in 1954, the adams family burdened with not just abigail's and john's letters, but for generations of adam's letters, gave all the letters to the massachusetts historical society. the first thing the massachusetts historical society did was microfilm all of the letters so that there was a permanent record. you remember microfilm, it came in the '50s and the '60s. it came before the computer. i read the letters mostly on microfilm, because once they were microfilm, the original copies of the letters were closed to historians. you can't see them in the mass historical. you can only read from the microfilm, which is what i get. and if any of you have ever read microfilm, you know it -- your tolerance wears down very quickly. and at first i could read for half an hour, and i would have to take a break and go outside and look at a tree or off to refocus my eyes and then go back. but i got good at reading them. and i got good at reading hand. now all of this is available on the computer. so if you go to google and youtube will adams papers.com, you can have these letters not only in their o

john adams was the least known of all of the founding fathers until mccollough's books. there were few biographies of adams, but mccollough's book brought him to attention and since that time, there have been a couple of television programs as you know and so forth, so it was a very wonderful book and he gets john adams spot on from the first paragraph, where he has john adams on a horse, in a snowstorm, riding from quincy, mis, to boston, talking and talking, and talking, and that to me is john adams spot on. the mouth talking in every circumstance. inventively, creatively. mccollough also likes abigail a great deal, but she's a subordinate figure in the book. she shows up only as it compliments john adams, and he doesn't give her what i call agency. that is, she reacts throughout the book. she doesn't -- you don't see here as an innovator. for instance, this passage that i just read you about remember the ladies, he does nothing with it. he does absolutely nothing. he wrote the letter, and then goes on to something else. so his abigail and john are out of balance for on

john adams is someone we can get to know as a human being. john adams what his feelings show. john adams wrote about his feelings then did not throw out either his letters or his diary. he rode a dire bree from a very young age from the time he was in college until the end of his life and he wrote autobiography is also then it just hundreds of letters and all of the time he would and his writing and take his temperature and say am i too ambitious? am i two nds? and the consequence of him exploring his own feelings is that historians had all of this in addition to say he was too ambitious or envious. and no other founding father has left the kind of records that john adams did. they burned their letters to their wives. washington's letters to martha was burned so there is no correspondence between either of them. in fact, martha only leaves us three letters in her lifetime. thomas jefferson burned his correspondence with his wife so we don't even know anything about his wife, traces of these women have been lost. but not only do they e raise their wives from history but also th

and the way i did that, the way i decided to do that, was to move john adams out of the political or the diplomatic sphere and move him into the domestic sphere, the family sphere. and so mostly this book is about the marriage and john as a family man, although it has to do, to be accurate history, and to tell the context in which the marriage took place, it has to tell the history of the period as well, and it does tell about john's diplomatic and historical participation in the revolution, but the focus is always on the family, i hope. another problem i had in writing a double biography was how do you write a double biography? that is, how do you write about two people, how do you manage handling two people and giving them equitible time in a biography and at first i thought, well, maybe i'll do like war and peace, one chapter was on war and one chapter was on peace, i could do one chapter on abigail, one chapter on john and then i decided my materials didn't take me that way and it wasn't going to be very interesting, it was too formulaic, so i thought, well, maybe what i'll do you

as the country went bankrupt, there were negotiators at the peace settlement, john adams, john j. and benjamin franklin. adams and j were willing to include a provision in the final peace treaty under which congress would have to provide restitution. intriguing lead, benjamin franklin, whose son was a loyalist, said absolutely not. franklin wouldn't go along with it. you can look at that in 2 ways, did franklin hate his son that much or did franklin think that his son had a better chance of getting restitution if it came from england? it didn't go into the peace settlement. there was political pressure in england to provide restitution. after the war, everybody who was a loyalist had to provide evidence of what they had possessed, how much property they own, what they're in, had been when they became a loyalists. it was a great deal of information, all of that was written out, they had to make 5 copies of what they rode out and they submitted that. from all of that evidence, historians have been able to have a pretty good idea of how many tories there actually were. among those who

