not easy to be up here in less than 10 career starts. martis. and think you have it all figured out. you never have it all figured out. david weathers is still learning and pitched in 2,000 games. >> johnny: still learning. count is 2-1 to alex gonzalez the reds shortstop.

lannan retired the first two batters he faces. >> rob: let's take another look at home numbers. there he is. second right now in the national league in homerun e.r.a. 10 starts. ted lily. >> johnny: lannan delivers to gonzalez. fouled back. count is even at 2-2. reds are 6-7 against opponents from to the national league east. the nationals looking for their 10th win at home this year. 16th overall. rob, we were talking before this ballgame, you were comparing this year's record at the same time compared to last year. and this is a much, much better ball club. line-drive to left field, base hit for gonzalez. and it is hard to believe it is a 15-42 team. >> rob: it is. and this team was nine games better last year with the wins.

but, you know what, it comes in cycles. they can still with a 66-29 flurry at the end of the season finish 500. >> johnny: right. >> rob: that is when you look at numbers and you have to start with small goals. try to win series. obviously we are not going to win this series against the reds. but when you go down to tampa, say we have to take two out of three. go up to new york and try to take two out of three. start small with your goals and build upon that. i think one of the smaller goals that this team has had over the last few weeks try to get -- weeks is try to get better pitching and they have. they brought in steve mccatty. the starters have been stronger. the bullpen is much stronger than it was. we showed the graphic last night and that is a small goal that you have accomplished. now you have to get the offense on board. work on the defense every day you can. things can always turn around for a ball club and can always turn sour for another ball club. >> johnny: in your 7 years in

the big leagues pitching, was that the biggest challenge you had was getting over losses and focusing on the next game? >> rob: i never had a problem getting over losses because i'm still not over them. [laughter]. >> rob: you never get over bad outings or losses. you learn to accept them and move on. and use them to build and make yourself into a stronger athlete and in this profession, you are going to have a lot more failure than success. look at the hall of fame hitters as the ball gets by nieves right there. runner moves up to second. >> johnny: it is a wild pitch charged to john lannan. >> rob: that curve ball rolls up his arm and then over his head. the hall of famers failed 7 out of 10 times. and to me, i always look at that. i will take those percentages. if i'm successful 7 out of 10, 8 out of 10 times i get to stay in the major leagues. you can't try to think you are

going to be perfect because you will not be. i had a long conversation -- great play right there by ryan zimmerman. >> johnny: not a good throw. a run will score. rosales with a shot to zimmerman's right. amazing he even got to that ball. >> rob: yep. >> johnny: and then rosales goes to second on the overthrow and the reds have got a 1-0 lead. >> rob: getting back to that, i think a lot of it has to do in talking to steve mccatty about giving up singular homeruns instead of 3-run homeruns. right here you see him he is off balance and he probably should have tried to right himself a little more. gotten over the top. this is a fantastic stop right here and you see him throw off that front foot like a quarterback. sometimes you airmail. passes over the middle and they are intercepted. >> johnny: yep. >> rob: 9 out of 10 ryan will make that. as a pitcher you have to get out of this saying he picks me up

more than he doesn't. you have to shake that off. >> johnny: a hit, an error, no rbi for rosales. micah owings one of the better hitting pitchers. he won a silver slugger award. >> rob: 4 homers and 15 rbi in '07 and a .333 batting average. >> johnny: got 6 career homeruns. one this year came off ryan franklin against the cardinals. >> rob: jeff brantly was telling me the first at-bat owings had this year for the reds hit it off the left centerfield wall. he can swing it. going to try to catch up a little bit on the pitching side with his hitting. >> johnny: he likes to swing the bat. there's no question about that. the count is no balls and two strikes. lannan ahead of him with rosales

down at 2nd base. no rbi on this error charged to zimmerman. and owings swings and fouls it back. count stays 0-2. cincinnati, when they get the advantage with the first run against their opponents are 22-4. >> rob: that is a good record right there. a lot of it probably has to do with their bullpen. >> johnny: mr. baker says i will drink to that. >> rob: he is a player's manager. he kind of got in trouble back in chicago for that. >> johnny: check swing but he went around. owings strikes out but cincinnati get as run. they lead 1-0 as we go to the bottom of the second in washington.

