the nats drew nearly 70,000 for the 3-game series here. jessie carlson will take over against the nats, face switch hitter josh bard. rally caps are out. by the way, the nationals did play another error less game today. those have been more frequent this week than lately. the pitching staff hit harderly and late. in between it was a rather even ball game. between the second and eighth, the nats and blue jays tied 2- 2. here's josh bard, lines this one hard to left. that ball is over the reach of adam lind, and josh bard smacking the ball around today. >> two singles, a double and a ball that nearly left the park. we'll see josh willingham up

celebrate father's day at nats park. get your tickets at nationals.com. >> rob: bill parcells taught me you can't give up a touchdown in the first two-minute of the second half of the ballgame. oh, that's football. >> bob: the nats just gave up seven. >> rob: byron kerr handed me a note, seven runs is the most runs given up in an inning so far this year since may 6 against the dodgers in the 6th inning. the nationals ended up losing 10-3. >> bob: that was against mike hinckley and logan kensing. daniel cabrera start that had game and pitched into the sixth inning, but not for long. that was one month and one week ago and none of those pitchers are still around. willie harris, austin kearns and wil nieves here in the 7th. andy sonnanstine. >> rob: look at that stat. >> bob: that's how you go 4-6 with a 7 e.r.a. >> rob: second in the major leagues with run support, over eight runs per start. >> bob: you brought this up numerous times. what is it about these guys with 6 and 7 e.r.a.'s, our ball club can't hit them. >> rob:

nats third of the night. now you're facing the leading hit guy in the american league when you just gave the previous hitter 90 extra feet. all three nationals errors tonight on the most routine plays. the hernandez possibly, the guzman drop that cost a run and now that and aaron hill was smelling blood up there hacking. >> rob: work ahead. >> bob: these are the unforced errors by some of our veterans this year that have really hurt. aaron hill, 1-5. now we've had a balk. jesus colome balking for the second time this year. boy, he's mad. manny acta coming out to calm down his pitcher. >> rob: right before that, i almost said out loud. i was thinking it to myself that cristian guzman or ronnie belliard should just go in and say something to him. say something to him in spanish. get him to calm down. they're the veterans. he's still kind of a young guy. he could be a big asset to this ball club. >> bob: flies it to center. right there is willie harris. after all that, the nats still a chance to put this game aw

"nats xtra" all weekend long from here at the ballpark. a very good outing by jordan zimmermann 5 2/3 tonight. only a run on five hits. manny acta's post-game thoughts and a preview of game two featuring ross detwiler still hunting that first major league win. ross will make his seventh big league start tomorrow. here is alex rios. >> rob: took craig stammen five starts into his sixth start to get that first big league win against a very tough yankees offense. hopefully, ross detwiler can do the same now against the toronto blue jays. get up for the competition, so to speak. nice job last night. >> bob: last time a team pitched that well in new york against the yankees was the rangers at the end of june last year. they gave up three earned runs in a series winning one -- one run in each game and the nationals did just as well and took 2-3. no runs last night. two runs on wednesday. i think the nats also gave up two unearned runs in game one the night before. this ball will be out of play to the right side. alex rios, 0-3 tonight. 

. >> bob: the nats had gone two games without an error. they made one in the ballgame tuesday night. an error by zimmerman on a throw that cost the nats a run in a 5-3 loss. that's their first error in nearly three full games. >> rob: first pitched ball right there first time tonight by zimmermann. >> bob: you hope that doesn't cost jordan zimmermann an extra 10 or 12 pitches here. count's even 1-1 on the foul ball by the catcher rod barajas. >> rob: as i said before, when they're making great plays behind you now, if they make an error, it's time for you to pick them up.  >> bob: and a pitcher three career at-bats brian tallet next. be nice to retire this man and let the inexperienced hitter leadoff in the fifth. >> rob: it's a great 88-mile- per-hour slider here on the 2-1 pitch by northrop grumman on the pitch track. >> bob: that was a late breaker, rob. that really looked like a fastball for a while, didn't it? >> rob: yep. oh, man. >> bob: runner will be moving on a 3-2 pitch with two outs. do

they are the florida version of the nats and orioles. they play each other every year home and home. >> >> bob: look at what. >> rob: look at what the marlins did last year, won 84 game with 22 million. they evaluated a lot of their minor league system and when they made the juan pierre trade, they got a lot of players from the cubs. that's another way that the indians, rays, marlins have to do business. >> bob: that's a slider just a little bit high. 2-1. joe beimel. >> rob: joe b. >> bob: first save in two years yesterday. >> rob: joe b-eimel. >> bob: the bullpen set up if the nats can take the lead here. willingham seeing a fastball he thought he could lift. and the count's even 2-2. >> rob: last pitch after an elevated breaking ball. an elevated fastball. probably going to go way down and away. willingham lifting the ball short left center. that will not score the run. carl crawford on the run. gonzalez taking about five stems and came back. two outs. it will be up to willie harris. by the way, willie harris had dropped his bat in th