of course, defended the black slaves who had been on the famous incident of the amistad, and john quincy adams actually took the case to the supreme court and prevailed in an era when nobody thought he could, and it is a fascinating story of john quincy adams and his time, post presidential and i think it is one of the few books written about that period of time in his life and i book i finished reading when i got to the house, is the house historian's book, robert remini's book "the house" which is a short history, of the house of representatives itself. which is a great institution, and had lots of interesting characters and of course, great history swirling around this place. and, wonderful read for those of us who have come to congress this last year. i went through a bout of reading about ancient rome and i read anthony effort's two books, cicero and augustus, two incredible characters in ancient rome and the adrian goldsmith on the biography of julius caesar, i went to carson mccullough's novel on julius caesar, and bob harris's book, imperium, and i couldn't get enough of ancient rome a

he wrote on a platform, betsy, a bottle of burgundy, john adams, john adams, was his own lee atwater.t was his slogan in the election of 1800, it feels like just yesterday. what was the most damning slogan against jefferson? come on,s. who said god bless? you get half a bottle. it was the elections, adams ran on god or jefferson, or no god. jefferson did believe -- she was not a materialist, he was equally -- it was observed, the virgin birth, give me a break already. he denied any possible rationale. religion is a complicated process in the united states. above all, religion has been instrumental in the african-american community. both from the noble period of the antebellum slave churches through the right movement. you can't possibly think of the civil-rights movement having been affected without preaching and teaching around the corner. barack obama's involvement with the church, more generally, it wasn't surprising to me although it may have been unpalatable to my little friends to find that barack obama wants to continue george bush's policy of faith based initiatives, is in kee

thought america had to score a decisive victory in 1781 or there would be no other chance, and john adams, who was in europe, was writing that the french would not remain in the war beyond 1781. they were looking for an hon. exit. had there not been a decisive victory, what probably would have happened, a european peace conference, and the european powers, who had no sympathy for an american republic. would have devised some sort of solution for the war and it would not have been a very rosy solution for the americans, and the americans would have had to accept a bad solution or fight on by themselves, which would have been unthinkable. so cornwallace's decision to go north into virginia, and rauchambeau's brilliance at seeing the opportunity to ensnare cornwallace in the summer and fall of 1781, turned everything around, and made a war that in january of 1781 had seemed hopeless, a winnable war. washington understood that. the american victory was little short of the standing miracle. thank you very much. [applause] >> we have some time for questions. i would like to ask a little bit abo

the lady caller is closer to john adams.he fact is that nations and people and nations play critical roles. lafayette of the french held, without them the american revolution might have failed. there is no doubt that what reagan did in the 1980's helped to bring down the fall of the soviet union. ultimately, the people have to fight their own battles. the iranians are going have to fight their own regime. that does that mean that the rest of the world has no interest. when the greeks fought for their freedom in the 18 twenties, romantic poets for, there was a rally for freedom that help them to throw off the yoke. we have to be careful, the president has to be careful not to act against our own interests. i think the american interest is usually for people gaining freedom. guest: you can actually quote the original historian -- host: you can? guest: note, but i can read it. it is a very dangerous place. the president has got to keep the door opened. the nuclear issue is number one in that area, especially with israel going a

are so that, for example, during the first year of the war at abigail adams, who was the wife of john adams, abigail wrote to john that set our house is an hospital, as she put it. and her next letter to her husband revealed to him that john's brother's wife and one of his children had died of the disease. and that wasn't untypical your civilians died on the frontier in indian attacks. the british made coastal raids, particularly in the middle states and in new england and in virginia, destroying property, killing people. in the first two years of the conflict, when men were asked to enlist for a period of just one year, the army was a pretty good cross-section of the free population. most freemen at the time were farmers who were artisans and most of the men who soldiered in the continental army were farmers or artisans. so a great many families had to struggle along in 1775 and 1776 with their husbands away. somehow, they had to find the money to pay the tax collector who came knocking at their door, or to grow crops and sell crops and whatever. and they had to pay extraordinarily high ta

john adams was a complex, complicated man. to make him a kind of plaster image is sort of doing what i was doing at 15, looking for and idle, the posthumous equivalent of that. you shouldn't try to do that. of course, there will be many more books, when samuel johnson died there were a bunch of books. there was this friend, that friend, everybody wanted to get out there because they knew that a great man had left, they all had a take and wanted to get it down. two books, there will be 10 by this time next year. do we have time? time for more? i think i got the high sign. the brandenburg concerto will play. [applause] >> there are books for sale right outside. >> richard brookhiser is a senior editor of national review, he is the author of several books including what would the founders do? and john washington--george washington on leadership. he does the recipient of the national command these metal in 2008. for more information, visit the office website at richardbrookhiser.com. >> sunday on book tv, former reagan advisers ma

