>> bob: adam dunn gives the nationals a huge lead, 7-0 into the top of the third after a more than three hour rain delay. get your red on and a grand slam flex plan. you pick four games, you go to five. five different plans to choose from. pick your plan, your games, your seats and get a free game. how appropriate after that swing. top of the third, tyler clippard goes to work, tony gwynn, everth cabrera and adrian gonzalez. padres hit in each of the first two innings. nothing like a first pitch strike. first inning double by cabrera with one out stranded at third. luis rodriguez and jose lobaton walking and singling in the

second, they were stranded. josh willingham right there for the first out. it's 11:00 in our nation's capital and we are in the top of the third already. bob carpenter, rob dibble, debbi taylor our masn 2 crew, and we of course are on masn hd now. the orioles lost their game at boston tonight 7-2, so our masn hd audience has joined us as well. everth cabrera doubled off the right field wall first time up. he cost his team a run when he didn't run right away out of the batter's box. he should have had a triple and might have been able to score on the ground ball. everth cabrera from nicaragua, hit .284. he was playing single a ball at

this time a year ago. that was in asheville, rule 5 draft padres got him from colorado. >> rob: this was what happened when cabrera came back to the dugout after not running hard on that fly ball. basically said don't do that again, young man. >> bob: he got his point across. then he gave him a pat. but i am always amazed, and a new glove for wil nieves, i'm amazed that any player with a major league uniform on has to be told such a thing. >> rob: well, it's a different ballgame. times have changed. >> bob: yes. zimmerman can't reach it. guzman can. and with the speed of cabrera, no way to make that play. >> rob: you know he was going to run that one out. >> bob: he'll be 2 for 2. >> rob: still a great play by cristian guzman.

>> bob: next up will be their dangerous man, adrian gonzalez. >> rob: that's a great effort right there. a guy with a little less speed and that's an out. this is hustling out of the box. >> bob: see if he does that first time up, he's standing on third base. >> rob: and maybe gets home. because when that ball kicks off the fence, it got by josh willingham. >> bob: adrian gonzalez is trying to make it 7-2. he's hit 25 homers this year. adam dunn just tied him in the national league home run race. albert pujols 34, but nobody else has more than 25. >> rob: albert's in his own club. >> bob: they had him leaning. he'll get another talking to from his manager if he gets picked off down seven runs. nice to show off the speed and

be aggressive, but you could -- you get picked off, that's just as dumb as what you did the first time. >> rob: that was tight. that was very close. >> bob: it was. >> rob: and i'm sure that jim riggleman has told all the pitchers, especially after they did the fielding practice today, about holding runners on, too. >> bob: nicely done. >> rob: like you said, you shouldn't even have to remind players at this level to do certain things, keeping them close is one. but that's a great curveball. >> bob: gonzalez bounced out to second first time up. only kouzmanoff has hit into more double plays. kouzmanoff 16, gonzalez a dozen. 

 >> bob: and that's low, 2-2. and we've got a 1500 umpires that are pretty hacked off right now. >> rob: i don't know what wally bell's thinking there. with sitting around for three hours waiting to restart. the pitchers have to get something here. runner goes on a 2-2. that's low. throw well late. into second base with his 10th steal, everth cabrera. >> rob: good pitch to steal on. breaking ball count. breaking ball down right here. see him go on first movement. never picks his head up to look

in and easily steals second. still a good throw here by wil using the wet grass. >> bob: 3-2, you don't want to walk anybody with a big lead. >> rob: remember we talked about that earlier with j.d. martin. you don't want to give up a two- run home run and let the padres back into this ballgame. >> bob: here is kevin kouzmanoff who has power to spare, but against right- handers strikes out a lot. by the way, announced attendance we did have 21,834

here. a couple thousand here. >> rob: while we were in the rain delay, the cubs put ted lilly on the disabled list. that might heat up their trade talks for roy halladay. >> bob: i heard while he's resting his elbow, they're going to scope his knee. that's been bugging him. he's actually going on the dl because of an elbow problem. >> rob: he's had a really bad knee. >> bob: he's got a double whammy waiting for him. >> rob: trying to rehab the elbow and get that thing healthy, now rehab your knee at the same time. >> bob: maybe it's not the phillies for halladay. fastball up and in to kouzmanoff. count's even at 1-1. 

