byron kerr, ray knight with you on nats xtra. missed opportunities. getting the 1st inning going early on. they had chances certainly but left guys on base. >> ray: the last 10 days we have had chances but haven't been able to deliver. ground ball shortstop. fielder's choice there. first, third, single. hit-and-run to advance guzman and he strikes out, durn strike snn strike. not able to -- dunn strikes out. and there's the base hit to right. and then flying out to right field to end that inning. 7th inning, zimmerman walks. willingham walks. still have runners on first and second. there's the walk to willingham and kearns chases. as we talked about earlier, 12 runners left on base. the only real big inning there i thought was when dunn and dukes struck out with runners on second and third after they advanced on a wild pitch. >> byron: something we noticed at the patience at the plate, making the pitchers try to get the strike. got a couple of balls in there. not going for first or second pitch like they did maybe last night. >> ray: we have been pret

: byron kerr with ray knight. we are getting ready for nats xtra minutes away. >> ray: it was a fielder's choice that gets the win. important contact. phillips tried to and had to chance. the great thing was the lead-off pinch hit by harris and another pinch hit by hernandez to get it started. >> byron: in the 9th, joe beimel got the job done. debbi taylor is stand by with him right now. >> debbi: thank you. the bullpen has been fantastic the last 17 games. your third save overall. e.r.a. under 3. and your first save here as a national. >> we have kind of turned it around from where we were earlier in the year. got some new guys in here. everybody has been pitching well. and for our team to come back like they did today and get a win, you want to go out there and throw a scoreless inninging and help them. >> debbi: this team clawed and scratched its way to a win. you didn't give up. the 8th inninging the way the guys were out there, what did you think of that? >> it is the same thing we did last night. we had that

back to byron and ray. >> thank you, debbi. we are pulling for shane to make it from the 34th round. it would be nice to see that name come up. the draft is over. they got the 51 players. they have some guys with lineage that could be good for the nationals in the future. >> ray: yeah they do. there's nothing like genetics. [laughter]. >> ray: you see a lot of things going good when you get guys that know how to play the game. any time that you draft a pitcher's son, you can bet from the time he was 6, 7, 8 years old, he has been at least taught the right way. and he's got the right way of thinking. sometimes those guys may not have as good stuff but they know how to pitch. it is just like my dad always said, he is a ballplayer. he may not be the fastest guy or the guy to hit with the most power or throws the hardest, but he knows how to play the game. >> all those picks for the nationals, stephen strasburg is on. also in our covering the bases segment today, 1st baseman adam dunn. we are going to learn a lot about adam dunn, h

byron, some speculation today because of media report regarding the status of manny acta. >> byron: yesorts.com saying that jim rig he willman would become the manager and manny acta would be fired sometime in the future. i spoke with the team president before the game, edsel not comment on media reports. he is perplexed by this bad start and he's looking for all solutions to try to figure this out. jim riggleman said before the game he hadn't even heard about this report. he fully trusts manny acta, he's a heck of a manager. >> bob: we know kenny rosenthal, he's a very good reporter. he must have some source he feels is strong enough to go sub with such a report. at the same time, he evidently knows more than any of us who are with the ball club every day. >> rob: exactly. >> bob: i'll tell you right now, i like manny acta, i think manny acta is an excellent manager and he's not been given enough horses to win. you've got four rookie pitchers out there. your most veteran pitcher has 50 career starts under his belt. >> bob: to me the big perplexing thing about this ball club is the bad

that's right byron. there's quite a buzz down here, mike rizzo the national's acting general manager will stand here and talk about the nats' top pick. it's been an exciting day but a busy couple weeks. they have been here at national's park for the last two weeks, in at 8:30 in the morning, my sources tell me the earliest they have left is midnight so putting in a lot of hard work and hours, the leader of scouting leading the way. chris klein, the national crosschecker and assistant scout, if first here and last to leave, and the western crosschecker has been busy. but nobody is more busy than mike rise zo. in addition to juggling his gm duties he has also been overseeing and going out and scouting a lot of these draft picks so he has the busiest blackberry in baseball. mark lerner and ted lerner have been out to see steven strays bourg, that doesn't happen very often in major league baseball. a lot on the line with this pick. manny acta saying what a franchise moment this is, he is also very confident

