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. >> bob: hi there little lady. going to the fourth inning, the padres lead the nationals 4-1. she says "i don't have to smile dad if i don't want to." let's talk about cristian guzman, not that many home runs, 58 in his major league career including the one he hit earlier tonight. but he is a line drive hitter who owecationnally gets all of one. >> rob: when you get good contact on a guy throwing 95 miles per hour grin good things

happen, cristian guzman will swing, he is a great contact hitter and even their guy, gonzalez, when he got ahold of one, you know, , these guys are major league hitters, they didn't get here by chance, they got here by being very good hitters at every level they played at so you can't take even the 8-hole y lightly. even if that perfect game by buehrle, he was hitting .390. >> bob: cristian guzman can hit, getting that stroke back, a couple of line drives and he is aboard leading off the fourth and now you tv big guns coming. zimmerman, dunn anjoxtú zmhgtwo"of @e hi >>apoliz but, you know, my point being that it's all about contact, it's all about the torque and getting that bat head out there. even headley when he got jammed

got a doub and it's knowing your limitations. that's the one thing i like about guzman, he doesn't try to be a home run hitter, he tries to be a slasher, a on base guy. that's hard for these guys, especially a guy like latos. >> bob: his last home run was eight days ago against the cubs. represents the g run here bottom of the fourth. he'll goright field, great swing, good contact, first and second, nobody out. withth adam dunn coming in. o÷ . >> rob: i wanted to blanks can do with that arm. okay, maybe not. >> bob: adam dunn had three hits lt night, we remarked at the time he looked like we willie dealer flaring them where they ain't. >> rob: adam wainwright had

great stuff and adam dunn was just all over him. just need a little bit more help. . >> bob: so the nats with a big inning brewing here in the fourth inning. dunn tonight first time up, had his bat sawed off and popped up to first. . >> rob: i think the second time through the lineup you should be subtracting the breaking ball, latos has not thrown it for a strike tonight. subtract that, just look 95, get it, you should rip it. . >> bob: now this is the one time teams have to play a conventional defense against adam dunn. well there is a runner at second base, they have to leave somebody home near third and the shortstop, cabrera, up the middle with rodriguez.

adam has been hitting the ball sharply on the ground and on the line. so he has got some hitting room out there for a change. but that's right at the second baseman and a relatively easy 4- 6-3, you want the ball in the air there, at least, it didn't happen, and the nats have grounded into 783 double plays this year. their opponents have turned 92 total. second double play of the night including a strike-'em- out/throw-'em-out earlier. and cristian guzman, it will take a nick johnson hit like the one he had first time to get the nats a run closer.

nick is now batting .304. and a bouncer, alfonso keeps it in front. . >> rob: well it's also important right here for guzman because good fastball hitter at the plate, probably going to try to work him with as many breaking balls as possible, if that ball gets behind alfonso you have to get a good enough lead where you can score easily. . >> bob: there is a fastball but he gets on 2-0. plapap and i think there are way too many base runners who don't pay enough attention to

where the third baseman is. guzman right now, if he wanted to, could be about 15 feet further down the line. >> rob: without a doubt. >> bob: if the pitcher steps off, so what, you've distracted him. >> rob: kouzmanoff is about 15 feet from the bag, you should be at least 15 feet off the bag. >> bob: kouzmanoff probably 20 to 25 feet at an angle. >> rob: he should be way, way down there, with the pitch. . >> bob: three balls in, a strike to nick. he'll take it. ball four. and the nats have runners at the corners with two outs for josh willingham. so two hits and a walk in this inning but the double play has stifled it so far. that's the first walk given by mat latos.

now this time with a right- handed batter kouzmanoff is going to be much closer to the bag. but guzman still -- >> rob: but, still, once the pitcher starts going home he has got to be walking down the line. he can't just be standing there. . >> bob: i think we see this often with runners at second base as well and then you'll see him get thrown out at home from the outfield on a base hit because they haven't helped themselves enough off the bag. base running is such an important part of the game and i'm not sure it gets the attention it deserves. >> rob: still way too close to the bag and it's ironic, this weekend one of the greatest base stealers ever in the game rickey henderson goes into the hall of fame. >> bob: uh-huh. >> rob: i got a chance to talk to joe morgan and johnny bench and he said he looked at rickey henderson's stats, he couldn't

believe how many stolen bases he had but how many runs he scored. he was an amazing lead off and base stealer, great baseball player. >> bob: people used to love listening to the yankee games, ricky would get on first, phil risk swriewt oh would start saying hi to all the bowling leagues over in jersey and before he would get done ricky was on third. 2-1 to josh, willingham takes it outside, scooter would say "eh white," to bill white"how'd he get over there"? ricky was amazing getting around the bases and sometimes he got histles around the bases with all those lead off home runs. >> rob: what was it, 81, about 81 lead off home runs? sound right? >> bob: sounds about right.

>> rob: that's amazing. >> bob: let's see what josh has to work with here, a bouncer to third, kouzmanoff throws out willingham and the nats continue to hit poorly with men on base. strand add bunch last night and two right here. pa announcer: final boarding call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag . it's on™ ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.

. >> bob: this will not be a very flattering look at the president's race tonight. teddy and thomas. >> rob: well it must be the fed

ra lift party versus the democratic party there. oh, a tripping george w. >> bob: man this politics is a dirty business. >> rob: it is. it is dog eat dog. >> bob: a masn fantasy camper from last year is here. . >> rob: wow. okay, what does that mean. >> bob: we had a big promotion, a lot of folks got to come up and have some fun. >> rob: how do you think i got this job. . >> bob: latos leads off top of the fifth, that was one of our fine bloggers in town, miss cheddar at the ball park with her husband. garrett mock has retired 10 of

the last padres. >> rob: i think we should do a real fantasy camp, a baseball camp. the fans come down, ray night and myself. >> bob: johnny holiday roaming center field. >> rob: johnny holiday roaming and all the guys i played with, the coaching staff, yi von white as a roving instructor, we got bob poon, we could get a bunch of people to play against the bloggers. >> bob: i could just see some nice lady going to come up and say to me "why did rob ball brush me back?" >> rob: because i could, lady. blog about that. i'm kidding. >> bob: a good breaking ball. >> rob: great breaking ball right there. >> bob: tony gwynn and everett cabrera are next for the padres here in the fifth. rob dibble's nats fantasy camp. come if you dare. >> rob: no.

>> bob: see, there you go. >> rob: you're profiling me. you just told me you would brush back a lady. >> rob: i would not. just my mother. she is a heck of a right-handed hitter. >> bob: she would charge the mound and take care of you. >> rob: oh geez, my mom? i'm not afraid of too much but when my mom raised her voice i'm out of there. >> bob: robert? >> rob: robert. >> bob: san diego's record 37- 59, the nats 28-67. they are 24 1/2 back of the dodgers, the nats are 27 back of the phillies. that will get through. and gwynn is 2 for 3 tonight. he may have found a home like somebody else named gwynn did in san diego after some struggling times with milwaukee. here is our friend the av flak

duck, we call him med wick, he has trivia tonight. >> aflac. >> bob: the only switch hitters with more than todd simmons. >> rob: eddie murray, mickey mantle. >> bob: mickey mantle. >> rob: pete rose has the most hits ever. that's three. >> bob: that was r.b.i.s though, right. >> rob: i think he probably has more r.b.i.s too. >> bob: what about chilly davis. >> rob: what about chilly davis. >> bob: he was one of the best switch-hitters ever. >> rob: i know. that's a good one. switch hitters with r.b.i.s. i guess maybe pete had so many hits he would be happy to be in there. >> rob: yeah, i think he had

them on that. . >> bob: what about here eh posada. ? he has been on a lot of really good teams with chances to drive in runs. mock has made two less than good throes to first base tonight, one of them cost him a run in the first inning. >> rob: yeah i suppose. >> bob: it cost him two runs. >> rob: we talked about keeping the runners close. you must listen to us. you cannot let him get to this part of the cutout right there with that left foot. foot. . >> bob: runner goes, good jump. good throw. got him. gornz pulled the tag down in a hurry to get tony gwynn who is

now 3 out of 7 this year. . >> rob: on the lead if his foot is right there he probably steals the base. that half a step is what's probably going to get him at second. so the pitcher has to help the catcher and hold the runner close. >> bob: now it's 2-0 on cabrera and mock goes ball three. you don't want to walk him with adrian gonzalez next. there is guys hitting .220 and he walked him on four. i mean can you call that a mental mistake by the pitcher or is that just a physical thing where he couldn't get the ball where he wanted to? >> rob: i don't think it's that. i mean he's -- >> bob: i mean -- >> rob: you're not trying to walk the guy. it's one of those things where you kind of relax because

you've got the guy off the bases with the throw-out so you're like "okay, i donald a bullet right there, two outs," and then it just be comes, i don't know, maybe hewlett up and your mechanics are a little sloppy and lazy and slow and voila, you go from the stretch back to the windup and -- >> adrian gonzalez a sac fly in the first. his 55th r.b.i. and a bouncer to second in the third. . >> bob: a pickoff at first. and, if you're cabrera, how can hewlett that happen with your most dangerous hitter in

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through 5 innings. bard, gonzalez and mock at the bottom of the order. matat latos, as soon as he gets one out here, will have his longest outing in the major leagues. first start against colorado five days ago. in a 6-1 loss, gave up three runs -- pardon me -- two runs, three hits in four innings, a walk and four strikeouts and gave up a home run in his major league debut. throwing the ball pretty well tonight. frustrating the nationals. getting big outs with men on base. josh bard, right side, gonzalez. do it himself.

