we got barajas. i think that's a makeup call even though he got the call right earlier on cristian guzman this is a great play right here by ryan zimmerman. he noas knows the play is to home. cutoff the go-ahead run. yeah. this is pretty close. i think we got him at first. great play by zim. great throw. >> bob: ryan knew that ball was hit too softly to turn a double play the conventional way. >> rob: yes, so he took the sure out at home to at least cut off the go-ahead run and try to double up the slower running rod barajas. well, joel hanrahan, you got that big second out. now you need to gut get yourself and your team out of this jam. >> bob: against a very experienced man who knows about baseball in these parts. former red sox are and oriole, kevin millar. >> rob: a very clutch performer right here. you're joel, you want more work, you've got to get some outs. that a boy. pump it in there. get ahead. >> bob: kevin millar this year is 0-7 as a pinch-hitter, .428, four homers, 28 rbi's. rios at thi

unusual numbers for rod barajas who has been around 11 years. 0-2 pitch. don't throw it over the heart of the plate. >> rob: nice. >> bob: he has a pretty hardslider. he'll go 86-87 or so with that slide piece. that's about what tallet throws his fastball. >> rob: i like you're using slang now. you've been around me long enough where you're saying slide piece and damage. i don't want to change your vocabulary too much. >> bob: i'm still not getting a tattoo. sorry. he can't get it. scott rolen is going to score maybe. he does. that kills you in the national league when you let the number eight hitter do that. he got it off the end of the bat. it was not right over the plate, but sometimes that happens. >> rob: well, let's see if they're taking down tallet. >> bob: yes, cito gaston is going to pull his pitcher out of this game just a little flare beyond the reach of anderson hernandez. it was evidently a decision made by the blujts blue jays pretty late after that happened. and it will be joe inglett, a left-handed-hitting infielder. >> rob: boy, that reall

barajas almost missed it. that was crazy. when you throw side arm, your ball will do a lot of different things t moves everywhere. not easy for a right-handed hitter. a little different with josh bard coming up there hitting left-handed. those balls that were going away and down from elijah dukes are really nice pickings for a left-handed hitter. >> bob: josh bard 0-2 with a walk. that roundhouse breaking ball stays just off the backdoor. >> rob: actually, pitching coach for the los angeles arranges suggest mike move his fingers together when throwing that two-seam fastball that gives it that late break. >> bob: 2-0. that's way outside. the nats have scored one run on a fielder's choice grounder tonight. now it's a 3-0 pitch with the bases loaded. >> rob: i think if you're bard right here, you've got to make him throw two strikes. if he just lays in another fastball, you just crush that thing you get a grand slam. >> bob: right. josh bard, one homer, eight rbi's this year. he's had a great month of june hitting nearly .320. 

, the hitter behind barajas beings he worked barajas pretty well. almost struck him out. still, 15-16 hitters faced. first-pitch strikes working ahead. he is throwing a lot of pitches because he's working a lot of breaking balls. to keep this one uft best offensive teams in the american league off balance for four straight innings, great job by jordan zimmermann tonight. jordan zimmermann right now it's a little humid. try to stay cool right now. maybe get two more, possibly three more innings. be that bridge to your bullpen and continue this nice streak by the young starters. >> bob: four scoreless innings on only three hits, three walks, two strikeouts and let's see if the nats can get the bats busy. maybe tonight is the night for leadoff hits. over the entire road trip, the nationals scored in every game by this time with the exception of tuesday night and they got the three-run homer by anderson hernandez, by then there has been no offense late in ballgames. maybe the nats can do a turn around on that tonight. >> rob: maybe they think this is th

sometimes they don't go for it. >> bob: here is barajas wrajs, -- rod barajas, the opposing catcher who a home run for the jays. he has one a game in philadelphia for them yesterday, his sixth of the year. he's 4-9 of his last. we've seen rod barajas in this league with the diamondbacks and phillies. evidently, it's a high strike zone. >> rob: evidently, make them beat you with your bat. challenge the lower part of the batting order. see if they can hit the old number one. >> bob: no swing says james hoye. >> rob: let's see this from the side. nope, he didn't. >> bob: one ball, two strikes a toronto team only 16-18 on the road. they're 3-6 in interleague play so far. as rob mentioned, they play well in their ballpark where it's a good hitter's park. they're 21-13 there. jammed him. right side for nick johnson. and the blue jays are gone in the top of the second. look at that. overmatching a left-handed batter and even the guy in the stands calls him out. custom s

