they know that jordan zimmerman is 0-for-19. last night, craig stammen got his first two major league rbis. zimmerman has one despite not having a hit. maybe he can pick up number 2 here. here is the stub house schedule. official fan to fan marketplace of the washington nag nationals. braves in for 3 and then to colorado and houston. prior to the break, ross detwiler, kawakami. scott olson-derek lowe and sunday. we'll see how scott olson can follow up what he did here monday night. >> rob: you know why hanson was brought up instead of tom glavine. tom glavine was let go, future hall of famer. >> bob: there is so much upside to a kid like that. upside meaning future. 1 ball, 1 strike to zimmerman. >> rob: you keep wondering, why do you send elijah dukes down, why garrett moch down, why alberto gonzalez? it's consistency. you want guys to make plays 8, 9 times out of 10 on the field. you want to contribute on a daily basis whether in the ryan- up or not. and pitching is more than about just throwing strikes. it's being consistent.

jordan zimmerman is now 3-23 this year. onals pitching staff has suddenly learned how to hit lately. zimmerman now has three hits in his last four at bats. >> rob: the fastball after a bad breaking ball. jams him but gets enough of it. snaps his bat off in his hand. shoots it down the right field line. what i was going to about zimmerman, walking gonzalez basically made zimmerman throw 10 to 12 more pitches now his total is up to 43 in two innings. so that's unfortunate. those are things that can keep you from going eight innings, maybe he only goes six tonight because of that second inning. but we hope not. >> bob: then you have all the stress associated with two on, two out. had to throw a bunch of pitches to strike out dexter fowler. so after an easy fly ball out by morgan who is 4-17 as a nat here is nick johnson who walked his first time. >> rob: that's the thing about nick even when he is not hitting well he finds way to get on base with that great batting eye of his. he has now walked 49 times. nats in the top 8 in th

jordan zimmerman has been stingy lately.osh johnson, 14 out of 16 since coming back nearly a year ago from that elbow surgery. he has as good a rehab and a return to the big leagues as anybody. there is nyjer morgan. for you uniform buffs, he is going to be wearing number 28 -- i'm sorry. number 1. he is 28 years old. and sean burnett will be wearing number 17. good to see him in the dugout. for today, willie harris and cristian guzman behind him. guzman, a great ratio to the 59- games he started. remember, he lost a couple of weeks early on the season on the d l and he is fourth in the national league with those multi-hit games. but a disappointing month of june for the nats. it's the 1st of july and they have a tough assignment on the first day of this assignment as josh johnson brings a 7-1 record with a 2.76 e.r.a. >> rob: yes, he has been tough since coming back from tommy john surgery. 14-2 since coming off surgery but the team, 23-7 since then during his starts. 14 ground balls against the yankees, 12 against the toro

ryan zimmerman -- or, rather, jordan zimmerman's last at-bat and scott olson watching. >> great. he finally did it. >> bob: first major league hit and hen rbi attached to it. nats led 1-0 at that point and zimmerman bats now, one out here in the 4th. josh johnson with a nasty pitch. johnson was sort of nibbling back then, fell behind 2-0 to nieves, intentionally walked him and jordan made the marlins pay. >> rob: you can see that. he has to be a little bit longer towards the plate. >> bob: 2-2. >> rob: what i'm talking about is you have to land before you run over towards first base. it's all about the follow through. >> bob: and a bouncer over the mound. hanley ramirez coming in. he is going to be safe. and jordan zimmerman is 2-for-2 and hopefully not gassed on a day like this. >> rob: that could take a lot out of you running up and down first base like this. now he gets an infield single. hanley ramirez, even with his great athleticism, cannot get a hustling young pitcher. >> bob: willie harris steps n if willie hits a gap somewhere, he might catch the guy in front of him. tail

if that's it for jordan zimmerman, he pitched well today.a couple of pitches he would hike to have back but all in all, pretty solid.   .  >> bob: hanley ramirez, two- run single third. i can't wait to hear what you have to say. >> rob: jordan zimmerman real good and a solid effort and you take away three hitters. by the way, it has started to rain now as we go to the top of the 7th. >> rob: then i will do my thing quickly. the practice baseball are manufactured in china yarks game balls manufactured in costa rica. >> reporter: what's the difference? other than the shipping charges? >> rob: they mass produce the practice balls. they are made differently. >> bob: it is raining hard, folks. as cristian guzman steps in in the top of the 7th. >> rob: cost efficiency. >> bob: we are outsourcing everything? >> rob: absolutely. >> bob: i find that a little sad. >> rob: hey, we want the chinese people to be our friend. they make our baseballs, that's cool. >> bob: guzman, bonifacio grabs it, robs one. no business make that go