. >> bob: debbi taylor has the night off so byron kerr is with us. you have more on this bullpen. >> byron: we talked about that bullpen and it's been a couple of weeks for them as the pitching coach is kind of settling in. so much is made in baseball about who is the middle reliever, who is the guy in the 7th inning. >> i know some guys like to know who is the closer, who is the relief guy. i think guys need to be prepared to pitch. i'm not saying that might not come about or manny and i have not talked about but i like to have guys ready to pitch. >> byron: mcdougal is getting close with that nice action that he had with the royals. >> bob: it doesn't hurt when mcdougal with throw mid-90s with all that sink. two years ago, the tampa bay rays won 66 games. last year, they won the american league pennant with 100. with young teams, folks, it can be done. ÷÷úp you don't do laundry at the beach. you salt-wash everything and let it breeze dry. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. . >> bob: national

back over to you byron. >> thanks a lot debbie. if you look at what the nationals have available at that spot, look at what mike rid el had talked about, it may not be the best draft out there but they still have three of the first 80 picks. they can still get some quality people. >> they can get another pitcher. what they are doing is just stacking up on great young arms and we already have a truck load of good young arms and it's been evidenced by what the young men do up here. you can talk about stay monday, detwiler, zimmerman, you get a guy like strays bourg, this just takes you to another level. you know, we haven't signed him but assuming we're going to sign him. worst-case scenario we get the number 2 pick next we're but we don't want to waste another

leadi 3-2 as we head to the bottom of the ninth inning, the nats looking for some ninth inning magic, byron kerr and ray knight waiting for nats extra, hopefully after two more runs from the nationals. but you have to be believed to see what you see from detwiler. >> i am. a lot of fun, he had the three walk and he punched people out, he showed he can really be effective against national league hitters. he made a good pitch, really good pitch away to brandon phillips and went back with the same pitch, brandon phillips, went down the first base line, that's the difference in the game. >> we have got it coming up. hopefully for runs for the nats and look back at the first round pick of steven strawsburg. >> johnny: willie harris leading off, anderson hernandez in the number 1 hole, and francisco cordero comes out of that reds bullpen. 25 innings pitched, 21 hits allowed, four earned runs, struck out 23 and only walked eight batters.  among national league  in saves. hasn't given up a run in his last 8 appearses. this cincinnati bullpen is tough. >> rob

bob carpenter, rob dibble, byron kerr with us. we'll fly to new york and come to you from the new yankees stadium tuesday night with martis against sabathia. >> bob: i think some of these young pitchers are going to make sure they're not in awe of the place in which they're pitching tuesday, wednesday, thursday. last time they measured it, the mound was 60 feet 6 inches too. >> bob: and hernandez will drop one to right center. gonzalez with a great jump. going to 3rd. he will be out with the ball waiting for him. testing the arm of gabe gross who threw him out. [cheering and applause] that made him make a perfect throw to get him. >> rob: i like it. challenge the defense. - oh, it's on. - it's on. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights to new york laguardia for just 49 dollars one-way starting j

byron on the right and fox on the left. thank you fox. ray is ready to go out and play 3rd base now. we haven't told ray and fox they're going to do an hour postgame in a few minutes. >> johnny: i've been out there while you and bob sit here and talk about things like that. believe me. phillips, nix. 2-2 game. tavarez working on an 0-4 night. i forgot macdougal went to wake forest signed by baltimore 21st round, 2nd team all american, 1st team all american by baseball america. he had a heck of a year in the atlantic coast conference in wins and era. he had a personal record against duke in 99. takes a couple of steps. one down in the 11th. i think that's about all willy taveras has. macdougal in his 9thyear in the major leagues. phillips grounded to right, grounded to second. >> rob: he's still -- >> johnny: leaves the ball club in that category. phillips 0-1. nix is next. hernandez after him. >> rob: 17 homers in 06; 30 homers 07. >> johnny: macdougal delivers, a swing and a foul. mike had terrific years with kansas city. 68 games he pit

. >> byron dorgan of north dakota, they are doing a terrific job and they are advancing the oil and gas reserves, i think that sen. dorgan and conrad appreciate that as a resource to their state, even though they are democrats who you may ordinarily put on the other side of the column when it comes to oil and gas production issues, this will come down to, who they represent and the industry that provides for jobs and resources. this is making certain that the amendments are balanced, you may be able to claim their support if this is balanced. >> are there any other changes to the energy bill? >> i do not know if there is anything -- the amendment list is -- everything that we had out there was clear for withdrawn. >> to clarify something do you think that for the colleagues that this is a package deal, or is this enough to bring more votes? >> this i do not know. you are never quite certain how deep the line is that has been drawn in the sand. i feel so strongly that in order to get meaningful production, the revenue sharing has to be part of the deal. but sometimes, sometimes you have

