bryce harper moving on up. he went 2 for 3 in his aa debut. >>> nationals outfielder jayson werth silenced his critics tonight. fans have been very vocal in their criticism until today. he won the game for the nats in the tenth inning. fans in the fourth of july spirit. there's uncle sam. he made an appearance. top of the fourth, nationals up 2-1. jordan zimmerman facing alfonso soriano. that could be out but roger bernadina and jayson werth can't decide who's going to catch it. aramis ramirez scores. marlon byrd beats the throw and the cubs take a 3-2 lead. werth would atone for the gaffe later. top of the sixth, still 3-2, cubs. bases loaded for geovany soto. he delivers to right. ramirez would score. werth comes up throwing. gets carlos pena at the plate. cubs take just a 4-2 lead instead of more. to extra innings, tied at 4, bottom of the tenth. pudge rodriguez comes to the plate with jayson werth on second base. werth steals third base with no throw. and that is a huge, gutsy play for werth. three pitches

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meanwhile, overall draft pick bryce harper off to a good start with aa harrisburg.ree games, the 18-year-old prodigy is 5 for 10 with two rbis. he was scheduled to play in rich honored friday, but major league baseball requested he travels to arizona to prepare for sunday's all-star futures game. harper was promoted to harrisburg after having plenty of success in hagerstown. he batted .318 in 72 games. harper is playing left field for the senators and will finish the season with harrisburg. he will then head to arizona for fall ball. nats' manager johnson said harper needed a new challenge and as much as harper wants to be playing in the big leagues, he knows it's not his call. >> i'm going let them make that decision. i'm not going to force the issue or anything. or -- i'm just going to go out and play the game like i can, and go to the afl hopefully. spent a good amount of time down there. have some fun down there, maybe win another championship. but know, i'm just going to go into spring training as strong as i can and play as hard as i can. and, you know, make t

a promotion for phenom bryce harper. ess and hitting success in class a haegerstown earned him a move to harrisburg where he is expected to take the field tonight. harper has been a machine at the plate. 14 home runs, 46 rbi and 19 stolen bases with hagerstown. before you get excited, and think he could be up in the nation's capital soon, not so fast. the nationals say this was part of the plan all along. they acknowledge he has had to make some adjustments, including learning this is something you do not do in professional baseball. remember this, when he did the kiss to the pitcher? yes. that is something they have certainly talked to him about. however, general manager mike rizzo says this is all right on schedule. >> we always have a timetable for him, felt that, you know, when we felt it was time for him to take the next step and to, you know, challenge him a little bit further, we would make a smooth transition, and, you know, after he went through a few of the little injuries, showed me that enough at-bats at that

. >>> a win for the nationals and things looking pretty good for bryce harper. >> time now to talk about some of that. joining us now are the sports junkies from 106.7 the fan. good morning, fellows. >> good morning, steve. >> hey, wisdom, don't forget about me. >> oh, hello. >> bryce harper, will he face any competition in aa ball or will he cruise through and dominate like he did in hagerstown? >> he had two hits in his debut last night. i don't no for he will have as easy a time in aa as he did in a. i think he will have success there. they wouldn't have given him the green light to go to aa had he not done so well. >> he is a teen no, ma'am. he will dominate there and everybody is going to wonder why they don't just call him up to the big league club. they probably aren't until midseason next year. >> i think there is no reason to bring him up this year because you lose a year, right. >> correct. >> wouldn't you want to create some hype like you did with strasburg. >> they could do that next year. i think this year i think they're worried about -- they're seven games back of the wild

it's time to do it all over again with bryce harper, who just got promoted to double a harrisburg. there were no jitters for the kid. he -- in his first at bat -- swings at the very first pitch and singles up the middle. he went 2 for 3 with a walk. not surprising. he is 18 years old. do not get too excited. general manager mike rizzo said he will finish the season in aa. the nationals squeak out another win to bounce back to 500 and -- .500. jordan zimmermann was on the mound. it had looked like they might squander another one of his spectacular outings. jayson werth shatters his bat with this base hit and danny espinoza home. top of the fourth, alphonso -- alfonso soriano hits the lazy fly ball. the cubbies went up 3-2. tied at 4-4 in the 7th. the 10th -- bad pitch sent jayson werth stealing home. the nats win 5-4. look at that. a two-run hit. rangers win it 13-4. >>> fireworks baseball, and then eating contest? there may be no better way to celebrate than with nathan's famous hot dog competition. joey chestnutt won. then men and women were separated this year. sonia thomas, a lo

. >>> and bryce harper's debut at aa harrisburg looks a lot like bryce harper in single "a." r was playing so well for the single "a" hagerstown sun, he skipped the advanced team. gm mike rizzo maintains harper isn't making it to the big club this season. >>> let's take a look at some of the stories we're working on this afternoon for news 4. pat lawson muse joins us from the newsroom with a preview of what's to come. >> coming up this afternoon on news 4 at 4:00, one woman's over the top way to punish her husband's ex-wife. the illicit craigslist ad that landed this woman behind bars. we'll tell you about that. and then tonight on news 4 at 5:00, we've got discount deals on three summer travel destinations. plus, we'll share with you the promotional code that will save you an extra hundred bucks off your bottom line. you'll want to tune in for that. plus, we'll have the late st on the weather this afternoon. aaron? >> thank you, pat. >>> one more check on the weather before we leave you this morning. tom kierein is here with the details on that. the heat is on. >> we're alrea

