nyjer morgan four out of five with two runs scored.usy night for the top of the order, not to be forgotten in between them, cristian guzman two hits and three runs scored. edward mujica for the padres. he's 25 years of age, 6'2". guzman's now having a three-hit night. it will be his 34th multihit game of the year. he did that last time up with the base hit to left. johnny and ray have a lot it talk about and they've been waiting for "nats xtra post- game" straight ahead. great night for offense. tyler clippard, four scoreless innings. >> rob: that was a good read by cristian guzman watching this guy warm up. >> rob: so if you're a lead-off man, pay attention from the on deck circle. >> rob: absolutely. you know everybody's watching you during the warm-up, trying to time you. >> bob: so let's say you're rob dibble fastball slider. >> rob: i had a junky, no seam, it's called a dry spitter. you're not holding a seam on the baseball. it's a change-up. i also had a forkball, never threw it in a game, but i'd throw it in warmups so they coul

the loud cheer you're hearing is for nyjer morgan who was just announced as a nationals leadoff man. we'll set the southwest.com lineup for you shortly. ross ohlendorf makes his 21st start of the year against a former teammate and morgan has been fantastic. first pitch of the game right on time at 7. 067895. partly cloudy, but right now mostly clear skies and 75 degrees after some morning and late afternoon showers. morgan takes a fastball for another strike. ohlendorf on the year 8-8 with a 4.51 e.r.a. the nats have seen him. they hit him pretty well five runs on six its hits in five innings but pirates won that game on may 18 at our ballpark 12-7. morgan gets a piece of it. this is an interesting day for nyjer as well as sean burnett coming back to a place where they pretty much matured as major leaguers. he's hitting .404 as a national. a breaking ball will pop him up. right out behind short. ronny cedeno just obtained from seattle for the first out. here is the rest of the lineup. cristian guzman five straight multihit games. zimmerman and adam dunn, i guess you say the adam dunn

he understands his role on his team with nyjer morgan coming on board.anny is adamant that nyjer will lead off and playing centerfield starting friday. >> rob: and there are others who are not playing and swinging the bat as well as willie. and willie needs to understand that. he is going to play infield position, outfield position but nyjer morgan's speed and versatility in the line-up will put him at centerfield almost every day. >> bob: elijah dukes now sent back to aaa, the outfield logjam has been eased a little bit. austin kearns is probably the fourth guy right now. and then manny is going to mix and match with harris. wow, the bat went right by josh johnson and he throws out willie harris. the ball almost cracked him on the gloved hand as he reached down to get the ball. that will be 1-5 on a fielder's choice and a good choice he made. >> rob: he just gets inside and jams nick, smashing the bat, comes right back at him. he stands there, catches the ball. that's when you have no fear. catches the ball instead of the bat. hell of a play by josh joh

nyjer morgan on the throw to the plate. josh bard on the almost tag of alex cora.round the tag. beautiful slide. right here, we freeze it on the freeze cam. and that coors light freeze cam goes to alex cora's slide. >> bob: that was good. that was

you would love to see him aboard with nyjer morgan, his bunting bat and his speed next. th a walk in a steal tonight. well, the 8th inning has been kind of magical lately, hasn't it? the nats have picked this inning in which to have several significant game-winning rallies. that will be foul. >> rob: the only bad news? of the 52 runs given up by marquis this year, only one in n the 8th inning. >> bob: well, that can change. the nats got 4 in the 8th saturday against the braves, and then a badly-needed insurance run yesterday the way that 9th inning ended up. 1-0 top of the 8th. the kind of a ball game they haven't had very much over the years here at coors field. willie harris with another foul ball. helton is guarding the line. >> rob: no doubles. get later in a ball game, you'll see willie harris will pull, so they're probably pitching him in to todd helton, just huhing the line. brad hawpe is a little deeper in right field. doesn't want to get anything behind him. harris up the middle. marquis can't get it. barmes can. great play. he got rid of it immediately. and that

martin and for more on nyjer morgan, here's debi. >> debi: his strength is speed always will be speedaying hockey and when i first moved to can district attorney i was a defense man. i was 15 years old. they saw the speed and i was rub aring the puck -- rushing the puck like bobby or. >> debi: we are so glad he swapped his skates for his baseball strikes. bobby, one of the greatest that ever played. >> bob: he changed the game he went end to end and guyss had not been programmed to do that before. >> rob: maybe number four wasn't available. now that's pretty tough when you are in the little leagues and a number's not available. >> bob: sometimes in those little leagues, though go by size. >> rob: maybe the coach's son had number four. looked like nyjer was the biggest kid on those teams. >> bob: the bottom four hitters in the milwaukee order 0 for 8. top of the order now felipe lopez. he is at two line drives, he is one for two. >> rob: referred to left field in pittsburgh a morgantown   >> bob: slides off, that will keep him at second base. felipe lopez, we h

