longoria is not fast.and evan longoria just collected his first base hit of this series after going 0 for 5 with a walk. so the nats have done a good job for two nights of containing this offense, but there's just very little offense to go with the good pitching so far. >> rob: jason bergmann continues to get hurt by that breaking ball. he has a great sinker. gets ahead of evan longoria, then he gets beat, you saw the weak swing by longoria. he kept his hands back long enough, worried about the 93 and he hits the 85 into left center field for a single. >> bob: we know carlos pena can tush on a fastball. >> rob: are you kidding me? a perfect bunt for a base hit. i'll actually as a pitcher take that, if he's going give up an at-bat and take a single, more power to him. this guy's one of the best power guys in the game. you want to hit for a single, go right ahead. double play's in order. he clogs up the bases without speed. two thrower men on their team on the bases right now. >> bob: i saw the first base co

longoria and pena on the other side with their respective bags. there's a ball. that's going to be over the leaping pena. the nats have the lead for the 3 3rd consecutive time in this series. they have scored early. for gonzalez, his 10th rbi. >> rob: this was a great at bat here. good outside off speed, looked like a changeup. itself actually a curveball. drives in a run. even better, it's a single. >> bob: it sounds nice when the cow bells aren't ringing. that will shut them up. the nats could do running here. unfortunately that ball is hit too well. b.j. upton there, two outs. [cheering and applause] just beyond the 2:00 hour here in the tampa bay area at tropicana field where the nats are 0-2 this weekend. bob carpenter, rob dibble, byron kerr with us. we'll fly to new york and come to you from the new yankees stadium tuesday night with martis against sabathia. >> bob: i think some of these young pitchers are going to make sure they're not in awe of the place in which they're pitching tuesday, wednesday, thursday. last time they measured it, the mound was 60

zimmerman on a pitch inside, charged by longoria. that's it for the nats. 7th inning stretch time on a friday night in st. petersburg, florida. 3-3, nats-rays.  . >> bob: bottom of th inning coming up, 3-3 game. joel hanrahan still on the mound much long way to go here. >> rob: absolutely. manny acta knew this early. they knew we were going to have to score a lot more runs than 3. we have. joel hanrahan has to keep them right here. this is the most important inning of the game, 3-3 against the best offense in the american league. >> bob: i think joe west is giving the rays' dugout a hard time because of our lights. he knows everything going on out here. it's the bottom of the 7th. reid brignac, b. j. upton and carl crawford. brignac 0-for-1 with a dprowb a -- a ground ground ball and a walk. that ball right off the mask of josh bard. >> rob: we may have to explain to joe west how much money masn spends to televise these games. he needs to take a chill pill. we have the best crew in the game. top of the order

he have sap longoria right there, two outs. and the nats have one out to work with and, ironically, it's nick johnson who made the error that led to the kapler homerun. verizon fios notice xtra is next with-ony and ray. lots of things to talk about in this one. unfortunately, two errors that gave the rays two runs might be two of the most important things they talk about. here is nick johnson, 1-for-4, breaking ball outside. j p howell in he is sons essence, trying to save -- in essence trying to save this game for himself much he is the pitcher of record here. 1 ball, 1 strike to nick. they have a right hander up in case they get to ryan zimmerman. that's jason isringhausen. >> rob: tampa bay. >> bob: nationals down to their last strike. i'm not sure how nick got his bat out to reach that thing. tampa bay trying to get back over .500 tonight. after last night's game, they have 100 games left and they are trying to go 32-32. >> rob: the old pitch track. >> bob: 2-2 to nick, out to short. brignac has it and the devil rays win it

talk about impact player. >> bob: stammen is there to grab it, longoria signed a 17 million-dollar six -- 70 million-dollar six-year deal. od through safety-colored glasses. doing what it takes to make home a little better. that's why we lowered over a thousand prices. and carry powerful tools from dewalt, milwaukee, ridgid, and more. so you spend less, but drill, saw, and nail... more. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, save $20 on a ryobi 18v starter kit with drill and circular saw for just $89. on a ryobi 18v starter kit 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. . >> bob: nice 1st inning fo craig stammen, 18 pitches, 12 strikes.