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jordan zimmerman's win possibility erased.yel pointo is off the hook. >> rob: hopefully that's the one and only he will give u i about 30 to 40 inning inside of him right now. he will try to get out of this inning. guzman is out to grab that little blooper off the bat of bak. first out here. >> rob: very good breaking ball 0-2, down and away, snaps the back. >> bob: and the hitter wl be bret carroll who came in at the top of the 7th inning oa  double switch to play right field and bat 9th. .290 average, occasional power. >> he has been quiet this series. >> reporter: bret carroll, a tennessee boy from knoxville who played at tennessee state. one of the heaviest dose of eye black that you have seen in a day game. must have seen that ball very well. >> rob: his 14th of the season. gets a littshoulder pinch from mr. rbi, hanley ramirez. >> o:i thinkan  saying, yo ha a lon  go, on, to catch me. >> bob: jog cau back the with dan uggla. another long count, 3-2. it was a fu

with a couple of rbis and to get us the lead, 3-2 and almost make a winner of jordan zimmerman. . so josh willingham, whether in the outfield, left, right, does not matter. he is he going to bust his butt. he averaged over .450, the double, run, rbis, just doing a great job. if anybody on our ball club, bob, especially after what happened to him, the tragic death of his younger brother, his only sibling, you know, i had nothing but respect for josh willingham. he has been a great acquisition by the nationals and even better example by the younger players. >> bob: as we throw it to you, johnny, i want to share something quickly with you as we talked to josh and his wife. his brother was an organ donor. his heart saved a life. his eyes provided sight to somebody he is and they took his bone mario and that's going to help someone as well. if anybody is thinking about being an organ donor, take some inspiration from the young willingham into and then he has to go out after the bereavement process and try to play baseball which is very, very tough to do. >> rob: it is. it's incredibly

a shot out the middle, played them perfectly, and 11 hits for the nats, still down, 1-0, and jordan zimmerman pitches a good ballgame, this was a big one. matsui, astros up, watch this, this is clifford trying to get the intent to walk, a runner on 3rd. that means best burkeman, come on down, they head into the all- star break, 26 and 51. afterwards, manny talked about the toughness of the game. >> and it is funny, it is a humbling game. this is the same club that scored all of those runs yesterday. we just couldn't execute offensively, twice bases loads, couldn't get it done. so you know it is why this game, you know you have to stay humble. >> people look at what we're talking about. record nervousness. the 2003 tigers entered the break with a worse record, nats bumping 35 games below 500 with the '79 bluejays, not even those loveable losers, they're not on the list, only 26 games under 500 back in 1962 at the all-star break. and there is the host, liked what we saw when he came back. that is alex rios of toronto, thinks he has a homerun, right? wrong. that is adam jones, an all-star for ve

. >> once again, jordan zimmerman young rookie right hander had a chance. errors in this blame tonight, ray, which is, again, leading the major league in errors. >> stupid errors. not forced errors. just lying throw away a basketball when you're coming down the court and a guy is standing there wide open and you throw it to the coaches. no way you throw the ball away at second base. joe beimel wasn't sure. willie a little shallow on his backup there. threw the ball straight to joe beimel. guzman a tad late. he didn't throw that ball firmly. he goosed it. again, five runners in scoring position in that 5th, 6th inning. >> bob: take a look at the defining moments. gonzalez walking to get things rolling for the rockies. >> doing what he does. you jumped out of your chair. he walked one, walked another guy. first, second. smith walk san diego. this is the plate right here. i don't know what happened here. you just can't do that. this is the major league -- you work on that day in and day out in spring training. fly ball to center field. deep enough to score and

