ones back. the corner infeelers are in. corey patterson goes upswinging. >> rob: catcher is navarro. >> bob: corey patterson has a strikeout and a grounder. a big spot for him to pick up his first rbi in the big league level in 09. breaking ball. big swing. 0-2. time to shorten that thing upp. the nats have had little

middle or late game offense in this series. every one of their runs except for one have come in the first few innings. friday night, scored three in the first, none after that. last night, two in the 1st three inning, none after that. today a run in the 2nd on the gonzalez hit following the dukes' double. >> bob: patterson rips it. pena has it. dukes got back to 2nd some how. dukes was running on contact. dunn was not. a serious crossup almost resulted in a disaster double play. >> rob: elijah dukes is running

on this play. adam dunn was not. dukes' speed gets him back to 2 2nd. dukes just got back. >> bob: shields thought he had a rare double play. here's gonzalez. he's driven in one run and run a strike. he's not a runner you would squeeze with. hard sinking fastball. 1-1.

>> bob: 2-3 one out, time given. often this is the kind of hit you'd rather have batting in this situation than a big free swinger that strikes out a lot. no swing. that was interesting. the 1st baseman was the first to call for the appeal. >> bob: nationals trying to increase their 1- 0 lead here in the top of the 4th inning. that will work. a drive to left center. that will bring in two.

dunn from 3rd. dukes from 2nd. alberto gonzalez has all three nationals rbis. how about the little guys in this series. gonzalez and hernandez. >> rob: whatever they did to gonzalez in syracuse, he came back on fire. a pitch is up in the zone. he cranks on it. elijah and adam come in to score easily. shields can't believe it. >> bob: beautifully swung by gonzalez. 3-0 washington. josh bard swung at the first pitch first time up and hit that ball hard right at the center fielder. >> rob: the nationals have been hitting hard all day off shields. >> bob: that's seven hits now. and bard rips it to the corner.

>> rob: that will be another one. >> bob: alberto will score. bard digging for two. this year he has 16 hits and 7 of them have gone for extra bases. 4-0 washington. nothing cheap about these hits. >> rob: that's a breaking ball down in the zone. it looks like a change up that hangs in the zone. the pitching coach is out trying to find out what's going on. still only one out in this inning by the way. anderson hernandez singled his first time up. four out of five base hitters

here in the 4th. the rays pitching as well as anybody in major league baseball. >> rob: look at that stat. not 2.95 anymore. >> bob: hernandez goes up hacking. this is usually a ball club that works the count patiently. they're smelling blood now. guys are swinging at the first good thing they see. for bard, that was his 8th rbi. gonzalez has 12. hernandez can't catch up to a pitch way upstairs. so the count is 0-2. the dh is

looking a little eager isn't he? >> rob: a little. he's used to being on the field. >> bob: hernandez got a piece and fouled it into the dirt. navarro is claiming he caught the ball on a fly. the home plate umpire will ask for help. the umpire from 3rd 3rd base calls the hitter out. third strike out of the day for shields. >> rob: let's see if it hits the ground after the foul tip. it's into the glove. he caught it. >> bob: that's caught cleanly. willie harris chance to make it

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www.southwest.com. and by honda. what a nice day for a jog or walk here in st. petersburg. bottom of the 4th coming. >> bob: nationals lead 4-0. ross detwiler has a lead to work with. >> rob: that's a guy that wants to get on tv. he did. it worked. santa rays. it's a little hot outside. what's he thinking? he's vacationing. >> bob: carlos pena leads off for the rays. detwiler 44 pitches in his first 3 inning, thanks to two very important double play

balls. front door breaking, stays in. >> rob: they spotted ross a nice 4-0 lead. see what he can do with it. second time through the middle of the line up. >> bob: pena with a bunt hit first time. the shift is still on willie harris is near 3rd. another shattered bat on a line drive foul. the top of the bat lands half

way between 1st and 2nd. that was last night's bunt. he ended up scoring on a home run. today that didn't work so well. moving longoria to 2nd. detwiler able to pitch out of the jam. there you see another maple bat exploding right there. >> bob: mike wallace said they're longer, thinner in the middle. you have a 35, 36-inch bat. ash is on the right. maple with the swirls on the left. it's basically the grain you see right there. the grain is going the length of the bat. on the maple, it's swirling all the way through it going around the bat. when it break, it snaps at the

swirl. >> bob: 3-2. he missed. third walk of the day for detwiler. the interesting thing about the other two, both of those runners erased on double plays. miller night beach night hits the beach bash friday night. 21,000 fans receive a beach towel. they -- fireworks after the game. come and join us friday night. the boys are coming home from new york. six game home stand, blue jays and red sox, then head to baltimore. here's zobrist that popped up to johnson first time up. the jam job and flair. there's the first pitch. 2-0. >> rob: not finishing off.

he's lazy, i mean he's dragging the pitching arm behind him, falling forward. that doesn't give him time to catch up. you have to be on top when the front foot hits the ground. >> bob: you hate to see a walk to the leadoff man after being given a 4-0 lead. >> rob: that's in the dirt. 3-0. you'll see him fall forward first. he walks towards the catcher. you've got to get the arm up on top quick. much better. little high. [cheering and applause] he's going to come out and talk to the pitcher. he needs to take a breather here, try to get a ground ball.