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kentucky. 31 saturdays this year. he has been on base -- starts this year. he has been on base 29 of those games. >> rob: 3-1 pitch from oh wince. you see him short-arm it there and slick that fastball to the outside corner. >> johnny: outfield shaded a little bit to the right for kearns but he draw as base on balls. johnny vander me,r no-hit the braves, the first of two consecutive no-hitters. in high school, did you come close? >> rob: to no-hitters? i threw four in 2 years. >> johnny: back-to-back? >> rob: i have no idea. i didn't keep track. >> johnny: i did.

i was at your second one. [laughter]. >> rob: when you think about it back-to-back no-hitters in the major league. you don't do that this day and age. >> johnny: yeah. >> rob: worlds apart between high school and pro. that cracks me up with the stats people trying to talk about this guy can pitch -- how can you make that correlation. >> johnny: up the middle. nice job of nieves. went right over the shoulder of micah owings. we will take a look at this play again. >> rob: this is a jammed shot right here. nieves gets jammed on a very good inside running fastball. gonzalez make as fine play at short right there. had to stop himself and the quickest way to stop at this level, taught to many guys, you slide. you see guys do it coming around

third. 3rd base coach telling you to hold up, you slide. you try to stop and the momentum you can twist an ankle, hurt a knee. do a lot of sliding drills. >> lannan goes opposite field and he is out. that takes care of the nationals here in the bottom of the second. we go to the top of the third. still cincinnati up 1-0. ÷÷xxúú@@ ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico.

>> johnny: home depot coverg the bases with adam dunn. terrific young guy from texas. everybody thinks the world of him, including his manager, manny acta. >> he has been a good clubhouse guy. you know, he brings the same face every day to us. and make sure that everybody stays loose and keep their focus. on the field, everybody knows what he has done offensively. he strikes fear in the opposition. he leads our team in homeruns and rbis. the stats says it all. >> johnny: visit home depot.com. we go to the top of the third. gary hair ton, top -- jerry hairston leading it off. taveras and then phillips.

who were your clubhouse leaders rob playing with cincinnati? >> rob: we had a bunch. it was a great clubhouse to be a part of for 7 plus seasons there. eric davis was wonderful. he would never let you feel satisfied. he was just on your back to try to better yourself. tom browning. obvious lyly paul o'neal and chris. they had their own little language. >> johnny: but that was a veteran team, wasn't it? >> rob: a lot of veterans. >> johnny: dukes has a bead on it and one down. >> rob: nice jump on that ball by dukes. very difficult to get a jump on a ball sometimes when you see the swing and looks like it was hit very hard and all of a sudden it is about 20 feet behind 2nd base. toughest part of a reed for centerfielder or any outfielder. >> johnny: and he can fly with

the best of them. willy taveras will step in. lannan delivers inside for ball one. >> rob: the thing about our clubhouse leaders, it wasn't just that. we all hung out together. it wasn't clicky at all. i'm not saying it is here. they are just a lot younger in the clubhouse. but if there was a barbecue, the whole team went. even the coaches and trainers. if we were going to have an adult beverage, 20 out of 25 guys went. some guys, they took too much of the game home. they would go home with a bat and sit there in front of a mirror and swing all night if they had an 0-4. nothing wrong with that. they are just trying to better themselves that way. it was a family. and i have said that for 2 months. when they become a family, they will know it. and look out because the other teams are going to be in big

trouble. >> johnny: it is all part of the growing process. high fly behind short. guzman drifting back. it is going to be a one, two, three inning for john lannan and cristian guzman leads off as we go to the bottom of the third. 1-no cincinnati leading the nationals. @ hey. don't move. for the next minute, these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're out of mayo. how did you get in here? door was open. you'd have tons of ways for you to search for content: by actor, director, any word at all. what about chicken? chicken's fine. any word. no i mean do you have any chicken? i want to eat some chicken. one of the coolest things you can do with fios... ...is stream your music and your photos from your computer to your tv.