nyjer morgan runs some really nice routes.t was a great jump and it made the play not even need a dive at the end.   >> david wrote a book called have heart, he talks about how rick helped him as a coach at florida and how he still helps him during the off-season even today and he's really contributed to his big league career. we'll have more on the two brothers tomorrow on "nats xtra." this is definitely a can't miss. what an incredible family, a lot of drive and perseverance for both these young guys. >> bob: it's a family that's had a lot of sickness, a lot of health issues from the parents on down, and david's a terrific kid. we thought he might be back today from the pulled cam string but he's still on the d.l., i asked david eckstein yesterday if he ever calls his brother for hitting advice when things don't go well. >> rob: i was there in st. louis when david eckstein was given the world series mvp, he's one of my favorite players. >> bob: not many shortstops have done that. >> rob: not many guys abou

base hit, nyjer morgan comes in to score. zimmerman's 47th rbi, leading the braves to a win. two out, helps the cause, drop photo a first hit of the season. ron belliard giving a win, honest top of the six, olsen gives pointers, morgan on the run, three hits, nats defeat the braves 5-3, and afterwards, zimmerman spoke about the all- star selection. >> the respect you get from the people you play against who vote you in, obviously the fans mean everything to this game. but -- to get voted in by the people you play against day in and day out. those are the guys you want to have the most respect for you. >> reporter: good for them. orioles looking to split a four- game series in ahaheim. top of the 3rd, brian roberts, matt wieder scores, o's up, 3- 0, bottom 7th. the o's chris runaway, enters with the bases loads, ray walks, gives angels an 8-6 lead, runner on, sinking line drive to right center. torii hunter, makes a sliding catch, orioles fall. tonight's geico 15 minutes of fame salutes hunter mahan. he began the meet hosted by tiger, 4-hundred, and today he matched the congre

nyjer morgan is coming in. and he is going to come in and leadoff in the bottom of the 10th. about the speed coming up with morgan and then harris. tie game. time to take care of business here. dealer: during the autobahn for all event, you can get great deals. it's perfect. i just want to make sure it's the right decision. future...us? we got here as quick as we could. look it's the cc. you don't pay for scheduled maintenance, you get the car of your dreams... seriously us, just drive it. you're right. dealer: let's take this one. it's a time-space continuum thing. the future...  . >> bob: bottom of the 10th coming up. they are tied at two. best value in northern virginia. it is the potomac nationals. and it is tomorrow night. hot dogs and tickets for 1 dollar each. and you can see the future stars of the nationals. and potomac nationals.com. it is only a half hour away. nyjer morgan. bottom of the 10th. fly to center. as a pinch hitter. leading off the eighth. then the nats got a hit from harris. break on an error. and rbi hit by adam dunn and they are facing right han

nyjer morgan got up at 4 0-0, got up here at 11 3-0. he says he is so excited being here. >> it's something new. the talent is here. mr. rizzo, he wanted me bad. it feels good somebody wanting you bad. being in my situation, a third rounder, i'm happy to be here and having myself opening up eyes and coming to an organization that really wants me. that's real special. >> debbi: i asked him, too, what kind of player he is. he says i'm energetic and play hard. mike rizzo was very emphatic about bringing in high character guys. he says that's vital in building a championship and both these guys joining the nationals today from pittsburgh are high character guys, great make-up. >> bob: thank you, we'll hear about sean burnett later. mr. rizzo. when someone calls the gm mr.. >> rob: i like him already. >> bob: nick johnson will dump one down. >> rob: nick at-bat. >> bob: he was 1-for-his last 26. >> rob: he'll take it. >> bob: the other thing, how about nyjer morgan, i'm a 33rd rounder and i'm not supposed to be here. he was drafted out of wa

by nyjer morgan.ght to bard. yeah. and cora with a beautiful slide. watch him get around bard and then throw hit has hand up on the plate. wow. that's a nice slide. alex cora. >> bob: everybody played that well the center fielder, the catcher and the base runner. now luis castillo bats after sacrificing his first time. five hits by the mets in their first 10 batters against j.d. martin. 2-0. >> rob: look at this play at the plate. he is going to go around, and there you see right at the end, he is going to smack his hand on the plate. >> bob: calling himself safe. >> rob: i think the umpire needs a little bit of help. >> bob: 2-1 to castillo who has driven in 19 runs this year. and it looks like 20. [ cheers and applause ] . >> bob: this will be no contest at home plate. it will be second on the throw for castillo and the mets lead 4-0. >> rob: well, with two outs, this throw has to go to the cutoff man. the run is going to score easily. and nyjer trying and hoping to make a great play, but still, you

and nyjer morgan could possibly play in that game. we could have two players play in the same game where they have been traded. that thought struck me as debbi was reading the numbers. >> rob: i half because you can hear things because there are about 3500 people in the stadium. >> bob: some of them have left. they announced a crowd of 27,032 which is beyond belief. how many did they say? >> rob: 27. >> bob: which would be 2/3 of the baseball capacity. nick johnson takes one up and in and now it will probably be leo nunez against ryan zimmerman. so nick on base again flashing his selective. ryan is on right now, 0-for-4 but he is hitting left handers better than right handers. >> rob: and you also have adam dunn coming up. we if i person nunez, we could go extra innings. >> bob: i amer man .333 against right -- zimmerman .333 against right hander this is year and nowhere near .300 against lefties. >> rob: that explain why ryan is .200 at home and .325 on the road. >> bob: nasty breaking ball from the lefty. generous call. >> rob: very

