if doug fister is pitching, quick one anyway. doug: have your kids drop you off before the game and pick you up afterwards. that works. a couple of sprinkles falling at the park. let's check out doppler radar. couple of sprinkles not unexpected and a couple of little showers not unexpected. listen, they're weakening. there is that little line now that's starting to arc out across and we get over the map here to show you from all through leesburg moving across ashburn and from reston through fairfax here over the next 45 minutes or so. it holds together and it will move across the city and nats park here. very, very light. very brief. something not of any impact. no lightning or thunder to deal with. numbers wise, did well today. 74 and 54 the high and low. 67 and 47 the averages for this date. now, as far as the current numbers, down to 70 degrees with the cloud cover moving into washington right now. 66 degrees in gaithersburg. 67 at andrews air force base. on the mid shore in easton it's 70 degrees right now. as we head through

john lackey and doug fister set up another great pitchers duel tonight at the ballpark. if you missed the wizards game last night in toronto, shame on you. they fell behind by 10. john wall he had 26.17 assists. led to this play. that's strong, john. right to the bucket. stay there. get fouled. the t. the wizards go up 2-0 games with game three friday night in the phone booth. let's go to the nassau coliseum caps and islanders. biggest game of the night, must win are for the caps. nicklas backstrom sings the twine with a b.b. new life. exhale. backstrom gains the split and the caps who were on the edge of the cliff have a little bit of an edge. and robert burton was with the team today. robert: a very upbeat skate around this morning after last night's overtime heroics. the caps are now tied with the islanders 2-2 and the momentum is once again in their favor. you can credit 1/3 of last night's d.c. trifecta to nicklas backstrom. today, players told us they're not surprised that backstrom was the hero. >> he's everything that you want to play. stuff like that. >> but whe

jayson werth and bryce harper both motor around and score. 5-2 nats, and doug fister gets his first winseason. leon with the fist pump. the caps have split their regular season series with the islanders. the wizards were swept by their up minute in the regular season, 0-3 against toronto. as of now, they are 0-0. in game one, it will be a tough one to steal on the road come especially during the playoffs. the season is different from the regular season, but if the coaches ray, anything can happen. >> we have to go in there and believe this is the task at hand and we have the confidence doing it. when you are on the road coming you have to try to get that first game. this is what we are all about. we mean business, and that's what were trying to do. robert: caps, game two against the islanders tomorrow night at 7 p.m. today was all about putting wednesday's loss in the past. at the same time, they need to turn it up a bit. after watching his guys get smoked, he said nobody really played the way to were supposed to, barry trotz talking. "basically, new york wanted it more." the capitals h

doug fister cruising along. stephen drew. he was in mid season form.s pleased with his performance. >> you know, you can say that. but in spring, you got to get your work in. pitchers and mechanics and mentality worked out. i feel good where we are at. and going in next week. >> sounds good. nats fans will get max scherzer, the $210 million man. debra alfarone money. >> that's right baby. is he single? >> he is. i can hook you up. all right, going to start against the mets on opening day. his resume is impeccable. he won the cy young two seasons ago in detroit. 39-8 the last two seasons. he is excited about opening day. >> i mean, this is fun. i can't wait for the season to start. spring training is so long for us. it is very monotonous for us. for us to actually get out there and play real baseball and have it count, we are all looking forward to it. >> he is married, i'm just joking. he's married. taken. don't forget, we are the official nats affiliate. watch every pitch of monday's season opener right here. it all begins at 4:00. and we have post se