. >> debbi: jordan zimmerman, he has pitched well? >> this kid has pitched well for us.past two months, he has been lights out. we like the fact that this guy goes out there and does not walk that many guys, just goes after guys and gives us a tremendous effort again at the plate, drove in a run run. >> debbi: manny, that's not the proper baseball thing to do but did you consider walking hanley ramirez? >> no, not in the 3rd inning. we respect hanley a lot but i don't think we'll do that early in the ballgame. >> would he have come out if there was not the 7th inning delay. >> no, he was done for the day. >> the clutch hitting situation is even aggravating because you had a top pitcher on the ropes and you could not even get more. >> it was not even clutch hitting. we had runners on first and third, second and third with one out. clutch hitting is when you get a hit with two outs. >> johnny: nats lose their 29th game on the road. ross detwiler tries to stop the slide friday night. 6 0-0 our show on masn against the atlanta braves. we'll come back in a minute. i need to c

jordan zimmerman has right elbow issues. balancester was recalled from aaa syracuse. he'll start tomorrow. tonight the rubber game. top of the 2 ndz, no score, cory sullivan drives one to right center. top of the 6, mets trail 1-0. a slicing line drive to left center. this time morgan misplays it badly. while he tracks it down, a slide around the bases into third. the relay gets past ryan zimmerman. game tied at 1. jim riggleman says oh, man, i know why manny acta had stomach issues. bottom of the 6th, still tied. willingham goes 4-4 as the nats defeat the mets 3-1 to tak two of three in the series of orioles and yanks in a matinee at yankee stadium. the bases loaded stand two outs, -- -- the bases loaded and two outs, yanks up 4-0. top of the 3rd, still 4-0. two on and two out. one drives to right field. yanks bet the o's 6-4. the washington kastles will host the team finals this sunday. why not play in them. a win tonight over the dreaded springfield lasers would get them one step closer. men's double -- [ inaudible ] nadia who joined the team this week also a winne

jordan zimmerman heads to the hill, tries to get his first win in a month. holds a 2.72e.r.a. soriano will be in the lineup tonight after being out with a dislocated pinky. the swelling has gone down and the pain is almost gone. >>> soccer, dc united returns to action tonight. the team has knocked nine tied a already this year and knotted up with columbus. colorado in town at rfk stadium tonight. a team that shut out the dc united 3-0 in june. they are in fifth place, but both divisions with tight and as the players speak it, you can't afford to look past anybody at this point. >> it was being so tight, can't afford to, you know, lose or even tie at home at this point. you are going to lose some ground. so it's a big game and it will be good to be in front of our home fans, again. >> it is double header day. the ladies playing right now. freedom taking on st. louis. check out kj, this is where it really helps to be 6-foot 2. hey, she believes she can fly. she believes she can touch the sky, too. nice block there. no scoring in the first half. freedom could really use a win tha

jordan zimmerman to milton bradley, strikes him out. look at that. breaks his bat he's so mad. alfonso soriano swats it high and deep to right. that would be the damage, a three-run home run. his first homer in 133 plate appearances. the cubs take a 5-4 lead because of the former national. bottom of the eighth now. the nashlz trail, 6-5. josh willingham at the plate. two outs, bases loaded. ramirez comes up with it. derrek lee with that amazing grab. the cubs beat the nats, 6-5. the nationals 0-3 in the jim riggleman era. >> good things happen to good people. i don't know if it's going to be tomorrow or three days from now, four, five. maybe it's next week. we're going to try to make it happen tomorrow. we thought we were going to make it happen tonight and it's going to happen. and you know, i'm not going to quit, and nobody in there better quit. >> jim riggleman keeping it positive. we're in chicago. orioles against the white sox. brad bergesen cruising along and until the fifth. alexei ramirez grounds it to short. izturis fields a good throw to fi

jordan zimmerman gets pudge rodriguez on the checked swing. zimmerman struck out pudge three times in the game. he finished with six. but zimmerman made a mistake a couple pitches later. very next batter, kaz matsui. lays this one to right. just over the wall for a three-run homer. zimmerman, devastated. looked like someone stole his lunch. matsui's third of the season. at troes take a 4-0 lead. he trips. that's a balk. the base runners advance. berkman goes home. nats get shut out 5-1. at the all-star break they're 26-51. >> it's a humbling game. the same club that scored all those runs yesterday. we just couldn't execute offensively today. we had runners in second with no outs. couldn't get them over. twice the based loaded with one out and we couldn't get it done. that's why this game, you have to stay humble. >> manny staying positive. in baltimore, os hosted blue jays. ti wigginton fouls one off the ma of the umpire. game goes on with three umpires. bottom three. brian roberts rips one into right. orioles 1-0. roberts had a fantastic day.

