a nice night for josh bard. been a great night for josh bard.your other catcher, will nieves hurt, will go out and get a trade for somebody. big home run, great play. j.d. martin, 5-2 lead, josh bard plays hard every day, like pete orr, guys like that. watch them come out here at 2:00 this afternoon, yes, two weeks left in the season, these guys are still taking extra batting practice early in the day, so it's nice to take josh bard and having to pay off for them. >> bob: a lot of these guys are wondering about their jobs for next year and they have to come down to every game. >> rob: your work ethic goes a long way. the more you show up the more you're working in the cages and with the hitting coach those are the kind of players going to be on this nationals team. mike rizzo is going to want them. sam cassel is going to want them, and jim riggleman. >> bob: gary sheffield for the pitcher sean burnett. slips one by and down and away. and the count is even, 1-1.   . >> rob: i think one of the be compliments i e

he pinch hit for bard.nded hitter gets a right- handed hitter. 2 for 6 lifetime for 3 orr against park. with the third at bat having to in a run. with josh, or or orr and not go do a right-handed bat. the top of the order coming up. and ron with the final. xtra after the sounds breezy. street into the ballpark. ryan madson who does not need a breeze at his back. in to get his fifth save of the year last night. lidge who almost had meltdown. career saves coming into this career. doubled that. a base hit. is having his best tonight with hits and 5 at bats. now it's time to steal 11 for 3 stealing bases. the year. is not that fast the plate. feliz has to play in close at third. a -- is a good was going to say, don't give up his bat right here and take 8 way and bunch. bob: maxwell 35 stolen bases this year at syracuse. .242. get that on base. world class speed. guzman hit a double. a 90 miles an hour slider. great change, a great the runner goes. off a bun. late throw. bag and he's in scoring position with nob

back in the 7th inning, josh bard goes down and gets one, but dukes had been picked off, and bard's 32nd of which have been in this ballpark as he used to play here. the final, pads4, nats 1. joins wednesday, day game, masn 2. nats and padres continue this series, and we get you going at 3:00 with nats extra. visit masn sports.com for all of the latest news on the nationals. this has been a presentation of masn. stay tuned. nats extra coming up right now, and from the booth in san diego, so long for just a while. >>> well, the national hitting problems continue tonight in san diego, 4-1 the final. next half hour, we'll try to give you some answers, if we can come up with some, as to what's happened to this national offense. are the getting the pitching, phil, but just not getting the hitting. >> rob: outstanding effort toronto by j.d. martin, but unfortunately it was j.d.'s own feeding mishap that led to the go ahead run. >> defining moment in this ball game. the bunt, and this is where it all starts right here. >> cabrera ladens fairly rue attain bunt. not a lot of top spin on the ball,

against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does.ting bard to finish off a six-hit shutout with nine k's. phillies win five. fourth career shutout for cliff lee. first in the national league. he's now 7-2 with the phils. and the phils are 13-3 against the nats this year. in just nine starts, cliff lee has as many wins, complete games and shutouts as he did in 22 starts with the indians. the reigning a.l. cy young winner has an era below 3 with the phils and has more than doubled his strikeout to walk ratio. >> speaking of phillies, the eagles have activated michael vick adding him to the three-man roster. because of his two-game suspension, vick can't play until september 27th. john clayton on what this move means for vick and the eagles. >> don't read into it too much that michael vick is off the exempt list and practicing with the team. it's not affecting the chance that he's still going to be the fourth quarterback in philadelphia. the plan is still to get him ready for week three, and try to do specialty plays. that's why they si

against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does.ting bard to finish off a six-hit shutout with nine k's. phillies win five. fourth career shutout for cliff lee. first in the national league. he's now 7-2 with the phils. and the phils are 13-3 against the nats this year. in just nine starts, cliff lee has as many wins, complete games and shutouts as he did in 22 starts with the indians. the reigning a.l. cy young winner has an era below 3 with the phils and has more than doubled his strikeout to walk ratio. >> speaking of phillies, the eagles have activated michael vick adding him to the three-man roster. because of his two-game suspension, vick can't play until september 27th. john clayton on what this move means for vick and the eagles. >> don't read into it too much that michael vick is off the exempt list and practicing with the team. it's not affecting the chance that he's still going to be the fourth quarterback in philadelphia. the plan is still to get him ready for week three, and try to do specialty plays. that's why they si