byron curran and ray knight with you as we count down nats extra and a big day for the nats as they trytop picks on the board. and what they want to get here with these next picks, they get steven strasbourg, pitching always something they are looking for but is there a possibility they could look at anything else. >> i think pitching. when you're in the process of building an organization, there's more demand for pitching among the 30 clubs than anything. it doesn't mean they have to play here. the fact is if you stock pile good arms you have a lot of weapons, a lot of weapons. now granted you need center and middle fielders and it's a long time since we have gone out and do done that but they have set a precedent of drafting pitchers in the past and you can always do it. you can always trade or get an everyday player through freeing. so, yeah, i would go with pitching. >> a few surprises early on, a few guys have moved up a little bit. aaron crow is still on the board. probably not a case for him to be available. >> that is interesting. what happens if we get to that 10th pick and aar

nats defense hurting them again tonight. rob and i are back with more before we send you on to nats xtra. @ 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. . >> johnny: hi, of course, johnny holiday along with ray knight. another way to lose a game, unfortunately on a pop towel that johnson could not get to. and then a follow-up homerun. >> ray: it's like going to the ballpark and trying to learn the ballpark. that's why you go there -- that's a play that should have been made. we'll come back in a minute. let's sent accepted you right back to st. petersburg. >> bob: thank you,-ony holiday, f

top of the second, blue jays six, nats two. rios will have a chance to possibly put this game out of reach for toronto. it's all about the jump that you get off the pitcher and it's about being heads up and into every pitch type player. situational baseball. >> it's so rare to have two players and the entire career spent with one team, and each had chances to go elsewhere. bijio was a catcher and then went to second base. >> he also played center field. >> played center field, 3,060 hits. >> he was here two years ago with the astros over at rfk the week before he announced he was retiring. >> one ball and two strikes to alex rios. got him looking on a front door breaking ball. kip wells gets his second strikeout of the inning. the blue jays strand two. they've left six. breaking ball backed up just a little bit, as bob said, the front door breaking ball. on sundays at the ballpark, god bless america today doing the honors, sullivan of the u.s. navy cruisers.  ♪  - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - it is

you can call the nats at 888- 632-nats for more info. it is time to get your blue jays tickets and get them fast. scott rolen, top of the eighth. blue jays leaving after sunday's game. sox in for three tuesday, wednesday, thursday. rolen led off the sixth wing with a base hit to left. heor

the nats had a late meltdown. he was up 6-3, but he left that game and the nats lost it.2 for 2 with a singular approach tonight. he's taken the ball up the middle twice, once for an rbi. >> rob: last time we saw him, he was struggling. >> bob: when you see a guy hitting hard line drives and base hits up the middle, that means he's locked in. the home runs will come when you have that approach. he's only hit 12 which is prizing, but he is in the top 10 in the league in rbi's. he's also in the top three in the league in hits. he's only five base hits away from 100 now. olsen gives him some breaking stuff to get him out. nine straight for scott olsen who just got his fifth strikeout. >> rob: he sets them up, then pulls the string on this breaking ball. 81, the bottom drops out. he must feel cool and comfortable right now, that's what we talked about. throwing free and easy. got a nice pitch count going. >> bob: yes, he does. cantu flied to left. >> rob: a lot of things happen when you get injured, when they do the mri's and all the other stuff. the one thing is when they te

nats. for the marlins, uggla, ross and paulino in the bottom of the 7th. scott olsen, 78 pitches, 56 strikes and he's retired 10 straight. so these pitchers have combined to retire the last 20 hitters. right e corner. uggla 0 for 2 with a pair of strikeouts, one looking.   >> bob: both of these pitchers great strike to ball ratios. that's just outside the bag for a foul ball. the count's 1-2. ricky nolasco 98 pitches, 66 strikes. >> rob: i don't know how much longer nolasco is going to go. >> bob: that's 67%. olsen, 72% strikes. in his six innings. they are indeed throwing buddies tonight. that off speed pitch in the dirt. this sets up well for manny, too, if olsen can get through this inning because he's due to bat second in the 8th. >> rob: most pitches for nolasco, 112 versus the cubs. >> bob: that indicates something. olsen's fastball just 89, but here in the 7th inning, a powerful right-handed batter well late for it. >> rob: those great breaking ball strikeouts. when you start throwing a great breaking ball, you're striking guys ou

