emilio bonifacio, the former national, the center fielder and rick vandenhurk is the starter for theins. adam dunn with three homers and 10 rbi's this season against the florida marlins. something the two-run shot yesterday for the game winner. he'll be in the lineup again tonight for washington. nyjer morgan leads off at center field. cristian guzman is the shortstop batting second. ryan zimmerman is at third base again back in the lineup after a one-game absence. adam dunn, there he is, in the cleanup spot. josh willingham is in left field. elijah dukes, the right fielder. ronnie belliard the start at second tonight had a big base hit yesterday. wil nieves is the catcher and john lannan is the pitcher. byron kerr and ray knight with you. welcome back to "nats xtra". we'll take a look at news and notes. karin has been put on the 15- day disabled list with that thumb and jorge padilla, 12 years in the mine owrs gets a call to the nationals and in iewnl uniform tonight for washington. we're getting rld for the matchup against the marlins. ben guess -- guessling is here from the "the w

rick vandenhurk is from the netherlands. 10 letters in that last name. he's from ibendolen the.netter labsment his father runs a baseball academy. he was a catcher when he first got here. marlins internafnl head of scouting suggested he should become a pitcher. >> bob: he jams guzman with a fastball. pop-up left field. chris coghlan, two quick outs. marlins defensively are number 11 in the league. they've only made 67 errors this year. emilio bonifacio gets the call in center field. he's made 15 errors. it didn't work out very well for him at third base. cody ross, right field. cantu at third base and nick johnson at first. those two guys are pretty permanent thru thr now that nick has joined in ball club. cantu has played some first base when the nats have faced them. here is ryan zimmerman back in the lineup hitting .294 over his last 11 games, ryan is hitting .414. he's on another one of those hot streaks of his. he's up in the top 10 in rbi's in the league with those 70. that's offside, 2-0. >> rob: well, vandenhurk is only the fifth player since 190

here is what adam dunn did back in the first inning against rick vandenhurk., nationals narrowly avoiding a critical double play. the infield in on the left side. it doesn't look like dan uggla is too eager to play in on the right side. this is one way that teams cannot shift on adam dunn if there are enough runners on base. he takes a fastball in there from pinto. >> rob: that's low. >> bob: 92 miles per hour for a strike. >> rob: pitch earlier in the night was a ball to uggla glaw. this is a 6'6" guy up there. >> bob: off-speed, 0-2. >> rob: after that low first strike, a low one. not even close. good camera work on the x-mo. >> bob: now we'll see if adam dunn can do some contact work. he's homered and walked tonight. target away. way upstairs. >> bob: bottom of the seventh inning. nats lead 5-4. marlins just scored twice. nats try to get at least one of those runs back. what happened there. two outs. he had a bad feeling after adam dunn took that first fastball that was called for a strike. it was the only one he saw. >> rob: a couple of really good breakin