john quincy adams career here in the house of representatives. istorians i think, very few historians have ever written about that period exclusively in john quincy adams career. he spent 17 years here in the house of representatives after having served as president and had a very distinguished career. he was an out spoken proponent of slavery, and in many ways was somebody who foresaw of the disunion that was going to occur. and he was just a stallworth on the subject. and was a fierce defender of the constitution, american rights. and of course defended the black slaves who were in the famous incident of the onstar. john quincy adams ackley took that case to the supreme court and failed where no one thought he could. anyway, it's a fascinating story of john quincy adams, his time postpresidential. and i think it's one of the few books ever written about that period of time. in his life. a book i just finished reading when i got here to the house is the house for storage book about, called the house, which is a short history of the house of repre

john adams was a complex complicated man, and to make him a kind of plaster image, it's sort of doing what i was doing at 15, looking for an idol. the posthumous equivalent of that. and you shouldn't try to do that. of course, there will be many more books. when samuel johnson died there was a rash of books. we remember boswell, who wrote the great book, and that leased, but everybody wanted to get out there and they wanted to get throughout because they knew that ha agreed man at left their midst and they all had a take on him, and they wanted to get it down. so, two books, there will be ten by this time next year. do we have time for -- how am i doing on questions here. time for more? okay. i think i got the high sign, so that's it. we're done. [applause] >> richard brook hires is a senior editor of national review. the author of several books, including, what would the founders do, and george washington, on leadership. mr. brookhiser was the recipient of the national humanities medal in 2008. for more information, visit the author's web site at richard brookhiser.com. >> this summe

adam says let's see a bottle of burgundy to someone but was john adams -- john adams must have had hisat add water. what was his damming slow go and election? it feels like just yesterday, does it not, what was the damming slogan against jefferson? , on, class. who said got this? you get the bottle anyway. you get half a bottle. adams ran on god or jefferson. jefferson of course did believe in the almighty creator. he believed the universe created itself, he wasn't materialist or atheist but he thought it was equally absurd the virgin birth, give me a break already. so delight any possible rational jesus the moral teacher. religion is a process in the united states and above all the milledge of course has been instrumental in the african-american community with self-determination both from the noble period of antebellum slave charities of way through to the civil rights movement. you can't possibly think of the civil rights movement having been affected with a preaching the teaching of riverside churches around the corner from where i teach at columbia right through the involvement wit

john adams was a complex, complicated man. and to make him a kind of a plaster image it's sort of doing what i'm doing at 15 looking for an idol. that's the equivalent of that. and you can't -- you know, you shouldn't try to do that. and, of course, there will be many more books. you know, samuel johnson died, there was a rash of books. we all remember boswell because he wrote the great book and that's the book that lasted but there is there were hester frail and there was this friend and that friend and, you know, everybody wanted to get out there and they wanted to get out there because they knew that a great man had left their midst. and they all had a take on it. and they wanted to get down. so, you know, two books -- there'll be 10 by this time next year. do we have time for -- how am i doing on questions here? time for more? okay. i think i got the hi sign. the concerto will play. i think we're done. [applause] >> there are books for sale right outside. it's a great book. >> thanks. >> richard brookhiser is a senior edit

our second president john adams wrote the united states has in itself no character against the loss, religion, tranquility of the muslims. american muslims have enriched the united states. they have a thought in our wars, served in our government, stood for civil-rights, started businesses, taught in our universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won nobel prizes, build our tallest building, and lit the olympic torch. when the first moslem america was elected to congress he took an oath to defend the constitution is in the same hole in dhahran that one of our founding fallers, thomas jefferson -- the same holy koran that one of our founding fathers, thomas jefferson, had in his library. [applause] i have known isislam on three continents. that experience? my conviction that a partnership between america and islam must be based on what it is not what it is not. i consider part of my responsibility as president of the united states to fight against negative stereotypes of islam wherever they appear. [applause] but that same principle must apply to muslim perceptions of america. [appl

