your world delivered. another scoreless inning for john lannan. when desmond came in after relaying it after the out had been made. hernandez gave him a big hug in the duwt. here is martinez against pete orr. a walk and a 2-run homer today. since coming to the nats this time around, pete is hitting 325. 13 ts hange upand martinez misses 2-

1. that's on the bag and into the corner. great speed. digging for 3. he gets back. @a lead off double. not bad for a ryandor man, you get to rest. is the production going to be there if i'm not there. and pete orr has been fell follow. >> bob: that's where he neats to -- needs to pick up the  base coach. he did some coaching. this he are talking about it.

he said man i'm here. pick me up: we see too many base runners that coach themselves. nieves 1 for 2. >> rob: i caulked to cookie row house. he they refuse to listen to the pitching coaches, they have it bigged out. in the series. a walk. they need a good situation at bad. drive in the runner. the pitcher is coming up. over to 3rd base. that should be on paulino.

, you bring in the bullpen early in the game. this guy is coming out hanging. >> bob: you know what the other thing is when you are the starter it take a few minutes out of the club. we were into their bullpen cost night. it has opinion 91 games since there has ban starter go 7. nieve as tapper. count is 3-2. >> rob: we're seeing a lot of starter struggle. that's the last thing you want to see if you have playoff aspirations. if you make the playoffs they

will be shot. >> bob: nats had runners on face a ul tay. down. got away to 3rd. and a fastball. that's to the right of ramirez. look at orr he comes home on contact. a agreement base running job. nats lead 7-1. they play by ramirez and r.b.i.

for nieves. >> rob: when you talk about orr, talk about the player coming down the line. three steps down the line he can score and give that run for and to nieves to get that ball to the right side of ramirez. >> bob: here is lannan. john takes ball 2. we miss the speed. and that kind of stuff helps, when you tonight have burning street you have to take a walking lead and do the fundamental stuff. >> bob: lannan fouls it. >> rob: i talked to rick

eckstein about this. put it on the carpet. done madingley would hit it to the infield. guy on 3rd. scores. >> bob: and vain and they lead the mets. not looking good this sunday for the marlins. they are a 5-2; 2-2 count for john lannan. one out. take it easy. two outs. top of the order. dodgers are coming to nats town. watch the game in style. go to nationals.com/win. you watch them play the

dommers. >> we'll top by. >> bob: we'll find out where you are. >> bob: i will be the taster. >> rob: i'll taste the ref rages and the foot. >> bob: it will be fun. willie harris. a bouncer. a lot of overspin. to the pitcher. teny visits with mike rizzo live next. plan a multi-room dvr? so you can record in one room and watch in up to six others. you can do that with cable! living room. bedroom. kitchen. thank you. (announcer) get the amazing multi-room dvr from verizon fios free for 3 months. you can watch recorded shows in up to seven different rooms. plus get all three fios services, tv, internet and phone for the price of two.

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 we feel that if need be h can make the transition or stay at shortstop but you know. the debut has been hard to find any fault in it so far. he has been spectacular. how difficult is it not to be tricked by blood play in september. september within you are in a position we're in and the players are relaxed here. it is a different feel than you get through the long haul of the season. we're optimistic bought cautious. we take everything with a grain of salt. and it can fool you. tim foley has been helpful.

you makes changes. what are your plans? he has been a important part of the organization he is a great baseball mind in our organization and he is -- he made the transformation to triple a manager last to help us out in triple a. we feel he may be best suited as a field coordinator. not just our triple a players. great, thank you. back over to you, bob. >> bob: thank you. and chris coghlan. retired to lead off the bottom of the 5th. they have got the lead off man off base 2 out of three times. here is nick johnson. lannan 66 pitches. 40 strikes in the first four innings. first pitch breaking ball. stayed inside for a ball.

