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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. 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...
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thanks for joining us here at "nats xtra pregame." palmer, bob carpenter, rob dibble coming up. nick johnson in the cage a few minutes ago. nats try to salvage game three of this battle of the beltway series from camden yards. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour. almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. starting august 16th, fly southwest airlines from bwi airport to boston logan for just $49 one-way. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com. grab your bag. it's on. (crowd cheers) (music plays) witness a piece of golf history. the travelers championship. june 22nd through 28th. the travelers championship. june 22nd through 28th. 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.
thanks for joining us here at "nats xtra pregame." palmer, bob carpenter, rob dibble coming up. nick johnson in the cage a few minutes ago. nats try to salvage game three of this battle of the beltway series from camden yards. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour. almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. starting august 16th, fly southwest airlines from bwi airport to boston logan for just...
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nats xtra post game. taking a look at the nationals farm club.bout garrett mike huckabee, outpitching john smoltz. >> ray: base on ball, seven strikeouts, just two hits for the big right hander. >> johnny: and mr. maxwell in syracuse, 1-for-3. they take 2. scores identical, 4-1, 4-1. hairs burg, six homeruns. that's the final in haggerstown with a 5-3 win over delmarva. >> the haggerstown bullpen had a pretty good night tonight. and frederick potomac, 4-1 over spreadic and 10-39 final in the second game. potomac, 7 runs certified. >> pretty good night. >> johnny: and homerun number 5 for -- meats and yankees, bottom of the 6th, mets up. matsui with a shot. yankees lead it. game tied at 7. david wright doubles to center off mariano rivera. carlos beltran of the mets scores. the mets take a one-run lead. the mets are celebrating. hold on. bottom of the 9th. two on, two out. alex rodriguez pops up. he says, i got t he drops it. both runners score. the yankees win 9-8. how about that? braves and orioles tonight, top of the 5th. this ballgame is tied
nats xtra post game. taking a look at the nationals farm club.bout garrett mike huckabee, outpitching john smoltz. >> ray: base on ball, seven strikeouts, just two hits for the big right hander. >> johnny: and mr. maxwell in syracuse, 1-for-3. they take 2. scores identical, 4-1, 4-1. hairs burg, six homeruns. that's the final in haggerstown with a 5-3 win over delmarva. >> the haggerstown bullpen had a pretty good night tonight. and frederick potomac, 4-1 over spreadic and...
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ben goessling. >>> welcome back "nats xtra pregame on masn tonight.tomorrow night at 7:00 and sunday afternoon game on masn 2. then, boston red sox come to town for games tuesday, wednesday and thursday. on the big one, masn hd. we hope you'll be with us here in person if not on masn. manny acta knows one thing is for certain. pitching and defense wins ballgames. >> i don't think it's a secret that pitching and defense wins ballgames. the fact is that we haven't played good defense, and it goes both ways. if you play good defense, it makes your pitching better because there's a thousand of errors that they don't shoip on the box score. fly balls that we don't get to. fly balls that we don't catch. ground balls we don't get to that some of the guys get to it. it goes hand in hand. >> and ben goessling joining us from the "the washington times" in the hot corner segment. defense especially the series up in new york really got everybody's attention. >> yeah, it was different than anything we've seen this year. not only were the errors not there, they wer
ben goessling. >>> welcome back "nats xtra pregame on masn tonight.tomorrow night at 7:00 and sunday afternoon game on masn 2. then, boston red sox come to town for games tuesday, wednesday and thursday. on the big one, masn hd. we hope you'll be with us here in person if not on masn. manny acta knows one thing is for certain. pitching and defense wins ballgames. >> i don't think it's a secret that pitching and defense wins ballgames. the fact is that we haven't played...
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join us tomorrow, nats-jays, 6:30 with "nats xtra" tomorrow night first pitch 7. 067895. visit masnsports.com for all the latest news on the nats. this has been a presentation of masn. "nats xtra", post-game coming up right now. johnny and phil from the booth. so long for just a while. >>> hello, welcome to xtra" post-game brought to you by verizon phi yos. nationals in 11 innings knock off the toronto blue jays winning 2-1. the first extra inning victory of the year. mr. wood, boy, it couldn't come at a better time. you have the bases loaded and your big stick up in dunn dune he wanted to get the ball up in the air. he got the ball -- he got it off the ground. let just say that. he smoked that ball. you got pass overbay at first base. winning run scores. bases load, one out. perfect opportunity obviously. extra inning win. obviously as we talked about watching the ballgame, johnny, they had multiple opportunities to score runs and couldn't get it done. >> they did. that's right. >> called strike threes were so infuriating, i'm sure they're more upset about
join us tomorrow, nats-jays, 6:30 with "nats xtra" tomorrow night first pitch 7. 067895. visit masnsports.com for all the latest news on the nats. this has been a presentation of masn. "nats xtra", post-game coming up right now. johnny and phil from the booth. so long for just a while. >>> hello, welcome to xtra" post-game brought to you by verizon phi yos. nationals in 11 innings knock off the toronto blue jays winning 2-1. the first extra...
