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of velocity. tonight he got up to 92. he'll get right to it in the second inning as he strikes out uggla. fastball away. fastball. he fouls off a slider. fastball he fouls back. then he buries him with a fastball downment took a little off of that one. third inning, he'll base hit to left field. double by carroll. nolasco sacrifice bunt, coghlan singles to right field, carroll scores. then after bonifacio triples to deep center field, ball that willie almost ran down, hanley ramirez hitting .333 coming into this game. one of the best players in all of baseball singles up the middle. nolasco k'd, replay here on the pitch track as he gets a slider down and in to ramirez, cantu chases. seven strikeouts on the night. couldn't pitch much better. glad to have you back and glad

that he's healthy. >> take a look at olsen's numbers tonight. gives up six hits, two of the runs were earned. didn't walk anybody. that's amazing for a guy that's been out of the rotation for more than a month. he strikes out seven. five ground outs, eight fly outs, 94 pitches, 66 strikes and 28 balls. >> that is great command. i always look for 70% on the top side strikes. that's a little over 70% there. he just threw his breaking ball very effectively around the plate, his change-up was good. he just pitched, the way we remembered him pitching. as i think bob said, this is a guy that we acquired. this is what we expected. i just think he came into the season either tender from spring training or hurt himself early and just didn't want to tell anybody, and his ineffectiveness was due to that. >> you appreciate good defensive plays, do you not? >> don't i, yes, sir.

>> for example, a catcher throwing out a guy at second base. maybe a outfielder scooping a ball off the turf. >> this is coghlan after a base hit. there's 150, didn't get the ball home that quick. but right on the money. didn't have to do anything. anytime you get it down there under 35 and you've got a chance. perfect throw. just like you're taught, my man. willingham singles. >> my guy josh. >> come in here, baby. this is a third diving play that we've seen him make. as he said, he's going to keep working at it and nobody in the game is going to work at it harder than that, young man. tough little play. he made the play. a loft times people don't try to make that play, because if you don't, it's a triple. >> and both willingham and olsen against their former

teammates. you know their pumped up level was just a little high tonight. >> i heard dibs say they were long toss partners. that's something that's almost like you and i. you get out to the dugout, the ball's right there, you spread it out and you do it every day. it almost becomes a ritual. me, i would throw with anybody. but every once in a while i'd pick out somebody wanted to throw with me. >> on the throw from nieves to second base. when you put a clock on a catcher, what is a reasonable time that that throw should go. >> 1.85 is outstanding. if you can get it down there in 2 seconds, that's very good. it's about accuracy, too. it was a 1.85 throw. it was a perfect shot. the key is to get the ball home. dibs always talks about 1.2.

if you're going to get the ball home with 1.2 you're going to get the guy out. any combination that gets the ball down there under 3.4, you're going to get the guy out. >> josh has been like a house afire with that bat hitting over .400. tonight he got a couple of base hits. we're going to show awe pretty good pitcher. >> as he gets through the at- bat. you're going to see, he's going oh go with the fastball away, he's going to go out there again, he's going oh come back with the pitch right down the middle of the plate. josh one of the best cripple hitters in the league. meaning you're in trouble if you've got a 2-0 count behind him. then he goes with the slider. the curveball gets behind him 0- 2. then he tries to come back with a breaking ball, fouls it off. breaking ball that hangs. he hangs the breaking ball inside and he drove it through the left side. he didn't stay straight with

the fastball there. he threw four different breaking balls trying to get josh off the fastball. >> he has raised his batting average since may 25th 65 points. a good ballgame tonight for josh willingham. got some good news about a good friend of ours and a guy who is trying to work his way back up to the big club. garrett mock, some interesting news when we come back. ♪ ♪

(tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t many nats fans are saying what's happening down on the farm. you can see there. justin maxwell goes deep again, home run number 10 for the former maryland terrapin. >> he's swinging it. he has a home run about every second day now. >> in carolina league action,

potomac knocks off winston- salem, that's a final. >> we had a little feature on him as he went to the all-star game and he's picking back up where he started left off. >> perfect time. that's the final. more from hagerstown, a couple of rbi's. we told you about garrett mock. he's been named, he won a bear of games, his e.r.a. was 0.60, a league best 15 innings pitched. options from the nationals earlier this year. he becomes the chief's player, first player to earn player of the week honors this season and our congratulations to garrett mock. if he continues to pitch like this, it's a matter of time until he's brought back up here to pitch in the big club. >> of all the guys that i saw pitch, other than balancister, this is the kid i like the most. and they say, well, he may be a