i want to thank senator byron dorgan for his leadership and hard work on this bill and i also want to thank senator ensign for his leadership. i spoke last week when we first started talking about this bill about the importance of the tourism and travel industry to our economy. tourism creates good jobs that can't be outsourced. it increases sales for local businesses and it brings in tax revenue for local and state economies. as i said, one out of every eight americans is employed by our travel economy. each year, travel and tourism contribute approximately $1.3 trillion to the american economy. the travel economy contributes $115 billion in tax revenue in state and federal governments and last year, travel and tourism exports, which means the people coming into our country to enjoy our beautiful country, that accounted for 8% of all u.s. exports. in fact, tourism, madam president, is one of the few economic sectors where we enjoy a substantial trade surplus. but things are not going as well as they could or they should, especially when it comes to bringing international travel to th

our nats xtra coming up with byron kerr and ray knight. they'll be talking about theouting tonight. there was only one mistake the homer by bruce. the nats xtra pregame tomorrow will be at 4:00 and the first pitch a little after 4:30. >> rob: you also have to score a run to win. you may think it's a mistake. the hitters are getting paid to get runs on the board for their ball club too. shairon did an excellent job. >> johnny: 0-9 the last four games willy has played in. he went through three straight sunday through thursday. >> rob: in the last few innings, harang has stepped up velocity against our hitters. now he's throwing a lot of sinkers and cutter, but they're all fastballs. he totally changed his approach to our hitters in the third lineup. >> johnny: that's the mark of a good pitcher to be able to do that and adjust the gameover all. >> rob: he's feeling it. you see him hitting that same spot over and over. he's going to make harris beat him to the field. >> johnny: drives to left field, pops up down the left field line, foul. six road starts, he's 1-4. he's been banged up a

. >> rob: byron kerr handed me a note, seven runs is the most runs given up in an inning so far this year since may 6 against the dodgers in the 6th inning. the nationals ended up losing 10-3. >> bob: that was against mike hinckley and logan kensing. daniel cabrera start that had game and pitched into the sixth inning, but not for long. that was one month and one week ago and none of those pitchers are still around. willie harris, austin kearns and wil nieves here in the 7th. andy sonnanstine. >> rob: look at that stat. >> bob: that's how you go 4-6 with a 7 e.r.a. >> rob: second in the major leagues with run support, over eight runs per start. >> bob: you brought this up numerous times. what is it about these guys with 6 and 7 e.r.a.'s, our ball club can't hit them. >> rob: i don't know. maybe we take them for granted that they're not throwing the ball well. >> bob: that's a way to help out a pitcher. willie harris will fly out on a pitch that was way up out of his zone. the nats now have been set down 13 in a row. >> bob: last night matt garza with amazing stuff. then let them off

bob carpenter, rob dibble, byron kerr on masn 2 with you guys tonight. nats with 3 in the 1st and rays with a run in the 2nd and a run in the 3rd. nats have already done some running of their own but navarro gunned them down. that was during a guzman walk. anderson has one foot beyond the cut of the grass which indicates a pretty good lead. lodge look by garza. long look by garza. and nick will take a fastball upstairs, 2-1. nick jan son one hit away from his 18th multi- hit of the year. came in tied with zimmerman at .316, second on the club to the .327 of guzman. just to show you what a designated hitter will do for you, there are only three teams in the national league that have 300 runs or more, the american league has seven. 2-2 target in. nasty breaking ball. strikeout number 4 for matt garza tonight and he gets three consecutive scoreless innings now after his 1st inning problems. 3-2 gnats. oof! i hope he has that insurance. aflac! you really need it these days. how come? well if you're hurt and can't work it pays you cash... yeah to help with ev

byron kerr is feeding us a you will this info. >> bob: he is a font of information.er for the rays, pinch hitting here. in that role, he is 0-for-3. he is hitting .173. the nationals last saw gabe kapler in the last year or two, including last season when he was a milwaukee brewer. he hit .301 for the brewers last year in 96 games. >> rob: didn't gabe kapler go to japan for a year or a couple of months and then come back? he didn't like the japanese league and came back. >> bob: yeah. >> rob: i think he was with the red sox or something. >> bob: he was with the red sox 2003-2006 on a part-time basis he was the manager of their a ball team when he didn't play in 2007. he went to greenville and managed and went 58-81. you would think -- plenty of room and he overran it. nick does that on occasion. he overruns the ball and it comes back in fair territory. >> rob: he played with the yamayuri giants but it wasn't for that long. >> bob: this play has to be made. >> rob: it is a play to be made. this place is tough to look at. a lot of girders. >> bob: they have given nick