in signing the treaty of tripoli, in 1796, our second president, john adams wrote, the united states has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of muslims and since our founding, american muslims have been-- enriched united states. they have fought in our wars, they have served in our government, they have stood for civil-rights. they have started businesses. they have taught at our universities. they have excelled in our sports arenas. they have won nobel prizes, built our tallest building and lit the olympic torch. when the first muslim america was recently elected to congress, he took the oath to defend our constitution using the same holy koran that one of our founding fathers, thomas jefferson kept in his personal library. [applause] so, i have known islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. that experience guide my conviction that partnership between america and islam must be based on what islam is, not what it isn't. and i consider it part of my responsibility as president of the united states to figh

we just don't want to confront this issue, which slave slavery, john quincy adams called it the original sin of the united states that we're asking for forgiveness today. and in that situation that developed in my part -- my part of eastern kansas was bleeding kansas because while people did come across that were proslavery, other individuals organized from the nortsdz east, and they came -- northeast and they came out with a tire to fight for free -- with a desire to fight for freedom and there was a battle of warfare and all this back and forth about slavery taking place. just before the battle of oswamatee, john brown was in that fight and one of his sons was killed in it. he said at that time there will not be peace in this land until the issue of slavery was resolved. he was right. less than ten years later the civil war broke out over the issue of slavery. today in the united states senate, we pledge to move beyond this shameful period and we officially acknowledge and apologize for the institution of slavery in this country and what many refer to as the original sin of america, wh

i would like to talk to john adams and thomas jefferson and ask, did you really think it would happen? because they did not. they thought there was a good chance that they would all behanged and they made jokes about the one guy who signed the declaration of independence who was very heavy. they said he was lucky to be so fat. those are the ones i would like to talk to, and also of course, abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt who had a remarkable sense of pols.

i would like to talk to john adams and thomas jefferson and ask, did you really think it would happen? because they did not. they thought there was a good chance that they would all behanged and they made jokes about the one guy who signed the declaration of independence who was very heavy. they said he was lucky to be so fat. those are the ones i would like to talk to, and also of course, abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt who had a remarkable sense of politics. host: what would you ask them? guest: where would you start? with roosevelt -- you know, how did you have the political field to know you could not move and do it all at once? franklin roosevelt understood that america was not really ready to go to war. he took its step-by-step into the second world war. when did you sense it was the right moment? just the politics of it. i would like to talk with him about some of the stories, these great political stores. lyndon johnson, you know. the stories about lyndon johnson are just remarkable. it is like something mark twain would read. those are the kinds of t thingsi would like

history, civics and government teachers will probably know that, of course, thomas jefferson and john adams both died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. the other interesting back to about that i think is that you could ask how long was jefferson and adams and american citizen? there were no american citizens on july 3rd, 1776 cell mr. jefferson and mr. adams were both citizens for precisely to the day 50 years to the day. well, another one is now we talk about the top five founders in this case which was my interest because i am specifically attractive as an historian without the camera to the 1770 and 79 days' time because that is one of paradigm shifted. that is on the world changed. the other one that changed and died on july 4th was james monroe. he not only died on july 4th, no one talks about poor mr. munro, they just want jefferson and adams -- it is like red meat for the founders. [laughter] so mr. monroe died on the 50th anniversary of the signing. it's almost as if the wheels of their death. then let's go to the f

scholar at stanford university and michelle clayman recounts the 54 year marriage of abigail and john adams. book passage bookstore in court to madera california hosted the event. it is an hour. [applause] >> thank you for coming out on this beautiful day history lovers. we were driving up here, and i live in palo alto so my husband and i were driving up here and i thought, you know, we are the most fortunate people on the planet in all of history to live in california. it is just so gorgeous up here. palo alto and the south bay is beautiful and it changes character. the terrain, the entire environment changes character actor you go over that wonderful golden gate bridge and here we are in beautiful corda madera, so is a pleasure to be here. you can't hear me? is this better? okay. i will speak up also. i am going to start buying talking about how i happened to write this book and we have to go back into history, all of three years, if you will recall, three years ago it seemed certain that a woman who is going to be the democratic candidate for president of the united states, and then when