rod barajas, it's ok when he's off the windup. he is a reliever who does work off the windup. when anybody gets on base, that's when the game comes to a screeching hauled halt. barajas, 1-3 with an rbi hit. out of play, right side. number nine spot is next for the blue jays. jose bautista. he's waiting to hit there. >> rob: colome has such good stuff. it's mind boggling this guy hasn't had an unbelievable career. >> bob: his lowest e.r.a. 3.27 in 2004 for tampa bay, but that was in only 33 games, and a couple of years before that, 3.33 in 30 games. he's had 8.27, 4.50,4.57 two years ago for the nats and back up to 4.21 for the nats last year. a lot of it has been control. right-field line pretty well hit. corey patterson in the corner that's right where the nats had him play. good scouting and execution there. there's jose bautista who broke in with the orioles in 2004 quickly on to tampa bay and kansas city in the same year and then finally four years with the pirates. blue jays got him for a young catcher we saw earlier this year robinson diaz playing for the pirates. that w

did you see barajas -- or not barajas but chavez much he was looking at the runner. >> bob: thighs try at the breaking ball. >> rob: i think nick was shaded by dunn and the catcher and didn't know where the ball was. >> bob: yes. screened. >> rob: i'm thinking of the hockey term. >> bob: like screening the goaly. >> rob: screening the goaly. >> reporter: keeping him in first base kept rolen in the milled will. >> reporter: what are you doing? >> rob: come on, nick. >> bob: one on, one out. scoreless game, bottom of the 4th. these teams have really played a low-scoring series and that's an offspeed breaking ball. he took a little bit more off. his previous one was about 86. that was 82. and two strikeouts in a row. >> rob: here is brett cecil on the delivery. he has some kind of offspeed, fastball, change-up and our expo captures -- x-mo captures adam dunn. >> bob: that x-mo captures the effectiveness of the change-up better than anything i have seen. >> rob: 500 frames per second. >> bob: dukes reaching for an outside pitch. rolen to second. pitchers rule tonight. no score, top 5. - oh

here is rod barajas. gets the base hit over the second baseman. a flare -- the ball was not hard hit and the run scored for the blue jays at that point which tied the game. that was it for jordan zimmermann on the evening. again, a terrific outing any way you sthries. >> five innings of relief ball for the nationals bullpen. jays get that one run in the sixth tying the ballgame at 1-1 and washington wins it in the 11th. 5 1/3 for jordan zimmermann gave up only one earned run, five hits, walked three, struck out three and did throw 106 pitches. 69 of those were strikes. the nationals take the opener of this three-game series here at nationals park against the toronto blue jays and phil and i will step out and come back and continue with more and the crowd filing out of nationals park. very, very happy. the nats winning streak is now three in a row. we'll be back in just a moment.  >>> "nats xtra" post game on masn brought to you by verizon fios over 100hd channels and the fastest internet. this is phio and this

rod barajas, the catcher, is next. the nationals have come into this game with their team e.r.a. down. let's go back two weeks ago. -- we're going to the bottom of the ninth. it's all toronto. by the way, a lovely shirt as well. >> thank you. woman over phone: no problem. you know, maybe other people are content to sit around and wait. wait for something to happen. for business to pick up. but for you, it's time to kick it in gear. time to get going. time to get tough. take control. you're not gonna run and hide. because backing down's not your style. grab your bag. it's on. ( ding ) >>> nats post game follows couple minutes. we good to the bottom of the ninth. >> under statement of the day, not a great day for nats pitching. bottom of the ninth coming up. we'll look forward to nats extra post game. a crowd of 26,610 today. the nats drew nearly 70,000 for the 3-game series here. jessie carlson will take over against the nats, face switch hitter josh bard. rally caps are out. by the way, the nationals did play another error less game today. those have been more frequent this w

rod b -- rod barajas the catcher. >> never broke 85 miles an hour, but he had pinpoint command of the fastball, could hit it anywhere in the strike zone, anywhere on the out side edges to set up the change-up. he didn't throw so hard that when there was a guy on second, he didn't even have a catcher put down a sign. he just had the catcher put location. so it's pitching that's not being afraid to throw the fastball over the plate. >> that's trouble. dunn will get there. four in the first for toronto, and the nats have a long road back against a rookie pitcher. 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. pilot: affirmative, it's on. (tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t >>> 1-1 to guzman. fifth in the legal .332 and four consecutive multi-hit games. 25 games with two hits or more for guzman, and that's fourth best in the league. ball 2. mets have an early run at home against tampa bay. the phillies are reeling, aren't they? baltimore at philadelphia. they just can't win at home. >> guzman

aaron hill in, rod barajas out. ought field plays zimmerman straightaway, down the line. a lot of hitting room on that right side. strikes out in a pitch in the dirt. should have been ball 3. zero for 11, zimmerman in the series. >> expanding the strike zone, a little bit of that when you're looking and frustrated and want to hit. >> he struck out his last two times thursday in new york, both looking, after having three consecutive hits. we thought he was locked in again, and now ryan zimmerman is zero for his last 13. here's adam dunn trying to bail out the inning, two on, one out with kearns on deck. >> i hope he hangs him a curveball. . >> mover trouble against lefties than rightties. >> he throws the fastball by dunn. he pitched pretty well at citizens bank park, 1-2 to dunn. the nats can't make contact here. did he tip that? 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