4-a pitcher meaning he's not good enough to pitch in the big leagues, but he's too good to pitch in the triple-a. he's throwing the ball well. >> isn't the biggest adjustment a player has when they have, go back to syracuse, i've been a starter, now i've got to work my way back up the ladder. >> it's tough if you're not tough. if you are tough, you can learn things down there, the instruction is phenomenal if you're having a problem with the release point or mechanics. they can work on that. they can do side sessions. there's a lot of things that you can do down there. you can stay with the kid a little longer. mock has been real close to being ready. he's just a guy, if you recall last year, he and tyler clipper called up to pitch and call games. he showed a real good curveball, a sinker, a fastball, and an ability to throw the ball over the plate.

when he came out of the bullpen, he struggled at the plate. he's a guy that, you folks out there, i know you're doubting us when we say we're stacking up great young arms. you're going it find out in the next, two years, there are some tremendous arms in this organization and they're going to make this club so good because you can be able to use those pieces for trade. >> one of those arms will start tomorrow. craig stammen. let's hope he can return to the form we saw against the yankees. he'll start tomorrow night in game two against florida. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour. almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. starting august 16th, fly southwest airlines from bwi airport to boston logan for just $49 one-way.

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said to julian tavarez when he went out there on the mound in the 8th inning to take him out of the ballgame. here's what he said. >> i just told him that keep his delivery simple and stop doing any extra stuff with his legs and stop trying to pull that stuff and just keep his delivery simple so he can throw strikes. but it didn't work. >> and really surprised, ray, because one of the big proponents much putting the ball across the plate, manny acta's always talked about tavarez is here because he can throw strikes. >> i haven't seen it consistently. there's times when he goes out there and he is really effective, but then he'll go through a two or three day period where he can't find the plate. he's got tremendous movement and sometimes it's tough, if you're a little off centered, you have a little bit of balance problem, it's tough to get that ball to come back over that plate. i haven't seen him throw balls consistently for me to think that he's a control type pitcher that when you bring him in the game that you're not

sitting over there growing a few more gray hairs. >> tomorrow craig stammen goes for washington against a young guy for the florida marlins by the name of shawn west. >> just his 8th start in the big leagues, but he's off to a great start. has not given up more than four hits and seven of his eight starts. he's a guy that must have really good stuff. i've not seen him pitch much. he had great minor league record though. >> stammen is 1-3, five innings against the red sox and a 6-4 loss. one thing about west, this kid's only 23 years ole, but 6'8", 240-pound left-hander. >> he's just handing it to you. that's like j.r. richard. felt like i was shaking hands with him. he may not throw 95, but it gets there quickly. >> we hope you'll join us tomorrow night and see if the nationals can bounce back and take the first game from the florida marlins in south

florida in nine tries. thanks for joining us, everybody. final tonight in florida, it's the marlins 4 and the nationals 2.   xxúú

ais -- 35 aces in today's win. >> venus williams, ana ivanovic. venus dominating, 5-love first set. she would take the first set 6-1. first game, second set, ivanovic serving, that thigh injury, she has had enough. all done. venus wins in 47 minutes, the walk-over. serena played a full match, only had to play nine minutes more than venus. big two-hand backhand winner against hantuchova.

serena wins the first set. 5-1 second set, this is match point for serena. she wins in 56 minutes, 6-4, 6-1. that was live. both williams sisters move on at wimbledon. >> all right, on to baseball, cubs-pirates, pittsburgh, there's lou piniella. ryan they ariot, tom carr, cubs 2-0. to. fourth, milton bradley, he and lou have been in the news lately. but here, bradley is productive, scoring geovany soto. harden was the story for the cubbies, seven innings, 9 ks, one earned run, through over 100 pitches. nice to get him going. 3-1 the final score. so the cubs get it done, beat sac duke who falls to 8-6 on the

year. cubs have won 8 of their last 9, they like that joint. indians-whobs, this is great, chris perez, indians got him in the mark derosa trade. alexei ramirez, yikes, right in the nothing in. jermaine dye, man, that was close to his face. grazed it. rays, two helicopter batsmen, first year, would have been a 3-6-3 double play. white sox, get it done, 6-3. gavin floyd, pitched really well, again, no earned runs, 7 2/3. his last card, 3.28 e.r.a. he has had five straight starts with one earned run or less. beckham, career high three hits, garko, third homer in five games for cleveland who has lost 11 of

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15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> manny ramirez, playing in his final minor league game before he gets ready to rejoin the dodgers. first at-bat, he singled, that's a good start, playing for the inland empire as the designated hitter. second time up, manny got three pitches, and, well, struck out on three pitches. officially 1 for 2 in this game. his suspension ends later this week, july 3 he joins the dodgers. >> angels and rangers, juan rivera, big stories here. rivera, crunching this, padilla pitch, right down the middle of the fair way, 13th homer of the year. morales, also right down the middle of the fair way.

this is his 13th home run as well. look at the sparkies collide. angels win 5-2. >> next show, jonathan and mark, who is that garth brooks married to? i'm draw inging a blank. >> trisha yearwood. >> i was thinking all kinds of strange names. those are the top stories, manny all night long, wimbledon, yao ming, all the baseball highlights. lincec

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