 >> bob: that was beautiful. >> rob: he'll throw a loft change-ups to right-handers if you're right-handed pitching unless you have a great one. tyler clippard has a great one. 80 miles an hour, great arm speed, just like a fastball. look at how poorly kouzmanoff swings at it. >> bob: 1-2 to kouzmanoff. double play guy if you can get the ball on the ground. how about a fastball right down the middle. the change-up made that 91-mile an hour heater look like upper 90s. two outs. >> rob: slow it down, heat it up, 1-2 pitch. that's just blistering by him

with that 80-mile an hour change-up that looks 95. kouzmanoff cannot pull the trigger on that as it's just blue bayou. >> bob: they're playing the shift again. rob, let me ask you about clippard's motion. he takes that glove and just throws it right out in front of himself, is that distracting for a hitter? >> rob: most definitely. he's got a very violent delivery. i was said to have had a violent delivery, all arms and legs, and all 6'6" of tyler clippard coming at you. when that glove and that left arm's flying by. >> bob: overpowers the left- handed beater. adam dunn is there and clippard pitches out of trouble in the top of the third. she wants to make up. we decide to turn in early.

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 >> bob: time to bring you up to speed with the at&t rapid rewind. ryan zimmerman hit one so high for a two-run homer in the bottom of the first. it changed the weather. we had a three hour and 11 minute rain delay, and then adam dunn knocks in four with a drive to straightaway center field. 7-0 nationals. at&t's the nation's fastest 3-g

network. ronnie belliard first pitch swinging. bottom of the third. it will be nieves, then tyler clippard will get his first at- bat. wil nieves struck out swinging first time. eight pitches to get the first two batters for luis perdomo in the bottom of the second, then everything caved in on him. walk to the pitcher, single, single, walk, grand slam, then another walk just for the heck of it. nine nationals batted and five scored. we have to check tyler clippard's career at-bats. hasn't had one this year. >> rob: he's got a pretty long swing. >> bob: you know what, he's a

.667 hitter, he's two for three in his career. >> rob: he's a good kid. i like him a lot. >> bob: lexington, kentucky. >> rob: i wonder if tyler won the mr. baseball in kentucky award. >> bob: you know what, his family moved by the time he was in high school. there's austin kearns. >> rob: see how much i studied in geography. >> bob: i'm going talk to some of your teachers from that florida school you went to. what kind of student was rob dibble? >> rob: i don't know, we never saw him. rob dibble was actually here. >> bob: two outs, bases empty.

the next one will be friday, august 7 when the arizona diamondbacks are here. clippard leading the team in hitting. and those at-bats he was 1 for 1 as a nat last year. yeah, that's nasty. >> rob: the swing or the pitch? >> bob: the pitch. >> rob: it was. it was a nice sinking fastball. >> bob: you're up 7, a brief at-

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 >> bob: the fans are having a good time at the ballpark tonight and it will probably become this morning for them. top of the fourth inning, 7-0 washington. we have aflac trivia for you. the duck is up late. he swam a few extra laps for us and brings us this one, since 65 the three number one overall

picks who went on to lead their leagues in home runs for a season. that means any time during their career. was one of them a padre? >> rob: did josh hamilton lead the american league last year? >> bob: he sure was on a pace to do that. that's a good guess. that's a tough one. back to 1965. drew macias grounded out to nick johnson first time up. >> rob: i would say since there's a padres media guide in play in this series that it probably was a padre in there somewhere.

>> bob: the ball jacked way foul. there's a souvenir. see if the little guy with the number 11 jersey on can find it. the search is on. somebody spotted it. no, they didn't. out of play left side. i'm just trying to think of any padre who might have ever led the league in home runs. >> rob: i remember they had a big kid way back in the 70s named nate culbert who played first base. he had five home runs and a -- in a double-header one day. >> rob: ken griffey, jr.? >> bob: we were talking about the sand colored road jerseys, but look at the old rainbow types. there's goose gossage pitching

for the pads. >> rob: hall of famer. >> bob: a slim tony gwynn. and miss crock. they immortalized jim on the jerseys after ray passed away. >> rob: i frequented that establishment a lot in my lifetime. >> bob: that's hard to believe. >> rob: i feel like i helped in paying for those uniforms. >> bob: a drive out to left center. adam dunn's going to get there. he said nyjer morgan, what are you doing? i got this one. padres have had an interesting history. they've been to the world series twice, and came up empty. they ran into the unbelievable detroit tigers back in 84. the tigers won 104 games in that year.

