the approaches by some of our players and other approaches by guys that should be having the david eckstein approach. >> bob: by the way, debi taylor profiles the ecksteins. it is an informational piece and chronicles some of the struggles they have had as a family with health issues off the field. it has been amazing the journey the ecksteins have taken. scrambling gonzales plays it well. out and a good thing. because eckstein was heading home. 6-0 as the padres add another in the sixth. geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years. and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.  >>> the naval air base is rig across from the park here. the scoreboard lacks great for the home team. the nationals have nothing going offensively, trying to wake up the bats for the final three innings of this two and six road trip. dunn z

david eckstein dumps one down the line. oes to third, the ball gets by dukes, the padres lead, and eckstein stops at second base. livan hernandez gives up a little flare, elijah dukes had to run onto the bullpen mound and with his teammates trying to get out of 2 way the ball got by him.   . >> rob: eckstein chokes up the bat. gets jammed by a good fastball. takes it town the right field line. now look at this, it's our own bullpen. one of our guys gets involved with him trying to field the ball. allows him to go to second, but ... >> bob: it's a double but no r.b.i. as it's ruled an error on dukes to let that ball get by him. >> rob: yeah, out there. >> bob: his seventh of the year, 118th on the nats. and the padres lead quickly. adrian gonzalez who has driven in 77 runs. >> rob: okay, so they put our weapon the field so that they can have a little kiddy sand box out this the out field beyond the fence. so our bullpen is in play while the kids play in the sand box back there. >> bob: yeah, they change it to an r.b

leading the way.  . >> bob: david eckstein 2-1. martin working quickly. eaking ball up. 17-year veteran wally bell has the plate tonight. david eckstein can't reap it. second hardest man in the national league to strikeout. >> bob: he doesn't have that many men on base in front of him. j.d. martin must have a lot of fans here tonight. they love what he's to doing, and big adam dunn leads off shortly. ♪ (tucci) only at&t has the best selection of full keyboard phones. like the lg neon, just $29.99 after mail-in rebate.  . >> bob: hot shot. david eckstein from the out field grass.    josh willingham a bat. 6 for his last 23, and one for his last 18. pardon me on willingham, 5 for 33. >> rob: northrop grandmothermond here. pitch is up in the strike zone, in. perfectly placed by richard. he can run the ball from 91 to 93 four-seem. >> here is elijah dukes. he's had a good road trip, hitting 10 for 23. getting base hits of all varieties. we've seen elijah stay on this trip and hit the ball the other way a lot of times, a

he gets around the tag of david eckstein. in fact, he hit, chris diel letter signaled him safe bunch ryan did. he is there with two outs. great hustle. >> rob: well, why not. if you think you can make it. go for it. never get angry with a guy for trying to hustle or hustling. gwynn, right there, comes up throwing, nice one-hopper, to the other side of the bag. look at that feet-first slide. watch zimmerman go to the other side of the bag. he does a hook slide around eckstein. so a nice job by eckstein, gets a double. more importantly getting in scoring position for hoss, your number 4 hitter, adam dunn. >> bob: he'll tap one to the right side, gonzalez to the pitcher, nats are gone.   adam dunn 0-3. the nats hav stranded six already. it's... no, not yet. it back that way. it's on. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com. i just gave you some at the restaurant. yea i know. i threw them out. they were old so... old! they are rollover minutes. they are as good as new. ya know not everyone gets to

here's david eckstein. the position players the senior members here. and then adrian gonzales right behind them. so they need a guy like eckstein to stick around for another year or two. they resigned him next year already. he bounces out. gonzales throws him out. here comes adam dunn. adam has a base hit and so does ryan. it is time for the middle of the order to start taking big swings and making some noise. it's... no, not yet. it back that way. it's on. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.  >> bob: top of the fourth inning here at beautiful petco park in san diego. for you folks with the ball club coming back home, it's never been easier to take in a ballgame. see for yourself stub had you been.com. the official marketplace of the washington nationals. sean west on friday, levon hernandez and josh johnson saturday. how is that? j.d. martin, sunday labor day off and then the phillies in next tuesday wednesday thursday. at dam done 1 for 1 with a screaming liner down the third baseline. it took 14 hop

he lined one off the pitchers rear-end, right to david eckstein, and then had that laser, and now he'sboard. that could be a big hit for the nats here in the 6th. >> rob: well, nice to see he is just crushing tonight. as bob said, hit one off the front of the pitcher. hit one so hard that cabrera at short dropped the line drive, and had to be thrown out at first, and then that one on the interhalf, the crushed town the left field line. >> bob: zimmerman a 400-foot double off the wall in right center last time. >> rob: hey, i have no problem right here, 40 games under .500, just send the runner. put him in motion, try to hit it the other way. have to do something. this guy has give unthree hit, nobody runs. what do we have, one run in -- well, 15, 16 innings? >> bob: this is the 15th inning of the series for the nats. for some reason, they like the 6th. we'll take whatever karma we can get for this struggling offense right now. >> rob: i likeit. short ran overable opposite field part of this park is the petco porch down the right field line, where it says 322 down at the foul marker, bu

. >> bob: the other player he cited was david eckstein who was a world series mvp as a shortstop andvented himself as a second baseman. it's been done before. >> rob: a a h, so nice to seaman love on the bench. things are great when you're winning. >> bob: it's lovely. >> rob: i'm going to miss you when it's over, man. >> bob: come on. you're going to get me all choked up. >> rob: you're going to get teary i'd? no, oklahoma is not that far from l.a. >> rob: i'm sure you have critters i can hunt down. >> bob: yeah. wil nieves is on base for the second time tonight drawing a two-out walk against christian martinez who came into the game. evidently, the nats are happy with the way clippard is throwing the ball he's going to get an at-bat here. wow. clippard as a hitter is 0-6 this year. that's a pretty good number at- bats for a reliever. that indicates there have been some games when the guys came in and mopped up and had to stick around for a while. not tonight. >> rob: when there's about a thousand fans, you can always hear like one heckler more than anybody else. >> bob: clippard go

i don't know if you could figure it out though but -- >> bob: rick eckstein in on that. and here is davidwho you to admirer way hes back. d he is batting .315, fifth inthe national league. >> rob: well, and he was almost sounding embarrassed that he was injured angot hit in the head. his tied water buddy from virginia beach, ryan zimmerman, will cut that off. 2-1, bottom of the first, for j.d. martin. - customer service. - low fares. - we're known for a lot of things. - bags fly free. the lowest fares. great pilots too. - customer service. - low fares. we're not saying other airlines are bad; we're just awesome. low fares, customer service, frequent flights, on time performance... bags fly free. come on over here and fly with us. ( ding )  . >> bob: well they have found this out in houston and they have found it out in new york when you build a quirky ball park. strange things are gonna happen. that ball by zimmerman just gets out. >> rob: it just did get out. you know 7 times the height changes. into fair territory by 8 feet. we showed you in the open where we both feel that the ball