gonzalez coming up with mock and we check in with debbie taylor. >> all right guys. >> deb: i have a question for you. what do tiger woods, lebron james and the nats have in common? they are all using this renowned psychologist bob ra tell a, he met with the nationals as a group, the pitchers, the position players, he has given his phone number to the players, he is available as a resource for them. the idea is to get the peak performance out of the players and mike rizzo told me the team is using him to get the better out of the players. rick eckstein says this is an invaluable resource for his hitters too. bob? >> bob: interesting concept. baseball is a long season. i know you're kind of an old- school guy, your reaction to that? >> rob: two out of three ain't bad. just kidding. just kidding. tiger, lebron, nats. >> bob: pretty big names. >> rob: yeah, some pretty big

names. team sport basketball, but lebron is quite talented. tiger woods is his own corporation. it's so hard when you have got 25 different egos and men tallets and -- >> bob: a fastball bounced out to short by cabrera, high throw and a good play by gonzalez. that's what, rob, you always talk about. if you throw the ball hard enough you still give your first baseman time to make an adjustment. >> rob: well, and it's getting rid of it quickly and, like i said, hard, and right there he gets rid of it quick, gonzalez makes a great save, but that extra half a second he is able to make the tag on gonzalez. sometimes when you have a lot of time it doesn't help you to hold the ball. get it, let it go. >> bob: there is garrett mock with two out and the bases empty. if he goosed that ball over

there the runner either beats it or you have no time to recover. >> rob: no, but i do believe in those sports scotlez, at the end of my career they were just coming in in 80 -- '96 and helping the players, more so to relax them. nonot a lot of players know how to relax their minds. control your breathing a huge part of being a professional athlete. i also like the visualization part of it though. more the positive reinforcement side that some of these younger players need.

debbie also reports that johnny smoltz and greg maddox used him. now there are two differing personalities. >> rob: well johnny smoltz was going through some rough patches back with the braves and i know that he would be in the stands i think with a certain-colored shirt on just so johnny would know he was there and johnny was able to get over some of his issues. >> bob: garrett mock takes a good hack on 3-2. hard to be that greg maddux would need anybody. he always looked, at least on the outside, to be in complete control of everything that happened between the lines. >> rob: he was a crumbling house of cards on the inside. >> bob: oh come on. >> rob: i don't know. >> bob: mock hits it hard but

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terrace ticket, our $25 gets you lower , either side. with eacha hot dog, non- alcoholic drink chips, two run the bases afterwards. # 88-632-nats or nats.com. adrian gonzalez was at the plate when everett cabrera was picked off. ending the fifth inning for the pidres. that's why you shouldn't get picked off. kevin kouzmanoff will be next and then chase headley. cues ma november has been an intriguing hitter, originally drafted by the indians in the sixth round back in '03.

and after a 16-game cup of coffee with clevelandy was sent to san diego for andrew brown for josh barfield. '07 18 homers, 74 r.b.i.s, 30 doubles, last year 23 homers, 84 batted in, 31 doubles. and the padres can live with his 130 to 40 strikeouts every year. he is a big guy at have 1'," 210, out of evergreen colorado high school where he played some football. later played collegiately at nevada reno. andnd the '0-2, he hits it hard enough to get it by guzman. the right-handed batter, you can't cheat up the middle too far, and then kouzmanoff

crosses up the nationals by taking one to guzman's left. >> rob: well, you see him playing in for the double play, those couple of steps that maybe if he is back near the grass he catches it, throws him out at first, but there was nobody on and that's what happens. sometimes with the defensive configuration. . >> bob: nats park in our nation's capital, bob carpenter, debbie, and ray, bob deductible,. >> rob: steve mcaddy wants a check. . >> bob: 3-1 against the padres. 7 hits now given up by garrett mock and with every appearance he makes jason bergmann appears to becoming more important to jim wriggleman an steve mcaddy. sometimes we'll see him in the

sixth inning, sometimes we'll see him in the eighth. they have attacked him for two hits anne only three pitches in this inning. 78 the games, head really one for two with a bloop double. and he misses away, ball one. well, here is a situation just like the nats had, two on, nobody out, a left-hander in there, adam dunn hit the ball on the ground, double play. 2-0.

big kyle blanks is next. . >> rob: well if you're mock, and i'm sure that mcaddy told him, i'm sure he already told him he blanked out him a couple times, get that gym shot double, put him away and work on the big righty. . >> bob: that ball driven to left, and it's going the fall. >> rob: oh. >> bob: coming around third and i'm a little surprised adrian gonzalez didn't score. in my opinion, that's bad base running. there was no way adam dunn was going to catch that ball. he could have broken off second base like there were two outs, rob, and scored easily. so the bases are loaded with

nobody out. >> rob: i couldn't agree more with you but, here is the big but, pitcher in trouble, throws a nice sinking fastball there, turns it over. no outs, better to have the bases loaded than an unbelievable throw by adam dunn. it might be taken into consideration that gonzalez isn't the most fleet afoot. >> bob: here is kyle blanks. bases loaded, nobody out, infield in. padres have eight hits now, our base running bunch, gonzalez, kouzmanoff and headley all with singles.

. >> rob: sphowl ball off the back outside ankle. >> bob: now that's a strange place to get hit. >> rob: that's really turning your hips into the ball. . >> and he came home. . >> rob: got that shin protector wrong side. see if he does it again. oh my goodness, hits it off his right toe bone. >> bob: oh, man. >> rob: that whole right ankle- foot area will be wrapped in ice after the game. come on, big strapping young man like that, no way he comes out of the game. come on. >> bob: this telecast presented by authority of the washington nats, doctor deductible, and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form.

the casualties and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the washington nationals. one ball and two strikes. nasty breaking ball, he fouls off another. . >> rob: he struck him out twice and now he has abused the lower right extremity, the kid is not going to like garrett mock very much. . >> bob: nervous time in this ball game, san diego a chance to bust it open here in the sixth. target away. got him on a big hook. foror a very important first

out. garretttt mock has five strikeouts tonight and kyle blanks three of those. . >> rob: i'm going to say this strikeout right here keeps them in the ball game. good sinking ball, the old golden sombrero. >> bob: luis rodriguez took garrett mock deep last time. now, with one out, the infielders back up a bit. zimmerman still each with the bag at third. looked like a change-up high. >> rob: i apologize, i was just told that the hat trick, which was only in hockey. >> bob: four is the golden sombrero. >> rob: what do you call it the golden sombrero. >> bob: that ball gives a good night to rodriguez. two runs will score, another

runner to third, san diego leads 5 to 1. . >> rob: well rodriguez a pretty good night, home run his last at-bat an then a couple of r.b.i.s on this single. . >> bob: garrett mock is going to be done after 5 1/3 giving up nine hits, four of them in this inning. jason bergmann will get the call here. the nats are down by four as the padres have a chance to score even more. we want to pay for. on top of it all we're still trying to put away some money for the future. with the wish list, we can save up for anything we want. and still have enough to cover the day-t0-day. plus, the savings engine helps our money grow. and that's something we need and want. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc,

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. >> bob: let's have a look at our coors light freeze cam brought to you by the world's most refreshing beer. >> rob: let's look at two leads. it's going to be a stolen base on the bottom, he will be thrown out at second. once the pitch comes in you see the man on the top will make it in safely and the the man on the bottom is thrown out. so your coors light freeze cam is about keeping the base runners closer to the bag. . >> bob: and it's also about base runners taking whatever liberties they can when they are not on first base as we were talking about earlier. >> rob: well, and you look at it, too, with the peripheral vision and if you loss sight of that guy as you're looking left

peripherally out of that left eye you got to step off, you got to make the guy get back into the your vision, throw over or make him get back. if he gets too much he is going to walk to second base. >> bob: alfonso 1 for 2 with a double, runners at the cornersers. bergmann fires one to nick johnson. pitch out. the nationals thought, with the number 8 hitter, there might be a squeeze on. teachersrs and on third, chase headley. >> rob: runner on first. >> bob: we didn't mention he was the pitching coach but bud black did work with mike scioscia who is known for playing a national league style of ball in the american league more than any other manager

over there. he loves speed guys, defense, nick johnson picking that one. that was not a good throw by bergmann. >> rob: you can't forget, you throw this by nick the guy at third easily scores, keeping them close, we talked about this. >> bob: man, he might have been out, i don't think the umpire saw that, the throw, the glove, the hand, everything was right there. i don't think nick even had to move his glove because it was already on the arm of the base runner. >> rob: sometimes you got to sell it as the first baseman, he would have been "oh i got him," screaming and yelling. >> bob: look at that. >> rob: i do believe. you got to come up and say "eh i made the catch, he is out." >> bob: nick can't control the ball. >> rob: got to have a bit of a beef with the umpire. . >> bob: you're correct. 1-2. popped up, right side.

alberto gonzalez calls nick johnson off the ball as he should. two outs. that will bring up the pitcher, mat latos. latos is 0-2 with a ground ball to third and a called third strike. bergmann trying to keep this a four-run game.

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. >> there is the dc family having a good time at the ball park tonight. now they'd like the nats to score some runs, top of the order coming up. the subject of our aflac trivia, only four switch

hitters with more r.b.i.s than the former catcher. mickey mantle. >> rob: eddie murray. >> bob: eddie murray, ah, chilly davis, c davis. oh, we don't know who george davis is. sorry. it's not chilly davis. it's not chipper jones. we should have had chipper. >> rob: the chip sister, forgot about him. >> bob: george. >> rob: because i always look at him as larry. larry jones. i don't know him as chipper. >> bob: larry jones was the best r.b.i. man of all switch hitters back in the early part of the 20th century. i guess only phil wood would have seen him. we'll put them together with the numbers.

i wonder what position george played? i bench ooh he wasn't a catcher. >> rob: ridiculous numbers back in the day. >> bob: there is willie harris, 0-2. nats only have four hits. david eckstein and his brother rick in a ball park in '0poseing denver nuggets for the first time ever at the major league level. . >> rob: okay. george davis played 1890 to 1909, played every position in the infield. . >> bob: even pitched three games evidently. >> rob: he even was good with the quality h2o. the water boy too.

