i mean dynamite. >> rob: you have also done like summer stage and theater and stuff because i heard you were a leprechaun in one of those. >> johnny: well, i sent you the resume. funny you would ask. chip ought to know this. >> rob: chip did not give me that information by the way. [laughter]. >> johnny: a pop behind the 1st base bag. over to make the grab is alberto gonzalez. [laughter]. >> johnny: chip said he fedex the entire scrapbook. i was amazed last year. bob had taken off in arizona. one out here in the 5th inning. i didn't realize how both doug and chip had as soon as the check came, they had this kind of a coughing attack when they both had to leave the table,

leave the room. and someone else got stuck with the check. >> rob: you know bob has alligator arms when it comes to the check. >> johnny: short? >> rob: yeah. i can't get to the table. >> johnny: but you love those guys. let me take care of that, after it has been paid. john lannan working in the 5th inning here. the reds have got two runs and 5 hits. the nationals only two base hits in this ballgame. and taveras up for the third time. you see what kind of support john has had this year. >> rob: maybe he has to buy a few more dinners for his teammates. zito must never really pick up the check. [laughter]. >> johnny: you can't get a better outing than john against the mets. that is the last win the

nationals had. >> rob: this is another well-pitched ballgame by the starter. you have to add some runs up there. you can't win if you don't score. >> johnny: elijah dukes drifting back. >> rob: these guys with the 8 e.r.a.s have been sticking it to us. >> johnny: two down in the 5th inning. brandon phillips will step in. .273. 6 stolen bases. rbi 43. 1-2 in this ballgame. >> rob: owings coming in against the nats, four games started with a 3.8 e.r.a. he has done quite well. 0-1. >> johnny: nats in day games this year, they have won four and last 12 at home. 2-6. they came back last night with

two in the bottom of the 9th after the rain delay. let's get some runs before we get to the 9th inning. 89 on the gun for lannan's pitch to brandon phillips. one ball and one strike with two outs. 2-1 to the reds 2nd baseman. jonny gomes is next on deck. a lot of day games today in major league baseball. arizona with a 2-0 lead over the giants in the 8th inning. 6-5 cardinals lead the marlins -- or that is a final. >> rob: did you ever do any shakespeare? >> johnny: no. i hope you are not suggesting that i try.

>> rob: no. [laughter]. >> johnny: phillips works a walk out of lannan. he is on base for the second time. lannan issues his second walk of the afternoon. this telecast may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the washington nationals. a thursday afternoon affair. the sun peeking through the clouds here at nationals park. we are in the 5th inning. so far so good weather wise. jonny gomes up for the third time. flew to left and got hit by a pitch from lannan back in the 4th inning. >> rob: all right. so, you did a funny thing happened on my way to the forum? >> johnny: no. never did that. >> rob: dinner theater? you don't know that one? >> johnny: i know the show. i just never did the show.

time for a quick trip to the mound as wil nieves goes out. >> rob: steve mccatty out. he has noticed something in the delivery here in the last 6 pitches of john lannan. probably, you know, one of the things pitching coaches are known for is taking inventory. what are you doing right here. get yourself back in focus. get yourself back into where you were the first four innings. it is kind of mind-numbing pitch after pitch and you sometimes get lost in what you are doing out there and you need somebody to snap you book in -- back in. >> johnny: of the managers you played for who was the most

emphatic -- swung on and popped up. gonzalez will have a play on it. 1 pitch, steve mccatty comes out and whatever he said to john lannan worked. we go to the bottom of the 5th. it seems i've got three times the bills i used to. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem. and i use the wish list to put any extra money aside for anything i want. being in control of my money feels good. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way.

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in the cincinnati locker room. they have kind of had the nationals number but that is going to happen. peaks and valleys, you will have the slumps as far as the entire batting order. john lannan is battling out there and you have got to try to scratch out a run right here, maybe try to manufacture a run, play some small ball. get a speedster like gonzalez on and have somebody drive him in. right now, against micah owings, nothing has seemed to work. he is making it work. two hits in his first four innings. >> johnny: let's see if alberto gonzalez can get things going. bottom of the 5th inning, nats have only two base hits to show for their efforts today. lannan hanging tough in the mound. oh! caught him on the left hand i think. that is the second hit batter in the last four that he has faced. >> rob: micah owings knows he has to come inside. he doesn't have overpowering

stuff and he comes way up and in on gonzalez. clips him. looks like he got hit on the left wrist or hand. >> johnny: left hand. yeah. >> rob: never like to see that because that is when you break a small bone or get a fracture of the wrist. called a night struck fracture. that is what i got. >> johnny: you were covering the bag. >> rob: i broke my arm. see this steel plate right here. >> johnny: i can. yeah. >> rob: 6-inch plate with four screws for my trouble. >> johnny: you drive them nuts at the airport. >> rob: no. surgical steel. only the best high grade stuff in my arm. >> johnny: zimmerman swings and misses. one ball and a strike to ryan.