>> bob: in his 26th game as a marlin, came in hitting .348. drive that to right field. dukes is back. warning track. 2 outs. letting out an exhale there. not as many ground ball outs as he gets. >> rob: he is holding down a potent offense. he is keeping the pitch count respectable. he can get to the 6th or 7th

inning. a test here. >> bob: 2nd out of three times. the bases empty. forces you to do so many things opposing him. there is cantu next. two outs, bases empty. orr was charging. he thought may lay down a bunt. or a line drive by you. he is versatile as a hit weir speed and power. up the middle. guzman picks it off. he didn't hurry the throw and ramirez steal as base hit. you cannot take a couple of

hits. look at that. >> rob: guzman goes to the left. he takes his time and target. >> bob: that's his 184th hit. cantu the hitter. guzman made a fine glove play. didn't finish it off quick. now lan nan's job from macing that hurt. ramirez stole a base down 3 in the 1st. not sure he is thinking along the lines. they need him aboard for someone to blast one. off speed. rob, you talked with this last week. when uggla got into the base of ramirez recently.

watching what they just did, that must mean the message got through loud and clear. the fact he knows that the majority of his teammates were on uggla's side. he realizes that he has been selfish and just because you are in a slump you don't want to play and didn't look like he had a bad hamstring to me. they police themselves. that was a great job. and saying you are the best on the team, you have to be in there every day for to us have a chance to go to the playoffs. >> bob: lining one hard. harris grabs it. 5th inning over. cruising and nashs lead 7-1. 

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disseminated. 4th pitcher. left-hander. 28 years of age. came over from0 oakland. a the box score is full and busy. they scored off the first three pitchers. and got the starter out after 3. he had have to be upset. that would be a mismatch that

could be a big day for phillies having issues of their own. >> rob: they don't have one getting the out. >> rob: if you look when he bro urgent in myers i'm sure that he was saying why don't i gate call. that gets in your head. those are little things. charlie is trying to figure it out but that kid is thinking i have done a good job. he is out for three months with a torn labor rim. >> rob: it was a couple of years ago. >> bob: 3-2. desmond is out looking. >> rob: they are pounding the outside part of the plate. struck out in the pitch here. and gets caught looking at the

outside pitch. that was well inside the corner. he walked up to maier before he got in i think he said this guy struck out last night. pound the outside part of the plate. rain coming down hard; very hard. >> bob: this is south florida. five minutes from now it could be sunny. 1 for 3 very sell mom you get through an afternoon without a shower here. guzman has the 49th multihit

game of the year. >> rob: chad fair child calling time to get a new ball. the crew chief at 2nd base. he is looking around. he will be checking the infield dirt. he is telling the true to be ready. he is going to call it right now. we'll have a rain delay at 2:50 p.m. 1 hour, 39 minutes after the start of the game. coming down hard. nats in a good position. leading 7-1 in the top of the 6th. the crew goes to work. and news until we come back here.

>> steve bunin back with michael kim on espnews. one of the games under the rar day, turned out to be a good one, u.c.l.a. and tennessee. ties the game at ten in knoxville. fourth quarter, fourth and goale at the u.c.l.a. two. two minutes left. hardesty takes the handoff. stopped short of the goalline. big stop for the bruins' d. ensuing possession for u.c.l.a.s backed way up. trying to make something out of nothing. now it's a 19-15 game.

vols trying the march down the field.ece stuck near mid-field. th jonathan crompton grounds the ball into the turf. u.c.l.a. goes into knoxville and comes out with a win.mptn a next up for lane kiffin and the vols, a trip to florida. next up for rick neuheisel, us. the bruins' coach joins us now on espnews. coach, we appreciate your time. what do you feel you learned about your team yesterday? >> well, we were resilient and we're tough. you can't take those things for grapghted. you got to prove them every week. but going into that environment, playing in that arena, it was fun to see our guys fight and scrap. >> last year's team went 4-8. what's different between that team and these bruins? >> well, we put a lot of off-season work in trying to get bigger and stronger. we had a great recruiting year.e we added some speed to the equation, and now we just got tt get more efficient. we've had a lot of mistakes incn the first twoce weeks, which i guess is kind of normal for as young a team as we are, but i we've got to fix it if we want to continue to improve and hope

to be around in the conference race in november.a cr >> what sort of movement. would you like to see most from your freshman quarterback kevin prince? >> i just want him to get more comfortable. it was hard for him to get comfortable yesterday. you have to give credit to the monte kiffin defense. he's got to be able to make those throws he makes in practice routinely.toudo and you know, he's growing in the position, but he certainly can play better. >> you walked on at u.c.l.a. as a quarterback. how would you compare your game as a freshman to his? >> i never even saw the field as a freshman. >> i know. how would you compare your game? >> he's a much better athlete. that's one rule i have. i only recruit people who are better than i am. >> what does he bring to your team when he's on in >> he's got all the intangibles. he's got all the stuff you look for. he's got to get comfortable and play as well as he's capable of playing. we saw glimpse of that in the san diego state game. we saw some real good plays