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time for "nats xtra" post-game here on masn. johnny holliday along with ray knight. the nationals had a 2-0 lead, the nationals had a 3-1 lead. the orioles win it 6-3. five of the runs tonight scored by baltimore coming on the long ball. >> and most of those fastballs right down the middle. one breaking ball. martis, he wasn't sharp tonight. he threw 98 pitches, 57 strikes. that's just 55% strikes. and that has really been the negative that i've seen on him. it takes him a long time to put a hitter away. he's got a nice repertoire of pitches with the fastball, slider, occasional curveball, or more of a service type pitch. it takes him a lot of pitches to get hitters out. if he makes one mistake, tonight with reimold fastball right there, to zaun fastball right there. we had a two-run lead but that's not a lot. that's a small ballpark. you hit the ball in the air, you've got a chance to leave the yard. >> the o's take the first two games of this weekend series, defining moments of the game tonight came when the nationals had the bases loaded and could not take advanta
time for "nats xtra" post-game here on masn. johnny holliday along with ray knight. the nationals had a 2-0 lead, the nationals had a 3-1 lead. the orioles win it 6-3. five of the runs tonight scored by baltimore coming on the long ball. >> and most of those fastballs right down the middle. one breaking ball. martis, he wasn't sharp tonight. he threw 98 pitches, 57 strikes. that's just 55% strikes. and that has really been the negative that i've seen on him. it takes him a long...
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byron kerr and ray knight with you, welcome to nats xtra. last night, we could use a couple of adam dunn long balls as we saw in the preview, ray, because 12 innings, two-hour rain delay, offense in the 9th inning, they lose 4-2. that was a tough one to swallow yesterday. >> ray: we have had a lot of tough sexualing. my esophagus i think has tightened up for trying to swallow so much. we are doing a lot of things better. our pitching has been so much better, bullpen and starting pitching. and i'm excited to come to the park every day to watch these young pitchers work. offensively that is the part of the game. you will have streaks scoring. when you get into that feeling if our pitching can just come around we are going to do something because our offense is pretty stable. that was the case for the better 2/3 of the season we have gone through so far. we have all been around baseball and know you are going run into slumps. adam dunn is a guy that is going to get hot and hit 10 homeruns in a month. zimmerman has been hot. he has cooled down.
byron kerr and ray knight with you, welcome to nats xtra. last night, we could use a couple of adam dunn long balls as we saw in the preview, ray, because 12 innings, two-hour rain delay, offense in the 9th inning, they lose 4-2. that was a tough one to swallow yesterday. >> ray: we have had a lot of tough sexualing. my esophagus i think has tightened up for trying to swallow so much. we are doing a lot of things better. our pitching has been so much better, bullpen and starting pitching....
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for rob dibble and debbi taylor, tomorrow night 6:30 with "nats xtra," johnny and ray. then the nats and the marlins with craig stammen. this has been a presentation of masn. >>> as advertised, welcome back. "nats xtra post-game." along with the silver fox, ray knight, johnny holliday. happy to have you with us. a game looked leak the nationals were going to finally stop that streak of winless games against the fish down there in the sunshine state, but not to be. walks came back to haunt this club. >> bullpen a little bit. early offense jumped out there, then not able to sustain it. didn't have a lot of offense after that fifth inning. he's pitched really well, in all the games but two that he's started. he has the ability to punch people out. threw a lot of pitches in good spots. they pitch extremely well. we hit some balls decently, just not enough offense. they were able to put it together and do something. >> you talked about, walked nobody tonight. defining moment in this ballgame came in the 8th inning. it was a 2-2 ballgame at that point. wes helms facing ron vil
for rob dibble and debbi taylor, tomorrow night 6:30 with "nats xtra," johnny and ray. then the nats and the marlins with craig stammen. this has been a presentation of masn. >>> as advertised, welcome back. "nats xtra post-game." along with the silver fox, ray knight, johnny holliday. happy to have you with us. a game looked leak the nationals were going to finally stop that streak of winless games against the fish down there in the sunshine state, but not to be....
