could. i think he thought it was going to hit and bounce out and it stay inside the wall. i can't complain of adam's efforts. he gives everything he's got on defense, whether it's good or bad on any given day.

>> got to love manny, the way he handles the media and stuff. they lost a tough game today. he's going to be with you later on tonight. >> right. the big train playing the cal ripken league. manny and i are throwing out the first ball and they're giving out manny bobble heads and we'll be around to talk with the fans. come on out. >> like manny says, he hasn't got time to worry about rumors. he's the manager of the ball club. the way they've been playing, the yankee and this series for a long time, we hope. let's go back and show you what happened with the nats offense today. they came right back and made it an interesting ball game. harris, the man of the hour last night, doubles to center field. runners on second and third with bard at the plate, and bard hits the ball up the middle off the shortstop's glove that drives in both runs, two rbis for josh bard. then they got it cranking again in the ninth, a little too late, but bard doubled, three hits on the day here comes the slide into second base by bard. wellingham strokes the ball out to the wall, a 2-base hit scoring bard. guzman comes to the plate and gets a base hit. nick johnson comes up and hit the ball. actually, that's the dunn single with the rbi. and then the game ended with duke's pinch-hitting and flying out to center. >> the final is 9-4. toronto gets the win. defensive gems, zimmerman. you kind of expected this all season long, and johnson with a couple of outstanding defensive plays as well. you look at some of the plays johnson makes. rolls over, gets the ball to first base for the put-out, and he gets this one here. it pops up, and then he makes the recovery, spins around and

gets the ball for the put-out. extra style points on that one. >> you didn't see it on video, nick going over, tossing the ball nonchalantly to a fan in the stands. nick still got wait for something to happen. for business to pick up. but for you, it's time to kick it in gear. time to get going. time to get tough. take control. you're not gonna run and hide. because backing down's not your style. grab your bag. it's on. ( ding )

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meyers has been solid all season long, another good- looking arm. >> 3-2 win for delmarva.

>> if you've been watching our telecast all year, you know the great features is the camera that slows things down and lets you see exactly a better view than anybody else, really slow. take a look at a couple of defensive gems today. first of all, the nats second baseman, alberto gonzalez stretches out and gloves the ball. outstanding play. he got up and was able to throw the runner out. the hit by josh bard off the glove of hill. >> i'm sure in hill's mind the ball was traveling that slow when it was up in the air. great camera angels from our camera guys. we'll take a break and continue with more nats extra. boston red sox coming to town. 6:30 our extra pre-game show starting and next weekend masn, masn , you'll see the orioles and nationals.

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stretches where you play a lot of game and get a little tired. i'm going to enjoy the day off and come back ready to work on tuesday. >> overall, you have to look at this as you won the series against the jays, coming off the win against the yankees going into the red sox series. >> i think we're playing great baseball. if we take ta week by week and play like that, i think we'll be happy with what we do. >> what you like about ryan zimmerman, the consummate professional, even as young as he is. there's no throwing of the helmet or bat. take a day off and get back to work on tuesday. >> i think he's a guy that the day off will do him a world of good. i think ryan would probably like to kickback and maybe start fresh against the red

sox. everyone knows what a good hitter he is. you saw it earlier, a 30-game hitting streak, but over this weekend, i'll tell you what. i'm not sure i've seen him take as many called strikes as i have this weekend against the blue jays. >> i think you also said the fact that everybody goes through a little dip in the roller coaster some time throughout the season. >> absolutely. there was only one ted williams, and ryan is a guy who i think is very scientific at the plate, oney guy who goes up to the plate with a plan, and right now the plan just isn't working. >> joel hanrahan almost came in trying to hold the jays down, unfortunately not a successful one for him. >> it's unfortunate. >> these guys can come back from four runs any day. it suction that you get in that situation and get two quick outs and let the game get out of hand right there. the team that we have, we feel like we can come back from four

runs. we started out getting the first three guys on base right there, so it's tough. >> can you put today a side and say, we took two out of three from the blue jays and two out of three from the yankees and facing the red sox. >> it was a great week for us. we won two series. those are two big teams there that we won the series from, and we have to get ready for boston and enjoy the day off tomorrow and regroup a little bit and get ready. >> the boston red sox come to town for a big series starting tuesday. they beat the braves today 6-5, started the game 3-game lead over the yankees.

lannan, a tough act to follow. he's keeping the ball down, getting the strikeouts when he needs them. there's nothing you can say about john lannan that you can be critical of. he's done exactly what he started to do last year when he obviously made the club as a regular starter, but this is the going is proving his worth day after day. >> he's been vestinggy with the runs, allowing only three or more runs, only three starts this season. thanks for joining us today, everybody. happy father's day to all the fathers watching this afternoon. tough one for the nationals. they lose it 9-4, but take two out of three from toronto. we'll see you tuesday night starting at 6:30.

