harry was behind the wheel. bess rode shotgun and they drove from 2500 miles from the independence to the east coast. the trip was unique because the trumans traveled alone. at that time, ex-presidents did not get any secret service protection. and so it was just harry and bess in their chrysler new yorker. there was no security contingent, there was no press pool. it was just a middle-aged couple driving across america in a heat wave. and just as they received no secret service protection, ex-presidents back then also received no pensions. harry and bess truman were on a fixed income so as a result, they were frugal travelers. one night they stayed in a cheap motel. another night in indianapolis. they crashed with friends. they took most of their meals at roadside diners as my exhaustive research has revealed they were partial to fruit plates and iced tea. bess seemed to enjoy cantaloupe. never before and never since has a former president and first lady mingled so casually with their fellow citizens. it was a

harry s. truman was painted in black letters on the opaque glass door of the suite just like a detective agency in novel. he had two assistants. he paid their salaries out of his own pocket. much of his day was spent answering mail. he received more than 70,000 pieces in the first two weeks after he left the white house. and as many as 1,000 a day thereafter. notes from well wishers, invitations to church services or asking for advice. budding politicians wrote him asking for advice or endorsements. the founder of a new cult tried to recruit him and when he mentioned he was looking for a silver dollar minted in 1924, the year of margaret's birth silver dollars poured in by the dozens. truman estimated that less than one-half of 1% of the letters came from crackpots. a statistic that surprised him. i expected more, he said. i had many chances to make people mad. truman maintained an open door policy and just about anybody who dropped by was likely to get an audience with the former president. m

nationals have harris gonzalez, harris and bard. aaronharris' batting average is now at .325.e keeps producing whenever manny acta calls on him. that's going to drop into left center. 3-for-5, alberto gonzalez. let's see if willie harris can do anything on top of the amazing defense he gave us earlier. get catch by willie harris, then a double, stole third and then a sac fly by the number 8 hitter, wil nieves. that lasted five minute and then wells hit a homerun. and then the nationals came roaring back. if willie hit it down the first baseline, you have a left handed throwing first baseman in lyle overbay who can flip that thing to the shortstop. so this will not be an easy bunt if willie has that in mind. he pulls the bat back. can't bunt a pitch that up and away. that's ball 1. the switch hitter follows in josh bard. then you have the pitcher's spot and the only player available is ronnie belliard. runner going. down the line but it's hooking foul. and willie harris flirting with a long ball for the second time tonight. >> rob: willie harris. >> reporter: it looked good for

it will be up to willie harris. by the way, willie harris had dropped his bat in the on deck circle and he was running to home plate to serve as a possible traffic cop or base coach for alberto gonzalez. sew the rays will go to the left hander here. j. p. howell has been running up. a runner at third, two outs in the 8th in a tie game here at the trop. times the bills i used to. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem. and i use the wish list to put any extra money aside for anything i want. being in control of my money feels good. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. for the next minute, i'm gonna show you what it's like to have verizon fios. these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're ou

willie harris takes off.ou have to tell your pitcher to step off when that happens. >> bob: that's the nats' 23rd of the year. >> rob: he started wil off with a change-up, hoping he would bite. so wil doing a great job of take that go --taking that first pitch. >> bob: way outside with that pitch. 2-1. >> bob: millar was already aboard when he robbed chavez into the gap. now, he has doubled, stolen third.

they win tonight, 5-3 in 12 on a willie harris two-run homerun.see you tomorrow on father's day like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. cubs win three straight walk-off games for the first time in 63 years. $ indians are the first team to lose three straight games all in extra innings since the 2000 rangers. >> bottom of the third, it's meg el cabrera. homered yesterday, homers again today. the tigers go on to win 9-5. alfredo figaro wins his major league debut. his family not able to make it from the dominican republic in time to see him pitch. he said, quote, they must have . my phone is full of messages telling me i looked good on tv. five hitters. >> albert pujols and cardinals taking on the royals. top six. 1-0 saint luis. la machina. two-run shot. his 24th jack leads the majors. the cards win it 7-1. they've won 7 of the last 10 overall. tony larussa one win shy of 2,500 wins. you know

here is a one pich out off of willie harris. -- one-pitch out off to willie harris. >> rob: you know what's great? not seeing black clouds over us. >> bob: sh., bite your tongue -- shhh, bite your tongue. >> rob: that was a great night. >> bob: i'm surprised somebody didn't ask what happened with a five-hour game delay. >> rob: somebody asked why didn't you do your radio show. we were busy eating cheese steaks. >> bob: i thought your answer to why didn't do you it because i could. >> rob: no, i would have gotten in trubl trouble if i said that. >> bob: i know. those bosses. >> rob: honestly d-they not keep updating the start time of the game. i mean, they had a new start time every 15 minutes. >> bob: yeah. >> bob: outside, 1-1. >> rob: reach deep right here, joshden. finish this inning. >> rob: there's the pitch tally. >> bob: one ball, one strike to lyle overbay who has walked and reached on the anderson hernandez error. >> rob: this guy called a strike -- hasn't called a strike on the corner all night. >> bob: she agrees. >> rob: northrop grumman, let's see if they agree right thr

