i have the latest on jayson werth. and the yankees are in town, everybody talking about bryce harper. ♪ ♪ ♪ you're only young once. unless you have a subaru. (announcer) the subaru xv crosstrek. symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 34 mpg. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. tim: the nationals have won nine of their last 11 ballgames and the yankees are in town. the guy who is playing like joe dimaggio's bryce harper, the national league player of the year again only the 10th player in major league baseball history to go back to back with that honor. this past week he was sitting .522 with a .656 on-base percentage. and how about this -- his last 11 games are the best statistically in the last 75 years. 22 for 39 cents may 6. he is batting .564, 22 years old and getting better. jayson werth watch continues. there has been some news. he sat out the end of the weekend in san diego after taking a fastball on his wrist. the swelling is down, i

jayson werth is going to be out for the next three months. will this hurt the team? maybe. do they need him? yes. but they've been fine without him. werth is expected to be out until august after two small fractures were found in his left wrist. the outfielder was injured when he was hit by a pitch in a game against the padres on may 15th. it's the third time in his career he's hurt that wrist. werth's season has been disappointed. he started the year on the dl has played in just 27 games. orioles doubleheader against the white sox this afternoon making up the games postponed due to the riots. bottom 8, manny machado, down 2-0. tries to check his swing but it's strike three. machado throws his bat. close call. home plate ump doesn't check with the first base ump. the rule is you don't have to. you know we've seen this with bryce harper, right? to the 0's now down 3-0. chris davis trying to change that. tees this one off, 76-mile-an-hour curveball, two-run shot, his third home run in two days makes it a 3-2 game. so can the o's pull off the comeback? not so much. next batter

tim: jayson werth, we all knew he was on the 15-day disabled list but it is reported he had a cat scanrevealed fractures in his wrist. he could miss two months. he could be back in august, but this is not good news for the nationals. the national start their we can set against the reds in cincinnati tomorrow. baltimore, the orioles-white sox pulling a makeup game, boned by the riots. bounces over the wall, double.1-0 orioles. sixth inning, travis snider lines one. that makes it 5-3. the orioles win 6-3. in the first game, the story was chicago pitcher sale, practically untouchable, giving up only four hits, no walks. the birds never got anything going and chicago took game one, 3-2. the redskins signed two new cornervbacks today. then the skins close down the ota's. jim gruden continues to have competition to change the culture. the organization knows that the record has been trouble, the list of coaches continues to increase, but the young coaches not jaded and if you believe them now, he is willing to change. robert: i'm not going to just be a drop-back pass or, what if coach gruden

the nats, jayson werth left the game after getting hit in his left wrist with a 92 mob per hour fastball. x-rays were negative and he will be reevaluated today. last night against the padres, bryce harper with a broken bat pop up, falls in. span would score 1-0 nats. top of the fourth inning, that man again, bryce harper. he is on fire. deep to write, over the fence. that is his 13th home run of the season. nats blowout the padres, 10-0. and american pharaoh wins the preakness stakes. so go ahead kellye, with your hat on. kellye: it was my lucky hat. robert: we found out that american pharaoh won and kellye was like "yes!" devon: doppler radar shows hefty storms outside of the studios and rosslyn. lightning and thunder rocking the building. lightning and thunderstorms in washington in prince george's county. the heaviest storms to the northeast, the southeast just getting rain. everybody in the immediate metro getting pounded. not as severe, which is the best news. heavy a storms around greenbelt, college park, northeast northwest washington. suitland is the heavy rain. 95 towards mount

jason whether is injured -- jayson werth is injured and stephen strasburg, what's up with him? he a visit to the chiropractor. now he's throwing gumballs. opponents' bats are picking. his e.r.a. 6.50 lit up like summer deck lighting. matt williams wants him to think less and hurl more. he pitches tonight as in about 20 minutes from now right here on wusa9. strasburg's team has won its last nine. the reds might be exactly what strasburg needs, 1en in 9 in their last 10 games -- 1-9 in their last 10 games. nats on 9. >>> meanwhile the young kids who hope to be in the majors one day are on a road trip journey. cavs again southern cal, maryland against ole miss out in los angeles. terps begin the journey without the manager. he left his club with some specific instructions. >> don't get away from your preparations, your attitude. make sure some of the younger guys get with some of the older guys as far as what they 20 through last year. >> nats on 9 -- went through last year. >> nats on 9 coming up next. >> was that a picture of strasburg about four years ago? >> yeah, it was. >> t