dukes, bard and gonzalez coming up bottom of the 2nd.e 9/11 rememberance night at the ballpark. all active militaryy, police officer, firefighters with a valid i.d. can purchase 2 tickets for the price of one or one for 50% off. you must purchase at the box office tomorrow. hernandez for the nationals tomorrow night. cliff lee as some of you know, originally a expo. florida drafted him in 97, he did not sign. baltimore in 98 and did not sign. the expos signed him in the 4th round of 2000 after he pitched one year at the university of arkansas. not that highly recorded with a 4-3 record in college. he improved his draft position, and of course the infamous trade by omar. lee, stevens, phillips, sizemore for colon and drew's brother tim. a pitcher. >> rob: there was another drew? >> bob: yeah, tim. >> rob: what about nancy his sister. >> bob: she was busy solving crime. >> tim and j.d. with drafted in the first round in one year. tim would later have shoulder problems, here's dukes. he's walked 11 times in 13 games. that's why his on base

and bard rolls a double play ball.o, valdez, 4-6-3, doesn't get much more convenient than that. and the nats are gone in the top of the second. up two. ? what is it to lead? at pnc, it's doing what most benefits our customers. whether that's building more certified green buildings than anyone on earth. creating online banking tools for the next generation. or making a 10 year, $100 million investment in kids. it's how we've always done business. and will for a very long time to come. pnc. leading the way.  . >> bob: tonight's masn tele celebrating the birthday of the united states air force is being brought to you by dine corp. international. we serve today for a safe tomorrow. panasonic tough notebook computers. navy federal credit union. we serve where you serve. the u.s. air force, the aerial warfare branch of the u.s. armed forces, initially part of the army. they were formed as a separate branch of the military september 18th, 1947. and while the air force celebrates that date as its official birthday the hi

against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does.ting bard to finish off a six-hit shutout with nine k's. phillies win five. fourth career shutout for cliff lee. first in the national league. he's now 7-2 with the phils. and the phils are 13-3 against the nats this year. in just nine starts, cliff lee has as many wins, complete games and shutouts as he did in 22 starts with the indians. the reigning a.l. cy young winner has an era below 3 with the phils and has more than doubled his strikeout to walk ratio. >> speaking of phillies, the eagles have activated michael vick adding him to the three-man roster. because of his two-game suspension, vick can't play until september 27th. john clayton on what this move means for vick and the eagles. >> don't read into it too much that michael vick is off the exempt list and practicing with the team. it's not affecting the chance that he's still going to be the fourth quarterback in philadelphia. the plan is still to get him ready for week three, and try to do specialty plays. that's why they si

against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does.f a six-hit shutout with nine k's. phillies win five. fourth career shutout for cliff lee. first in the national league. he's now 7-2 with the phils. and the phils are 13-3 against the nats this year. in just nine starts, cliff lee has as many wins, complete games and shutouts as he did in 22 starts with the indians. the reigning a.l. cy young winner has an era below 3 with the phils and has more than doubled his strikeout to walk ratio. >> speaking of phillies, the eagles have activated michael vick adding him to the three-man roster. because of his two-game suspension, vick can't play until september 27th. john clayton on what this move means for vick and the eagles. >> don't read into it too much that michael vick is off the exempt list and practicing with the team. it's not affecting the chance that he's still going to be the fourth quarterback in philadelphia. the plan is still to get him ready for week three, and try to do specialty plays. that's why they signed jeff garcia. he c

and josh bard. >> and with the nationals and early may in stepped bard. >> and going great. 31-year-old catcher has helped manage them promising young rotation and a long season. >> it is gone. >> it is first homerun as a national. and solo homer. and the return to the club, it is a great option behind the plate. >> and that continues to fly it is a homerun. >> between bard and nieves they did a great job filling in. he is the number one guy of a the bench. he has a pop. i don't foe where we would have been. he has done a great job. >> nationals get this one take the series. bob and rob are next. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. at some res

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they've already used josh bard.atch. >> rob: i just want see putting alberto gonzalez up there against brad lidge. i don't know what they're looking for, or that they need to see from him, but he continues to get tons. >> bob: and then nieves drops a base hit into center field! so far so good. bottom of the 9th. >> rob: right there, as we said before, it's a good pitcher's pitch. jams him, but he still finds a way to put it out there. used to always say when i played, would rather be lucky than good sometimes. >> bob: that slider had gonzalez leaning back. and he pulls the ball, near the bag, one play at first, high throw, runner out on the tag by ryan howard. guzman will bat in this inning barring a line drive double- play. >> rob: nice play by feliz, and then he slides awkwardly at first base to avoid the tag and almost hurts himself. >> bob: ryan howard's foot was blocking the bag, too. here is willie harris. one of the 9th inning heros on sunday. willie has had a good night, a double, a homer, hit by a pitch. st