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follow the nats with our i touch. it features video aye lights and live -- highlights and audio broadcasts. visit nationals.com on your iphone on the ipod touch to purchase. a lot of nationals fans hanging around to see if this ball club can pull this out, tying it up for a run and take the lead and snap this three-game losing streak. brandon phillips against tavarez and takes a strike. >> rob: think about tavarez over 17 years. you have to keep yourself in great physical condition. the arm is one thing but you need strong legs and a strong trunk. a lot of ab work. >> johnny: tavarez, one major league active pitchers when he came in the season this year, 4th among career holds, 150. arthur rhodes of the red has 193. he has been around a couple of years. >> rob: just a few. >> johnny: i think thinking when they are it is -- i'm thinking when they are sitting out there in the bullpen, the young guys are listening to what tavarez is theying and colome says. >> rob: i hope so. >> johnny: julian grew up as a shortstop. >>

there's a lot of pressure on the nats bullpen. the nationals have scored one run in this series after the 4 4th inning that was an earned run last night. their bullpen has been outstanding. zobrist 0-2 with a walk. his job if he can't score the runner is to push him to 3rd. this guy is a big, strong power hitting 2nd baseman with 13 home runs. >> bob: popped up, left side, up near in b ring. it doesn't hit anything. willie harris just ran into our bullpen catcher as he was trying to make that play. >> rob: just when you thought it was safe to go after a foul ball, you run into your bullpen catcher and can't get near it. nelson tried to get out of the way. willie harris, right into him. >> bob: a hazard of having the bullpens on the field. somebody down there has got to tell those guys to get out of dodge. >> rob: the problem is it should be our pitchers protecting the catchers instead of that boy. >> bob: he gets him on a breaking ball high in the zone. villone doesn't let what just happened bother him for a big first out. ron vil

nats have three lefties. >> rob: it's ok. doesn't matter to me as long as they're going to do the job. usually, lefties get out righties better than righties anyways. the whole should we fwli a righty or lefty. if a guy can throw strikes and get people out, he'll a lot -- he'll have a lot of appearance. he fits in perfectly. we get a couple of guys that right now can help this ball club win games and i tawkd talked to neil hufntington the general manager of the pirates. he said they still feel lastings milledge at 23 years old and nyjer morgan who is 28, 27-28, who is a little bit older, that lastings milledge fits into their plan more so than these other two guys. >> bob: then there are the starters who had to get it there. john lannan was outstanding in baltimore over the weekend. scott olsen, he was outstanding here in florida last night. jordan zimmermann goes tomorrow. ross detwiler still looking for his first big league win. tonight, it's craig stammen's return to the rotation. ú  >> bob: nationals baseb

nats' sixth hit, or zimmerman's single, a double.and it's one ball and a strike. >> rob: andy fletcher has home plate tonight. he has been generous. we can't just say that that was again dunn. he gave that same strike zone to detwiler, cueto, he has been very consistent all night. so as a hitter you have to go up there knowing he has been a little loose on the engineers tonight, if it's way outside, a breaking ball, he is dunn. >> johnny: david weathers the third cincinnati pitcher, willie harris witch outside.   the last 10 years d weathers leads all pitchers with 668 appearances. >> rob: a lot of work. >> johnny: a lot of work in milwaukee. >> rob: i was just leaving, i that the sat that who will last year and retired, he was coming up in '96, he would be part of that, you know, florida team great guy. great guy to have on your team. one of the nicer players you'll ever come across and be consistent at this level for 20 years pitching in the big leagues. >> he strikes out elijah dukes,

the nats, remember, the nats were having their pitching nightmares with the bullpen.then he pitched in washington, and in four innings gave up seven hits but only two runs. the marlins eventually came from behind to win that game. one of those heartbreaking losses. the nats bullpen gave up that first weekend 3-2. and a fastball up. >> rob: we've talked to some people from the marlins. he fancies himself as a guy that has about 7 pitches. that's four too many. right now we've seen a few of them tonight. great breaking ball, great fastball, just learn to throw those consistently for strikes and you'll win a lot of games. you keep messing around with that fourth or fifth best pitch that you throw maybe five times a night, you're going to give up a lot of home runs. >> bob: the pitching coach watching here. he was heading for a quick inning until willingham battled to get a base hit. josh is running, then he stopped. i asked willingham yesterday when is the last time you stole third base. he could not remember. but he said he did steal eight bases for the marlins one year

