ahead of the matt holliday homerun.six runs in tw swings of the bat. >> gary: here is the 2-0. grounded to first base. wigginton will take it to : alberto castillo does exactly what his role is, to get left handers out. now he has to deal with matt holliday who had a three-run homerun his last at-bat. alberto handcust easily and kennedy to get left ers out co out of the bullpen. and they are hoping that castillo can fill that role and they were hoa ttleat least that holliday, a homerun in the 5th

they have had 11 homeruns.e was trying for another one right there and didn't get it. 1-2. >> buck: and this is the problem for this team. that's why they went in the offseason and made the big trade they did. they got matt holliday from colorado, signed giambi as a free agent, brought in orlando cabrera as free agent and they are still down in the order for the fewest homeruns in the american league. here is the delivery by hendrickson. breaking ball will be taken down low. the homerun ball has really bitten the orioles pitchers as the orioles have surrendered 76 homeruns. only the phillies in the majors have given up more. o's starters were tied with minnesota with most homeruns surrendered. he gets the k. hendrickson has two down here in the 2nd inning as cust is retired. one of the things that will happen in a game like this is that, all of a sudden, that line-up you put in to face a right handed starter is not going to face -- is now going to face a left handed starter. when it happens early in the game, i

ago, 8 homeruns for luke scott. guthrie just goes 2/3 inning. he takes the loss and the orioles held to just one run on five hits. orioles have now lost three of four games on this road trip. let's head back to oakland now and rejoin gary thorn and buck mart martinez. >> gary: there are pitchers in major league baseball that like to see other teams and teams that would rather not see them. dallas braden is one of those pitchers that the oriole was like to miss. aubrey huff in the 1st inning. change-up was very good. got matt witters, jones. he ties a career high. only the luke scott homerun the only run he allowd in 7 innings 4 of his 11 career wins have come at the hands of the orioles. got a lot of confidence pitching against the orioles line-up. >> jim: for the orioles, obviously, a disaster for jeremy guthrie. he could not get the pills where he wanted him to be. and this oakland team needed an offensive burst to feel good about themselves. they got it in the 1st inning. >. >> buck: i don't care where you play.

hairs burg, six homeruns.s the final in haggerstown with a 5-3 win over delmarva. >> the haggerstown bullpen had a pretty good night tonight. and frederick potomac, 4-1 over spreadic and 10-39 final in the second game. potomac, 7 runs certified. >> pretty good night. >> johnny: and homerun number 5 for -- meats and yankees, bottom of the 6th, mets up. matsui with a shot. yankees lead it. game tied at 7. david wright doubles to center off mariano rivera. carlos beltran of the mets scores. the mets take a one-run lead. the mets are celebrating. hold on. bottom of the 9th. two on, two out. alex rodriguez pops up. he says, i got t he drops it. both runners score. the yankees win 9-8. how about that? braves and orioles tonight, top of the 5th. this ballgame is tied at 2 and brian mccannn sing tolls center, newly acquired nate mclouth scores. just like our game in tampa, a 4-3 ballgame. how about the yankees and mets? >> you know what my father used to tell me what to do? son, you better split in that glove make tha

i hit my first homerun at age 32 also in tee ball. >> rob: how do you hit a homerun in tee ball?fence? it is ante at home plate. -- it is on a tee at home plate. >> johnny: you have a lot of young kids in the outfield that can't run and can't catch the ball and thing bring the ball in. i guess. >> rob: anyway, adam's got to be good -- [audio indiscernible]. >> johnny: imposing figure at 6'6"290. but i don't think you will meet a nicer guy on this ball club than adam dunn. 2-0 fastball. gonzalez at 1st base. adam's numbers for his career. .347, 295 homeruns and 716 driven in. in three of these years in cincinnati, over a hundred rbis in 2004 and 5 and 2007. rob, when you think about 46, 40, 40, 40, 32, his homerun years -- >> rob: in arizona it was 40 last year. so, he has five straight seasons with 40 or more homeruns and he is tied with only babe ruth for the most consecutive years. if he gets 40 this year he is all by himself. >> johnny: and he draws a lot of walks and he has one there. >> rob: lifetime on base percentage this year of .381 which is very impressive. >> johnny: l