. >> bob: did they throw splitters in 1890? i don't think so. >> splitters, spitters, i can go back. they had different rules. like if the ball bounced once and you caught it you were out. that rule. >> bob: oh, man >> rob: they used to have four strikes, too, i think it was seven ball games. they changed the rules along the way a few times. >> bob: that's on the corner and willie harris punched out by marty foster again. strikeout number 6 format latos. >> rob: remember, when you drop your gear at home plate in front of the umpire he is not happy about it and that's a borderline call, you better be swinging. >> bob: willie harris is 0 for

his last 15. no first-pitch fastball there. off speed breaking ball. guzman a homer, a single tonight, his first multi-hit game in a while. and for cristian guzman his 33rd of the year. the big bombers are waiting to see if they'll get a chance here in the sixth inning. guzman serves one to left but it's right at chase headley. two outs. three good at-bats by cristian guzman. >> rob: amazing that one hit

that got him off the snide last night, today he comes back with a new attitude. . >> yeah, he has had three consecutive at-bats, zimmerman who singled to right field last time up. but against a pitcher making his second major league start the nationals aren't making much happen right now. they play this game for him, adam dunn's last at-bat, a double play ball with two runners aboard, nobody out. in at-bat time a two-run game. five strikeouts only one walk, to nick johnson after that double play ball back in the fourth.

>> rob: the one thing i don't like to be right about is when i talk about going through the order three times with one pitch. latos has pretty much done that to us tonight t breaking wall, non-existent, cannot throw for a strike, gone with 95 miles per hour heaters, 85, 90% of the time, maybe more but as i told you in the minor leagues for an 11th round pick, kid was 8-1 with an 8.3 e.r.a., more innings than anyone pitched, not walked a whole bunch of people. >> bob: you know robin, really, he has only been a professional pitcher for six years. his first year he only pitched in 15 games, last year just 15. soso he has made it to the major leagues with very little repetition at the pro testing

analysis level. >> rob: yeah, 12 walks. >> bob: coming in to this year. >> rob: 12 walks with 72 pitch outs. maybe he grew 6". >> bob: it happens. >> rob: most impressive though. pretty good scouting when you can pull an 11th round pick out of your hat. >> bob: and two years later he is rated as the second best prospect in your organization. >> rob: of course now you are rating him. >> bob: he hits that ball way out of here, zimmerman over the bullpen. ryan with his 16th of the year. it will be a solo for zim and it's a 5-2 game. >> rob: i give you one guess what that pitch was. hanging breaking ball. they go a long long way. you hang 'em, we bang 'em, ryan

zimmerman 3-2, hanging curve ball, bang. if, he knew it. see zim? a little bit of a double clutch there, looking 95, adjusting to the breaking ball. sayonara. >> bob: adam dunn gets a fastball high in the pitch zone. zimmerman two for three tonight. high five's waiting. >> rob: with the x mo celebration. . >> bob: now, if we do that for a game-tying home run, you'll see more smiles. >> rob: i'll run down there and high five him. >> bob: right now they are like "okay you took care of business, still some work to do." >> rob: still three runs down, let's go. >> bob: dunn will take an off- speed pitch. two homers tonight, the

nationals have hit 85 on year. that was ryan zimmerman's 74th career home run. ball three. nick johnson waiting. if dunn gets aboard this inning could get very inning. very interesting. that is luke greg or son.

they have eight pitchers in their bullpen, seven left- handers. 3-2 to adam. look at that foul ball fly. they don't get many up there. >> rob: oh, they are excited. they are supposed to all stand up and point towards the pole, over there. he'll turn on one and hit it out of this park some day over there. and he'll foul that one straight back. bottom of the sixth inning, a run home on zimmerman's blast, and a 3-2 again to adam dunn.

he'll take the walk. [ applause ] >> bob: that will be the 74th of the year for adam dunn, the second issued tonight by mat latos and nick johnson, now, has a chance to keep the inning going. adrian gonzalez asserting his team leadership there. now the nationals are making him work here. as recently as the end of the fourth inning he had 58 pitches, 71 after five, and a long inning here. but black coming out. this is a young man making his second major league start. >> rob: and that will be all

she wrote. >> bob: i guess the hook will be quick here, interesting. i guess they want him to leave on a positive note and not wait. looked like he was cruising into the seventh until a 3-2 pitch to ryan zimmerman and he hit it a mile. ♪ ♪ (tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network.

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and by pnc bank. pnc, leading the way. friday nights along the potomac always a lively place and a couple of miles south here. nats park, a 5-2 game as the nats are into the padre bullpen. guzman two hits a solo homer, rodriguez a three r.b.i. night for the padres with his second and a home run single. ryan zimmerman went deep for the 16th time this year. this is luke gregerson who the padres got to complete the deal when khalil greene went to st. louis back in march. originally drafted, there is another guy, it took a while, 28th round of the '06 draft.

got some pretty good movement and sink on that pitch even though he elevated it to nick johnson. nick has had a base hit and a walk. and his on-base average is now approaching .420. right on the trademark, should be easy for kouzmanoff, the nats are gone in the sixth. zimmerman's homer makes it a 5- 2 game. fly to over 65 cities across the country every day. pa announcer: final boarding call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag

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. >> bob: time to bring you up to speed with the at&t rapped re- wind. cristian guzman, outta' here. straightaway center field early in the ball game, his first ab, only his fourth of the year. and later by a small guy padres second baseman luis rodriguez. he went deep. juan guzman on the fastest 3g network, at&t, your world delivered. top of the seventh, jason bergmann a second inning of work. quinn, cabrera and gonzalez for the padres. jason and i had an interesting conversation the other day. he bristled a bit when i pointed out that he has struggled in some of his second

innings of work this year. he said "eh, i used to be a targetter, i know how to go two," i said"okay, let me see a zero up there buddy and we'll talk." i mean it was a good-spirited conversation but he takes pride in the fact he can pitch more than one inning in certain situations and the other night he had to get one batter. tonight he is going to have to pitch more than one inning. >> rob: i have been told that you're kind of harsh on these young guys. . >> bob: wow. >> bob: he is gonna knock that one down, have plenty of time. and to the right. that will be the nationals fourth error of the night, two of them on pitchers.

. >> rob: i know what the pitchers will be doing tomorrow. pitchers' fielding practice. step and throw. he throws off the back foot. see this right there? bad form. tomorrow they will be out here catching ground balls and throwing them to first. >> jim riggleman managed the padres back in the early 90, a young pitching l pitching staff with guys like andy ben necessary, andy ashby. >> rob: it is andy. >> bob: and he said that ball club, even though they had a tony gwynn, they were in a similar position as the nats here, they were developing young pitchers at the major league level and a little bit of deja vu for jim riggleman. sean burnett is now up.

he leaves bergmann in against the lefty, cabrera, and then another one, adrian gonzalez, coming up. oh boy, the nationals now have 94 errors and this is their 96th game of the year. that's a good punt. better hurry. got him. very close play. and well-played by josh bard on the sacrifice with gonzalez covering. i love guys who can sacrifice bunt, rob, but, at the same time, challenge for a base hit. >> rob: you saw the form, very nice, gets down with the ball, brings the bat down to the ball, doesn't turn the bat. >> bob: and i think -- >> rob: at his knees. >> bob: i think we saw something there. if josh bard taps the glove he doesn't get the runner at first. >> rob: right. so you got to step out in front

of the plate and grab the ball and just throw it. >> bob: thousand the padres had to know that, if they did that, it would take the hands out of the hand of adrian gonzalez, the nats will walk him here, set up a double play with kevin kouzmanoff coming up. kouzmanoff has hit into a team- leading 16 double plays this year. what are the boys going to be talking about on "nats extra" postgame tonight? they'll break down garrett mock's night. sound, as we call it, from jim riggleman after the game. jim stover and jd martin tomorrow night.

first and second, one out, now bergmann has fallen behind 2-0. . >> rob: can i take back the pnc scouting report. >> bob: which said? >> rob: don't help them. >> bob: yeah. well the nats have only walked two tonight, one intentional. >> rob: yeah, but the four

errors kind of helping the other team. >> bob: there you go. >> rob: they don't need any help. >> bob: that's fair. gwynn who reached on an error scores, gonzalez who reached on the intentional walk goes to third, and it's now a 6-2 game and the ball club has shot it in the foot again here in the seventh inning. . >> rob: i think you put too much pressure on bergmann in the second inning. >> bob: i'm not saying a word. >> rob: any way a pitch on the inner half after he gets behind 2-0, that's fun fun for the guy at the plate, he knows it's a hitter's count, kouzmanoff wins the battle. . >> bob: left fielder chase headley the next hitter and the nats will be further into their bullpen. ron villone on his way. bergmann retiring only one of four batters here in the seventh. . all passengers...

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. >> bob: we'll be right back with you tomorrow night as there is a 7:00 game on masn2. hopefully they are working against tim stauffer, j.d. martin will get his second start for the nats after giving up five runs on eight hits and four innings monday night against the rays. johnny and ray "nats extra" pregame 6:30. ronon visit loan, chase

headley, he is a switch hitter so from the right side of the plate he will face the nats left-hander villone. headley hitting only .216 right- handed. ron villone, 19 games for san diego in '95, 21 in '96 before he moved on to milwaukee. 2-0 pitch. fastball up and a pop-up. nick johnson feeling his way, he gets it in the park, he grabs it, now he'll run it in after the second out.

now kyle blanks, happiest man in the ball park that garrett mock is not in 2 game. garrett fanned him three times tonight. >> rob: well why don't we make it number 4 here. a few change-ups away.