joshsh bard played for the padres '06, '07, '08. hit .285 here in '07.away. >> rob: he gets that.   traded over here from boston when the red sox needed doug mira belly to catch tim wakefield >> rob: well and mira belly was crying anyway, i want to go back, i don't like san diego.   . >> bob: josh bard hits one do the right field line. hit that ball extremely hard. no sign that the nats are going to pinch republican run for him here. they have ha see a who can both run well. cristian guzman is in the on- deck circle. >> rob: i agree with you. the double yesterday that would have scored a fast pitch runner. did not score on that ball. and then right here josh bard, hip pointer or hip flex or muscle injury. bad groin. he has got all that speed sitting on the bench.   . >> bob: nieves, fastball up   . >> rob: speed couldn't help there.   first pitch, ground ball, rig to eckste

flores had surgery this leak and bard has been hampered by a groin.he nats take on that team at 7:10. a pair of pitchers trying to move above 500. the nats are on a three game slide at the moment. >>> college football and it seems last saturday against yankees marc u the terps got a scare against a team they should beat. the problem with tomorrow's gain, is they shocked this terps a season ago and since then they have lost practically no players to graduation and maryland lost 30. the terps know a win this year may be even tougher. two games so far. maryland has given up 97 points and that's not eye opening news. >> i know problems. like i say it is not going to happen overnight. you have to be with these kids and tell them what they are doing wrong and be encouraging. can't get down on them because they are what we got. >>> tomorrow maryland and osu. >>> here's a look at the games. >> that's tonight at 11:00. >>> a big show ahead. >> and luckily, what is this one of the rare fridays with no rain for operation football. >> i have failed, haven't i? >>

bottom six, daniel bard is pitching. betancourt singles to right. two score. the royals wipe out deficits in this game of 6-0 and 8-2. they rally to win 12-9. red sox relievers three innings pitched, seven earned runs. the royals are 11-13 in their last 14 games. playing the spoiler. baseball insider buster olney joining us now live on "sportscenter." the royals' zack greinke going tond against the sox. now, he has 14 victories, the fewest for a starter to win a cy young in a full season is 16. yet he leads the american league e.r.a. and strikeouts. how important is tonight's start? >> extremely important. now, i think he's a slight leader because of the fact that his e.r.a. is about 3/10 of a run lower than felix hernandez, the fact that he's got 224 strikeouts in 210 1/3 innings. i talked with an american league general manager today, he said there's no question greinke has been the best pitcher in the american league but that win total can be so important. and felix hernandez has 16. espn.com has a thing called cy young predictor. right now felix hernandez

to invoke the bard again, the fault of the president is not in the stars, it's in the s.e.c.ability to see the enforcement of existing laws rather than creating new ones will get the job done a whole lot better than the $33 million fine paid for by the people, even though the executives took advantage to begin with. bottom line, we need to punish the perpetrators, not their victims. and until the president and his s.e.c., because it is his organization, understand that? i've got a feeling, bad feeling. the bad guys will keep getting away scot-free. stay with cramer. >> announcer: coming up, the madness goes nationwide. >> a big buffalo boo-yah. >> boo-yah from the scorching deserts of west texas. >> from southern california -- >> announcer: when jim takes calls from all across cramerica. >>-boo-yah from st. louis. >> big 110 degree boo-yah from phoenix, arizona arz. >> boo-yah from seattle. >> announcer: in an all new quick-fire "lightning round." and later, whether the dow soars or hits the floor, jim helps you try to stay on steady ground with "am i diversified?" all coming

leading the way. . >>> i've talked to a lot of guys, lannan, bard, a very big help for me.elped me a lot. everybody really. they come up and talk to us, they are very willing to talk to us when we go to them too. so everybody haslily been a big help. >>> interesting. here is one guy talking to another young guy in atlanta and a veteran in hernandez and you look at the numbers for j.d. martin. first time he has faced the mets in citi field. that's got to be a little bit intimidating i'm thinking huh? >> yeah. i'm thinking though with j.d.'s demeanor and the way he goes about things they don't know how good his curve ball is. i know they were able to look at his film, he has a great curve ball, his fastball is starting to be more live running away. earlier in the year 87 miles per hour is what he topped out at. he is around 89 of late. that has shown in his last three ball games. he has a 3.15 earned run average only giving up three runs or less four of those five ball games, twice giving up two and one time one. doesn't give up a lot of hits in his last 7 outings, 5 hits he

