adam dunn, yeah! it's a fair ball and the game is over! adam's got to touch first. he does and the nationals win it 2-1 exactly four hours after the first pitch! that ball was scorched  >> rob: three straight wi the nationals. >> bob: rob dibble, they found out the last two days you stick around as long as you haveto get a w. >> rob: absolutely. you stick around to get that curly w. >> bob: how do you win despite three errors? >> rob: very carefully. adam dunn, seat swing, head down, making contact. mashes it by overbay at first. >> bob: he think so far it did not have time to hook foul. adam dunn's 48th rbi of the year. nationals win it improving their interleague record to 4- 6. their third consecutive win as you said. those three wins against high quality american league east clubs. >> rob: what about that extra inning record that we had? see you. bye-bye! all right. debbi taylor and adam dunn. >> debbi: ok. we talked before the game about carrying the momentum from new york into this series and you get the win tonight and your patience at the plate

the nats hosting adam dunn's former team. d he coached all three of his sons and adam, who was the middle child wasn't always easy to coach. >> coaching adam was hard as anybody could imagine because he always thought he knew

adam dunn will be one of the entries on our game note as we get the weekend underway. rays have been playing very well. they are 16-7 the last 23 interleague games and adam -- the nats are not giving up the long ball. they have given up 54 on the year but they hit 63. tampa bay has given up 70 but they hit 80. adam dunn, right centerfield, base hit. guzman around third. b. j. upton with it, no throw and the nationals are on the board. adam dunn's in the top 6 in the league in rbis, national league, that is, and that's number 45. that's a great approach by a big man, rob, behind in the count. >> rob: great pitch recognition. this is a little bit harder breaking ball but he recognizes the rotation, sticks with it, comes down and in and he smacks that into centerfield for a base hit. garza is not happy. >> bob: some scattered boos in the ballpark as not the liquid kind but the cat calls as elijah dukes was introduced. elijah played for the rays here, hit .190 the rays drafted him in the first round back in 2002 and after four years in the minor league, he found himself in

this is a shot past the shift by adam dunn. they will pinch run for adam dunn. (man) some days my 8:15 bus is just a bus, but other days, like today, it's my office. the boss just emailed me and wants the new proposal asap. no worries though, my smartphone, it's from at&t. i'm on the nation's fastest 3g network. so that proposal? delivered. (announcer) the nation's fastest 3g network. another reason why twice as many smartphone users have chosen at&t. get the blackberry bold for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. only from at&t.  >> bob: adam dunn keeps the nationals alive. right-hander leo nunez looking for his third save, and he's facing josh willingham, the nats hottest hitter. 2 for 3 tonight. tying run is at first base with alberto gonzalez. >> rob: high home e.r.a., 6.27 for nunez, road 1.2. >> bob: willingham, nine home runs, 16 rbi's this year. nick johnson singled with one out. then scampered to third on the base hit by dunn. gonzalez running for adam. an extra-base hit could tie the game. willingham foul tips it. and it's come down to the final

i would love to see adam dunn swing at anything that's close in this at-bat. he does not need our advice but adam did strike out on a borderline pitch in the 9th when we would rather see him hacking. it was 3-2 delivery and he could have been the potential winning run at first. he gets under that one. it's going to stay in the park. second out. elijah dukes had the ford drive of the game that put the nats up. >> rob: cristian guzman, elijah dukes and nick johnson with the doubles. elijah thrown out trying to go to third. ryan zimmerman and adam dunn 0- for-10 tonight with four strikeouts, three of them looking. it's opinion an odd night for the 3-4 guys. dukes pulls off a breaking ball, hits it right off the end of his bat. fair ball. picked by scott role en and a good throw and a good stretch. we are going into the 12th inning.  scott rolen has been doin for years. 7 gold gloves worth. inning number 12 coming up. it's on. - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - it is totally on. jimmy, it's on. it's on. oh, yeah, it's on

adam dunn has now walked 89 times this year. those are the major league leaders. well, a blogger to be nameless said that he is not a-did does not have a good batting eye. he is just picky. [ laughter ]. >> rob: i don't know what that means but the guy has a lifetime .380 onbase percentage. >> bob: uh-huh. picky is good. >> rob: picky's good when you're going to have 300 homeruns in five homeruns? >> rob: please. the guy, 40 homeruns three straight years. >> bob: mark it down. >> rob: six straight years, he will be ahead of babe ruth all time in that department. >> bob: and he's going to strike out 170 to 190 times. >> rob: oh, yeah. >> bob: you just live with that. >> bob: what are you going to do, turn adam dunn into a singles hitter? >> rob: pretty big singles guy that adam dunn. and he barely gets them out of the infield. no, i want this guy swinging and trying to hit it as far as he can. >> bob: and he is smart enough to get a base hit when he needs to like he did in the 1st inning because the count was 0- 2. you can't be in homerun mode all the time. only ji

adam dunn goes to third. carl crawford had a hard time digging that ball out of his mit. >> rob: i think he was shocked. >> bob: that was a great-base- running play but adam dunn. >> rob: i don't think they know that dunn has 64 stolen bases. >> bob: well, he also scored from first tonight on a double. see what happens to crawford. >> rob: no, he looked up to see what dunn was going to do and on the transfer, he did not pull it out of his glove. >> bob: now, alberto gonzalez becomes the dh of all things by running for adam dunn. so you put a very fast runner at third base. the infield is in. >> rob: is that the designated half the size of adam dunn?