the nats may be building a 1st inning rally here. if manny does something with the runner guzman on a 3-2 to nick. he is holding and it's ball 4. 2 on, nobody out. pnc bank scouting record on mr. cecil. a big time wrapper, wraps that arm around his back and shows the ball to the hitters. big t back in 2006, he more than doubled the career save record up at the university of maryland and copy cat, he said he formulated his delivery off of that of one andy pettite of the new york yankees. so he copied most of it, except that wrapping because andy pettite does not wrap that much behind his back but very similar as you might notice. >> bob: big spot early for ryan zimmerman, fifth in the league with 81 hits. long ballgame last night. zimmerman 0-for-5 with a walk. but his walk in the 11th inning did set up adam dunn's walkoff hit. good speed out there, guzman at second, nick johnson behind him. they play zimmerman absolutely straight away in the outfield. that's outside. 1-1. by the way, the interleague ledger, american league 75, nation

nats are not going down without a fight. that was their first base hit since josh willingham singled off bonifacio's glove back in the fourth inning. a span of 14 consecutive hitters. but in this game, some bad times can disappear in a split second with a big swing. that's not going anywhere, to right center. brett carroll for the second out. it will be lefty-lefty now with meyer and adam dunn. probably a thousand people in the ballpark, the marlins are last in baseball in attendance. they don't turn out here to see one of the more entertaining teams at times. there is in the national league. >> rob: they are a very young and talented group of kids. it's just sad. there's less than 500 people at this game. >> bob: it makes you wonder if a new stadium down here would make any difference. >> rob: i think if you put it downtown, put a roof on it, people would come. >> bob: adam dunn fouls one off. and the marlins are two strikes away from their 7th consecutive win this year over the nats. their 8th in a row in this ballpark ove

third inning in a row the nats have had two men on base. romero is doing nothing to put washington away in this game. gonzalez a base hit off the glove of scott rolen first time. one ball and one strike. >> i'd like to see alberto get a gap shot here and see if austin kearns can catch adam dunn by the time he reaches home plate. >> austin can run for a big man. overbay's playing behind him. atlanta got two in the first and red sox answered with three. david ortiz, the 6th homer of the year. check on some of the other games involving our division, including the mets who now lead 2-0 over tampa bay, and gregg dobbs a homer for the phillies leading baltimore at home 1- 04th inning. marlins hosting the yankees later. gonzalez hangs tough. the sunday night game, dodgers and angels. here's our daily update, by the way, rob. american league 81, national league 72. so it's still a 9-game difference. it's been that way a couple of days. >> i like the national league keeping it close. gonzalez up the middle. a couple of crow hops by the pitcher. toro

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here are the nats now. if they don't score any more runs tonight it will be 13 runs in their last six games. >> rob: the pitching is really starting to come around. you could throw out that sixth inning, maybe jason bergmann didn't have enough time to get loose at the end of that inning. but the starters are getting better quality starts. in the last week to 10 days. it's going to be a process. >> bob: kearns is locked up and overmatched, two outs. one more note, they never have gotten that game going in philadelphia where it's delayed by rain after the red sox got five runs in the top of the first, and here in florida we're down to the final out in the top of the 9th inning. corey patterson will make an appearance hitting for wil nieves. making his return to the major leagues after hitting .302 in 39 games at syracuse. corey has always been an intriguing combination of power and speed, but in my opinion much more on the speed side, and there have been times when he's fancied himself a home run hitter. he's

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 that stung the rays for a base hit rbi. bard's batting average on the steady rise. he's getting more confidence. he's the one guy i see walking around the tunnels downstairs with rick eckstein more than any

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welcome to nats post game show. we'll recap the ball game as kind of a disappointing father's day crowd in what turned out to be a good day for a ball game. look at the first three innings, 6-2, fought back, but couldn't pull it out. >> couldn't pull it out and basically went downhill in the first inning against the blue jays. martis on the mound looking for the elusive sixth win, hasn't won since the 13th of may and clearly did not have command of almost anything this afternoon. threw a lot of pitches and of course that first inning pretty much did him in for the day. >> you know, when you talk about first inning, your ball club behind 4-0, we'll go to the defining moment. you'll see what happened in the toronto first inning. four runs with two outs in the top of the first. >> a base hit, that scores two. lyle overbay drove in rios and lind, a big day for him who swung the bat very well, three for five with a home run and five runs batted in. >> josh bard for the nationals three tore four, a couple singles and a do

