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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 was ahl august 25 of last year. .239 career hitter. 0-7 last. as a pinch-hitter, just 0-1 this year. nats got brandon league out of the game. here is jason frasor, their only remaining right-hander down there. slider, see you. perfect at the knees. two outs. ro

he got the base hit after the scutaro sacrifice to drive in jose bautista to make it a 3-2 game back in the 8th. he is hacking for now. this might be an at-bat like guzman had. what do teams usually do on the road in a situation like this? >> rob: right here where you have the leadoff guy on base and you have one of the best contact guys and then you have vernon wells? i'm trying to put this guy on second and let vernon swing away. you know you have no bullpen. you have to go for the win right here. >> bob: yes. zimmerman takes it. should make it a double play but a bad throw. he hung gonzalez out to dry. so the nats will settle for one. and gonzalez floating in the air kept that ball out of right field. >> rob: this is an absolute shot right there. ryan zimmerman has plenty of time. takes a little too much off of this and just kind of lobs it over because alberto gonzalez who normally does not play second base is not there yet. great play shown by the x-mo. you saw him kind of pump right there and lobs it. >> bob: that play is a microcosm of zimmerman's season. amazing with the glov

first batter, bautista, the pinch hitter, singled into centerfield. at that point, mapy acta came in and took aim out of the game. this is a quality start. this is one of those outings that they expected when he drafted him in the first round. >> johnny: dwight, two earned run, six hits allowed, threw 99 pitches. when you talk about the nationals' offense tonight, it seems like a highlight reel with willie harris taking the leading role in this particular movie. >> phil: again, thank goodness he did because some of his teamates were not getting the job done offensively. willie hits one to deep centerfield. then he steals third base without a throw. watch him here. stole that right off the pitcher. they didn't even bother to throw. and then your old friend, wil nieves, hits a sac fly. then in the 6th inning, an all doubles inning for the national. cristian guzman comes to the plate, strokes the ball down the line. rolen never moved on it. then nick johnson comes up and nick has been red hot at the plate. he doubles to deep right centerfield which, can,