juan francisco, paul jimenez and paul yoholland. bottom 5, nats still up 1-0 until jesus flores provides some cushion. three-run home run off mahollum. the nats now lead atlanta by seven games in the standings as straussburg improves to 15 and 5 on the season. >> he was -- seemed to have a good idea of what he needed to do and was doing it. each inning, he's learning more about what he wants to do and he's controlling what he wants the catcher to do more. it's fun watching him. >> mccloud from the a's. holding onto one of two wildcard spots. could we have two teams in the playoffs? the birds in 2 inning. nate mccloud's first of the year puts baltimore at 5. they go on to win it 5-3. they maintain that wild card spot along with the tampa bay rays. >>> wild receiver niles paul making adjustments playing hit end after buffalo. dropped a couple balls earlier on and then caught one of cousins' touchdown passes. he had some added confidence going into pre-season game number 3. >> i wasn't concerned at all. after the first game, i thought