.  >> bob: three and a half hours between at-bats for nyjer morgan.aton handling the catching duties of the padres tonight. let's see, everything's final except the out west games. marlins in our division, playing with l.a. and they're tied in the second. jorge cantu has an rbi out there. here's a 1-0. and morgan will look at fastball for a strike. luis, 21 games, 33 innings. >> rob: you remember we were breaking down the leads, the base stealers for the padres were getting last night. martin is getting about a half foot off the bag. >> bob: if nyjer morgan -- >> rob: he's not getting a rickey henderson. >> bob: that's going to get through. and he'll make it to third base. >> rob: showing some great speed. j.d. martin going first to third on the base hit. >> bob: well, the ball's going to be wet by the time tony gwynn or anybody else picks it up. it's not an easy thing to throw that ball unless you get your fingers right across the seams immediately so the nats have a big time chance here with guzman. nyjer gets on top of it. that's a knock. and the p

hopefully we don't have to stop. >> nyjer morgan, what is the guy with this guy?he's a hockey player. looks like he is on skates out there. he made great plays last might and helped me out. he said that -- i mean, if the game is going quick, better ball player. every time i go out there i will try to keep the momentum going so he is out there flying. >> why baseball over hockey? >> don't know. an athlete. good question. put me on the spot. lock me up. >> come on, nyjer. >> i don't know what to say. i have a love for the game. i guess -- you know, somebody saw my talent in baseball. >> i think i want some of what nyjer morgan has. he is a very happy player. he played for the western hockey league. so it wasn't a decision he had to make, which direction he would go p he chose baseball. nationals are pretty glad that he did. it will be a really big night down here. obviously a lot more energy around the ballpark tonight p last night's win. like you said, taking the mound and trying to follow him in lannan's footstep. >> nationals park, please keep the red bull away f

top of the order now, nyjer morgan. the on-deck circle for a while and give his pitcher time to get off the field in -- on this warm day. >> rob: and go sit din and get a little bit of a drink. >> bob: some will tell you they'll take a pitch or two, and you have to have a lead-off guy who is comfortable hitting with two strike ins the count to be able to give his pitcher a little bit of a breather here. some guys are so aggressive, it is one of the little things that they just don't do, but morgan is that kind of a hitter. hitter. he'll get all of this feet for a few moments. -- off of his feet for a few moments. the other thing is because of television, the between inning breaks are a little longer than they used to be. guys kind of know how long they can sit in there before they actually have to get out and take their warm-up tosses. morgan with a hit, and he pulls off of that. manny acta joins us in a movement. we're at the halfway point of the season, plus, two and a half innings, scoreless today. fios guy! where ya

nyjer morgan has stolen a base, scored a run and he's been on base twice without hitting the ball.ooking for rbi number 31.   from what i've seen of him now and not quite three weeks, he doesn't give away too many at bats and has a real good plan every time in there. it's either left field or a bunt or moving a runner. i haven't seen him make that many outs and as i say that, oliver perez runs a fastball right under his hands and the nats leave their 6th runner and lead 4-0. from that first dollar forward, cash flow isn't just an important thing to small business. it's everything. that's why pnc is introducing your new cfo, cash flow options designed to effectively improve your cash flow. cfo helps every dollar work harder. from the very first dollar to the last dollar of the day. get in touch with your new cfo. pnc. leading the way.   >> bob: right behind home plate, the bridge and national's park, beautifully lit up on this tuesday evening july 21st and the nats lead 4-0, top of the 7th. john lannan, 77 pitches and pretty much right on hi

nyjer morgan racing around third. he scores to give the nats a 1-0 lead. things started. top six, it's 3-1, nats. starter scott olson gets some help from his defense facing chipper jones and jones drives within to center. morgan tracking it down, make a sensational snag. over the shoulder. takes away a base hit and olson says thank you, my friend, for helping me out there. impact with the bat and the outneed afternoon. run or second, takes the oufspeed pitch. ronnie belliard and morgan is a speedy fellow stretches into a double. nyjer morgan finished with three hits and that rbi and the nats hang on to win it, 5-3, the final. winning their first series in two weeks. >>> and in women's

