he's got to pitch a little more consistently like the new york yankees and keep the beat.olsen following lannan. it would be nice to see stammen follow those two guys and throw another gem. >> bob: emilio bonifacio with a seven-game hitting streak had a bill big triple last night and a sac fly. continues to hurt the nationals while hurting few other teams in this league. batting .240 against the rest of baseball and .346 against the nats. >> rob: unbelievable. >> bob: rob, i know you wouldn't mind seeing a pitch up and in to him sometime this year. >> rob: for different reasons, but this kid is way too comfortable and way too confident against one team. you don't want him to just take in -- take that to another level where he thinks he can stand up there and take batting practice. you've got to rock him back on his heels. make him uncomfortable. make him do a little dance. >> bob: most of his hits have been on pitches away especially when he bats right-handed. elijah dukes in center field with willie harris out of the lineup. gonzalez replace hernandez. wil nieves back in

. >> rob: when he dominated the new york yankees though, it was in front of his family in new york, sole out crowd at yankee stadium and he handled that perfectly, 8 1/3 great innings. he's just growing as a major league pitcher almost every start now. then we go way down to our next guy at 22 years old, has 15. a very young staff. >> jim h.: fouled straight down at the plate. >> jim p.: there is no reason with the stuff john lannan has and his command that he should not be able to pitch late in the ballgame. because getting a guy out the third and fourth time is just about really making good pitches. here's a guy that commanded all his pitches today, in and out, got the curveball over, great change-up. >> jim h.: jones bounce it is to third. zimmerman goes up and gets it. he did and he gets jones. overcompensating for a baltimore shot. >> rob: jumps you, zimmerman grabs it, doesn't have a lot of time, throws the perfect strike to nick. one of the habits that ryan's going to have to work on is when he pumps the glove, he throws a lot of wide throws. >> jim p.: do you think he drops his a

maryland and copy cat, he said he formulated his delivery off of that of one andy pettite of the new york yankeespied 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, national league 66 including the two games from today. >> rob: it's getting a little tighter. >> bob: yeah, getting up there a little bit. another week to do something about it. and the nats have been doing their part the last few days for the senior circuit. the national league is a little older than the american league. >> rob: check out that last pitch. maybe trying to look too much. look at how far out that arm comes, shows the pitch to the hitter.

paid often, won 18 games, he was able to opt out of his contract and get more money for the new york yankeesgone, one's not well. on. chris crass guzman got things going with another multi-hit game. >> rob: after he got on, nick with a double, elijah dukes with a double. right now, another big two- spot. that was a great job by the nationals coming right back and saying, no, no, no, you are not having that momentum. we are taking it away back. >> bob: guzman could be bunting. it is the bottom of the 8th and you are the home team. i'm not sure that would take the bat out of nick johnson's hand. against a left handed pitcher, you would have ryan zimmerman next but they to have a right handed right hander warming -- a right hander warming up. >> bob: sean kemp was pretty impressive here last night, getting a couple of key outs in the 7th inning. mike macdougal, the nats' closer up. >> rob: in case we get the lead. >> bob: maybe pitching the 9th either way. >> there he is, mr. onbase. bunt. that will move the runner. well done by cristian guzman, his third of the year. so manny gave him a pitch

. >> you have to go back to the new york yankee series when the orioles played in new york. this is when markakis hit that last home run. pretty good shot to almost straightaway center field at yankee stadium. it's been like 22 games until nick markakis walked up there tonight. he gets ahold of this one for base hit first. this is his second at-bat of the ballgame. then, later on in the game, wow, there it is. the shot we've been looking for. hopefully, this will be the swing that gets markakis back on top of his game. a little bit of confidence. full extension. beautiful swing. we all watch it goes into the -- go into the flag court. this cuts the lead in half for the mets. orioles at this point in time 4- 2. >> so, markakis hits the home run. he goes 2-4, a couple of rins. -- rbi's. he gone 21 consecutive games without a home run. also 14 consecutive games without an rbi. he takes care of both of those streaks on one swing of the bat. he has a multiagency as well -- at game as well as the mets hold on to win it by a win of 6- 4. we'll go back to the strikeout call that dave