yesterday. he's got to be more consistent. i know he knows that. the more he gets out there, the more he gets comfortable with, the more we'll see what i think will be the true kevin prince, and i think that's going to be a really good player. >> other than game experience,, how can you as a coach get him to be more comfortable on saturday. >> i started telling jokes yesterday on the sideline. we decided to let him get mismouth knocked open and see if we... we're trying all sorts of strategies to get him to relaxcw and have fun. the >> which was more effective? >> it looks like the spitting out of teeth was a pretty good. >> did he really do that? >> on the last play trying the get the ball out of the end zone, he fought to get out there and took one in the chops. the good news is his dad is a dentist, so he can get that fixed at home. >> so he's got dad to fix things up. what do you feel like you have to learn about you team as september turns into october? >> now we have the handle success, you know, it's a big when you go into an s.e.c.

stadium as rich with tradition as neyland stadium. so now you saw all these teams that had great week one wins struggle yesterday. we've got to be able to handle success and come back and improve this week and still have that same fire when we take the field next saturday night against kansas state. >> that's what's next for the u.c.l.a. bruins. 2-0 out of the garrett. rick neuheisel the head coach. we appreciate you joining us on espn, best of luck the rest of the season. >> appreciate it. you guys have a great week. >> coming up on "the blitz," we turn our attention to tennis, and serena, you could say, couldn't cool down quickly enough. enough. and raf - ( music playing ) - a work of art. a finely-tuned machine. a sanctuary. a command center. ( both revving ) a sophisticated sedan. a sports car.

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 >> bob: in the rain delays update you the rain has pretty much stopped. there mab more on the way as the camera pans over towards the southwest and then the west, dark skies. we're in the middle of the screen there in our position and there are some dark skies behind us. our concern will john lannan come back. time will tell. we'll updat new 30 unless there is a game before that. >> we are at the half, brees four touchdown passes. ravens down 14-10. touchdown recovered for a

touchdown. up 14-10 in pault more. peyton manning offsetting a pick. yet to get anything going. and the vikings with brett favre, two touchdowns from adrien peterson on brady quinn and the browns. other games and 17-0 now, the jets with the lead. mark sanchez his debut as quarterback for jets going quite well down in houston. a lot of people talking about a possible playoff appearance for the texan. not off to a good start. 3-0 and broncos lead the bengals in the first game of the josh horton and josh daniels era. the cowboys tacked on another touchdown since the last update. tony romo with two touchdown passes, 194 yards on the day for the quarterback and the eagles just rolling right now over the panthers 31-10. the panthers open with a seven-minute drive. 13 plays and 70 yards. ever since then, it's been the

eagles. they scored 31 unanswered points and leading 31-10. coming up at 4:00 eastern, 1:00

number 16 slot. where is houston? how about number 21. they are making their debut in the poll, as is is the university of michigan, in at number 25, one day after defeating notre dame. >> rain delay the schedule, this is the men's semi-finals. nadal on the far court struggles. he has come on and the semi-finals in the summer major and trying to reach the first final. big guy who doesn't come into the net. you like to see the big guy come in. he is so strong from the baseline. you know who his father is, don't you? >> rafael has not been wearing the sleeveless shirts, just like his opponent.

>> and he cut his hair. >> nadal now facing triple match point and still del potro moving sideline to sideline and finishing down the line. and juan martin del potro in the final forhird time in three meetings this year. he has rafa's number. he marches in without much of a sweat. he'll play roger federer or novak djokovic, who face-off in about an hour. del potro has never beaten either one. 0-6 against roger and 0-3 lifetime against nova k. >> the u.s. open last night, serena williams and kim clijster in the semi's for a spot in the championship. serena down a set and down two points from the match. called for a foot fault. basically allowed three temper tantrums per match. she had been called twice, one warning and one point. if you get called the third time, that is automatic

disqualification, watch what happens. >> [bleep] -- [bleep] -- [bleep] -- >> you rarely see the crowd turn on either the williams sisters or any american, but they did. serena wasn't done with the line judge, who appealed to the court judgment, who appealed to the tournament referee and it got bad for serena. >> i didn't say i would kill you, are you serious? >> yeah, you did. >> are you serious? i didn't say that. >> serena williams disqualified in the semi-finals of the u.s. open in a winnable match. she was down, but just a couple points. you never know what happens in the third. afterward, potentially made another mistake talking to the