that's what the nats are hoping for with a record of 16-44. the tampa bay rays played their 56th game of the year. hernandez hitting over .500 in his last few games. he's trying to get his batting average up over .270 or so. ryan zimmermann is dh. james shields 27 and 29 career. he should be better than 5-5. they haven't given him the run support like they have for andy sonnanstine. >> last year in 33 start t rays were 23-10. he won 23 of his 33 starts. right now, this is his 99th start of his career. finished them off, this guy old plan, 27. he's the oldest pitcher in the rays rotation. >> bob: the rays defensively bottom four in the league. they've made 44 errors. only seattle with 51 making more. kapler gets to start in left field after homering the win friday night. i don't think the nats pitchers or catcher wills miss crawford not being in the lineup today. we've got curly w's in the house as always. nats trying to improve their road record that stands at 6- 22. >> bob: willie harris leads off. >> rob: be ready. this guy's changeup is alm

they have outhit the nats 9-8. it's always nice to know that our fans are paying attention on what's going on in other parks. what do you think about peter's question from mac lean? >> rob: i don't think it would fit the evolution of the young staff that we have here but in boston, the reason why they thought about going to a six- man rotation is because they brought in smoltz, brought in penny and figured one of those guys comes back, it's good. but daisuke matsuzaka has been so bad they're going to skip him. i'm not a big fan even of the five-man rotation. i would not mind going back to the four-man rotation but that would take decades to develop pitchers to do that. >> bob: decades, lawsuits. here is mike macdougal, no save situation tonight. but i think manny made the point that, when scott olson gets back and getting closer, there will be one pitcher sent to aaa. it will not be because that particular pitcher did not do well here. >> rob: and i have no problem with that. you put some chips into scott olson, br

the nats bunch. it will be a big spot for gonzalez, a contact man. >> that could be a defining moment for austin kearns. taking a walk in the midst of a very big valley. he could have gone up hacking at everything. now he's got one of our hottest hitters out there. a chance to get a base hit or fly ball and get one, possibly two runs. that's a double play ball. kearns really went after aaron hill, and right after two consecutive walks, alberto gonzalez swung at the first pitch. hitters will do that. we can't figure it out sometimes, but look at kearns go after hill. i've never been all that great with my money. probably because i've never had much. but now that i'm making more, it's time to be a little smarter about how i manage it.. with the calendar, i can schedule all my payments. and when funds are low, danger days help me stay out of the red. i can also transfer money with just a click and a drag. so maybe i'm better with money than i thought. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-defi

the nats go in order in the top of the third. they've outhit the marlins 3-2 and it's time.   >> bob: nats fans well represented here in south florida whenever we come here on to the bottom of the third. let's check defense. it started with hanley ramirez trying to steal third. >> rob: just second. then you think you're going to run over to third. he gets dund gunned down by wil nieves. dan uggla thinks he'll take extra base on elijah dukes and elijah guns him down. cristian guzman quickly beat. great slow throw, but nick johnson on the other end that's good job squeezing that out of the dirt. a great 1-2-3 inning last inning. most it it -- most of it by the defense. >> bob: that ball is coming back fair. zimmerman on the run. he throws out john baker proving you never gup on a foul ball. if it comes back fair before it reaches the bag, it's flaibl. how about the english on this thing. oops. >> rob: looks like he fell coming out of the box. great job by zim on the throw. >> bob: sean west, t

the nats had to pinch hit for him. they never were in the game. but he did put four 0's on the board after those early struggles. he has given up two runs tonight, one of them unearned and a 2-0. gross had a good rip. 2 balls and a strike. stammen only 25 years of age, 6'3", 200. he had a birthday march 9th, early spring training. that ball is hit to right. not very well. elijah dukes is right there and stammen gets that quick inning he and the nats were hoping for. top of the 5th coming up. ryan zimmerman, 1-for-2 tonight. it will be zimmerman with his great grandmotherwatching followed by that old guy dunn and the young guy dukes. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at $6.99. flame-grilled tortillas layered with chicken, bacon, cheese, and ranch. crispy on the outside, melted perfection on the inside. new fire-grilled quesadillas. only at chili's. . >> bob: nationals baseball brought to you by southwest airline. book your next trip on southwest. brought to you by ge, imagination at work. st. petersburg is a beautiful town. not

the nats rescue the inning with some good defense. ú we've got a ton of stuff we've gotta pay for. and a few things we want to pay for. on top of it all, we're still trying to put away some money for the future. with the wish list, we can save up for anything we want. and still have enough to cover the day-t0-day. plus, the savings engine helps our money grow. and that's something we need and want. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. >> bob: the top of the sixt inning, nats lead 2-1. zimmermann could be around for another inning, we'll see. here sunday, off day monday, on to yankee stadium, we're back home against toronto friday night, 7:00. friday night fireworks and all that fun out there in the red porch as we come back home to play toronto and boston. ryan zimmerman will certainly be around for several more innings. he's 1-2 with a pair of rbi's tonight. >> rob: four hits, two runs, both rbi's by this man. this pitcher came in tonight with a 7