. >> red sox continue to have the new york yankees' number, it's odd, sut, a team the caliber of the yankees, they have not been able to beat them once. >> it's the second straight night that the yankees have struggled with their starting rotation, the pitching not what they had hoped it would be. we talked about chien-ming wong, and for him to regain the form of a 19-game winner, he's not a finesse type guy. he needs 93 or more miles per hour. 94, 95. a lot of success. but all of the sudden whether the velocity started to drop, so did his success. 92 miles an hour. george kottaras with an extra base hit. 92, again, by mike lowell, that ball reached the seats. he's a guy who's had a lot of success in the past, but you wonder if he is healthy enough right now to help the yankees. >> 2 2/3 after a.j. burnett went very short last night, plenty of offense as there always seems to be when it's the yankees and the red sox. and in the third inning, the red sox got it going with mike lowell. >> it's never disappointing. you expect both of these teams to score, five combined home runs, exciti

. >> >> what are the magic ingredients used by the boston red sox and the new york yankees that puts them in the top every year. is money one of the elements? >> i believe that smart always beats rich. when you are smart and rich, that is a tough combination. both of those franchises are extremely rich and they are able to parlay that into continual success. they had a good streak going. last year, they did not meet -- make the post-season. but it was a good street. >> if my recollection is correct, and this is not my recollection, it took seven years. we're on the nationals now on that time line? >> i wish i could give you a year. having said that, as i said during my remarks, once we get a consistent, mature and ready to go rotation of pitchers, anything is possible. once you get that, you do not have to wait one year or five years. i assure you, we will fill in any missing pieces that we need. >> well you were president of the atlanta braves, you put together one of the greatest pitching staff, consisting of great maddux, tom lange, others. you have often stated that putting toget

new york. laughter pos connect anyway, s.o.b. went to the new york yankees stadium and the entire stadium the announced earnest bevin is here and the entire yankee stadium booed. [laughter] [applause] >> good thing he wasn't at a dodgers game. [laughter] one of the figure i would like you to touch upon at a little more length is clark clifford because he seems to have played an instrumental role, and to what extent is this a function of clifford's convictions? how is it he came to be the counterweight to george marshall in the final arguments that were offered to truman? >> as i said in my paper he was influenced by rosenman and spent a lot of time with him and i don't think he had strong feelings about zionism before. but he became a zionist. he was extremely instrumental in what happened and laying out all the arguments for truman that countered state department arguments. and i think he genuinely believed in zionism. >> let me ask one final question then we will turn to the audience, and this brings this forward to the present with the remarkable statemen

. >> rob: you look at the new york yankees, they have not beaten the red sox this year. >> bob: yes, 7-0. >> rob: it does not really matter in this division. american league east is the toughest division in baseball. rays had to win 97 games last year. amazing transition. now everybody is waking up to the fact that they are good. >> bob:icanderson hernandez has to range to his left, and nick johnson stayed on the bag. and joe matdon is not happy. great range by anderson hernandez, hit off the mound. a great strong throw to first. nick is on the bag. he is an excellent first baseman. maybe that's the area play but what are you going to do? we had so many go against us. >> bob: he was on there for a split second and joe maddon is none too happy about it. i always have to laugh when i see george hendrick in the face of an umpire. when he was playing, his nickname was silent george. he never said a word to anybody, especially the media. he just didn't have time for such nonsense. four in a row for stammen to start the game. here is the second baseman ben zobrist. >> rob: i used to love t

the mets are cross town against the new york yankees. >> speaking of which, the yankees were down 1-0 early. came back with three in the 7th to go up 3-1. now boston takes the one-run lead. highlights when it goes final from fenway park. angels and rays are over. top of the fourth. david price, jeff mathis. price went 4 and a third. top fiefn. guerrero, the shot. doubles off bobby abreu. oh, you're killing me, smalls. >> bottom of the eighth. and carlos pena for the 19th time this season. he's a sandlot kid. look at the effort out in right field by that kid. the rays count out 15 hits and a big win over the angels who have lost 4 of 5 after a big win streak. pena goes back-to-back after the 7th straight game. evan longoria snaps the 19th at bat with a homer in the fifth inning. >> tigers and the white sox wrapping up a five-game set. top 5, 3-1, 3-all. curtis granderson, goodbye. ties the game with his 14th. we go to the bottom of the ninth. and here's your controversy. we saw a game-winning hit off a third. how about a game-saving play by a fan? watch this. nice catch, but did you go

