welcome back to "nats xtra". we'll take a look at news and notes.en put on the 15- day disabled list with that thumb and jorge padilla, 12 years in the mine owrs gets a call to the nationals and in iewnl uniform tonight for washington. we're getting rld for the matchup against the marlins. ben guess -- guessling is here from the "the washington times" -- guessling here from the "the washington times". >> he we don't know enough about it to say definitively that's the reason why he's had some struggles most of the season. this has been something that's plagued him back to his minor league days off and on, but i think in the last few days, certainly, it's become more of eighteen issue and we'll find out more -- an issue and we'll find out how long this thing will be. he's heading to baltimore to visit with a hand specialist up there and they'll decide whether he needs ran operation or he can play through it. you know, he's the kind of guy you never know if he's hurt because you doesn't speak up and say anything. you're not going to hear from him unles

so long.  welcome to nats xtra pose game show. the nats guess on the board, wins centers -- nats get on the board, winners over the pirates. nice comeback victory. they were in it to win at the end. >> i like that. they were, and the fact is they were able to get big hits. stealing, and bergmann, coming in and do a heck of a job. jones and then also burnett getting a big out with the left-hander when he comes in there, and doumit, so everything went well. riggleman managing well, using a lot of guys as he tried the sunday lineup was done out and kearns stretch scratches because of a sore thumb. and that 7th inning, down 2-0. will hand, -- willingham, another power breaks. >> we got the big home run after the zim single. deep to left field, ground rule double, and behind him, breaking a 4 for 42 slump, i believe. gonzalez doubled down the line. there's the score. they win it 5-3. shawn bur nets gets the victory, number 2. macdougal, save number 7. look at the numbers from willingham, 15 homers last year, ray with the marlins. he had

stay tuned for "nats xtra" coming up right now. down and so did the nats and from the booth, so long for just a while. >>> welcome everybody, everybody. "nats xtra" post-game, first of four goes to pittsburgh 5-4. disappointing, ray. >> yeah, it was disappointing because you think you're going to beat that ball club as i thought we'd sweep san diego. lannan didn't have it tonight. he was not really effective tonight. 31 first-pitch strikes. he threw 37 pitches opposed to the 41 he's within throwing. that's four more an inning. best fastball was down. several hits you'll see tonight were 85-86 miles per hour. fastballs. he's not throwing his fastball that slow this year, so maybe he's just a little tired, a little dead arm. we're about to the dog days of august. he's started. he didn't have -- he wasn't as sharp tonight. >> and he threw a lot of pitches tonight, 114. we'll breakdown for you later on. our defining moment in this ballgame, it was a third inning no, out, 1-1 ballgame and milledge comes to the plate and here we go. >> y

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nats xtra with johnny and ray right now. 2:51 is from the game. as long as. johnny: welcome to xtra, brought to you by verizon. the 124th game of the season and the bucs and nationals get the victory. their 4th of the year. the brewers suffer their 63rd loss as the nationals exchange unpleasantries after the win. almost a carbon copy of last night but the good guys win. >> ray: good pitching. almost went 100 pitches, 6 1/3 inning, missing fastballs and on top where he was his last two starts and the way he pitched for a month and a half earlier in the season. >> johnny: what is interesting -- you said a couple of hours ago, we have to get 100 pitches out of standpoint men, maybe six or seven would be nice, almost on the button, silver fox. >> ray: we had a lot of runs othery to allow riggleman to do that. it was easy to say that. i was con vicked to do that and he manned up. >> johnny: sure did. >> ray: he cowboyed up and i believer he is the guy that used the word tenacity twice today. but lannan has it and why he has been so effective over two years

we'll get you going at 6:30 with nats xtra. byron kerr and ray knight in the studio, before we play the  game of this series tomorrow evening. things have brightened on a couple of front, the skies ha brightened, and the nats with a 2-run lead. and wil nieves is coming up next, and after him, there' big -- [ indiscernible ] jessie chavez has pitched four plus innings gets the nats,d given them no runs on one h adam dunn for the pitcher aftr nieves, still only one out he in the 7th. >> rob: probably let him play the rest of the season in t infield. let's see what he can do. >> bob: nieves hits a ground ball to the right side. delwyn young with the second out. over to 3rd is gonzalez, and dunn is being called back. nats could lead sean burnett , but they will call on anderson hernandez here. burnett just faced one batter, he could be the winning pit. dugout has come alive, guys congratulating balester, willingham the big blow to  game. not to be forgotten, the  setting that ryan zim

