anderson hernandez stops it, flips to castillo. his relay wild, nats up 4-3.e mac doug al on for the same. one on for david wright. deep fly ball. i love good catches. look at dukes tracking it. whoa! leaps and makes the great catch to end it. look at this, this is my favorite part. he says, come on, buddy, give me some ve. the nats win it, 4-3. moving to the capitals. they always have baseball fans but with other teams in the area struggling and with the potential on this rosterer, they are one of the teams that provides the biggest hope for gog a long way this season. experts' early predictions are extremely high for the capitals and part of that is because alex ovechkin is like a fine wine, he gets better and wiser with age. let's go to verizon. with his fifth year in the team, he says he's determined to take the team further and in case you forgot how rare it is to have a player this good in your city, it's not every player that gets the honor of driving a zamboni through times square. he was up in new york city a few weeks back proceed m.i.t.ing his space

therere is anderson hernandez. . >> bob: mcdougal gets the strikeout.row four strikes to do it and the eighth inning is over. the nats strike out the side. the mets have stranded eight runners, it's 5-2 into the ninth.   . >> rob: i tried to save it. >> bob: washington nationals 5, the mets 2, here is a summary for you. ryan zimmerman two hits, including his 30th home run, josh bard his fifth homer of the year. a fantastic play at home plate on a double play and a sac. fly and j.d. martin the pitcher of record as we go to the ninth inning. >> rob: we talk about extension, bob. this is a josh bard home run. look at how beautiful his swing is. gets the arms out and gets them fully loaded. puts that lower half into it. . >> bob: you know, he deserves a nice slow home run trot. with all that lower body injury stuff. >> rob: oh, get up hammer. >> bob: and willingham, see you later. the nats lead 6-2 as josh willingham has a two-hit night and his 23rd home run. laying down the smack 'em yac 'em here. the hammer.