>> bob: willie harris comes in to join the conversation as an observer. >> rob: willy knows it's his 6 6th start and he's just a kid. he's adding some support. there's your pitch count 55 pitches. not too bad. >> bob: that's 11 this inning without retiring a hitter. it will be lefty lefty now with gabe gross. [cheering and applause] on the first three innings, he was pitching contact. he wasn't giving the hitters too much credit. now he's thinking, i've got a lead, i've got to keep these guys off the base. go back to what you were doing

the first three innings. relax physically and let the ball go. >> bob: not exactly a huge strike zone either. 2-0. >> rob: not going to get any help here. that's a pretty good changeup.

i was thinking changeup or curveball to pull that shoulder together. you'll see the front side open up a little bit here. pretty good pitch. i thought his right arm was broken. didn't you think his 2-0 pitch was better than that pitch? everything is working. >> bob: 3-1 now. and a ball popped up to center. got some depth to it. pena will be able to tag. dukes makes a mistake by throwing to the short stop. if he throws to 2nd, he might have sent zobrist back to 1st.

with good base running, rays move up both runners. dukes is going to catch the ball. he's going to look up and look for his cut off man. his cut off man is over by short stop instead of behind 2nd. you can't blame elijah. he was throwing to his cut off man who wasn't in the right position. >> bob: here's kapler who walked the first time. he's had a change up for ball one. line drive, base hit. [cheering and applause] adam dunn does.

the walks come back to hurt. nationals haven't gotten gabe kapler out yet in this series. >> rob: let's go back to the cutoff throw. the short stop has got to get behind 2nd base. he's standing on the dirt. he's got to be way out here somewhere. he can cut it off and throw to 2 2nd. he's standing at short stop. gonzalez has to get out into the out field to get the center fielder when he goes deep on that fly ball. >> bob: navarro the catcher. 5, 4, 3 double play first time.

to get them out of the double play, he drops. the ball was dropped by bard. there were several things going on. kapler started off first as stealing and anticipating a possible throw. then zobrist came down the 3rd baseline. nobody advanced. >> rob: i think kapler was trying to get a throw to 2nd for a possible score. >> bob: there's a squeeze bunt for a run. nick johnson to hernandez. two men who walked in this inning score. it's now a 4-2 game. >> rob: hernandez gets a star on this play. detwiler won't be able to make it there in time. he gets the out. run comes in.

gets the out right here. andersen hernandez comes to help out. >> bob: it's not like his foot was on top of the base. runner at 2nd, two outs. when you're young, you're not going to get close calls this inning. >> bob: i wonder what umpires would think of that statement because i would imagine that they would say we give strikes when they're strikes in -- strikes no matter who is out there. i don't think they'd ever admit it. >> rob: it's a respect thing. >> bob: that was a hang breaking ball he grabs. detwiler is lucky to get that

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4-2 nationals on this sunday afternoon, june 14. next sunday is father's day at that time ball park. nats and blue jays. come early, first 10,000 fans 18 and up receive a free gym bag. free autographs from player, kids run the bases after the game.

drive on n. grab your tickets at the box office. nats and jays next sunday. nice looking backpack -- gym bag pardon me. top five. nats may not have enough runs today. we shall see. a strike to nick johnson on james shields' 60th of the day. oni need to go to the gift shop and buy toys for the kids and put in the backpack. >> bob: you telling me on father's day we still have to buy everybody else something? are you kidding me? >> bob: 2-1. ryan zimmermann

the dh next and then dunn. nats 4 runs on 8 hits. a lot of line drives today. nick will hook that ball foul. here come the cow bells. how about that? keep the cow bells coming. nick johnson has his 18th multihit game of the year. nick is 4-11 with a walk this weekend. >> rob: before the game, they do the cow bell etiquette.

they have a whole presentation. >> bob: how do you have time to know all this stuff? >> rob: i don't know. i know a lot about a little. >> bob: zimmermann a strike out and fly ball today. 2-10 with a homen, two rbis in the series. that's a big time rip.

>> bob: 1-2 to ryan. good base running play. safe to 2nd is johnson. he had a good lead. he was off soon as the ball hit the ground. >> rob: little tip, see ball come off navarro, blocks ofin on@bt himsf. ck keas of  gegeoff f with the pitch, get a extra step, get to 2nd base. you don't have to have great speed to be a great base runner. >> bob: that's a stolen base that will be ruled a wild

pitch. nobody out. and zimmermann rock this is one to center. ball slicing away from b.j. upton. upton didn't run the greatest route to that ball. his speed enabled him to catch up. >> rob: i don't think he thought the ball was hit as hard as it was. it started to tail away from him. >> bob: because of of nick johnson's good base running play, he's at 3rd and still could be at 1st. >> rob: he turned the wrong way. he lost it and had to recover, turn the other way. that great speed enabled him to do that. heck of an athlete. >> bob: johnson at 3rd. nats have a chance to get one

of the runs back they just gave up. first time joe maddon has played all infielders in today. they're moving longoria two steps closer towards the base runner. >> rob: maybe they're thinking adam dunn might bunt like carlos pena. i don't think so. >> bob: adam dunn 1-2 today, 2- 7 with an rbi this weekend with two walks. a great chance for rbi 46. [cheering and applause] strike out total on the rise. at 66 right now. that ties for the 3rd in the league.