the padres got to the series by beating the cubs in five in the lcs after trailing two games to none. then in 98 they were swept by the yankees who were just beginning that wonderful run of theirs. >> rob: alex rodriguez and ken griffey, jr. are two of them. >> bob: is there a san diego tie-in? since 1965, so that would indicate somebody back in the mid 60s. >> rob: no, that's when it started. >> bob: 0-2 to lobaton, the catcher. clippard throws the fastball up. >> rob: bob horner ever lead the league in home runs? >> bob: might have. >> rob: what about strawberry? >> bob: maybe.

that's a good pitch to jam a left-handed batter with. >> bob: and pitcher perdomo about his -- despite his problems is about to hit. misses up and away. >> rob: i'll go griffey, strawberry and rodriguez. although p.j. surhoff was one of my favorite teammates, loved him. still do. he was awesome. he's the unhappiest .325 hitter i've ever met. he was always angry.

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result. >> rob: abe won again. >> bob: teddy just can't get it done. >> rob: i wish the gecko would just take the three guys out and let teddy win. then it will be smooth sailing for the nationals. >> bob: nyjer morgan's 2 for 2, batting .360 as a washington national. >> rob: the little corkscrew on the breaking ball swing. >> bob: was he trying to get on base or open a bottle of champagne? >> rob: don't hurt your ankles. we need your speed. >> bob: morgan has had that quick flip of the wrists going hitting the ball to left field. teams have started to pitch him inside because the scouts get that word around.

today he's gone to right center and he's gone up the middle. he's made some adjustments. then they say how do you pitch him after he does that. >> rob: carefully. i hated guys like nyjer. they're contact, they're not trying to do too much. they're not trying to do anything. >> bob: it could be interesting. the ball gets away. he scoots to second base. they'll probably give him a hit and an error on the pitcher for that throw. and nyjer morgan's 3 for 3. perdomo's had an interesting evening so far. none of it very good. >> rob: it's a swinging bunt right there, with guy with

laser speed. perdomo knows it, throws it right into the ground, right by adrian gonzalez. he can't save it. these guys are taking some 7-0 hacks. you have to watch yourself, because sometimes pitchers don't like the way you swing. you don't want to get hit by this guy. >> bob: morgan is hitting .368 now as a national. guzman fouls that one. games in arizona and colorado are now over. diamondbacks beat the pirates 7- 0. that enhances their wild card run. dodgers in a 1-1 game top of the fourth with the marlins. that and this one the only game still going on in major league baseball. guzman strikes out. lately right-handers have been getting him out on two strike

breaking balls. >> rob: you have to throw breaking balls to contact guys. >> bob: ryan zimmerman a perfect night. two run homer, a walk and two runs scored. >> rob: that was a bad breaking ball. you saw the catcher set up way outside. lobaton was outside that, ball was down and in. pay for mistakes at this level. you make a mistake, it may leave the park. >> bob: then last time up, perdomo got ahead of ryan, nibbled with breaking balls and lost him. ryan saw some high heat, he couldn't get it. >> rob: power on power.

>> bob: for those of you who were at the ballpark, now you're home watching. hope you had a nice safe trip home. thanks for being with us. >> rob: get yourself some popcorn. we're going to be here for a while. >> bob: get some popcorn and pretend like you're here. >> rob: we're just in the bottom of the fourth inning and it's only 11:30. >> bob: this is nothing compared to some of the games we've had. i'll never forget the night ryan hit a grand slam at 1:47 in the morning to beat the marlins. he gets that one to right center. how far is it going? and it's right up against the board. nyjer morgan had gone halfway, which you're supposed to do with one out. and ryan just couldn't get over the top of that one enough. >> rob: well, jim dials it up a little bit faster. this guy throws 95, just on the center of the bat.