. >> bob: two balls and no strikes to blanks. they have resumed up in philadelphia. fifth inning up there, st. louis 1, the phillies nothing. who would have thought that luis rodriguez would be the big batsman tonight coming and batting .194, he has driven in three. ball three. robob running back i'm kind of

upset about it. brett favre has not made a decision, he's conflicted. aboutut whether to come back or not. i just don't know what i'll do unrest i find out soon. . >> bob: i'm sure he'll let you know. what should i do dibs? rob that's one of the worst soap operas. >> rob: that's not a soap opera, just retire already. it's like george foreman coming back when he was like 58. >> bob: i can't wait to grille someburgers on a brett favre grille some day. >> rob: you know what, i i would love to invent something like that, he invented that grille and sold the rights for over 100 million bucks. >> bob: 3-2 to kyle blanks, second and third, two outs. a little half-swing on a third play.

this guy drove in 207 runs in two years in the minor leagues. but hitting under .200 here and a 3-2 with two outs again. . >> rob: ooh. >> bob: ron villone didn't miss by much. bases loaded. >> rob: ooh, that could have been the golden sombrero. well, blanks is a big young man, that's just below the square track. >> bob: they list him at 6'6", 285. so here is luis rodriguez, two for three, with a homer and three runs batted in.

signed at the age of 16 with the twins out of venezuela back in '97. a lot of years in the minor leagues, more than eight. and the padres actually got him off the waiver wire in october of '07 after he hit .219 with minnesota. a bunch on the bases, adrian gonzalez intentionally walks. an r.b.i. double, blanks a walk. one ball, one strike.

and that is greg burton. . >> rob: well we have got jd martin. >> bob: whoa, way up and outside. >> rob: may nor league free agent. he would be your starter tomorrow. he and stover. >> bob: the padres have outhit the nationals 10-5, they have been given three walks and four errors. and villone is missing by wide margins. the error by tony gwynn, or the error by bergmann on the tony gwynn grounder really opened this up forcing an intentional walk to gonzalez, guzman off

the big hit, the double, and a walk to blanks. no place to put luis rodriguez who is one pitch away from his fourth r.b.i. of the night. it's a strike. and josh willingham, who will lead off in the bottom of the seventh, puts it away. josh hasn't had much of a night tonight with a strikeout and a grounder, he has been great with the battery sently, including sophie red sox on this home stand. nats need to get something going now. ♪ (tucci) only at&t has the best selection of full keyboard phones. like the lg neon, just $29.99 after mail-in rebate.

. >> rob: >> it's all about production and we make no excuse about that, we're trying to do everything we can to produce in those situations and as much as you would like to be successful 100% of the time it's just not reality and we're just trying to maximize on getting a good pitch to hit and then putting the sweet spot of the barrel on that ball. . >> deb: rick said the key is consistency and focusing on your hitting. bob, rob? >> bob: well, that has not happened for the nats tonight. they have stranded three. a couple of double plays have been very costly but six runs given up and all the errors make it very difficult for any

offense to get their job done. willingham 0-2, so is bard, so is gonzalez, the three scheduled hitters here against luke gregerson in the bottom of the seventh. right at the center fielder. tony gwynn took one step and froze. one out. josh bard will be next. bard has struck out swinging and grounded out to first.

quiet night for the offense. boy, the wind must be blowing in 50 miles per hour in philadelphia tonight, it's still 1-0 in the sixth inning. pineiro and happen throwing there. j.a. happen went into that game 7-0 for the phillies.

that's three aboard with gonzalez coming up. sean burnett will be ready for the a's because the nats are hoping this gets down at least four hitters 0 the number ninth spot giving them a chance to use a pinch hitter. that ball will fall in right field. and whether it's a hard line drive to center by willingham or a face to right by bard you can follow it all. called m.l.b..com at bad, featuring video highlights and live audio broadcasts. visit nats.com on your ipod touch to purchase. happen happen 6 hits for the nats now. gonzalez ducks away from a strike. alberto one for 18.

this is not what the nats wanted to see from him giving him some at-bats and that ball right on the corner. >> rob: right. in the strike zone. but about a week ago jim wriggleman said. >> bob: we want to see this kid play and we want to see him play a lot. so coming out of the break alberto gonzalez was hitting .333, now he is down to .304 and he is going to pop up here. two outs. and he is one for his last 19 august continue kearns will pinch hit for ron villone here. >> rob: after he pops it up he shows a little frustration.

kearns hitting under .200 but, as a pinch hitter, 4 for 20, a couple of r.b.i.s. so his opinion much-hitting average is eerily similar to his overall average. .200 there. but his career pinch hitting much better. walked up on a breaking ball, 1- 1,

and that will be low, 3-1. st.t. louis just put a three- spot on the board in the top of the sixth, leading 4-0 at philadelphia. metsts are in houston with santana, tonight, trailing 3-1 to the astros who suddenly have gotten hot. and kearns will take a fastball that walks him. >> rob: never too late. >> bob: never too late but somebody is going to have to deliver a timely hit here.

>> rob: someone is going to have to be like the mailman. >> bob: yes, sir. >> rob: deliver. >> bob: and willie harris is good in all kinds of weather. the braves are in milwaukee. the braves used to be in milwaukee but they have a martin pod oh home run tonight and they lead the brewers 4-2. willie harris 0-3, two strikeouts, both called. it would be hoof willie not to let the count get to two strikes here. and, by the way, a footnote on that game in philadelphia. matt holliday is two for three.

. >> rob: it's 5-0 now. . >> bob: it is. you know, it's interesting. marty foster didn't say anything when willie was barking at him back in the third inning, but he is speaking very loudly with his strike zone right now. >> rob: that's what happens when you challenge an umpire and right here with foster he is just basically saying "i've got the final say." . >> bob: and willie, what the pitcher did not want to do, gets hit on an 0-2 pitch to load the bases for cristian guzman. how about that. >> rob: well right here he holds onto the breaking ball a little too long, hits him right in the ankle or the foot. right off the front of the

foot. willie, tough young man that he is, he hustles out to first base. >> bob: and mike adams is warming up as fast as he can in the san diego bullpen. he jumped up, he has thrown about 7 or 8 pitches already. their closer is keith bell who has 24 saves of their 37 wins. cristian guzman has gone deep once tonight rob. >> rob: the guzmaner got that high heat up, up, and away. . >> bob: well the nats are down by four. two of these runners happened with two outs without the nats hitting the ball. and, i'll tell you, guzman is not up there to draw a bases loaded walk either, is he? bob. >> rob: no, he is not, he is a

hacker by trade, a contact hitter, starting to feel it again. of course, hit the ball hard every time up tonight. don't help them. get a pitch you can drive. the breaking ball started on the middle of the plate, it will ride and go right down by the ankles. . >> bob: one career grand slam for cristian guzman. he is just going to have to fight here to get the bat on the ball. he is gone. so are the nats in the seventh. they have stranded six.

and onto the eighth inning, the padres on top 6-2.

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start at $8. potomacnats.com. sean burnett for the nats here. it will be his ninth appearance for washington, his 47th over all. sean is having a good year, 2.66 e.r.a., 1. '08 since coming over here. the hazer, alfonso, the catcher leads off here in the eighth. right at willingham. josh is there to grab it. >> rob: we have got a guy there, he has been there 100 years. >> bob: the padres picked up oscar salazar recently, actually july 19th, from the

orioles. they traded a buy who, a couple years ago, was one of the nastiest relievers in this league, clay meredith. >> rob: yeah. >> bob: to baltimore to get him. and the interesting think about salazar, he homered in his last at-bat for the orioles july 12th against toronto, his last official at-bat, and he walked in his final plate appearance before coming over here. 30-year-old infielder. he'll slap it to zimmerman, how good was that. >> rob: with the outs. i don't know, i think the arm angle was a little bad, rob, you know. . >> bob: wrong you are, bob. >> rob: well, car carpenter, i don't like the arm angle. chest-high right to nick johnson, no, first you got to catch it and you see it in the heel of his glove, he squeezes it, now i gotcha, about 20 steps.