that's the same thing with adam dunn. if zimmermann is not hitting well or dukes, if i'm on the hill, if the last guy is dunn on your lineup, he's not beating me tonight. >> johnny: adam, look at the numbers here. he forced 14 batters to hit fly balls. >> rob: i played with tom browning who went five consecutive years, he never threw harder than 8 85, 86. he'd give up 33 to 35 homers a year. most of them were singular. he didn't walk anybody. it's the little things we talk about hopefully our pitchers are absorbing this information and saying, hey the more strikes i throw and more contact i pitch, i'm going to give up a home run here or there. i can't start to pitch away from contact and give up a two run home run. that kills you. >> johnny: eric had one game april 12th 12th 12th shutting out pittsburg. ronny belliard is waiting. no activity needs at this moment. he is sitting back waiting for something to happen as they did last night. full count to josh willingham. eight home run, 9 rbi, at the time last 25 games he's. >

adam dunn back in left field.he told debbi taylor he really enjoyed dhing a couple of days ago in new york. here is aaron hill perhaps their purest hitter. he has 90 hits to lead the american league tied with miguel tejada for the american league lead -- major league lead and has 28 multihit games woirt. >> rob: you would think scutaro wouldn't walk as much, but scutaro has 47 walks on the season, bob. it's the guy in front of him you want to get around him to get to this guy. i wouldn't think so. >> bob: aaron hill is a former sec player of the year and all american from lsu in his fifth year with the blue jays. 27 years of age a really good second baseman and a 13th overall draft pick back in the first round. there's a swing and a foul tip and zimmerman strikes -- zimmermann strikes him out. blue jays and the nats have not met since 2007 and the jays haven't been in the district since 2006. vls is -- vernon wells is really having a buzzing season. the blue jays, more hits than anybody. nats at home, 22-17 in int

across the adam dunn and there's one down. nice to have you with us today afternoon game at nationals park, johnny holliday along with ron dibble. happy to have you along on masn. hope the weather will stay nice as it is now. and you guys hit a plane and fly down to florida for the big weekend series against tampa, beginning tomorrow night. and that saturday night game will be joined in progress after 7 p.m. because of major league baseball rules and regulations. jay bruce the right fielder. he leads the ball club with 15 rbi -- 15 homeruns with 32 rbis far guy that only hits .218. gonzalez on to dunn and two quick outs. >> rob: 14 homeruns off right-handed pitchers. detwiler had a good night against him two nights ago. shy ron martis. airon martis. >> johnny: the key is how you bounce back after that. >> rob: he was fantastic. steve mccatty and manny acta could tell you it is what he learns after that. it is not easy to be up here in less than 10 career starts. martis. and think you have it all figured out. you never have it

debbi taylor is with us and had a chance to visit with a guy who had a good series up in new york, adam dunn>> that's right. adam is coming off his two days of dhing returning to the outfield tonight as the nats take on the toronto blue jays. i asked him account team carry the momentum from that yankees series into this weekend series with toronto? >> i think we could have easily swept the series and it's probably best baseball we've played in a long time. so, for us to kind of respond the way we did yesterday after winning whatever day it was, tuesday or wednesday, whatever, after that long rain delay, it's -- that's a good sign. >> shairon martis, john lannan and craig stammen combine for only three earned runs in that series against the yankees. what do you think of this young rotation so far? >> i think it's young. you said it. you know, it's starting to come around, we think. if they can continue to keep us in a ballgame, we'll definitely turn thing around. you know, we're getting really good pitching and playing good defense. that's why we won the last two games. >> speaking of defense

dunn. he looks at a fastball right in there. adam has seen two center cut fastballs from a left hander here. i doubt if he'll see another. [cheering and applause] >> bob: 2-2. you have your first winning series, go to the world series and all the crazies come out. >> rob: i wouldn't call the guy crazy. >> bob: i would. that's a fastball. close but outside. 3-2. they've got a choice to make here. either pitch to dunn or have wheeler pitch to dukes. >> rob: this was below the knees and outside. nice job by the umpire on that call. >> bob: at 1st, base, zimmermann will be running. runners at the corners. 3-2 count, two outs in a tie game.  >> bob: adam dunn  pitch in the strike zone. he took three fastballs for strikes in that at bat. the nats have left six. that will finish shields' for the day. he'll give up 4 runs in 6 innings. adam dunn leaves a couple of men aboard. 7 inning stretch time. from tampa bay st. peters bay, god bless america.  (singing god bless america) ú ♪ ♪ who's

