came in with a 9 e.r.a.. >> bob: as we mentioned earlier, maybe a fear factor at work for him tonight. he's trying to channel it into a good performance. speculation hammel's spot in the rotation in jeopardy with francis coming back tomorrow. francis coming back now, they only have six pitchers on the d. l.. and willie harris, an easy fly ball out to left center. >> rob: got to stop hitting fly balls willie. >> bob: first 50 minutes of this game haven't gone very well for the nats. 9:00 back in our nation's capital. thanks for being with us on this saturday night. bob carpenter, rob dibble, debbi taylor on masn hd and the third of the four game series. >> rob: there they are.

>> bob: my cousin from castle rock, colorado is here with his family and i told him if they didn't root for the nats, we were going to pull their tilt -- tickets. [ laughter ] ryan zimmerman flied to left the first time as he got in on the trademark of his bat. adam dunn next, now this afternoon, dunn hit third and zimmerman fourth. zimmerman went 3-4 with an rbi. dunn had a homer. and the 0-2 with one out.

>> rob: you notice on this pitch from hammel. zim doesn't even offer at it because he's not going to swing at a breaking ball like that. probably subtracted that and looking for the heater and probably on the inner half. >> bob: i don't know about the inner half. upper quadrant. >> rob: they're going in on zin. normally he's up to that task, but this guy is throwing in the low 90s and jimenez throws in the upper 90s. a couple ovulum per jacks in on -- of lumberjacks for zim. breaking all of his bats today. >> bob: had to reach. hits a swinging bunt. that will stay fair for a base hit.

ryan zimmerman is now 7-11 in this series. adam dunn. first game, 6th inning, nats were down by a run. not anymore. >> rob: he going, going, upper deck. >> bob: it took a couple of months in '95 after the ballpark opened for somebody to do that on a saturday night, larry walker of the rockies was first. the very next day. ray lankford of the cardinals did it and since then. 27 more balls have gone to the upper deck. at coors field. >> rob: been a couple of years though. >> bob: it had been july of '08 since ian stewart took one up there. adam dunn's got the home run touch going. 7 of his last 20 games.

by the way, he's working on a six game hitting streak here. 9 for his last 26. great change-up by hammel. 0-2. >> rob: last pitch, good change- up right here from hammel. down and away. sun tries to launch it to the right side. see the difference, hammel working ahead, 0-2 on pretty much all of our hitters. just puts the hitter at a disadvantage. ryan zimmerman with a defensive swinging bunt. >> bob: guzman waiting. zimmerman aboard with one out in the 4th. first place san diego is

playing tonight at home against the dodgers. i think the rest of the west is a little unesy right now, rob, the dodgers have won five in a row and back over .500 finally. >> rob: i still think the rockies are one of the better teams when they get their pitching back. their defense and so fence is fine. -- offense is fine. san diego has just been -- i guess for them a welcome surprise. for the rest of the division, a nightmare. >> bob: kershaw and correia at the game. >> rob: adam dunn now has 67 home runs in the month of may for his career. used to be his month. >> bob: target away. and a very late swing. first strikeout by hammel. >> rob: i think he was looking

for something offspeed and he got the 91-mile an hour heater away. good four seam fastball right there. you see it right on the black and you see the defensive swing by adam dunn. when you work ahead and you get way ahead, guys start thinking of what you may throw and that's when you've got the edge. >> bob: cristian guzman flied out to center first time up on a ball that looked routine and ended up carrying 400 on the breeze. eight game hitting streak for cristian guzman. >> rob: nice little change-up bob, get me over change-up, fastball and that's what you need in this league. you have to get something going and get ahead that first strike. >> bob: and he serves one right up the middle. that's what they call swinging