. >> bob: you lay back on that ball you have -- >> rob: no shot. >> bob: -- a 50:50 at best. he charges that ball, he charges everything. here is tony gwynn. mag number pi. magic glove. again when you look at ryan that's one of the smallest gloves i have seen a third baseman use. it's really a little larger than a second base glove but by no means as big a glove as most people would use at third base. >> rob: thaw that would be a middle infielder's pocket, a third baseman pocket, but it is not -- i'd have to look at some film on brooks robinson because that looks very similar to brooks robinson's glove. brooksy used a third smog will. the thing is they usually use a

bigger glove than the middle infielders, they have to make a lot more diving catches going towards the line. >> bob: you know, i think as ryan's career goes on, and we're probably talking 8 or 10 years on down the road, some year he may use a bigger glove if he loses a half step on those over the bag or those heading for the whole. but right now he is young, a great athlete, he can dive, and he doesn't need that extra reach. swing and a miss on a big breaking ball and another good inning by the former pirate, now the national, and we're happy about that sean burnett. zimmerman, dunn, johnson coming up. apply the brakes to avoid a collision. this is the new e-class. this is mercedes-benz. ♪ ♪ (announcer) it's right here,

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. >> rob: you think he was part of the adams family? >> bob: well there are a bunch of them all over the country. i didn't know the adams family lived in sit ton, texas. he is going to be 31 years old in about five days, for the padres doing some set up work, 16 games, 1.20 e.r.a. strikeout to walk numbers 13/3. here is ryan zimmerman leading off in the eighth. ryan is two for three, fastball in there. . >> rob: well if you make a great catch like that and you've already hit a home run you've got to hit another home run. >> bob: really? >> rob: yeah. i actually got atwitter today about ryan zimmerman, was he hurt, he wasn't hitting well? well, i think he answered his own question. >> bob: and i know manny had to

preach this and so does riggleman, when you look at hitters you have to look at their body of work. right now he is hitting .283, and his life time average is. >> 282. >> bob: he is right where he should be. >> be.rob i definitely think he can raise that up to .300. >> bob: .278.287 his first year, then 283 last year. >> rob: what was his injury. >> bob: shoulder. >> rob: then you're going to be finding the phantom pain when you do come back healthy. >> bob: last year missed 46 games. >> rob: first of all forget what he hit, defensively he is

outstanding. >> bob: when he got hurt they were number 2, when he came back they were number 20. so this ball club fell 18 spots on the defensive chart while ryan zimmerman was gone last year for less than a third of a year. that's the impact that rob is talking about and he is one of those guys who makes other people around him better. >> rob: now what did you say, we have 94 errors now. or 84? >> bob: i hate to admit it, it's 94. >> rob: now this ball club made 102 errors last year. >> bob: scary. >> rob: yeah. . >> bob: well i had us for 123, but you can check that. >> rob: is that 123? >> bob: yeah, but that was the most in the league. and that's only 29 away.

high and tight. becoming a good at-bat for ryan zimmerman. this is what managers talk about when they are talking about a guy grinding out an at- bat. foul off a couple of pitches, they give you high inside, you lean back, and now you've suddenly work the count to 2-2, you've got a fighting chance. now he has worked it full. dunn and johnson to follow here. base runners apply within.

nastyty slider. that's a great pitch by mike adams. and sometimes you grind out an at-battle and then the guy nasty-pitches you on about the eighth or ninth delivery. >> rob: well you get to the big leagues with something special and right there 3-2 breaking ball and it is a hard upper 80s slider. >> bob: and i think we can tell from ryan's expression -- >> rob: where did he pull that out a. >> bob: his admiration for that pitch. he wasn't happy about it but he admired it. here is dunn with 0-2 and a walk. six-game hitting streak for adam and he'll hook another one foul. >> rob: you're correct, 123 errors in 161 games. >> bob: the nationals were last

in fielding percentage with .980, last in errors with double plays. >> rob: big swing from a big man. >> bob: and when adam is swinging well it appears to be pretty effortless. >> rob: 109 errors put them fifth in '07. . >> bob: yeah. >> rob: 11 errors back in '06. boy they were really kicking the ball then. >> bob: well mr. soriano had some in the outfield. >> rob: a hop skip and jump with phil, with the cubs. i don't think they teach that in the high nor leagues, i know he played in japan. >> bob: adam dunn, way upstairs, look out folks, it is coming down. . >> rob: it is coming down. >> bob: boom. and a soul tried to catch it and, right flee so, he ends up

with the ball. >> rob: give it to a kid. >> bob: that would be our good hands fan play of the game. 1-2 to adam dunn with one out here in the eighth. and adam dunn strikes out for the first time tonight. the 108th time this year. we're back with you tomorrow night right here on masn2, padres and the nats, and, tomorrow night, it will be jd martin and system staffer, chad martin, chad gaudin on sunday, they'll join us and then we're off to milwaukee for three. from there to pittsburgh. . >> rob: back to my old stomping grounds in milwaukee. >> bob: i'm having a hard time

picturing you as a brewer. >> rob: only three months but it was fun. >> bob: four in pittsburgh. >> rob: pa manny brothers? we'll go there for a sandwich. . >> bob: pittsburgh by is way is also a four-game series, one of those wrap-around series that goes to the final monday so we're going to be eight days in wisconsin and pennsylvania. 1-1 to nick johnson. >> rob: i can't wait to play at pnc park and do the pnc scouting report. >> bob: yes. >> rob: are we going to bring the heads with us? president heads? >> bob: the plane is not big enough. >> rob: i think we owe those perogies a pay back.

. >> bob: the programmies were here last year, or was that in year. >> rob: that was this year. >> bob: that was this year. >> rob: time flies when you're having fun. >> bob: i was talking to a friend of mine in pittsburgh and he said please give us morgan back. i said no way buddy. we'll bring him back but he is going to have a gray uniform on. the pirate fans are not happy about that. >> rob: he was a steal. but we like burnett too. >> bob: he gets the night off easily. . >> bob: and the offense taking the night off as well. with the exception of zimmerman and guzman. it's 6-2 to the padres.

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. >> bob: top of the ninth here at nats park, padres 6, nats two. san diego has pitched well tonight. their rookie mat latos born in nearby alexandria, a chance for his first major league win. we have a question for mark over in alexandria. would baseball ever consider calling pitches electronically such as they do in tennis with cyclops that calls the balls in or out with serves. you're thinking this through. >> rob: no i would say no.

instant replay has shown it doesn't work. holds up the game. we're trying to speed up major league baseball. holds the game up. >> bob: yeah. >> rob: sometimes inconclusive. there was a home run not called in philadelphia about a month or two ago and the umpires wouldn't even review the call even though charlie manuel asked them to and so that made the phillies stadium people put robot cameras on the fence lines so that they could see the instant replace. so i don't think you need that. the umpires do an excellent job already. i don't even like the zone evaluation cameras in every stadium. i think it puts too much pressure on the umpires. >> bob: i think it has taken an already complicated thing and really confused it. every umpire is going to call his strike zone the way he sees fit. now, in a perfect world -- and many of us are still waiting for that -- >> rob: there is no perfect

world. >> bob: no perfect world. >> rob: baseball is not a perfect world. >> bob: every pitch would be called the same in every ball park. >> rob: not going to happen. if i was not throwing strikes i had to adjust myself to throw the ball over the plate. so electronically if you're not going along with the umpire, and some computer is telling you balls an strikes, it's easy to make adjustments to the guy that is calling the -- you know, if they are calling perfect balls and strikes and you're having a bad night and you can't get away with something because the umpire, like tonight, foster, foster has got a kind of a loose zone and you're getting away with some outside calls. here is the look on adam dunn finding the wall, finding khalil greene. >> bob: i was wondering where ca legal was. >> rob: there he is getting in the way of dunn. that's not nice.

>> bob: can you imagine? >> rob: no. i do know that a japanese scientist has invented robots that can play baseball. but they have already gotten agents and want to get arbitration. >> bob: yeah, i was going to say does scott boris have them signed up >> rob: yeah, he represents the robots. >> bob: will smith, can he be far behind. >> rob: i love that. >> bob: swing and a miss. kensing striking out his first batter, if a batter gets upset about a call what does he do, look up to the press box and start hollering at the programmer up there or what. >> rob: whoa is the manager going to argue with. >> bob: how do you tell a computer you're going to do a double switch.

i know sometimes when they holidayer at the umpire they say "eh blue," eh silver. >> what am i going to do, use my eye phone and type in a message "i'm not happy with you." >> bob: i think we're getting into a frightening area here, this is starting to scare me. 0-1 to gonzalez, he is 1 for 2, the sac fly and an intentional walk. and a good pick by rick renteria the coach over there who really got hit hard by a line drive last night in philadelphia. rick was able to turn, you see he has got the arm band on there, he turned, he really got hit hard. >> rob: yeah, ryan howard was a little nervous, went over, made sure he was okay. . >> bob: one ball and two strikes. >> rob: you saw "war games"

didn't you with matt you broderick with the whom per? well, no, it was the nor add, he starts playing computer games about with the nor add computer and it almost starts world war iii. that's what would happen if there was computers calling balls and strikes. >> bob: kevin kouzmanoff. error. >> rob: the short-arm delivery, great balance. there you see where he does the, instead of a round-house around your back, he goes right up to his ear like a catcher. his take-away, he holds it a little bit longer, keeps that glove hand down for the

deception factor. i like that nice slow delivery and then he schoadz towards the plate. >> bob: uh-huh. he is another guy, the nats pretty much designated him for assignment. he did not become a free agent, stayed within the organization, now here he is back in the big leagues. he went to aaa and proved himself. made a few adjustments. >> rob: the front angle, look at the take-away there between the hand and the glove transfer, but instead of going down around his hip area and his buttocks he goes right up towards his head. >> bob: and this one popped out into left center. willie harris on the call. a good inning by ken zig. in fact the bullpen pretty good tonight. they have willingham, barton, gonzalez coming up, down by four. call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down.

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killed this ball club and disappointing if it does not turn around in the nationals favor in the ninth inning. >> ray: a couple errors, getting the bases loaded there in the seventh inning, first and second in the fourth inbeing back to back singles, not having good control, made some mistakes ahead in the count and the padres put some runs up early and were able to hold on. >> johnny: the padres about to snap a losing streak. let's see if bob and rob can pull us through this baby and get a w. >> bob: you're right, johnny, the padres losing 5 in a row coming in, looking good here, up by four. greg burke, a 26-year-old right- hander will get the call here. here is another guy who is a rookie. it's only his fourth professional season. he was an undrafted free agent out of duke university. >> rob: how about our ford drive of the game, ryan

zimmerman driving home the point. a huge breaking ball, the ford drive of the game. eh, that's pretty cool, i got the mercedes thing, the ford thing, eh, what's in my cup. >> bob: willingham, bard and gonzalez. inin the bottom of the ninth. . >> rob: did you hear about josh fields giving away the mark bur lay baseball perfect game. >> bob: yeah, to some guy who said "i'm from m.l.b.." >> rob: i'm m.l.b., i'll check the hologram on that ball. . >> bob: that could be a scam. >> rob: yeah. >> bob: i think if i was mark buehrle i would say "keep your holiday oh gram and i'll keep my baseball.

got some movement on that fastball. >> rob: that's a pretty good moving fastball. these kids have come up with some good sing sinking balls and fastballs. >> bob: the padres have a young bullpen. and a lot of young position players. with a whole lot fewer veterans sprinkled in than the nationals have. the only guys you would look at in their starting eight tonight considered veterans would be adrian gonzalez and kevin kouzmanoff. but then you would have harris, guzman, dunn, johnson, willingham, bard for the nats.