keep in mind coming up after this ballgame on our nats xtra post game, it will be byron kerr and ray knight talking about lannan's attacking the cincinnati line-up today. man in acta's press conference as always and a look ahead to the ballgame tomorrow night in tampa. and gomes draws base on balls. so, gomes is on with two outs and ramon hernandez looking for his first hit of the afternoon. we will see what he can do against julian tavarez. it is amazing, rob, in all the years julian has been pitching going back to his debut of 1993 with cleveland. he's only been touch eded the homeruns -- no homeruns last year. none with the red sox when he was pitching for them. and most of the years have been under 10 allowed. or given up. >> rob: that is a guy that is hard to hit. he has been in the big leagues 17 years. >> johnny: good control pitcher, too. no balls and strike. and it is 1-1. jay bruce waiting on deck and then alex gonzalez. nats with their only run in the 6th inning, trail it 2-1. what has been a series where washington just not able to get more than two runs. two tuesday nigh

byron is on the phone from indiana. good morning. what is on your mind? caller: good morning. i have a comment to make about government health care. these plans that are under consideration. the point of want to make is about the differences between private insurance and the government bureaucracy, or the potential bureaucracy. controlling health-care costs seems to be one of the most important to long-term stability of any insurance system. private insurance controls cost generally by verifying eligibility and claim politicallvalidity, sometimes te extreme. on the other hand, it seems government medicare talks the talk but does not walk the walk. my wife and i are both on medicare. medicare claimed to be interested in fraud or mistaken claims, but my spells got a statement from social security -- my spouse got a statement from social security saying they paid a claim to a physician in the illinois area. host: was this recently? caller: within the last month. we suspected a missed killin bir worse. we called, and the person seemed to be interested, but just gave my wife a phon

on nats postgame, ross detwiler's outing tonight, recap a wild and important day in nats park with byronnight and preview game number 2 coming up tomorrow with harang against march tease. the pitching matchups beginning at 6:30 with nats extra. and mike mink doing al becomes the nationals fourth pitcher following jason bergmann, ron villone and the starter ross detwiler. for  . >> rob: can't allow a r got to tell you're a one-run up. >> johnny: the sixth game with washington, only one unearned run and stranded all three inherited runners when he has come in ball games. came back from syracuse may 29th, a couple of saves and a 3.24 e.r.a. in eight appearances a. >> rob: from the d.c. area, born right here. >> johnny: likes to pitch inside and francisco cordero goes to work on the cincinnati pen. >> rob: he was given a contract nearly $50 million to bring him over here. he has done a great job for the nconati reds closing out ball games. >> johnny: ground it down to hernandez on first and it is one down. in the top of the ninth. 

will hear the circumstances of crash 34 '07 back in february witnesses include members of the faa byron dorgan chairs the subcommittee it is one hour 45 minutes with a. >> we will call the hearing to order i want to thank you for joining us to talk about an important subject of aviation safety it is a subcommittee of the u.s. commerce committee. the first of two hearings and one of today and one next week to discuss aviation safety with the discussion of airlines. we will receive testimony from eight faa's, ntsb come apartment of transportation inspector general and the independent safety experts, mr. o'brien that i have just mentioned is not here he is stuck in traffic but will be here momentarily. on june 17 we will hear from other witnesses including airlines and pilots. let me begin at the the subject of safety by saying in this country i think we have a remarkably safe system of air travel the safety record is extraordinary. does not my intention to alarm about considering taking a flight on a regional carrier or any airline, but we do have a responsibility to examine airline crash

he was the number 1 pick for tampa bay in 2007 and byron kerr filling in for debbi taylor had a chanceo catch up with the tampa bay. >> if you want to see a post at how things will be like for stephen strasburg, here is david price. he was the number 1 pick for tampa bay. we'll take you to the first day just like stephen strasburg felt. how did you feel that day you were drafted. >> that was a big day. there was a bill lull between the day i got drafted and the time i got signed. i wasn't going to go play because i had a long season in college, so i had a lot on my hands and a lot of time to rest up. >> what do you think about stephen strasburg from san diego state? >> i hear he is the real deal. i heard nothing but good stuff about him. so that's good. >> what kind of advice do you have for him as he goes through what you went through? >> just enjoy it. take your time. don't rush it. if he opens up in the big league, good luck to him. that's a big dinse, going from that 7 days to 5 days, that's the big thing for me. you can feel it on your arm every time you go out. during the course

