i had a chance to visit earlier with first base coach marquis grissom. that marquis grissom is getting his first coaching job in the major league after retiring only three years ago after 17 great years in the major league. you are doing something. you are giving back to the game like you gave back to the kids in atlanta. >> that's right, johnny. that's a great opportunity for me to get to that next level. after i retired, i went home and started my own foundation and i wanted to give some kids an opportunity like i had, coming up as a kid with all the great coaching and the mentors that really cared about you and your life and your career. so i had the opportunity to do that on a smaller scale back home in the community and come back to the major league and be able to coach some of the kids that we talked about earlier, that's a great situation for me to be? >> johnny: when you came out of florida a&m, you became a member of this franchise back when they were in montreal? >> ray: that's right. back in 1989. it was a great school in florida a&m. >> johnn

. >> johnny: marquis grissom at first. gonzalez gets back. second hit batter for micah owings. last of the 5th here at nationals park. and cincinnati up 2-0. one in the second and one in the fourth. nats have had opportunities with a couple of runners getting to 3rd base but can't get them in. >> rob: were you here when nick johnson broke his leg? >> johnny: it was in new york at shea stadium. >> rob: i heard that was -- i didn't see it. i know jason kendall retired when he stepped wrong on 1st base. i will never forget it. they put it in the center fold of the magazine. i apologized to him on the air. i was doing radio because i guess jason's kid saw it. i never looked at it. there's just some things that shouldn't be made public. >> johnny: joe theismann the same way. >> rob: i love joe. joe is good people. >> johnny: but to have to see that over and over again. >> rob: very tough. people don't realize it is not supposed to be a full contact sport. >> johnny: runner going. zimmerman goes to right. and quickly gonzalez got to retreat to get back to 1st base and just barely got

marquis grissom. >> rob: nice catch. >> johnny: nice catch is right. kind of carbled that one into his glove in foul territory. >> rob: can't be easy, banging between center and right field back and forth and a tough corner to play, got its little ins and outs and goes up against the wall and makes a great grab right there. oh. i can't believe it.  i can't b they'll make room for you on the benefit ramon. >> johnny: struck out back in the second, right fielder, 7 hits in 25 at-bats. one for one with a strikeout, back swinging in the second.  cincinnati in town  a 14-inning loss to the cubs on sunday. a game in which they had 0-13 with runners in scoring position. swing and a miss from goals. >> rob: gary carter, did he play in the big leagues? >> johnny: gary carter? >> rob: how do you know. >> johnny: i'm guessing yes.  . >> rob: oh. >> johnny: and the 1-2. down to hernandez. it's two down. . >> rob: ah. j

separate the game from work on stuff and trying to pickup certain things off a pitcher and there's marquis grissom. sometimes you're thinking a little too much. he's got to get out there and just execute, let it happen. elijah is way too good of an athlete to be 2-9 in stolen bases. >> bob: elijah is very fast once he gets going. part of the stealing bases art is getting that jump and exploding towards second base. >> rob: i wouldn't mind bringing ricky henderson in here. work with the outfielders, the base stealers. >> bob: two balls, two strikes to wil nieves. anybody on our ball club have a relationship with him? >> rob: i'll call him. ricky, you working? you want to do something? he's a good man. he was working with the mets for a little bit. >> bob: wil nieves jacks one way foul. don't ever consult ricky henderson though on banking. supposedly, he carried a million dollar check in his wallet for quite a while. >> rob: that's ez -- that's close to the truth. hearing from dennis, we have the same agent, he framed it and put it on his walls and was messing up the as accounting but not cashing th

responding to the support system they put around him, and he has responded well to guys like marquis grissoms. he has responded well to the examples. we were talking to stan before the game. he says that's one thing he does not get enough credit for, learning that position and centerfield is not easy. they would prefer him to be a right fielder down the road but they don't have a centerfielder right now and they need him in there and he jumped in there and stan looks at that as a sign of maturity. >> as always, the hot corner for the washington times. elijah, of course, with the rookie from kansas city the only two to hit 10 10 homeruns. >>> how about joe beimel? he pitched 7 games with tampa bay in 2005. he has 62 career holds, 7 this season. just as joe beimel keeps the team in the game, you, too, can stay in the game with just more again hair color. ray and i will step out and come back in a moment. craig stammen loosenning up. he will taking the mound looking for his first career victory. something new is on the grill. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just $6.99. lik

second consecutive time. 10 games in a row and 18-20 last now, nick johnson has visited with marquis grissomere at first base. >> rob: you scenic stay on this ball, head down, boom. didn't try to do too much. you hit down on the ball and make a lot more contact and hit drive lines -- line drives around and help to upper. frank robinson, frawmpl hall of famer. standing by the dugout having a chitchat. nick comes over to pickup his glove. frank says slick, huh? he looks down. it has slicked embroidered on his glove. frank robinson was like, slick, ok. >> bob: that's nick's nickname. >> rob: it is. >> bob: pitchers have different names for this guy. he didn't miss a homer by much. it fell well short of the ball. he got it right near the sweet spot down near the end of the barrel a long fly ball left first time. i think ryan has shown signs over the last three or four days he's starting to swing the bat the way did he in april when everything was a line drive. he was challenging the pitcher every at-bat. it doesn't help when you have that big fella behind you. hits are even at 3-3. nick johnson,

doesn't help you if you're a young man and sitting next to, even some of the guys i played with, marquis grissom sitting down there, jim wriggleman, danny acta, you got to be pumping those guys for information because the more knowledge you have the more powerful a player you're going to be. a bit of angst, he walked the pitcher, that's what you have to do, you know you're better than walking johnny cueto who can't swing the stick and you come back and get a really good lead off guy with willie tavares. >> johnny: only the second walk that detwiler has given up. hairston steps in with 0-2, strikeout and ground out tonight, two down in the top of the fifth in a 1-1 ball game. tavares tomorrow and lannan thursday afternoon against cincinnati and harang will go for the reds and then micah oh wings on thursday.  they have won six str cincinnati in this ball park. their run coming on elijah dukes' sixth homer of the season last inning of the fourth inning.   and the 1-0.   outside to