that's on the meat of the bat that's way out of here. he has pulled it down. >> bob: adam dunn is 12 for his last 26. this might be the best mini streak we've seen him on this year. after those at-bats he's batting .462 during that little streak and his batting average up to .276. >> rob: i was watching him play batting practice. he wasn't having a good batting practice, he threw his bat a few times. pat was getting on him. in his last round he was launching some balls upper deck way out of here, so it just takes a little bit of being steamed to get you right. >> bob: i think he'll be the first hitter to hit one to the upper concourse to the right of

the scoreboard. one of these days he'll pull one and he'll hit one that will probably hit the nats fans 10 sign on one hop. he will visit parts of this ballpark no one else will. there it is. >> rob: there's the 10th man. come on, get loud. oh, not that many left. but they could still make it loud. >> bob: they were pretty loud for the small group they are when he they'd grand slam two innings ago. the one thing that we've noticed over the years about fans who stay, after a long rain delay, they are really vocal and really into the game once it gets restarted and many of them are sitting in seats they could only dream about.

way inside, almost got him on the feet 3-2. another look at the grand slam for those of you who might have been traveling home from the ballpark back in the bottom of the second. >> rob: i think he got that one. that's a great effort though. if you're a pitcher, you don't like that guy just turning his back to the infield watching it. you kind of like a courtesy jog, that was much better than a courtesy jog. >> bob: add an dunn's going to be called out on a high fastball. two beers! you got it! are you insured? do you know when your beer is perfectly cold? or do you risk drinking a warm one? if you have the new coors light cold-activated can, you're covered. because now every can turns blue when your beer... is as cold as the rockies.

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 >> bob: top of the fifth inning, 7-0 nationals over the padres. >> rob: who sings this song? >> bob: we'll find out. let's talk about those number one draft picks. three number one overall picks who went on to lead their league in home runs. you had them all. >> rob: i was doing a lot of reading during the rain delay. >> bob: i saw that. >> bob: oscar salazar who the padres got from the orioles will pinch-hit for the pitcher here leading off the top of the

fifth. salazar's had an interesting journey through baseball. really didn't play in the major leagues between 2002 and 2008. he was totally out of the game for a couple of years. and he was 13 for 31 with the orioles this year before they picked him up for right-hander clay meredith july 19. salazar 30 years of age from venezuela. some time back in 02 with the tigers. up and in. clippard blows him away. tyler clippard now has four strikeouts. >> rob: a little bit of that in milwaukee, the high cheese. yeah, you don't want to try to swing at those pitches that are letter high, but they look so

good coming in. tough to get the bat speed up that fast that high. >> bob: top of the order now, tony gwynn, jr. 0 for 2. >> rob: i just like clippard because he comes right at you and gets ahead. then you don't know if it's the slow curveball or the change- up. everything works off the fastball and i think a lot of young guys, they just start thinking, well, i've got to try to trick them, get ahead with the off-speed curveball. just throw a strike. a lot of times the hitters will give you one, you'll foul it off. sometimes you have to say, okay, he'll foul this off, then i'm going to do such and such. >> bob: interesting line on luis perdomo. three innings, five runs, four

hits, three walks, count 'em, seven strikeouts. gave up a home run and he committed an error. right now tony gwynn's not catching up with clippard's fastball. everth cabrera 2 for 2 tonight. he's been on base four times in this series. >> rob: see that piece over the finger area on the glove. a loft pitchers years ago went to that, right there, nice job, guys. >> bob: drops in the breaking ball. strikeout number five. >> rob: pitchers were finding they'd tip the pitches. right there you see him getting the slider curveball grip there on the side of the ball. here he comes with that over the hand action.

and just freezes it at home plate, but see the glove, right there, that's covering the finger so that he can't tip his pitches. >> bob: up and away to cabrera. switch hitting infielder. >> rob: you didn't hear that heckler, did you? the heckler said, be a team player, number one, because he didn't run out that double. >> bob: fans don't forget. they pay money to see people hustle. >> rob: it's funny, we were having a conversation going over some of the teams i played with and who managed me and stuff. talked about pete rose and how he could hit. think about that, over 4,000 hits, 200 hits for 20 years and

you still can't catch charlie hustle. >> bob: it's hard to imagine. a pop-up left side. >> rob: then today two different hall of famers, ozzie smith and hank aaron both said, listen, you're holding out some really good players from the hall of fail, just put an asterisk next to their name, say they played in the steroid era and put them in the hall of fame. >> bob: who would that be? >> rob: anybody who is associated with them, palmeiro, sosa, maguire. >> bob: look at this kid play center field. nyjer morgan runs some really nice routes. that was a great jump and it made the play not even need a dive at the end. 