adam dunn was playing 100 feet off the line. he's not. that's -- if he's not, that's a double. >> rob: as bob said, defense was setup perfectly by the advance scouting or whoever was checking out blue jays. adam dunn only had to run a few steps to pickoff that line drive. >> bob: we understand that was wade taylor for the series. >> rob: very cool. >> bob: a birdie told us. >> rob: nice job. >> bob: yeah, he's pretty good white did he say about the pitching? how are we supposed to hit them? [ laughter ] i'm just beating -- >> bob: whoa. >> rob: that's not good. >> bob: that's up and in to vernon wells. >> rob: vernon wells. >> bob: who had two hits tonight and down he went. that was not a breaking ball. >> rob: this is just some chin music here. >> bob: wells has not been hit by a pitch this year. he's into the guy normally out there diving. unless nobody in the american league wants to throw inside anymore. >> rob: he does have a couple of hits tonight. he has not been swinging the bat really well. we don't want to wake vernon up. >> bob

i think adam dunn had a great comment earlier. he said, to him father's day is not about him being a dad, it's about his dad. i think a lot of us think that way. we love our kids to death and love our families, but it's our dads we're thinking about, especially when they're no longer here with us. that's a fair ball. nick, a great safe, an amazing weekend for him. just put it in play. look at the head down. >> she did make a nice little hop over the ball at the end there. >> don't touch it. >> here's ryan zimmerman. we said this a couple of times today. the nationals are long from being done in this game. and i guarantee you, there's not one guy in the first base dugout who doesn't think they're going to come back and sweep the series. >> talking to some of the guys yesterday, they expect to win now. they think they're good enough to win every game, and that's what you want out of this ball club. >> zimmerman right to the shortstop, one out. ryan zero for his last 15. here's adam dunn, a base hit last time. >> he goes up hacking.

and then covering the bases with adam dunn. a high pop-up behind the plate, the catcher drifting back into the stands. and no play for ryan hanigan, the count is each with two balls and two strikes, 3-1 here in the bottom of the sixth. >> rob: ryan has made a lot of strides in one area where people say he struck out 200 times a year, he only struck out 164 times last year, 122 walks, he makes it very difficult on the pitchers, but he is kind of a throw-back. that's what you wanted your four-guy to be, a big power guy and now that he is that big power guy, that's when all these other guys now are saying "oh well he still strikes out," that's the evolution of this game. this isn't 50 years ago, there is a lot of guys in major league baseball now that strike out 150 times. look at sammy sosa, mcguire. sosa would punch out 170 times a year. everybody was fine with that. but i don't know why they just get on adam dunn's case so hard. ryan howard does it in philadelphia, you don't hear the same thing. >> no. he has got a lifetime on

adam dunn was not. dukes' speed gets him back to 2 2nd. dukes just got back. >> bob: shields thought he had a rare double play. here's gonzalez. he's driven in one run and run a strike. he's not a runner you would squeeze with. hard sinking fastball. 1-1. >> bob: 2-3 one out, time given. often this is the kind of hit you'd rather have batting in this situation than a big free swinger that strikes out a lot. no swing. that was interesting. the 1st baseman was the first to call for the appeal. >> bob: nationals trying to increase their 1- 0 lead here in the top of the 4th inning. that will work. a drive to left center. that will bring in two. dunn from 3rd. dukes from 2nd. alberto gonzalez has all three nationals rbis. how about the little guys in this series. gonzalez and hernandez. >> rob: whatever they did to gonzalez in syracuse, he came back on fire. a pitch is up in the zone. he cranks on it. elijah and adam come in to score easily. shields can't believe it. >> bob: beautifully swung by gonzalez. 3-0 washington. josh bard swung at the

that pitch, if he makes a mistake with dunn could leave the building. >> bob: adam dunn, 1-3, a single and an intentional walk. first pitch changeup outside.  >> bob: pitcher spo then, alberto gonzalez would hit nor joel hanrahan -- for joel hanrahan. absolutely perfect as a pinch- hitter and those five hits have resulted in four rbi's which is really impressive.  a 1-2 to adam dunn. he went off-speed again missing away 2-2.  that was a fastball he trying to paint. >> rob: from our vantage point, that's a foot outside. on tv, camera is off center in center field. from where we're standing, we've got a good view of it. it was a ball. >> bob: adam dunn to the left side out of play. >> rob: vernon wells was laying not only no doubles. i think he's playing no triples. he's way out in center field. >> bob: he's probably 370 feet away. runner goes. dunn squirts it foul. manny acta may be surprising the blue jays there, but thinking dunn would make contact and sending ni

it will be adam dunn's error. >> rob: dives right here in the outfield. he goes to pick it up barehanded on the wet grass. makes a good throw to belliard. belliard tries to slap the tag on. >> bob: they could have had him -- >> rob: head's up baserunning by marco scutaro. >> bob: adam dunn's eighth error of the year. nats third of the night. now you're facing the leading hit guy in the american league when you just gave the previous hitter 90 extra feet. all three nationals errors tonight on the most routine plays. the hernandez possibly, the guzman drop that cost a run and now that and aaron hill was smelling blood up there hacking. >> rob: work ahead. >> bob: these are the unforced errors by some of our veterans this year that have really hurt. aaron hill, 1-5. now we've had a balk. jesus colome balking for the second time this year. boy, he's mad. manny acta coming out to calm down his pitcher. >> rob: right before that, i almost said out loud. i was thinking it to myself that cristian guzman or ronnie belliard should just go in and say something to hi