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. >> johnny: nats xtra post game coming up in just a couple of minutes. hopefully they will be talking about a nationals win tonight. 3-2 they lead with two outs in the top of the 9th. beimel has retired jay bruce and alex gonzalez and will face the 1st baseman, adam rosales. >> rob: nice. josh bard behind home plate. he wanted that pitch low and beimel hit his spot perfectly. >> johnny: beimel going scoreless in 17 of his 24 appearances overall. the veteran left-hander, breaking ball for a strike. fans on their feet. >> rob: and also give nieves and bard credit. they have been flip-flopping after finding out flores is done for the year and doing a great job as catchers. >> johnny: the 1-1 to rosales. breaking ball just inside. had a notion, didn't he. beimel born in st. mary's, pennsylvania. 31 years of age. and the count is 2-1. beimel delivers. swing and a fly to right. kearns should have it. ballgame is over! the nationals have won. they snap their three-game losing streak. they come from behind to do it and the final is 3-2 over cincinnati. >> rob: w
. >> johnny: nats xtra post game coming up in just a couple of minutes. hopefully they will be talking about a nationals win tonight. 3-2 they lead with two outs in the top of the 9th. beimel has retired jay bruce and alex gonzalez and will face the 1st baseman, adam rosales. >> rob: nice. josh bard behind home plate. he wanted that pitch low and beimel hit his spot perfectly. >> johnny: beimel going scoreless in 17 of his 24 appearances overall. the veteran left-hander,...
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glad to have you with us tonight for "nats xtra pregame." it's the first three -- the first of three against the marlins in florida. fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and internet today and get an ultra-sleek compaq mini netbook. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities >>> yeah, he's been swinging the bat very well. he's been probably our best hitter the last month or so. despite having to stop playing, he's swinging a hot bat, he's got a track record as a hitter in the big leagues and we're looking forward to having a very good second half out of him. >> no question about, josh willingham swinging a hot bat. his average up to .278, last 17 games he's hitting .500. the orioles series, josh went 6 for 11 and had a stolen base. look wh
glad to have you with us tonight for "nats xtra pregame." it's the first three -- the first of three against the marlins in florida. fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and internet today and...
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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
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....
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verizon fios has "nats xtra" post-game. how jordan zimmermann was able to sting the rays, but he only lasted five innings tonight. ryan got it going with a home run early. debt wierl storm and james shields for the rays. that guy's legit. suffice to say he has not received the run support andy sonnanstine has. breaking ball low and away. wil nieves 0 for 2. the nats have one base hit below the 3 spot in the batting order. two, pardon me. one by kearns, one by hernandez, a bunt. a two hopper to the shortstop brignac. 15 in a row for sonnanstine. ú how far can you see? at pnc, taking the long view is how we help you take the right path. even to change it when conditions demand. keeping you on the road to achieving your goals. it's something we've been doing for over 150 years. let our strength and stability be the basis for yours. pnc. leading the way. >> bob: bottom of the 7th inning. zobrist, pearl and gross. more of the tampa bay rays who lead 8-2. elijah dukes first major league home run in his first career at-bat
verizon fios has "nats xtra" post-game. how jordan zimmermann was able to sting the rays, but he only lasted five innings tonight. ryan got it going with a home run early. debt wierl storm and james shields for the rays. that guy's legit. suffice to say he has not received the run support andy sonnanstine has. breaking ball low and away. wil nieves 0 for 2. the nats have one base hit below the 3 spot in the batting order. two, pardon me. one by kearns, one by hernandez, a bunt. a two...
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our nats xtra coming up with byron kerr and ray knight. they'll be talking about theouting tonight. there was only one mistake the homer by bruce. the nats xtra pregame tomorrow will be at 4:00 and the first pitch a little after 4:30. >> rob: you also have to score a run to win. you may think it's a mistake. the hitters are getting paid to get runs on the board for their ball club too. shairon did an excellent job. >> johnny: 0-9 the last four games willy has played in. he went through three straight sunday through thursday. >> rob: in the last few innings, harang has stepped up velocity against our hitters. now he's throwing a lot of sinkers and cutter, but they're all fastballs. he totally changed his approach to our hitters in the third lineup. >> johnny: that's the mark of a good pitcher to be able to do that and adjust the gameover all. >> rob: he's feeling it. you see him hitting that same spot over and over. he's going to make harris beat him to the field. >> johnny: drives to left field, pops up down the left field line, foul. six road starts, he's 1-4. he's been banged up a
our nats xtra coming up with byron kerr and ray knight. they'll be talking about theouting tonight. there was only one mistake the homer by bruce. the nats xtra pregame tomorrow will be at 4:00 and the first pitch a little after 4:30. >> rob: you also have to score a run to win. you may think it's a mistake. the hitters are getting paid to get runs on the board for their ball club too. shairon did an excellent job. >> johnny: 0-9 the last four games willy has played in. he went...