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tony la russa looking to become the third manager in baseball history to win 2,500 games. cardinals an royals and you know what, he's going to get a lot of help from albert pujols. how about a grand slam -- first off, why do you pitch to the guy? you have to walk him. and long memory of violence dating back to the emancipation. those who were familiar refer to it as bloody wound. really a vicious form. >> so what happened in 1966? >> well, the beginning of 1965, and this is the drama or will story. 80 percent black.

by the end of 1966 of local movement of local african american activists had not only the student nonviolent coordinating committee, a grass roots innovation that was led to associated with the black power. by the end of 1966 at only have they succeeded in registering in the majority of african american voters, but they had created an independent countywide political party tech challenge the local white democrats for control of the county courthouse. and it a political party that was a a mere shadow of the normal democratic party which revolved around a foreign policy, but they created a radically democratic party that

all people have the right and hold within them the possibility to control or make the decision that affects their lives. they said the sharecroppers and people with limited educations ought to become the sheriff's. it ought to have a right to become probate judge. so it is a remarkable story of transition and possibility going from a complete and absolute supremacy to the creation of this independence. >> how does that happen? >> grass roots organizing. with a handful of people deciding that we are going to try to register to vote. they go out to the courthouse, and all of them are turned away. they ask them to leave their names to identify who they were, which was a dangerous thing because now the white community

knew who they were, and they were exposed to the possibility of economic and physical retaliation. >> was a retaliation? >> there was. person by person household by household, community by community, african-americans are evicted in mass. by the end of the summer they had to form a tent city. and that is just one aspect. night writers repeatedly targeted african american leaders and our people in the tent city. anybody you housed and was associated was targeted for racial violence. people lost their jobs. some never came back. it was this long process. the possibility that you would lose your job. they continued to organize and not just allow the vote. that was the initial catalyst.

like so much of the african american freedom struggle that gets ignored they quickly moved beyond the vote to fight for quality education by improving sigurd digit schools. to desegregate what schools. to improve and increase the opportunities for black farmers. so they are organizing black farmers. then it moving beyond to actually organize an independent political party to decontrol. >> 80 percent african american. what kind of participation in the freedom organization was there? >> slow at first. >> a lot of fear. >> a lot of fear. it is funny. when they move in in the beginning of 1956 they constantly make the decision not

to talk about creating an independent political party because they knew that folks would say, how is this going to work? in other words they knew that the democratic party was not necessarily for them. they are doing all these. jonathan daniels. reflecting on these men experiences. lead people slowly by dozens at first and by may of 56. 900 show up and participate. by the time the november election you have roughly about 2,000 to 20200 african americans

casting ballots. so many others were trying to participate. and those living on sharecropping farms were still afraid. many teachers were afraid for fear of losing their jobs. >> how did they go from zero registered voters to the number that they had? how did they get around all the obstacles? i mean that is the slow and hard work of candidacy. the principal obstacle was fear. it was a legitimate fear of white violence. by knocking on the doors and tapping into a social networks and drawing people in person by person, family by family and saying we are all in this together and if you want to change your condition, this

isn't politics for the sake of politics. you need to join the movement. if you want to have a say in the decision that affects your lives, where your children go to school, then you need to join the movement. it is slow going. they knock on doors and they are courteous, but we don't want to get in that mess. but it begins to build momentum, not only of round the vote, but also these broader ideas and beams, which i call freedom rights. it is the culmination of a civil rights and human rights. education. quality housing. talking to people about that that really get them involved and offering them a program for securing its that gets people to sign up and make a public

decision to support the movement. >> do is it john hewitt? >> he is a local person who rose up in bed 1940's. but then he returns tem lowndes county in the late 50's. and while he was in birmingham he worked with the movement there. the alabama christian movement. when he returned he was talking to people and trying to get them interested in a voter registration campaign. you know, it's too dangerous, too risky. in 1965 he's able to get a couple of people to go down with him. he serves eventually as the chairperson of the buckled

movement organization for human rights and as the chair person of the freedom organization, the independent political party was the valid symbol of the black panther. off in 1970 he is actually elected as the first african american. and the book talks about that trajectory of a black politics from that moment forward. the movement does not happen without him, or at least it does not happen in the way that it does without him. >> did the amount county freedom organization have success? >> no. >> why not. >> for a couple reasons. in the the november election they run in seven african american candidates for local office. all are defeated by a couple hundred votes for a myriad of reasons. one was intimidation.

ballot fraud. sending people to the wrong polling site. bringing in from the plantations and giving them balance to say, these are the people we voted for. obviously all white democrats. and that's it. so they had no torres. so then some faulty organizers. the organizers in the movement. we have a transportation system, but it was not as effective as it could have been. there are still some people we have to bring in. we tried and came close. individually they afford not

successful. but because they received 40 percent of the total vote, which is a remarkable number. 80 percent of the african american vote, they were able to get on the ballot. but we haven't even recognized by the state. the black panther, later on they adopted the black panther symbol and it became part of the state of alabama for elections. >> was the republican party a viable action at all? >> no. so it was democrats or nothing. they entertain. they detained the idea of joining the democratic party in the drowning. as soon as they begin to register in mass in 1935 in federal registrars and come in

for the first time because of the pressure they're putting on the federal government the democratic party says, we are going to raise the filing fee from $5 to $500. the average african american was making $900 which is well below the poverty level. so the democratic party purposely -- the state party symbol was white supremacy for the right. that was the slogan. they were purposely trying to exclude them. that was part of the political education process that local people were going through. the republican party was nonexistent. they said there is no room for us in the democratic party. >> tell us about lowndes