adam dunn as well.look at the standings right now, david wright at the top of the list from the mets. almost a million votes and david wright with new york, chipper jones, pedro feliz and bill hall. >> you can vote at least 25 times per your ip address to get the guys to st. louis for the middle of july and the a-star game. now it is time for the stay in the game hold of the day brought to you by just for men hair color. we are looking at the top spots. last nationals pitcher to recall a hold versus the reds was charlie manning that was last year, august 8th of 2008. certainly going to take care of that very quickly. maybe even today. john lannan will probably go all the way with a complete game as well. just as these relievers chemotheir game in the -- keep them in the game you can keep your color. we will be back talking about the nationals offense. and he will give us a break down. micah owings taking on john lannan in the series finale as the nationals look for another complete game. the nats and re

adam dunn reached .300 on this home stand.ur away. -- of course, it's off to a home run park 40 miles northeast of here. nats will play the blunls three, red sox three and then on to baltimore. >> rob: the house that cal built. >> bob: that will conclude interleague play from sunday. adam over 700 rbi that barrier surpassed this year. 2-2. >> rob: with that off-speed breaking ball and changeup, he's a sneaky, quick kind of pitcher for a big guy. got kind of a slow and deliberate windup and then hekind of explodes with that 88- 91-mile-per-hour fastball. >> bob: 2-2. nick johnson, 1-2 running this year actually. you're not looking to take the bat out of this guy's hands. >> rob: no, and you also don't want him leading off next inning. >> bob: adam dunn a bouncer right where scott rolen played. ball came up on him for a momentary possibly. that's it. nats strand four runners. no score. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at $6.99. flame-grilled tortillas layered with chicken, bacon, cheese, and ranch. crispy on th

phil, adam dunn did it last night in a 3-3 ballgame. can he do it again tonight? >> phil: it will be great if he does it. i hope he does it much quicker. we won't be here all evening. a tough one for ross detwiler not to get his first big league win. he obviously around another start. another amazing evening from willie harris. >> johnny: we don't want to go into extra innings although the nats got their first extra inning win last night. let's see if they can get do that in the bottom of the 9th. >> bob: we call that getting off the schnide. we did see from sean camp last night, he has some serious swing back action to his fastball so he can really move that thing away from left handers. adam is 0-for-3 tonight. second in the lead with 54 walks. you have to throw him strikes. ball 2. 1:30 tomorrow. martis-romero. will it be a deciding game or will someone in a home uniform be going for a sweep. masn 2 tomorrow. he goes soft and gets a strike. 2-11. 1. 2--1. >> way out ahead of that one. >> rob: that was a big pitch by camp. he was supposed to be going outside and

here's adam dunn. >> one ball and two strikes to dunn. didn't look like a swing. 2-2. >> sometimes ryan can get a little scripted with his swing. it's almost like he's in an area where he swings. >> broken bat. i had one hitting coach tell me once, which sounded familiar to something a golf coach said to me once. he said when you're standing there try to hit a line drive over second base. that means you're staying on the ball, squaring up because you're hitting up straightaway. but your point is well-taken, stay on if a little longer and take it the other way. adam dunn place its perfectly right over hill, who was the rover in right field. >> 8-iron in the fareway right there. >> here comes kearns. the red sox are coming, masn, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, unique announcer rotation up at camden yards next weekend as well. jim hunter and i will team up on play by play. rob will be there. for some of you we know there are some of you who had a hard time finding nats extra when the orioles were here. we will tell you that despite the fact t

you can always play adam dunn at first or you trade adam dunn. i don't know what they are thinking.to acquire, especially a team like the red sox who feels like with big papi struggling, they don't need a defensive player. they need a bat and we have a couple of real good left field handed bats. >> byron: joe beimel getting the final out as we head to another timeout. beimel certainly done the job for the nationals in the last few weeks as he tries to climb back into a nice role in the bullpen. mike macdougal the night before and austin kearns making the final play there. tampa bay is coming up. man in acta coming up. we will talk more after this. now that college is a few years behind me, it seems i've got three times the bills i used to. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem. and i use the wish list to put any extra money aside for anything i want. being in control of my money feels good. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, onl

let's go to debbi taylor standing by with a very special guest, adam dunn's wife rachel. >> that is right. it is a great story how she met adam. tell us the story. >> we actually met when i was in college and a mutual friend introduced us. it is a guy that adam still plays with, it is austin kearns. >> what has it been like for you living in d.c.? >> it has been fun. thts a great city. there's so much history here and adam and i are both history buffs. we have been enjoyed being here and getting to do a little sightseeing. it has been fun. it is a change. >> of course you have your son, brady on your lap. and you are expecting another one. congratulations. now, tell us a little bit about adam as a dad. is he strict or is he easy going? >> he is a very fun dad. he always wants brady to mind but they have a ball together. it is fun to see them both grow and change and brady's just now at the age where he loves his daddy and he misses him when he is gone. it is both good and bad. >> adam played football before you met him in college before he went to college excuse me. have you ever thought

inside. 1-0 to adam dunn. holds so many of their records in the twin city. >> rob: masset has done some traveling. he was acquired by the whe sox a few years ago. he traveled over the cincinnati. he was minor league pitcher of the year for the ngers actually minor league pitcher of the month in july 05. he was very high on their prospect list and made the team out of spring training in 2007. >> johnny: he signed with the ball club this year. 3-0 to adam dunn. they're trying to get a runner on base now in this bottom of the 10th inning. 6', 235 ou st. florida. nobody on, one out here inthe bottom of the 10th. >> rob: adam dunn probably has the green lighto try to win this. >> johnny: it would be nice to talk about adam's th home run of the year. [cheering and applause] nice recovery by brandon phillips ththe nationals first run, will come upswinging again. 0-3 tonight. .264 average. nick masset retiring the first two here's in the 10th. >> b: used to say to our guys late in the ballgame, right man, right time.

