davie johnson sends matt stairs to the plate. batting .132 this season with runners on the corners and the 43-year-old canadian comes up clutch. wa walkoff win for the nats. davie johnson gets his first victory and stairs gets a pie in the face. here's a happy skipper. >> feels great. i've got a great group of guys out there and i thought we were going to score a bunch of runs today. we were swinging the bats better. but it was a great game. loved every minute of it. >> you get in the situation where you want to drive the ball hard and i got a pitch to hit and it was a good feeling. >> a lot of fun at the ballpark. to atlanta, the braves hosting the orioles and, yes, sir, that is one fine hat. super style point for adam jones. no score in the fourth. guthrie delivers to freeman, drives it to the deepest part of the park, but check out jones. simply glovely. he says thank you very much, my friend. bottom six, still no score. jason hayward up with a man on. adam jones not going to catch this one. crushes it for a two run homer. the

. >>> if your 40 something baseball fan, you have to like matt stairs because he is one of us. 43 years in his 20th major league season. nats hasn't called his season much this year baa they called it tonight. hosting the pirates first home game as manager for davey johnson. could be playing better. that's better. solo shot in the 6th ties the game at one. stayed that way until the bottom of the 9th. two men on for stairs. i got your midlife crisis right here. >> there it goes. heading for the wall. nationals win. >> the 43-year-old with the walkoff win. they call him slick and he certainly was tonight. nats take it 2-1. if someone could just get him some gum. >> got a pitch to hit and it was a nice hit. >> apparently they were out of gatorade. nats now 41-41. i never seen the gum before. o's and braves scoreless in the 6th until jason hayward sends that to center field. his 8th. all right remember back on may 4 when the caps got swept out of the playoffs by the lightning? those were dark days for cap fans. as we stood in tampa after that game, we made a little prediction. >> i hope you

davey johnson sends matt stairs to the plate. with runners on the corners and the 43-year-old canadian comes up clutch on canada day. the nats beat the pirates 2-1, get back to the .500 mark. davey johnson gets his first victory. stairs gets the pie in the face. here's a happy skipper. >> it feels great. i got a great group of guys out there, and excuse me, you know, i thought we were going to score a bunch of runs today. swing the bats better than -- it was a great game. i loved every minute of it. >> get in the situation where you want to drive the ball hard. got to pitch the hit. >> fun night at the ballpark. >>> to atlanta. braves hosting the o's. that one fine hat complements the outfit there. very nice. superstyle points for adam jones. jeremy guthrie delivers. to the deepest part of the park. wow. adam jones and jim vance, you know what i like to say, glovely. guthrie says thank you very much. bottom sixth, still no score. ra jason hayward up with a man on. adam jones not going to catch this one. out for a two-run home run

he sends matt stairs to the plate to pinch hit. with runners on the corners, he comes up clutch.rives one deep to right. ball game, walkoff win. the nats beat the pirates 2-1 and improve their record to 41-41 and davie johnson gets his first win. in atlanta, jason hayward hit a two run home run. the braves blank the orioles 4-0. baltimore has lost four straight. day one of free agency in the nhl. caps trade varlomov to the avalanche for a first round pick in next year's draft and a second round pick in either the 2012 or 2013 draft. the 23-year-old varlomov appeared in 59 regular season games and 19 postseason games for the caps. varly gone and gordon signing with phoenix. for new guys, halpern return and he brings with him hamrlik and joel ward is signed to a four year deal. elsewhere, former caps forward signs with the flyers. and in tennis, sharapova in the wimbledon final. you can see the match at 9:00 a.m. here on nbc 4. that's your sports minute. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >> that great match is the reason we end early today. >> 8:23 is your time right now. still

al roker is up stairs with the answers. >> matt, half the country, 24 states are under heat advisoriestates are under heat advisories or heat warnings for at least the next 24 hours. stretching from texas all of the way into the northeast and parts of new england. in fact, in some areas you can see, look at these temperatures. 101 in oklahoma. air temperature, 100 in columbus. 99 in d.c. 96 in new york city. add the humidity, that's the problem. a lot of warm moist air coming in. 115 in huntsville. 107 in d.c. 103 here in new york city. here's why. big area of high pres keeping that jet stream way up to the north. this is just a heat pump that will continue. and the bad news is, this goes into at least thursday. in fact, jet stream guns up a little further into canada so that heat will be creeping up north as the ridge intensifies. we don't see this breaking down at least until the weekend. so the mid section of the country is going to continue to bake the northeast gets a little bit of a break as we head on into the next 72 hours. ann? >> all right, al, thank you so much. we'll get t