. >> bob: that ball will fly to center for willie harris.still going, so is the ball, he makes the grab about eight to 10 feet in front of the wall. somewhere around 400 feet away. >> rob: that was flying away like southwest.com, but it came back. >> jim p.: you're talking to mr. southwest.com right here. that's how i get back to south florida and, again, the new buildings here. it's kind of funny about camden yards. when it was first built, the ball carried. then they built the football. then willie going, yep, it's going out. >> bob: a base hit by aubrey huff. >> jim p.: imagine that. >> bob: aubrey huff is five out of nine with two walks in this series. >> rob: and then the new buildings and in the back ground here in left center field, all of a sudden the dynamics change, the ball especially on sunday afternoons has tendency to carry a little better. kind of like oakland. oakland you pitch there at night. you go, wow, it's a great place to pitch. then sunday afternoon, anything in the air. >> rob: san francisco the same thing. san franci

he was going to meet harry at paonis and we got there first and, you know, harry comes in a little late but bill had said in passing in a column, you know, if the british -- if george iii had captured george washington he would have been justified in hanging him as a rebellious subject and harry started in before he even sat down, you know, bill, if he's rebelling in a cause of justice, how can it be justice to hang and him on and on and on and before the salad came, he had bill saying, well, right, you're right, harry, you're wrong to say that. and, you know, that's harry's relentlessness but i think it was his grasp of a very important point about american history which was dramatized in the civil war where, of course, lincoln embraces jefferson and the confederacy explicitly repudiates him. and so the issue -- and this is the vice president of the confederacy. he gives a speech where he said the founders were wrong because his cornerstone was human equality but we know men are not equal. they are unequal. some men are fit to be slaves and our cornerstone will be human inequality. it

if anyone has delts with harry, it's a job. but harry is also a brilliant man and a brilliant historian, and his -- the point of his life is that the declaration of independence is the central document of the american revolution, and, therefore, of american history, and i have to say, the more i have read about that period confirms what harry argues. and i tell a story of a lunch that bill invited me to he was going to meet harry, and we got there first, and harry comes in a little late, but bill had said, in passing in a column, that if george iii had captured george washington he would have been justified in hang him as a rebellious subject, and harry started in before he even sat down. bill, if he is in -- and before the salad came he had bill saying, you're right, harry, i was wrong to say that. that's harries relentlessness, and also his grasp of a very important point about american history, which was dramaized in the civil war where of course lincoln embraces jefferson and the confederacy specifically repudiates him, and

here is willie harris. see, rob, why don't you throw a couple of number 13s on it. >> rob: there is al bertho gonzalez throwing the bat out there and marco scutaro could not extend far enough to get that ball. here is willie hard just who is responsible for at least two runs tonight, the run he prevented and the run he manufactured. so willie's 1-for-2 with a double, six steals on the year. >> rob: another run would be huge here. >> reporter: yes, sir. >> rob: all the insurance we can get. >> bob: rolen shallow at third. willie taking it in. they have been trying to pound him inside on his hands. >> rob: those are not some good numbers. >> bob: you have to remember this kid is on in his third profkonl season. blue jays have a pitching issue or right now with roy halladay hurt. >> rob: he does recognize the whole hand behind the back, they can recognize it. so when he went back and was working on this, he is trying to straighten up his body during his delivery. he feels like when he bends over too much, he

the city of houston alone, harris county, home damage, $8.5 billion worth of damage to homes in harris county. now, i ask for very little as a member of congress to try to help the people of houston. one area where we need help is in flood control. one where are with -- where we clearly need help is in mitigation, to help prevent additional damage. because of the work i've done as a member of the appropriations committee and the few areas i've asked for help on are on national security, border security, medical and scientific research and in flood control and in flood control the homes -- some didn't flood. the texas medical center did not flood as a result of this hurricane because of work that i was able to do with the help of my colleagues on the appropriations committee, the harris county delegation working together. mr. flake's amendment would strike all federal funding for all of harris county. flood control. his amendment not only would save no money to all my fellow fiscal conservatives out there watching, that would be one thing, your amendment saves nothing and would you elim