adam dunn comes into the ballgame holding the club league in homeruns, on pace to hit 47 homeruns.rk the 6th consecutive year adam will have done that if he keeps on pace with his 17 homeruns. here is starting line-up. cristian guzman leads off at short. the dh, of course, huge in interleague play. for tampa bay, they come in tonight with a team batting average of .2272 and a guy who is awfully speedy on the base pads carl crawford. here is the rest of the line- up. . >> johnny: speaking of interleague play and speaking of baseball and speaking of defense, let's talk a little bit about the nationals defense but also overall in major league from mr. baseball, phil wood. >> well, thank you, ray and john. the only one categories that the nationals are leading the league in are categories where they don't want to lead. and they have something to do with each other. error and losses. in the late 1970s, i corresponded with the late smoky joe wood who would be a likely hall of famer if not for arm trouble that shortened his career. even wall tore johnson thought that smoky joe was faster

instead of 3-run homeruns. right here you see him he is off balance and he probably should have tried to right himself a little more. gotten over the top. this is a fantastic stop right here and you see him throw off that front foot like a quarterback. sometimes you airmail. passes over the middle and they are intercepted. >> johnny: yep. >> rob: 9 out of 10 ryan will make that. as a pitcher you have to get out of this saying he picks me up more than he doesn't. you have to shake that off. >> johnny: a hit, an error, no rbi for rosales. micah owings one of the better hitting pitchers. he won a silver slugger award. >> rob: 4 homers and 15 rbi in '07 and a .333 batting average. >> johnny: got 6 career homeruns. one this year came off ryan franklin against the cardinals. >> rob: jeff brantly was telling me the first at-bat owings had this year for the reds hit it off the left centerfield wall. he can swing it. going to try to catch up a little bit on the pitching side with his hitting. >> johnny: he likes to swin

picky is good. >> rob: picky's good when you're going to have 300 homeruns in five homeruns? >> rob: please. the guy, 40 homeruns three straight years. >> bob: mark it down. >> rob: six straight years, he will be ahead of babe ruth all time in that department. >> bob: and he's going to strike out 170 to 190 times. >> rob: oh, yeah. >> bob: you just live with that. >> bob: what are you going to do, turn adam dunn into a singles hitter? >> rob: pretty big singles guy that adam dunn. and he barely gets them out of the infield. no, i want this guy swinging and trying to hit it as far as he can. >> bob: and he is smart enough to get a base hit when he needs to like he did in the 1st inning because the count was 0- 2. you can't be in homerun mode all the time. only jim thome walks more often than adam dunn. >> rob: he has 550-plus homeruns. he has own onbase percentage over .400. two of the best power guys in the game, great batter's eyes. maybe jim thome is picky, too. >> bob: you put adam dunn in the american league like thome was all those years, the way pitchers nibble, he woul

you hit well, you hit homerun, you drove in runs, stole bases. whole package. >> . >> you know, growing up as a kit, you know, hank aaron was right there in atlanta and the things he accomplished and he endured doug the game, which set me apart from, i think, other players. but to add on to that, people like willie mcgee, rickey henderson, her eric davis, andy van slyke. i wanted to to carry myself that way. i really respected those gees. when i see those guys playing baseball, they had a lot of fun, a lot of enthusiasm and they love what they are doing. >> johnny: when you look at the people in the major league, guys give back to the community. no question about it. but nothing has done it the way you have and the way you have done it here in washington, d.c. it takes funds, takes money to back up when you are trying to do. >> definitely. that's the most important thing. to give a kid that opportunity to go out and excel, they have to get the proper education and that's where i fall into problems where i get into the proper people, proper coachi

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so the homerun ball has not hurt ross that much. that ball was really smoked. >> rob: you asked me earlier in the game what do you think about pitches that are up for a high strike zone and you will get hurt if you leave pitches up like that. that's a hanging curve ball, right on the sweet spot of vernon wells' bat. there you see it, mr. spawlding leaving the building. i know it's rawling. you don't have to tweet me on twitter. >> bob: that was a change-up >> it's 1-2. >> rob: it's going to happen. we said this about zimmerman, martis. guys who throw really hard, sometimes, you hang them, second, third best pitch, you will give up homeruns. if you if you don't walk anybody, that's not going to hurt or sting as much if they are solo homeruns. >> bob: that's the difference. john lannan gave up two solos in yankee stadium and pitched a bull full game. >> rob: pitched 8 2/3. victory. >> bob: nick johnson has it. a pitch on 0-2 that was way too good but nick johnson helps out his young pitcher. >> rob: well, nick johnson has an amazing g