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coverage begins 6:30, "nats xtra." juan villone takes over here.e'll face right-handed hitting wes helms pinch-hitting for ricky nolasco. ron villone still sporting a nice e.r.a., it's his 29th appearance. not good control numbers. 12 strikeouts, but 14 walks. unusual for him. >> bob: wes helms, as a pinch- hitter this year, 7 for 21 with five rbi's. he's at .33, ron villone nowhere near the plate here. >> rob: ronny's more at the stage of his career where he will pitch around danger more so than challenge it. >> bob: maybe that's why the walk total is up? >> rob: absolutely. the rookie lead-off man chris coghlan next, then emilio bonifacio and hanley ramirez. their top three hitters are 4 for 9 tonight. the nats are 0 for 10. scott olsen finishes with 94 pitches, 66 strikes. oh, what a night. nats couldn't get him a run in the 8th to make him a rainer. ron villone has to hold the marlins. he's battled back now to make the count 3-2 on wes helms. that's a base hit. inside the bag, willingham has a long way to go. if hel
coverage begins 6:30, "nats xtra." juan villone takes over here.e'll face right-handed hitting wes helms pinch-hitting for ricky nolasco. ron villone still sporting a nice e.r.a., it's his 29th appearance. not good control numbers. 12 strikeouts, but 14 walks. unusual for him. >> bob: wes helms, as a pinch- hitter this year, 7 for 21 with five rbi's. he's at .33, ron villone nowhere near the plate here. >> rob: ronny's more at the stage of his...
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they are down a run in the 8th inning and a foul ball off the bat of reid brignac. >> rob: well, on nats xtraof night going, ray knight made a great point that the nats are now in almost every game, playing a more exciting game, much more exciting to watch. >> bob: that's true. >> rob: this is a team that went to the world series last year. you have them up one run, in the 8th. you have done a pretty good job. >> bob: you know, when you are in tight ball games, you have to keep doing all the basic things and that includes catching the ball. >> rob: that's true. >> bob: your point is well taken. this is a lot better than getting beaten 12-6 or 11-3. these are competitive ball games and the nats are right in them. beimel with a fastball in there and brignac just stands there and watches it. for the second time tonight, the rays get an unearned run on a homer of of all things. . >> bob: nationals baseball brought to you by southwest and by honda. you can depend on honda for great leases and low financing. the washington nationals play for the first time ever. gabe kapler stay to play i
they are down a run in the 8th inning and a foul ball off the bat of reid brignac. >> rob: well, on nats xtraof night going, ray knight made a great point that the nats are now in almost every game, playing a more exciting game, much more exciting to watch. >> bob: that's true. >> rob: this is a team that went to the world series last year. you have them up one run, in the 8th. you have done a pretty good job. >> bob: you know, when you are in tight ball games, you have...
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coverage begin at 7:00 with nats xtra hosted by ray knight and yours truly. laynce nix has moved to left field in place of jonny gomes for cincinnati. and herrera. >> rob: 24-year-old out of, oh december that -- odessa, texas. odessa -- odessa, texas. they can run these guys out there. almost all of them have 25 plus appearances. this is his 26th of the year with a 1.5 e.r.a. >> johnny: daniel ray making his first appearance in this series. left-hander. ball hit that ver taveras. he is hurt. >> rob: right here, herrera -- oh. last night, the 1st baseman charges and it hits him on the instep or ankle of that right leg. he is a tough guy. he is not coming out of game. >> johnny: yeah. herrera stays. anderson hernandez hitting for the pitcher. man on, nobody out, bottom of the 8th, 2-1 lead. the nats trying to tie it up. did it last night in the bottom of the 9th. no reason they can't do it today. grounder to third past the 3rd baseman! hernandez will make the turn and stay at second. -- hernandez is on. 2-1, nobody out in the 8th. another golden opportunity, ro
coverage begin at 7:00 with nats xtra hosted by ray knight and yours truly. laynce nix has moved to left field in place of jonny gomes for cincinnati. and herrera. >> rob: 24-year-old out of, oh december that -- odessa, texas. odessa -- odessa, texas. they can run these guys out there. almost all of them have 25 plus appearances. this is his 26th of the year with a 1.5 e.r.a. >> johnny: daniel ray making his first appearance in this series. left-hander. ball hit that ver taveras. he...
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johnny holliday and ray knight, "nats xtra" presented by verizon fios, starring those two, straight ahead. i know this has to be frustrating for ray, because for several weeks he has just like you have, and me, too, that this ball club was just on the verge of better things. it's just very slow coming together here. pitching has been good, bergmann had a nightmare in the sixth inning tonight. other than that it's been a solid week for the pitching staff. 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 f
johnny holliday and ray knight, "nats xtra" presented by verizon fios, starring those two, straight ahead. i know this has to be frustrating for ray, because for several weeks he has just like you have, and me, too, that this ball club was just on the verge of better things. it's just very slow coming together here. pitching has been good, bergmann had a nightmare in the sixth inning tonight. other than that it's been a solid week for the pitching staff. here are the nats now. if they...