scott rolen is playing willie harris to pull. if he throws another one of those sinkers, i would hope that willie harris will try to wrap it around third base. look at that hole. >> bob: it's about 30 feet. fastball. that's that pitch you were talking about. >> rob: yes. sometimes, you have to think, as a hitter, okay, they play the defense this way but the guy already has thrown two pitches outside on me. >> bob willie harris, high in the air and foul. he was trying to hit his second homerun of the year, pumping on 3-0. >> rob: 3-0, i'm sure he has to make sure he's going to kill the pitch and he did. 2 on, 2 out. manny acta is going to call wil nieves back and he will bat anderson hernandez. >> rob: right man in the right place. let's go, willie. >> bob: interesting. adam dunn walks earlier in the inning, anderson is probably not available for this at-bat because he would have been the pinch runner. i like it, too, because anderson earned has great speed, millar playing almost on the grass. if there is a foot race, i'm going to

the breaking ball down and in. 1-1 on harris. >> rob: there's willie harris from georgia, by the orioles. he's been around a long time. he can play every position, except maybe pitch. >> jim p.: he came up as an oriole. jim, you did the interview with him where actually he played, what, second base and brian roberts played shortstop. >> jim h.: a base hit into right field. yeah, they were both drafted in 99. brian was a settlemental pick, and willie went in the 24th round. they were both at delmarva.   >> jim h.: the toss to first. willie has blazing speed, six steals on the year. he's been caught only once. >> jim p.: you don't run a lot on guthrie. i'm not sure that will be the case here. as you mentioned, you want to try to get runs on the board early, make it a little better for a young, martis is what, 21 years old? >> rob: yeah, he's 21, 22 years old. he hasn't won in six weeks, and it would be nice to take a little pressure off of him tonight, get a couple of runs, or at least one run across early. >> jim h.: cristian guzman batting at .33. he's tied for 8th in the n

harris digging in. he said when you come down to florida state, can you get me tickets. >> rob: oh sure. >> johnny: i might be possibly able to do that. >> rob: going into yankee stadium the end of the week. can you get me tickets. >> johnny: anxious to see you get the response of homeruns flying out of that park, aren't they. >> rob: yeah. when you look at the pictures side by side on the internet, the old yankee stadium, big stadium. the new one is almost twice as big on the interior. so, it is the same size field inside, but the air, there's a lot more air in there. and balls are just jury rooming out of there. >> johnny: willie harris speaking of air, a shot to right field. >> rob: you build a $1.5.05-star hotel with a baseball field in the middle of it, you get -- $1.5.05-star motel baseball field in the middle of it. i watched him, harris, today and he has a batting practice working on. man on second, no outs trying to move him to third and he did nothing but spray the ball all over the field. i h

next due up bard, hernandez, and harris. two switchers and a lefty. don't forget guzman is on the bench today. by the time em 2-2. >> rob: great job by bard getting his body out there to get it. you have to get out and get off your behind so to speak and get over to get it. if you just reach out, it probably would have gotten by him. >> bob: got him with a changeup. rays will settle for one run and lead 5-4 into the 9th. a few years behind me, it seems i've got three times the bills i used to. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem. and i use the wish list to put any extra money aside for anything i want. being in control of my money feels good. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. >> bob: from one venue to another, tropicana field to the stadium in new york 7:00 masn hd. sporting that $161 million deal against martis who's 5-1. martis with his las

willie harris, who does he think he is, zimmermann? willie harris with a great reaction play. i get you zimmermann enjoyed watching that. wow. >> rob: two shots on the first two hitters of the rays. willy is picking it over to 3 3rd base. that a boy. nice job. willie harris can play anywhere. i often forget -- i've always wanted to look in his locker to see how many gloves he has. longoria 2-7 with a couple of rbis over the weekend. he's just out of the top 10 in home runs with 14. >> bob: he's way up there in rbis. let's look at the nats defense. harris at 3rd, johnson at 1 1st. gonzalez replaces guzman today. dukes plays his third consecutive game starting in the out field. >> rob: detwiler has a fastball, changeup type pitcher. he's got two fastballs. two he throws right there about 90-94 miles per hour. basically a cutter, sinker, a righty. it's going to go away from him. >> bob: we figured longoria would warm up before the nats get out of town. that's three consecutive hits for him after going 0-5. here's carlos pena with three hits and a home run. >> rob: ross has an exc

that's willie harris. excuse me, he's a total left- hander, but he'll play any position on the field. >> jim h.: out of georgia, which also produced hall of famer jackie robinson. his number retired in every major league city by every franchise by the commissioner. a ball and two strikes on willie harris. hernandez, 24 years old. this is outside, 2-2. he's out of sacramento, california, and a 16 round pick in 2005. >> rob: i like the fact we have three contact guys right at the top of the order. you have willie, cristian, johnson. >> jim h.: fouls it back. >> jim p.: willie, we saw it last night, where he took a 1-2 pitch off of jeremy guthrie who looked like early on at least the first two batters, had pretty good stuff. guzman singled, then jeremy guthrie walked in a couple of runs. >> jim h.: breaking ball outside. >> rob: i always felt when you get a guy like harris who can steal bases six out of seven, you really have to play him away and pitch him that way. it's all right to throw breaking balls when