after sitting out last night ryan her returns to the line autopsy begins doug fister hopefully howard and chase utley getting. utley is off to the worst start of his career hitting 0.71. he a has a team high five strike outs. jimmy rollins replacement freddie galvis has best batting average on the team. after coming up clutch last night galvis has five hits. that is more than he had all of last year. >> when freddie just calms down and doesn't try to do too much with the bat, you know, he can be a quality hitter. that is what he has worked on all spring. he has hit all spring. he continues to hit now. he has really taken to the approach, and with results. >> more than a month in the soccer season and the union are still looking for had first win. today they are turning to a local kid, who this time last year was, watching games from the the stand. philadelphia native john mccarthey makes his debut against new york city. he makes three saves a allows one goal. twenty-seventh minute, zach pfeffer from dresher he sets upper i can ayuk and he is doing back flips. one to nothing. the 91st

doug fister on the mound. fifth inning fisker leaves this ball over the middle of the plate and stephen drew says thanks a bunch. a two-run blast to right. yankees cut that lead to one. later on in the eighth drew storm gets taken for a ride by chris young. another two-run homer for the yankees. new york they go on to win this one 4-3. manager matt williams ready, despite the injuries. >> well it just gives us experience, the wrong experience. we don't want that but you know it shows us that we can compete, that we can go out and win a game regardless of who's in the lineup. >> coming into spring you always see on paper what the team you think's going to look like but things happen and you know that's something we've dealt with every year. and all i look at it is it's an opportunity for guys to step up. and you've seen that with michael taylor so far. and you know we're going to have to grind a little bit with some of the injuries that we have. but like i said guys will step in play really well then the guys w

doug fister on the mound facing the cardinals. he came into the game with a 0.69 era. that blew up quickly. top of the second kolten wong has a man on. he sends this into the visitor's bull pen. the nats were down 5-0 before the third inning. that's when they started to come back. 5-2 game. now here is last night's hero. escobar at the dish. and he comes through once again. bases loaded. and escobar, where he clears those bases with that stand-up double here. the nats they tie the game at five apiece. another big-time hit for escobar. how about that. the nats back in this game. top of the eighth though it's blake in are leaf. in trouble facing wong. you heard him in the second inning. this scores jon jay. the cardinals added another run. they drop the nationals by a final score of 7-5. >>> orioles in toronto taking on the blue jays. no score, but jimmy perret is swinging a hot bat. he is going to give this a ride. the o's take a lead, a two-run blast, they're up a pair of runs, 2-0. the offense, though they did stall. their pitching couldn't hold up. jimenez to devon t

the nats are back in action and doug fister is on the mound.s4 sports. >> thanks. >> i don't think the schedule is all that bad. >> what did you say? the redskins' schedule is not all that bad? >> yeah. >> they start with the dolphins. >> wait a minute. how did we get off the subject of the celebrations? we're happy. we won. three teams won. >> all we need is a valleyant effort and some wins and this town is jacked up. a whole new spirit going around. >> and let me just thank the wizards for blowing out the raptors. i couldn't have handled three close games. so thanks to the wizards. they took care of business. >>> we're going to talk more about the capitals. they had the series going their favor. their style of play really starting to take over. the capitals are more physical than the islanders and a perfect example of that has to be tom wilson. this hit by wilson definitely changed the series. he delivers the blow here to lubomir visnovsky. word is that he will not be disciplined by the nhl for that hit and he is not apologizing. wilson says

for the nationals tonight, doug fister is on the mound for the nationals.hamels for the phillies. ought to be a great pitching match-up as they're back in town after a big win in boston yesterday. first pitch at 7:05. should be good weather for the game. the rain holds off until after midnight. love this photo. carpet of pink blossoms brought down by tuesday's rain. that was taken by alexandra givens one of our interns. a shower will move on through and late tonight, we add sun back. then a great day on saturday. great for outdoor activities. dare i say a beach day? up around 80 degrees. saturday afternoon with some sunshine. i'm hearing approval. and we will have temperatures on sunday a bit cooler though in the 60s. could get some showers. looks like sunday evening now, not during the day, some rain likely. melissa has breaking news about the metro. >> breaking news on metro. greenbelt station is now open. the green line service fully restored so those buses are going to stop running between college park and greenbelt now. now that the station is open. wi