john quincy adams once remarked our country began existence by the universal emancipation of man from the thralldom of man. america's purpose can be summed up in that one powerful sentence. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal endowed with inalienable rights that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. as we all know, for too long many in this country were not free. many lived in bondage. many americans were denied their basic human rights and liberty. from 1619 to 1865, over 4 million africans and their descendents were enslaved in the united states. millions were kidnapped from their homeland, suffered unimaginable hardships including death during the voyage to america. a crime against humanity. in almina castle on the coast of ghana, a place i recently visited, there is a chillingly named "door of no return." an infamous open portal which as one looks over the horizon across the atlantic makes all too clear the excruciatingly inhumanity and horror faced by the men and women shackled inside this castle as they were led through tha

it will be ryan zimmerman with two outs, bases empty hitting ahead of adam dunn. johnto pitch pretty deep into this ballgame, through six he's had 84 pitches. manny acta hasn't been able to hand the ball from a starter to a closer only a time or two this year. >> jim p.: what was that stat yesterday that the nationals in this month had scored four or less runs, what, 18 times? so it's 19 out of 23 games. they're right at their limit. i don't mean that. i'm just saying, so any run. >> rob: you're just being honest. >> jim p.: i'm just looking at the numbers here. >> bob: in april the first half of may, they scored 7 or 8 a night and kept losing. >> jim p.: when the orioles came in, they were like fourth in the national league in runs scored. >> bob: two weeks before that, they were in the top two and top three in batting average and runs. >> jim p.: that's when the bullpen was imploding. >> rob: lannan, hitters are hitting .325 off of john lannan this year with two outs. he's working on that. there's a strikeout by hendrickson. @ our 737s fly to over 6

alberto gonzales, ryan zimmerman, adam dunn, elijah dukes, josh willingham, austin kearns, will nieves and johnll finish it. micah owings. opponents hitting .274 against him and he is almost as good a hitter as dibble was. 2-5 in 63 games for the reds. >> rob: i hit 500 during the year. >> johnny: it was rbi in that game, too. >> rob: i know. >> johnny: two for your career? >> rob: yep. two for my career and here's the key, i used joe oliver's bats because there's plenty of hits and jeff green was a left-handed catcher and i used his helmet. >> johnny: i think in defense of your hitting, had you had more -- you only went to the plate 25 games. right? >> rob: yes in 7 seasons. >> johnny: and you didn't strikeout that many times. >> rob: 5-25. i was a contact guy. they made a lot of amazing plays out there. >> johnny: because we know your soccer ability counts as 2-1 the fact that you are fleet-footed. you never grounded into a double-play if i recall correctly. >> rob: i did not. you do recall correctly. >> johnny: line-drive to right just foul down the right field line. 5-25 works out to .18012

you know that john lannan wanted to maybe get it away a little bit. sink it away. the thing about adam he's a much better hitter against right-handed pitching. only three of his 12 home runs. well over .300 against righties, but .275 against lefties. >> bob: ty wigginton next, popped out to right first time. orioles have had a couple of runners walk. this ball slapped out of play to the right side. >> jim p.: it seems to me a lot of times when you get young pitchers, you don't want to discourage them from throwing strikes. they don't have to be perfect strikes. >> rob: i know exactly what you're saying. that was time where jordan was throwing everything so well, and he was throwing almost 80% of his pitches for strikes, including his last start i think he threw 77 pitches for strikes. they were too fine. >> bob: that ball bouncing right to the bag, easy double play for cristian guzman. the nationals have now turned two after the orioles turned four last night. >> rob: there you go. here's a ground ball by ty wigginton here. if you're the shortstop and you're by the bag, cristian guzman

john. [applause] >> edith gelles is the author of several books including abigail adams, a writing life. she is currently a senior scholar at stanford university's michelle are claimed institute for gender research. for more information, visit stanford.edu. >> we are at book expo america in new york city. we are with emily hamilton marketing director from the university of minnesota press. everything you know about indians is wrong. what is wrong? >> according to the author of this book, he believes that there are a lot of myths about american indians in our coach or perpetuated by movies, like toys, ideas about the way that american indians live in our culture. and he has basically taken people to task with this very dry wit, to say, you know, american indians are people that you don't expect him to be. they live in lots of different places. they live in cities. they do all kinds of different jobs. you know, contribute to culture and a really, really ethical way, not just it a rest dork away. he has tried to crack the ideas that are still so pervasive in our culture. >> there's a sign b