harris, six of seven stealing.he nationals aren't much of a running team in terms of stolen bases. 24 on the year tied for last with milwaukee. going that time, and he is safe under a good accurate throw by wieters. harris just beat it. >> jim p.: he's called that on david hernandez. back-to-back terrific throws by matt wieters. >> rob: he's got to jump out there to the right-handed batter's box. he makes a perfect throw. i don't know if he might have got him there. see the x-mo. >> jim p.: slapped the tag. grass just a little high from that angle. hard to tell there. >> bob: umpire right there though. could have gone either way. guzman hits it sharply to the right side. that will be two outs with another run at third base. >> jim p.: drop it, get the glove down. >> rob: looks like he missed the tag. >> bob: looks like he tagged the base and not the foot. that's a great throw. >> jim p.: that's two in a row. again, the nationals doing what they need to do. you're struggling for runs, you got a guy with speed. >> ro

here's the blue jay tormenter, willie harris. time after time, harris becoming that for the toronto ball club. three for eight, two walks, two rbis, and a couple of runs in the series. willie has torment had the blue jays again. two on, nobody out. >> i love what willie harris did last night. right there just patience. the ball comes right into him. he sees it perfectly, is all over it. doesn't try to hit it out of the ballpark. just hit it on the line. >> that's willie harris with his fourth extra-base hit of the series. >> very nice. >> 13 extra base hits on the year, four of them since friday. right now marco scutaro saying to him, give us a break. here's josh bard, a good spot for him. he doesn't hit well against against left-handers, but he's swinging well. in 10 games in the month of june josh is eight for 29, batting .276 and he's been a little extra-base hit streak of his own lately. there's will getting a day off. 0-1 to bard. breaking ball, little bit low. ricky romero, 24 years of age from los angeles, graduated from r

a willie harris is like an ozzy smith. he is just trying to put the ball in play off your 95. >> bob: nasty breaking ball and willie hits it pretty well. >> rob: and then you speed his bat up and he pulls his breaking ball and you are like, what am i supposed to throw this guy? >> bob: right down into the picnic area. they tried all kind of gimmicks over the years to get people into this building. last year, they finally figured it out: win. >> rob: win and they will come. >> bob: the rays, by the way, are averaging 22 1/2 22500. kansasity, oakland and cleveland all have lower attendance as does baltimore. >> rob: you have to see jose aquendo over the years. he was one of the toughest outs for me. >> bob: swoo switch hitter. >> rob: switch hitter, from the left side, trying to slap the ball and you throw him a breaking ball and he would pull it for a double. >> bob: willie hits that one up the middle, knocked down by ben zobrist and managing to stay on the bag, carlos peqa. the nats leave a couple. they stranded four and t

willie harris, one for three tonight. harris bounces the double play ball. the nats are doubling themselves to death tonight. that's the third of the night. and the other two came with -- with the bases loaded. >> jim p.: i think early in the count it really comes down to, do you want to swing at a pitcher's pitch, and that's what this is. good sinker, tailor-made. andino has been an all-star dealing shortstop for the orioles since izturis has been out, he's been that good. harris chases johnson's pitch, rolls over. >> bob: all three orioles pitchers who retired a hitter have registered a double play in the ballgame. here's guzman, 2 for 3. batting average up at .347. he has his 8th multihit game in his last 10. >> rob: it's an easy. >> jim p.: last year he was the 8th inning guy. >> bob: guzman tries to pull that tailing fastball. bad throw by roberts. dug out by huff. p hi, my meeting got moved up. i need to change my southwest flight. woman over phone: no problem. you know, maybe other people are content to sit around and wait. wait for some

willie harris hits a ball 400 feet and has b.j. upton run it down. that's what happens in the major league level. the ball is crushed. that will be the last pitch of the day for james shields. [cheering and applause] nats with a runner on in the 7th. tie game. izon fios. these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're out of mayo. how did you get in here? door was open. you'd have tons of ways for you to search for content: by actor, director, any word at all. what about chicken? chicken's fine. any word. no i mean do you have any chicken? i want to eat some chicken. one of the coolest things you can do with fios... ...is stream your music and your photos from your computer to your tv. slideshows look and sound better than ever. and now is the best time to upgrade to fios all the time. want to tell them why? i do not. because you'll get up to $150 dollars back and over 100 hd channels when you upgrade to verizon fios. call th