2-2 to josh willingham. say one thing about the san diego relievers, they don't work real fast, but they throw strikes. got a lot of long at-bats here but they seem to get the job done. everett cabrera guns out josh willingham and he is 0-4. we have arrived at the 10:00 hour, this ball game will be just short of three hours unrest the nats do something exciting here with two outs to go. bard and gonzalez the next two hitters.

and the big bat inching closer to the top of the hour. look at that, when's the last time you saw a clock move like that. it's pretty cool. josh bard, one for three tonight. andnd a high pop fly out into short right center. luis rodriguez for the second out. before the ball game is over we'd like to wish our director, doug elacdi a happy birthday. >> rob: happy birthday dougie. >> bob: everybody a-doers him and we wish him. >> rob: dougie, he is so cute. >> bob: i said we accord him, i didn't say he was cute.

here is gonzalez, we appreciate the work that he and our producer, chip winfield, all the great men and women of masn put in for us in the field and in the truck every night. san diego about to win their 38th game of the year. the nationals will drop to 40 under .500 going 28-68. by the way, st. louis now leads at philadelphia 7-0. wonder when the last time the phillies were shutout in that ball park. 1-1 to gonzalez. byby the way, a crowd of 23,506

paid their way to see the nats and the padres tonight. not a whole lot to cheer for on the homicide. two brief burst of offense tonight. guzmanan first-inning homer, zimmerman in the sixth, that's been it. only four other hits. and a bouncer up the middle, cabrera, game over. two hours and 57 minutes for the padres to win this matchup, rob, of cellar dwellers, but san diego doesn't look like a 37-win team tonight. >> rob: no they didn't look like that at the plate. rodriguez did a nice job at the bottom of the order. but i'm going to reserve judgment on garrett mock and give him a few more starts at this level because it's a stuff transition to go from reliever

to starter. >> bob: so for bob and rob and debbie, join us saturday, pardon me, they continue the series against the pads, we'll get you going at 6:30. visit masn for the news on the nats. "nats extra" postgame coming up right now from the booth. so long for just a while. for . >> johnny: thank you bob and rob and thank you everybody, nats can extra postgame on masn. brought to you by verizon. pretty good friday night crowd. the fans stick around for the fireworks. they belong to the padres tonight. they snap a five-game losing

streak. they limbped into washington having lost 7 or 8, and the nats loss in this 6-2 defeat here in nats town. welcome everybody. for the next half hour the silver fox, ray and i, will try to break down what you just saw and see if we can make any sense of what's happening with the ball club and look for tomorrow in the game two of the series. >> ray: it's been a perpetual turning game series as we have not been able to gaynor sustain any type of positive approach at the plate and tonight a young pitcher throwing the ball at 95 pretty much shut us down. we didn't do a whole lot. guzman a home run on the fastball early, the home run on the change-up by zimmerman late but he was able to shut us down in between. >> johnny: if we look at the defining moment they had a 4-1 lead in the fourth, luis rodriguez hits a home run, only his second of the year. he has 275 at bats without a home run. >> ray: we moved right down 0

the fourth row behind home plate, fastball right there, we thought he had him set up inside but he got the ball over the middle of the plate, i don't know if it was bad execution or not thinking properly, the kid hit the home run. he had three r.b.i.s tonight and did most of the damages for the pads. >> the nationals only 6 hits in this ball game, look at the errors. that's the most i believe they have committed in any one game this year. guzman does go 2 for 4, gets a solo shot in the first inning, his fourth have the year. rodriguez drives this three runs for san diego. he goes 2 for 4 and ryan zimmerman cracks his 16th homer of the year, gets his 67th r.b.i., ryan with a 2 for 4 night, not enough. ray, going back when they beat the mets earlier that was going to be the start of something, you put together back to back winds but they can't get any consistency. >> ray: you hope, johnny, it's going to be the start of something. you feel that after so much

negative in the win column that when they start winning that it might be something that is contagious, but i found a long time ago that the contagious and baseball just doesn't happen. the momentum is just the next day's starting pitcher. and again the defense. we tried to emphasize the other day when we won the two games with good pitching and defence how important that is, a great indicator, four errors, two runs off of that, not only -- people have to understand the error part of the game isn't what necessarily always comes from the runs but it's extending the inning, getting deeper in the lineup, turning the lineup over and over and over so you have to face those 2, 3, 4, 5 hitters again and again. >> johnny: we saw a guy only 21 years of age, only had one big league start before tonight, pitched pretty well against the ball club. >> bob: bob it has to be a special feeling for him. the northern tip of alexandria is probably about three miles behind us on the anacostia over to the potomac and what a night

format latos, a couple of struggles, he found early able to get them out in all the key situations other than that guzman home run. >> rob: here is the key. we have a lot of good pitchers, he basically got our lineup out almost three times with one pitch. a 95 miles per hour fastball all night, not much of a breaking ball, but able to mechanism the strike zone, get ahead and get guys out, ground balls, pop-ups and strikeouts, there you see the moving fastball, got the call from forest foster the home plate umpire. but for the most part i've said this for three months. there are nights you don't have your best stuff. obviously he had a great fastball and nothing to go with it. you have to be able to pitch at this level effectively, go through a tough lineup. good contact guys, guys that work the count, he was able to get them out. so the lesson tonight for our young starters is you don't need three pitches, you don't have to always go to a breaking ball, a change-up, to get big

league hitters out, you have to be able to work ahead and then hit your spots. >> bob: ray, i think you made a good point about defense. stan kasten talks about this all the time. when the braves were building their team they got good young pitchers but surrounded them with a good defensive team and so far that part of it has not happened for the nats. >> ray: that's so true. glavine was a guy that through to contact. he would go to 3-2 but he would make that 3-2 pitch and somebody make the play. maddux got his share of strikeouts but he wasn't a power guy like smoltz. but there is no question you have to feel like those guys are going to catch the ball behind you and the plays are going to be made. i sat behind home plate for the first time tonight right behind the catcher and was able to see garrett mock's stuff, he really has really good stuff. my question is it seemed to when he got ahead in the strike count he would go inside.

there was one blooper down the right field line that jammed a guy, didn't hit the ball hard, he went away from that and started going away with two strikes and they hit the ball hard, especially the gonzalez pitch. your opinion on pitching in? and i think i know it but tell tea folks how important it is to pitch inside and not be afraid to double up in there. >> rob: well it's definitely important to double up on everything but you have to keep guys locked up and just because someone might even hit a home run off of your best pitch you can't go away from it. we have -- i've made this comment to bob many times, ray, is that our guys after they give up a change-up home run or a base hit or double they'll go away from that and try to come back with "okay i'll go to my curve ball fastball mix," you can't do that at this level. you have to be confident with every pitch. you are going to give up hits. i talked about talking to greg carpenter the other day. throwing to contact, coming in but coming in low, he knows what he didn't know at 24 he knows at 34, you don't have to

be perfect. you're going to get beat, and sometimes it's going to be badly, but it's how you come back and how you really come back hard on people and like you said, so what. if you only have a 90 miles per hour fastball, craig stammen and johnny lannan, they don't throw as hard as a garrett mock and then fantastic because they manipulate the 89 to '91 inside, they go away with the off speed stuff and make the hitters hit their pitch. that's what pitching is at this level. >> johnny: all right mr. bob and mr. rob, we'll see you guys again for game two of the series tomorrow night. he grew up in alexandria, mat latos, he is only 21 years ole but he has an air p him on that mound out there chewing that gum and looking down at those batters like "i'm in command on this hill." >> ray: he throws downhill at 6'6", straight over the top. we saw some movement in the fastball, 95, 94 consistently up in the strike zone. every tie he had the catcher set up in an area with the

center of his body on the outside of the plate. he had very good command. he didn't have the good breaking ball location-wise, he had a good breaking ball as far as the tilt on it, but i see where the kid can be really special. >> johnny: yeah, let's look at garrett mock's night tonight. it started off shaky in the first inning when you find yourself down 2-0. >> ray: yeah, ginsengs to center field right away, and right behind that a wild pitch. that's a bad job the catcher not getting his glove there. that was a ball anybody should get and doggone it you can't reach for pitches. a bad play by garrett, sacrifice fly, seemed like a repeat of last night's game with an easy run with sacrifice fly with a runner on third base. this was a good pitch, up and in fastball that jammed heat headingley, scored a run. i saw him better than what he showed. areally did.

his best pitch was in a good spot. that was a bad pitch, 0-2, went inside, he had no chance to get to the pitch, then went away and the guy hits a home run. sixth inning, a breaking ball base hit up the middle. back to back. his breaking ball was good, hit a ball off the end of the bat, a gork fly ball to left field and a bullet up the middle. so a mixture of three or four balls that weren't hit hard then followed by a big base hit. but he was able to put the ball in some good spots. again, not a great outing but an outing that would be promising for me as a guy that has faced some pretty good pitchers sitting behind home plate. his stuff is definitely good enough if he is able to put the ball in decent spots. >> johnny: and for garrett his first start against the padres of san diego, walked one, struck out five, through 90 pitches, he takes the loss tonight. san diego wins it by a score of 6-2. we'll be back in a moment here with more of nats extra postgame on masn.