those two guys have more experience as they get a little bit of a different treatment than say jordan zimmerman or craig sal mop on or something somebody like that. they've proven they can come back from a bad outing, come back from getting hit and have an outing like that. they know how to pitch to contact, they know how to keep their pitch count down a little better than some of these rookies do. manny is very big on the rookies, getting them out when they have chance to win, or at least a new decision, doesn't want them coming 0 nut a situation where they're going to end up wait loss if they've pitched well, so you're going to see lannan and is olsen get treated a little differently than these other three guy. and okay, ben, thank you very much, my friend. ben out there in denver, colorado. good advice, good work. >> great advice. i think many will allow these guys to stretch out more as the year goes on. all a matter of pitch count, where they are, what he feels about them. every pitcher wants to have the paul in the 9th end inning. spachy anderson always said the great pitchers want the ba

jordan zimmerman cruising along gets pudge rodriguez on the checked swing. zimmerman struck out pudge three times in the game. he finished with six. a couple pitches later he made mistake to kaz matsui. not really known as a home run hitter, but he hits one here. sends one to right just over for a three-run homer. zimmerman devastated. matsui's third of the season. astros take a 4-0 lead. it gets worse. yeah. bottom eight. tyler clipper trying to intentionally walk hunter pence with a runner on second and third. clipper tripped. that's a balk by rule. base runners advance. berkman trots home. manny can't believe it. just one day after scoring 13 runs, they get shut out. >> had plenty of humbling games. this is the same club that scored all those runs yesterday. we couldn't execute today. runners in seconds. no outs. couldn't get them over. twice the based loaded with one out and couldn't get it done. that's why this game you have to stay humble. >> we're in baltimore. os hosting blew jays. dave trembly back in the dugout after serving a two-game suspension.

comes with a piece of bad news to offset it and tonight was no exception as rising star pitcher jordan zimmerman unexpectedly goes to the dl. on the 15-day list with what the team is calling right elbow discomfort which is exactly what you don't want in a 23- year-old pitching prospect. nats have recalled a player to replace him. speculation is zimmerman will not pitch again this year although he wouldn't give himself over to that tonight. >> not a place i want to be on the dl and everything. i want to go out there and pitch every five days and it is just something that is a little setback right now and is what it is. it will move forward and be ready to go when i come back. >> baseball this afternoon yankees wrapping up their series against the os. 12th for him. 6-4. >>> meanwhile if you make the trip to florida to orlando it will no longer be in fort lauderdale, not orlando for spring training. >>> you don't probably know much about world team tennis like how # works or what the deal is with that partridge family color scheme on the tennis court but tonight's scenario for the castles was prett

up 4-0 after two innings and looked like that's all jordan zimmerman would need. cold ma din in. you just can't fool am phone so once. three run jack. the nats up 4-0. but they lose 6-5. they'll try to avoid the sweep tomorrow. junior circuit, orioles looking to even the series against the white sox. that is jerome dye. mama said knock you out and he does just that. chicago is down 1-0. now they're up 2-1. ninth inning orioles threaten nick. 12 hits not enough. white sox win 4-3. the first two games of the series. d.c. united has scratched their way to a tie for third in the east by simply being scrappy and refusing to lose this year. their nine ties are the most in the nl. back in league play for the first time in a couple weeks, colorado playing a visit to rfk stadium. it was a good one. 55th minute, on the corner kick nasty there. five minutes later, fred hits the net, finds the nylon. d.c. united wins 3-1. columbus also a winner tonight. so d.c. united still tied for first. ladies played first today at rfk stadium. good defense until the 74th minute. squeezing