john mcdonald. they have a new player. they'll have to check on this. blue jays made a move today. in fielder outfielder russ adamsecalled from las vegas. can you imagine toronto having their aaa in las vegas? >> i wouldn't have bet on that. >> toronto was the long time team that had the syracuse chiefs, which is now the nationals aaa. they were in syracuse tore -- for a long, long time. so here's russ adams, batting .319 with a homer, for the las vegas 51s, area 51 out there where all the private research and ufo stuff goes on. that's what their ball club is, the 51s. >> all a mystery to me. that banks the railing right by the photographer. that's why he wears his helmet. >> happy father's day, mo. looks like the terminator in that thing. i'll be back. adams comes to the big leagues and slaps one up the middle. he's aboard with two outs. that's not ufo activity in vegas. it's marsh gas is what the government says. isn't that the usual explanation? >> weather balloons. >> yeah, marsh gas and weather balloons. >> exactly. why are these little green men on the balloons? >> if there are so many weather balloons, why

i worked very closely with paul o'neill and john snow and was in a position of heading up the international division before tim adams, two people with remarkably long and strong cords in the private sector. and i think it is important to have people with management experience, executive experience. washington, of course, is a lot different, and and in ministration at any time is different than a corporation. but those skills i think are important. i think we need to find ways and government to be more effective and more responsive. and it is much more difficult, in some sense, because of all the players, turf battles, debates about how to proceed. but i think it is important to get that right. host: let me go back to the editorial that focuses on ben bernanke and his role as the fed share. it says mr. bernanke will need political courage we have not seen since paul volcker was chairman. to prevent another bottle. they are talking about the housing and credit card bubble. -- to prevent another bubble. host: he did had amazing courage and strength -- guest: he did have strength to counteract the problem in the country

we are going to learn a lot about adam dunn, his family and how things are going with this nationals. micah owings and john lannan today in the series fi family with the reds -- finale with the reds. times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. 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. welcome to chili's. something new is on the grill. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just $6.99. like our bacon-ranch chicken quesadilla, flame-grilled tortillas layered with all white meat chicken, applewood smoked bacon, jack cheese, and ranch dressing. they're crispy on the outside, melted to perfection on the inside. you've never tasted quesadillas like this before. new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just $6.99. only at chili's. >> byron: fans filing in foe reds and nationals. today's pitching matchup, right-hander micah owings taking on left-hander john lannan. we talked about the big 6'5" hurlers go

adam dunn is right there. >> rob: you know something. that looks like a b. p. fastball. >> bob: john browning would be proud. >> rob: if that was a bp fastball, i'll try to find out tomorrow. tom browning would be proud. sometimes when you get behind or you're having trouble getting a guy out, you don't have to be like thomas edison abp fastball. >> bob: gulph beautiful night in our nation as capital as we return home. debbi taylor, rob dibble, bob carpenter right here on masn 2. thousands of our best friends in the ballpark with us tonight and they're enjoying a good ballgame a-well-pitched game and a beautiful evening. 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 be

adam jones plays an important part. he needs to break up the double play. or the potential double play. johnget doubled up. get a good primary lead, secondary lead. murphy playing behind him at first. >> gary: nick has grounded ino tour double plays this year -- four double plays this year. markakis will foul that one away. wright will give chase, and there will be no play, and a 2 count on markakis. orioles trying to take the series by winning game 3 as these two teams have split 6-4 games in the first two. victory for the orioles would give them a successful home stand, 5-4, before taking off for philadelphia for the three game series there facing three left handed starters. dave trembley noting there wil be five lefties in the next six games against the orioles. which means he'll be, there will be a lot of players coming and going. >> jim: double switches, he ws talking about the opportunityo use some of his bench players. >> gary: markakis goes down swinging and hernandez put t right where he wanted it that time. >> jim: let's go back to

adam dunn gets all of that pitch. hernandez shouldn't have thrown it, but 19 home runs on the season. john lannan, the team has won four of his last five starts. he has emerged as the team ace. earlier in the season when he faced the marlins, he wasn't as confidence as he is. we didn't have closer mike macdougal. the same team that the marlins faced earlier in the season has changed in a significant way. >> bob: here's a note on john lannan, he ties tony arm is for second all-time national wins on the road. since steve came aboard three weeks ago, it's been a total change on this pitching staff. @ >>> we're back here at land shark stadium in florida, it's the first of three games with the florida marlins and i'm joined by steve mccatty. first of all, you've been doing a great job. scott olson makes his return to the big league roster in the starting rotation with the nationals. what can we expect from him? >> he's been up to i think it's 86 pitches in syracuse, we'll just watch, because this heat takes a lot out of you, we'll see how he's doing. if he spots his fastballs and gets some quic