. >> they have been waiting for the return of steven strasburg and the arrival of bryce harper. the former may not realistically happen this year, the latter got one 10 keyser earlier today and -- one step closer today and promoted to the nats double a affiliate, bryce makes his debut with the senators in less then an hour. he ripped up the pitching in single-a ball hit ago .318 in hagerstown, 14 homers and 46 rbis, he's expected to play primarily in west feel with the promotion and nats selected them as the overall picks in the draft. and a 4th of july holiday tradition. the hot dog-eating contest. and competing in the first ever all-women's competition and show did it in style. downing 40 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to get that beautiful pension trophy. on the men's side, how about joey chest nut? he didn't disappoint. 62 dogs andy the minutes to make yet five toolings in a row. the only downside, he could not top his own record of 68 and that, my friend is disgusting. i am just full from watching that, mien from. i don't know about you, i'm not having a hot dog any time so

plus bryce harper gets promoted and dazzled in double a and the most blatant hand ball in socce >>> it'sr 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> all right. here is how you know the nationals offense has some serious issues. their good to guy in the 10th inning today was a 270-pound starting pitcher. and if you think that's funny, what's even funnier is the big boy delivered. nats and cubs today. roger benadino says he wants to be the natt's long-term solution. i suggest this is not going to help. up against the wall. you probably won't forgive him through this. lost it. two-run score. tied at four. hernandez called on the pinch hit. he could be a position player. perfect sacrifice bunt. moments later marmall and that's a walkoff wild pitch. they win 5-4. another day, another unlikely hero. >> this team is we never give up and we're going to battle to the end. we get the w. >> this is not the first walk off the nats have had on the 4th of july. back in 2006, a 21-year-old ryan zimmerman beat the marlin with that three-run walk off blast at rfk. today was the 13th one-run g

bryce harper promoted and is in double-a baseball and is expected to stay there the rest of the season. last night, the 18-year-old taking the first time to the field in double a. and in the first at-bat and in this if the pep. the second attack, lifts the lazy flyo ball and harper goes 2 for 3 and today, received the news that he will spend the rest of the season in double-a ball. >> i am comfortable here and i feel good and i really need to learn some stuff in left fold and the outfeel and i am excited. >> if he does something, we'll show it to you. >>> and tiger woods announced on his website he will not play in next week's british open and tiger woods won't play in the finish. back to you. >> and now you have the news edge. back here at 10. the news edge at 11. as always.  s

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. >> that guy right there, that is 18-year-old bryce harper, last year's top draft pick who went to the nationals. big things expected out of him. last night, he took the field for the first time in aa ball. he connects on a base hit to left. if his second at batted, hits a lazy foul pop for an out but he ended up going two for three with a walk and a run scored in the senators' 8-1 win over erie. >>> the 2011 season of tennis starts tonight with the washington castles taking on kansas city. venus william will be play for the castles in tonight's match. >>> as americans celebrate the fourth of july all over the u.s., there was quite a ceremony in london to honor a former american president. a new statue of ronald reagan was unveiled on the 4th. fox's greg palcott has the story. >> reporter: americans celebrating independence day in london's grosvenor square. a 10-foot bronze statue of ronald reagan now adorns this park. condoleezza rice saws reagan would have a hard time imagining -- >> a europe, whole, free and at peace, a europe in which we enjoy friendship and alliance with the forme

bryce harper promoted from hagerstown to aa harrisburg. he'll take the field tonight.ls gave fans a reason to celebrate early. it was jayson werth who provided the brightest of daytime fireworks as the nationals beat the cubs. it was an extremely festive 4th of july at the ballpark. but it didn't start that way for the nationals. top of the fourth, 2-1, former nats sorano pops up the shallow right. no one calls for it. jayson werth cannot decide so it falls. marlin bird is going to try. so the cubs take a 3-2 lead. werth, though, would atone for the gaffe later. so it's the bottom of the tenth now. tied at 4. carlos under the pitch. that is the winning run. the nationals beat the cubs 5-4 in ten innings. and he needed that, because he had been booed by nationals' fans as reasonabcently as yeste. so this is great for werth. but he is getting $126 million. >> yeah. don't feel too sorry for him. >> the nationals aren't the only team looking to get back to winning ways. d.c. united has only won at home one time. but head coach ben olson stopped by to tell us why that shoul

. >>> and bryce harper is one step closer to the big leagues.he super phenom made his debut with the aa harrisburg senators last night, and he's definitely making his mark. he went 2 for 3 with two singles, a walk, and a run scored in the senators' 8-1 win. harper was playing so well for the single-a hagerstown suns, he skipped the advanced single-a team. a lot of folks in woodbridge upset about that because they're going to miss him. >> he'll be closer to home sooner than later probably. >> time for weather and traffic on the ones. meteorologist tom kierein has a look. >>> we've had heavy clouds in the wake of heavy downpours that just missed the mall last night. thankfully, things did go off as planned for the fireworks display and the concert on the mall. it's rather humid on the mall. temperatures in the mid-70s. near 70 prince george's county, lower eastern shore, and parts of the atlantic beaches. that area has a few lingering showers this morning. those are now dissipating. there is the hazy sky over washington on this tuesday, the 5th da

back with the latest on what >>> ml bp.com is reporting the nationals promoted future all-star bryce harperarrisburg. the nats learned who will represent them in the all-star game. tyler clifford was named to the national league's squad. the first of his career. the 26ier old has been fantastic out of the bull pen for washington. posting a 1.96 e.r.a. while striking out 57 in 46 innings. current first baseman michael morris has a chance to be named to the team as well. the slugger is part of the final man competition to make sure he makes the team. head over to nationals.com so you can vote. >>> tomorrow the nats will have a very special first pitch ceremony. michelle obama will be at the game. she is helping to promote the joining forces effort. it is a nationwide effort to get people to support military families. children from military families will escort the first lady to home plate. she will not throw out the first pitch. that honor will go to one of the children. >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge are spending the day on prince edward island. yesterday william and kate stopped in h