down on the ball. right up the middle and the nats have two runners, two singles here in the 4th inning. >> rob: the difference is a veteran hitter like cristian guzman. i'm thinking you're coming back with something hard after the change-up and he just smacks it right back up the position. when you go well and you think with the pitcher and catcher, you will get good hits like that. now roger bernadina, big two out opportunity right here. >> bob: and he bounced one up the middle for a hit the first time. >> rob: a double would put us right back into the ball game. see with the three run lead, i think that phillips is going out there to tell him this. what are you doing? top of the 4th. two outs, three run lead and you're worried about the guy on second without great speed. >> bob: clint barmes said

didn't you watch me play second base this afternoon? let him hit it. >> rob: you've got one of the best defenses in the national league, if not the whole league. >> bob: funny how two guys are at the mound. >> rob: what are you doing? you've got two outs, one pitch and getting out of the inning. don't worry about the guy on second. pretty good pitch. >> bob: zimmerman with a little bouncer down the third base line with one out. guzman, with a line shot up the middle with two outs. roger bernadina's 4-6 with two walks in this series. his battingaverage is up to .295 now after that production after the dramatic day he had in new york hitting down with desmond at the bottom of the

order. >> rob: come on roger. >> bob: he lines one to left center. that ball is going way out to the -- >> rob: come on guzman. >> bob: bernadina has doubled to put the nats right back in the game. >> rob: how do you like me now? >> bob: roger bernadina is going to be hitting up around .300 now. rbis number five and six. >> rob: roger stayed on the ball perfectly. another fastball away. he just saw one. took it. that time, he took it to left center and that's just some great hitting by a young guy, bob. you try to pull that ball, it's a ground ball to the shortstop or second baseman, you have to go with it and he is a happy young man. i love watching him play too. always happy. even if he gets an infield single.

he's flashing at first base. >> bob: there's a story in right field these days. here's desmond with a tying run at first base. right at clint barmes. nats get three hits. zimmerman singles, guzman singled. bernadina drives in two with a double. with efficie ncy. this is an interior that exceeds even the promise of the exterior. this is the all-new jaguar xj. the stunning result of taking a very different road.

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-- of last season because of a fractured right ankle. roger is happy to be back. >> i went there and did my thing and i keep my head up over there and you know, i always know i'm going to come back somehow whatever it is and now i'm here and then i'm more confident and keep doing my thing what i've been doing here. >> that confidence is showing at the plate. he's now hitting .311 and also a little bit stronger this season and you can attribute that to him working out. he had a trainer in the off- season and he told me he went from 190 to 200 pounds now. bob? >> bob: thank you. broke his leg april 18th of last year at the center field wall in washington on a drive by dan uggla when he mad a fantastic -- made a fantastic catch. he was called up april 11th of this year. sent back down four days late every and evidently, this time when he gets the call, he intends to stick around for a while.

>> rob: and he's not just a speedster that you're trying to make into a hitter. he's a good hitter, a good arm in right field. just getting the rest and let the kid have his 500 at-bats this year and then you see what happens. see if he gets the 20, 25 home runs. >> bob: 3-1 on the leadoffman todd helton. >> rob: atilano has to pull a doughnut on the board. your offense bailed you out here to help you out. >> bob: walk number three, second consecutive leadoff walk. and he is reluctant to challenge a hitter who has not hit a home run this year. >> rob: let's stick with the flu. i mean, you have to think along with the game and protect this one run deficit right here and you come out and you walk the leadoff guy again. >> bob: you know and the other

thing is, he's not going to get that call until he starts -- well, not really striking people out. but -- >> rob: throwing it over the plate a little bit. he won't give you off the edge like livan. this is your fifth start in the big leagues. you're going to have to earn every strike. good breaking ball. back to a breaking ball right there. nice idea. >> bob: ian stewart flied to center the first time. >> rob: you're going to have to pound the strike zone. you're young, you don't have a reputation up here. you want some respect, you have to throw some strikes. that a boy. we have not seen the same guy since his first start. the last three starts after the first start he made, totally

different. tentative. pitching around the strike zone instead of attacking right in the middle of it. >> bob: well, the walks went from two to three to five to back to two and now three already tonight. 1-2. stewart on the defensive. >> rob: if you're going to nibble, you're in the wrong business. you have to throw it over the plate and work ahead. even hammel recognizes that on the other side of the ball. he's working ahead and getting some outs. got himself into trouble concentrating too much on the guys on the bases with two outs, but that being said, he's still working ahead. >> bob: popped him up on 2-2. nyjer morgan is under it. >> rob: nice job. >> bob: that will bring up clint barmes who bounced back to the pitcher this first time up.

