inning with bonifacio tough to double up coming up. land shark stadium in miami, nationals led 5-1. it's now 5- 4. marlins have bases loaded, one out, and usually you would rather have bonifacio batting left-handed than right-handed. he's almost the antithesis wlaf a usual switch hitter is. batting .2 # 1 left-handed. .322 right-handed. beimel's forte is off-speed stuff away from a right-hander. that's what this guy loves. middle infielders double play depth. johnson and zimmerman playing in.

leading off the inning, cody ross was walked by tyler clippard who is gone. ross gload hit a bouncer. had zimmerman boot it. then chris coghlan walked. >> bob: postseason fly, right field. long run for willingham. foul ball. he drops it, but that's not the worst thing in the world. probably would have tied the game. >> rob: no, would have tied the game. i almost think he was thinking that, but he sticks his head up to see what was going on in front of him and that might have been -- >> bob: they could give him an error on this. >> rob: it happens after this. he looked up right at the end. you saw him just glance up to see what cody ross was doing. >> bob: josh's expression

indicates he had no intention of dropping that ball unless he's doing great acting job. >> rob: no, i think he knows he probably should have caught the ball, but like you said, he's not on a line to throw it to home. he's in foul territory by the time he catches t-he's going to have to turn around and throw a perfect strike to nieves. if it's a bang-bang play, nieves is really going to get blindsided. go after that good curve ball. changeup.

  >> bob: one out, base 1-2 to bonifacio. beimel strikes him out with a fastball up! emilio bonifacio's last two at- bats with the marlins needing runners advanced has not been good. >> rob: well, he threw him a changeup and he cleans it up right here. chest high, 88. no shot for bonifacio. look at that emergency hack in the glove. good job by joe beimel. not over yet. >> bob: it appears that manny likes the off-speed stuff of beimel more than the hard stuff of colome against this particular hitter.

he probably feels joe beimel is much less of a walk risk than colome as well. bases load, two outs. >> rob: joe beimel has been fantastic over the last few years as a setup man. colome is like a rollercoaster at six flags. >> bob: yeah, you don't know what you're getting. >> rob: exactly. up and down. nice somebody to right -- nice stop right there by wil nieves. >> bob: probably his sixth or seventh tonight.

>> bob: one ball, one strike to maybe the most dangerous hitter in the league at this moment. rbi's in nine consecutive games. >> bob: hit into right field. cody ross scores. ross gload coming home. cut off. marlins lead 6-5. a power hitter shortening up and driving in two runs. by the way, that's the only hit of this inning. >> rob: well, fastball away. up and he doesn't try to kill t slices it through the holement

two runs come in. >> bob: i'm not sure we want to know what the nats bullpen e.r.a. is in this stadium this year.   >> bob: they did give j willingham an error on that drop by the ball by bonifacio.

that one did not hurt as he would then strikeout. the nationals have made four errors tonight. three by ryan zimmerman at third. >> bob: two on, one play back in the first inning. man, i can't wait until they move into their new stadium. i wonder if we could donate and have it done before 2012. and the nats have shot themselves in the foot with two walks in this inning and two errors. there's the retractible roof stadium they're building on the side of the old orange bowl. ground expected to be broken shortly. after years and years of

wrangling. changeup on 3-0. >> rob: the stadium. it looks like a masterpiece. >> bob: nice. did i see a teal motif? >> rob: your favorite -- your favorite color. >> bob: and another one. nationals have given up six runs now in the last two innings.

marlins lead 7-5. jeremy hermida will be the eighth man to bat in the inning. here comes manny acta. joe beimel faces five batters. an error by zimmerman allowed one of them to reach. he walked a man, struck out a man and gave up two hits accounting for three runs are you, 7-5. 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. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com.

 >> bob: well, dishear

turn of events tonight. still plenty of time for nationals to come back. 7-5, marlins. seriesi finale tomorrow. we're on the air with you at12:00 p.m. josh johnson, jordan zimmermann beach the -- beat the red sox last time out. 11:30, "nats xtra", a little brunch with johnny and ray tomorrow. here is jesus colome. temperature is supposed to be around 90 tomorrow at gametime with 30% chance of precipitation. >> rob: is that in the press box -- >> bob: that means 07% chance it won't rain. >> rob: i don't know if you walked around outside tooth today, but it was 100% humidity. disgusting. it rained most of the day. >> bob: now all we need is a rain delay. >> rob: covering up the bullpen. they're expecting rain here.