his homerun rate has dropped from 1 every 21 to 1 every 7. but there is no question a number of teams would love to get their hand on matt holliday. 1-2 delivery to him. 2-2. >> buck: you are looking at potential candidates and it would certainly be a rent a player situation for the end of this year as a free agent. how about a st. louis team? right handed hit tore go along and compliment albert pujols. >> gary: 2-2 delivery on the way. >> buck: you can also look at the san francisco giants just across the bay who have a great pitching staff but don't have the offense that holliday would provide. they are eight games back of the dodgers. san francisco won tonight, in a 2-1 ballgame. again, that reflects their anemic offense. >> gary: runners on first and second base. holliday in the dirt. wieters picking that one up on the one hop. the count will go to 3-2. all of a sudden, mark hendrickson, looks like he is running out of gas here. >> buck: he does not have the same command that we saw when he first came on. this is the 4th inning that he ha

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 night, two last night and one today. pop up behind 1st base. a long run. kearns and it hits the warning track and bounces up in the stands. well, between cordero, rhodes and weathers, they have appeared in 2,230 games. that is the kind of experience the reds have. you can see a relaxed cincinnati bullpen. >> rob: they won't be relaxed in that phone ring. jump into action. >> johnny: and the 1-2, runner going. strike three called. hernandez takes the third strike. as we go to bottom of the 8th, take a look again. 2-1 re

that two-run homerun was a setback. i just tried to come back and brush it off and get abig starred. >> amber: when did you talk about on the beltre. >> we went about it. sinker away, but sure enough, i left the fastball in the middle and he got it. >> jim: 15 innings combined, he has given up only 12 base hits, 4 earned runs combined in three starts. the one homerun to adrian beltre the other night. really, that was the difference notice game, a two-run shot and i still have no idea why beltre even swung at that pitch but take us through the at-bat. >> rick: he swung at it because he can hit it out of the park. we are looking at a future star right here because his fastball, his sinker is such a good movinging sinker. those are the kind he pulls he gets. he gets the strikeout on that ball, down and in to right handed hitters. when you are down in the count, great but when he drops underneath it, there it goes, down into left field. see how the ball stray stays up in the strike zone when he does not concentrate on stayi

they gave him a long-term extension. >> bob: 14 homeruns, -- 24 homeruns, 84 rbis in that season. 1161 games. and .291 with 71 rbis last year. ynoble, port rico. if you know how to pronounce it, it's there. hey, it's up to me to fill in the blanks. >> rob: that's why i throw those out there. i didn't know what he hit that year. >> bob: i'm still trying to find. >> rob: what? >> vernon wells? >> bob: vernon wells. >> rob: i did look that up last night, the calgary stampeders. >> bob: i love it when calgary played saskatchewan, stampede against the rough riders. >> rob:

. >> johnny: guzman 5-13 in this series, include ago homerun. -- including a homerun. ing a homerun. -- including a homerun. 0-2 pitch. down low for a ball. three hits in this inning. one off of burton and two off the starter, micah owings. and the 1-2. good eye for guzman. outside for ball two. >> rob: this may be the best opportunity for the nationals to tie this ballgame right here. you don't want to get to rhodes and weathers and cordero if you can help it. >> johnny: hernandez wants to go out and talk the his pitcher. >> rob: with a guy on second, you don't want the runner, nieves, relating any kind of information to his hitter. whether it be location or the pitch that is coming. interesting there's a catcher at second. he may be able to decipher the amazingly complex codes between the catcher and pitcher. >> johnny: and the 2-2. down to third. force at third. they give up the run. willingham scores. guzman got him home and there's two on with two out. >> rob: well, right here trying to put the ball in play. you see cristian guess map slap it to -- guzman slap it