last home run made against the new york yankees. what do you see is his major problem? >> he's starting to swing at pitches out of his strike zone. this happens to every single hitter in major league baseball. anybody that knows about slump, when the food for thought comes in your mind, instead of just seeing and hit the ball you start to guess up there at home plait. the pitch that you're looking for or guessing for isn't right in the little box you're looking for, you have a tendency to swing at the ball out of the strike zone. he's getting jammed more than i've ever seen him get jammed. swings at pitches that are high and out of the strike zone. he's not in a bit of a groove right now. i saw this young man go half a season without hitting the ball worth a darn. he was one game away from getting sent back to the minor leagues. had one break out game. he ended up hitting over .290 his first year. he will make up for all of these games he's not hitting the ball good. like i say every player goes through these slumps. nick is one of the best at figuring them out. he's ni

neil simon, george steinbrenner, new york yankees, louis b. mayer who was born in russia but you basically embrace an american dream completely. but if we want to look for the golden thread, that connects us which i call the united states is us. what is the sticky idea that malcolm glad well talks about in the tipping point? i love this idea of sticky ideas. how does something stick to it yourself dealer makeup of your brain? well, this did the idea here that america is basically democracy. is the central organizing principle and if i wanted to create it my photosynthesis it would be democracy that i would photograph. , but it is a conundrum. had you photograph an idea? my view it is the idea that is the principle, but really when you think about democracy it is a painting it would be the negative space, the -- is around the object but it is not in it so consequently had you photograph it meaning democracy? this was my challenge in doing the book. democracy is the canvas we paid our lives on the. is how we draw our family, our children, our bu

they have to go play the new york yankees and the toronto blue jays. they have not done well. as of late year dash last year, tampa bay is starting to give the orioles a lot of trouble. the orioles fundamentally are not a good team while they're on the road either. they don't play good defense in other teams' ballparks whichmeans they should take more time taking ground balls, cutting the man off. they're not good at that on the road to. explain that, i really can't. you go to seattle, they usually in the past have played very well against seattle. this year, seattle pot little better offense against them than they did and you go to oakland. absolutely no excuse for playing well in oakland. i think they ran into a buzzsaw with their young guys with their staff that pitched a lot better. there's no excuses for some of it. some of it is explainable by look at the numbers on defense. >> most teams have luis gonzalezing -- losing records on the road. for more on tonight's game, back to south florida and check in with amber theoharis. amber? >> hi, tom. we'll have an update on koji

the new york yankees, 7-4 lead in the top of the ninth inning. alex rodriguez, a single home run. the toronto blue jays won tonight beating cincinnati 8-2. blue jays had a five-run first inning. aaron hill, two-run homer. his 16th. wells, a solo his seventh. tampa bay won. burrell second for the team he used to play for. that was a solo, his 13th a that's a complete look at the interleague games from tonight. when we come back, we'll take a look at rich hill who gets the starting nod as the orioles complete the three-game set on masn. commute. ♪ commuté. with a mcdonald's mccafé hot or iced mocha, a better day is possible. or possiblé. here you go. thanks! cubiclé. if you haven't tried a mocha yet, mccafé your day. ♪ ba da ba ba ba geico's been saving people money and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> reminder the battle

new york yankees, 10-6 advantage in the top half of the seventh inning over the atlanta braves.mon had a a throw-run triple and cody with a two-run double. other games in the american league east of concern, the toronto blue jays trailing the reds 7-5 or actually now at the final. red just won that game 7-5. jay bruce a-two-run double. a solo -- joey votto, a solo home run, rbi single. wells a two-run double. scott rolen a two-run double. tampa bay, 9-4 over the phillies. game in the bottom half of the seven pt -- seventh inning. ben zobrist had a two-run homer. willy aybar hit a solo home run. his sixth. that's a complete look at the scoreboard. we'll be back around take a look what's ahead with brad bergesen pitching tomorrow night at oriole park at camden yards as the others return home to face the nationals. commuté. with a mcdonald's mccafé hot or iced mocha, a better day is possible. or possiblé. here you go. thanks! cubiclé. if you haven't tried a mocha yet, mccafé your day. ♪ ba da ba ba ba ...fast processor, a big screen and something to cut video. ...for under $2000. w