willie harris 0-4 with a couple of groundouts.he little things pay off big time in major league baseball. we'll see today a couple of instances where the little things did pay off defensively as well as offensively. >> you remember we haven't had people covering at times. hernandez getting to 1st to get the out. nick goes on a short fastball going on the first move, getting down there, beating the throw. that's what tough do in baseball baseball. he's gone. he's safe at 2nd. that sets up rbi situation. detwiler whirls and throws here not showing any signs of being a rookie as he makes the right play. you mentioned he had to preplan that play. >> a couple of weird plays developing. one is the pop down into the nationals bullpen. the other is the ball hitting the 3rd base bat. >> it was weird. here's a pop up down into the bullpen. the catchers aren't aware of anything. a little cut block there as one of our catchers can't get out of the way. the ball hit down the line, right there. willy has it squared up. that's what happens when

willie harris, two swinging strikeouts tonight.er debbi taylor will tell us about some nationals minor leaguers who have garnered some honors this week. good to know when your minor league guys are the best in their leagues at what they do for a certain period of time. the top three in the order, 0 for 6 tonight. that's high strike. >> bob: now, yesterday in baltimore, jim joyce didn't call a pitch like that a strike all day. so tonight you have a different umpire who is calling the high strike. he tries to stay up there, but he's too high. the nationals first five hitters, 1 for 10 with the zimmerman home run. so a base runner needed here in the fifth inning to get something going at that point in the order. willie late for it and he knocks it right into his own dugout. >> rob: hornsby didn't hit as many home rubs. 301 home runs, 1584 rbi, but a lifetime batting average of .358 for rogers hornsby. over 23 years. >> bob: he didn't have any maple bats. picked off by cantu. that will be it. the nats go in order in the top of the fift

does willie harris surprise you with his power. now, he's in the lead-off spot of this ball club and will stay there until they finally lose a game. >> doesn't surprise me. he's i guess about 5'9" but he's put together. very strong lower body, his hips, legs, very muscular. he was a football player. he works extremely hard, and he's probably the strongest guy we have pound for pound on this ball club. >> you just described was when i take this coat off. >> i've seen you, john. >> exactly the same thing. >> i have seen you, johnny. >> with the buzz going for me. how about john lannan, i heard a comment, somebody asked him about now you're the ace of this staff, you're the key guy in this rotation. he said not really. i think everybody's going out there trying to do the best they can. if a guy throws a complete game, i want to throw a complete game. >> that's because he's humble. he's not the oldest, stammen is, but he's a guy that's been there the longest and has put together a tremendous resume. not in terms of won and losses, but

. >> gonzalez leads off and harris finishes things off. >> he hits it to the outfield. he's on first base and willie harris comes up and again earlier in the game he made a great catch and became basically the story last night. willie harris has had a number of so-called defining moments with the washington nationals, but last night was about as good as it gets. >> not only offensively, but defensive with the glove as well. >> he's gotten the job done in center field, which is something this club has lacked. he's described as a super utility guy. he's played second base, third base, left field, right field. center field, he covers a lot of groundout there. basically great anticipation from the crack of the bat, and covers a lot of ground and basically if he can get to it, he'll catch it. >> debbie taylor is on the field. you've had a chance to visit with a couple of guys josh willingham and adam dunn. they have their sons here with them at the ballpark. >> first of ail, happy father's day to all the dads out there. the nationals have a very, very family oriented organiz

harris digging for second. alex rios digs it out and pat listach does need to hold him and he's still going to hold as the ball rolls across the infield. i mean, alex rios is a good right fielder with a good arm. it's hard to anticipate he's going to throw a ball to deflect off the glove of the cutoff man. >> rob: willie harris gets a pitch he likes. puts tonight right side of the infield pass a really good fielding lyle overbay. then, alex rios has trouble finding the handle. comes up. quickly throws it by his cutoff guy. you saw josh though. you see him running properly as bob told you many times run hard until that coach stops you. >> i wonder if cito gaston is thinking about an intentional walk here. >> rob: to bring the pitcher up. i -- >> bob: they're going to do it. in this league, you do that. so, jordan zimmermann will have a chance for his first major league rbi with the bases loaded, one out. cito gaston has in postseason play managed in a number of national league ballparks because when he was in hi