time for "nats xtra" pregame. i'm johnny holliday along with the silver fox, former mvp of the 1986 world series ray knight. good to have you on a special night for nats baseball. number one, nats will go to florida and knock off the marlins in the doggone eight- game slide they had in miami and a couple of new guys are coming in to join this ball club and we talked about that, didn't we, ray? wouldn't it be nice to get this kid, morgan, playing in our ball club? eye want to relate to the fans about what you said to me. we were walking around the ballpark all year long. we have not commented loot about oppositional players. johnny says have you paid attention to nyjer wilson. he says he flies, he's quick to me. runs almost to the on-deck circle. a kid who has a tremendous amount of energy, johnny. it's ironic you mention that. wouldn't it be nice to have a player hike that who has that type of energy. he can plat flat out run, right center, right field. he'll add a new edge to this is ball club. we'll talk to mike

>> time for "nats xtra" pregame. tom davis along with the silver fox, ray knight. this will be take two, chapter two. the next three ballgames, the weekend series at camden yards, the nats against the orioles. our show is always brought to you by our good friends at the verizon wireless. the nats coming off a heck of a win against the boston red sox 9-3 while the orioles got racked pretty good down there in florida. they got swept by the marlins and yesterday got pounded pretty good 11-3. >> the orioles have done a little like us. they haven't scored runs over consistent periods of time, johnny. we exploded last night and we're going to go to the tape and show that. we were able to get four hits, four runs, a base on ball, just line drives all over the ballpark. willingham, the base hit. zimmerman that got hit by a pitch by johnson, but he is in the lineup tonight and bards, a clutch base hit to right field and then arthur andersen hernandez ends up with a two- run single to left center field scoring two more runs. four big runs to give jordan zimmermann something

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the nat have turned two tonight. drop toe has turned three-- toronto has turned three. >> bob: there is that location on the breaking pitch and the count is 2-2. 2-1, fastball count for the hitter and you get the old uncle charlie. got him. overbay could not pull the trigger. it was up and in. enough of the corner, two outs. it will be tavarez now and millar. >> rob: well, very nicely done by julian tavarez. looked him away, away, away and then comes right in, two-seam fastball, drops in on the inner half, absolutely froze overbay. >> bob: kevin millar, 1-for-4 with a business hit tonight. zimmerman really guarding the line at third. nick johnson holding the runner. that's a nice breaking ball. >> rob: it is. >> bob: it's about the speed of a change-up, 84. >> rob: he threw a 93 running fastball that was off the charts. now he comes back with an 83 mile-per-hour change-up. he turned that over like a screw ball. no telling what julian tavarez has learned over 17 years in the big leagues. >> bob: they used to get all o

nats have outhit the blue jays 2-1.s time to look at everything last night. >> rob: they were laying out for everything with the leather and then see the assist from austin kearns at second base, willie harris laying out diving on that warning track. anderson hernandez, cristian guzman, ryan zimmerman from his knees. >> bob: i had one guy in new york last night say willie harris' landing was the best one in that town since sully sullivanen burger on the hudson river. >> rob: sully, i'm in his fan club. >> bob: i think everyone s you're an official member? >> rob: yeah, there's a fan club on face bacon. >> bob: nice. you and sullivan -- on facebook? >> bob: nice. you and sully type. it will be top of the order now. marco scutaro and then aaron hill. look at that. first-pitch strikes to all nine hitters so far. no nationals pitcher has done that this year. >> rob: those are some of the stats maybe we hold off until the ninth inning. >> bob: did we jinx him? >> rob: no, if he throws a ball right here, steve mccatty is goin

here come the nats.good first inning for jordan zimmermann. - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - it is totally on. jimmy, it's on. it's on. oh, yeah, it's on. pilot: affirmative, it's on. it's easy to identify the leaders of tomorrow. they're all around us. which is why pnc created grow up great. a $100 million program that prepares young children for school. and the world they'll inherit.... sooner than you think. pnc. leading the way. at chrysler, we build viewmasters. we build motion detectors. we build troop transports. we build moving vans. we build tv stations. we build the 25 mile per gallon chrysler town & country. come see what we've built for you. >> bob: bottom of the first inning. nalts are -- nats are hitting .257, eighth in the league, 10th in runs and seventh in home runs. adam dunn, homer number 296 at yankee stadium two nights ago. he has 18 on the year and 47 rbi's and he's hitting the ball pretty -- pretty well. slugging percentage up there. they continue to walk adam

