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 >> bob: hanley ramire rbi's in a marlins record nine straight games. rbi total shoots up to 54 and it's a new ballgame. nats lead by four. now they lead by one. tyler clippard will make his second national league appearance since being called up. heand hasn't pitched since the eighth inning of the nats 9-3 win at home over the red sox. he gave up a couple of runs on three hits, struck out two. comes right over the top and a fastball up. >> rob: if we could go away from the action for a second, first time through the batting

order for craig stammen, league hitting .172 off of him. second time, .250. third time, this is why manny acta left him in the ballgame, .415, batting average third thyme through the lineup coming into tonight. hasn't been able to get into the seventh inning. manny acta said, listen, single, single, fly ball, pitch to hanley ramirez. obviously, he didn't compt a fastball and all that stuff to happen, but you've got to get people out. you can't have starters that can't get through the lineup three times in the major leagues. that's more so in tonight's -- tonight's ballgame, that's showing steve mccatty and manny acta some stuff on craig stammen. when you're evaluating your future starting rotation, those are some of the things that are going into it. >> bob: yeah. fastball in there to cantu. >> rob: now to get back to this kid that was starter, converted to reliever and now he's trying

to keep himself in the major leagues. these are the kind of situations that, hey, you come into a ballgame right here. you're up a run. you want to keep it right there and press your manager. >> bob: that's going to be the tying run on base as cantu goes to the wall in left center. >> rob: a lost guys are playing for jobs right now. fighting for jobs. you want to win all these ballgames. more importantly, you want to impress some people that either can send you back to the minor leagues or keep you on the big club. right there, jorge cantu still doesn't have the home run power, but he can hit that heat fastball down the mid -- middle of the plate. presses it into left center. >> bob: sighing run is -- tying run is aboard. still only one out here. now you have a righty-lefty matchup with jeremy hermida.

  >> bob: oh, my, now tha wild pitch. >> rob: last pitch, tyler clippard goes with a little

extra and overthrows it all the way to the backstop. >> bob: nationals had given up 27 runs in three games in this ballpark. coming into this series. just four last night. well-pitched ballgame for the most part. now clippard can't get over the top of his fastball. it's 3-1. jesus colome warming up. coming into this game, the nationals staff had this year in this ballpark had an e.r.a. of 8.16. the wheels have come off in a hurry here in the sixth inning. high gas. >> rob: no, that was a hanging changeup. >> bob: it was, 79. >> rob: i think the one he threw to the backstop was a hanging changeup, too. >> bob: wow. you don't want changeups up there, do you? >> rob: i think he holds it really loose in his hands. if that's the case, he's got to work on that. make sure you throw it down. get that thing down on the

ground. >> rob: that's a fastball. >> bob: hermida does not want to walk here. he's an aggressive hitter who wants to swing the bat and tie this game. dan uggla is next. >> bob: what a changeup that was. got that ball down low and hermida nowhere near contact and a big second out with uggla coming up. >> rob: 3-2 combo. just what the doctor ordered. no shot for hermida here. pulling the string. a little erratic, but effective. see if he can get out of there, keeps the lead in order.

you don't want to throw this guy a changeup.   >> bob: high strike. cantu doubled against clippard first batter he faced. advanced on the wild pitch. stayed at hermida struck out.

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with the braves and host a fundraiser in support of kids with diabetes. you can donate right now. use your cell phone to text nats, n-a-t-s to 90999. your donation will go to children's national medical center in dc. we appreciate it. you can do that right now. top of the seventh, renyel pinto will face nick johnson, ryan zimmerman and adam dunn. pinto, part of the deal that brought ricky nolasco here with sergio mitre with juan pierre in december 2005 with the cuss cubs. he's had some injury issues, a couple years ago just 27 ballgames. a time or two on the d. l.ment when he's right, he's big, he's strong and he's very difficult for left-handers. >> rob: he throws the heck out of the ball.

great arm. >> bob: oh, near the belt. ball one. nick johnson, 0-3 tonight. >> rob: he's been pretty beat up on this trip though. >> bob: he has. >> rob: right at the end of the home stand. smoltz smoked him right in the back of the leg. hit one off his tailbone. that's a nice pitch. >> bob: yeah, they're just busting him inside all over the place. >> rob: they do not call -- >> bob: those advance scouts are nasty, aren't they? >> rob: man, how do you pitch these days without the inside and outside part of the plate?