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willie harris, you are awesome! @@ >>> well come whack to welcome back to nationals park. willie harris with that catch in the ninth. set to bring you nats "nats xtra". they have one final shot to run the winning streak to three in a row. >> they might go into extra innings too. they have to get bat off the shoulder. >> we've had lots and lots of thrills from this ball club let's send you back to bob and rob and see if nats can win in in regulation in the last of the ninth. >> bob: johnny, that would be sweet, because after regulation it has been ugly. nationals 0-8 -- >> rob: you had to say that! >> bob: i'm jinxing it. i cannot win with you. >> rob: i tell you what. if you could get bug spray up here, you could win with me. >> bob: all right. the guys you would like to have up there, johnson, zimmerman and dunn in the bottom of the ninth against jeremy accardo out for his second inning. >> rob: nick, the rest of them awful quiet. >> bob: nick johnson, 3-3 with a walk and now b

a double play by willie harris and johnson. detwiler is out of the 2nd inning.  >>> today's telecast celebrating the birthday of u.s. army on masn. we serve today for a safe tomorrow. panasonic computers. navy federal credit union. we serve where you serve. >> bob: well some clouds in the sky today. some cloud cover this morning made it pleasant on the way to the ball park. detwiler, the double play saving him pitchers against the good offensive ball club. >> bob: he's done things i said in the report, finish them off, be economical with the pitches. you've got to come right after them. so what if they hit it. >> bob: in contrast, zimmermann threw two innings last night. 4 strikeout, 37 pitches. >> rob: this is a double contact there. you can't bunt it twice even if you're that good. watch this. bunt. >> bob: did you see the angle of that ball coming off of home plate? it went out straight toward fair territory. that was interesting. i like it when the little guys bump around the infield. put pressur

bottom of the order, harris, hernandez and patterson. interesting these three hitters are all similar, aren't they? left-handed hitters, speed to burn. willie harris takes a fastball in there. >> rob: they've got to make him stop. he's a quick worker and will try to get ahead of you and then go to the fourth ball. make him work at your pace when you're hitting. already ready up on the mound.  >> bob: willie harris 1 tonight a-double and a walk caught stealing in the sixth. >> rob: this goes back a couple of years, but in 2007 against 124 left-handed hitters, held them to a .161 average with that fourth ball and no home runs. righties because he can't throw that fourth ball hit .250 with four homers in 124 at-bats. >> bob: that's a hard breaking ball down and in. >> rob: it got him. >> bob: almost a cutter -- >> rob: it might have been a cutter. guy used to throw high 90s and that is a cutter. >> bob: sheer hernandez. >> rob: holding the ball offcenter throwing it just like a fastball, but the grip makes it slide out like a footb

here's willie harris who has walked and struck out.but the nationals needed somebody to come alive in that catcher's spot. bard and nieves both capable back-up type guys and the nationals, and rob knows all about this from a pitcher's standpoint, jim, they have really missed jesus flores since he went out. he was hitting well in the number seven spot, the eight hole some nights, throwing runners out, hand handling a young staff, and she is a young guy himself but he was playing like a veteran. >> rob: and the catcher, the catching position is difficult for the orioles, too, with wieters up he learning as he's going along as a rookie. you have to be the field general. you to take over the pitching staff. it's now your teaen you're the every datcher. will nieves, you see him there. and they have been platooning bard and nieves ever since flores got hurt. but stl, wherthe team and take hing staff. >> bob: willy harris taps one right in important of the mound. he was slow getting out of the box. he recovers in time to beat the relay. >> r

willie harris is tracking it. waved off elijah.the rays go in order, bottom of the 7th.  >> bob: beautiful evening in st. petersburg, florida, especially for the rays fans. they lead it 8-2 as we go to the 8th. you can follow the nats on your iphone and ipod touch. featuring play-by-play, video highlights and live audio broadcasts. visit nationals.com on your iphone or ipod touch to purchase. anderson hernandez, cristian guzman and nick johnson. andy sonnanstine, seven innings, 77 pitches. he's well on his way to his second career complete game. this guy pitches like this, it's hard to believe he's only had one. >> rob: i watched him a lot last year and he was really tough down the stretch for this team. when he's on, he's really on. >> bob: that ball well hit by hernandez, unreachable even for b.j. upton. it will one hop the wall for a double and the nats will have their first base hit since guzman back in the third. anderson hernandez 2 for 3 tonight. it's a pretty good muscle for a guy who bunted for a b

bard, harris for the nationals coming up. bring your family to the game on sundays. you can purchase a right field terrace. lower reserve seat eerd either side of the ballpark. with each a hot dog, brink and chips. autographs and after the game, kids run the bases. 888-632-nats or nationals.com. it will be father's day here sunday. here's josh bard. josh's numbers steadily on the rise lately. in the month of june, he's played nine games. in that time, he's 8-25 batting .320. he's always been known as a solid hitting catcher. way out of that one. >> rob: to finish up with bob boone, one of the reasons i had him on the radio to talk about aaron boone since it's father's day this weekend. >> bob: how is he doing? >> rob: he's doing wonderfully and had successful heart surgery n about a week, he can do almost anything. he can resume regular activities. he's doing cardiovascular work right now. he's doing great. >> bob: aaron visited the nationals clubhouse in arizona and looked great. we could tell he lost some weight. he said he was going to take a while to get his stre

willie harris in for shairon martis. we'll see joel hanrahan in the 8 8th. harris way fly to right. the nats are retired. we go to the top of the 8th inning at nationals park. reds are tossing a 2-0 shutout. take the right path. even to change it when conditions demand. keeping you on the road to achieving your goals. it's something we've been doing for over 150 years. let our strength and stability be the basis for yours. pnc. leading the way. >>> nationals baseball on mas is brought to you by southwest