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it is "nats xtra" presented to you by verizon wireless.lose, it is a tough loss to swallow. >> it is a tough loss. we had some opportunities. we made a couple of bad plays. we haven't made any errors in seven ballgames, i believe it is seven now, but we just didn't get key base hits when we had to. we had an opportunity to win late. >> i was going to say a lot of players on each team know each other well. nyjer morgan was a big at-bat and it comes up with an out with two men on. after the game he talked about that at-bat. >> basically i got a little excited knowing there was the opportunity to tie the game and we may possibly win it, but the emotions, i think they lapped up in my first at-bat and i think they came back in my last at-bat and i kind of got out of my element a little bit. i just wanted to do something special. >> you know he wanted that one receiptity bad there, ray. he had lastings milledge across the way, the former national and niagaraer coming up big. he has three more chances, three more games, at least in this series to

we'll get you going at 6:30 with "nats xtra." s masn sports.com for all of the latest news on the nats. this has been a presentation of masn. stay tuned, "nats xtra" is coming up now from byron and ray and from the booth, so long until tomorrow night! >> welcome to "nats xtra" presented by verizon fios an a fan take as the tick come back victory night for your washington nationals. johnson johnson looks like he is in control and the nationals get a huge home run for adam dunn and score six runs in the eighth inning to win it 6-4. boy, you can't ask for a welcome home present better than that, ray knight, to do that. >> the biggest run in the season by far. you talk about turning things around. you do that on six hits in that eighth inning. tough at-bats. after being totally dominated from the first inning on. 20 consecutive hitters or six and 2/3 innings of perfect baseball by josh johnson. he dominated with 97 miles per hour fastball. 89 measure sliders. our hitters looked like they have no chance and somehow they figured him out

we'll have more of "nats xtra" postgame here from nationals park.inted crowd, and a good crowd here tonight, but colorado heads out of town with a three-game sweep. we'll be back with more right after this. ♪ there's no way to hide it. if you drive drunk, we will find you. cops everywhere are stepping up enforcement... and cracking down like never before. sir, have you been drinking tonight? sir, have you been drinking this evening? sir, have you been drinking tonight? make no mistake. you will get caught and you will be arrested. over the limit. under arrest.  . >> johnny: "nats xtra" brough to you by verizon fios, the fastest internet. this is fios and this is big. let's go downstairs where jim riggleman talking about this game with the media. >> you know, as i said, just about every time we're gonna play now is competing for the playoffs and the way you do that is with good pitching. so, tonight was a good example, this whole series was a good example with jimenez, marquis and hamell. that's probably as good a three days in a row as we have s

we'll preview the marlins as we continue "nats xtra"! willingham and nick johnson chatting before tonight's match-up with the marlins and the nationals. welcome back to nats' extra as we get ready for six at home after a 4-4 road trip. taking a look at the upcoming schedule of those games at home. florida here tonight, tomorrow and, of course, on thursday. the 12:30 game. the diamondbacks on friday, saturday and sunday. arizona arrives for three on masn hd. so six in a row at home for the nationals as they try to roll along here. 4-4 on that western road trip to milwaukee and pittsburgh. boy, it has seemed like the last couple of years they have taken on the florida marlins and they have their number. i was talking to josh willingham, i was in their clubhouse. there is a cocky bunch of guys, confident they can beat the nats. >> that's what winning does, they have won 10 straight games going back to the last game last year. 10-1 over the last two seasons. the different shall is incredible. the home runs almost quadrupled, they averaged 50