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at&t . >> johnny: nats extra postgame show brought to you by verizon fios. the fastest internet, this is fios and this is big. go downstairs to the nationals clubhouse with jim wriggleman talking to the media about his 6-2 loss. >> just a bad effort. and you hate to even try to look for the silver lining too much. but it was particularly bad early. you know, we just played so bad early it had the feeling of it was -- we just weren't ready to play. and, you know, that's on me and you know i can't accept that, i -- i -- it was just -- we -- you know, the players actually got pretty intense after a while but the damage was done you know, we just weren't into

it early and i don't know how you cannot be into it but we weren't and that's my responsibility to make sure we're into it and, you know, i had a lot to say to them but that's beside the point. >> reporter: garrett mock, what did you think of him. >> he threw some quality pitches but left a few balls in some bad spots and, you know, they got hits, they hit a couple balls that got down the line and they got, you know, a couple here and there. but they -- if he made a mistake they made him pay for it, you know, a couple long balls and they hit him around a little bit. he was okay, you know, but you can't, you can't -- it's hard to judge sometime when there is no flow or rhythm to the game and the plays aren't being made

and stuff like that, it's hard to tell sometime how good a guy is throwing. >> reporter: he hits the ball out of the ball park and hit the ball on the screws a couple other times. how did you view his at-bat with the bases loaded? >> well one thing i tell the ball club is i know how hard it is to hit so, if we hit, i'm the happiest guy in the world. if we don't hit, you know, that's, i know it's not from lack of effort, it's not from a lack of intensity, but i don't even get upset about the not hitting with men on base, i get upset with the other stuff, the not making plays, not getting signs. the details of the game. we got to take care of the details of the game. the hitting and the pitching, you know, eventually if people don't hit enough and mike rizzo will get somebody else in here to hit. but if they don't pitch good

enough, you know, so that is -- those are the big things. you got to hit and pitch. but i can't, i can't help them with their hitting, i can't help them with their pitching, so i've got to make sure we take care of the little things, the details, and we didn't take care of the little things today and, you know, that's what upsets me about that ball game. >> reporter: when bergmann made the throwing error on tony gwynn you immediately came out, can you tell us -- >> that was just because i could foresee i might be making a pitching move and i wanted to give a reliever time to get ready because it was unlikely i was going to be able to get the guy ready i wanted for gonzalez. the problem we had a little bit there is it wasn't about talking tobergy, it was about getting the bullpen guy more time. but i wanted bur knelt to be in a situation where he threw an inning tonight, i didn't want him to throw to one hitter. so, you know, there was some things toes to around about how to use him and villone and

so i was going to try get one ready and have them both ready in case the inning got out of hand and it did get out of hand. [ inaudible question ] ... .. address the team afterward or where you saw something in particular that made you think this wasn't just like a few little bad plays? >> well, no, i've addressed the team a few times. you know. i talk to the team every night after the game, but because that's where we are. you know. we're not in a situation where you can lose the ball game, or even sometimes if you win a ball game but you don't play the game right, you know, we're not in a position where we can just not talk to 'em, you know, i can't do that. i got to let them know that, eh, these -- this is some great stuff we did out there tonight, see, if we do those things we're going to be fine, let's keep working guys. it's as short as that.

but if we play the way we have on too many nights i've tried to let them know the importance of having pride in the uniform, having pride in the fact that you signed a contract, you got to play it out, and, you know, we owe it to the people who watched that tonight and paid for it. we owe them a better effort than that. but sometimes you address them stronger than others but i address them every night. . >> reporter: taking practice and moved it up a little bit more with fielding. what can be done, knowing that you have taken the extra steps to try to combat that. >> yeah. you know that's it though. we can't quit you know. you go out there and, you know, you get your tail beat, but you keep fighting, you keep working, and that's what i plan to do and you know, we're gonna find out if there is somebody who can't get on board with that because we'll lead them to the door. but they'll get on board you

know. they will. there's really no alternative. and, you know, we just cannot play that sloppy and have that many errors through this point have the season and just say "well that's baseball," you know"that's okay, they are trying." you know? that's not fair to the fans who come out here and buy these tickets. . >> a couple of good points made by manager jim riggleman. ray and i will touch on some of those comments when we come back to nationals park. the fireworks are over, the fans are are heading home. 23,506 of them on hand tonight in a game that took two hours 56 minutes to play.

. >> johnny: welcome back everybody. nats extra postgame rolls on here on masn. 6-2. the padres come to town after having lost five in a row and take game one of the series from jim riggleman, this club

has lost seven and the tone of his press conference tonight ray, a little different than manny acta's. >> ray: a lot different. manny was a guy that stayed the same and prided himself on being stoic. i don't know that he always said what he felt because he was protecting the team. jim is going to protect the team put he is going to tell you the way it is and that's what i am accustomed to as a player, as a manager, as an organizational man, a man up front solid, straightforward, don't sugar coat anything. this team has played horrible all year long. we know it, they know it. you learn to play the game in little league, and american legion, not the in the big leagues. i'm tired of hearing the deal "they are learning to play the big leagues" baloney. they are 23, 24, 25 years old. they now how to play this game. it's a matter of execution. i love the word "details," this game is all about the details. being able to pick up your

third base coach, anticipating coaches. leg balls go through your legs in the outfield allowing runners to get to third is concentration but it's also a mindset that you're just not going to allow defeat to happen without being fundamentally sound. >> i can guarantee you one thing he will not let this ball club fit, as he said we'll keep fighting, working, there is nowhere else to go, you got to do that. >> ray: i don't think they ever quit, i don't think they'll quit, they don't know how to get to the other gear and prepare to play winning baseball. individuals, you can have 10 # people and only 10 of them understand how to be a winner. >> johnny: tonight we saw some problems for the nats again committing four errors in this ball game and as jim was talking about that is unacceptable at this level. >> ray: this is a pitcher not doing his job, he double steps and tries to lollygag that over there instead of throwing it, adam gets caught up in that,

you don't have a lot of balls that go out in that corner but that's just sit situation that is happen and good ball clubs make those plays but another play here that josh has got to make, a tough play goin' away from him, but dang it you made the play, here you got to step and throw, step and throw, you're taught that in spring training, pfc. he catches the ball doesn't step and throws the ball softly over there. i know one thing. when you throw the ball away do it with some serious gas on it. don't lob it over there. >> johnny: don't float it, right. >> ray: don't float it over there. >> johnny: the game consisting of first inning and sixth inning. two swings of the bat, one by guzman and one by zimmerman. >> ray: he got one up there and you don't see him exhibit a lot of power. zim gets a change-up. big hit up the middle. guzman later on in the ball game. zim base hit back to back, talking about an offense here,

don grounds into a double play. we have done that so often this year with our big boys hitting, a 3-1 ball game right there. first two on, zim high change- up, i don't know why he decides to do a change-up, he is throwing 95, but 3-2, change- up, zim hits it over the bullpen. we get a strikeout there from their bullpen to end the ball game and we saw a lot of that, a lot of the strikeouts tonight. they had nine strikeouts, 6 hits, not a lot of contact. >> johnny: way too many. 6-2 the final in this ball game here at nats park. we'll take a break and continue more with our "nats extra" postgame here at masn. friday night fireworks exploding behind us motels ago. let's hope the nats can put some fireworks on display tomorrow night.

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willie harris 0-3, he was talking the media moments ago, not a happy camper. >> it's baseball. no matter how much work you do, how many ground balls you take, errors are gonna happen. >> 94 and -- >> we're not trying to make errors. all you can do is try to catch the ball. we're all out there trying. it's embarrassing as far as the errors go but you can go out there at 3:00 and take 200 ground balls and get one in the game that takes a bad hop that's an error. errors are going to happen. it's part of the game. but i think we have to magnify them and don't make 'em when, you know, like i say we're not trying to make 'em but definitely don't make 'em when our runners are on third sensor something. >> moving forward for the rest of the weekend you put this behind you and start fresh tomorrow. >> that's all you can do. you talk about what happened or why did you lose or you know what happened throughout that game and you through to fix it tomorrow. don't allow it to happen again you know. and come back fresh tomorrow

and be ready to go. you know. >> johnny: speaking of fresh tomorrow, jd martin getting his second start tomorrow against the padres. >> he is not a power pitcher, 89, 91, moves the ball around, good control. >> johnny: he'll be opposed by tim stauffer who is 8-1 with a 2.81 earned run average. i'm johnny holiday for ray night see you tomorrow night on masn starting at 6:30. i t's on. oeah, it's on. pilot: affirmative, it's on.

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just ask mark ellis. and eric paterson's going to come up and grab the tie. >> five up. he had 7 innings two hits, one run, and six k's. the yankees won eight straight. won by two runs or less. the last two about eight runs combined. also overall against oak land a a. >> boston, two and a half back of the yankees to start the night. mired in a five-game skid. dustin pedroia in the sixth. watch nick mark acheis with his cano owe markakis with his cannon in right field. throwing out ellsbury at the plate. his 11th assist on the season. next best in baseball. >> top nine, bases loaded. papelbon gets scott and melvin mora to end it. tieing run was on second. winning rub on first. and -- winning run on first and

papelbon shuts down the o's. red sox win it by a final of 3-1. and stay two and a half back of the yankees. >> big news earlier in the day. cardinals rolling the dice. acquiring matt halladay for a trio of minor leaguers. he's a career .315 hitter. won the batting title with colorado in 2007. also the mvp of the nlcs. now, holliday struggled in the beginning of the season. but picked it up, raising his average to .286. joining wallace in the deal, outfielder shane peterson, and hard throwing right-hander, clayton mortensen. holliday is rejoining the playoff chase. >> i'm extremely excited. i feel very blessed to be back. in a pennant race, and with a

great team and great organization. obviously i'm very thankful for my time in oakland and those guys are great. i have a lot of special relationships with teammates now now. but i am excited to be here. excited to be back in the national league and part of the pennant race. >> excited in every sense of the world. cardinals winning 8-1. bottom of the ninth about to go final. but holliday, 4 for 5 in this game. he singled. stole second. came around to score. also had an r.b.i. single in the sixth. doubled in the seventh. another hit later he's the third cardinal in the last 55 years with four hits in his first game with the team. >> meanwhile, you know, a real winner between that guy michael vick who is about to be reinstated. and the guy that's coming up right here. right there. i mean, a couple years ago michael vick. we'll tell you about both of those things.