beginning at 6. 30 tomorrow night, byron kerr and ray knight.   be with us tomorrow night masn2. johnny holiday along with rob dibble. bob carpenter taking a couple days off and i'm glad to be working alongside the dib sister here in national's park in this 3-1 senate lead. and go to the bottom of the seventh. repair stop is retired in one pitch. >> rob: that good change-up you saw, down on the ground, a little 4 to 3. here is the pitch location the this 0-1 pitch right there, 1-0, excuse me. it's all about selling it with the arm speed. so, you know, very difficult. that might have even been a fastball because that was a change-up and the guy is heating it up. >> johnny: did you take long to learn one. >> rob: i never had one. i never learned one. >> johnny: you'd be pitching today yet if you had one. >> rob: maybe. ron ba loan, 16 strikeouts, in a nine-inning game with the reds. >> johnny: yeah, loose helping up. johnny cueto facing, now, anderson hernandez. >> rob: that curve paul in there for strike one. >> johnny: will nieves will be on deck. pitc

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byron kerr, johnny halladay, ray knight, straight ahead on nats extra. >> do you know johnny holiday is like dr. johnny fever. >> rob: oh, yeah, thanks for telling me. >> bob: no, in fact, johnny reportedly has appeared at the elementary school of everybody on their crew during their lifetime. johnny and captain dane were huge [ laughter ]. >> bob: guzman totally leaving his strike zone and his comfort area. hits it hard. he have sap longoria right there, two outs. and the nats have one out to work with and, ironically, it's nick johnson who made the error that led to the kapler homerun. verizon fios notice xtra is next with-ony and ray. lots of things to talk about in this one. unfortunately, two errors that gave the rays two runs might be two of the most important things they talk about. here is nick johnson, 1-for-4, breaking ball outside. j p howell in he is sons essence, trying to save -- in essence trying to save this game for himself much he is the pitcher of record here. 1 ball, 1 strike to nick. they have a right hander up in case they get to ryan zimmerman. that's jason isr

congress feel health-care push pickup susan collins of maine and democratic senator evan by of indiana -- byron york, his column "digging in for obama's healthcare aventis." debbie joins us from alabama. good morning. caller: could morning, steve. a 50% of the american people are happy with their health care? they're asking the wrong question. they are happy they have health care, but as soon as they are sick -- i am a registered nurse, and when they come into the hospital, they do not want to pay their bills, the insurance companies. the second thing i want to say about a public health plan, is the republicans -- this guy who owned -- the thing he is trying to tell the american people is you do not want to have government between you, the patient, and the doctor. well, what we have right now is the insurance company between us, the patient, and the doctor. if you have private insurance, sometimes it takes weeks just to get approval from the private insurance company to run a test to even diagnose you. so we are having to guess on a diagnosis because we do not approve the study that needs to be

senator byron dorgan chairs this two-hour hearing. >> we'll call the hearing to order. this is the hearing of the subcommittee, the senate commerce committee, cassette in aviation. i want to thank all of you for joining us today to talk about the importance of the issue of aviation safety. this is the second hearing that we have held this month to discuss the subject of aviation safety with a particular focus of the safety of regional carriers. in this hearing we will receive testimony from representatives of the nation's network carriers and regional carriers from the air transport association and from the regional airline association respectively. we'll also hear from the airline pilots association and from mr. scott mauer representing the families of continental flight 3407 which crashed on february 12th of this year in new york. i do want to say as well as i start this hearing i had intended and wished to have representatives of the carriers themselves at a hearing and so we did not accomplish that today. i'm notc minimizings at all the representatives of the two --

host: the tier from byron from cleveland, tennessee, on the republican line. caller: good morning. the lady said something a while ago that people need to be aware of. a progressive is a socialist. i notice the congressman did not say a whole lot about what is actually going to be the cost for the people. i work in major manufacturing. we passed cost on to the consumer, and the consumer is going to have a tremendous energy bill. electric bills and things of that nature. food is going to increase. everything is going to increase on this bill. i just do not see how, if you are thinking, you can even support a bill like this. it is just astronomical what the cost will be on this. guest: i mentioned some of the things about the cost earlier, but i think the gentleman makes an extrexcellent point. the predictions are that it will cause the average consumer's cost of energy to go up by somewhere between $1,200 and $3,000 a year. but the cost of everything you buy will go dramatically higher than that because everything requires energy. there is not a thing that you and i do, from sitting