>> yeah, the determine new york yankees as i -- the determination's not been made by the president, by the administration, as to what the decision is going to be of thed a sfration and while the matter was ongoing, those are one of the concerns i released. >> would you foresee a situation where the office of legal council would end render a legal opinion that a statute was unconstitutional where the president would take a contrary position? >> you have to look at, you know, the specific fact situation. o.l.c. has some of the best and the brightest in the justice department. but even the best and the brightest can get it wrong. we look at what they say. i review what it is that they say. great deference is given to what o.l.c. says. it's extremely rare for an attorney general to take a contrary position. and i understand that's why this is at least gotten some -- generated some interest. but it is possible. o.l.c. has delegated power from the attorney general. i think it's ultimately my responsibility to make sure that the opinion that comes out of the justice department, even an o.l.c.

then the nationals in new york at the new yankees stadium beginning next week. hanigan -- your saying that because i brought this guy up the other day about 30 times. he's in that reds press guide. hairston, jr. had to go back to the top of the reds batting order. two down. hanigan at 2nd. hairston 1-3 last night. reached an error in the 3rd. the count is 1-1 martis battling battling. jerry hairston. line drive to center. dukes should have this one. martis bears down. got himself in a little trouble. had a runner in scoring position, got him out. we go to the bottom of the 5th 5th. 2-0 reds lead the nationals. ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. >>> it's time to bring you up to speed. an ominous looking night early. a great night for this young man, the overall selection in the 2009 draft drew storen. amazing to get a runner out. jay bruce goes deep for the reds to give them a 2-0 le

tampa bay-new york, the yankees never got started. rain on the east coast. red sox took a loss. texas almost shut them out late in the ballgame before boston got a run. texas beat them 5-1. toronto got a nice win 9-3 over kansas city. fouled away. orioles started 8 games out. >> buck: texas will maintain their 3 1-2 games lead over the angels of anaheim as they beat detroit 2-1 in a very well pitched game, santana against verlander. i. >> gary: way outside. the yanks will move into first place in light of the red sox's loss. they have identical record, 32- 22, starting today. boston with a four-game win streak and yankees have been rained out. 3 balls 2 strikes count. toronto with a victory today. here is the 3-2 delivery and that will be fouled away again. >> buck: seattle and minnesota, a pitcher's duel there. in the 7th inning, it's 1-1. franciscolyliriano against felix hernandez. obviously this day was scheduled for number 1 starters. as cc sabathia was scheduled to go for the yankees. >> gary: teams on june 1 that are in first place since division play started, 66% of them

. >> how about the subway series up in new york. the yankees against the mets tonight, top of the third, no score. nick swisher, solo homer off redding. top of the 6th, now 2-0 a couple of runners on. jorge posada with a three-run shot. the yankees up 5-0, that is the final. in atlanta, red sox and the braves, top of the first, vazquez strikes out david ortiz swinging to end the inning. tim wakefield in the top of the first. bottom of the third, still scoreless, wake feel getting hernandez looking on a called strike three. boston shutting out atlanta, that final is 1-0. now, let's go to manny acta brought to you by verizon wireless talking about tonight's' loss to the orioles. >> i think it was the first one, because we had there on the ropes. wened up scoring one run after that and it was because of a loss. the first inning set the tone. i think at least we should have scored four runs in that inning. >> what did you think of martis tonight? >> i thought that he played with fire the whole game. and then finally ended up getting burned. he was

[applause] >> what are the magic ingredients used by the boston red sox and new york and yankees that put them to the top every year? is mauney one of the elements? >> i can talk about this for hours. let me sum up my feeling on this. what do i have, have until 2:00, right? i will tell you from doing this in many sports over many years i have a very strong belief that smart always beats rich. if you're smart. and many examples of this. but when you're smart and rich that is a tough combination. both of those franchises or extremely smart as well as being extremely rich and they are able to parlay that into continuous success. the yankees had a good streak going. last year they didn't make the pro season the first time in 13 years. it was a good streak it wasn't like another team accomplished but it was a good streak and i give them a lot of credit. [laughter] >> if my recollection is correct and this is not my recollection the mets ascendency took seven years, 62 to 69. where are the nationals now on that time line? >> well, i wish i could give you a year of course in baseball as in a