 >> david wrote a book called have heart, he talks about how rick helped him as a coach at florida and how he still helps him during the off-season even today and he's really contributed to his big league career. we'll have more on the two brothers tomorrow on "nats xtra." this is definitely a can't miss. what an incredible family, a lot of drive and perseverance for both these young guys. >> bob: it's a family that's had a lot of sickness, a lot of health issues from the parents on down, and david's a terrific kid. we thought he might be back today from the pulled cam

string but he's still on the d.l., i asked david eckstein yesterday if he ever calls his brother for hitting advice when things don't go well. >> rob: i was there in st. louis when david eckstein was given the world series mvp, he's one of my favorite players. >> bob: not many shortstops have done that. >> rob: not many guys about 5'6", the biggest heart you could ever imagine. that kid hustles all over the field. and pretty good praise, too. i don't care what people said about barry bonds, he said david eckstein's my favorite player to watch. >> bob: mike he can strom comes in. i remember when he came to the cardinals. the fans didn't know anything about him, about one month into that season they were in love with the kid. it's a great baseball family.

>> rob: if you can't get motivated with a player like david eckstein, he's all out all the time, you can't be motivated. that's what i think rick eckstein, i love rick, he gets into this stuff, he loves his hitters, he loves hitting and figuring out pitching and how can i get our hitters to get more out of themselves. it's all you can ask out of a coach. other than him strapping it on and going out there and hitting for them. i'm watching pat taking infield with the every day players. i mean our coaches love the guys, they want them to succeed. there's patty. he and i were teammates. he charged me. came after me on the mound when i was with the white sox and he was with the brewers. he was thinking that pitch was a little close. i said, listen, i was told to throw it up and in on you, you didn't like it and you came and told me about it.

we've been friends ever since. nothing but respect for the guys that charge the mound. >> bob: here's willingham, josh is 0 for 2. we're in the bottom of the fifth inning after a three hour and 11 minute rain delay. six of the runs driven in with homers. >> rob: what, have we got a 1:35 game tomorrow? >> bob: yes. a footnote on david eckstein. his wife is an accomplished actress, her name is ashley, she was a star on blue collar tv an she's doing a lot of animated voice-over type movie work now. a lot of actors and actresses make pretty good money being those animated voices. she's involved in a two or three year project right now. >> rob: they make hundreds of millions of dollars on those. >> bob: david was a walk on in

gainesville, florida, at the u of f. became a two time all sec player and all american. but he was on the honor role in the sec three years in a row. >> rob: i meant to say that, even though i wasn't a good student, every year at my old high school i funded the scholar athletes scholarship fund because i felt i owed that to the best student that i was not and i regretted that. tell my high school coach, pick out the guys that have the highest gpa and worst fastball and give them help. >> bob: he's going rifle one right to the wall on two hops. josh is 1 for 3 tonight. and from willingham, that will be his 32nd extra-base hit of the year on double number 19. we don't see josh hit the ball

the other way a lot. but lately he's been doing some of this. >> rob: as young hitters, we're taught to hit it where it's pitched. right there he took a nice patient approach an went the other way. there's a lot of teams drooling on josh willingham right now. they would love to have that bat for the stretch drive. such a good player. such a good team guy. he's gone through an awful lot this year. >> bob: he and i were talking about mike duff on wired wednesday. including a couple of times when we put his audio on live. he said to me the next day, i'm sure glad i didn't pop up with the bases loaded when you had

that mike on me. he's such a great guy. and enjoys this game. ronnie belliard, rbi chance. fastball up. one ball, two strikes. they will evidently hit for tyler clippard who has given them three good innings of relief. and he'd be the pitcher of record, clippard. >> rob: clippard has been fantastic. logan went down to the minor leagues, he's a different pitcher than he was when we first got him from the marlins. >> bob: that ball might have gone 50 feet in the air. landed prematurely. good stop by jose lobaton. >> rob: you've got to give yourself up sometimes. that didn't get his glove.

okay, don't do that again, please. >> bob: sequence of signs since the runner is looking in from second. belliard stepped out. that ball really had some tail on it. almost got him on the hands. another animated hitter wil nieves is waiting. 3-2 now with one out. that's a good at-bat by an aggressive hitter that doesn't walk a whole lot. that's ronnie belliard's 10th walk this year. first and second, one out for nieves.

willie harris has stepped to the on-deck circle. >> rob: and you're playing into the type of game that wil nieves features. he's going to smack that into right field for at least one rbi. >> bob: let's see, it will be really interesting to see how they pitch him. >> rob: this is the thing about wil nieves. wil was originally drafted by the padres in the 47th round 14 years ago. >> reporter: he will turn on a ball. he'll swing for the downs every now and then. >> bob: so that is great story that wil is even in the big leagues. when you consider 7 to 800 players were taken before him. >> rob: just need a chance. david eckstein, wil nieves.