>> rob: get ahead of this guy, get a ground ball and get out of the inning. >> bob: he's ahead. >> rob: that a boy. now, jam this guy inside. nice job. >> bob: right on the trademark. >> rob: come on dunn, run, run, run. oh, i thought it was coming back. very good pitch location right here. 0-1 pitch, way inside. good sinker. almost got him to pop up. you got to be thinking if you're atilano, if i can get a ground ball double play and get out of here, i have phillips and the pitcher leading off the

next inning. you have to think more than the hitter coming up. you have to think ahead. >> bob: adam reaching. guzman had a hard time getting it out of his glove and desmond ate it for the force. >> rob: christian played foot see with it, whatever he was doing over there. it was going to be a tough play anyway. but right here, looks like it hit the heel and rolled on his glove. watch it. kind of moves around in his glove. see, he uses a big glove. >> bob: christian uses the same glove pretty much for second base as he did all the years at short. that's a really big glove for a second baseman and the ball is going to get lost in there from time to time. by the way, i love what desmond did. he said i'm out of here. he just skipped out of the way and let helton come sliding in. >> rob: he's just got a glove bigger than his hand.

i don't know if it's a big glove. that glove has a deep pocket. >> bob: but i'm saying by second base standards, that's a big glove. that's a balk. >> rob: that's a balk. someone's got to go tell him what he did so he can learn. no, he came up -- he came up like he was going to go into his stretch and you can't make that first movement and then stop. >> bob: well that changes the whole doe ma'amic of this bat math -- dynamic of this at-bat now. if you walk him, you walk him you get the pitcher. walks first time up. he is away head 0-3 but nothing right out over the plate. >> rob: go back upstairs with a fastball. >> bob: got him reaching for a hook.

>> rob: yeah, but that's an 0- 2, right over the plate hook. he gave up the home run to the eighth hitter the other day. >> bob: we're talking new york, right? >> rob: i think so. >> bob: rod barajas had a two run double. >> rob: one of our guys gave up to home run to the eight hole guy and it was just awful. you have to go out to the guys with smart pitches. like you said, if you walk the guy, that is fine. but an 0-2 breaking ball right out over the plate is not smart. now wil is going to go out and talk to him about where the pitch location was. >> bob: sixth ground ball outs for atilano tonight. >> rob: that's better.

>> bob: of the 11 outs he's registered. >> rob: can't see over at first base so adam dunn is going to come in and do the right thing. >> bob: you know, it used to be bad enough for 7:00 games. but when the game starts at 6:00, this is a problem for more than an hour and a half. for first basemen. >> rob: adam is such an old school guy, he still uses the flipup shades. not many guys use the flipup shades anymore. >> bob: marty foster the umpire is trying to see. >> rob: there you go. >> bob: and a 1-2. adam reaching again, adam dunn can't reach it. [ laughter ]

those glasses don't make you faster. just just a little cooler -- just little cooler. long at-bat for the number eight man. who is in the hole 0-2. >> rob: nice pitch. well, he's now at 72 pitches, bob and he's basically gotten 14 outs. 1-2 pitch, good location, a little bit high. >> bob: hey rob, you've got him in the 5th inning, only got 11 outs. >> rob: i apologize i had him in the 4th inning. >> bob: this is the bottom of the 4th and the outs have been hard to get. 2-2. >> rob: way too much work for

the result and he's good enough to not have to do all this work. >> bob: got him. on a pitch well outside. leadoff walk doesn't hurt this time. top of the 5th. nieves, atilano and morgan. 3-2 game.

