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>> rob: it's time for the nats to start playing a little better against the pittsburgh pirates. welcome to pnc park! the folks coming in for a saturday night baseball game and a concert afterwards. the pirates have beaten the nats four out of five so far this year. bob carpenter, rob dibble, welcome to western pennsylvania. no matter where we are on the map, ryan zimmerman has been very good lately. >> rob: and he's right at the heart of this nucleus. it is a very young ball club. elijah dukes comes up. ryan zimmerman, our all-star third baseman has been on fire lately. defensively we know he is stellar. he has a great glove at third. one error in the last basically two dozen ballgames. and then with the bat he has been stellar. he has bunch of home runs alot of rbi's. he's really starting to swing the bat the way he should a nice guy to sit in that three hole and adam dunn comes up behind him. look at how good? first in at-bats, second or third or fourth, top five in

almost every category for third basemen in the major leagues so ryan zimmerman, our all-star, he is the nucleus of this team. >> right there with the best in this league and both leagues at his position. now, elijah dukes was sent down to triple-a one month ago today. he was hitting .244 for the nats in 57 games. he went down there, worked hard. at .279, elijah is back! p)@)@)

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the nats are only 12-38 on the road. they need to get something going in this series, three games left in this set against the battling bucs. and elijah dukes is back. .288 average overall in syracuse. three home runs, 10 rbi's. and when he was sent down a month ago r. ago, right on the first of july hitting .244 for the nats. interesting, though, it moves josh willingham back to left field. we'll tell you more about the defense aspect of this move, and this is vir gill vazquez. he is 27 years of age. he was born in venezuela and has been in this country a long time. he has had five games, three starts with the tigers. back in the big leagues making his seventh start with the pirates. >> rob: the pnc scouting report. he can throw a strike. he is a late bloomer, 27 years old. as bob said, this is his 10th career start. and this might be his last

chance to walk the plank, get some people out, or he might be going to the bullpen or, even worse, back to the minor leagues, let go by the tigers and the red sox. >> bob: the pirates defensively have the fewest errors in the national league. and andrew mccouchen is one to watch in center field. he's the reason nyjer morgan is a national. lastings milledge, second game since his recall. and brandon moss out there with those two young steedsters tonight. andy laroche lad a great game at third base last flight and ryan doumit is there at catcher and a nice hand for nyjer morgan who gets introduced. nyjer morgan oh-fer four with a walk and a pick-off last night. the first pitch of the game is up and away. we're underway at 7:06 eastern. hazy, cloudy, and 79, but quite, quite muggy in theburg

tonight. off-speed pitch. that will be easy. doumit on the fist out. >> rob drake is the home plate umpire tonight. mark wagner at first, tim tim mon at second base. it looks like adrian johnson is there. we had a substitution on the umpiring crew. according to the sheet, adrian johnson was not here last night. so he's at home plate. >> rob: he was kidnapped by pirates! >> bob: you never know here. >> rob: they don't make umpires walk the plank, do they? >> bob: no that is a strike to guzman. >> rob: the bridges are yellow. it is all about the pirates and the steelers, and the penquins. >> bob: guzman, six consecutive multi-hit games and hitting

.304. up the middle. right through the wickets and the nats have a base runner with one out. you'll hear a smootherring of applause for the nats tonight. there's a whole bunch of fan whose have made the trip up here. the nationals have not made an error since they made four a week ago last night at home against san diego. the bullpen pretty good since the break, under three run as game. and the pirates lead the national league. they have only made 43 errors this year. so there are a lot of curly w's and d.c.s and lots of nats fans hanging around in pittsburgh. >> rob: and they have the cameras out for ryan zimmerman who hit one a mile last night. >> bob: i saw ryan after the game. i said, son, you got all of that one. he said it sure felt good. i just wish there had been a couple of men on base. that was his 20th. ryan has had 20 or more for the third time in his young career.