rod barajas, watched that. off madsen, a towering shot to deep center. it's gone. his sixth home run of the season. jays up 8-7. that is your final. toronto which entered this series 0-6 in interleague play, completes the three-game sweep. the phillies struggling. they have lost five of six, and fall six games under .500 at home. it is the third worst record in the majors at home. got the major league best record away from home, 23-9 on the ro road. >> white sox and cubbies finale of an abbreviated windy city series. bottom 8, it's 5-1 sox. here come the cubs, derrek lee, that is a three-run shot. his eighth of the year. cubs down a run. it's 5-4. next batter, soto. not a good sophomore season. but he'll take that. his fourth of the year. still only hitting .220. cubs tie it up at 5. all four runs in the #th. unearned. alfonso soriano, another member of the slumping cubs. 2 for 24. and cubs go through with the bloop single and wins the line drive in the box score. cubs win 6-5. ninth career walkoff hit for soriano. said lou piniella of soriano, he's too talented to

blue jays going for a three-game sweep of the phils, 7-7 game, pinch-hitter rod barajas coming throughthe pinch -- the former philly burning his old team with a solo home run to straightaway center and the jays win by the final of 8-7. jays finish off the sweep, the phils are a major league best 23-9 on the road but only 13-19 at home. "i'm tired of hearing about it," said ryan howard. i'm tired of talking about losing at home. >> free kick for brazil. we decided to spin the espn axis showing you felipe melo all alone. third time in four games the u.s. has allowed a goal in the first seven minutes. 19th minute, corner kick, marcus beasley. brazil sets up the counterattack. ramirez sprints down the field with the ball and passes to rodinho who passes it. brazil ends up winning it. alexi lalas looks ahead. >> you have to be able to compete. it's not about winning necessarily against the big teams. when you get off the field after the 90 minutes you want to say "i'm proud of the u.s. and i have hope for the future." the progress that this team and sport has made on and off the field in th

here is pinch-hitter rod barajas off ryan madson. center field. gone.o home run and the jays win it 8-7. jays finish off the sweep. the phils are a major league best 23-9 on the road but only 13-19 at home. "i'm tired of hearing about it," said ryan howard, i'm done talking about losing at home. >> fifa confederations cup, group b action, united states and brazil, americans 1-12 vs. the brazilians. seventh minute, no score, free kick for brazil. give me espn axis. felipe melo. with the corner kick. damarcus beasley loses the ball and turns it over, brazil sets up the counterattack. robinho. worst loss since 1993. alexi lalas looks ahead for the u.s. >> the u.s. needed egypt to beat italy to stay alive. 40th minute, egypt with the corner kick and the cross goes to mohammad homos. he scores with a header and egypt strikes first. later on check out gennaro gattuso. vincenso jaquinta here. denied again by el hadari. the u.s. avoids elimination for now. >> the nfl suspending donte' stallworth indefinitely without pay. stallworth pleaded guilty to killing a m

rod barajas will be catching and brian tallet on the mound tonight for toronto.ationals, how about adam dunn? we mention add few minutes ago, phil and imp talking 224 home runs the last six speans. -- and i were talking 224 home runs the last six seasons. 296 career home runs. he'll be in the cleanup spot. here is the rest of the washington lineup tonight. cristian guzman leads off at short. then comes nick johnson. ryan zimmerman down at third. adam dunn in left with a .265 average. elijah dukes in right. josh bard will be catching tonight, willie harris in center, hanley ramirez at second and jordan zimmermann on the mound for the nationals -- anderson hernandez at second and jordan zimmermann on the mound for the nationals. they've won 8-10 ballgames and a three-game winning streak. >> there are two guys that kind of jump up aaron hill and adam lind. hill has 15 home runs. this is where their power is coming. from neither one of these guys have done a whole lot in terms of home runs previously. hill's career high with 17 home runs two years ago. lind's previou

. >> rod barajas a solo home run. blue jays win it 8-7, sweeping the phillies in philadelphia. help us make sense of these numbers, 13-19 at home. >> it's early in the season. this is a team that's very, very good. they've lost their closer. they have to be a little more it can. they haven't been hitting at home. that's the bottom line. all of a sudden you lose raul ibanez and this guy is so special on the field and in the clubhouse, and in those hitters' meeting for the other team. they spend so much time trying to figure out how to get raul ibanez out. that's going to hurt a guy like ryan howard, chase utley. >> why so? >> because when guys beat you and they have good numbers, a guy like raul ibanez can hurt you from line the line, this is a guy they're going to spend a lot of time, like obviously on the field they, are but in the meetings, to figure out, we're not going to let raul ibanez beat us. now that he's out of the lineup, obviously that's not going to be talked about and they'll key on ryan howard, a chase utley even more, jay son werth. that just adds more pressure