welcome back, everybody, "nats xtra" post-game here on masn. 6-3 the orioles knocking off the nats tonightt camden yards. nats bats were cooking a little bit in that first inning to give shairon martis a little 2- 0 lead. >> we came out smoking. you're setting up a situation where you might score five or six runs. guzman singles to center field. wright here, line drive has guthrie throwing that sinker down. zimmerman walks. walks dunn-for-an rbi. you've already got one in, bases loaded, nobody out, you've got to get a good ball to hit. this man does. josh bard walks. two runs scored, both of them via rbi walks. then we didn't do anything after that. it's the fourth inning. willie hits his second double of the ballgame. kearns singles to left on the first big base hit he's had in a long time. and that put us up. at that point 3-1, but that's it other than the missed opportunities which we're going to show you in a moment. >> was happy to see austin kearns get his 16th rbi of the season. willie harris a base hit tonight, a single, a run. ryan zimmerman not enough hits tonight, only 8 for the

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and the nats are in business. putting the ball in play, testing a good toronto defense, and josh bard gets his ninth and tenth rbis of the year. josh bard gets a pitch he can handle, doesn't try to kill it, hits it on the line. and there you see aaron hill. two runs come in because he deflects it into shallow center field. >> now you have a perfect sacrifice situation with martis, who's done that twice this year. romero took a look at second, then had a hard time getting a handle on it. and it nearly cost himself an out, but a good bunt by martis. did you see what scott rolen did on that play? he came charging in, cutting in front of the runner. >> the pitcher did too good of a job fielding his position and cut in front of scott rolen. school rolen, he's good, but if a guy swings away one time, he's been doing that the whole series coming about 30 feet away from the hitter on the bunt. no fear. >> top of the order, chris and guzman singled up the middle first time. this ball pulled. that's foul. fifty pickup by ro

if nats on your phone and i pod. bat 2009 featuring play-by- play, video highlights and live audio broadcast. visit national's.com on your eye phone or ipod, touch to purchase. so it's quickly two up and two down in the seventh. and will nieves looking for his first base hit of the night. we'll see what he can do gents johnny quelt oh. >> rob: josh going to be starting in right field tomorrow. >> johnny: you know how anxious he is to get back in this lineup. >> rob: i think the lack of production from austin kearns, if josh willingham gets back to swinging the bat as hot as he was, that gives him the versatility to be in the lineup every day. >> johnny: will nieves the fourth hit of the night for washington. line drive to center field so the nats get a runner on with two down.  and willingham will hit >> rob: i like him. i talked to him a couple years ago. first time i had to go back to cincinnati since we won the world series. new owners, cas ski leany. arthur rose, having a f

the nats offense very strong. alberto two of the hits. martis and sea bath i can't --- . >> bob: this is the second run issued by the rays today. it's time for adam dunn to jump up and hurt tampa bay. >> rob: not a good day for santana. 82 pitches in 3 innings. aj burnett on the other side 6 inning, 4 hit, 8 punch outs. >> bob: evidently at yankees stadium you need to make them swing and miss. >> bob: he's adam dunn. this could be the defining play of the day for the nationals. bullpen about to take over. fastball for a strike. not the kind of first pitch you usually see from a lefty. the pitch selection or the location. >> rob: on the pitch track here, fastball that cuts back over the plate. the catcher had to set up outside. >> bob: nearly threw it away. navarro saves a run. this is supposed to be a cutter. >> rob: he tries to aim it and throws it in the dirt, navarro. probably instead of block it with his glove, tried to slide out to get his body behind it. >> bob: neither team doing much in this department. big hit of the day gonzalez

the nats knocking off the orioles at camden yards, 5-3. tomorrow night the first of a three game series in florida against the marlins. the nats 0-6 against the fish this year. 6:30 is our air time, masn 2 tomorrow night and tuesday. how about this. we're going to be with you 11:30 wednesday morning for the wrap-up game for the nationals and marl anyone's florida. then the atlanta braves come to town for a big weekend series over the fourth of july at nationals park. welcome back, everybody. happy to have you with us on sunday afternoon. tomorrow night it will be scott olson coming off the dl against ricky nolasco of florida. >> scott won 12, he pitched three straight years. they're saying his velocity is up two miles per hour. it was 88 to 91 when he was here. we were talking about his velocity. nolasco struggles for two starts. giving up eight runs. but his last four he's only given up five runs. he's striking out a lot of people, he struck out 25 and walked five, so he's back on top of that stretch. >> the nats really about due to take