here comes escobar, here comes jayson werth, sliding together. nats win 8-2.y have scored 34 runs in the last three games. and a reminder that redskins quarterback robert griffin iii will be here on abc 7 first thing in the morning, "good morning washington." that should be good television rg iii in the house. leon: he has to be the happiest man, he got the option and he got the big ugly, too. tim: don't tell his mama. alison: a rare sight in san francisco. leon: tonight, maureen bunyan helped honor those providing opportunities for refugees from africa, part of an annual like it. it helps improves social opportunities for immigrants. alison: way to go, maureen. there are fish out of water, and then there are sea lions on the sidewalk? this sea lion pup was stranded on the street, hiding under cars and waddling away from people when they got too close. scientists a we may see more stranded pups because of the shrinking food supply and a warming ocean. leon: a reminder tonight that 7 on your side when breaking news happens around the region. just subscribe for

robert: nats-padres tonight jayson werth and his sore wrist sat out. escobar smacks the ball to right, ian desmond discourse. 3-0 nats. max scherzer, he had a strong outing. seven innings, gave up four hits, struck out 11. the nats leads 4-0 in the ninth. o's-angels, big night for mike trout. opposite field solo shot, 3-1 angels. they tack on three more in beat the orioles, 6-1. as the basketball and hockey seasons wind down, d.c. fans will slowly turned their attention to the nats. hopefully that mojo will rub off on the redskins. rookie minicamp in ashburn getting a look at the fifth overall from iowa, brandon sherff. he is expected to take up a lot of space on the offensive line. he played left tackle and iowa, but he will have to switch to right tackle. coach: people working against you, you try to get them better they try to get you better. you just have to keep repping it . we have sunday off tomorrow. he said work on the sets in the hotel room. coach: the thing that you like about braided as he will play hard no matter what. out here in rookie m

jayson werth will score. top four zim at the plate again, deep left. this looks good, but michael cuddyer leaps up and robbed him of a homer. bottom eight still 1-0 nats. cuddyer chases the pitch out of the zone. nats win 1-0. coach: we understand that we have to play well to win. carpeting has been fantastic the last two games. it does not matter -- are pitching has been fantastic the last two games. it does not matter how we get it done, as long as we get it done. robert: o's and rays in tampa. adam jones smacks this shot, manny machado scores. the real take the series with the 4-2 win. for the nascar fans, the geico 500 at talladega. here comes the big 1, 15 cars involved in this, including harvick, danica patrick, lots of damage. check out the grand slams asked the crowd was going wild. that's because nobody was catching dale earnhardt junior. and golden state warrior guard steph curry may be named m.v.p. kellye: he is quite deserving. robert: he is a bad guy. he can do it all. kellye: a high-profile rant caught on camera. ♪ deidre & the dark - cla

watch jayson werth. missed it. everybody was coming home. cleared the bases. lagares, duda, cuddyer, they all come home. they lose 4-0. the orioles were supposed to be in camden yards tonight against tampa bay but because of the unrest in baltimore, it all goes to tampa. longoria the only run they needed. tampa beats the birds 2-0, ludicrous. the wizards will play in atlanta sunday at 1:00 p.m. let's go back to brooklyn and show you what happened in that game. the hawks dominated in the second half. paul millsap, 9-15 from the field. the hawks eliminate the nets. the hawks move on to play the wizards sunday afternoon. for fight fans, it is finally here prment manny pacquiao and floyd mayweather. they will fight tomorrow night. the fight will gross more than $200 million. pacquiao weighed in at 145. mayweather 146. now let them go to work. let me takeout to ohio state. interprets rally late. -- terps rally late. 11-10, ohio state. too little too late. the win streak of maryland comes to an end tonight. ohio state will play penn state for the title. don't forget