media and didn't apologize for her actions. >> well, i said something that gave me a point penalty and it was on match point. maybe she didn't understand it was a point penalty, which meant i lost that point and the match. so that was kind of the whole thing, you know, i've been a bit more positive on the court lately and today was a tough day. i didn't play my best. i kind of felt like i had more errors today than all my matches combined. i was -- it was just really tough for me. >> as that was happening in new york city, ohio state was trying to hold on and beat number three southern cal at the horseshoe in columbus. the trojans and buck eyes and pryor off to a bad start. and he is down inside the five-yard line and trojans take over and struggle on the first

down, struggle on second and third. fourth and goal, what are you going to do? go for it. why not? that is pete carroll football. buck eyes answer. pryor steps into the throw and finds the seam and james sanzenbacher down inside the five. that led to an ohio state touchdown tying the game at seven. pryor 11 of 25, 177 yards. trojans on the wrong end of this one. a safety and pryor thinking maybe we will hop up to number two if we win. 14 and 10 and trojans tailing. true freshman joe mcknight down to the 37 yard line. the freshman, barkley, lost it and mccoy haul its in. barkley hooks up with 10 different receivers for 191 yards. first and goal and a minute to go. hands off to stafon johnson. up one and go for two.

barkley dumps to joe mcknight. 105 hotel yards. southern cal up. buck eyes have to get past mid-field and try for hail mary. pryor can't connect. ohio state goes down against the top five teams for the sixth straight time 18-15. >> from ohio state to michigan. prakt snis not talking about practice today. the new topic of discussion is the new topic of discussion is the wolverines' big win. - ( music playing ) - a work of art. a finely-tuned machine.

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>> in case you miss today yesterday, notre dame and michigan. fourth quarter, michigan down

four. and tate forcier, great fake and 31 yards for the touchdown. the freshman ran for 70 yards to go for 240 passing yards. and later in the fourth, jimmy clauson was hammered. trying to make amends and connecting with him. notre dame down after missing the two-point conversion. and forcier is picked off by kyle mccarthy and there you see the fans at the big house in disbelief. notre dame now driving and armando allen ran for 139 yards. plows into the end zone and the irish up by three an converting on the two points. ensuing michigan possession, 22 seconds left and forcier buying time and finds savoy dropping it in the end zone. was that an opportunity skwand erred? next play, forcier in the same area, this time to greg

matthews. touchdown for michigan and wolverines up by four. notre dame with one last chance and nine seconds to go. clausen connects to tate. maybe he should have dropped, but he's fighting for extra yardage. michigan up to 18 and notre dame 38-34. >> here to add more insight and reaction to a big win at the big house is michigan head football coach rich rodriguez who joins us on "espnews." congratulations, rich. let me get this straight, their quarterback throws for 300 yards, their top two wide receivers and their top running back 100 rushing and you win the game. how do you explain that? >> i don't know, it it was a great ball game. a lot of plays were going back and forth. the atmosphere was electric and fortunately, we made one more play at the end to pull it out. >> the guy behind that was tate forcier your outstanding freshman quarterback,

outstanding performance by him. what can you say about what he did yesterday in the big house against big-time opponent on national television. everything with all eyes looking on him. >> what is remarkable, it is such a big stage and he's as composed as a normal tuesday or wednesday practice. he's got a unique personality. he loves to play the game and compete. he's got a rare gift in that regard. >> if he hasn't already, rich, and i know going into the game, you had plans to play forcier, robinson and sheridan, what is keeping him from being the man? >> a lot of people are saying he is the man. he will continue to prove himself. we are high on our other two guys and denard robinson, he will continue to learn and have his role. we feel comfortable. it's a long season and tate will make mistakes and as long as they keep trying and getting

better, we'll be okay. >> rich, given all the emotion and controversy surrounding your program in recent weeks, how much do you relish this victory? >> i feel so happy for our young men, they wanted to put the drama aside, as has the coaches and play ball and go to school and get a degree and have success on the field. that is all our focus has been on, not just in the last couple weeks, but the last nine months. i'm happy to concentrate on just that. >> all right. rich rodriguez, victorious michigan, big win yesterday in the big house. good luck this weekend against eastern michigan. >> thanks, michael, good talking to you. >> okay. some other week two storylines across the college football landscape, including florida state narrowly avoiding a huge upset against jacksonville state. stephen f. austin wins over maryland. 92 points. maryland defeats james madison in overtime. here is more from the college