he gets jammed and hits it up the middle. guzman is going to turn and go to third. mccouchen's throw is late and the nats have a corner situation with one out. and a good job by gods guzman of identifying that that ball had not been hit that hard. roy a very head's up play here. the jam shot. christian guzman realizes this is not a hard hit ball. it is going to take a while for him to get to it. he takes a little stutter step and then puts that high gear on again. i was just going to say. i know there is an errorless streak, but they have made a lot of young mental errors, whether it is hernandez, fernandez or even the young nieves not blocking the plate. >> bob: this is true. >> rob: think, if the ball is hit to me, what do i have to do? if i have to throw it into somebody, where do i go? things like that you should nee at this level. >> bob: by the way, the first

inning has been a big problem for yafz that ball is going away from milledge and it is a fair ball. he can't get there! guzman scores. zimmerman to third and dunn to second with a double! adam dunn hit it where it hurts and the nats are on the board and this year now in the first inning, opponents are 13-29 against vazquez. >> rob: he has a good sinker. 88 to 90 miles per hour. he throws it down and away that is our lastings milledge. that's why we traded you. he can't come up with the catch. >> bob: .448 is the opponents' batting average now against -- for the opponents against vir gill vasquez. breaking ball. that thing was hanging. >> rob: that is the curve ball

that worries them because he is slow. you saw the arm speed. he slows his arm down to throw that pitch, so it is very recoginzable to a hitter. a good late breaking slider. decent changeup. >> bob: the 0-1 to willingham. another late breaking ball and he fouls it. he has been a pretty good two- strike hitter lately. >> rob: around the batting cage, i feel pretty good when you do good. he said i feel pretty good when i do good. she is a great guy. >> bob: it hit him. an 0-2 fastball up and in. it got him on the elbow guard, and now the nats have the bases loaded with one out. >> rob: 0-2. vasquez tries to come inside and bangs him.

it is a nice smooth delivery, good arm speed. your pitching coach is not going to like that. >> bob: what an interesting situation for elijah dukes to make his return to the major leagues. his first at-bat, the bases are loaded in the top of the first. elijah, six homers, 30 rbi's this year. and there is that big rolling breaking ball, but he missed with it. >> rob: i told you, one oh of my favorite guys to watch is elijah dukes. he is very, very quiet. he doesn't do a whole lot of moving in the box. >> bob: and that breaking ball is foul. it came up and hit him. the count is even at 1-1. base

running bunch already. zimmerman a base hit, dunn an rbi double, willingham hit by an 0-2 pitch and now a 1-1 now to dukes. elijah offers and lays off. ball two. >> rob: he has to be tough, too. he's got do be fired up. to come back here and prove that he belongs. he should be the every day right fielder or left fielder. a big pitch for the young pitcher here rand he get as hard breaking ball by dukes and take one he didn't slow down. he had some giddy up on that. >> rob: that is the hard slider . >> bob: and a 2-2 to eli i

can't. he got a -- elijah. he got a piece of it and he spoiled a good pitch. as i meaned, the first inning a big-time problem for him. 10-25 coming in, and now the nats are 3-4 against him. and dukes stays alive again. he's enhanced his chances of the count going to 3-2 here or getting something to work with. the left-hander josh bard, the switch hitter on deck. >> rob: when he got sent down, he was pulling off breaking balls. he wasn't driving through, hitting them back to the pitch other to the right side that is something he has to work on. and vasquez. i'm sure he has a scouting report. >> bob: 2-2. and dukes will hit it out to center that will be deep enough to send zimmerman home. dunn is tagging, but he'll have to stay as the throw misses the

cut-off man. he is showing off his arm and the nats lead 2-0. rbi number 31 for elijah dukes and a quality at-bat for his return. >> rob: yes. excellent at-bat. a lot of breaking balls. he only got a fastball away. he punched out to center field. welcome back. >> bob: yes, sir. now here is josh bard. and still a runner in scoring position. two outs now. bard looking for his 20th rbi. he'll get under one and fly it to right for brandon moss. the nat also get a couple. three hits ahit batter, a sac fly, and a crooked number on the board in the first inning. mccouchen. owo j

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guys before. the second among rookies is andrew mccutchen on the southwest.com lineup. this kid is so 10-22 in his last six games at the home park here. lastings milledge, two hits in his return to the big leagues last night. ryan doumit may be the other young player you know all about. stammen pitched into the seventh inning against the pirates that night before struggling. and adam laroche two-run homer, that was the big blow in that, but he did pitch very well against the pirates in his major league debut for the most part. mccutchen hitting a .281. a chopper foul. an on-base average of .339. not a bad 0-2 pitch. over a bit low.

mccutchen is only 22. out of fort meade, florida, where he was a politicallity- sport star in high school. stammen jams him and get as foul ball. there he is, 2-4 with two of his season's three rbi's last night. lastings milledge. 2-2. stammen's 14th start, opponents hitting .266 against him. and turning on that one, mccutchen, the left-field line. he struggled and hit fair and at the wall. it is a home run! josh willingham couldn't get it! and that is the one corner of left field where you can get a 325 or 30-foot fly to leave!