>> bob: game summary, rockies,

3, nats 2 after four. luis atilano's now thrown 76 pitches. lot of crooked numbers on that line of his. back-to-back solos -- pardon me, gonzalez, a two run shot then a solo shot by smith in the 3rd. roger bernadina keeps coming up big for the nats. >> rob: a couple of hits right there. one an infield single and then a smash up the middle. the double deep into left center field gap by roger bernadina with two outs. to get the nationals back within one and that was just huge. >> bob: wil nieves leads off in the 5 9:00. he bounced off to -- 5th. he bounced out the second leading off two innings ago. similar result right here. coolest club in nats town is

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nyjer morgan has been overmatched by this right- hander twice. >> rob: nyger's got to try to flip one over the infield here and get something going with two outs like he did last inning. >> bob: and a breaking ball hit

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>> bob: coming up next weekend, the orioles will invade nationals park. the orioles bird and screech going at it. fans side by side and it will be fun. if t -- the nats, friday, saturday and sunday. don't you dare take down the teddy orioles bird. back here in colorado, 3-2, bottom of the 5th coming up. sort of a mixed bag for luis atilano tonight rob, at times he pitches very well with men on base, but it's frustrating to see them get on base. >> rob: he's walking guys and has to overwork to get out of the winning. a -- inning. a 10 pitch at-bat to a journeyman hitter. he's up to 72 pitches and 12 outs thus far and overworking

himself. he need atilano and our young guns to be getting into the 7th inning and right now, he's not being economical enough to get by the 6th inning. by that time, he's going to be out of gas and you don't want to be pitching five innings every time out. that's not going to get the job done. >> bob: jason hammel leads off for the rockies, bottom 5. the one saving grace for the bullpens in the game tonight would be the performance of the starters today. livan went six strong. nats had to finally pinch hit for him and then eight innings by ubaldo jimenez. zimmerman throws high but no problem but adam dunn. first out, bottom 5. >> rob: zim is going to cut the ball off here bob so it doesn't have enough on it for desmond. hammel running, he cuts it off.

sometimes you do cut in front of the short shop. >> bob: with the glove, he iszim the eliminator. >> rob: the zimminator. he is a gentleman, but i don't know if he's gentleman zim. we want him to be angrier at- bat. >> bob: top of the order, carlos gonzalez, two run homer last time. >> rob: this is a good kid boys. mike rizzo really struck gold when he drafted this kid back with arizona. i can't believe he got traded. so they thought chris brown was going to be better -- or chris young was going to be better than gonzalez? >> bob: he's one of the guy guys they sent to oakland to

get bob herren. and atilano keeps the ball down and taking something off. getting his third strikeout. >> rob: what did st. louis get for when they sent holliday? when they got holliday, what'd they send over? >> bob: give me a minute to punch up the st. louis notes. i don't have all of his stuff. >> rob: i thought that was on tip of your brain. come on. >> bob: i'm pretty sure it's three minor leaguers and the name is not -- >> rob: that's like danny haren. that's who oakland got and oakland got more with danny danny haren. you know, he likes to get a high priced guy, bring him in and get some more stuff for him

after he gets some use out of him. he's been doing that for a while. >> bob: three minor league leagues, st. louis sent to oakland. a couple of them pitchers and they signed matt holliday to a long-term contract. seems like he can't just get through an inning without a walk. seth smith walking, that's his fourth of the night. all right, the smart phone is about to make a call to rob and bob. for at&t trivia tonight. adam dunn went upper deck today. who hit longest home run in coors field history way back in 1995? and it's interesting because -- >> rob: man. >> bob: all four of those hitters -- well, bobby bow know ya was a switch-hitter. the other three are right- hander. >> rob: what are the choices here? peepiazza.