the result is a 5-4 loss as they get out of tampa, head to new york against the yankees waiting for something good to start to happen for the ball club. >> we had four runs early off of shields. four doubles. you mentioned dukes, a couple of doubles. gone shall a double. detwiler threw the ball extremely well today. he walked five. three of the five scored. in one situation, he got two quick outs, then walked gross. kapler hits a close line shot. it's part of the ball park where it's the only place you could have possibly hit it to be a home run. the wall is only four foot high. we keep looking for excuses. these things keep coming up that are unyou shall. >> it gets to become beyond belief. you sit back waiting for something to happen and it does. >> it's getting to be laughable that it's something crazy everyday happens. they squeezed, it was successful. we had guys covering. the deal with the bullpen, you've got a stadium there, your bullpen coach, all kinds of people down there. the bullpen catchers can't get out of the way. willie harris runs over those guys. >> you can't leave it to the

. >> 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: that's a go low strike. the count is even #-2 with one out. >> rob: just at the knees from josh bard. sometimes when you put the -- pull the ball back up, the umpires won't call the strike because you moved your glove too much. >> bob: 19 runners stranded in a 1-1 game. first team to breakthrough and gate two-out hit is going to win this thing. we'll see now if cito gaston starts scott rolen who i mentioned earlier is a very good base runner. >> rob: backdoor slider right here by villone a little too far outside the box. rios hitting .232 on the road this year and .324 at home. one home run on the

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

nats are the second worst team to shut out the yankees and the worst to win a series from the yankees in new yorkre are notable rain delays that compare to the yankees' 5:26 delay. >> the phillies have put left fielder raul ibanez on the d.l. with a groin injury. in his first season in philadelphia, the 37-year-old ibanez began the day second in the national league with 22 home runs and 59 r.b.i.'s. john mabry jr. will take his place on the roster. blue jays going for a three-game sweep of the phils, 7-7 game, pinch-hitter rod barajas coming through in the pinch -- the former philly burning his old team with a solo home run to straightaway center and the jays win by the final of 8-7. jays finish off the sweep, the phils are a major league best 23-9 on the road but only 13-19 at home. "i'm tired of hearing about it," said ryan howard. i'm tired of talking about losing at home. >> free kick for brazil. we decided to spin the espn axis showing you felipe melo all alone. third time in four games the u.s. has allowed a goal in the first seven minutes. 19th minute, corner kick, marcus beasley. brazil s

you go back to wednesday night in new york against the yankees, this pitching staff has allowed one run now in the last 20 innings. that's some kind of pitching. >> you look not just the last three games, but even the games they lost in tampa where they were in those ballgames. the pitching staff kept them in those games. the offense didn't produce. >> let's take a look at the defining moment tonight in the bottom of the 11th and the nationals do wind up with the bases loaded levels take a look once again. >> here we go. look at this ball. guzman smokes back up the middle. takes the glove off the pitcher's hand. remarkable. we get ball four, and then on first and second, we get ball four and bases are loaded. here comes. mr. dunn there. it goes. smoked down the first-base line. game-winning rbi as guzman scores from third base. there's your ballgame 2-1, washington over the toronto blue jays. it snaps the blue jays winning streak and gives the nationals a winning streak they've enjoyed so infrequently this season. >> there is the situation you saw moments ago with the team pounding down

new yankee stadium. the yankees have lost back-to-back games against the nats, 18-46, with the win the nationals become the worst team to defeat the yankees in a series in new york the third worst team ever to defeat the yankees in any series. thursday was a shutout win for the nats. washington has the second worst record of any team to shut out the yankees. >> the phillies have put left fielder raul ibanez on the d.l. with a groin injury. in his first season in philadelphia, the 37-year-old ibanez began the day second in the national league with 22 home runs and 59 r.b.i.'s. john mayberry jr. will take his place on the roster. blue jays go for the three-game sweep of the phils, top nine, 7-7 game. here is pinch-hitter rod barajas off ryan madson. center field. gone. solo home run and the jays win it 8-7. jays finish off the sweep. the phils are a major league best 23-9 on the road but only 13-19 at home. "i'm tired of hearing about it," said ryan howard, i'm done talking about losing at home. >> fifa confederations cup, group b action, united states and brazil, americans 1-12 vs. the brazilians. seventh minute, no score, free kick for brazil. give me espn axis.

