olsen with a count of 1-1.t's going to be a long first inning for both pitchers in terms of their numbers of pitches. willingham's base-running mistake failed out from nolasco who had already thrown 28 pitches and now for olsen 17 already. 1-1 pitch on the pitch track. looks pretty good but you didn't give it to ricky nolasco so we shouldn't ask for that pitch either. still good pitches. >> jorge cantu only 2-13 career against olsen. >> he's still dangerous though. he's one of their better home run threats. >> they've got him! ooh, a high throw or else olsen would have had coghlan picked off. he took a couple of steps towards second. >> pudge rodriquez before that throwover was pointing, making sure scott olsen -- watch this right here -- look at first, look at first, look at first. so pudge rodriquez and cookie rojas, one of the most respected baseball people and here with the marlins said the best part about your team is pudge rodriquez. cockie rojas knows him well and that's one of the first things he said w

great job by olsen.e rusty coming out of first inning. >> bob carpenter: on family fun day at the ballpark. a lot of momdads and little ones here today having a great time. breaking ball to loney. by the way, they just presented screech with a birthday cake with all the mascots down on the dug out. he promptly went up the stairs and found a guy with a dodger hat and t-shirt on and that young man is now wearing that birthday cake. and a 1-1 to loney. olsen hasn't given up the base hit since loney flaired one to center. a lot of 0-2. 1-2 counts here. loney walks away as olsen strike out victim. >> rob dibble: 47 pitches, 36 for strikes. when you are around the plate, maybe just off the plate if you are hitting your spot you are going to get these calls. i think he might throw a cutter. >> bob carpenter: late movement to it but not the sweep of his curve ball. here is casey blake. he is really varying his speeds, up to 91. that was 87. seen 85, 84, 82. hitting timing that ball tapped to left field it will s

olsen went seven innings, gave up no runs, struck out eight. top of the ninth, matt capps on to close it out, former nat, ronnie belliard lifts it in to right but check out justin maxwell, the maryland native, the nice diving catch. it's so pretty i've got to show you again. look at that. just like he practices over and over. the nationals hang on to win it 1-0. capps earned its league-leading eighth save. the nationals are 10-9. the capitals are on their way to montreal where they will try to end this thing tomorrow night in game six, after missing the opportunity to win the series in five games on friday. one of the players is traveling with fewer teeth. enter eric belanger took a hit friday that resulted in the loss of eight teeth. he basically had a root canal between periods and returned to play. i'm going to show you how it happened. but this is graphic so if you're squeamish look away. eric belanger hit in the mouth by bergeron's stick. he crumbled to the ice. belleanger left the ice. he pulled one of his own teeth out. he said it was lo

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. >> tonight it will be scott olsen on the bump. this will be olsen's second start of the year.inally tonight, this had disaster written all over it from the beginning. the oklahoma city thunder mascot, who is some kind of -- was going to do a back flip, but he hit his head on the ladder and went tush over tea kettle and didn't dunk anything. fortunately, when you are wearing the big head and body, it absorbs some of it. >> that would have been a hard hit. >> i mean, that's a good thing. >> oh man. >> and that's a perfect segway to me. >> brett cam. >> a little more growth. we do. >> but come closer, i think the problem is, it's like nine different colors, because it's gray over here, brown and blond. it's just -- i said i would wear this thing, but it's not a good look. >> it's evolving. >> is that what you call it? >> that's what i call it. >> the word that bruce used to describe the power play -- that's what i would have used. i'm too classy to say it. >> you let me say it, nice. >> i didn't make you. >> about two hours of your time every day. >> in shaving? >> there's that.

nat olsen had haze best outing since last year. the nats finished the home 6-4. >> olsen was asked if he could recite any songs. >> i barely know anything about elvis. it is kind of tight and itches. i'll take it. >> he is the nationals $15 million arm, baseball rookie stephen strasbourg. we take a closer look. >> reporter: stephen strasburg is arguably the most talented pitching prospect of all time according to sports columnists. >> awesome. >> reporter: the # 1-year-old is the first overall pick in the 2009 baseball draft by the washington nationals with a fast ball clocked as high as 10 # miles per hour. >> they say he comes around once in a lifetime. >> it seems to be a win-win for the owner of the harrisburg senators, the city and fans, of course. >> knowing that he was a pick in the draft for the nationals and it is a big deal. >> reporter: a record crowd of harrisburg senators and stephen strasburg fans waited through a two-hour rain delay follow bid a 20-minute power outage to see him pitch last week in his first home game