nyjer morgan. with a man on second. morgan making things happen. base knocked back up the middle. harris this time is going to test michael bourn. he's a faster guy, but the throw is pretty good and pudge makes an even better play. scoops it. tags harris. he's out. phenomenal play by pudge, the future hall of famer. >>> bottom nine, game still tied at five. mike macdougall facing blum. an exquisite situational hitter. that's it. the nats lose it 6-5. let's go to baltimore. dave trembley watching the game from a suite as he begins to serve a two-game suspension. pitching for the blue jays here in the second, strikeses out nolan swinging. that was a good thing for them to come. top five. blue jays up 1-0. toronto's chavez lines one up against melvin movement alex trots home. chavez on board with an rbi double. that was more than enough for cecilful bottom six. cecil still in the game. the former terp just krugz. his family was at the game cheering him on. he allowed four hits. he gets a third career hit. >>> hometown hockey, they signed brendan morrison with $1.5 million yesterday.

maybe the pnc in just a moment. >> bob: nyjer morgan heads one to the gap.his ball's got some carry on it. hits right off the scoreboard and he's thinking three. a good throw gets him. it gets away. and he's on third base with nobody out. triple all the way from morgan who made up his mind he was going. that's his 6th triple of the year and his first as a national. >> rob: love the aggressiveness. right off the bat. hanging ball right off the scoreboard. should have been dead, but here's the throw from gwynn, bad throw from the cut-off man. you challenge the arms of the defensive team on the field and right there it pays off. >> bob: that's why pitchers back up third. >> rob: yes, but i don't recommend making the first or the third out at third. >> bob: now they have morgan hung up. no tag there. guzman's at second base now. morgan is tagged that time. that was a little careless. >> rob: hey, they're making some things happen right now. >> bob: guzman hits the shot right here. first pitch fastball, he's going to take it the other way. maybe even a breaking b

morgans at that one. nyjer is hitting 2-3. he is now 7-23 as a nat. quintanilla stays in to play third base on the switch. morgan slaps one that will fall in left center. he's got to be thinking two here. all right. isn't he fun 20 watch? >> rob: yes, he is. don't look too fast. he'll slide by the bag. >> bob: he is 8-24 for morgan with the lead-off double here in the eighth. he was at second base before we knew it. >> rob: well, the sinking fastball to left center and -- center field and he is off to the races. let's check this out. he has world class speed right there. >> bob: if he had to grab the bat he would have been in short left field. >> rob: or the south pole. i don't think either one of us knows what it is like to run like that. >> bob: it is fun to watch that's why speed never slumps. >> rob: the one thing about deion sanders, how fast he was from first to third. he never moved his arms. he ran almost like someone would climb a wall or a building, and he would warily put his feet on the ground ground, he was so fast. >> bob: and with him it

. >> well, nyjer morgan has no mercy on the pitchers when he comes on. we will hear from the center fielder who causes all kind of havoc when he gets on bases. we will be back with more. it'. - it's on. - it is totally on. it'. jimmy, it's on. it's on. oh, yeah, it's on. pilot: affirmative, it's on. are you insured? do you know when your beer is perfectly cold? or do you risk drinking a warm one? if you have the new coors light cold-activated can, you're covered. because now every can turns blue when your beer... is as cold as the rockies. it's cold insurance, only from coors light. cold beer: that's our policy. frost-brewed coors light. the world's most refreshing beer.  . >>> they are getting set to to milwaukee. the nats extra pregame starting at 7:30 and the afternoon game on thursday. that's a 2:00 start. we will be with you at 1:30 and then the pirates beginning at seven. nyjer morgan scores the winning run today against the padres and in the 10 inning. asked how is he doyne. how is he feeling. >> i feel good t legs are a little sore s and on

because of that, nyjer morgan would come in to score the game-winning run.at that celebration. they hope this starts momentum heading into the milwaukee series tonight. >> milwaukee is a good ball club. you know, we're going to have to play well on both sides of the ball. but, you know, i think -- we feel we've underachieved as a team. hopefully in the second half we can get some momentum and get some bright spots. >> we're going to two tough places to play and two really good teams. and, you know, it would have been a very tough loss if we would have lost this today. our spirits are high. we're looking forward to getting to milwaukee. >> we've just got to get to the point where we feel like we're going to go out there and win a ball game. i think our guys -- our hitters know we can hit. i think a lot of them know that there's a lot more left in the tank, a lot more to produce. and we know we can put a run together. >> jim riggleman and the nationals open up their series in milwaukee tonight. >>> moving now to tennis news. world team tennis, last night the c