>> bob: 91 upstairs. >> rob: he doesn't do a lot mechanically. he has an easy 91. he's just kind of lifting the leg and throwing towards home. >> bob: problems he had last year had nothing to do with his arm, shoulder or elbow. he had a hamstring that had him on the d. l. this year pinto appearing in his 30th ballgame. not a good strikeout to walk ratio, 22 over 18. >> rob: yeah, that's not going to get you extra appearances. >> bob: he's not very hittable,2.34, but he's been walking guys. he's not going to walk nick johnson. he'll strike him out. nick is 1-25 last. johnny and ray in the studio tonight with "nats xtra" presented by verizon fios. craig stammen's outing, i'm sure ray having some of the

thoughts that rob is having about the third time through the order. adam dunn, home run 298 tonight. early ballgame. by the way, "nats xtra" at 11. 30. the ballgame is at 12:10. zimmerman, 2-3, two runs scored tonight. >> rob: that's some cheese at the knees. he'll have to hit some line drive shots in the gap. >> bob: yeah, other side. >> rob: yeah, right center. he's been all over the ball down here. >> bob: that ball hanley ramirez hit is one of the best swings i've ever seen a right- hander take in this ballpark to the right part of this place. derrek lee turned his career around here when bill robinson be the -- robinson, the former marlins pitching coach and late bill robinson got ahold of him and told him, you're strong enough. you don't have to avoid right center field even in a ballpark

like this. derrek lee became one of the best hitters in the league. >> rob: gary sheffield when he was here, it was my final year in '96 and they won the world series in '97. he could hit the ball out. other than that, i haven't seen too many guys that can do it. >> bob: yeah. i'm not saying derrek lee hit a lot of home runs out there, but he would plug that gaptime time and time again. before you knew it, he was offered lots of money to go hit in hitter friendly wrigley field. a 1-2 to zimmerman. way outside. he missed it a mile. two outs. here is our coors light frieze freeze cam brought to you by frost brewed coors light world's most refrerk frerk beer. you want to see where adam dunn got this one? freeze it. >> rob: coors light freeze cam. i don't think he got that on the sweet spot. that's just a big, strong man

from texas. didn't get the full extension, but got enough of it to hit it. third deck, maybe to the light standards and have it float over the fence for a home run. >> dunn, 2-3 tonight. double homer, three rbi's.   >> rob: i think before  year is over, he'll break a bat in half like teixeira and the ball is going to go out. that's how strong he is. he's also got the biggest nobody on the end of the bat -- nob on the end of the bat i've ever seen. remember how sammy sosa used to wrap tape around the end of the bat? >> bob: yes. >> rob: adam has those custom made for his hand and they're as big as any knob at the end of the bat i've ever seen. >> bob: yeah, he's locked in right now. >> rob: on the road, .326, 12 homers, nine --

>> bob: 12-20 -- renyel pinto. >> rob: he's peppering that part of the plate. >> bob: right under his hands. >> rob: he struck ryan zimmerman out on a fastball right here. he struck out nick johnson on a fastball right there. there he gets ahead 1-2 on adam dunn. nope. >> bob: off-speed. >> rob: kind of slowed up his arms his whole delivery on that changeup. >> bob: josh willingham is next. roitd sheffield in '96 when i was here. 92 home runs and 120 rbi's. >> bob: he's got some batting eye. that's low. dunn has walked 60 times this year. >> rob: to show you how they never pitched to him that year, his on-base percentage was

.465. he walked 142 times, struck out 66. >> bob: that's an amazing on- base average. >> rob: the most impressive thing, they never pitched to him. when he got pitch, he think out of the ballpark. >> bob: strikes out. pinto strikes out the side. the momentum has shifted, but the nats still have the lead. i up to the bullpen. since 1873, coors banquet has been brewed in one place... and one place only: golden, colorado. it's followed one tradition: use the best high-country barley... and only rocky mountain water. and it's been brewed under one motto: never compromise. now maybe this means we're a little set in our ways. but we know a few guys who will drink to that.

coors. the banquet beer.  >> bob: the nats are with the back end of the bullpen seventh inning stretch time. adam dunn,298. ryan zimmerman hitting well in front of him back then. craig stammen unable to get through the lineup for the third time.