homeruns and rbis. onbase percentage close to adam. >> bob: he was 6-for-17 with a four-game hitting streak at the time his neck strain sat him down. pat burrell is now 32 years of age. he had eight consecutive 0- homerun seasons with the phils. he is a double play guy with you can get a ground ball. that's going a long way. is it fair or foul? and it goes hooking well foul before entering deep in the seeds. >> rob: that's what i'm talking about. that was a good pitch on the inner half and the open thing for you to do is to hit it foul. watch this. this is going to be a running fastball on. inner half, come right back with it. you have to tell yourself there a reason why he can only hit that foul. you made good location with it. >> bob: 1-2, a little bit low. there has been a little bit of talk here over the years why the foul poles are not higher at tropicana field. a lot of fouls go sailing over the pole and then they have that phony little yellow thing hanging from the see ranks. they have had disput

a homerun on the trip.en dealing with back spasm, something that knocked him out of the game a couple of nights ago. towering flyball, centerfield, way back, adam jones on the warning track. up and good-bye, homerun. a three-run homer for jack cust. about 400 feet away. and the a's have a 3-0 lead on his 9th of the year. >> buck: that came off the bat and it looked like it was going to be a routine flyball to centerfield. jack cust gets under need the high fastball and snaps a long drought. take a look at this pitch again, fastball out over the plate. might have been a change-up, in fact. he didn't have that good velocity but you see how he gets under neat it. adam jones has the beat on it but runs out of room as it's beyond his reach over the centerfield wall. >> gary: wow! three up and three in. and here is matt holliday. jack cust delivers the long ball for his 9th of the season. he has 31 rbis now. that one hit hard up the middle and that's a base hit. and oakland just teing off on jeremy guthrie. three

. >>> toronto, lyle overbay, a homerun off zach greinke, the first homerun that greinke has allowed. again pulls this one over the head. that made it a 6-0 game and the blue jays go on to win it by a final of 9-3. greinke suffers the loss. he goes just five innings, clearly his poorest outing of the year. rangers over 0 the red sox by a final of 5-1. elsewhere in the american league, the angels in detroit and a 2-1 final as ervin santana goes 8 2/3 to get the swing. justin verlander, 8 innings, no runs on 4 hits. the angels win it. carl pavano goes the distance on the shutout, three hitters as the indians beat the white sox 3-0. yankees rained out in new york. (announcer) you do have health insurance don't you? if you don't, now you're in luck. carefirst bluecross blueshield can cover you for as little as $75 a month. depending on the plan you choose. just call us at the number on your screen for the plan that's right for you. carefirst bluecross blueshield lets you customize coverage so you have an individual plan that suits you best. select a ppo or an hmo, add vision or dental-- y

and guess who hit a homerun.avid ortiz who struggled might low throughout the court of the season. his second homerun in the last three games. the first 50 he only had one homerun but certainly starting to get off the schneid. >> the nationals had the top pick for the first anytime franchise history. they selected san diego state pitcher stephen strasburg, who went 22-7 with a 1.59 e.r.a. the gnats are optimistic about signing him. >> we are optimistic about signing all our draft choices. we don't don't through the media so i'm not going to begin now. we're going begin the process, which i have begun already. i have spoken to scott bore has in a congratulatory phone call and had a great conversation with stephen strasburg. he was elated to be drafted by the nationals, fired up to be the number onic and has waving a great time in california with the rest of his teammates at san diego state. >> if strasburg can help the club immediately he can be the seventh player in the last ten seasons to make the jump. nady was

that lasted five minute and then wells hit a homerun. and then the nationals came roaring back.f 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 a while and then it had that big hook. >> rob: there is a huge whole between first and second and a great swing right here with the toronto defense and richardson. he laid a fastball down broadway. >> bob: now, he shows bunt early. a throw to first base not even on the bag. that's ball 2. 2-1, good running count. willie not showing bunt early this time. and the count's even 2-2. now with more of a possibility of t

a foul ball dropped and a pinch hit homerun.ne and the nats were out of the inning and now rays are in a position to win the game. >> rob: look at the pain from ron villone after this pitch. >> rob: villone in and gabe kapler just swinging on it. >> bob: boy, that is a crusher. how many times have the nationals given their opponents extra outs this year. that's an unearned run because of the error. so the nats have given up two unearned runs of the of the four tampa bay has scored tonight. dioner navarro, the catcher. now you look at the 9th and the nats will have hernandez, guzman. >> bob: that's why managers say they can wait for the bats. they cannot wait for the gloves. when the gloves betray you, the results are almost immediate, right in your face. breaking ball stays outside. >> rob: villone knowing how important it is to get out of this inning. he has a one-run lead right there. >> bob: that ball is jacked into the corner. that will one hop and go out for a ground rule double. here comes manny acta. joe beimel is ready.