>> rob: well, 2-2 pitch. too much of the plate. mccutchen. he get as good whack at it. and it doesn't make great contact, but just enough to clear the wall right by the fair pole. crazy. >> bob: you know, i've noticed teams play their left fielders pretty far off the line here because it is so shallow down there, and then it gets deep so quickly. but now we've already seen two runs tonight that might have been prevented. milledge was playing dunn way out in left center and if josh willingham is waiting for that one, he might have been able to grab it, he had a long way to go. and now milledge turns an fouls one. >> rob: my number two thing on my thing to look for tonight on p. y. c., finish them off. get -- he gets ahead very well. three as lot of strikes. 0-2 on the first hitter, 0-2 on this guy.

put him away. >> bob: that is only the 76th of the year, homer, for the pirates. they know that is a long fly ball out in some ballparks. milledge reaches out and has one to center. nyjer morgan is right there. >> rob: jump all over the p. y. -- pnc scouting report here. the nationals have won three of the last four starts, including the one he could not finish where josh willingham hit two grand slams. to finish them off, he gets ahead very well. she a road warrior, 2-2, and much better on the road than at home this year. he can throw a lot of strikes, but you have to be able to put big league hitter ace way once you get ahead. >> bob: here is garrett jones hitting .310. >> rob: yeah, that milwaukee game he lasted four and 2/3. the nationals ended up winning the ballgame 14-6, and he guilty a no decision.

>> bob: five runs on nine hits. stammen has seen the pirates before, of course. he came it of that ballgame with a 5.68 e.r.a. and then the 0-2. well outside. the third consecutive hitter. he has gotten to that point in the count. garrett jones is is a 28-year- old outfielder from harvey, illinois, originally signed by atlanta 10 years ago. left center. nyjer morgan can't get there and plays it hon a hop. john lannan, pretty hittable last night and stammen, not a great start here tonight. now, here is the defense we talked about with elijah dukes and his 10 assists in right field. josh willingham back to left where he's more comfortable, and with morgan in the middle,

very, very good. al weathero gonzales struggling a bit in the field and big-time with the bat. the nats need to get him going, and here is ryan doumit, the catcher, hitting just .245. and he rolls a double play ball. gonzales, guzman, and a made-to- order 4-6-3. that will save some pitches. the lead-off homer by andrew mccutchen, his fourth of the year. 2-1 after one. ♪

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after mail-in rebate.  >> bob: the lineup, nyjer morgan is in left. brandon moss is still herement and adam laroche, he has gone to boston and now atlanta and ryan doumit. here is the new look pirates. ronny cedeno, a veteran shortstop brought in. delwyn young, mccutchen, every day center fielder. >> rob: and moss and laroche, they're part of the deal last year that sent jason bay to the red sox, manny ramirez, so they're brand-new from last year. really doumit is the only guy that has been around here for a couple of years >> bob: top of the second.

alberto gonzalez. >> bob: an dry yan johnson with the emphatic strike call. gonzales, stammen and morgan, the top of the second. alberto pops it up. he has been a fly ball machine, and that's why he is  in this ballpark, and freddy sanchez have gone on oh to the west coast. >> alberto gonzalez really popped the ball up as he is so slow getting the bat through the zone. he's got that big, slow swing

back. they have been working on with him. you have to get th together quickly. >> bob: stammen has a quick swing. he is 5-21 this year paa pretty hitting young nationals'staf all of sudden that is a big breing ball. he foul tipped it, and thquite >> rob: doumit, i think it was the transfer that he dropped see what happens. >> bob: he doesn't argue much, does he? >> rob: i don't think he was lying. >> bob: get your red on. watch the nats and the d-backs a week from tonight on 7:075. the first 15,000 fans, you'll want to be there early. it is adam dunn bobble head night presented by pnc bank.