we'll fly to new york and come to you from the new yankees stadium tuesday night with martis against sabathia. >> bob: i think some of these young pitchers are going to make sure they're not in awe of the place in which they're pitching tuesday, wednesday, thursday. last time they measured it, the mound was 60 feet 6 inches too. >> bob: and hernandez will drop one to right center. gonzalez with a great jump. going to 3rd. he will be out with the ball waiting for him. testing the arm of gabe gross who threw him out. [cheering and applause] that made him make a perfect throw to get him. >> rob: i like it. challenge the defense. - oh, it's on. - it's on. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights to new york laguardia for just 49 dollars one-way starting june 28th. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com. we've got a ton of stuff we

the yankees -- or the mets back then were made up of washed up yankees, new york giants and brooklyn dodgers players. it was kind of a gimmick. load up the ross ter with players that the fans would know their name. they didn't have ryan zimmerman or jesus flores and john lannan and jordan zimmerman. the '62 mets didn't have players like that. >> rob: detwiler and gonzalez and dukes. we have fabulous talent here. we have some holes. big deal. i would love to, you know, be where mike rizzo, stan casten and even manny acta saying we have to do this, do that, tighten it up. that's like rebuilding a ferrari. >> bob: 2-2 to willie who hacks one into the bullpen. >> bob: i think the '62 mets were summarized by one thing. their most valuable player was ricky ashden. they gave him a boat. it sank. >> rob: how would you like to be a pittsburgh pirates man. about 25 years ago when i played against them, they were one of the toughest teams. now nate mac lot goes to the braves. >> bob: i would be mad about that. willie harris made an out but he battled for about seven or eight pitches. now, garza

new york. back-to-back starters virtually unaffected by the yankees misdeed. can they carry the mom yum into tonight. the blue jays stand in the way on masn.  >> bob: a happy bunch o nationals landed at 1:00 a.m. this morning from new york city. some momentum built in that finale of the road trip against the yankees. now the toronto blue jays come in. that is solid toronto club definitely contending for honors in the a. l. east. bob carpenter, rob dibble. good to be back home. that was nice wrapup to what we saw in new york. >> rob: yes, it was. it was a momentum builder and a way i gauge yourself against a very good team like the yankees. well-pitched baseball game, well defensively played, great defense and great pitching will when you -- win you championships. last night it was the great defense that kept this nationals team in the game and on the board and keep the yankees off the board with a 3- 0 shutout. willie harris, cristian guzman, anderson hernandez, ryan zimmerman at one point. everybody contributed to this victory l

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alternates up in yankee stadium euphoric over the win in new york. put things in perspective as did ryan zimmerman. >> we went out there and took two from the yankees. we went went down there. we had those guys on the ropes, too. here we had them on the ropes all three games. they were able to squeeze one out. we're no rollover for sure. i think teams, they're going to know that. they know that now. at the same time, our record kind of says a lot about what teams are going to think about us. >> it's huge. i think if you look at tampa, we could have easily won 2-3 of those. it looks like we're starting to turn a corner a little bit which is positive. we're still positive here and just continuing to get better and learn from our mistakes and hopefully turn this thing around. >> yep, turn that thing around and building blocks from new york on through this series hopefully. >> one thing, johnny, i think that people have notice about the nationals, they never get too high or too low f there's a team that had a right to get low, it's this club. think it's

the first chance ever to see the brand new yankees stadium in new york. >> the rays scare me. they've got good offense, great pitching. when you have longoria do you think there, they're going to score a lot of runs. talking about new york, my goodness. that is like a little league field. every ball hit is going out of the ball park. florida, they've got good pitching. they're coming off a tremendous year believing they can win. they've gotten off to a bad start six games out. they're within striking distance. >> the key to win, hit the cat walks in tropicana. that's my little cheese for that series. that's all it's going to take. hit the cat walks. >> if you hit the cat walk right over the mound, is that a home run? >> no. i'm going to go over that. >> time of the hold of the day brought to you by just for men marry color. arthur rhodes and weathers at the top of the list. mathis rounds out the hold as they look to keep the cincinnati squad in the game. these relievers keep their team in the game. you too can stay in the game with just for men hair color. we mentioned josh wi