olivo, his second homerun in june, averaging just two homeruns in the month of may. >> evan is alallhting, leads derek jeter for the 2009 all-star game. rays hosting the angels and so far it's all angels. leading 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth. taylor, an rbi sing until the first, followed up by an rbi groundout by juan rivera. >> mariners and the o's, seattle opening a nine-game road trip in camden yards, orioles leading 1-0. roberts 1-2 with a run. keep you updated here on "espnews." >> espn the magazine is learning from two independent sources, jeremy mayfield tested positive for methamphetamine drug a -- during a random drug test. he said he ingested a double-dose of an over the counter allergies mention and a previbed drug for attention deficit disorder. a third drug came up positive. the name of the drug has been removed from court documents because of a gag order. mayfield's attorney contended it was a false positive. >> still to come, terrell owens participates at bills' come on. come on. come on. there for you... ( car starts ) and life's daily miracles. ♪ who's the best? t

elijah 6-30 with a double, a couple of homeruns, three rbis, three walks. in his 8 games since coming back off the dl june 2nd. he has driven in 14 runs his last 21 games. had that big homerun on tuesday night. >> rob: jeff brantly is marv ling at the -- marvelling at the size of dukes. >> johnny: g grounded foul down the 3rd base line. >> rob: he broke up a fight in our clubhouse one time between two of the toughest guys. two of the baddest cats i ever played with. lenny harris and kevin michell were going at it. j. b. stepped in the middle and broke it up. he was a new teammate and there's cowboy on the right. tied for saves over there with the reds. three-way tie. we all have 88 saves. myself jeff brantly and tom humes. >> johnny: he is a buddy of ray knight. >> rob: he is. how's that book doing? >> johnny: if you give me $22.95, you will know. [laughter]. >> johnny: what are you doing? you are supposed to be watching the game. >> rob: a sweet read. i know. >> johnny: 1-2 the count to elijah dukes. >> rob: come on elijah. >> johnny: the pitch is high. go

camp has given up two homeruns in 28 innings this year. and that little chopper will give him three scoreless innings in this series. he will do it unassisted. on to the 11th for a second straight night. ? 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. . >> bob: on to the 11th inn second marathon in a row for the nats. they do have lyle overbay, left handed batter available. two hits, no runs, a couple of walks, couple of hits and for both teams tonight, including a very thin bullpen for toronto, 142 pitches thrown by the blue jay, 92 for strikes. 137 pitches thrown by the nationals pitchers, 89 for strikes. so pitching is not dead yet. >> bob: it's been on its last legs a few times in recent years. >> rob:

adam dunn gets around it and fouls it. 18 homeruns this year, four away from 300. 48th rbi last night. i interairport hill is 20 feet behind the dirt. >> rob: i aaron -- aaron hill is 20 feet behind the dirt. >> reporter: that's going to get him. >> rob: come on, that's not even close. i think the first time this ball gets the plate is when the catch erythros it around the horn. let's see how far that pitch is. >> bob: that's unfortunate. >> rob: it looks pretty, a pretty pitch called the back door slider but the baseball needs to get over that white thing that's called the plate. >> bob: here is dukes. >> rob: elijah was really swinging the bat well. in the batting cage. he carried it into the game. >> bob: a couple of knocks for elijah tonight. a base hit and a double, one rbi. >> rob: he has that hard sinker. talk about the touch and feel of being a pitcher. sometimes, you put the fingers close together to get movement on the baseball. >> >> bob: zaun camp has now pitched a four-hitter in this series and struck out all four of them. >> rob: look at the movement on the pitch. got th