adam dunn, 1-2 with a base hit up the middle. cubs, by the way, won that game against cleveland 8-7, so another one for the national league today. cubs scored a run in the 10th to win it. derek lee hit two homers today. adam dunn off the end of the bat. scott rolen drifting over for it. he'll catch a foul ball after running about 100 feet for that, two outs. nats were supposed to see roy halladay tonight, and, rob, are you glad they didn't? >> rob: i did want to see roy pitch, but not against our team. look at that. 10 wins, 103 innings pitched. he can rack up complete games. one of the best pitchers in the major leagues right there. 10-1 in 14 starts. he's got a bad groin. >> bob: his career record is 141 and 67 -- 141-67. >> rob: he's ridiculous. >> bob: there's elijah dukes. he'll pull it hard on the ground to scott rolen. that's it. leadoff man aboard. that's it for the nats stranding nick johnson. they've left seven runners. top of the sixth, 1-0, nats. - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - it is totally on. jimm

that was a good hitting situation for adam dunn. ball kind of ran down and away. t it on the end of the bat. >> rob: you need to score a couple of runs here. would you pinch run for dunn? >> jim p.: that's not a bad idea. it's not the national league. there's that late pitch who are comes in against willingham who has two hits tonight. it's not a bad idea because you don't have to worry about losing position players. >> rob: you've got a lot of speed on the bench. >> jim h.: 1-1 the count following the always typical 6- 5 force play up the middle. >> jim p.: andino, whether he's playing second base in the shift or whatever, has played so well at shortstop. because of the bat. they can not only get the out, they get the lead runner, the double play in order here. >> jim h.: mora throws to second, one, back to first, will not be in time. that was a tough play all around because melvin was guarding the line. gloves it. got the pivot but couldn't get it there in time, two down. >> rob: but they do get the lead runner. mora goes to his left. takes the force out, gets on

adam dunn, got ahold of this pitch. drives it out into the street and off the warehouse.ives the washington nationals the lead. >> jim p.: in washington, that would have headed towards the capitol? >> bob: no, that ball would be on one of the battle ships in the navy yard right now. wil nieves specializes in going to right field. that one down the line. it's a fair ball when caught on a good play by nick markakis. >> jim p.: gold glove caliber right fielder for the orioles, leads the american league in assists. 17 last year, 8 already this year. difficulty is, it's a rubberized track. doesn't slow you down any. >> bob: i'm a little surprised the orioles play him as far off the line as they do. >> jim p.: we'll call the clubhouse and move him over for the later innings. >> bob: normally a guy like wil nieves, you don't usually play him around and short to the off field. maybe not with anybody out because it would be an cra base hit. i'm a firm believer you play them where they usually hit 'em. one ball, one strike. harris with a double in two trips today has hit safely in

when he gets on top, he's got the good sinker. >> bob: adam dunn will take another walk. nationals have the lead-off man aboard. for our national fans, it's never been easier to take in a ballgame. back here tomorrow. on to florida for three on masn 2, then a short three-game home stand commences with the braves coming in for the fourth of july weekend. that's a fastball inside to josh willingham. >> jim p.: of course brian bass, somebody walked up to him the other day, they said, do you think bass who has been very good when he's come in in games behind, do you think he pitches better when he's behind than when he has leads? i said, the numbers indicate that he is more relaxed when he's behind than when he's ahead, that's when he's struggled lately. but that's the one thing you have to battle as a reliever. until you change those numbers, you're going to be labeled. >> rob: you're going to be in a role. >> jim p.: exactly. but again, everything sinking down and n so you have to change your perspective of where your release point is. he's been real consistent about two, t

adam dunn, 0 for 3 tonight. and 1 for 4 with two walks in the series.he had a base hit for an rbi and two walks last night. fastball up and zimmerman late for it. the count is 2-2.

here is adam dunn.n retired the side in order in the first. >> rob: may 24 against the orioles is what adam dunn did a huge home run. >> jim: do i see a tear because game yea was really struggle -- struggling. it was game that brad bergesen had an early lead and dunn got them back in the lead with the first home run and then launched the home run with, what, a slider in the middle of the plate and he hit it about 450 to center. >> bob: 2-1 inside, ball three. >> rob: and of adam dunn, it was surprising to see that was a career high with six rbi's with all of the rbi's he's had this year. second in the national league in walks, and that's not surprising with his power. >> bob: this ball is hit towards the gap and markakis runs it down! so it hung up for him and one away. >> jim: let's take a look at brad bergesen and people are starting to call him the ace. there is your four-seamer and there is the two-seamer, fingers maybe a little bit farther than i held mine, but it certainly works for him. changeup,