888-632-nats, nationals.com or stop by the nats park box office. jer morgan sometime may be bunched o much. e playing him in. andy laroche made a great play on him last night. he'd have much better success dragging the ball down the first baseline, but it seems like his bunting forte is laying it down the third base way. he'll pull that one. they know they've got to hurry. that's a base hilt -- base hit. he almost committed to second base and now he goes back. >> rob: i talked to rick eckstein about nyjer morgan's game and he is is kind of caught the between whether or not to put the balls down on some bunts or try to slap the ball either way. he's got really good bat control. but part of his game, it is a speed game. he just has to put the ball there, down on the turf, and run. there you see cedeno can't come

up with it. that's just some bad baseball. >> bob: look out, ump! mark wagner getting out of dodge. >> rob: delwyn young. >> bob: here is guzman. this is always interesting because with guzman, a very impatient hitter. morgan has to steal northwesterly the count if he is going to get to second base. guzman has walked nine times this year in 359 at-bats. base hit first time. the runner holding. off-speed pitch. it probably would have been a good pitch on which to run. ryan doumit, 3-14 throwing out opposing base runners. a right-hander picked off. >> rob: going back to your trading stuff, the pirates in the last 12, 14 months have traded 15 pitchers, five

outfielders an two catchers, two shortstops, a first baseman, second baseman and a third baseman. that is in 14 months. >> bob: $25 million in payroll. they kept their mascot, though, and they kept their manager, john russell. >> rob: a jolly roger on that one. >> bob: 1-1 to guzman. >> rob: i like the parrot. >> bob: there he goes. foul ball. just one play. and the nats are gone, in the top of the second. they've had four hits already and lead 2-1. 

 >> the nats up 2-1 as we mo to the bottom of this second inning. it seems like the nats have definitely been playing better baseball and with more of a sense of urgency. i asked craig stammen how is the tone in the clubhouse, how has it changed under jim riggleman? >> we're not satisfied with losing. i think we weren't before, but now it has come to the forefront and we talk about it instead of it just being this the back of our minds. we're always thinking about it, and when we lose we still are thinking about it. >> i think the players feel more accountable and that has definitely translated into better play. gentlemen? >> bob: the nats over the last 12 games have split those. that's even with losing three in a row. so taking care of that one right there is alberto

gonzalez. delwyn young the start the bottom of the second. rob, you can speak to that. you know, you hear people talk about a sense of urgency, to me, that is something that has to come from the players because nobody who is not in uniform in the clubhouse knows what they're talking about when they bring up such things. >> they have so many young guys, but right now the one thing they should all realize is a lot of them are playing for their jobs, not just for this year, but for next year, the last 60 games they're being evaluated by jim riggleman, the coaching staff and everybody in the front office, and when they go to the winter meetings, some guys are not going to be here next year so it all depends on how you play these next few months. there is mike rizzo. he is doing a fantastic job and it is just a question of you have to have smarts to go along with talent. >> bob: zimmerman will yield to guzman.

two quick outs. >> rob: a guy throws 95 or a guy -- boy, he hits great in batting practice. you have to show it in the game. >> bob: yes. >> bob: right around 60, of all of these put together. jordan zimmermann threw a bullpen yesterday. they're not sure exactly when they're going to bring him back, but he is back and throwing after that rest period for his elbow, and that's good news. and a ball popped up left side off the bat of brandon moss. ryan zimmerman there, and stammen has a great inning as nobody comes close to centering the ball. zimmerman, dunn and willingham coming up!

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on-ways average, fantastic. slugging percentage, way up there. the first time up, he didn't hit the ball that hard. he got jammed and ryan is strong enough to muscle that ball over the second baseman for a base hit. >> rob: line drive in the paper tomorrow. 1-1 pitch. he hits another one hard. 2-2 ryan zimmerman. 117 hits on the year. when he is locked in, not many are better. >> rob: you see that first step right towards the plate. and i would never say this unless he was my guy, but if you're a pitcher, you're going to have to start throwing a little more inside to keep him from diving. keep ripping the tar out of the ball. >> bob: adam dunn collected his 75th rbi with the high fly

double down the left-field line his first time up. the shift is on. milledge, it seems to me, is a little closer to the left-field line this time. mccutchen is shaded towards left center and even well off the line is moss. they don't think adam dunn is going do pull the ball in the air. if he does, it might take out that boat that is going by at the moment. there is an off-speed pitch low and inside. 2-0. >> rob: the barge. >> bob: there he goes. he has his radar turning in case a baseball comes at him to take evasive measures. 2-0. that one got in on adam's hands. dunn is now hitting ..380 his

last 15 ballgames. right in up ther corner of that zone. look out. >> rob: he backed up two changeups in a row and adam was ready for the second one. >> bob: fortunately that ball hit in the aisle of the two seating sections. josh willingham is on deck and a good punch and now you have added the power of elijah dukes to the mix. with dukes back and morgan and guzman setting the table, and then the three, four, five, six combo, this is a potentially a very potent lineup again. >> rob: absolutely. speed, power, and the guy guys