right now, it's tyler clippard. he's got to get it to those guys at the back end of our bullpen. >> rob: yeah, it's up to tyler clippard right now to be the bridge to the setup guys. they have do do -- to do the job in a one-run ballgame. get -- debt getting back to the offense, 0-16 with seven strikeouts. they need to do a much better job. you're the table setters. you have to be on base when adam dunn and ryan zimmerman get to the plate. they're not doing their job right now. now it's up to the bullpen to try to hold on to a one-run lead and against this really young and talented offense, that's not going to be easy. >> bob: bottom of the seventh under way. tyler clippard to cody ross hitless tonight. one-run game with a lodge way to go.

  tyler clippard.  >> rob: we've seen this a  times. our guys will come in and do a great job. go out the second inning and the wheels come off. that's a concentration problem. you've got to concentrate, try to get ahead with strike one. >> bob: four-pitch walk in a one-run game. well, we hate to keep chronicling how one-sided this is between the nats-marlins. look at that. 23-3, one bullpen great, the other one horrible. e.r.a. reflect that. the nats have had 13 save opportunities including three

in a row on the first home stand this year when the marlins scored in the ninth inning every game. it's just been unbelievable. this is the major leagues. this is -- [ indiscernible ] >> rob: a lost those guys in that bullpen are no longer with us. we've turned it over. you're dead on with that. you want to pitch at this level, you have to start getting some outs. it doesn't really matter how wil like some of these guys or don't like somebody. it's not personal. it's business. that man's job depends upon it, your gm, your president, everybody it. >> bob: my point is it's hard to understand because this isn't some conference where one school is bigger than the other and they kyle them all the time. >> rob: i agree. >> bob: these are major league teams and one of them is beating the other 23-26 times. it's hard to imagine you know,

joel hanrahan this season was ruined by what happened to him the first home stand of the year against this team. roitd. >> rob: well, he was given so many opportunities to be the closer for this team or setup guy answered just couldn't handle it. obviously, you may be very talented, but if you can't do the job, no matter if you're a last place team, first place team, you've got to get outs. it doesn't matter if the guy next to you is not getting the job done. your job, you have to do that. so, joel hanrahan,27 years oa.d he got traded to the pittsburgh pirates today. we love him. we hope he does well, but now you have sean burnett coming in here. you hope sean burnett will have the same success he had with the pirates and same thing with nyjer morgan. i'm talking to curt schilling about the whole lou gehrig and anniversary and a. l. s. and they're going to read his speech on the 4thof july.

on a professional note, was asked about david ortiz and his struggles and stuff. he said quite frankly i don't care. if a guy is struggling, i want to face that guy. i'm going to bury that guy. i might be friends with him off the field, but on the field, no sympathy. i'll worry about getting the other tough outs in the lineup. that's the way you have to approach your job. that guy is standing 60'6" trying to put you out of a job or out of bigs every time you come to the park -- out of business every time you come to the park. it's not personal. it's just business. i read an article when i was in high school by luke from "sports illustrated" talking about -- he put it in simple terms that. guy is take food off of my table. >> bob: one ball, one strike. baker bunts it. dead continues perfectly. clippard to gonzalez. 1-4 on the sacrifice and the

tying run is at second base. now, the marlins will bring in the other left-handed batter off the bench, ross gload. ross gload a-former chicago white sox player with the cubs and the rockies. with kansas city two years ago and last year. it will be a lefty-lefty matchup suddenly, so lots of wheels are turning here in the bottom of the seventh. nats still lead, 5-4. n over ps 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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 >> bob: lefty-lefty coming here in the seventh inning in a one-run game. this telecast presented by authority of washington nationals and may not bereproduced or retransmitted in any form and accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the washington nationals. tying run at second base, one out. joe beimel's 34th appearance. gload, not a lot of at-bats against left-handers, but

respectable 4-15. lairtd late swing. zimmerman knocks it down. probably will be his third error of the night.   >> rob: well, he know pretty fast runner in ross gload. knocks it counsel. knows he has no shot. dekes it this time. much better decision. ceechs cody ross where he needs to keep cody ross at second

base. he's only 24 years old. i cut zim a little bit of slack. when they win the national league east and he wins a golden glove, we'll look back and laugh. that's where he learned a lot of these hard lessons. at the major league level. >> bob: probably his first ever three-error game. double play in order here. coghlan, his first hit was key the last inning after de aza got the infield -- or rather the pinch-hit. so, he's 1-3 tonight. you do not want this inning to go any further than the guy in the on-deck circle. bonifacio is next and then hanley ramirez who is an rbi machine is in the hole.

  3-1. >> bob: manny knows he's one pitch away from being out of this inning. and the marlins are one base away from tying the game. two wa