trying to make the longoria error hurt. that's a fastball that misses. 2-1. >> rob: it's going to be an 88- mile an hour fastball. look at that thing i'd arm. you talk about a left-handed specialist. >> bob: adam dunn hits a double play ball. the nationals get an unearned run and into the bottom of the 8th.  we like looking at the world through safety-colored glasses. doing what it takes to make home a little better. that's why we lowered over a thousand prices. and carry powerful tools from dewalt, milwaukee, ridgid, and more. so you spend less, but drill, saw, and nail... more. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, save $20 on a ryobi 18v starter kit with drill and circular saw for just $89. on a ryobi 18v starter kit 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

look at longoria. he is right in bard's way.to throw this ball and it goes over the third baseman. sometimes, it's better if you stay right in front of them, get around him, not an easy task and the throw goes arye, but it's the kind of pressure these guys put on you. >> bob: and now that's a 3-2 game with the tying run 90 feet away. >> rob: now you know why manny acta was trying to manufacture runs after we were up 3-0. >> bob: this team can score runs even if they are not slugging the ball. the nats have given up 345 runs, this team has scored 352 runs. longoria overmatched by craig stammen. that's a big strikeout. two down. straight change that went down and in to the right hander. you don't usually associate right handed to right handed. he is happy at the end of -- joe maddon is upset. something is not happy. actually, joe west is not happy, telling joe maddon something about it. >> bob: there is a strobe light just beyond the pool in right center where the ray is swimming. it's either that. >> rob: i think that's what it i

here he comes, a little blooper to left field, the first hit of the series for longoria. then the bunt base hit as their number four hitter. zobrist just jumps all over a fastball down and in. really that's the ballgame. put it away real quick with us not scoring a lot of runs. fastball, bunt, bloop, see you. >> the nats had a 2-run lead in the fourth inning, the rays put seven on the board. seven of their eight coming that inning. they've averaged one error every ballgame this year. sonnanstine gets the win, bergmann takes the loss, a rough seventh inning for jason. ryan zimmerman one for four, his 12th homer of the season. pena three for four with a home run, the 20th of the year. tampa bay takes another series. they've taken the first two from the nationals. the margin of error is not very big for this ball club. >> our margin of error is zilch, nada. we can't play a full ballgame without having something happen that just makes us all say, oh, what's going on here? a couple of ground balls, ground ball to nick early in the game error. didn't really hurt us there. but w

bob: longoria singled to lead off this inning, his only hit of this series. in the last three innings, the rays have outhit the nationals 8-0. the last nats hit, a single by guzman with nobody out in the third.  >> bob: minnesota got a s- out from anthony schwarz ack to beat the cubs at wrigley today. st. louis won in cleveland, 3- 1. mets beat the yankees 6-2. those are the finals in so far from interleague play. the american league who let the national league, 31 wins to 25 through last night.  >> bob: last night star stretch of 12 very difficult interleague games against the upper echelon of the a.l. east. tampa bay, new york, toronto and boston. then a series to follow at baltimore. that ball into left. dukes is back. can't get it up against the wall. hernandez scores. upton scores. it's 8-2. >> rob: this is just a hanging breaking ball by colome. when you drop down to try to help the ball, sometimes it flattens out. it helps longoria, doesn't get all of it. great effort by elijah dukes and b.j. upton breaking it do

struck out longoria, pena and zobrist to get out of the first inning. >> bob: carl crawford walked afterton stole second, then j. zimmermann really went to work. >> rob: you saw the first ball that he fouled down the right- field line, knew he better get the bat head out early. got to get that bat going early, when a guy's throwing 95. >> bob: that ball well out of play. byron kerr, bring us up to date on what josh willingham and his family have been through for the last 20 hours or so. >> byron: john willingham, the younger brother of josh, 27, died in owe know a car accident in alabama yesterday. manny acta said josh has left the team early this morning. they're giving willingham full support. he said it puts the game and life in perspective and that willingham is a great guy and an outstanding teammate and they're thinking about him right now. >> bob: manny was visibly shaken this afternoon when he got together with the media. to give us the details of what had taken place, so our very best to josh, his wonderful family. and a very difficult weekend for them, losing josh's younger bro