t-shirt tuesday coming, nats and red sox. first 10,000 fans receive that curly w present the by hard science cafi. there are just a few tickets left. get them now. tuesday, wednesday, thursday. 202-675-nats. detwiler really got his pitch count down in the 5th and 6th innings. really, the 4th, 5th and 6th. 54 pitches the first three innings and only 4 total the next three. millar, flyball to right. lee -- elijah dukes. i always love it when the starter gets to hear the 7th inning stretch. and ross detwiler is almost there. raul chavez coming up. cecil, 93 pitches, 62 strikes through 6. but detwiler, a total turn around this evening, even though he has given up a run. but that was solo homer. he was really attacking the zone. >> rob: he has not broken that change-up out too much tonight. i think in those couples of innings where he was economical, got the big outs on the change-up. for a young kid, he is doing much better at not throwing all four pitches in the 1st inning, first time through the batting order so they can see ex

"nats xtra pregame" here on masn.as the nationals try to salvage game three of this big weekend beltway, battle of the beltway series at camden yards, after an 11-1 loss and a 6-3 loss last night. kind of an interesting news coming down last night about the situation involving craig stammen who had started seven games, now he goes to the bullpen for the nats. >> i'm really happy for him. i thought he threw well enough to remain up here and i think it was the right decision to make. he can throw the ball over the plate. he's got the curveball, change- up, that sinking fastball, and i know that he's going to go out there and be able to throw the ball over the plate. he's our first true long guy that we've had here since i've been here. davey johnson used to call him the 6th starter. he was a guy in a anytime the game got out of hand early, you had somebody to come in there and not only eat up innings, but keep you close. i think he can do that. he's had some minor league appearances, with a great earned run average. wha

nats may not have enough runs today. we shall see.a strike to nick johnson on james shields' 60th of the day. oni need to go to the gift shop and buy toys for the kids and put in the backpack. >> bob: you telling me on father's day we still have to buy everybody else something? are you kidding me? >> bob: 2-1. ryan zimmermann the dh next and then dunn. nats 4 runs on 8 hits. a lot of line drives today. nick will hook that ball foul. here come the cow bells. how about that? keep the cow bells coming. nick johnson has his 18th multihit game of the year. nick is 4-11 with a walk this weekend. >> rob: before the game, they do the cow bell etiquette. they have a whole presentation. >> bob: how do you have time to know all this stuff? >> rob: i don't know. i know a lot about a little. >> bob: zimmermann a strike out and fly ball today. 2-10 with a homen, two rbis in the series. that's a big time rip. >> bob: 1-2 to ryan. good base running play. safe to 2nd is johnson. he had a good lead. he was off soon as the ball hit the ground. >> rob

we'll go with "nats xtra" at 1:00 pm.  >>> time nor "nats xtra" post- game, brought to you by verizon fios. i'm johnny holliday. happy to have you joining us tonight. we knew the tampa bay scored a loft runs. in fact, they lead the american league in runs scored. we did not understand until we've seen them play, ray, these last couple of nights how explosive this ball club is, if you give them the opportunity, they can take advantage of it. >> they've got a great combination of good hitters in the middle of the line-up with power, then at top of the line- up with upton and crawford. they have so many opportunities with runners in scoring position, without having to bat those guys around and really make a lot of advancement because of their tremendous speed at the top of the line- up. >> they have scored 362 runs this season. and six of those came, or seven of those came tonight in our defining moment in the sixth inning for tampa bay. >> yeah, zimmermann pitched extremely well going five innings. here he comes, a little blooper to left field, the first hit of the ser

that ballgame tomorrow night, joord zimmerman will be pitching for the nats. guzman will take a walk. he has six walks already this year. how about that nick johnson, a walkoff homer at rfk. >> that's when they were the rfk. >> you see some of the guys in that picture, damien jackson, marlon byrd, seems like a lifetime ago ago, doesn't it, fans? that someone a little bit inside to nick who has hit five homers this year. if the rays have a kangaroo court, matt garza should be convicted for walking cristian guzman. that's almost impossible to do. >> rob: he still is a young guy, with adrenaline. he still has a lot left in that tank even though he had a 30- plus 1st inning. >> bob: let's see if the nats can make him do some more work here. this has not been a quick inning either here. he has 16 pitches. >> rob: 46 pitches already. >> bob: garza, as rob mentioned, is a big kid, 6'5", 214. nick is johnson gets jammed and an easily flyball to right for gabe gross. the nats have had a bunch of base runners already, five hits and lead it 3-0, middle of the 2nd. at 155