. -- two people will do the work of one, just like the president and vice president or the olsen twins. most americans die of natural causes. if elected, i will find a cure for natural causes. you seem to like that one. it will be covered by health insurance -- it will not be covered by health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. i have a solution for global warming. i will switch from fahrenheit to celsius. it was 100 degrees, now it is 40. you are very welcome. [laughter] i agree with foreign policies because i am from china and i can see russia from my backyard. i believe that unilateralism is to expensive. if elected, i will go with text messaging. i will text our allies just to say hi, and text our enemies when they are fighting. o.m.g., you are building a nuclear weapon? but you were doing it wrong, lol. this is the first time my son knew what i was doing. thank you very much. have a good night. [applause] >> joe wong. thank you so much, joe. thank you, mr. vice president, for being with us this evening. please remain seated while the vice-president departs the building.

and that would be it for olsen. out of the game with no outs in the third. olsen's e.r.a. this season, 11.74 in comes tyler walker. does not fare much better. pitching to the pitcher. d de larosa. not a pretty night. nationals drop to 7-7 on the season. they love baseball. get another shot tonight. >> thanks, dan. >>> coming up, could the toyota crisis create a huge shift in the auto industry? find out what it could mean the next time you go to the dealer. >>> nasa released some spectacular images of the sun. wait until you see this. >>> some law make verse blarsed spirit airlines 'new carry-on bag fee the. that airline's ceo is defending the fee. his name is ben baldanza. he got inside it when it was announced earlier this month. he said the fee will allow spir to it lower air fares. he says overall, the average customer will end up paying less than before. >> we don't so who loses. if you pay for a bag now on spirit, your total ticket price is going to be the same or a little less than before. if you don't carry a bag, help us get our planes out faster by not dloging up

that is scott olsen, big whip against big poppy. that's your fifth starter right there in all likelihood. unfortunately, jason spoiled it, bases loaded in the sixth, sox beat the nats 7-2. make sure you join us monday for live team coverage of nats opening day. sarah, dave, and i will be live from the ballpark from the president's first pitch down to the post game locker room interviews and sunday night, the day before a special opening day edition of sports plus 11:35 p.m. yankees and blue jays yesterday from spring training. i want you to watch kyle phillips, as he nails him in the melon. thankfully, it hits him in the helmet, because if that had hit him in the squash, he would have been an unconscious baseball player. in a way, it is surprising that doesn't happen more often when you have a left-handed batter and a right-handed catcher, because he doesn't really lean into it, but he is fine. how many fingers, and he kept playing. >> he was smiling because he had that protective hat on. >> those things are practically made of plas

. >> from the 2010 festival of books lynne olsen discusses her book citizens of london. the americans who stood with britain in its darkest, finest hour. the professor of journalism at the university of arizona is the moderator of the event. >> my name is lord rosenblum. welcome to the second annual tucson festival of books on this fabulous day. it is only march and it is not yet 130 degrees. i grew up here. i love it. i want to say something about -- i want to thank the judge for making this possible and the want to add my appreciation for all the work behind this amazing festival. if anyone thinks books are dying just look at the mobs outside. any cellphone that rings will be fed to the scavengers outside. this is the point where the presenter says it gives me great pleasure but in this case, man! you may not be able to judge a book by its cover but you can by ane author. se have not only learned to make our sources's lives miserable but we also join the noble tribe of where animals, reporters for the associated press as a former professor out here, joined the hot squa

olsen just responded to a question about. enhanced low income tax care access to financial institutions. i hope very much we can consider the legislation this year. it is difficult to get anything considered this year, but this ought to be good government legislation that could be acted upon. much of the bill, many provisions of the bill were passed out of this committee in the 108th congress, but were not acted upon by the full senate. i hope very much that we can act on them this year. let me ask ms. olsen, one of the issues that you and i spoke about when you were kind enough to come by my office a few weeks ago was this whole issue of liens and the concern you expressed about the irs liens filing policy causing harm to taxpayers without increasing irs revenue collections in the process. i guess i would just ask if you can briefly describe the concern you have got there and the solution using we should consider. >> what we identified was that irs over the last few years has been instituting policies where liens are filed a