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. >>> "nats xtra" show on masn brought to you by verizon fios.k shairon martis tonight what was going wrong with him trying to pitch against this orioles line-up, his response might be this response. >> what happened today? >> well, no getting hit, no getting first pitch strikes, so that's going get new trouble. >> how frustrating is that for you, especially when even though it could have been a bigger first inning for the team, with the two bases loaded walks, but then you come out and right away get into a struggling mode. >> it's supposed to be, but they got to be aggressive and throw strikes and i'm not doing that right now. >> can you pinpoint anything as to why? >> so it's john lannan tomorrow for the nats, he's 4-5 against david hernandez being called up from triple-a norfolk for the orioles. >> i'm going to make one statement about john lannan. any club in the major leagues right now he can make. that's how good a pitcher he is. he might be a number five on some of those great clubs, but he can pitch anywhere. the man has done a great job
. >>> "nats xtra" show on masn brought to you by verizon fios.k shairon martis tonight what was going wrong with him trying to pitch against this orioles line-up, his response might be this response. >> what happened today? >> well, no getting hit, no getting first pitch strikes, so that's going get new trouble. >> how frustrating is that for you, especially when even though it could have been a bigger first inning for the team, with the two bases loaded...
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"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.
"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...
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set to bring you nats "nats xtra". they have one final shot to run the winning streak to three in a row. >> they might go into extra innings too. they have to get bat off the shoulder. >> we've had lots and lots of thrills from this ball club let's send you back to bob and rob and see if nats can win in in regulation in the last of the ninth. >> bob: johnny, that would be sweet, because after regulation it has been ugly. nationals 0-8 -- >> rob: you had to say that! >> bob: i'm jinxing it. i cannot win with you. >> rob: i tell you what. if you could get bug spray up here, you could win with me. >> bob: all right. the guys you would like to have up there, johnson, zimmerman and dunn in the bottom of the ninth against jeremy accardo out for his second inning. >> rob: nick, the rest of them awful quiet. >> bob: nick johnson, 3-3 with a walk and now batting .315. >> rob: must be the stats. >> bob: accardo on the corner, 0-2. >> rob: man, he didn't call that all night for jordan zimmermann who threw 23 first- pitch strikes.
set to bring you nats "nats xtra". they have one final shot to run the winning streak to three in a row. >> they might go into extra innings too. they have to get bat off the shoulder. >> we've had lots and lots of thrills from this ball club let's send you back to bob and rob and see if nats can win in in regulation in the last of the ninth. >> bob: johnny, that would be sweet, because after regulation it has been ugly. nationals 0-8 -- >> rob: you had to say...
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"nats xtra" here on masn. ronny belliard will be in the nationals line-up tonight. he's only got two base hits this month, looking to break out of a 4 for 35 slide. his 17th start and first since june 10 against cincinnati. the rest of the nationals line- up tonight will go this way. cristian guzman will be the dh. in the number two hole tonight, ryan zimmerman at third, then adam dunn, then willingham. belliard will be at second, and austin kearns goes to right tonight. ronny belliard's first start since june 10. now for the orioles who clobbered the nationals last night 11-1, leading off will be brian roberts, hitless the last couple ballgames, after a six- game hitting streak, leads the american league in doubles, he's knocked out 25 doubles this year, he drove in a season high four runs against the phillies one week ago. the birds line-up goes this way, roberts leads off at second with a .288 batting average, then comes adam jones, he had three hits last night, as did nick markakis, aubrey huff at first base batting in the cleanup spot. nolan reimold also three
"nats xtra" here on masn. ronny belliard will be in the nationals line-up tonight. he's only got two base hits this month, looking to break out of a 4 for 35 slide. his 17th start and first since june 10 against cincinnati. the rest of the nationals line- up tonight will go this way. cristian guzman will be the dh. in the number two hole tonight, ryan zimmerman at third, then adam dunn, then willingham. belliard will be at second, and austin kearns goes to right tonight. ronny...
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. >>> "nats xtra" on masn brought to you in part by -- >>> 4-2, florida beats washington down in south florida in miami. game one of the series. tomorrow night 6:30 with you right back at you on masn 2 tomorrow night. and when you look at scott olsen, we just talked to bob and rob about the performance. the guy hasn't pitched since back in may against the phillies, when he probably shouldn't have pitched that night. >> well, i think he was hurt. he wasn't throwing with a lot of velocity. tonight he got up to 92. he'll get right to it in the second inning as he strikes out uggla. fastball away. fastball. he fouls off a slider. fastball he fouls back. then he buries him with a fastball downment took a little off of that one. third inning, he'll base hit to left field. double by carroll. nolasco sacrifice bunt, coghlan singles to right field, carroll scores. then after bonifacio triples to deep center field, ball that willie almost ran down, hanley ramirez hitting .333 coming into this game. one of the best players in all of baseball singles up the middle. nolasco k'd, replay here on the
. >>> "nats xtra" on masn brought to you in part by -- >>> 4-2, florida beats washington down in south florida in miami. game one of the series. tomorrow night 6:30 with you right back at you on masn 2 tomorrow night. and when you look at scott olsen, we just talked to bob and rob about the performance. the guy hasn't pitched since back in may against the phillies, when he probably shouldn't have pitched that night. >> well, i think he was hurt. he wasn't...