the bad news outfielder jayson werth is out for awhile with fractures in his wrist.al reports claim a ct scan show two small fractures in his left wrist. he can't return any earlier than august. the injury happened right here when he was hit by a pitch may 15th. >>> the team will soldier on without werth and you can catch the next nats on 9 game tonight night, 7:00 against the reds, right here. >>> trouble is following john wall at the wizards point guard and people he was traveling with, apparently, were kicked off a plane tuesday. according to a report, someone in wall's entourage threatened another passenger. tmz said wallwas on an american airlines flight when someone got into a verbal argument with another passenger. the passenger didn't press charges but the pilot didn't want wall ask company to stay on board. >>> the maryland women's lacrosse team won back to back national championships. to want we'll find out if one of their best players will win back to back awards, we are talking about taylor cummings. the junior led the team and received the honor last yea

here's jayson werth. hits him on the hand. a 91 mile an hour pitch. in a lot of pain.ayed in the game. he came out later. no word yet. right now the nats lead it 8-0. >> to baseball. oriole fans dressing up. hosting the angels. last got things started right away. the future hall of famer, albert pujols. he gets this out of here. the pitch deep to left. it's out of park. sixth home run of the season and 526th of his career. unreal. angels take a 1-0 lead. bottom 9 now. angels. up 3-1. the angels go on to beat the birds 3-1. back here at the verizon center, paul pierce in the locker room. we're talking about the big loss here and the end of the season and he started to allude to the fact that he may be hanging it up despite his successful career and fun time he had here in washington. for now, live at the verizon center back to you guys. >> interesting, diana. doug said a minute ago you were doing your report that might be the last shot that we see paul pierce ever take. >> jim, he said i don't know if i have any of those left in me. he's aware of that, too. he said he t

are off tonight, but the series with the reds starts tomorrow although the nats found out today jayson werth will be out until august because of a wrist injury so a little bit of a setback for them. orioles though doubleheader against the white sox this afternoon making up the games postponed due to the riots. bottom eight, manny machado and the o's down 2-0. tries to check his swing and slams his bat and tossed from the game. close call here. home plate ump doesn't check with the home ump because you don't have to do that. bryce harper get angry at same situation. o's down 3-0. chris davis trying to change that. tees off on the 76-mile-an-hour curveball. two-run shot third homer in two days makes it 3-2. can the o's pull off the comeback? not so much. next batter travis snyder goes down looking. night cap now. game starting just after 4:30. pick this up. top three. o's up 2-1. our old friend adam laroche at the plate. the former nat is going to put that out on eutaw street to give the sox a 3-2 lead homer number five of the year for laroche. bottom three. o's come back. kleppinger base knoc

. >>> the red hot washington nationals will play on without jayson werth for the time being. the national league east leading nationals left fielder apparently has fractures in his injured left wrist. several reports claim it's the t scan performed today in rochester, minnesota, shows two small fractures in the wrist which most likely happened when he was hit by a pitch in this may 15th game here. the earliest he can return will probably be august if rehabilitation goes well. the team will soldier on without werth. you can catch the next nats on 9 game tomorrow night at 7:00 against the reds. >>> gorgeous day for a doubleheader. o's dropped the first game which are makeups for the riots in baltimore last month. tied 3-3 in the 3rd in the second game. the shot deflects off gillespie's glove, davis scores. orioles win 6-3. >>> many of you have seen the cute riley curry at her dead's desk, curry's press conference getting us to think about other cute kids in sports and we ran across a 3-year-old nats fan who has a precious version of take me out to the ballgame. proceed, reed. ♪

. >> jayson werth is injured and stephen strasburg, what's up with him?hours later i'm still wearing the same suit and i'm still trying to find out and more importantly so is the nationals franchise. strasburg has had a mystery season and miserable injury and let's check it out. just six pitches in motioned for the dugout and just like a bad act at the apollo theater yanked, he gone. they pulled him off the stage. shortest outing of his career, left trap muscle. 7th inning todd frazier. cincinnati wins 5-2. with all the mics pointed towards strasburg afterwards. >> i'm tryd work through it and help this team win. it's just something that i got to pull through and just ride it out and know it's going to get better eventually. >> he'll be evaluated tomorrow. >>> after having been absent from the tournament the last 43 years, maryland baseball getting used to this postseason thing, second season in a row john's boys cook it up a postseason big. los angeles regional. this is kevin marchteer, a jeopardy special. doubles down the line and watch this little robi