. >> reporter: but is the message sinking in senior robert olsen played the part of a drunk driver because in a car crash with three of his friends just last fall. fortunately, alcohol was for the involved and they only suffered bumps appear bruises. >> i was lucky that i didn't have to call any of their parents and tell them that i had just taken their son's life. >> reporter: every 15 minutes is a total immersion program. >> this this prevents one teenaged death, it was worth it. >> reporter: at the end of the day, the students who took part in the staged accident took a field trip to a local funeral home to feel what it is like to pick out a casket for a loved one. >> wow! that program continues today with an assembly where students will hear from family members would have lost a mild to drunk driving. >> also going to hear from drunk drivers involved in deadly crashes. >>> our big stories this morning, top executives from goldman sachs are getting set for a grilling on capitol hill. we'll go live to the hill for a preview of that senate committee hearing. hoyt. >>> plus remembering dr.

. >> reporter: nationals and dodgers pitcher scott olsen was in total command this afternoon.ent seven scoreless innings, allowed six hits and struck out 8 dodgers, registered 7 strike-outs through 5 innings, his best outing since last year. top of the 9th, the nats lead. ronnie belliard, a flare to rightfield and justin maxwell, a beautiful diving catch. he would earn his eighth save shutting the dodgers out 1-0. they go 6-4 on the home stand. >>> meanwhile the orioles in boston against the red sox, top of the 10th, birds lead 5-4. matt weider scores 2 runs. the orioles edge the red sox 7-6 in ten ending a ten game losing streak to boston. the o's are 3-16. >>> nascar's sprint cup series at talladega. kevin harvick battling jamie mcmurder i have to the finish line. harvick wins by 11/1,000 of a second to end a 118 race drought. that's what i call a smorgasbord of sports. >> see you later for geico sports xtra. >>> one foot in front of the other to raise awareness about kidney disease. this is the national kidney foundation's kidney walk at the mall at prince georges. it was n

olsen is a type of guy that's going to accept that challenge and make sure he's here for good. >> let'ston. filly up 1-0. double here. howard score, 3-0 philadelphia. marlins and dodgers. dodgers take a 2-1 lead. and the other ball game, atlanta and san francisco, infield single, and the giants with a 5-4 final in 13 innings. wins tonight for the giants and big win for the mets today. an opportunity for lannan to get on track after losing on opening day. against perez. >>> not a goodnight for the nationals. 4 of their 12 hits went out of the park in citi field in new york. >> that's because we get behind them. >> let's home lannan tomorrow will get the ball over the plate. >> he doesn't walk very many people. 42 out of 71 assignms that he has gone at least 6. he is 12 among -- one of 7 to post back to back 30 starts. he won 9 games the last 2 years. i expect him to win 14 games. he was the number one pitcher in 2008. perez. had a lot of problems last year, had surgery to have scar tissue removed. leads the league in oppositional batting average for left handers. .177 is what opponents h

our guest host, former fed governor mark olsen.ot of ground today, mark. >> we really have, and you've alluded the text, but i was hoping we could have a chance, too, with senator gregg, because it seems to me there clearly has to be a tax bill at some point, and senator gregg is one of the people that has suggested we ought to not simply extend existing -- the existing tax structure, but actually look at some fundamental reform, and that would be nice if that could happen. some talk also about the value-added tax, but that -- i think paul volcker talked about that. >> he did. and said it made sense. he's -- anyone that saw him back when he was reagan's guy and thought of him as a big conservative, you can't put him into any box, i guess, can you? comes up with some interesting -- >> you cannot. but you can put him in a central banker box. he really liked that role and he liked that environment and he did that very well, and he continues to speak out and he doesn't -- he's a very thoughtful, very straight-forward guy. >> do you thi