former catcher pudge rodriguez is in the exclusive group. erin hawksworth has more. >> one, two, three. [applause] >> a special day for pudge rodriguez. >> always a favorite player of mine. a great guy. >> the former washington catcher and the nationals dream foundation dedicated this renovated field in his name for little league players at mason district park. >> my goal is to continue to do that. this will be good for baseball. good for kids. >> what is it like to see your dad honored like this with the field in washington? >> it is amazing. growing up to watch him work so hard for everything he is achieving and it's coming true. >> ryan zimmerman was with his family to support the former teammate. >> my wife grew up down the street. she used to come to the park all the time. >> he was a huge name on the team. for him to have a field where i grew up is like everything is full circle. >> where you know of the most memorable moments he caught stephen strasburg's first mlb start. [applause] >> he meant a lot to the nationals. erin: in annanda

hall of famers ivan pudge rodriguez and tim raines received the honor. our favorite bearded player was back. he smacked a two run in his return. here's a chance to get a bryce harper action figure. just five lucky fans will get them as part of the nats pregame giveaway tonight as they take on the miami marlins again. the first 25,000 will get unsigned action >>> disney nature's latest film is all about the pandas. born in china follows three separate panda families as they navigate through a nature reserve. what you don't see is what the filmmakers did behind the camera. usa today reports that the director's ground crew dressed up like pandas, complete with a panda stench to shoot the film. they said it was the ohm way to be with the protected animals. >>> we're going to check in with chuck, weather alert day. we'll see some rain today. how does it look so far, chuck? >> so far, not too bad, kristin. things will go downhill fast as we get closer to the morning commute. may want to plan now to leave early. windy and wet for your tuesday today. tomorrow, n

hall of famers ivan pudge rodriguez who played two seasons for the nats and tim raines who spent parts of 13 seasons with the nats. and our favorite bearded flavor was back, jason werth smacked a two-run homer in his return. >>> she was out for more than a year, but she is back. in a complete upset last night, maria sharapova beat the number two player in the world. sharapova is ranked number 148 now. she showed she has something to prove. sharapova has been a champion before, but she was suspended for taking a banned medication and was out for the last 15 months. >>> so we have a question for you -- how many times have you been to your favorite restaurant? these folks, when "news4 midday" returns, find out the lengths they went to to hit their >>> well you just have one more chance to get a whiff of the corpse flower at the u.s. botanic gardens in d.c. the is now blooming, you're taking a look at it a lot of people who obviously wanted to go and smell this thing, it's almost 100 inches, really beautiful. i must say. the largest one in the garden's history. you have until 10:00 p.m. to

lerner is now ivan pudge rodriguez. parts of 13 seasons wit favorite bearded player was back. jason wuertz smacked a two-run homer. the nats beat the marlins 11-2. >> nice to get that. >>> if you're just joining us right now, it is a weather alert day. you can tell by looking at the radar here at nbc4. if -- it's moving up the coast bringing us lots of wind and rain. >> matt delucia from our philadelphia sister station. he's live in ocean city, maryland. >> reporter: good morning. it's not a beach day, that is for sure. this is what we're seeing here. we've seen more of that rain starting to fall here within the last hour. right here along the ocean city beach, we see that the beach patrol has taken down some of the lifeguard stands in advance of storm. just preparing for the heavy winds that are going to be coming up in this direction. we're starting to see the wind pick up. starting to see the rain pick up within the last hour. can see not too many folks around here. although there are a few people getting in the morning run. they're not letting that stop them. you see the e

washington nationals dream foundation and other local organizations will host th pudge rodriguez fieldn annandale. the former catcher will help to dedicate the field. the renovated field will serve the community by hosting mason district little league games. very nice. ballpark brings a community together. >>> we've been seeing amazing pictures out of texas. we've shown you some of the rescues from the flooding there. >> most of the rescues included people, family and pets. deputies in one county rounded up a herd of cows trapped in the flooding from harvey. two dogs and even someone on horseback helped steer these cows away from the danger. they trekked down a highway about 40 miles outside of houston. that wasn't the only cow rescue here. this is a herd of dairy cows escaped from their farm to look for higher ground. >> wow. >> all these images coming out of and the rescue efforts. still just breathtaking to see. >> many more days to come before we -- >> unbelievable. we've had about 30 inches of rain in washington for the entire calendar year to this point. they've picked up the sam

. >>> former nats catcher ivan pudge rodriguez comes home for a dedication.utting ceremony on a new little league field in annandale virginia as part of the legacy fields program through the nationals dream foundation. today's ceremony is at 10:30 this morning at mason district park. >>> it was one of the most hyped sports events mayweather-mcgregor boxing match. it went 10 of the 12 rounds. mayweather gets a win by tko in the business. the ref stopped the fight even though mcgregor said i'm tired. the rev called it. mayweather is 50 and o now. he says i'm really retiring this time. mcgregor still has a bunch of options. he said maybe i'll box more, too and to go 10 rounds with mayweather although mayweather landed four punches in the first round. mayweather got off to a kind of easy start. >> he said he wasn't a powerful puncher i could have kept going. >> and then they asked mayweather if mcgregor was a powerful puncher and he was like. >> anyway they're all friends. we all spent the money. >> i think they -- >> is who got sucker punched. >> what are you go