>> bob: looking at what's left on the bench. willie harris, the only lefty, gonzalez and kearns the right- handers, hernandez and josh bard the switch hitters.   >> bob: wil is 0 for 2 tonight, striking out swinging twice. and a breaking ball well outside gets him for the third time. two on, two out. now willie harris has gone back into the dugout. were they just showing him and might jim riggleman be staying

with tyler clippard here? >> rob: yes, they are. >> bob: and the nats fans are applauding. they like the way the pitchers are going after things tonight. the two out bases empty walk by j.d. martin back in the second inning, that led to a five run explosion. >> rob: and jim riggleman's also saying i don't maybe want to burn willie harris right here with two outs in the bottom of the fifth, he may get another chance to use him later on in the game if need be, if it became a tight game. that's what managers and coaches do. always thinking. 

 >> bob: a red-hot nyjer morgan on deck. 3 for 3 tonight. fastball for a strike, 1-2. two on, two out. some weather blew through here, now pitchers are blowing away hitters. 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.

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 >> rob: this is tyler clippard's grip in his glove, right there. i'm going throw some cheese right by you, and then i'm going throw a great 12-6 curveball here. right overt top. sit down. coors light freeze cam. we've got plenty of time now to grab a coors light and be under the bench. got some ballgame. >> bob: we're approaching midnight. adrian gonzalez 0 for 1 with a walk, now a fourth inning of

work for tierl clippard. this is the kind of outing you're hoping for when you have a big lead and the weather gets in the way. you don't want to be bring inning a pitcher every inning or two. three, four and five for the padres here. how about that. first pitch off-speed, strike one. he's mixed the speeds really well against gonzalez. and for that matter, kouzmanoff. >> rob: he's done a great job coming out of the bullpen since he was brought up here. >> rob: boy, i would like to see him possibly get a start here soon. if you have command of three pitches and you can locate them at will anytime in the count, you can start at this level. those guys that are in the bullpen usually just have command of one and possibly two pitches. there you see him blowing away a very good hitter in adrian gonzalez, one of the best in the big leagues.

confused by the change-up. they're saying, what was that? well, here's the fastball grip. got ahead on the 78-mile an hour fastball. the two fastballs, or change- ups, then two fastballs after that. but they look 95 because of the mile an hour differential and it's the same arm speed. it's what i call the equalizer, because there's no way they can be looking for your change-up. they're looking a the 91-mile an hour fastball. if you slow up your arm to try to slow the ball down, that's what the hitters pick up on. >> bob: clippard is working on quite a week here. trying to complete four scoreless innings at least here tonight. the padres only have an infield hit and a walk against him.

by the way, the updated numbers on rain delays sent to us by the nats media relations guys. 2022 minutes this year, over 18 ballgames. that's 33 hours and 42 minutes. >> rob: now we know what they do in the rain delays. >> bob: well, they accomplish a little more than we did. and a pop fly. nick johnson and ronnie belliard, and belliard's going to take it. two outs here in the sixth. it's a t-shirt presented by tickets.com for the first 10,000 fans through the gates when the nats play the marlins.

we have nationals fans all over the country. i just got an email from the pacific northwest from some former washingtonians who live out there. and said they enjoyed coming home at 8:30 on a saturday night an got to see the nationals play. on the satellite. our old friends erica and matt skelton out there who just got married. our best to them and a 7-0 nats lead here. chase headley, ground ball and a fly out. so rob dibble, you've spent one day and nine hours of your life this year with me sitting through rain delays. >> rob: i wasn't always with you. i visit the concession stand. >> bob: it's why we're still

speaking. >> rob: i had some ice cream tonight and a pretzel, please, start playing baseball, you're going to ruin my diet. the food here is delicious. >> bob: coming out in the fall a. new movie. the announcer who ate nationals park. 

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