. >> bob: bottom of the 10t josh bard, willie harris, hanley ramirez. nats were swept three at tampa bay, lost 2-3 in this ballpark earlier in the month to the orioles. batting average not good. runs per game, not good. e.r.a., good. a lot of tight ballgames. here is brandon league. league is a resident of honolulu from nick johnson's neighborhood in sacramento. 26 years of age, 6'2", 205. off and on career for the blue jays over the last five years. up and down, up and down. only averaging about 20 games a year. he's been back and forth between toronto and triple-a so much. brand new pitcher, first-pitch swinging. >> rob: you remember he took three strikes -- three strikes his last time, so he wanted to make sure he got a good hack in. figured league would try to get ahead with a fastball. he did and just missed it. >> bob: willie harris has had a fantastic night. 1-3, a double, a walk and a spectacular running catch on vernon wells to end the top of the ninth. nats would go on to get a leadoff man aboard and would never get the man off first base. >>

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. >> bob: here is willie harris who bounced out twice. what i'm trying to say, my message to our fans is, we know that this is difficult for you. we certainly do. >> rob: we'll all grow together. >> bob: that's a great way to put it. then when you win, you look back and say, you know what, we did it the right way. >> rob: that's right. >> bob: you can say, i came to the ballpark when we had 75 people there at the end of an extra inning game delayed by rain for two and a half hours. you know, crazy things happen on this journey. >> rob: well, you know, they keep comparing this ball club to the '62 mets. well, seven short years later, they win a world championship and they are the miracle mets. >> bob: the amazings. >> rob: the amazings. >> bob: if you want a little perspective on that, i wrote a blog on that last weekend which is on the masn website. the yankees -- or the mets back then were made up of washed up yankees, new york giants and brooklyn dodgers players. it was kind of a gimmick. load up the ross ter with players that the fans

. >> johnny: willie harris with a foul off the plate.ris struck out in the first and his on-base percentage is .382. >> rob: johnny lab none, 41 starts, detwiler, his fifth start, jordan zimmer hand hamas nine starts in the big leagues, cy he has 15, the other four. so the others don't have as many as johnny lannan. so you know when i came up i had, you know, phil gull lick son was at the major league level, you had ron robinson, tom browning had been there for many years, tom franklin had been there for many years, our pitching coach years late would be don argue lick. even the griffey seniors and dave collins and joel youngblood and guys like this, they can help you with your psyche and that's the most difficult thing i think for these young kids is when they have an issue don't always want to go to the pitching coach and go "you know what, i'm not that confident in this pitch," you don't want to be telling steve mccaty all that stuff, sometimes a teammate, it's easier to bounce it off him. i did that with joel youngblood, my first ful

i'm not sure willie harris saw that ball properly. it really carried.late in the way he expresses not only what he wants from his pitchers, what he's demanding from his pitchers right now. >> rob: and you have to demand it. your job's at stake. shairon martis is going back for a refresher course at triple-a. it's simple, it's black and white. do your job or else. or else we'll get someone else that can do the job. you're up here to get outs. you're not up here, this isn't an instructional league. the major leagues. so i think he just wants guys to be confident, throw strikes and attack the strike zone. >> bob: on a damp night like tonight, doesn't carry. off the bat of ronny paulino. @ú 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 everyday bills like gas, the mortgage... ...and groceries. it's like insurance for daily living. so...what's it called? uhhhhh aflaaac!!!! oh yeah! that's it! aflac. we've got you under our wing. a-a-a-aflaaac! >> bob

that's where the nationals took this lead. >> jim h.: 0-2 on willie harris. fouls it back to stay alive. guzman and johnson to follow. the orioles in the bottom of the ninth, reimold, scott and salazar due up. >> rob: it's very important for the bullpen to try to keep scores the way they found it when they came in the ballgame. if you start giving up tack on runs, very difficult to keep chasing the lead. >> jim p.: a splitter that hangs up. if it's so good, two-seamer, he has to pitch down in the strike zone. you go back, the dropped throw at home plate, that allows the nationals to get a run, the throw in to left field by wieters, that's another run. those are the differences. then the base running by aubrey huff. when you play against a team that has a good pitcher on the mound, you can't make a lot of mistakes. >> jim h.: bouncer to first. aubrey huff steps on the bag, throw to second and out at second base. nicely turned and a nice tag by andino. so the reverse, three unassisted double play. >> jim p.: it doesn't get a whole lot better than that. we have