longoria 2-7 with a couple of rbis over the weekend. he's just out of the top 10 in home runs with 14. >> bob: he's way up there in rbis. let's look at the nats defense. harris at 3rd, johnson at 1 1st. gonzalez replaces guzman today. dukes plays his third consecutive game starting in the out field. >> rob: detwiler has a fastball, changeup type pitcher. he's got two fastballs. two he throws right there about 90-94 miles per hour. basically a cutter, sinker, a righty. it's going to go away from him. >> bob: we figured longoria would warm up before the nats get out of town. that's three consecutive hits for him after going 0-5. here's carlos pena with three hits and a home run. >> rob: ross has an excellent curveball. >> bob: here it is. pena will do it again inside the 3rd base bag. >> rob: he's saying, if you're going to give me that, i'll take it. we'll see what ben zobrist can do with it. let's hope ross has more -- he bunts down the 3rd baseline. there you see the break of the ball. >> bob: it's okay. 20 home run, you want to bunt,

longoria struck out, so did peqa.f hanrahan can get gabe gross who is 0-for-2. >> rob: manny showing a lot of confidence in hanrahan right here, getting him to pitch to gabe gross. >> bob: joel is going to have to reprove to the ball club that he can pitch in later innings than this. this is how you re-establish yourself after a starter has gone out in the middle innings and your ball club still has 10 outs to get. first and third, two down here in the 6th. 3-2 nats. >> rob: steve mccatty told me he is more impressed with relievers coming into the game and not allowing those inherited runners not to score. so he wants to see joel han ran what leave those guys there. >> bob: e.r.a., scores, that does not matter. >> rob: e.r.a., that's jumping to relievers. >> bob: hanrahan stems out. >> rob: once again, forget the runners. you have two outs, forget the get the hitter. get the hitter. >> bob: hanrahan, a perfect 8th inning wednesday against the reds after allowing runs in three consecutive appearances. six days ago, mik

. >> bob:  evan rock longoria front of him.nny acta says the best way to handle this for stammen and for josh bard, keep b. j. upton off base. b. j. hitting only .2212. he came in as a .277 career hitter. rob will have more on craig stammen who is mamaking art. his last uteing was not very od on sunday, was it? ro no. >> bob: b. j. upton who only has an on-base average of .307. byron kerr handing me a note and we'll knock on wood for this one. rays9-22 when the rays have scored first butve not had an at-bat yet. >> rob: and they do have the top offense inthe american league. >> bob: they have scored more runs than the nats have given up. that's a lot. >> rob: you came back on fire. >> bob: you know,

longoria overmatched by craig stammen. that's a big strikeout. two down. straight change that went down and in to the right hander. you don't usually associate right handed to right handed. he is happy at the end of --

tavarez takes care of longoria.ukes, patterson and gonzalez in the 4-4 game.  >>> nationals will have f six, seven up in the 8th. elijah dukes has had a lot to do with the success of the offense today. >> bob: this kid is some kind of strong. the fastball, he drilled to left center field. then he gets an outside breaking ball. he drills that to left center field. that will put a couple of doubles on the day. he got back to 2nd safely on that ball p.. the corners were in. >> rob: that was was hit sharply. you get caught in between right there. no blame on either guy. >> bob: slider by dan wheeler who pitched here in a scoreless inning friday night. only two hits in this series against the tampa bay bullpen for the nationals in this series series. we should do a study, back to back video of pitchers going into their stretch and some of the odd things they do. dan wheeler looks like he's doing intense meditating. >> rob: i think he's going, "please don't hit it. please don't hit it. ." >> bob: what's differ

. >> rob: longoria trying to get something down to the left side 3rd. maybe anderson tries to drop down a ball. i doubt longoria can come in to get a bunt. nats down 5-4. >> bob: guzman will be called out. [cheering and applause] the bow and arrow for the first out here. >> rob: he threw four breaking balls in a row then threw 87 in broadway. strike 3. too close to take. you've got to start swinging at some of the pitches. i think rob, one of the big moments is two on, two out, there are times when adam dunn is going to have to expand his strike zone. >> rob: i agree. >> bob: remember when he did it against the royals, grand slam. it was hard for the bullpen to watch their man take three fastballs for strikes. >> rob: screw the strikeouts, it doesn't matter. go in and drive in runs. the bullpen needs him to swing the stick. >> bob: hernandez takes a breaking ball. howell has good stuff doesn't he? >> rob: yeah good change and breaking ball. the fastball looks 93 because of the curveball. >> bob: he's one of the left handers. strikes out another. [cheeri