>> bob: off the tip of your head? >> rob: the point right on top. >> bob: i've heard the -- >> rob: the tip of my tongue, the top of my head. your forehead was as big as mine, it's be off your forehead. >> bob: yeah, we'll go with piazza. i know mondeci hit a long one here. this ballpark did open that year, '95. >> rob: i loved pitching here. i mean, i came in here and played with the denver zephyrs. then came back with the nashville sound and only gave up one home run to brad

commons. he hit a bomb off of me here. >> bob: wasn't he like the number one power prospect of the braves? >> rob: yes, he was, or was it the browers? maybe the braves and then the blewers, but -- brewers. but by the time i got him. he was with the zephyrs. >> bob: big ballpark. the rockies really don't come close to selling this place out like they used to. first four years or five years, this place was open? it was 45 to 50,000 every night. >> rob: didn't they make $4 million and didn't they get over $4 million a couple of times? no, this place used to be rocking. >> bob: $3 million, eight straight years from '94 and hen '95 to '01 here. they were down to about $2.6

million a few years ago. >> rob: hiding behind the tree line. there's don baylor. he was the man back in the day. >> bob: he did anything he could do generate even more offense here than they already had. >> rob: those team were ridiculous though. >> bob: they are the most intimidating teams i've seen in the national league. >> bob: galarraga, castilla. vinny even played in the wbc. >> bob: 2-2 to brad hawpe. bernadina charged it well, holding seth smith at second base. and the rockies have two men aboard. that walk extended this inning. and now two hitters later, atilano is dealing with troy tulowitzki. adam dunn, upper deck today.

longest home run in coors field history? was not a left-handed batter. loading, loading. >> rob: duh duh duh. >> bob: it was mondeci. >> rob: not '95. i'm not buying into that. i think they made that up. >> bob: i thought piazza went further. >> rob: i googled it today. either google is wrong on the denver page or they're making that up. >> bob: you guys settle that one. right now, it's time to get out tulowitzki. out to right center. nyjer morgan tracking it. it's just a long out. two left, rockies have stranded four. and a 3-2 game. into the 6th. branches of service. you can trace our journeys in the lines on our faces,

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>> bob: that sun is starting to set over the front range of the rockies here. cool here in denver, mid 50s. bring your family out to the ballpark on sundays for family fun pack day and you get a seat, a hot dog, chips and soda for $14. visit nationals.com/kids to purchase your family fun pack tickets. willie harris, ryan zimmerman and adam dunn top of the 6th.

we're about to get a pretty good temperature drop here though. once the sun goes down, this thin mile high air gets pretty chilly. i've noticed a trend in recent years that some of the ball clubs that have downtown parks, they'll start their saturday games at 6:00. and then folks will get out of the ball game and partake of some of the entertainment, restaurants and clubs near the stadium downtown. harris finally has a hit. >> rob: he flied out to center field. his game is not in the outfield. not us. >> bob: in the cold and the rain thursday night, you can hear the collective oohs by the crowd. and then in the big time storm later in the game, left center field. zimmerman two homers and a career-high six rbis. >> rob: that's when it got ugly and dangerous when it was

getting really, really wet. >> bob: nats won the game 14-6 and they didn't even play the 9thinning. so here's zimmerman. tying runs on base. >> rob: nice adjustment by willie harris. he's getting more playing time today. working on his swing. couple of fly balls there in the first two at-bats. change, hit down on the ball and now he's on base and lead off with a single. so good adjustment. >> bob: and they've give than pitcher something to -- this pitcher something to think about with the nationals most dangerous hitter in the box. zimmerman in this series, 7-11. with seven run batted in.

hits it hard to third, double play ball. stewart to barmes. around horn. around thehorn. ryan does hit the ball sharply a lot. he hits into a lot of double plays, that's five this year. >> rob: well, this is painful enough to watch live. on the replay, 5-4-3. talked about the defense here. you know they're going to put the shift on dunn. but you go left side or right side, barmes, helton, tulowitzki, stewart. it is tough to get the ball through the rockies infeed. >> bob: yeah and some day when helton is no longer around, brad hawpe, a natural first baseman will come in there and we know how good he is. only thing that will be wasted about that would be hawpe's arm. hammel staying away from dunn.

