i was talking to mike scioscia and he knows how good of a player abreu is.for .300, but to take 630 pitches. >> gary: that one is going to be a base hit into the gap. figgins on his way to third. throw will come to second. abreu comes through again. he is 4-for-7 now off baez for his career ant angels have the first two on in the bottom of the 7th inning. >> jim: he takes 633 pitches on 680 at-bats. he likes to time the fastball and that's what he did. there you go. angel baseball. >> gary: now torii hunter. once again, that's the middle of the order. the angels have had the right part of that order up when they needed it. they did so in the 5th inning as napoli and kendrick got on base in the 8th and 9th spot and it was abreu, hunter and guerrero who got the rbis. now first and third, nobody out. torey hunter picked out an rbi on a ground ball out. he is 1-for-3 in the ballgame with a single. nobody out. fastball taken up high. against baez, hunter has seen a lot of him. he is 4-for-14 with a homerun. the angels 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position. ori

bud black after seven years with a pitching coach with mike scioscia, slid right in to san diego. nick johnson is gone for the third time tonight. >> rob: they've done a great job, top of the order, bob, one through four, 10 for 14, two homers, nine runs scored. driven in, excuse me. >> bob: there's an interesting fact about bud black that i think is worthy of mention. he's one of only three men in baseball history to win 100 games as a pitcher, then be a major league manager. as you and i talked about last night. not many pitchers end up in that job and he's a san diego state guy originally. josh willingham's going to get an rbi and a bouncer up the middle. zimmerman home to score. the nats are into double figures, 10-0 and josh willingham has his 30th rbi. the symmetry of this game is a little strange. zimmerman reaches 60, dunn reaches 70 and willingham reaches 30. >> rob: that's going to do it for this young man. they're going to have a double switch. >> bob: and will venable will go to left field and replace chase headley. so the nats just keep on keeping on with the bats her

he was there with mike scioscia. and his staff when they were there were in the top 5 in e.r.a.the al five of 7 seasons. worked in cleveland for a while as a special assistant to gm johnny hard. >> rob: didn't want to leave. >> bob: had family considerations in southern california and that's important to a guy even though we overlook it. seattle, cleveland, toronto, san francisco, he won 121 games. he had 32 complete games in his career. but not many pitchers become managers? why? i mean they all seem to be ex- catchers. >> rob: ah, we're kind of flaky. no, i mean you know over one- third of the managers in the major leagues are catchers. they just think that you watch the game differently from behind home plate that in front of it. >> bob: and maybe absorb the game as well. >> rob: and maybe some people think being former pitchers you don't know a lot about hitting. i think i know a lot about hitting than some hitters because if you don't you're not a decent pitcher. i think i'd pick the brains of the pete roses and barry larkins of the world. >> bob: kouzmanoff gets jam and th

let's see if mike scioscia, gun 4-0, start trounce it. he does n and ball four.d walks and the angels fans start to get back in this one. two on and one out. >> jim p: last night mike sciocia said the drop pop-up cracked open the door. more like san andreas fault, the way -- [ indistinct ] -- it was the winning run and added another six runs in the bottom of the 8th to win 11-4. in a game you have a 4-0 lead. the second time through the order. it's not the base hit. it's the walk. or the fact that you don't challenge a hitter or you don't command your stuff and that's what is happening here in the 3rd inning. >> jim h: abreu takes strike. that ball kind of floated in there so he was able to throw a strike to a guy that very rarely swings at the first pitch. unless he feels confident he has you timed and probably not the case. there's another one. swing and a miss. that's a good one. >> jim p: now what will they do? >> jim h: first time through the lineup, .234, then jumps to .355 and he adjusts. .273 third time through. this is now the second time through as abre

mike scioscia didn't think so. on thursday varitek swung yesterday on that real questionable pitch when the red sox came back from a 5-1 deficit. i said, you're right but they cant call it. >> jim h: 1-2. high pop-up. aybar going up. charge in and for the out. wigginton is retired. two down. >> jim p: another nice curveball. couldn't quite get to it. and for the angels, for the a formidable team -- as we look at torii hunter. he got out of the way. it's guys like bulger that will have to step up and we have seen that over the course of the series. you made a good point where they have pitched very well lately. >> jim h: they have not score in the series against the angels' bullpen. brian homered leading off the game. he has grounded out and struck out. >> jim h: checked swing. that one is low. bulger is 30 year old. this is his fourth separate season pitching well with the angels. he has not had a full season in the big leagues. the majority of those seasons the past three years spent in aaa. outside. >> jim p: you

. >> bob: we didn't mention he was the pitching coach but bud black did work with mike scioscia who iswn for playing a national league style of ball in the american league more than any other manager over there. he loves speed guys, defense, nick johnson picking that one. that was not a good throw by bergmann. >> rob: you can't forget, you throw this by nick the guy at third easily scores, keeping them close, we talked about this. >> bob: man, he might have been out, i don't think the umpire saw that, the throw, the glove, the hand, everything was right there. i don't think nick even had to move his glove because it was already on the arm of the base runner. >> rob: sometimes you got to sell it as the first baseman, he would have been "oh i got him," screaming and yelling. >> bob: look at that. >> rob: i do believe. you got to come up and say "eh i made the catch, he is out." >> bob: nick can't control the ball. >> rob: got to have a bit of a beef with the umpire. . >> bob: you're correct. 1-2. popped up, right side. alberto gonzalez calls nick johnson off the ball as he should. two ou