adam dunn against randy choate. in eight games recently, opponents are 1 for 21 against him. >> rob: you have to hope that he'll try to throw a sidearm curveball. >> bob: is this where a guy should be moving up in the box? >> rob: not necessarily on choate. for am add dunn who has pretty much separated the entire batter's box. he's got a lot of coverage. you want this guy to try to throw a breaking ball on the inner half. but if he tries to run a sweeping curveball around, that's when adam is in control. he can turn that thing around. 8-3 rays. top of the 8th. one run in, two men aboard. still only one out. trying to make the longoria error hurt. that's a fastball that misses. 2-1. >> rob: it's going to be an 88- mile an hour fastball. look at that thing i'd arm. you talk about a left-handed specialist. >> bob: adam dunn hits a double play ball. the nationals get an unearned run and into the bottom of the 8th.  we like looking at the world through safety-colored glasses. doing what it takes to make home a litt

adam dunn missed the cutoff man ant and the tying run is at second base.o down as en error but that's a mental error by adam dunn and that's a 3-2 game. you cannot give the hitter second base. >> rob: great point by you, bob. fundamentals will win you a lot of ball games. if you hit the cutoff man with this throw, you gun down the man at second base. if you throw over zimmerman's head, now, the tying run trots on into second. so, yes, it's always nice to try to throw the runner out at the plate but there is always another part to that story. >> bob: aggressive coaching by nick lava. he has been a good third base coach for a time with cito gaston and before that, with whitey whitey herzog in st. louis. >> rob: good breaking ball. he got a little bit too much of the plate. >> bob: dangerous clean-up hitter on deck. foul tipped. vernon wells trying to put away another one here, with one out, top of the 8th and a 3-2 game. uh-oh. that got away from wil nieves. tying run is at third base with one out. >> rob: he may have crossed wil up on that pitch. >> bob: th

but his walk in the 11th inning did set up adam dunn's walkoff hit.d out there, guzman at second, nick johnson behind him. they play zimmerman absolutely straight away in the outfield. that's outside. 1-1. by the way, the interleague ledger, american league 75, national league 66 including the two games from today. >> rob: it's getting a little tighter. >> bob: yeah, getting up there a little bit. another week to do something about it. and the nats have been doing their part the last few days for the senior circuit. the national league is a little older than the american league. >> rob: check out that last pitch. maybe trying to look too much. look at how far out that arm comes, shows the pitch to the hitter. there you see it from the side angle. >> bob: hitters like to focus on the release point and that's a long way to go with the eyes in a split second. 1-2 delivery. >> rob: it's a good thing with lefties and some of the bullpen guy, it's deception. you want to try to, you know, hide that ball as long as possible before you show it to the hitter an

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adam dunn has always excelled in inner league play. he's had one hit, one rbi, two walks. the nationals one through three hitters right up there. number one total in all of major leagues. they're averaging 5.6 runs a game. >> rob: if they don't give it to shields, this is one of the worst in getting runs in the major league. >> rob: johnson 2-8 and a walk this weekend. that's a breaking ball in the dirt. 1-1. >> rob: decent curve, decent slider. he's got two changeups. the one is show me change and the other is out change. that comparison and run support, detwiler not getting a whole lot. almost four runs a game. >> bob: shields just under four, third lowest in their league. detwiler the lowest among the young starting staff for the nationals. >> rob: sometimes there's a guy in the bad luck slot. this is one of their best pitchers last year if not the best. they've had 8 losses in his 13 starts. >> bob: he was their opening day starter. that's got something to do with it when they're pitching against their number one or two guy every time. >> rob: way out in front of the c

high fly to left field and adam dunn has a bead on this and dunn will be leading off for the nats when come back. another one-two-three inning for ross detwiler. it is 1-0 cincinnati.  when a major hospital wanted to add on to their benefits package at no direct cost to the company, their very first word was... aflac! aflac! find out more at aflacforbusiness.com . >> johnny: now let's take a look at the geico president's race. will teddy ever win a race? will he ever? not top. >> rob: he will when i don that head.  . >> johnny: it's a run again tonight for mr. lincoln. >> rob: obviously you know i don't like being the underdog. so poor teddy. >> johnny: i understand that, yes. >> rob: , what are we teaching the youth of america? >> johnny: right. >> rob: poor teddy. >> johnny: adam dunn with a shot to right and right in the has jay brucone down, one pitch >> rob: speaking of mr. bruce, hitting .17 # off lefthanders, ..283 on base percentage, 1 home run in four ribs, 13 and 26 against righties and he is hittin

nolasco's retired 13 of 14 as he faces adam dunn 0-2. o right and struck out looking. ahead in the count. he changed up on him, a straight change. only one other team in the division in action tonight and that's the mets. they're at milwaukee after they lost to the yankees last night, they're down 7-2 in the 7th inning. mets are struggling. they might lose their fourth in a row tonight. that was some scenario with mariano rivera walking with the bases loaded. got his first career rbi, then he got save number 500. >> rob: congratulations to mo rivera. welcome to the 500 club. >> bob: small club. >> rob: he and trevor hoffman. got a chance to talk to goose gossage today. >> bob: what a guy he is. >> rob: when he went into the hall of fame, someone told him that he had 52 or 53 seven out saves out of his 300. >> bob: agents would file lawsuits against a ball club for doing that these days. >> rob: it's changed. the game's changed. he recognizes that. you have a specialist now from the sixth or seventh inning on. you have a closer in the 7th,