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want you to join us to follow the game at masn at 7:05 and after the game, we'll carry the as usual nats xtraplayer interviews and game highlights. that will be saturday from tampa tampa. >> rob: do you still do your breathing stuff before reading? my dad taught know do that. >> johnny: no, i don't. i should have taken a breath there. >> rob: i used to always listen to my dad take a breath before starting a sentence. >> johnny: they told me you were observant in studying people. >> rob: you listen to other people's voices voices and things. they're not real nice to teddy roosevelt. >> johnny: that was a nice gesture to welcome bruce -- >> if things don't work out here, you could be his adviser. you could be down there. >> rob: he needs to win just one. i don't comment on a president again. >> johnny: brandon phillips -- >> rob: i spent a few months in milwaukee watching -- the games got so long watching sausages. >> johnny: they were knocking people over -- >> rob: he was just playing. >> johnny: sausage was well done after that analive. 1-2 the count to brandon grounded to a double play. ph
want you to join us to follow the game at masn at 7:05 and after the game, we'll carry the as usual nats xtraplayer interviews and game highlights. that will be saturday from tampa tampa. >> rob: do you still do your breathing stuff before reading? my dad taught know do that. >> johnny: no, i don't. i should have taken a breath there. >> rob: i used to always listen to my dad take a breath before starting a sentence. >> johnny: they told me you were observant in studying...
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and then new york against the yankees on tuesday and thursday on the big network, masn hd, nats xtra starting 30 minutes before the first pitch is thrown. 2 out in the 7th. dickerson retired. now back to the top with the reds line-up and jerry hairston. the 0-1 pitch. hairston swings through it. strike one. hairston's 0-3 today. >> rob: that pitch on the pitch track, johnny, 0-1, really nice been. down in the zone, getting dirty. >> johnny: hairston's kind of tailed off a little bit the last 9 ballgames. hitting about a buck 75. driven in only 3 runs. tavarez the 0-2 pitch. some nights they have hairston leading off and some nights they have willy taveras leading off. taveras should be the lead off. trying to get one of them to take off the lead-off role. but taveras, the speedster, i don't know if he has a hit this series. 0-3 today. >> johnny: and julian tavarez racks up a strikeout as he heads to the doubt. got him to swing at a bad pitch, rob. that thing was down in the strike zone. >> rob: did a great job. one, two, three inning. keep it right there. give us an opportunity for a
and then new york against the yankees on tuesday and thursday on the big network, masn hd, nats xtra starting 30 minutes before the first pitch is thrown. 2 out in the 7th. dickerson retired. now back to the top with the reds line-up and jerry hairston. the 0-1 pitch. hairston swings through it. strike one. hairston's 0-3 today. >> rob: that pitch on the pitch track, johnny, 0-1, really nice been. down in the zone, getting dirty. >> johnny: hairston's kind of tailed off a little bit...
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father's day game will get you going at 1 0-0 with nats xtra, johnny holiday and phil wood.nd d.c. 50. we'll join you tomorrow. here is a match-up of big fellows, joel hanrahan, 6'4", 250. scott rolen, 6'4", 250. tying run at third base, two outs here in the 8th. joel was outstanding in the 8th inning last night. he actually pitched the last two outs in that inning and then a 1-2-3 night. rolen takes a beauty of a fastball on the outside corner. >> rob: i was talking to darren fletcher today talking about hanrahan, how can this kid throw 95 and not three 95, trying to blow by team. >> bob: game tied. 95 mile-per-hour fastball. scott rolen turned it around. >> rob: the location was just terrible. still have to locate it. >> bob: that run charged to kip well and a win taken away from ross detwiler. >> rob: well, now, you have to do damage control right here. pitch location is going to be up in the zone, very hittable. rolen did not try to crush the ball, put it in play for a base hit and tie the ballgame. >> bob: scott rolen, 2-for-4 tonight. here is adam lind. and they are go
father's day game will get you going at 1 0-0 with nats xtra, johnny holiday and phil wood.nd d.c. 50. we'll join you tomorrow. here is a match-up of big fellows, joel hanrahan, 6'4", 250. scott rolen, 6'4", 250. tying run at third base, two outs here in the 8th. joel was outstanding in the 8th inning last night. he actually pitched the last two outs in that inning and then a 1-2-3 night. rolen takes a beauty of a fastball on the outside corner. >> rob: i was talking to darren...
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we will have all the details for you on "nats xtra." s walked minor leaguers with the seattle mariners. for infielder mike morris. >> bob: thank you. ryan langerhans had d so succleague level. right now the number one national, they're thinking about, is john lannan. six nings, one run on four hits. he's given up three walks and the orioles only made him pa for one of those, as he walked the lead-off man in the first, second and thel face luke scott salazar and matt witr he in the orioles 7th. >>im p.: don't you think he's pitching the way he's pitched all june? >> rob: even going back farther, when he started to really step up as the acof the staff, there was a couple ogames where he was getting 3 and 4 double plays in the game. sometimes he'd stay out there and give up his first win of the season, he gave up six runs early. stayed out there for six, seven innings and we ended up coming back when the offense s clicking and he got his first win. i truly feel a lot of people talk about, your job as a starter is to try to win the ba
we will have all the details for you on "nats xtra." s walked minor leaguers with the seattle mariners. for infielder mike morris. >> bob: thank you. ryan langerhans had d so succleague level. right now the number one national, they're thinking about, is john lannan. six nings, one run on four hits. he's given up three walks and the orioles only made him pa for one of those, as he walked the lead-off man in the first, second and thel face luke scott salazar and matt witr...