in the eighth, the bases loaded and facing murphy and hits this ball to left and jayson werth usuallyys the baseball and that would clear the bases. the mets win 4-0. scherzer he drops to 1-1 on the season despite having a 1.26 e.r.a. >>> caps getting ready for game two tomorrow against the rangers. puck drops at 12:30 here on nbc 4. the caps looking to take a 2-0 advantage over new york after their thrilling last second victory on thursday night. even with the series lead. head coach barry trotz wants to feel like their players' backs are against the wall >> the desperation level should be high. >> learned something in the islander series and the desperation level wasn't very great and in game six it wasn't very great. >> we need to have a desperate friend. >> should be a good one. >> 1210:00 puck drop in that caps/rangers game tomorrow. the hawks, they beat the nets so the wizards, they will take on atlanta in the eastern conference semifinals. first game of that series will tabling place sunday in atlanta at 1:00 p.m. also of course tomorrow night, the big flight floyd mayweather a

injuries, the team announcing that doug fister has forearm strain and he is out indefinitely and jayson werth has a swollen wrist and wasn't in the lineup tonight and he is due to have an mri when the swelling subsides. the orioles in a little swoon, guys. 3-7 and last place in the a.l. east. the fourth inning, though, this will help. steven piece, super speed, activate down the line that is his third of the year, and the pitching was good until late. but this guy here, mike trout, he and bryce harper, two of the young guys in the league who can really get it done. the angels win it 6-1. that guy is really special. the rookie mini camp in the nfl is critical because it is the first time these football neofights get a taste of an nfl playbook. most of the 65 players in ashburn are not going to make the squad, but brandon chef will and the team are expecting him not just to make the team but become a stalwart. quite a sight out there at ashburn, he is a big one. and the 'skins hope to plug him in at tackle opposite cent williams. they say she a mature guy, but only 23. y todathe reporters asked

. >> reporter: jayson werth on the disabled list once again.omes off the dl may 31st he will have missed 24 of 51 games. >> fans who wanted to boo alex rodriguez, not going to get the chance. [ laughter ] >> matt williams said it's too sole tone do anything right now. >> we'll have to wait. >>> new at 6:00, investigators thought fire killed a young woman. but now information has come out. >> more on a police-involved shooting that injured two copies and sent one man to the morgue. >> new details about hillary >>> new questions about hillary clinton and the use of private e-mails to handle government business. >> her republican opponents accuse her of using a second private account while she was secretary of state. with clinton on the presidential campaign trail in iowa, her team is denying those charges. >> reporter: hillary clinton used a campaign stop in iowa to move up the release of her e-mails from the time she was secretary of state. >> i. those e-mails out. nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. >> reporter: but

that team knows they will have to play without jayson werth until august. stephen strasburg is on the mound, 2-5 trying to find himself again. all in all the nats are winning through all of this. the reds have been a stock market team. up and down, mostly down. had a team meeting. game time at 7:10. we start with golf. because of the flooding they shortened the par 14 from 400 to 100 yards. par three. gary williams. thank you. what a shot by gary woodland. >> how about the ball boy at the a's game. selling out. making the catch of the day. saving the chairs in the bullpen. go get it! go to war miss agnes. give that guy a contract. give him a contract anyway. international soccer. this guy gets a red card. gets ejected. goes to take out his frustration. kicks a wall. down on his arm. his arm stays safe. get up and walk away. like nothing happened! are you serious? if you buy nachos look for prince fielder, the foul ball. that didn't come out right. nacho cheese. she has a chip on her shoulder. it's friday. nacho cheese nacho. foul ball. variety of sports on

. >>> the nats did get bad news today about outfielder jayson werth.ou are not going to be seeing him on the field anytime soon. we'll explain what is going on, coming up in about a half hour. >>> and coming up next, a woman who claims she was a member of isis explains how the group lures young women to take arms. >>> and later at 6:00. >>> a high stakes last minute tax proposal in prince george's county. i'm bureau chief scott broom. coming up, how why am i so awake? did you know your brain has a wake system... and a sleep system? science suggests when you have insomnia, the neurotransmitters in your wake system may be too strong, which may be preventing you from getting the sleep you need. talk to your doctor about ways to manage your insomnia. >>> a young woman who claims to be a former isis commander is now on the run, in turkey. >> as jonathan vigil reports she is reporting how they reportedly lure teenagers to join. >> reporter: a traditional veil covers her face but her eyes can't hide her fear. this 22-year-old says she recently rap away from h