that are going to take great at- bats and make the pitcher work. >> bob: 3-2 with nobody out. ryan has not attempted a stolen base this year. >> rob: thus the need to keep him close. >> bob: and dunn, a strikeout hitter, the probability of a strike 'em out, throw 'em out probability is high. but the runner is going and also the probability of a good batting eye and dunn walks for the 79th time this year. so he threw him a changeup on 3- 2 and the nats have something going here. josh willingham will bat with a couple of men aboard for the second straight time. he was up there with second and third in the first inning, and an 0-2 pitch hit him on the left elbow.

looking to reach the 40 rbi mark or go beyond. 82 to 85 on the changeup. high 80s with the fastball. >> rob: mid 80s on the slider and mid 70s to 80 on the breaking ball that he slows his arm down on. >> bob: and jeff karstens is up and throwing. >> rob: we said before, he is not pitching well. listening to the pre-game show, mr. john russell talked about he could be put in the bullpen.

>> bob: willingham pops it up. it was called an infield fly rule at the end by rob drake, the 3áb umpire. a week from tomorrow, you could have another family fun pack back. all sunday games are $14, an upper right terrace ticket or a reserved ticket gets you a hot dog, non-alcoholic drink and chips with each ticket. minimum of two tickets per purchase. the pre-game autographs. the kids run the bases, and there is the bray ground as well. nationals.com, 888-632-nats. get your red on like those guys! and dukes breaks his bat and hit as double play ball and this inning came unraffled in a hurry. a pop-up, a double play, and the nationals bail out a struggling pitcher. 

 >> the nationals lead 2-1. have five hits already, but lately they haven't been very patient against a pitcher who struggled. it has never been easier to take in a ballgame for you nats fans. see for yourself. stub hub.com, the official fan- to-fan market place of the washington nationals. and colin balester and paul ma hold tomorrow. garrett mock and charlie morton on monday night and then the

nats come home to face the marlins. >> rob: they should have known that coming into this game. >> bob: josh bard, first pitch swinging with two men on in the first inning when he was struggling, and then elijah dukes, one out after a walk, the first pitch swinging, 6-4-3 double play ball. the nationals are supposed to be a patient-hitting team. >> rob: against this guy, they should be even more patient. he's pitching for his big league life right here. don't help him. make him throw a bunch of pitches and get him out of there. he has ronny cedeno. he is retired -- he has retired four in a row getting two

retired in the process. and a base hit on a 2-2 pitch. in important of the pitcher. >> rob: that was 2-2 right down broadway. >> bob: vasquez is oh-fer nine as a big league hitter. he squares the bunt and hits it hard over the screen. >> rob: chest bunt. chest high, shoulder height fastball.

>> bob: he lays that one down well. adam dunn turns around and throws wide to gonzales. alberto pulled it in, 3-4 on the sacrafice. and rob, sometimes a fly ball floats out of the ballpark. this's what mccouch ben did. >> rob: he was just trying to hit the ball hard somewhere with the upper part of his bat, and. they'll take it, though. the kid can make some contact. he's doing almost exactly what nyjer morgan is doing. he is trying to put the ball in play and run like the wind. >> rob: i'd like to see mccutchen and niagaraer in a 40-

yard race, maybe a 100-meter race. >> bob: mccutchen, 3-4 with a walk in this series asingle, double and already. >> rob: some young fliers. >> bob: he'll lay down the bunt that's trouble. first and third, one out with milledge coming up. >> rob: i almost recall nyjer morgan doing that in milwaukee when he led off with a home run and then he came back and he tried to lay down a bunt and that's what mccutchen does. this is for a hit and that is a beautifully laid down bunt. you know you have a slow catcher. bard is having a hard time getting out of there. >> bob: and mccutchen, seven years younger than nyjer morgan. he is 2-2 tonight and here is milledge who flied to center the first time up. ringing threat at first to stay

out of the double play. the fastball after a long pause. stammen tried to freeze mccutchen who has stolen nine base this is year without being caught.   >> milledge will get anothe rbi against his former team. measure couchen is going to score and the pirates lead 3-2 and lastings milledge is wearing out his former team.