second road game yesterday was the first, and we're going to be taking it to new york city when the blue jays play the yankeesjuly 3rd, 1:00 matchup. tune in. we'll be in the same type of seat for the yankee stadium. >> lifelong baseball fans, grew up with it. we love umpire and love baseball and like having fun. that's about as simple as it is. that's it. >> they've lost all five games. they did say this is the best reception they've had from fans. >> they're getting exercise, up and down with every pitch. >> i'm a little surprised there's not some issue because they're wearing real umpire uniforms, but obviously they're getting some attention out of this. what's next, a movie? >> you know what they want. they want to get a commercial. this is what they told our people. they would love to get a national commercial. >> we'll see what happens with joe and the other guy. >> time for the stay in the game brought to you by just for men hair color. we're going to step out and talk a little more baseball with mark getting warmed up, getting set to come in. we'll talk about the center field situation regarding the n

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. >> debbi: how much confidence, you know, to go into new york, take two out of three from the yankeesand now, you know, being in a position to sweep the blue jays. >> playing good ball. we are' going to come out tomorrow, continue to do that and, you know, pick the ball up and score some runs for the pitchers. >> johnny: tomorrow's starting pitcher, ricky ticki romero. >> phil: you hear his name and you think [ humming ] he has a 3-1 strikeout to walk ratio. he pitched well into into he has 3.7 e.r.a.. shairon martis trying to get his 6th win of the year. >> phil: martis has been effective. he has cut down on his walk totals. room for improvement but, again, he has earned his spot in this rotation. >> johnny: and sine's last -- and shairon's win came against the giants. he has had two quality starts back to back. >> phil: this is a guy you can trust out there. in the grand scheme of things, he is going to be one of the younger start, but because he has been pitching for such a long time, he will be around in the rotation come september when some of these young guys will be shutting do

yankees lead 5-1 at florida. news out of new york had them benching alex rodriguez for two games to give him time off and get things back together. the nats really pitched him wellin that series. >> rob: tallet didn't like his last interleague start against the marlins as nick hits a single to left field. >> bob: that was an interesting swing, rob. he inside-outed that ball to left field. >> rob: which normally he takes way outside pitch and smacks it over there. he went inside out as he got 3 1/3, 10 hits, eight earned runs, bob, on the 14th of june against the marlins. so, pitching much better against this national league team tonight. you scenic, as bob said, inside part of the bat. >> bob: just for reference, nats held alex rodriguez, 0-10, three walks, two strikeouts in that series. >> rob: yeah, he's down around .200. i think he's about .212. really meaning it looks like that hip is not 100%. had that laib allan ray tear fixed in spring training. you know what? a lot of what you do after surgery is rehabilitation. you start to

new york. >> americans want the jews to go to palestine because they don't want them in new york. >> right. [laughter] >> so anyway, bevan came to the u.s. and i think he went to the yankeesame at yankee stadium and the entire yankee stadium they announced ernest bevan here and the entire yankee stadium booed him. [laughter] >> good thing he wasn't at a dodgers game. [applause] >> one other figure i'd like to you touch upon a little bit more, a little more at length is clark clifford because he seems to have played really an instrumental role. and to what extent is this a function of clifford's convictions. how is it that he came to be the counter-weight to george marshall in the final arguments that were offered to truman. >> well, as i said in my paper, he was very influenced by rosaman and spent a lot of time with him and he didn't have strong feelings about zionism before him but he became a zionist -- he was extremely instrumental in what happened. and really laying out all the arguments for truman that countered state department arguments, and i think he genuinely believed in zionism. >> let me just ask one final question and then we'll turn it over to the audience

. >> buck: went to new york as a free agent, signed a 7-year deal with the yankees with designs on playingrld series. that never happened. he never really got it together there. they brought in sheffield, giambi, a lot of free agents but it never came together for them. >> gary: giambi will take that for a strike. the homer off guthrie is the 14th he has surrendered. started the game second high in homers given up and cust jumped on it, really launched one. oh, that hit guthrie. it goes to second base. and i have no idea what that hit, except it hit him. >> buck: it sure did. it sounded like it got flesh and he is walking around. not really sure what happened here but there is another line drive right back at the box. it looks like he got his hand up. it was off his wrist. and that can't be too good. he gets his hand up protecting his face maybe on the forearm and certainly hit his right hand, right arm. and he has assured ritchie bancells he is okay. boy, he took a shot. he has his hands up just in time, not unlike what happened to dallas braid en in his last start with vernon wells. >> r

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