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>> well, the day after the perfecto from mark buehrle. they go to detroit. fall behind the al central race. thanks to verlander for the tigers a complete game. no earned runs. 4k's. now 7-0 at home with a 1.5era this season. in game 2 the tigers what are they going to do? they're going to take it to jermaine dye at the plate.

two run shot. white sox up, bases loaded. tied at 3. the bases loaded for gordon. ties it 4-3 in the top of the ninth. slows it down. grounds out to the pitcher. tries toen keep the double dip. winning the final 4-3 in the second. white sox have now lost 6 of 7 on the road and fall two back of the tigers in the al central. >> all right michael highlights first here on espnews. >> cardinals and phillies. that's the new cardinals slugger, matt holliday. top two, his first at bat an infield single. >> that came in the right place right? >> holliday would steal second. on third now rick ankiel singles at home. the cards take the 1-0 lead. holliday again one of the shots

that might hit them where they ain't. >> it is. comes around to score. cardinals take the 2-0 lead. they go on to pour it on. 8-1 the final. holliday 4 for 5. we just gave you the stats in a previous segment. the third cardinals in the last 55 years with four hits in his first game with the team. cards now 7 games over .500. all right, the mystery is now solved. we know the coach who did not vote for tim tebow as the first team all empty seat selection. you know, its former florida coach steve spur spurrier. there was some confusion with spurrier who sorted it all out today. >> when all this came up wednesday in the thursday morning paper, i read, oh, some guy did not vote for tim tebow. who was there? and, our director of operation filled it out brought it into me one day and i looked at it

quickly, and i said, that's fine. i signed off on it. so i called it. and i said certainly we had tim tebow. he's actually coached. we had sneed. i said wait a minute, why? we already had 10 gators. maybe get another guy. and i said no, no, that's bad. that's my fault. i take full responsibility. i messed that up. and i apologize to tim tebow. we should not have messed that up. we screwed it up pretty badly. i'm embarrassed about it. i feel badly about it. and that's the way it happened. >> the vikes the nfl fans, all still waiting for brett favre to make up his mind about his nfl return. the viking knew what he would do. but it could be sooner than that. here's rachel nichols. >> while those close to brett favre are leaving open a window that the quarterback could decide his nfl future this weekend, it's looking more

likely that favre will wait until the first two or three days of next week to decide if he wants to sign with the vikes. agent buzz cook had a long conversation with favre on friday. and favre iss still weighing all of the mental and physical factors that come with starting a long season as he turns 40. of in the meantime, several of the vikings players have been calling orin texting favre. trying to encourage favre. but there is a growing restlessness there. one of thee players told me don't you pretty much want to know by now whether you're going to play or not? if't so, can't you you tell us? this player said, hey we want him. let's rock 'n' roll. it's time for football now. the time for speculation is over over. in hatesberg i'm rachel nichols, espn. >> michael vicks reinstatement could come as early as next week. commissioner roger goodell still likely so to suspend him between two and six weeks when he does comeoe back. you don't believe me?

i believe you. >> chrisy mortensen, in case you don't, has more on the story. >> as the league has defin tivoly pointed out, this is still under review by the commissioner. no final decision has been made. we have had one source, league source tell us that they're thinking four games. another on e has told me this will come in between 2 and 6 games toga start the season. and, you know, during their meetings three three and a half hours on wednesday, you know, one of the big concerns commissioner goodell expressed to michael vick was, you know, okay, we know you're not getting into dog fighting again but you had a previous lifestyle. it involved marijuana. people you shouldn't be associated with. you know, going to need some timee to monitor some of that and those activities. those are things that the commissioner rally wants to make sure he has an order. we expect the decision maybe as soon as monday. >> meanwhile, two days before the eagles opened training camp, they have a new defensive

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>> the sprint cup season kicks into high gear at the brickyard. jimmie johnson has won here twice in the last three years. hometown favorite tony stewart comes in as the the points leader. all chasing jeff gordon, looking to become nascar's only five-time leader at this legendary racetrack. the brickyard 400 presented by golden corral. the coverage begins this sunday 12:30 eastern on espn. >> the indianapolis motor speedway open for business on friday. the car haulers pulled in thursday night after a parade interest downtown. on friday, the crews went to work in gasoline allie and practice began on the speedway. drivers all searching for speed. hoping a win sunday here can be the spring board to a championship like it's been for so many before.

>> a new tradition begins. >> but i think winning there you know, in 2000, i mean, we went on to win the championship that year. i think it just propelled us to win the championship. when i look back, i almost forget the different chapters and you know all the amazing things we've experienced with the team throughout the ten months of racing. it doesn't get any better than that. >> i think winning the brickyard and the championship in the same year is just a dream season. obviously. winning the single biggest race is important. and backing that up with a championship, i mean, there's just no better thing. >> in seven of the last 11 seasons, the winner of the brickyard 400 has gone on to win the nascar sprint cup championship. jimmie johnson has done it two of the last three years. jeff gordon was the first to do it in 1998. >> inside the espn pit studio, alan bestwick, rusty wallace and brad doherty.

little statistical quirk there. the indy winners go on to win the championship. >> you've got to be a strong, strong team if you think you're going to come to the brickyard 400 and win that race. sometimes drivers get lucky and look up and win that race. but at this particular track hardly anybody's lucky. you have to be dog gone good to get it done. if you're that good, you have to be good enough to win the title. >> you have to be organized as an organization. the teams that win this race are those at the beginning of the year that say we have a chance to win the championship. and along the way they come, they dominate, they win and pick up a great crown jewel on their way to a championship. >> on the track on friday. two one-hour practice sessions for the nascar sprint cup series drivers and teams. mark martin the 50-year-old from arkansas set the pace. he put the fastest lap on the board for the day. which now leads us to saturday's pole qualifying, which starts just after 10:00 a.m. eastern time. rusty, brad, who are your picks to win the pole? >> i'm picking mark martin. this guy's on a roll. he's won four times. he was fastest in practice.

mark martin. >> i'm going with juan pablo montoya. the heat could be a factor. if juan gets a lap down, he's cool. he sits on the pole. >> montoya with the board warner trophy for winning the indy 500 that he took back in 2000. his car going to be painted just like his indy 500 winning car was that day. so montoya will keep an eye out for qualifying on saturday, and the race on sunday. >> it's brickyard 400 at the indianapolis motor speedway. our espn pit studio, right by the yard of the bricks in the famed pa goad awhere the action is happening all around us through sunday's race. >> the angels and royals. zach greinke on the hill. pitched his fourth game of the season. but he made a mistake in the fourth. all the offense texas would need need. they go on to win it 2-0.

greinke gives up just one earned run in seven innings. the rangers pitcher padilla tested positive for swine flue earlier in the day. the symptoms are subsiding. he is expected to make his next start. >> meanwhile, if you're a champion world record holder usain bolt won in the london grand prix. he was sixth in the race. and it would be all about usain. because he was on point. my man is wide open. that means he's fast. then he slows up. i like how he toys with him at the end. a lot of people want him to run through it. but you know what, 9.91 seconds with a head wind. looking good. he has time to dance out. is it on? it's one of the best. >> second-round action, the senior british open, fred funk, entering play, tom watson, and oh, we've seen that before. this is the punt.

bogies. now in the 11th, watson gets that one to go. shot a 1 under 69 on the day. everybody chasing funk. he shot a a64 on thursday. this is the second shot on the par 4 18th. >> i don't think he liked it. >> he described his irons game as rag ed. >> i'd love to be rag ed. watch. look at this. give me the putter. he can't even tell what went in until he hears the reaction. what happened? >> we want the funk. >> sing it, big mike. >> hold it, fred funk shot a 65. takes a three-shot lead into the weekend. funk has never won a major on either the pga or champions tour. watching greg norman in a group of minus 4. >> how about the tour de france. stage 19. 111 miles relatively flat countryside. lance armstrong has pretty much already said that the winner of this tour de france is his

teammate alberto contador. brad ely wiggins with a place on the podium. armstrong never lit wiggins out of his sight all day. and the overall leaders remained in a tight pack all day. and down the stretch, it was a sprint to the finish. mark with his fifth saved victory of his tour. and one again if my daughters are watching, do not do that. do not take your hands off. that's very dangerous. he can do it, because he's a professional and pretty good and he's won this race. but arm strong crossed the line safely. armstrong gained 4 seconds to third. but contador remains the yellow jersey holder. and once again, as long as he doesn't fall off his bike and nothing crazy happens, he'll win this tour de france once again. going through the streets of the champs d' elysses. >> yeah, that's it. >> the lasers sign andre miller.

three year deal worth $21 million. portland one of just two teams to offer miller more than their mid level exception. ten-year veteran averaged 16.6 and a half assists last season. >> the new crew has just walked into the studio. j.w. stewart and anish shroff. much more on the breakout came from matt holliday. also hear from roy

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