chase headley goes the other way.you don't hit your spot to keep the ball low against power guys, that is where you'll get destroyed. you have got to give the padres a lot of credit. they have turned their season around 20-14. >> bob: we thought the nats had up until a tough home stan. now this shaping up as a 2 and 7 road trip where the nationals won two of the first three. top of the order, everth cabrera eckstein and then gonzales. cabrera one for four today.   cabrera one for four today. mcdougal goes 2-0. ball three. mike pitched in the eighth. sunday in st. louis with a scoreless inning and a double play ball. actually came in after a lead off walk by sean burnett. then he retired loud wig and albert pujols hospital at the tail end of a 2-1 loss and the nationals have now issued eight walks today. eight.   >> rob: if you look at it t way three walks and one hit for john lannan. then the bottom of the fifth happened and now it is six runs on seven hits. five walks you coul

narrowly missing headley in the on-deck circle. >> rob: and chase headley narrowly escapes certain injuryhis. whoa! look out! and he walked to the first base line basically to clear his head. >> rob: and that number 20 scrambling, that was the manager, bud black. >> bob: venable 1 for 3 with an rbi bass hit back in the 2nd. looks like he went, and the home plate umpire punches him out. johnny holiday and phil wood doing late night duty with nats xtra straight ahead. 1-1 clippard to headley. chase 0 for 3. challenged him with a heater. paw crays have their close -- padres have their closer warming. and a 3-0 to hundley, who is 1 for 3 tonight. clippard missing four in a row. that will bring in tony gwynn jr. who just made a fantastic defensive play on ryan zimmerman in center. i wrote in the blog today about livan hernandez, but also wrote that what the nationals saw in st. louis over the weekend with really good pitching and everything works off of that, if you play good defense while pitching well, you only need a couple of swings every night in timely fashion to win a ball game. that's

talk about the -- >> chase headley's orchestra. your butt letter for headley.inning complete game. as rob just said, this guy knows what he is doing right there, and he is not -- he is like a pitching coach on the roster and, while you can't obviously only pitching every fifth day, there's only so much knowledge he can impart on the bench to the younger guys, but the point is he knows how to pitch, been around, pitched a lot of big games. as was pointed out 47 complete games for his career, as they look into 2010 and they want that veteran to mentor the younger guys, this may be the guy. i'm not saying he is the guy, but there's not a lot available this coming off-season in terms of veteran who have won and pitched this many big games. >> this they are smart the young pitchers will listen and take notice of how he does things out on the mound? certainly. obviously if you have him from spring training forward. when he was with if new york mets this season he was kind of a spare guy, a spare could go. he was there as depth only. here he is important and his knowl

headley hits one hard but foul.th rob dibble. except for that one scene. those hands between some pillows. >> rob: hey, how about them dodgers? >> bob: that is the scene i was talking about. >> rob: i know. i know. >> bob: 0-2 to headley who walked. >> rob: john lannan in familiar territory. you talked about this you talked about the walks and he rolls a lot of double play balls. already got out of a jam in the second inning with a double play ball. you don't want to constantly put yourself behind the 8 ball. >> rob: swing and other foul. obviously a bad hop with gonzales. gonzales's ground ball. >> bob: i did spot a flaw in that movie though. you know they are trying to get to chicago. when they are crossing the bridge, they are going into st. louis, not out of st. louis. they think we don't catch stuff like that. >> rob: maybe they put it in there so you would catch it. did you ever think of that? >> bob: well they were going the wrong way. >> rob: no one is more thankful about gps navigation on board your car tha

chase headley grounding into todd helton. he's been doing that forever. 3-6-1 turns two.tom seven, locked up in a tight one. rockies, 8-6. clint barmes lines it to right. edgar gonzalez dives. he needed longer arms. do we have an inside-the-park job? for gonzalez, he was hurt, and didn't mean to make fun. 10-6. 11-8 padres done. two outs, top nine. oscar salazar with the bases loaded. two score. the padres down a run. next batter, tying run on third. nick hundley, hits it hard but right at seth smith. that ends the game. and the rockies, they'll win it 11-10 is your final. the giants are running out of games. they were four back of colorado when the day began. san francisco, in arizona. but san francisco's got matt cain on the hill but this matt cain, 1-4 in his last 10 starts. he was so hot so early. san francisco gave him a 3-0 lead. mark reynolds going to make it 3-1. his 100th r.b.i. on the season. miguel montero scores. bottom three, diamondbacks down 4-3. this time it's montero doing the hitting. he singles to center. two score. the diamondbacks up 5-4. matt cain la

chase headley grounding into todd helton. he's been doing that forever. 3-6-1 turns two.tom seven, locked up in a tight one. rockies, 8-6. clint barmes lines it to right. edgar gonzalez dives. he needed longer arms. do we have an inside-the-park job? for gonzalez, he was hurt, and didn't mean to make fun. 10-6. 11-8 padres done. two outs, top nine. oscar salazar with the bases loaded. two score. the padres down a run. next batter, tying run on third. nick hundley, hits it hard but right at seth smith. that ends the game. and the rockies, they'll win it 11-10 is your final. the giants are running out of games. they were four back of colorado when the day began. san francisco, in arizona. but san francisco's got matt cain on the hill but this matt cain, 1-4 in his last 10 starts. he was so hot so early. san francisco gave him a 3-0 lead. mark reynolds going to make it 3-1. his 100th r.b.i. on the season. miguel montero scores. bottom three, diamondbacks down 4-3. this time it's montero doing the hitting. he singles to center. two score. the diamondbacks up 5-4. matt cain la

they gave up two runs early, and we one run late on the home run by chase headley off the bench.ust he was locating the pitches extremely well. not going to throw the ball past anybody. bit you look at what he's done, and what you did in his previous start against the cubs, these are two to quality starts, and again, no victory to show for it, but he's done exactly what they need him to too. >> he throws pumps, looks very relaxed on the mound. he's been in every possible situation as a pitcher, so what he is doing has to rub off on these younger goes. >> well, you would hope so. you would hope they could come to him and say what did you do to this guy in the 4th insomething why did you throw this pitch? and at this point in his da career, keep in mind he broke in 1997, he's finally reached the point where he embraces that role of being a mentor. >> he talked about his performance last night, and then willy harris talked about livan's performance. >> i felt good the whole year, and come over here and try to do my job and give you a chance. sometimes it don't go the way you want it