. >> now, you look at john, jordan, zimmerman, some of the younger guys, does this refind you a little of that florida staff three or four years ago, because you guys were all young at the same time. >> yeah, we were all around the same age, had our growing pains together, and it does have some resemblance to how we set things up in in florida. hopefully we can put together a nice little run here and keep our team in ball games and give them a chance to win. >> john, saw saturday, not everything went right for you. you had some base run ares, got the double-plays. is that encouraging to know that you can win on a day when you didn't have everything working your way? >> yeah, saturday was a great team win. i had a feeling they were going to come through. i know tommy hanson was pretty tough that day, he's been tough, so i knew i had to keep the game as close as possible, and we just have to go out is >> and give the time a chance to win and do our job, and we come out there, don't have the lead, just hope the guys are going to come through like they did on saturday. >> it took you 50 ma

jordan zimmerman on the mound. but matsui will win this match- up. is it going make it?s, three-run home run, nats shut out by astross 5-0. >>> here is an idea how b things are. over the last 40 years, only the twoaght tigers have entered the all-star break with a worse word than your nationals. the nats have company at 35 mes below 500 with the '79 blue jays. >>> in baltimore, the o's hosting toronto, top of the fourth. o'lead 2-0. adam joan with a great catch. he times his leap perfectly. take away a home run. worth another look. there you go. the o's win the battle of the birds beating the jays 4-2. >>> training camp for your washington wizards doesn't take place until sippet but there is something called summer league ball which some of the wiz kids will take part in tomorrow. >> crittenden's spot could be in jeopardy. while the numbers may not be in his favor, he is certainly for the letting the trade put a damper on his spirit. >> it will motivate me. you have to go into everything in my position working hard and ready for fight for a position. nothing is handed to

lannan and jordan zimmerman. there are things available here. for those who perform well.bases empty, two outs for angel pagan. he's had a good night. 2-3. two runs an rbi. third time up robbed on a hot shot to nick johnson. pagan we first saw him a couple years ago with the mets when moises aleu had all kinds of injury issues in his final year. he was with the cubs for a while. came over in a three-player deal. a good breaking ball by clippard. still a little bit off. a lot off, in fact. 76 miles an hour. >> rob: well, the 80 mile an hour change-up, and he really takes something off that 12 to 6:00 breaking ball. blows some high cheese right by him. >> bob: looks like his best outing of the year. there is your high cheese. >> rob: nice choice. do it again. or a change-up. >> bob: oh, look at that change- up. strikes out the side. 5 k's as he retires 9 in a row. the nats are very much in this game, but it's time to generate some 7th inning offense. their doctors about cialis. ask your doctor if a cialis option is right for you because in addition to 36-hour cialis, there's

he joins craig and jordan zimmerman as rookies to start. get the start tonight. >> he has had a long, hard road. he had an operation in 2:03. missed '05 and '06. we a wired him as a minor league free agent. the first round pick from cleveland. a highly touted young guy. fun loving guy. he pitched so good down there with a lot of strikes. you see the amazing thing is he has only walked 10 people in 88 innings. he pitches the contact but also tells you he knows how to make pitches. when he gets to the 2-2 count. instead of a bullet to the outfield, he sinks it, slides it, curve it to a part of the strike zone that hitters can't get to. >> the thing you like about j.d. is he a s. a guy that could have probably cashed it in a couple years ago when he had the arm problems. overcame that and that's why everybody is pulling for him to come through tonight big time >> three years he has missed because of injuries. you have to be tough. because that rehab is unbelievely strenuous and tough on you. you are talking about dedication. when you have to b

tomorrow jordan zimmerman gets the baseball from manny acta. we'll talk about zimmerman.e'll try to win his fourth game of the season. he's even up at 3-3, but tonight it's 1-0 colorado. we'll come back after this. ♪ ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. (announcer) get a nokia e71x the thinnest smart phone for 99.99 after mail-in-rebate. >>> nats play game two of the series tomorrow night. that will be again at coors field. 8:00 on masn 2. nats and rockies on wednesday. 2:2030 target. nats masn pregame at 2:00. and then the astros. it will be game win of the game that was us is pimped back in may, and then houston again fry night at 7:30 on masn hd. and then we hope you'll join us for our nats xtra pregame. let's go to get some thoughts from craig stammen on this 1-0 loss to colorado. >> not that satisfied with it, because fest gave up that run that put us behind, and couldn't recover it. so 7 inning, finally got through the third time in the order wish sob some positives i can take something from. >> what about the three double >> that's