daniel bard, tied at 9-9. yuniesky betancourt. that drives in two. royals win it 12-9.he red sox relievers, three innings of work, seven earned runs, kansas city now 11-3 in its last 14 games. royals getting hot in september once again, much to the red sox dismay. the yankees and red sox lose and boston misses an opportunity and remain five games back of new york. red sox only four back in the loss column, though, and they have two more games remaining than the yankees do. take a look at those schedules beginning with the yankees, 11 games remaining for new york with two left at the angels before a weekend series against the red sox in the bronx. again, that could get very interesting. they host the royals before finishing on the road at tampa bay. as for boston, they have three more at the royals before heading to the bronx for that three-game series and they finish up in boston with the a to get there. >>> the rangers, one win away from their first winning season since 2004. unfortunately they're inching closer to being irrelevant in the playoff discussion. how about

daniel bard, tied at 9-9. yuniesky betancourt. that drives in two. royals win it 12-9.he red sox relievers, three innings of work, seven earned runs, kansas city now 11-3 in its last 14 games. royals getting hot in september once again, much to the red sox dismay. the yankees and red sox lose and boston misses an opportunity and remain five games back of new york. red sox only four back in the loss column, though, and they have two more games remaining than the yankees do. take a look at those schedules beginning with the yankees, 11 games remaining for new york with two left at the angels before a weekend series against the red sox in the bronx. again, that could get very interesting. they host the royals before finishing on the road at tampa bay. as for boston, they have three more at the royals before heading to the bronx for that three-game series and they finish up in boston with the a to get there. >>> the rangers, one win away from their first winning season since 2004. unfortunately they're inching closer to being irrelevant in the playoff discussion. how about

the phillies starter strikes out josh bard. nats fall 4-2. >>> the mystics played their first post season game of 2009 last night. and a nice homecoming for crystal and marissa, playing o under their own retired jerseys. washington had a lead early in the second half, but gave it away. mystics lose 88-79. today arena drive will open, leaking the beltway to fedex field just in time for the redskins home opener sunday. washington is hosting the st. louis rams, but they have a powerful weapon in runningback, steven jackson. jackson has run for more than 4,000 yards and in 2006 with 150 yards on the ground. >> he is big, he is strong, he is fast. he can go the distance. he can catch passes. i think this guy is a home run hitting type of back. >> it's important that we tackle him. he's quick, it's important we be smart. >> now let me take you back to last sunday and the redskins first touch down on that fake field goal. in a web chat yesterday. redskins was asked that scored the first redskins touchdown of the year. who is hunter sm

josh bard with a homer last night after dukes got picked off first. an rbi flare by pete orr monday night. in this three game set. padres will go over 500 at home by two games. zimmerman jammed then he fouls it off his lower leg. cause excuse off the fewest errors at third base in all of baseball. nobody would tell you that he is more athletic or a better third baseman than ryan zimmerman. rob who cares about perception? to me he would have to be the front runner. >> rob: that guy has had 100 more chances. he also has 100 more. >> bob: ironically one-third baseman's ground ball off the other. >> rob: they are going to get a hit on this. you watch. they are trying to get their guy going close. as i said before though, zimmerman has had 100 more chances almost 100 more assists at the position and his power numbers far outweigh kouzmanoff and that is the way it is for many many years. >> bob: i think next year if ryan zimmerman throws the ball straight to first ball all year, he'll win a gold glove hands down. that is the only thing that's kept him, in g

bard got a pinch hit single, and then willie harris hitting a home run on a fastball. chris can guzman then hits one out, uggla can't make the play, hustling, and just beats the throw, and zimmerman gets a fastball down and in, deep into the left center field bleachers. his 5th walk off career home run, third against the marlins. >> and the nationals win it by a score of 5-4. the marlins take two out of three. 16 runs scored, 33 hits, an average of .306 for the nats against florida. era a little higher than i'm sure mccaddy and wriggleman would like to have, and the opponents, the marlins, did hit .324. >> yeah, it's tough to score 5 and a half runs a game and lose two out of three. >> willie harris came to the dish in that inning and got a solo home run, his 8th of the year. he talked to the media about how pleased he was to be able to contribute and how the team hung in there and fought back. 6th of the year. >> just in there looking for a pitch to hit hard. i had a feeling they may have thought that i was going to take a couple of pitches, just because they were up

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