adam jones' at-bat is critical in this inning. markakis is on deck aleft- handed batter. the ball knocked down by john baker. brian, 1-2, and he has also walked. here is andino at third and salazar at first and still nobody on. >> buck: brian has hit two bleats leer tonight. he lined out right at the left fielder in the second inning and he walked in the sixth. >> jim: inside, ball two. brian roberts has a tremendous batting eye, even when he is down in the count, buck. he rarely chases. if you're going to try to make him chase, you're making a terrible mistake. the confidence, even went down in the count. >> buck: we saw that on display saturday night when he hit a two strike, two out two-run home run against ryan madson to give the orioles that win. >> jim: 2-2 on him. ground ball foul down the third- base line. >> buck: one thing that is different about this team and i know it is a mini five-game win streak, but there is no give-up in their approach. hey, you win two games against the phillies, that is a nice series and that wasn't the case sunday against cole hamels. it would have been very easy to mail

guzman in the number two hole, adam dunn will be the dh today hitting fifth behind zimmerman, elijah dukes in right field and wil nieves will get the duties today catching johnst the baltimore orioles. for the o's, second baseman ty wigginton, six game hitting streak, he's 13 for 26 during that streak. what a game he had against the braves on june 14. he'll be hitting in the number two hole, because adam jones leads off for baltimore, he'll be in center field, wigginton the second baseman, nolan reimold in the cleanup spot who homered last night in left, the dh is luke scott for the birds, third base oscar salazar, matt wieters will catch and robert andino at shortstop. ty wigginton, nine of 18 his last five ballgames for the birds. let's see what they can do today against john lannan. lannan is about due to get back on the winning track? been pitching as good as anybody on this ball club. >> in his last seven games he has a 2.65 earned run average. over his last 14 starts, take away the first start, he's at 2.98. he can't pitch any better. he's only yielded more than three runs in one of his starts over his last 13, so he's our staff ace, he's the guy that

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adam jones in the lead-off spot with brian roberts off, and ty wigginton batting second. markakis up, and reimold with scott dh'ing. >> rob: give you the pnc scouting report on john lannan. john lannan has beaten the mets and the yankees in his last four starts, do not hang that change-up to this team, they will hit it out of the ballpark. jam them in if you can and make them move their feet. last night they were way too comfortable, night before even more. not doing a great job of getting these guys uncomfortable in the box. >> jim h.: this pitching match- up today is a testament to good scouting. john lannan is an 11th round draft pick in 2005, out of ciena college in new york. his mound opponent today a 16th round pick by the orioles in 2005, david hernandez. so an 11th rounder and a 16th rounder scaring off in a big league game. >> rob: the nationals have won three of those last four starts. that's his job, get a win for the team, or put them in a situation where they have a chance to win. >> jim p.: at 93, that was the first fastball. >> rob: that's a little bit abnormal for him. he's going to be 89 to 92, maybe 91. >> jim h.: change-up is high, ball three. so what

john walsh from his tv show "america's most wanted"," but they may not realize the tragic event that led to his advocating on behalf of children and his work with "america's most wanted"." in 1981, adam walsh was abducted from a toy department store in florida at a shopping mall. two weeks later, fisherman found adam's decap tated head. they never found his body. he was six years old. last year, after 27 years of not knowing who killed their son, police announced that adam's murderer was a serial murderer who died a decade earlier. otis toole was the killer's name. although this did not take away the walsh's pain, we hope it gave them some peace of mind and a sense of justice. even during the years of unanswered questions, john walsh advocated on behalf of children. he helped fight for the passage of federal legislation such as the missing children's act of 1982 and the missing children's assistance act of 1984. the missing children's assistance act of 1984 established the national resource center and clearinghouse for missing and exploited children thus creating the national center for missing and exploited children. president reagan opened the center on june 13, 1984. 25 years late