i think you will enjoy our chat with padilla when we return as nats xtra pregame continue in a moment   >> johnny: hi, everybody, johnny holliday with ray knight. we're back with nats extra pregame against the milwaukee brewers. milwaukee won the first two ball games and the nats try to even up the series by taking the day game today and tomorrow. jorge padilla is with us. an interesting story about you -- you went to melbourne air academy. the florida air academy in melbourne and you never knew much english until high school? >> yes. i just took a little bit up there in puerto rico and, you know, just basic stuff. i never had any, any english at all. >> johnny: wow. and you do pretty well. >> i do pri well. i can handle myself. >> johnny: i know you can. an all- boys school? >> it was. we had -- we couldn't go out. probably the weekend, not much. and it was all studying all week. >> johnny: after you got out of there, all of a sudden you could focus on some of the ladies, maybe? >> [ laughing ] i was trying to focus and trying to get, you know, good grad

welcome back to "nats xtra." pittsburgh wins 11-6 over the nationals.tammen's outing, missed opportunities. let's listen in to what jim riggleman, entire rim manager, thought of the game. >> well, do you ever hear that tommy la sworda tape when they ask him the same question about kingman? just play that one. no, he was really good, you know, he's a great athlete, you know. you've read about him for a year or two now, and he's here, and he's going to be a force to deal with, but, you know, we have to make better pitches than that. you know, he really was on the ball good, but we just -- you know, we can't make consistently pitches to him that he can throw the barrel or the bat over the plate like that and do that, but you have to tip your hat to him and the pirates tonight were swinging the bat well. >> what do you think was wrong with craig stammen tonight? it just seemed like from the very first batter he was not having a good night. >> yes. he's done a great job. you know, i don't know what that start is for him. maybe he got 10 starts or something,

when we continue, more of nats xtra postgame when niger speaks everyone listens. as we go to break. s in the home stand. the rockies and nats tomorrow, and milwaukee for a weekend series beginning friday night. pa announcer: final boarding call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. grab your bag . it's on™west so our low fares stay low. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.  verizon rios, and the faste internate. 5-4 the final at nationals park. colorado wins another one run affair. they won last night by one. johnny holiday and ray knight. one guy that's not happy that's the nationals niger morgan. >> definitely, it sucks, it's one of the things sometimes when your boys don't have it the bullpen picked them up like they are supposed to. we're supposed to pick them up offensively. we hit the balls hard right to the guys. you mow, part of the game, we have to come back tomorrow and get ready to face the next starter. >> the hits the stolen base, 2 runs score. >> doing anything trying to get on base. do w

if you miss part of the show, welcome to nats xtra. h you, brian kerr and ray knight, nags against the pirates. trying to get on the board. 11-6 yesterday. tremendous offensive performance by the pirates, and the nats bats were pretty good, but pitching didn't come through. >> yeah, we keep saying pitching and defense, and yesterday we didn't get the pitching. stamp men threw 80% fastballs, just 44 michigan, so he never got much of anything, but mccutchen was all over him, got base hits early, and he complaints get the ball down, and he's the guy that has to keep the ball down. two outings that he is struggled with, and out of the last two starts, he struggled, with you prior to that, he's laid a good foundation with 6 starts with earned run average under 3, walked 11 hitters in 10 outings. so he is for real. and you'll have off nights. >> andrew mccutchen will remember that night, 3 home runs doubling his total for the year. >> we were watching this kid, and been doing reading on him. i've never seen a kid with so many accolades from h

. >> well, thank you very much for joining us here for nats xtra pregame. fans continue to pile in.rowd on hand this evening in a day that's very exciting here in washington d.c. for the official signing, coming to terms of stephen strasberg with this ball club. enjoy the ball game. bob carpenter and rob dibble coming up next for the first pitch right here on masn. call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. grab your bag . it's on™west so our low fares stay low. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.  . >> bob: the nationals have been on a roll in recent weeks, good offense leading the i way to victories in 11 of their last 14 games. tonight the challenge gets tougher. they face the wildcard leading rockies in the first of three from nats town.    well, you come to t. shirt  tuesday, it might be shady martin posing for a picture and giving out some f shirts. maybe next year stephen strasberg will be giving out a view. it's been a fun time in nats town since 11:49 last night. a gre