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"nats xtra" post-game show brought to you by masn. verizon fios, over 100hd fienls channels and the fastest internet. this is big. one of those relievers ron villone telling debbi taylor back in the clubhouse this was a big win for the ball club. >> to have a win after we played the last couple of nights. young starters are doing great keeping us in the game and pitching their butts off. >> what did you think of jordan zimmermann today? >> he looked pretty nasty. looked like he had command of everything and the guys pulled it out at the end. >> do you feel too the bullpen is starting to get into a good groove? >> i don't think fwheer a good groove. i think we're getting a chance to go out and have an opportunity to do the right thing -- things and make pitches and execute. it's just everybody is playing. >> does it help that you pretty much know when you're going to come in? >> it doesn't matter to me really. i hope i don't ever have to be told i'll have a role. i don't care for it. some guys they like it. they enjoy it. doesn't matte
"nats xtra" post-game show brought to you by masn. verizon fios, over 100hd fienls channels and the fastest internet. this is big. one of those relievers ron villone telling debbi taylor back in the clubhouse this was a big win for the ball club. >> to have a win after we played the last couple of nights. young starters are doing great keeping us in the game and pitching their butts off. >> what did you think of jordan zimmermann today? >> he looked pretty nasty....
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we'll get you going at 6:30, johnny holliday and phil wood, "nats xtra". >> rob: i've been told cecil went to dematha high school in the area. >> bob: home to one of the greatest basketball programs to the long time brilliance of morton wooten. dirk hayhurst. >> rob: now pitching, dirk hayhurst. >> bob: did you do any p. a. announcing? you sound like you have. >> rob: only in the shower. >> bob: no singing? >> rob: now getting into the shower, rob dibble, dibble getting into the shower. >> bob: ah, look at that. i love seeing families at the ballpark. is she adorable? >> rob: yep. >> bob: wow. here we go, bottom seven. top of the order. guzman has been first-pitch swinging all night. he takes one a foot high. >> rob: just a little late with the feeding one time and see how quiet that baby is. [ laughter ] >> bob: babies are just like managers. they just want be to be on time. [ laughter ] >> rob: very nice. >> bob: on time and get your work done. guzman has hit the ball in the air three times tonight. he haddite quite a series in new york. cristian guzman, 6-14 in the series scoring a
we'll get you going at 6:30, johnny holliday and phil wood, "nats xtra". >> rob: i've been told cecil went to dematha high school in the area. >> bob: home to one of the greatest basketball programs to the long time brilliance of morton wooten. dirk hayhurst. >> rob: now pitching, dirk hayhurst. >> bob: did you do any p. a. announcing? you sound like you have. >> rob: only in the shower. >> bob: no singing? >> rob: now getting into the shower,...
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byron kerr, ray knight with you on nats xtra. missed opportunities. getting the 1st inning going early on. they had chances certainly but left guys on base. >> ray: the last 10 days we have had chances but haven't been able to deliver. ground ball shortstop. fielder's choice there. first, third, single. hit-and-run to advance guzman and he strikes out, durn strike snn strike. not able to -- dunn strikes out. and there's the base hit to right. and then flying out to right field to end that inning. 7th inning, zimmerman walks. willingham walks. still have runners on first and second. there's the walk to willingham and kearns chases. as we talked about earlier, 12 runners left on base. the only real big inning there i thought was when dunn and dukes struck out with runners on second and third after they advanced on a wild pitch. >> byron: something we noticed at the patience at the plate, making the pitchers try to get the strike. got a couple of balls in there. not going for first or second pitch like they did maybe last night. >> ray: we have been pret
byron kerr, ray knight with you on nats xtra. missed opportunities. getting the 1st inning going early on. they had chances certainly but left guys on base. >> ray: the last 10 days we have had chances but haven't been able to deliver. ground ball shortstop. fielder's choice there. first, third, single. hit-and-run to advance guzman and he strikes out, durn strike snn strike. not able to -- dunn strikes out. and there's the base hit to right. and then flying out to right field to end that...