he has given up a homerun in every one of his last 6 outings. guy that throws the ball through the corners with a lot of velocity. straight over the top. nice guy to hit if you like four-seam fastballs. >> byron: the nationals face the world championing in the phillies and now they get the a. l. champions. stammen should be loose and ready to go. >> ray: always feels better to win. that flight will be really good. some guys can relax, smile. you know and play some cards and just in some cases maybe just get some rest. it is hard to rest when you lose all the time. >> sights and sounds, ray good job, >> ray: thank you. >> the reds get ready -- the nationals get ready for the tampa bay rays. big come back victory, the 11th of the season for the national s s today as they beat cincinnati. the final 3-2. we will see you in tampa bay next for the nats. >> we're going to send you out to toronto right now. usain bolt running the 100. >> next to him, in lane two is henry of nearby pickerring ontario. he ran for canada in the 4 by 10100 meter relay in th

we should call them fair poles, anyway because if it's hits, that's a homerun and it's fair. i don't get that foul pole. >> bob: looks like that ball crossed it. >> rob: it did. it was a shadow. >> bob: good call by paul nauert. >> bob: and zimmerman. >> rob: that was not much of a breaking ball when you are throwing 95 miles per hour, the replay. see the head down. watch him keep the hand back. strides first but he keeps the hands back long enough to be able to take breaking ball back up the middle. great hitting. >> bob: ryan had the hitting streak going, these were the kind of base hits he was getting. having a chat with carlos peqa as he is the 6th national bat tore hit his way to first base and the second one to visit peqa so far i here is adam dunn who collected rbi number 45 two innings ago. at least for now, that put adam in the top 5 in the league with 45 rbis. offspeed breaking ball. he took a little bit off and dropped it in. >> rob: that's how he got ahead of adam in the first at- bat. on the first pitch of that at- bat, adam read it right and got a base hit. when

adam dunn is a guy that is going to get hot and hit 10 homeruns in a month. zimmerman has been hot. he has cooled down. johnson's hot, cooled down a bit. everybody in our line-up has to get better in hitting in situations. we get runners on 3rd base, you have to cash in on that and we haven't done it. it is a matter of concentration. it is a matter of getting a pitch you know you can drive. especially with the infield back. you know, that is just a freebie. you have to make ground ball contact up the middle. the guys are trying it and i think that is the key. they are trying so hard they are coming out of their natural aggressiveness in probably trying to hit the 5-run homeruns. >> rain is in the forecast. seems like the whole month of june into may we have had rain what does manny acta think about that? has he been through this in his career? >> yes, i managed in the florida state league. florida, stomacher time every day after 4:00, it rains. you use the batting cages a lot. not in the big league level. this has been very unusual according to the people who live in this area. so,

. >> rob: 19 homeruns by carlos peqa this year. >> bob: he has been pretty much all or nothing this year, came in batting .229 with 78 strikeouts, the second most in the american league. manny acta runs out and he is going to call his infield in and will go over this. that's a big out. coming up, how the nats were able to get to matt garza early, 3 runs on four hits, 1st inning. craig stammen did well against the bats, not so well against the speed. tomorrow, jordan zimmerman back in the line-up. the game starts at 6:05 but we cannot join you live until 7:05. >> rob: 13 against righties, 6 against lefty for peqa this year. >> bob: shift is on. zimmerman is the only defender on the third base side. anderson hernandez is in a very interesting position. if you threw a line to home plate to him, 2 wouldn't miss nick johnson by much. there is still a wide gap between hernandez and cristian guzman. he was all locked up there and that's strike 2. ron villone, total deception. and way ahead in the count. pretty good success against ron villone, .333. ron must have hung him a breaking ball somewh

second walk off homerun to win a world series after bill mazeroski did it to the yankees at old forbesld in 1960. and no playoff for the blue jays ever since. they have been in the playoffs '85, '89, '92, '93. a great run then by zito gaston and his blue jays. >> rob: and gaston has been brought back to bring back some of the magic and they have played better this season and part of last season. >> bob: yes, they have. wil nieves up the middle to the shortstop marco scutaro. last year, john gibbons was let go and cito gaston took over. he was let go on june 20th and cito gaston led them to a 51-30 record. he has been a guest manager for the last few years. people forget he is a good ballplayer. he was then known as clarence gaston. ross detwiler gets around late. as a major league hitter, he is 0-for-8 i. still looking for his first win and his first hit. >> bob: yep. >> rob: he is definitely in search of. cristian guzman with a base hit tonight, he is next. infield hit in front of scott rolen back in the 1st. detwiler puts it in play. three-hopper. scutaro, two outs. get your red on a