>> bob: brett carroll was anowrnsed as the pinch-hitter -- announced as the pinch- hitter so manny acta cowntd countered with jesus colome. that's why he waited to come out until the pinch-hitter had been announced. the fans are starting to scramble with the rain coming down. welcome to south florida. they goant don't allow umbrellas at the ballpark so it's wear a poncho or get out of dodge. one ball, two strikes.

>> rob: why would you build stadiums in the middle of a rain forest? >> rob: i played down here back in '84. >> bob: was that the old miami stadium over there by i-95? >> rob: yeah, yankees were over there. >> bob: man, it's really coming down now. >> rob: yeah, we played out at -- >> bob: tim welke is getting ready to pull everybody off the field. colome trying to get the third out. >> rob: it rained every day -- >> bob: here they go. got to get them off the field now. this is crazy. rain delay at 9:43. you cannot play in this. they had one pitch to play with there to see if colome could end the inning. now we have a rain delay and it is really, really coming down. we'll send you to espn news here and get you up to date on

everything going on around baseball, the world of sports. when we're ready to play again, we'll bring you back to land shark stadium. >> wnba, holes graw hosting the links. dreams down 4, holes draw in -- hol holdsclaw, four in the transition. links up 61-54. wiggins, beautiful arc work 23 points, the lynx up big, wiggins finds montgomery, wide open for the three ball. lynx win 91-85. >> beginning thursday of congressional, tiger woods host the at&t nationals. woods coming off a sixth place finish at the u.s. open. earlier tonight, woods was a guest on "pti." >> i don't think there's any other golf tournament anywhere,

maybe no other sporting event, that you see this much participation from the military community. >> um-hum. >> you designed that it way. what was your objective, what was the thinking when you decided you wanted to have this, and has it met your objective? >> has it met -- no, it has exceeded my expectations. people forget, we're at war. we have a war in two different kun countries going on right now. and so far we want to say thank you. we want to say thank from you the bottom of our hearts. i know my dad, when he was alive, he thought that was very important to do. especially on our nation's birthday. it couldn't be any better. the timing of this is perfect. with what is going on right now, overseas, we want to thank the servicemen and women. they're putting their lives on the line for us. a lot of people in this country have forgotten them. we won't do that we won't allow that to happen. >> jim brown was critical, saying, i want to read this

correctly, he is a killer, he'll run over you. but as an individual for social change, terrible, terrible. i don't know if you heard that from jim brown. and i wonder, what your reaction was. not the first time you heard that sort of thing. but if you had a reaction, is it any different than you heard over the past few years for some people? >> i try and help. best i can through my foundation. i think we do a pretty good job of that. obviously, certainly in southern california, here, hopefully in d.c. soon, we have made an impact with over $ 10 million kids involved in our foundation and around the country. we have made our impact. the social change that jim is referring to, i haven't talked to him about it, i can't tell you. what we're doing in the foundation, what we're doing in the united states, and what we're going to do in thailand shortly we're doing pretty good job. >> nba free agency begins at 12:01 a&m eastern. the -- 12:01 a.m. eastern.

michael kaplan with the diagnosis of yao ming's foot injury. we'll revisit venus and serena on the grass courts. on the grass courts. that and mormore cash over here!

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>>. 66-3, st. louis, randy johnson giving up not one but two home runs to albert pujols. he had a solo jack in the fourth, two-run shot in the

sixth. pujols came in hitting .409 against the "big unit." gets his fifth career home run off of him. carpenter, the other former cy young award winner knocked out of the game. five innings pitched, six earned runs on the day. >> the cathedral of tennis. wimbledon centre court awaits the men's quarterfinals. wimbledon day nine features the strongest, deepest field of eight ever. five grand slam champs, four former number ones. great matchups. >> there are. starting off with hewitt and roddick, should be a real, real contest. both know each other well. roddick has dominated recently, won the last four. i love the way roddick played in the win over berdych. hewitt has that look in his eye again. it could go the distance.