willie harris chance to make it 5-0. he'll ground it. hits by dunn, dukes, gonzalez, bard. 4-0 nationals. are you insured? do you know when your beer is perfectly cold? or do you risk drinking a warm one? if you have the new coors light cold-activated can, you're covered. because now every can turns blue when your beer... is as cold as the rockies. it's cold insurance, only from coors light. cold beer: that's our policy. frost-brewed coors light. the world's most refreshing beer. how far can you see? at pnc, taking the long view is how we help you take the right path. even to change it when conditions demand. keeping you on the road to achieving your goals. it's something we've been doing for over 150 years. let our strength and stability be the basis for yours. pnc. leading the way. >>> nationals baseball on m brought to you in part by southwest airlines. book your next trip on www.southwest.com. and by honda. >>> what a nice day for a jog or walk here in st. petersburg. bottom of the 4th coming. >> bob: nationals lead 4-0. ross det

. >> 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: very tough. as i said before, fourth in earned run average in the major leagues as far as the bullpen goes. they have a lead, tough to get it back from 'em. but only a difference right here, a couple of home runs, string together a few hits, maybe a walk or something, and got to send it to extra innings. >> johnny: willie harris popped out swinging, popped to second grounded out to second. he is 0-3, leads off the bottom of the ninth. takes a strike call.  francisco cordero first  save was july 21st of '08 against san diego. his last blown save was that, a year ago.    another one of these guys  have been around a l

and harry hays somehow had founded the society of the mattachine tradition. he presented himself as an academic and a scholar, but he wasn't entirely and now that we try to retrace his thoughts on where they origins of that word are gets big. but the concept cost of being a society a fool streaking truth to power and having to do so in an underhanded kind of clever ways and there's also some controversy because hate oys told a story as soon as he said that word there was like this mystical coming together yes, that is what we are in jennings was like, yes right. a lot of us are laughing at his notion. so what is cool they found their name and they found their purpose and it took off and mattachine society had been, indeed, spending of all over the society very rapidly. they call themselves collectively mattachine and first it was the mattachine foundation which split and then later mattachine the move his headquarters to seven cisco about 1953 and there was a purging in 1953 because many of the original people in the mattachine foundation for in the communist

back to the top of the line-up is willie harris.the bunt towards third, it's a beauty, melvin will let it roll and it's a foul ball, it just missed hitting the base. melvin gambled, it almost cost him. >> jim p.: i think he realized if i don't scurry after this one, because he's not going to catch him, he's not playing in, which i'm not sure is a great idea, but now he's thinking this could be a double. he could keep going. you have to go back to that play against the marlins where he stole second, kept going as feel is pie held the ball and ended up scoring. so melvin is going i don't think with two outs we want willie at second base. >> rob: he's got some wheels. >> jim p.: he did that night. but it's not like you don't know it. it's not like it's the first time you've ever, if you do your due diligence, you know that willie harris, he's a little like mickey rivers, he can bunt. steal bases, contact guy. and you remember -- you weren't pitching back then, but when the reds played the yankees in, what, 1975, in the world series, pe

josh bard will catch and followed by willie harris and anderson hernandez.n, .419 on-base percentage this year. seven knot the national league. team batting average for washington, .259, tied for sixth in the national league. for the orioles, left fielder nolan reimold, his first career home run came off of mariano rivera for the yankees back on may 20th. he is among the american league leader force the triple counsel. the o's lineup tonight, brian roberts leads off at second. jones will be in center field, nick markakis, after four hits yesterday against the marlins, he'll be in right and then huff, reimold in left field, luke scott the d.l., -- d.h., mora and andino will be playing at shortstop. the team batting average for the o's is .270, and that is tied for sixth best in the american league. welcome back back. johnny holliday along with ray knight. it is nats' extra pre-game on masn brought to you by our friends at verizon wireless. we haven't had this in some time. going back for the chin music, and, of course, when you have the chin music, you have t

that was president harry truman. a dozen years before, mr. president, president roosevelt made a momentous decision. president roosevelt decided in large part because of his fear of the power of the american medical association to not include health care in the social security legislation, in the bill to create social security, because president roosevelt actual fully believed that social security meant a pension and health care, but he thought the power of the doctors lobby would keep him from being successful, so he moved forward on social security, the creation of social security. who knows if that was the right decision then, but it certainly brought us a program that's mattered in the lives of all of our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents. harry truman was not able to accomplish medicare or any other kind of health care reform, significant health care reform in his seven years or so as president. fast forward to july 1965, president johnson passed legislation creating medicare. but leading up to that legislation, again it