moving longoria to 2nd. detwiler able to pitch out of the jam. there you see another maple bat exploding right there. >> bob: mike wallace said they're longer, thinner in the middle. you have a 35, 36-inch bat. ash is on the right. maple with the swirls on the left. it's basically the grain you see right there. the grain is going the length of the bat. on the maple, it's swirling all the way through it going around the bat. when it break, it snaps at the swirl. >> bob: 3-2. he missed. third walk of the day for detwiler. the interesting thing about the other two, both of those runners erased on double plays. miller night beach night hits the beach bash friday night. 21,000 fans receive a beach towel. they -- fireworks after the game. come and join us friday night. the boys are coming home from new york. six game home stand, blue jays and red sox, then head to baltimore. here's zobrist that popped up to johnson first time up. the jam job and flair. there's the first pitch. 2-0. >> rob: not finishing off. he's lazy, i mean he's dragging the pitching

his right foot is tagged by evan longoria. very nice. coolers' light showing you how if he had slid to the bag, he would have been safe. >> bob: brought to you fbi -- to you by the world's most refreshing beer. top 6, patterson, gonzalez and bard for the nats. patterson has pulled the ball grounding out to 1st. he advanced a runner from 2nd to 3rd in the 2nd. he scored on the gonzalez base hit. he checks that one. it's cut off by pena, one out. >> rob: good reaction by the left-handed throwing 1st baseman. >> bob: how about alberto gonzalez day at that time -- day at the ball park? >> rob: he gets better and better. there's a double that will bring in two runs. dukes and dunn. what a day for the kids. three of the four runs, he's driven. >> bob: first pitch swinging pops up to short. two down. [cheering and applause] gonzalez interesting, he only hit 1.73 last year with the yankees in 28 games before they sent him down. 250 at berry. july 31st they got him. he came up and hit .347 for the nats. here's josh bard with two great swings. one

respecting his speed, evan longoria plays even with the bag at third as does carlos peqa, 120 feet across >> rob: any way you can right here, get on base. that will push the bunt by the pitcher, lefty falling towards first and righty towards first. >> bob: this will be an interesting pitch. that will be a two-hopper right after the shortstop brignac. ,

. >> bob: dukes just jammed, bouncer, longoria, turned by zobrist and that's a 5-4-3 double play. halfway through the ballgame, garza gathering himself, 3-2 nats. 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. . >> bob interesting inning. we have the grease cam all fired up. >> rob: you're going to see this play at the plate right here. ey lionel ya dukes, a great throw. he beats the runner by 10 feet. josh bard waiting for his prey and then joe west calls him safe because of a little dimsy doo move. josh bard still had the tag in there early enough. >> bob: do you think josh was a little too casual going after the runner there? >> rob: no. >> bob: because most runners will call the umpire out when the ball beats them by that much. >> rob: most but joe west, he is the president of the umpires and he's going to call a close play like that and it's b

longoria one of the best in the business. you know crawford and they have a good pitching staff. tomorrow against us. they are deep. david price. >> byron: yeah. the first overall from last year of course with david price. nationals are going to go with craig stammen. >> ray: he has been able to pitch well. he gave up five runs in the 1st inning but he has been out there throwing strikes. good sinker. fastball. he can get up to 93. good curve ball. 12-6. this is just his 5th start. he has gone at least 5 innings. his ball moves all over the place, garza. 11-9 last year with 188 innings. he has given up a homerun in every one of his last 6 outings. but he is a 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 som

when you have longoria do you think there, they're going to score a lot of runs. talking about new york, my goodness. that is like a little league field. every ball hit is going out of the ball park. florida, they've got good pitching. they're coming off a tremendous year believing they can win. they've gotten off to a bad start six games out. they're within striking distance. >> the key to win, hit the cat walks in tropicana. that's my little cheese for that series. that's all it's going to take. hit the cat walks. >> if you hit the cat walk right over the mound, is that a home run? >> no. i'm going to go over that. >> time of the hold of the day brought to you by just for men marry color. arthur rhodes and weathers at the top of the list. mathis rounds out the hold as they look to keep the cincinnati squad in the game. these relievers keep their team in the game. you too can stay in the game with just for men hair color. we mentioned josh willingham. we'll be back to talk about the reds tonight. coming up next harang and martis as we count down to first pitch at