>> rob: you can let it heal and take maybe 3 months if it heals correctly or take 5 weeks to be back. my on mistake. kevin young is a big kid. >> johnny: that will teach you. >> rob: that is one of those replays you don't want to play back. oh yeah, that is when it snapped. >> johnny: marquis grissom at first. gonzalez gets back. second hit batter for micah owings. last of the 5th here at nationals park. and cincinnati up 2-0. one in the second and one in the

fourth. nats have had opportunities with a couple of runners getting to 3rd base but can't get them in. >> rob: were you here when nick johnson broke his leg? >> johnny: it was in new york at shea stadium. >> rob: i heard that was -- i didn't see it. i know jason kendall retired when he stepped wrong on 1st base. i will never forget it. they put it in the center fold of the magazine. i apologized to him on the air. i was doing radio because i guess jason's kid saw it. i never looked at it. there's just some things that shouldn't be made public. >> johnny: joe theismann the same way. >> rob: i love joe. joe is good people. >> johnny: but to have to see that over and over again.

>> rob: very tough. people don't realize it is not supposed to be a full contact sport. >> johnny: runner going. zimmerman goes to right. and quickly gonzalez got to retreat to get back to 1st base and just barely got there. today's the day we kind of get you update inside up close and personal with adam dunn. let's go to debbi taylor. >> the dunns are a close-knit family and they live on dunn lane and here's more from his mom. >> dunn lane is in porter texas and that is where we all live. it is all family. we have all our christmases and thanksgiving there. it is probably about 80 people. >> rachel tells us about adam's love for history and the military. she said high school really important to him. both -- it is really important

to him. both his grandparents served in world war ii. >> johnny: thank you, debbi. trying to get on track. once he gets going again, look out. leads the ball club in rbis and homeruns. the thing with micah owingses -- >> rob: he flicks it in. he reminds me of ken hill who used to short-arm the ball like that. kind of deceptive. used to seeing that big pendulum swing behind a guy. >> johnny: adam pops it up behind second. long run for taveras and he's got it. two down and gonzalez retreating back to first. talking about guys getting hit,

accidents. remember herb score got hit in the face with a line-drive. never was the same after that. >> rob: bob feller was on memorial day and he talked about that. that is the toughest part about this game when you see someone that is total lented and in a -- so talented and in a split second change your career. i always had that in the back of my mind. i only hit 12 guys in my career. and never near the neck or head area. >> johnny: only hit 12. >> rob: you should have looked that up. 1979 faced, 12 hit batters.

>> johnny: mr. akwar yus, i appreciate that. elijah dukes faces owings. quarius, i appreciate that. elijah dukes faces owings. if you are throwing over a hundred miles an hour and that guy reacts to a fastball coming back at you, you don't have much time to make a decision, do i duck, or do i go after it, put the glove up. dukes goes down swinging. so, that is tryout number 4. 2-0 cincinnati. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport,

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>> johnny: we head to the 6h inning here at nationals park. reds have got two runs and 5 hits. the nationals only two base hits. and there he is, your friend and mine. time for the aflac trivia question for the day. who did the reds acquire for adam dunn from arizona? >> rob: i know micah owings is one of them. >> johnny: let me put my thinking cap on here. >> rob: castillo and dallas buck? that is gist off the -- just off

the top of my head. >> johnny: it is also incorrect. [laughter]. >> johnny: off the top of my head, let me see here. >> rob: i think dallas buck was a right-handed pitcher. and i think owings is a right-handed pitcher. i have watched him for five innings. >> johnny: beats me. >> rob: castillo i think was a catcher. ramon castillo? >> johnny: it is up to you, dibs. grounded to guzman at short. across the diamond, nice play. >> rob: very nice. >> johnny: throws out the