on a one hopper to nyjer morgan.the 3rd for the mets and have four in the game and that will bring up david wright.   braves have an early run against the giants at home tonight and atlanta 6 and a half back of the phillies.   oliver perez nowhere near the speed of castillo 90 feet behind him and john lannan has fallen way behind david wright.   dangerous count here. and he jacks it to center hh in the air and morgan back and back and leaps and he's got it. nearly 400 feet away. what a great finish to a long, long run. hey mom i need some minutes. i just gave you some at the restaurant. yea i know. i threw them out. they were old so... old! they are rollover minutes. they are as good as new. ya know not everyone gets to keep their unused minutes. and these days we can't afford to be wasteful. saving minutes... ...saves money. yea. (announcer) only at&t's familytalk with rollover saves your family's unused

nyjer morgan arriving today at land shark stadium earlier.e in that starting line-up on friday. he will have sean burnett arriving today. morgan drafting in the 2003 draft. 18 stolen bases this season, five triples, tied for second in the major league. his birthday is either coming up tomorrow. >> ray: tomorrow, i believe. >> johnny: happy birthday to nyjer. he got himself an inning and a work did sean burnett in florida. >> johnny: 2-for-14 in this ballgame, losing 5-3 to florida. manny acta was asked about that. >> we had plenty of chances the right now, our situational hitting flatout sinks. it's killing us. we could have won both series here and in baltimore. we have not been able to do it. we got 02 in. we have to have a better plan. >> debbi: initial impression of sean burnett? >> he threw the ball well. threw the ball okay. he gave up the homerun to cody ross. we like what he have seen. but that's just 1 1/3 inning. >> debbi: jordan zimmerman, he has pitched well? >> this kid has pitched well for us. over the past two months, he has be

nyjer morgan has a hamstring. and seven rbis. ham, bard and hernandez in fronts of john lannan. get him all rammed up. and craig stammen takes on suppan and opens up in milwaukee tomorrow night and then four in pittsburgh. willie harris is nine out of 10 and out to the cut of the grass. and it is not cristian guzman, it as totally different dynamic with the patient nick johnson in there. nick has two walks, two for seven, two rbis in the series. and another number 2. the count. 2-0. >> rob: they said before with gaudin, he is mountain and/or cold and seven walks. and 4-44 in the last two outings. and 9-8-11. gave him the under construction and great stuff just not great command of it yet. talked about it too, with our guys. sometimes you have two, three pitches you can throw well. doesn't mean you can command them all at the same time in the same game. sometimes you have to pick two of them and stay with them and work on them. and perfect them as best you can. >> bob: padres signed him in the second week of april as a minor leagu

nyjer morgan for the nationals did not play in last night's ballgame.'s in that line-up, he will lead off for jim riggleman's ball club, and with the nationals 25 for 73. take a look at the speed he's got. 10 runs, 11 stolen bases, the pride and joy, nyjer will be in the lead-off spot, cristian guzman batting second, ryan zimmerman, adam dunn, wil nieves will be catching jz martin looking for his first major league win. johnny holliday and ray knight with ben and a loft rumblings about what went on last night back in that clubhouse. >> it was a little different than anything we've really seen this year with jim riggleman kind of laying into the guys after the game. to me it was, we kind of knew we were going to see a little bit more are of this from riggleman. to this point i hadn't really seen it. we hadn't seen him kind of talk after the game and be openly critical of guys, but last night was definitely a different there -- a difference there. i will it will be interesting to see how they go forward because this is not the approach we saw manny acta g

nyjer morgan dives makes a snag.ats pound out a season high 13 runs on 21 hits and win big, 13-2. >> it was nice just to get all the runs for us to have an easy one for a change, and you know, the fact that those guys put together those good at-bats it's great. it was also nice that willingham snapped out of that 11 solo homer that he had. that was a good moment for him too. >> o's hosting the jays. game tied at three. moore at the plate. melvin mora is thehero. hits a walkoff home run to right field. it's his first home run in 50 games. then i love this. he slides into home plate. that's celebrating in style. the orioles win it 4-3 in extras. at the u.s. women's open, it's cristie kerr's tournament to win. the former open champ is clinging to a two-shot lead heading into the final round. you can watch all of the drama on nbc4 tomorrow. the shot of the day, sung young yu, the par 4 14th. she hits a 3 wood and that's a good choice because it goes right into the cup for an eagle and that deserves a high five. yu is fiv

you hope sean burnett will have the same success he had with the pirates and same thing with nyjer morgan. i'm talking to curt schilling about the whole lou gehrig and anniversary and a. l. s. and they're going to read his speech on the 4thof july. on a professional note, was asked about david ortiz and his struggles and stuff. he said quite frankly i don't care. if a guy is struggling, i want to face that guy. i'm going to bury that guy. i might be friends with him off the field, but on the field, no sympathy. i'll worry about getting the other tough outs in the lineup. that's the way you have to approach your job. that guy is standing 60'6" trying to put you out of a job or out of bigs every time you come to the park -- out of business every time you come to the park. it's not personal. it's just business. i read an article when i was in high school by luke from "sports illustrated" talking about -- he put it in simple terms that. guy is take food off of my table. >> bob: one ball, one strike. baker bunts it. dead continues perfectly. clippard to gonzalez. 1-4 on the sacrifice and the t