>> rob: that is a pitch that bard wanted down, the center of the hitting zone you could maybe be the least talented major leaguer and you're going to have a field day with witches that are that good. you have to start getting in and away. i think he is going to share that with mr. stammen. >> bob: we made no bones about it, for the most part in milwaukee, it 'twas nationals the' bats that got them one win. now, colin balester was pretty good on tuesday, two runs, five hits in six innings in an 8-3 win.

but other than that game, the pitching has not been that stellar this week. j.d. martin's outing wasn't that bad a couple of runs came in on him in that last inning that the bullpen could have saved him a few runs. >> rob: but he was pretty sharp. >> bob: the nats have a pitcher up here in the third inning. stammen has given up five hits now. garrett the hitter, he singled his first time up. >> rob: this is a lineup you should be mowing down at there level. this is a make shift lineup at best, with one guy that has double figures in home runs. >> bob: and he's only been around for -- >> rob: like a month. >> bob: that ball is well hit to right center. dukes back, and elijah makes the catch! >> rob: great catch! >> bob: he was at full speed about 380 feet away, and that's one of the best plays we've ever seen elijah dukes make. he's got the speed to get back on a ball, rob, and he hasn't

always been able to finish it off and he did this time. >> rob: the pitch not down and away enough, but elijah dukes, we have a deuce out there, like the morgan in center, a great play. and no fear hitting the wall. a little more -- one of the more talented young men in the game. if he puts it all together, he will stay for a long time. >> bob: here is ryan doumit. so three hits, and that long ball in the inning and the mats are still only down by one. doumit hit into a 4-6-3 double play the first time. home cooking. it is a good ballpark for right- handed batters. cozy down the line. a nice big right center field

gap, left-hander. a nice big gap in left center. >> rob: he is a big kid, too. doumit is a big human, just like dunn. >> rob: someone told me that dunn splashed one. >> bob: that is a fair ball. stammen finds the bag and the inning is over. two good defensive plays, but the pirates pick up two and lastings milledge knocks them in. úú÷÷

 >> on a nice night in pittsburgh, the top of the fourth inning coming up. the nats are down a run now after leading 2-0 early. trivia coming your way. pete rose, rod carew, 1-2 in hits during the 1970s. who is number three on that list? >> rob: was it a pirate? bill matt lock. did he get traded here from the dodgers? >> bob: he was a new addition to the 1979 club. >> rob: he won a bunch of -- >> bob: or was it clement? >> rob: clement only played a couple of years. before he passed away in 1972

thwn their waout nehoov of a couple of rallies. bard flied out, the fis --@@h otom ofh  the nats have scored a couple. >> rob: he said the pirates rebuilding. the nationals are rebuilding to win. there's a lot of great talent, and i absolutely agree with  on this. there is a lot of talent on% %-needúúúúccúccçing like it. therll be some changes. they'll make some mos in the off season, but the guys that are here should be pounding  is pirates' team.  >> rob: th have almost traded 

a 40-man roster. a lead-off man on for the ind, nd time in úa row. the nationals won nine games and lost 18 in the month of july. they were third in average, and pretty good with runners in scoring position and on-base percentage. nyjer morgan and they scored lots of runs, so the nats won five games in april, nine in may, nine in june and  july. there is the first pitch take for gonzales. he has -- hasn't proven he can get ahead of anyone tonight. >> rob: he hasn't proven he has anything to get anyone out. he has four pitches hhe throws for strikes but none of them are great. >> bob: there is 2-0 again. >> rob: you shouldn't be intimidated.

you should be waiting for one pitcher to crush. >> bob: they need to speed that bat up a bit and i know you think he has a really long swing now. he is right down toward the end of that knob. >> rob: i'm not the only one. >> bob: he hits another fly ball. this one has some carry to it. they have a fast guy out there. >> rob: it is not his game. >> bob: an alberto gonzalez is four for his last 41. >> rob: they know what everybody's game is and gonzales's game is not big swings. it is chopping down on the ball. it is slice and dice. he is a guy that hits it into the gaps. >> bob: some pitchers you would guarantee a sacrafice here. saddamen swings the bat pretty well, but that won't move the runnerment brandon moss will get it. jim riggleman took a shot that his pitcher will get him a base

hit, which he has done five times this year. >> rob: a pretty good hitting pitcher. jim riggleman, he wants to see what guys can do with the bat. >> bob: here is morgan. he got his first hit of the series the last time on a chopper up the middle. his 118th hit and he is in the top ten in the national league in hits now. z he gets that one down the line. not hit very far.