leads the ball club in rbis and homeruns. the thing with micah owingses -- >> rob: he flicks it in. he reminds me of ken hill who used to short-arm the ball like that. kind of deceptive. used to seeing that big pendulum swing behind a guy. >> johnny: adam pops it up behind second. long run for taveras and he's got it. two down and gonzalez retreating back to first. talking about guys getting hit, accidents. remember herb score got hit in the face with a line-drive. never was the same after that. >> rob: bob feller was on memorial day and he talked about that. that is the toughest part about this game when you see someone that is total lented and in a -- so talented and in a split second change your career. i always had that in the back of my mind. i only hit 12 guys in my career. and never near the neck or head area. >> johnny: only hit 12. >> rob: you should have looked that up. 1979 faced, 12 hit batters. >> johnny: mr. akwar yus, i appreciate that. elijah dukes faces owings. quarius, i appreciate that. elijah dukes faces owings. if you are throwing over a hundred miles an hour an

he has two triples and one homerun.hat's a great swing by him going the other way. >> rob: bob, you already know, i don't need to tell you but teams do not win a champion without a great player, willie harris will play any time, anywhere you insert him. he will try to contribute. now, he gets a one-out double. >> bob: and our fans love this guy. i remember being out on the left field plaza under the red loft last year. when we brought willie harris for a live interview for our season ticket holders, those fans went crazy. they adore him. they see a guy who plays hard. we will see if wil nieves can pick up an rbi here. still with the pitcher on deck, but this is only one out. look at. >> rob: heads up baseball by willie harris. cecil never looked back. >> bob harris' fifth of the year, with only one caught stealing. >> rob: no one says a word. willie harris takes off. you 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

homerun derby and for ticket information, (410)588-9900. >> rob: i was going to say about cristian guzmanting the ball in the air like that. he does not have the kind of power to put it out of the stadium. he has to work on getting the ball down on the ground and get on base for nick. they were eating up garza first time through the night. this guy came in with a 5 earned run average. >> bob: nick johnson hits it hard the other way. longoria to his left with a fine play, two outs. nearing the 10 0-0 hour here on the gulf coast in florida. tropicana field, capacity 44,000. the rays are averaging 22,000. pitch change cominging up. bases empty, two outs. brian zimmerman on the way against wheeler. ♪

suffice it to say that the bottom two rings, if a ball hits them in fair territory, homerun. a ball hits one of the top two rings, a or b, right upped the roof in fair territory, keep on running, baby. it's as many as you can get. if it hits one of those rings in foul territory, that's a foul ball. >> rob: only one guy has been able to hit the roof, and that's carlos peqa. you keep on running. if they catch it, they catch it. some of them have lights mounted on them and they on have their own foul pole which is very unusual. ballpark seats 44,000 here on the edge of downtown st. petersburg. and a look at the nag nationals' starting line-up. with cristian guzman. he really likes interleague play. he is 6th in the league hitting at .327. and, can, the nationals employing the dh, adam dunn. first time the nationals have ever seen matt garza. the former twin is big, strong. he is going to be attacking these guys early and often. giving you the pnc scouting report. he loves to attack strike zones. he will throw 75 to 80% fastballs, has a great hook. .206, that's the batting averag

only averaging a little over 5 innings and, johnny, in his last five starts, he has given up 10 homeruns. >> johnny: incidentally, first pitch tomorrow, 6:05 down in tampa. we will join the broadcast telecast in project at 7:02. manny acta was asked about the pop-up which resultd in kapler getting one more swing. here is the national skipper talking about that incident. >> i'm absolutely 100% sure that nick wanted to catch the ball. i mean, he just dropped it and it ended up costing us the ballgame. he made a lot of good plays for us, too, in the past but those are the times of things that we have to make sure that we don't give any extra outs because that really, you know, ends up batting you. >> what did you think of craig stammen's performance? he did a good job, started shaky, pitching away from contact and started throwing the sinker over the plate. these guys didn't see him before and he did a nice job, gave us an opportunity to win the ballgame into into the nationals have not played that many games in domed stadiums. >> ray: the astro deem used to be tough but theypainted that da