we have confirmed that jayson werth already on the disabled list will be out until at least august. two small fractures were found in werth's left wrist after a ct scan. the outfielder was injured on may 15th against the padres after getting hit by a pitch. this is the third injury to that same wristd. the nationals are off today. we'll keep you posted as any more news comes out. back to you. >> a big blow. >>> what the district is doing about elevated levels of lead that were found in a d.c. homeless shelter. mark segraves is working on that story for news4 at 5. >> reporter: last week we broke the story about two young children living here at the district's largest family homeless shelter who tested positive for lead. that prompted the city to do an entire inspection of this building and sto look back at their records. news4 now has the report of those findings, which officials are calling unacceptable. i'm mark segraves. coming up at 5:00 we'll tell you why every resident in this building is now being notified of these findings, what they say and why people who lived here last ye

looks like the nationals may be without jayson werth until late summer. >>> according to a number ofing, werth went to a ct scan yesterday in minnesota at the mayo clinic. two fractures in the left wrist is what it revealed. back on may 15th werth was hit by a pitch. when you consider he missed beginning of the season over the shoulder surgery. but the nationals keep moving along and guess what? they're right here on channel 9 later tonight. >> he'll be a cheerleader on the wedge for the rest of the team. all right. >>> 6:36. bette midler is coming to verizon center june 22nd and you can win a pair of takes to see her. >> text the key words bette midler to 25543 to enter. >> i'm first alert meteorologist, lots of clouds -- erica grow. lots of clouds right now, it's dry out here on the weather terrace though. some sunshine starting to make its way through. but that is going to give way to a few showers and thunderstorms again this afternoon. if you didn't get the rain yesterday. it doesn't mean you're not going to get the rain today. some relief from the heat next workweek. everything

some news for the nats as well, jayson werth placed on the 15-day disabled list. from nationals park, i'm jason pough. >>> a high speed high flying show over the bay. >> ahead, we'll have a sneak peek of the blue angels air show. >>> and a frightening backyard bite. what creature sent this maryland boy to the hospital and why his mother says he's lucky. >>> what creature. i want to see that one. as far as what we've got today, it's hot out there right enough. but we've got a cold front coming (toilet flushing) spending more time here lately? going more often? straining to go? waking up at night to go? you're not alone. it happens to millions of men. don't wait. call now to participate in a study for urinary symptoms. you will be compensated for your time and travel. to qualify is easy just call 888-804-1672. don't wait. call now. 888-804-1672 brought to you by pegus research. >> announcer: news4 begins now with storm team4. >>> oh everybody, a nice warm day today. some would call it hot. a lot of you saying, bring in some cooler weather. we've got it coming in ove

one more note from the nats, outfielder jayson werth placed on the disabled list with an injured wristom nats park, jason pugh news4 sports. >> thanks, jp. >>> baltimore crews returning to charred city as the seattle mariners mariners, cruz smacked an mlb leading 40 home runs last year. tonight his first game back at camden yards since signing with seattle in december. cruz you love being back and he loved his time with the orioles. >> it was a blessing, you know. like i said, we accomplished something really special out here, as a team, you know, have a great time great team nates, great manager. and the fans are really fun. it's always nice to see my ex-teammates and come and see the fans also. >> the number one pick in the 2010 nba draft will be made by the washington wizards. >> and, with that there is hope once again. >> that was five years ago. almost to the day. five years ago. look how much has changed. >> you remember the reaction? >> yes. she was thrilled. >> tonight the nba draft lottery. this is may 18, 2010, we just watched. only a 10.3% chance, and they got the number one

saint of my city, the city of brother love, philadelphia, the brotherly love for the nats, big jayson werth fans. the attack of september 11, the worst attack on american soil in our nation's history. total cost to the american people, arcly a -- easily a billion dollars depending on how you value human life but the extraordinary life of innocent human life and also human americans who had not volunteered -- americans and foreigners foreigners who had not volunteered to put themselves in harm's way. the overreaction that followed, in particular the invasion of iraq cost more than 4500 lives $2 trillion and inflammed gave new life to an al qaeda and radical islamist ideology which clearly the pendulum has swung strongly away from al qaeda after the september 11th september 11th attacks. its high point. it very quickly face evidence its waterloo in afghanistan would have been relatively easy for the united states to have completely defeated al qaeda in the mountains of afghanistan with i literally a few more battalions from the u.s. army's ten medical division. the secretary of defense at the