evan longoria struggling for tampa bay. remember in april, a .369 batting average? things have changed since then. .296 in may. he's yet to get a hit this month. his current streak of 18 at-bats without a hit is the longest drought of his career. mariners and orioles in baltimore as we continue to swing around the majors. that's jorse lopez, the second home run of the game, eighth of the year, the ms win it, ichiro suzuki on a 14-game hitting streak, against the orioles. seattle has won six of its last seven, hernandez gets the win, 4-0 in his career at camden yards, and the ms win it 4-1. let's go to fenway. tying run on second, top nine, papelbon, posada. flies out to left. and that is that. papelbon with the save, the red sox have beaten the yankees seven times this season without a loss, eight times overall in a row dating back to last season, 6-5 is your final, papelbon with 15 saves on the season. you see all the home runs, youkilis goes yard, so does lowell, teixeira a big night, damon and posada also with home runs. royals and indians in cleveland, that's gi

evan longoria snaps the 19th at bat with a homer in the fifth inning. >> tigers and the white sox wrapping up a five-game set. top 5, 3-1, 3-all. curtis granderson, goodbye. ties the game with his 14th. we go to the bottom of the ninth. and here's your controversy. we saw a game-winning hit off a third. how about a game-saving play by a fan? watch this. nice catch, but did you go into the field of play to make the catch? jim leyland says he did. tigers sigh he did. game's in chicago. later in that at-bat, podsednik chops c it to right. past the infield, and that's the end of the game. the tigers are mad, but they didn't have an out at the time. and who knows if having an extra they would have. still, controversial finish. chicago gets the win. white sox are in milwaukee tomorrow. tigers are in pittsburgh. >> all right, minnesota trying to win three in a row on the road for the first time this season. bottom 8, adam kennedy. minnesota trailing 3-1, no more. tied at 3 after the two-run home run. bottom of the ninth now. davis, with two men on. just dumps it into right. that would prove to be

. >> jim: how about evan longoria? it looks like it is little league and he's 1 and all of the other kids are 9. >> rob: yes. if you let them do that, they will get so comfortable, they will, just like an inning like this, just knock you around, even when you're making good pitches. >> jim: that and the confidence. >> rob: yes. >> jim: you get on a roll. the guy in important of you has a good at-bat. you saw that with adam jones. he hit a good slider down and away. and markakis comes back. what is he, 1-9? off of villone. he gets beat. villone gets ahead of him. he hit as single into right. it just steamrolls. >> rob: adam jones came in oh- fer 11 out of that florida series? he looks like he is in a 30- game hitting streak himself. >> bob: one ball and two strikes to mora. he's driven in three with a single and a double tonight. >> jim: a chance for a huge rbi night. >> bob: the ballpark holds 48,300, camden yards, not many empty seats. >> jim: no, if any. >> bob: ball two. >> jim: the one thing about melvin, you pitch

. >> rob: well, we talk about ryan zimmerman's defense or longoria or a-rod, this is one of the bestthird baseman. seven gold gloves for scott rolen. so, whatever he's not doing with the bat, bob, he's doing it with the glove behind you as. as a pitcher, you've got to love a guy like scott rolen. >> bob: only brooks robinson and mike schmidt with 10 have won more gold gloves at third base. >> rob: he makes that play at second base better than anybody i've seen. he takes that shot, catches it going towards the outfield and can still throw it chest high to the first baseman. >> bob: i told ryan zimmerman when the nationals went to st. louis three years ago to keep an eye on scott rolen the way he throws the ball. he might be the most accurate third baseman in recent memory. >> rob: , northrop grumman on the pitch track spoke to vice president development of player about catching and what josh bard and wil nieves have been doing lately. they're not setting up as far off the plate as they used to because the umpires are no longer calling that. they may set their target up. the glove. the