who's bounced out to first and struck out swinging. brad hawpe, usually a league leader in outfield assists, but nobody's running on him anymore. >> rob: one of the best left- handed arms if major league baseball from the outfield. >> bob: not that many great left-handed right fielders over the years. >> rob: nope. paul o'neill had a cannon, but hurt it back in the late '80s pitching for atlanta. >> bob: one run game, 3-0. >> rob: absolute simply. >> bob: there he goes. he got under it. get up. does it have enough carry? and adam dunn has tied the game on the 3-0 homer. his ninth of the year. career number 325. >> rob: sweet. >> bob: how many would he hit

playing 81 games here? >> rob: do you give him the green light? ups store on the pitch track says yes. you saw the mitt way outside, dead central and it looked like adam jammed himself, but he's so strong and the ball carrying just enough to right field. he'll take number nine right there. >> bob: now a 12 game homer streak for the nats. they've hit 19 home runs in the last 12 games. >> rob: more importantly ties the score and it's career number 68 for dunn in the month of may. >> bob: hum. cristian guzman's 1-2. >> rob: although it feels like march. it's nippy. come on cristian. how about a double down the right field line? >> bob: only the second homer hammel's given up this year.

nasty breaking ball fouled. 325 home runs. they appeal to third, it's a swing and guzman is on. >> rob: that worked. >> bob: that was interesting. the ball was in the dirt, the home plate umpire immediately appealed to the umpire at third and guzman is aboard on a strikeout and a wild pitch. >> rob: right here. you're going to see him. yes, he went. you see the home plate umpire -- not the third base umpire, did he go? he said yes and cristian guzman is off to the races. phillips, the seconds time

tonight a strike three has goppen by. >> bob: here's bernadina. >> rob: i think it was nyjer morgan's second at-bat that he miss that had one. >> bob: it was. >> rob: jason giambi in the first game, bob, passed duke snyder on the all time rbi list with over 1300 rbis for his career and 400 home runs. there's the g man. showing a little gray in the beard. still one of the most lovable guys in the game. they brought him back because he's so good in the clubhouse too with those younger guys. >> bob: bernadina, single, two run double tonight. nats are making hammel work

here. he came into the inning with 65 pitches. and they've got him up to 80 now. >> rob: well, atilano's pushing 100. >> bob: this bottom of the 6th might be it for him. that's a good pitch for bernadina to lay off. that's a pop up waiting to happen. on 2-0. >> rob: yep. now, i like especially with hammel. try to go to left field on him. so it's a lot of fastballs away. >> bob: well, guzman scored from first in the double the last time up. out to left center. now the count is even. 2-2. >> rob: they worked him again on the last pitch.

phillipsseting up on the inner half and another one inside. right here, bernadina, maybe i look a little bit more in and just try to smack the ball into right field there and keep the inning alive. he's going away. >> bob: and the ball ends up down and in. for the strikeout. nationals tie the game on adam dunn's big fly and i mean big. up there forever and down there to tie the game at 3.

>> rob: we're back here at coors field, 3-3. all locked up off the adam dunn home run in the top half of the 6th and luis atilano is out of the ball game. sean burnett is now in. but how did we get here in atilano, not great stuff today, but he battled. geico game highlights when he was on, they didn't get good swings at the ball. good sinker and good change-up. a kind of a mixed bag of tricks today for atilano, but a nice job. guilty us into the of -- got us into the 6th inning. now it's up to the bullpen. >> bob: burnett against helton, stewart and barmes. rockies, a lot of left-handed bats in this lineup. so jim riggleman will use sean