you talked about adam dunn, a guy who takes as much pitches is equally as valuable. >> bob: that's a great point, rob, but we do want adam to swing more. we need that guy to swing at more pitches. >> bob: up and away. 1 ball, 1 strike. or in the words of dibble, we will damage you and you will like it. rusty staub. always the caveat. there is somebody who is always hanging and. what's that other guy, tiny minouche? >> he was not an expo. we don't care about the expo. we just want to hear about the nationals. that's ancient history. i can understand that, but, you know, this franchise does have roots in another place and it does have a pretty nice history of its own when you consider the players who come through. it's just a shame that the expos never drew enough fans in montreal to be able to afford to keep the guerreros and the randy johnson and the list goes on and on of great players developed by this organization. >> rob: absolutely. and there were some guys that were developed, like grady sizemore and cliff lee that could be playing here now. you can say, well, you know, we want

who did the reds acquire for adam dunn from arizona? >> rob: i know micah owings is one of them. >> johnny: let me put my thinking cap on here. >> rob: castillo and dallas buck? that is gist off the -- just off the top of my head. >> johnny: it is also incorrect. [laughter]. >> johnny: off the top of my head, let me see here. >> rob: i think dallas buck was a right-handed pitcher. and i think owings is a right-handed pitcher. i have watched him for five innings. >> johnny: beats me. >> rob: castillo i think was a catcher. ramon castillo? >> johnny: it is up to you, dibs. grounded to guzman at short. across the diamond, nice play. >> rob: very nice. >> johnny: throws out the lead-off batter in the 6th inning, ramon hernandez. >> rob: the first thing is you have got to catch it. you know you don't have a fast runner coming down 1st base and he throws it towards first. ramon hernandez, had a frustrating series. >> johnny: so, hernandez is retired. jay bruce as we look at it once again out by a couple of steps. >> rob: wilkin castro and dal

6th national bat tore hit his way to first base and the second one to visit peqa so far i here is adam dunn who collected rbi number 45 two innings ago. at least for now, that put adam in the top 5 in the league with 45 rbis. offspeed breaking ball. he took a little bit off and dropped it in. >> rob: that's how he got ahead of adam in the first at- bat. on the first pitch of that at- bat, adam read it right and got a base hit. when we talk about pitch recognition, you look for the top spin or a little dot on the ball for a breaking ball. the pot on the ball means the hard slider. the over-the-top rotation means a curve ball. >> bob: elijah dukes has had quite a night so far, two-run double, should have had a runner thrown out at home plate. 2-1 to dunn. that's low and away. ball 3. >> rob: ted williams said he could see the seams on the baseball as they came towards him. >> bob: i do believe that ted williams could read the commissioner's signature on the baseball or, back in those days, it was the president of the american league signature. >> rob: scary thought. there were good arms like

adam dunn looking for his first base hit. 0-3 for the afternoon. nationals have 8 hits in this ballgame and only 3 runs to show for it. >> rob: this is a defining moment. alberto gonzalez taking out phillips and then the flow gets by gonzalez over at 1st base. all the way into the dugout. two runs come in, instead of one. nationals are up 3-2 here. >> johnny: in the bottom of the 8 th. wide, wide stance at the plate for dunn. catches the outside corner for a strike. >> rob: 5-5 in the pinch hitting role. that at-bat to take out second. he got sent down for a month did wondering for him. >> paid off. >> rob: yep. >> johnny: 1-2 delivery. adam dunn, zimmerman down at 1st base. >> rob: and you have got to get sent down johnny, they will say the same thing. so, that is just about going down there and working on stuff. sometimes guys need at an tuesday adjustment. but -- at anty -- attitude adjustment. but alberto shortened up his swing and he's down everything. >> johnny: grounded line-drive to left field. keeps it alive. on this day we have been cover

guzman brings a 10-game hitting streak into today's game, nick johnson bats third, adam dunn will dh. >> jim p.: take a look at our pnc scouting report on david hernandez. he's got big league stuff. he can throw 92 to 95. they call his fastball the invisible heater because it just seems that hitters don't usually pick it up. stay out of the middle of the plate. that's when he gets in trouble. fastball coming in, has to be in and out, really back to the future because he's one of the future stars of this orioles staff. he's dominated at the minor league level, strikeout guy. another opportunity because koji uehara has for the second time this year has gone back on the disabled list. >> jim h.: david hernandez has what has been described to me, jim, as a swing and a miss fastball. tell me about that. >> jim p.: you know, dave schmidt talked to me in spring training about it, he said it's deception. scottie mcgregor had it. fernandez throws it a lot harder. it's the ability in most cases to get guys to not pick up the ball for whatever the reason is. >> jim h.: next pitch is off the plat