nyjer morgan comes up. here comes michael bourn. astros 1-0 lead. bottom four. 1-0 houston. carlos at the mound. drives one deep to left. he thinks it's a home run right away. we got out the magnifying glass. the ball hits below the yellow line. still in play. morgan fields it. hits the cutoff man. alberto gonzalez with the throw. lance berkman is trying to score and the ball is waiting for him at home plate. he's out. they did review it. but it wasn't overturned. bottom seven. still 1-0, houston. jordan zimmerman gets pudge rodriguez on the checked swing. zimmerman struck out pudge three times in the game. he finished with six. but zimmerman made a mistake a couple pitches later. very next batter, kaz matsui. lays this one to right. just over the wall for a three-run homer. zimmerman, devastated. looked like someone stole his lunch. matsui's third of the season. at troes take a 4-0 lead. he trips. that's a balk. the base runners advance. berkman goes home. nats get shut out 5-1. at the all-star break they're 26-51. >> it's a humbling game. the same club that scored all thos

now, nats newest acquisition nyjer morgan is somebody that is speedy, he's alet athletic and manny actahe's athletic and manny acta can't wait to write his name in the lineup. >> he's going to improve our defense back there and give us speed we don't have. heck, we have about 23 stolen bases as a team. this guy has 18 alone. so, it's going to help, and we got some of the reports about him being a high character guy with a very good personality, so we're looking forward to having both those guys over here. >> debbi: i bet he's a hard- work guy. he used to play ice hockey in canada. he reached the major junior level with the western hockey league back in 1999 and 2000. after that season, he focused solely on baseball. bob? >> bob: yeah a-bit of a late bloomer at the age of 28 now. there's a good swing by alejandro de aza pinch-hits for the pitcher. the runner goes back. dukes and dunn got a little crossed up there. adam may have crossed in front of elijah and took his eyes off the ball for a moment, but a leadoff single here in the sixth. stammen had retired 12 in the previous 14 hitters.

nyjer morgan scores from second. the nats win 3-2 in extras in walkoff fashion. they've won two in a row. >> no matter what the record is, we all want to win. it doesn't matter how many games we've lost. you play to win. no matter how it happens, it's always a lot more fun when you win. >> the one guy that needed that was austin. i'm glad it happened for him. he's a great teammate and a great ballplayer. it's not easy coming off the bench like that, you know? he's hanging in there. he's working hard. and he's taking advantage of every opportunity he's getting. i'm proud that he did that today. >> we're in boston. dave trembly and the orioles trying to snap an 11-game lose streak. down the thirds byline. melvin mora and gregg zaun converge. mora back peddles and makes the snow cone grab. lo lovely. top five. john smoltz facing nick mar kay k markakis. finally a win at fenway. if it weren't for a high school guidance counselor in oakland, california, rickey henderson would have never stepped on to a baseball field. his first love was football. his counselor gave hi

>> center field will be named morgan down, because nyjer morgan is out there patrolling it like nobody haston since this ball club came to washington. >> i remember a quote that when willie mays went into the out field, he said i don't care if he hits, he covers the whole pasture, that's what nyjer does, he covers everything out there. just been such a joy to this ball club with all of that energy. >> bob carp entheir is going to have a nice sit down interview with scott olsen and john lannan coming in the course of their broadcast. you don't want to miss that. thanks for joining us tonight here on nats extra pregame. a nice salute to all star ryan zimmerman. woman over phone: no problem. you know, mae other people are content to sit around and wait. wait for something to happen. for business to pick up. but for you, it's time to kick it in gear. time to get going. time to get tough. take control. you're not gonna run and hide. because backing down's not your style. grab your bag. it's on. ( ding )

nyjer morgan is on second base. he was playing for pittsburgh when this game began. was in the minors. e hits the easy double playgrounder but it's tied. morgan scores and the nats win 11-10 in 11 innings and the game that lasted seven minutes or two months and seven minutes depending on your perspective. >>> tonight started off well for john lan unanimous on the hill get defensive -- john lannan on the hill getting defensive help. the basises back up the middle, nick johnson scores. ripe zimmerman is coming behind him. ryan is safe. nats -- vine zimmerman is coming behind him. ryan is safe but that -- ryan zimmerman school in behind him. ryan is safe but that is now off the wall and bourn can fly, gets all the way to third beating the throw. he'd later score. astros from all the way back and defeat the nats 9-4. >>> redskins defensive tackle albert haynesworth pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge in tennessee this morning. e received three months probation, will make a $5,000 contribution to charity and attend driving school. he's also required to perform