football final crew on a thrilling week two saturday. >> the card looked thin, at the start of the day. what a tremendous, memorable day. if you watched the ohio state and u.s.c. game, you could say, i was in front of the t.v., i saw it it happen, matt barkley grow up. he will be engineering at different levels for a long time. >> couple things, of course matt barkley steals the show and u.s.c. finds a way to win. they are on the road and tough on the road. important to beat the buck eyes and the young quarterback to get experience and confidence and ohio state sdnlt have to apologize to anybody. they played their tail off and showed they could play with the big boys. battle texas in the fiesta bowl and came up short on the last play. similar fashion against u.s.c. they don't have to apologize for what happened against lsu and florida. they have proven who they are about and move on. >> barkley will make freshman

mistakes. offensive production wasn't great for u.s.c., let's not put them in the championship game yet. in michigan, what a swing program. a huge boost for rodriguez. tate forcier looks like he was born to win games, just like forcier a forci barkley. >> i thought the offense had a dimension it was missing last week. he put him and forcier back there. the seed they have the on the perimeter, it is the second time we have seen rich rodriguez. they became explosive and we're seeing that. they have confidence and energy in that town. they are starting to believe. i'm telling you for charlie wes, the team anticipating losing in ann arbor and playing michigan state, negative energy and vieb will be surrounding that football program starting tonight as they get ready for

the spartans next week. >> it seems like no matter what ucla does, they get overshadowed by u.s.c. ucla goes to rocky and kevin prince was getting beat up. his mouth was bloodied, but finds a way to go on. what a job. >> i'm glad we are talking about this other pac 10 team. so many people watching right now, they don't get a chance to see the pac 10 very often. last year we talked about pac 10 in bowl games and today flexing muscles. they are going to knoxville and rim neuheisel getting a tome to believe and for him to take a red shirt freshman quarterback and win, the team doesn't have the depth other teams have. they have play makers around prince. >> and houston getting it done.

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>> here is reaction from richmond. >> this has been a culmination of 26 races, nobody giving up. and a half years in the program, i never would imagine being this far in. i don't know what to say, i'm proud of everybody. >> we didn't have the best of years to be consist sxent that bit us. we can look toward the rest of

the year to win races and go out with a bang. >> we haven't run good enough to be in the race. some of the guys will probably have a shot and the way we are running, even if we made it, we wouldn't have a shot at the championship. i'd be lying if i said i -- >> here are the 12 guys who will compete in the next 10 races beginning with this upcoming weekend's race in new hampshire in the chase for the nascar sprint cup. brian vickers will be seated eighth thanks to two wins this season. on the outside looking in, kyle busch won four times this year and matt kenseth first time he's missed the chase. >> jerry jones begins the 2009 n.f.l. season with knowledge he must send the league office a payment as a fine imposed by roger goodell. chris mortensen reports the cowboys owner must pay $10,

0,000 for a comment about revenue sharing. jones violated a gag order when he said "revenue sharing is on it its way out.requests jones was showing report for viking ownership quest for a new stadium. jones had this reaction as relayed to cowboys spokesman rich rich dalrymple. >> if my comments were viewed as over the line, so be it it it, my comments were assisting a fellow owner and his team's pursuit of bringing a new stadium to fans of the twin city. having just completed the process of stadium construction and knowing how much it means to the n.f.l. market this, is something i would do for any of my ownership partners. it gos to show how intertwined labor issues are with the construction of new stadiums from a positive perspective. >> tennis' all-time greats died saturday night. jack cramer, the world's number one player most of the late '40s

passeded away after a battle with cancer. he won seven major doubles titles. for all his success on the court, cramer left his true mark in organizing the players, serving as the original executive director of the atp in 1972. >> straight ahead here on "the blitz," more tennis coming your way and rafael nadal, his u.s. way and rafael nadal, his u.s. - ( music playing ) - a work of art. a finely-tuned machine. a sanctuary. a command center. ( both revving ) a sophisticated sedan. a sports car. together. nissan maxima, the four-door sports car. now get a new nissan maxima for 0% apr financing for 60 months.

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