>> it could. hewitt is one of the best competitors. but roddick is serving well. he'll get free points. i think because he is fitter, faster, he will able to scramble in the base line rallies. expect this would be to be a great one. >> andy murray coming off an epic five-setter. most enjoyable game to watch. >> he showed a lot of courage, he showed a lot of fitness as well. he has the all-court game, i love his chances, he has had a great run as a wildcard but look for murray to advance three, maybe four sets. >> the oldest and thedownest, tommy haas against djokovic, 22. >> i like djokovic. haas beat him a couple of weeks ago, djokovic playing better at wimbledon than he did in germany. >> djokovic is almost like dementieva, no one is talking about him, but they're making their way through the draw. i think this going to go four or five sets but i think djokovic will win. >> roger federer against

karlovic, yet to be broken. >> dr. ivo hasn't been broken the whole grass court season. if there's anyone that can figure out a way and figure out this puzzle that is dr. ivo, it's mr. federer. federer has looked so comfortable, he's won the french open, he seems to be playing with a lot more freedom. and they played nine times, karlovic has broken federer just once. he has to win a few breakers. >> a lot of tie breaks, one or two moments in this match, we'll see if federer capitallizeses on them. >> men's quarterfinals on wednesday, coverage starts on espn2, 7:00 a.m. eastern time. maybe we'll even get a break from the heat. >> thank you. rocket center yao ming could not only miss all of next season but a chance he could never play again. ming suffering a higher line fracture may 8, and the team doctor says he could miss next season and the injury could be career threatening. yao's legs and feet have taken a beating over the last four

seasons. he has missed 95 regular and postseason games because of issues with his lower extremities. it's been a chronic problem, causing him to miss time in three of the last four seasons. medical analyst dr. michael kaplan analyzes the recent injury. >> yao ming has recently returned and has been shown by cat scan and bone scan to have his fractured navecular not healing. it's almost seven weeks and no evidence, despite not having pain, that this thing is getting better. the experts are considering being aggressive which might include putting screws across the fracture, and even using some bone graft to support the healing. the bigger question is, of course, if this doesn't heal with those measures, if he goes on to have chronic pain and swelling, which could interfere with his return to basketball, or certainly put it off for a fair amount of time.

>> george has been asked to step down as president and ceo of the indianapolis motor speedway. not sure how closely he will remain tied to the day-to-day operations of the racing league. terry brount on the impact this will have on the irl. >> in essence what this means is the indy racing league with tony george at the helm are now on their own to become financially viable. that hasn't happened in the 14 years since the erl was founded. it's estimated tony george spent as much as $500 million of indianapolis motor speedway profit to keep that league going. that won't happen any more. what does it mean for nascar? it woucould mean that danica patrick is a step closer to going to nascar, she'll worry about the long-term viability of the irl. >> the 911 call that browns' receiver donte stallworth made to officials after he struck and killed a pedestrian has been made public. stallworth is serving a 30-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to du.

manslaughter in the march 14 death of 59-year-old mario reyes. stallworth also had two years house arrest after his release from jail and also suspended indefinitely by the nhl. this is a portion of the 911 call.

>> 18 days after the incident on march 14, stallworth was charged with dui manslaughter. two weeks ago he pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 30 days in jail which he is currently serving. nhl commissioner roger gaudell suspended stan worth indefinitely from the league. >> mcdonald's all-american lance ste steven son settles on a school, one that wasn't mentioned throughout the year. he is going to cincinnati. graduate the high school as the all-time leading scorer in the history of the state of new york with 2,946 points. >> keeping you current on espnews, kaka was introduced in front of the ma dritd fans. brian berry, suspension will be lifted july 7. he was suspected for an alleged

use of a racial epithet. and the ncaa rejected an appeal from former basketball coach at indian kelvin sampson, charged with five years of potential penalties for violations with the hoosiers. >> still to come, serene and venus on court to make it an all williams final, why it's closer to becoming a reality. >> a quiet night but that kwo change between now and 12:301 eastern time when the free agency period begins.

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