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>> johnny: nice summertime afternoon for the young kids t the ballpark today. nice to have you guys with us. one run, 4 hits and no errors for the reds. bring the whole family to the bshg. for all sunday games purchase a $14 upper right field terrace or a $25 lower right field ticket. you will get a hot dog, nonalcoholic drink and chips. minimum of two tickets per purchase. for tickets call 1-888-632-nats. visit nationals.com or stop by the box office at the ballpark and get your red on. guzman line-drive to right and the nationals have their first hit of the game. >> rob: that is a knock. >> johnny: hit number one comes in the 3rd inning and guzman

leads off and the nats have a runner on. that will bring up alberto gonzalez who walked back in the 1st inning. >> rob: i think the second trip through, now they know what micah owings is featuring, which isn't much. 90 miles an hour fastball. got a bit of a tail to it. decent curve ball and decent change-up. nothing they shouldn't be able to handle in the next few innings. >> johnny: hairston sneaking in from 3rd base. pitch is taken for a called strike. alberto battled back on the opening day roster. >> rob: when he was here at the beginning, he had a long swing. he was trying to hit every ball a long way and he's cut down on the swing. he is putting balls in play. he is using his speed to get some singles and downs. he is playing some outstanding shortstop or 2nd base when he is in the game. that is what i'm sure manny acta and mike rizzo expected out of this young man.

the future of this organization at shortstop. >> johnny: good combination out there with guzman and gonzalez. >> rob: theur will be anderson, hernandez a gonzalez. those two young men have a nice career in dpront of them. they have to -- in front of them. keep evolving andbe something tu better yourself. use the losing and try to use it in your stuff the next time. >> johnny: three goes guzman. shot up te center. taken by gonzalez on to first and there's one down. but guzman gets to 2nd base. gonzalez retiring gonzalez. >> rob: well, you put a runner in motion to tryú to keep yourself out of a double-play. no outs. y a run right here. cristian guzman easily to 2nd

base. we h the mt of the order coming up withcoring position. >> johnny: ryan zimmerman up for the second time today. he is 0-1. flew out to left field to jonny gomes back in the first. on the gun, 87 that time for micah owings. >> rob: getting back to even 1990 when we won the championship, we were 5th place in '89. we weren't a very good team and that was coming off four second place finishes. when you get your lunch handed to you enoug times you get a little bitter andyou larn from it. and you say i don't like that feeling too i don't like ling. not many of these guys on the field for t nationa have at too many levels.

we were just talking about adam dunn. best high school football player down in texas. these guys aren't used to losing. johnny: two balls and a strike. adam dunn is on deck. >> rob: there's not a man in there >> ray: including the coaching staff, trainers, anybody in the front office, nobody wants to lose. it is the last thing you are out there to do is lose a ballgame. >> johnny: 2-1 count. one away and guzman down at second. breaking ball is high. and it is 3-1. >> rob: one thing i have to say for this team, they have never quit one time. even last night. down 2-0 after a two-hour delay come back and tie it up. you can't say that this team doesn't have heart. they may not have enough players right now.

that is why you drafted strasburg. that is why you signed storen. you just keep building and building. like the tampa bay rays after a while, boom, you win 97 games and go to the world series. >> johnny: zimmerman fouls it out of play. count is full. 4th full count for micah owings. he has walked the previous three. >> rob: one thing i talked to the pitching coach about today and rick eckstein is you control what you can control. go out there and do your job. pitch your 6, 7 innings. come in your one inning in relief. you can't worry about everything else that is going on around you and try to do everybody else's job. >> johnny: just do your own job. zimmerman fouls it back out of play again. 1-0 ballgame in the bottom of the third. bob carpenter back with rob tomorrow night when they head to tampa. a weekend series against the

rays. good crowd on hand today. >> rob: got a souvenir. he is out on summer break. comes to a ballgame. >> johnny: some of our injured servicemen and women from the versus walter reed and bethesda naval introduced to the fans. zimmerman draws a walk. that is 4th base on balls issued by micah owings. let's take a look back about 8 years ago. 2001 when adam dunn with the reds got his first career homerun. that is where i used to make a living. >> rob: old river front next to where they built great american ballpark. >> johnny: and marty still doing it down to our right. >> rob: down