this is nyjer morgan. thas a base hit. here comes willie harris. can he score?ichael bourne out at the dish of the we go to the bottom of 9th and here comes geoff blum. oh, no, not again. miguel take laid a scores. the -- miguel tejada scores. the nats still winless on the road. >>> o's without manager dave trembley suspended for this outburst earlier in the week. top of the 5th blue jays up and here comes alex rios. jays blank the birds 2 -0. >>> from baseball to biking, tour de france, second stage. lance armstrong dropped a spot to third place. his teammate alberto contador breaking away the final sprint of mountain. >>> the caps big time move in free agency signing center brendan morrison for a one year deal for the 12 year veteran. morrison has scored 20 goals or more four times in his career. >>> how about golf. phil mickelson will not play in the bishop next week and stay at home with his -- at the british open next week and stay at home with his wife amy who is recuperating from a surgery for breast cancer. mickelson has not set a timetable when he will

nyjer morgan fields it. hits the cutoff man here, alberto gonzalez. perfect throw home. lance berkman ting to score. he's out. dead duck. bottom seven. still 1-0 houston. jordan zimmerman cruising along gets pudge rodriguez on the checked swing. zimmerman struck out pudge three times in the game. he finished with six. a couple pitches later he made mistake to kaz matsui. not really known as a home run hitter, but he hits one here. sends one to right just over for a three-run homer. zimmerman devastated. matsui's third of the season. astros take a 4-0 lead. it gets worse. yeah. bottom eight. tyler clipper trying to intentionally walk hunter pence with a runner on second and third. clipper tripped. that's a balk by rule. base runners advance. berkman trots home. manny can't believe it. just one day after scoring 13 runs, they get shut out. >> had plenty of humbling games. this is the same club that scored all those runs yesterday. we couldn't execute today. runners in seconds. no outs. couldn't get them over. twice the based loaded with one out and couldn't get it done. th

. >> rob: i'm going to stick with nyjer morgan. >> bob: ok. >> bob: there's a pop-up. breaking back, now coming in, adam dunn. plenty of time. one out. that's an important man to keep off bathe base in front of hanley ramirez. to me, the least obvious of those four would be ron gant. i'll take gants. >> rob: ok. >> bob: i'm pretty sure ron probably struck out five times as many as he hit home runs that year. avenues good hitter. kind of an all or nothing guy. here is hanley ramirez. hot shot to zimmerman first time. reached on the error when zimmerman knocked the ball down and then ryan threw it away. 7-8, the only bethlehem irbil uggla's base hit. he was gunned down trying to go to second on a sing toll left center. elijah dukes, his 10th assist of the year. not often when the nats played the marlins have they scored runs and then just shut them down for several innings. see if stammen can do something like that tonight. it seems like whenever manny's team has gotten ahead of this ball club, they have an immediate answer. that's on the outside corner. tim welke gives

nyjer morgan ores. the nats win 3-2 in extras in walkoff fashion. they've now won two in a row.s for kearns his approach to his role is nothing more than respectf ful respectful. >> how i was raised. i heard my mom tell me a million times you got to be the same person every day. that's no different. you take the good with the bad and hopefully you have more good. if not, keep on keeping on. >> that's the guy that i've seen, you know, my entire career. you know, i don't know what he did different. but he needs to, you know, bottle that one up. >> big day for austin kearns. in boston, dave trembly and the orioles trying to snap the 11-game losing streak. melvin mora, gregg zaun go for it. mora makes the snow cone grab as he's falling down. top of the fifth, orioles lead 5-0. john smoltz, humor fall of famer facing nick markakis. markakis sends it out to right field. os beat the sox 6-2 snapping an 11-game losing streak in boston. >>> the drought in d.c. is over. tonight the washington castles captured the city's first championship in five years. the kings of world team tennis afte

. >> nyjer morgan. there he is!ight, they return to their old stomping grounds, the steel city where an old friend becomes a foe. >> strike three. >> next on masn 2. this is the scene at pnc park in pittsburgh. the nationals clubhouse, the locker of joe beimel who has spent less than a half of year with the washington nationals and the locker of nick johnson who spent five years with the nationals franchise. welcome, everybody, to "nats xtra" pregame. i'm johnny holliday with ray knight. nick johnson gone. joe beimel gone. our show is brought to you by our good friends at vep verizon wireless. i guess their names have been mentioned. you hate to see anybody go. the trade deadline was 4:00 today. both these guys really contributed mightily to the success of this organization. >> they certainly did. nick johnson, you saw what he could do after being rid welled injury after the last cowm couple of years a real good ball player a great team player. you knew it was going to happen. i knew nick was going to be the guy mai