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. >> johnny: nats xtra poe g show brought to you by verizon fios. this is big. fans continue to celebrate. great to see you guys hanging with us and staying all 12 innings, incidentally in a 5-3 walkoff homerun by willie harris. the nationals go on to win. they have now won four in a row, a second consecutive ser wise. when you talk about a guy getting the job done, we talked to ross detwiler a few minutes ago. let's take a look at his outing. he started like he was on fire. >> phil: he started off fast, striking out wells. in the 7th inning, he gets a little flare to second base. then kevin millar comes to the plate and he hits a flyball which is caught in right field. then he gets another flyball here in still by chavez. he had a ety low pitch count. first batter, bautista, the pinch hitter, singled into centerfield. at that point, mapy acta came in and took aim out of the game. this is a quality start. this is one of those outings that they expected when he drafted him in the first round. >> johnny: dwight, two earned run, six hits allowed, threw 99 pitches.
. >> johnny: nats xtra poe g show brought to you by verizon fios. this is big. fans continue to celebrate. great to see you guys hanging with us and staying all 12 innings, incidentally in a 5-3 walkoff homerun by willie harris. the nationals go on to win. they have now won four in a row, a second consecutive ser wise. when you talk about a guy getting the job done, we talked to ross detwiler a few minutes ago. let's take a look at his outing. he started like he was on fire. >>...
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full details coming up next with nats xtra. >>> welcome presented by verizon wireless. great news to start today's pregame show. pitcher from stanford signs 1.6 million with the nationals. he gets his jersey and ready to play some baseball. >> i love everything about it. i have known the family 30 something years. what a great quality family. he went to stanford. this is the way they do things. it's not about the money. it's the dream his grandfather had for his son mark. that didn't work out. drew pitching at stanford, doing a great job. they say he has tremendous stuff. i've not seen him pitch. everyone i talked to says he has the stuff. >> the butterflies, when you put that cap down on your head, that's got to be exciting for drew and his family. he was pumped up as a national. >> it's been a crazy week. being able to throw in this beautiful new ball park was an experience in itself. yesterday not being sure what was going to happen. hearing my name called was an experience like no other. i don't think anything else could top it besides winning t
full details coming up next with nats xtra. >>> welcome presented by verizon wireless. great news to start today's pregame show. pitcher from stanford signs 1.6 million with the nationals. he gets his jersey and ready to play some baseball. >> i love everything about it. i have known the family 30 something years. what a great quality family. he went to stanford. this is the way they do things. it's not about the money. it's the dream his...
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"nats xtra" presented by verizon wireless on masn two.or john carp -- bob carp per, jim hunter saying so long from camden yards. the orioles win 11-1. have a great night, everybody. we'll see you tomorrow! >> hi, everybody. time for nats' extra postgame here brought to you by the verizon fios. let's close the door on this one quickly, forget about it and think about tomorrow's game coming up tomorrow night. this was ugly. >> it was ugly, johnny. you're going to have 10, 12 a year. detwiler actually tale threw the ball well early. they got one run and then all thins just broke loose and the offense was just hitting on all cylinders. they didn't hit the ball extremely hard. it wasn't the long ball. it was just the contact. detwiler when he he did make a mistake, a couple of choppers, deflected balls. it doesn't make any difference. you can't take it away from them. they pounded out, what, 16 hit ? >> 16 hits, and it is the fourth time they have had 16 hits in a ballgame and this one just kind of got away from us. one inning, the six spring
"nats xtra" presented by verizon wireless on masn two.or john carp -- bob carp per, jim hunter saying so long from camden yards. the orioles win 11-1. have a great night, everybody. we'll see you tomorrow! >> hi, everybody. time for nats' extra postgame here brought to you by the verizon fios. let's close the door on this one quickly, forget about it and think about tomorrow's game coming up tomorrow night. this was ugly. >> it was ugly, johnny. you're going to have 10, 12...
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>> 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 t
>> 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...
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xtra." back here at orioles park. orioles need two to tie, the closer for the nats has come on. mike mcdougal trying to close it out an get john lannan a win. >> rob: mike has done a great job since coming back up. pitched in middle relief, setup role, now he's assumed the closer's role. got his first save hins kansas city the other night. 2 for 2 so far in save opportunities. throws mid 90s. he's going to bring the heat. >> jim p.: reimold is right- handed along with scott coming up. >> rob: great kid. they've had to turn over the bullpen earlier in the season. a lot of they throw maybe a few too many strikes, but they've done a much better job since they turned over the bullpen. this is part of this transition. >> jim p.: are they 19-4 after having a lead after eight innings, 0-40 when they're trailing after late. gives you an idea how hard it is to come back and win games. it goes back to that 8th inning whenaubrey huff teststhe arm of elijah dukes this guy wou meone a chance to tie it. ballgame. play in this >> m h.: reimold ove r >> rob: this is what you the orioles have no
xtra." back here at orioles park. orioles need two to tie, the closer for the nats has come on. mike mcdougal trying to close it out an get john lannan a win. >> rob: mike has done a great job since coming back up. pitched in middle relief, setup role, now he's assumed the closer's role. got his first save hins kansas city the other night. 2 for 2 so far in save opportunities. throws mid 90s. he's going to bring the heat. >> jim p.: reimold is right- handed along with scott...