burnett to turn things around here. burnett's last appearance was in new york. i hope everything is okay with bernadina. rather early to be taking him out of the game. >> rob: i think that was a double switch. >> bob: so tavares will bat ninth. >> rob: he'll be in there tomorrow against francis. but yeah, you know, willie needs some at-bats. we have some guys that are very talented and even this guy on the mound, sean burnett is just not getting the reps. we haven't had a lot of situations where we needed him

to get a bunch of lefties out until tonight. >> bob: ian stewart is next. and then barmes. nats were down 3-0. they've battled back to tie. >> rob: tough not to like this rockies team too. >> bob: well, what's most likable about them in my opinion, rob, they're almost all home grown. scouted, drafted, signed and developed within the organization. >> rob: yeah. well coached. have some great coaches. not just at this level, at every level to get them prepped

for the big leagues. and the stuff that they're doing with the academies overseas, i mean, they just keep pulling one gem after another in the pitching staff. i watched this thing on local tv and they were talking about every three months in venezuela, they have a tryout camp and they keep pulling jimenez and chacin and guys like that out of the tryout camps. there you guy a great backing -- see a great breaking ball by sean burnett for the first out. i know the nationals have an academy in the dominican. there's ubaldo, he was fantastic. >> bob: you might be looking at the all-star game starter. >> rob: yeah, 7-1 now and once again, livan has had the misfortune of facing him twice in two days. >> bob: he keeps giving up solo homers and losing to the guy.

one ball and one strike to ian stewart who's flied out twice to center. livan hernandez this afternoon, 100 pitches, 59 strikes and giving up telerans in six innings -- three runs in six innings. a very typical livan hernandez performance. >> rob: absolutely. well, and he has to pitch to get every out. and he knows that at this point in his career, has to hit his spots and that should be something for our guys, usually, he's 1-2, 0-2 and i can't come anywhere close to the strike zone after that. if he does, it's usually out of the park. >> bob: mets are at florida tonight. the suddenly struggling mets who've lost three in a row and in the bottom of 8th. the marlins lead 7-4. despite david wright's eighth home run of the year. those two clubs are tied at 18-

18. >> rob: yeah, he did. ooh, no. >> bob: mike says no. >> rob: you be the judge. there's the plate. no, he didn't go. close though. i can't wait to see the reentry rules at the all-star game this year. think you're playing a basketball game. okay, i took you out in the 3rd, you can go back out in the 7th. >> bob: they'll take the players number and put an "a" behind it when he comes back in. they bring in zimmerman, he'll be 11 a when he returns. >> rob: i have no idea how that's going to work. >> bob: the all-star game

starting to get too gimmicky. adam dunn puts away the popup. the game tonight on masn is in celebration of armed forces day. the united states armed forces are the overall military forces consisting of the army, navy, marine corpses air force and coast guard. we'd like to thank all past and current members of the united states armed forces for their dedication in protecting our country. we honor you on this day. >> rob: and the men and women in programs across the country. the rotc. a few years ago, i spoke at a graduation at cal state fullerton and a friend of mine that i met in iraq had me do that. they're still coming. just people getting ready to go defend the country and keep us safe. >> bob: adam reaching and -- catches it cleanly, no throw required.

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>> bob: that last blow, adam dealership's homer a -- dunn's homer a solo in the 6th. tied at 3. jason hammel still in the ball game. top 7 coming up for him facing desmond, nieves and willie tavares. desmond on a high pitch fouls it straight back. ian has lined out the second and grounded out hart to clint -- hard to clint barmes. mike rids sow once again -- rizzo, he's down there with the people. not sitting up in a suite. he wants to be at field level and desmond will pop this one to barmes. something hot from chili's would be great tonight. here in denver.

chill'sbaseball.com to win a vip baseball trip. it's all in the peparation at chili's. wil nieves 0-2. >> rob: come on wil. one of your base hits to right, get us going. well, if you were to look at hammel and say should he stay? i mean, he's pitched a heck of a game tonight. >> bob: matt belisle and former nat joe beimer. wil nieves reaching, two outs. one of the hits the dunn homer. the double play saved his