here is nyjer morgan.so maybe jp is taking all the heat for what he has been told he has to do. >> i don't think anybody told him to sign vernon wells to over 100 million bucks back in the day. >> bob: true. bad deal. nats still don't have a hit since the 4th inning. livan spinning his web of deceit one more time tonight. ♪ ♪ tell me who's watching. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here. it's easy.  >> bob: time to spring you to speed with the at&t rapid rewind. j.d. martin major league debut and the mets roughed him up. they don't hit for power, but they did five runs on seven hits in the first two innings until tyler clippard came in to retire nine of them in a row, five on strikeouts. and settled this game down for the nats and their bullpen. mets lead it 5-2,8 inning, and at&t is the nation's fastest, 3g network. your world delivered. game summary, angel pagan acting like a lead off man tonight, two hits, two runs an rbi. josh bard 2-3 and four total bases, an

nyjer morgan continues to just be on fire for the nationals. his average almost .300 now. a couple runs scored tonight, and he just is a pest when he gets in the base pads. >> he's made every play defensively, another real good running play in center field tonight. he goes back to the wall. he's just ignited this ball club. i know that we haven't produced wins, but when he plays, he goes out there and there's a different energy. >> tyler clippard tonight comes in and just was, as you were right behind home plate, he was lights out with his zone and his strikeouts and his pitch selection, too. >> he does something that really was done a long time ago with that four-seam fastball, he elevates it and strikes people out. you're going to see how he just goes up after the fastball there. as good as anybody in this league. and he throws 90, 91, but it looks like they're going to catch up with it. it's up there at eye level. the good hook that he has. three outstanding pitches. he's got starter stuff. they tried him as a starter. he went down there and had so much success as a rel

lines one over nyjer morgan's head. he isly going to end up with a triple here.guzman, watch the relay throw. i mean, this is just basic baseball. looked like the nationals were going to blow it again. so in comes a run. we are tied at one. bottom of the sixth. adam dunn is up. the big guy pull this one into right field. jeff francoeur. this is ugly. lost it in the lights. had no idea where the ball was. all he could do was duck and cover. so the ball goes to the wall. done with a stand-up double. two batters later. the nationa would make him pay. willingham at the plate and he absolutely launches this one. two-run jack. the nationals taking a 3-1 lead. play good baseball. 13th home run of the soap. top of the seventh. stammen trying to do his best john lannan impression. seven innings. nationals take it 3-1. they are in the midst of a rare winning streak. >> that's how you start winning streaks and that's how you start playing winning baseball. start the pitching. you are going to have to bang out, you know, ten hits, six runs. you are in the going to start many

. >> nyjer morgan.f the newest nationals out there having a blast every time he is on the field. you can't do that yet. i think there is more we need to diover about this guy. what do you think, dan? >> to be honest with you, i'm not sure he is having enough fun out there. >> dan says he's not sure if you are having enough fun out there. >> i'm having fun all the time, dano. >> guys, thanks a lot of nationals and the mets. hopefully they can make it two in a row. we will -- >> that would be great. yeah. >> tha would be fun. >> that's what we are rooting for. >>> when "news4 at 5:00" continues, unique pairing of names at the upcoming dedication of a coast guard vessel. >> keith garvin in due upon circle where attention brought by the attention of the real world is bringing real s cop.ngu  >>> bob ryan, storm center 4. we have clouds out there but right here in washington, nothing -- you can see showers out to our west, shenandoah valley. and look at the beautiful fort valley. boy, it has been a fairly w

nyjer morgan is running stuff down in the outfield. so the team is getting stronger. now, the outcome is not what you would like, but the bottom line is, a 1-0 shutout at coors field. i think that's an excellent game for the nationals. >> i couldn't gray with you are more, buddy, as detailed as you are, you have watched this ball club, can see it grow, the changes, best case scenario for our club in the second half. >> best cares scenario, you play .500 in the second half. you're still going to have some problems, not going to be as talented as the mets, braves, and phillies. no more interleague, so don't have to worry about that stuff. bottom line is, you continue to get better. some of these younger players are auditions for next year's team. so for, you know, ray, you and i, we both know this, you're always auditions for somebody, so you have to go out there and play hard, and these guys are playing hard. they're not quitting. i was here, had to do my radio show early today. this team was out on the field, almost every man at 2:00 in the afternoon after a very long

but this is kind of the nyjer morgan show tonight. the kid is playing great. right on cue. john lannon goes out there tomorrow night and takes on the pirates. >> i look at these stats and they are mind boggling. .242 earned run average over his last ten starts, johnny and only one of those he has given up more than three runs and that was five starts ago. he is on course to be 200 innings pitcher. in the bullpen. in the low tation here. he is 8-8 with a 4.51. a lot of synckers a slider done walk a whole lot of people. but again our run average is pretty high. so this pittsburgh ball club we ought to wear them out. >> seven or eight guys are gone out of their starting lineup. >> this club was beaten back in may. remember that 12-7 game we saw? >> i don't remember that one. five runs in six innings. atlanta should get lannon should get a win tomorrow night. pittsburgh tomorrow night. pittsburgh saturday night. again sunday afternoon and again on monday. all pittsburgh all the time on masn 2 and our good friends at dc 50 join us for sunday afternoon. johnny holliday ray knight