lead-off batter in the 6th inning, ramon hernandez. >> rob: the first thing is you have got to catch it. you know you don't have a fast runner coming down 1st base and he throws it towards first. ramon hernandez, had a frustrating series. >> johnny: so, hernandez is retired. jay bruce as we look at it once again out by a couple of steps. >> rob: wilkin castro and dallas buck, micah owings. i apologize. >> johnny: so, there's two down in the 6th inning here as the answer to the aflac trivia question. who did the reds acquire for adam dunn from arizona. micah owings, dallas buck -- you

were right. wilkin castillo. two down here in the 6th inning. alex gonzalez up for the third time. singled in the second, scored a run. two cincinnati runs. scored one and driven one in. 2-2 day for the shortstop. rbi total dose up to 17. -- goes up to 17. john lannan, two starts against cincinnati. 1-0. and 3.86 earned run average. bounder down the 3rd base line is foul. hoping the club gets some runs to get him his 4th win of the season. 3-5. and micah owings looking for his 4th win as well.

he is 3-7. but he hasn't won a ballgame this a month. lannan delivers a high fly to right. kearns and dukes over. kearns ducks out of the way. last of the 6th. 2-0 cincinnati leading. on car insurance for over 70 years. d who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

>> johnny: nationals park oa beautiful thursday afternoon and they are celebrating inside, having a great time but still, i know these folks. >> rob: the diamond club. >> johnny: they want to see a couple of runs come up on that scoreboard and get this ball club back in this ballgame and get a win and head out of town with a little bit of momentum for the weekend series in tampa. josh willingham sing-ed to left his last time -- singled to left his last time up. good to see him back in the line-up feeling better. that viral stuff can knock you out. >> rob: i know you do basketball and football in maryland.

how long will it be? >> johnny: my 31st year. been very, very fortunate working with some great people. great coaches. great family at the university of maryland. willingham pops it down the right side. another base hit for josh. >> rob: nice. he'll take that one. >> johnny: back-to-back hits. masn sports.com where you can e-mail your questions. does major league baseball review umpires like the nfl does. >> rob: absolutely. in fact, they have that evaluation zone camera thing going on in every stadium. so, they are evaluating the strike zones. but they also have richie garcia, a lot of other great many umpires up in new york that are supervisors. joe west just because the

president of the umpires' union. >> johnny: good umpire. >> rob: excellent umpire. yes, they do get reviewed. and they go on -- the best umpires make it to the post season. that is part of the evaluation system. >> johnny: just like in college baseball. best officialsncttleit the nationals bullpen. julian tavarez getting loose. >> rob: excellent people. >> johnny: high infield pop into foul territory goes rosales and now back into fair territory. there's one away as kearns pops up to the 1st baseman. >> rob: before sandy wentk to the san diego office, dusty baker may make a

pitching chao he was the pitching umpire who was in charge. >> johnny: baker makes a trip out to the mound to talk to micah owings. he is working into the 6th inning here against washington. got a 2-0 lead. >> rob: and he has only worked into the 7th inning four times so far this year. actually 7 innings once this year. but more than 6, only 4 times in 11 starts. >> johnny: that is jared burton trying to get loose. >> rob: he may give him a hitter or two more. he probably said if this guy gets on, you are done. >> johnny: 101 pitches he has thrown so far. >> rob: it is very humid. very muggy today.

>> johnny: harris grabs a bat. he is ondeck. willingham is on first. kearns popped out to the 1st baseman. >> rob: i think man in acta probably senses if the nationals don't get something going soon, they will be facing david weathers, arthur rhodes and francisco cordero here at the end of the ballgame. one of the best bullpens around. >> johnny: line-drive to left field. nieves got a base hit. the nats catcher moves willingham to second. nieves is now 1-2 for the afternoon. >> rob: wil nieves right here, johnny, very simple approach. i'm just going to try to make contact and put it in play.

he got a nice base hit but he has done a fabulous job. >> johnny: that is only the nationals' 4th base hit in this game. willingham has two and cristian guzman got one back in the third and nieves cleths hit number -- collects hit number four. willie harris will pinch hit for john lannan. wait a minute, now. nick johnson heading up to the plate. nick is going to step in. when you talk about a guy that is overdue, i think johnson is overdue. johnson went up to the plate and micah owings is finished for the

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