adam dunn, mr. pujols, the prince, lance bergmann in houston and then the little guy who leads off for the blue jay, marco scutaro. >> bob: i know when we looked at the walk statistics, we are like, why are they walking marco scutaro to get to aaron hill who has 90-plus hits? atestimony dunn 0-for-2, a drive to left and a swinging swowt. he may have been guessing correctly, first pitch breaking ball, but he could not get it. >> rob: i'm thinking they are not going to give adam a lot to hit with first base open. >> bob: it is a lefty-lefty match-up so let's see how much they want to pitch. brett cecil has pitched a good

adam dunn will be playing left field, willingham goes to right. wil nieves will be catching and scott olsen on the mound tonight as the nationals try to get their 23rd win of the season against 51 losses. how about florida, 38 and 39. shortstop hanley ramirez, four home runs over his last seven games. he's hit in 28 of his last 35, 50 of his last 62. his 12 home runs leads all major league shortstops and ramirez will be batting third as you see in that florida line- up tonight. chris coughlin leads off, he'll be in left field, emilio bonifacio at third, then ramirez, cantu will be at first and uggla at second base, ross will be in center field, robs catching, brett carroll will be in right field, and ricky nolasco who has had major success against the nationals, he'll be on the mound tonight. ramirez the guy you've got to keep off the bases. i think you just mentioned, pitch around him. don't even pitch to this guy. >> you've got to pitch one guy tough in the line-up and he's good night that when you look at all the charts, he's just hammered us w

>> rob: the thing we've found with nick, ryan zimmerman and adam dunn is sometimes they take too many pitches. they're so disciplined that in situations where you'd kind of like your guys swinging, they're walking. sometimes it's not that bad to walk your three, four, five guys. >> jim p.: if you're david hernandez, again, this is your third major league start, if you pitch around nick markakis and you're -- nick johnson, you're already trailing by a run, with one swing it can really change your numbers for the afternoon. >> bob: that ball a little bit high, jim joyce is not giving anywhere near a high strike today. >> rob: he's been missing with that curveball up all day. i don't think he was going to give it to him right there. >> jim p.: this is your hanger. >> rob: that was outside the

fourth inning, the nationals down 1-0, then they get on the board with one big swing of the bat by adam dunn. >> it was set up by this double, as he takes the fastball down and rips it down the line to set adam up. then he tried to get a fastball by him, down in the strike zone. he just exploded on that ball. it bounced one time. you're going to see it i think hit the building back there, the warehouse. there you go. so they had it at 446. he just has that picture perfect swing, all that torque build-up and doesn't lose anything. he stays back on that ball and extends that bat. >> that was the 50th home run hit onto utah street, the first by a nationals player. and it went anywhere from 442 to .500. it was off the back of the wall of the warehouse. we know that. >> it was a bomb. >> it was a shot. 19th of the year. there's the line score. >> josh willingham today a. good ballgame. stolen base, his first of the year. i believe something like 1 t in his major league career. salazar for the orioles goes 1 for 4. an dino goes -- andino goes 1 for 3. good ballgame, good pitching. a nice way to sp

the umpire is telling dunn he struck out. adams asking for an appeal for a foul tip, which doesn't usually happen. >> he's saying he didn't hear it. >> he's called him out. >> check out the replay and see if he makes contact here on the ball. not too good of an argument for adam here. it looks like it hit the ground and hit the catcher's chest protector. >> wants to know why won't you ask the third base umpire if you're not sure. >> i know. >> buckner must be saying i'm sure he missed it. now manny's getting a little more an mated here. that bat missed the ball. >> we know that, but we don't have to let manny and adam know that. it's a good argument. >> i think the right thing would be to ask the third base umpire for some help. >> romper row has gotten the last two hitters without throwing a strike on a two strike count. he got zimmerman fishing, dunn fishing, obviously the first time the nationals have seen this pitcher, and here's austin kearns zero for two in the series as a pinch hitter. kearns has been on 15 rbis for six week

and then covering the bases with adam dunn. a high pop-up behind the plate, the catcher drifting back into the stands. and no play for ryan hanigan, the count is each with two balls and two strikes, 3-1 here in the bottom of the sixth. >> rob: ryan has made a lot of strides in one area where people say he struck out 200 times a year, he only struck out 164 times last year, 122 walks, he makes it very difficult on the pitchers, but he is kind of a throw-back. that's what you wanted your four-guy to be, a big power guy and now that he is that big power guy, that's when all these other guys now are saying "oh well he still strikes out," that's the evolution of this

adam dunn homers, so does willie harris. the nats knocking off the orioles at camden yards, 5-3. tomorrow night the first of a three game series in florida against the marlins. the nats 0-6 against the fish this year. 6:30 is our air time, masn 2 tomorrow night and tuesday. how about this. we're going to be with you 11:30 wednesday morning for the wrap-up game for the nationals and marl anyone's florida. then the atlanta braves come to town for a big weekend series over the fourth of july at nationals park. welcome back, everybody. happy to have you with us on sunday afternoon. tomorrow night it will be scott olson coming off the dl against ricky nolasco of florida. >> scott won 12, he pitched three straight years. they're saying his velocity is up two miles per hour. it was 88 to 91 when he was here. we were talking about his velocity. nolasco struggles for two starts. giving up eight runs. but his last four he's only given up five runs. he's striking out a lot of people, he struck out 25 and walked five, so he's back on top of that stretch. >> the nats really about due to take