ryan howard does it in philadelphia, you don't hear the same thing. >> no. he has got a lifetime on bases of .382. >> rob: very impressive for a big man. >> johnny: the past five, when you talk about hitting, the past 5 only one other player has hit 223 home runs and that's albert pujols, that's pretty good company. >> rob: and only one other guy in the history of baseball that has put up 40 in five straight years. that's babe route. >> johnny: better company. >> rob: but he is a number 4 hitter, driving in runs, also make everybody in the lineup better around you. >> johnny: that's what he did. >> rob: i do know on paper they finished 14th on offense, right now in the top 5. i think he has made a big difference in the offense this year. >> johnny: big difference. three balls and two strikes. ryan zimmerman at first base. one down here in the bottom of the sixth. the 3-2. fouled back into the dugout. wow. jim wriggleman, a good look at johnny cueto, 17 homers, 44 driven in, scored 30 runs, and hitting at a .263 clip. here is the 3-2, the pitch is high. reach

ryan didn't know about the ultra secret, for example. there is an awful lot of high command stuff that ryan never knew about. i'm not knocking ryan's book. it was an inspiration to me. i read it when it first came out. i saw the movie, like everybody else in this country, and i loved the movie. c-span: he's dead. >> guest: yes. c-span: and what was the ultra secret? >> guest: the ultra secret was the breaking of the german enigma code. the germans had this fabulous encoding system which they thought was the best in the world, and they were right. it was. they also thought it was unbreakable, and they were wrong about that. ryan didn't know that we knew so much about the germans. the biggest disagreement that i have with ryan -- it's not a disagreement; it's where he was wrong. he just didn't have the full story. for example, he missed ken russell. he didn't interview him, so he didn't know that there was not just john steele hanging from that church steeple. but ryan and zanuck then repeated this in the movie and presented the battle as

ryan will take the turn, go for second.row and zimmerman in standing up with a double. >> rob: nice.   . >> johnny: and the nats hav got the tying run at second base.  . >> rob: zimmerman gets a fan right here, just pokes it back up the middle but he hits it hard enough into left center field, wind up on second base with a little bit of hustle. so zimmerman hustling all night tonight pays off. >> johnny: we saw him hustle that last time up on that fielder's choice. he was able to beat it out. ryan at second base, one out here in the bottom of the seventh inning. don will be up for the fourth time tonight, he flew out to babe ruth's in right in the fourth inning. 17 homers, 44 driven in. arthur rhodes delivers and it's low for a ball.   0-9 is dungeons roads. >> rob: ouch. ho ho. well time to either get a hit or a homer. ffer  . >> johnny: the outfield straight away for dunn. 

now it's ryan zimmerman's turn.aseball's success can come like bolts of lightning out of no where, and that's what ryan needs here. zero for 13 in this series and zero for his last 15. we'd love nothing better than to see a sharply hit ball go right to johnson in right field. outside. >> moving up on the plate a little bit. i know he's moved up in the box. this guy throwing breaking balls in front of the plate all day to him. maybe he'll smoke one right back up the box. >> okay over there? >> yeah, little frog in my throat. >> have to do -- hate to do the maneuver on father's day. >> it's eight runs in the fourth for st. louis. we're still a week and a half away from the true halfway point of the season. that's why the nats would like to pile up a whole bunch of wins between now and then and shut off all the emails. 2-2 zimmerman hanging tough here. breaking ball, strikes him out. he's just not seen the breaking ball at all. ryan's been called out on strikes. i think that's five to six times on breaking balls in the

the bat of ryan zimmerman. >> bob: ryan with two rbi's tonight.followed with a bases loaded grounder in the third. at that time the nats led 2-0. >> rob: randy choate still throwing, getting ready for adam dunn, if need be. >> bob: i'm sure adam will be crazy about that match-up the way that guy throws. adam dunn, 0 for 3 tonight. and 1 for 4 with two walks in the series. he had a base hit for an rbi and two walks last night. fastball up and zimmerman late for it. the count is 2-2.

when you have a shift on and you see ryan zimmerman, two outs running on contact, come on, ryan.come on. you can do it. scores easily. very nice. a couple of two-out knocks right there. >> bob: with that run, marlins have given up 55 runs in the first inning this year more than any other frame. that's the hall mark of having some young pitchers on your staff. here is josh willingham. josh put good swings on the ball last night. 2-4, flied to center. hit the ball pretty solidly, but that ended the ballgame with two men aboard in the ninth. nothing like two-out hits. maybe the nats can cash another one here. josh has driven in 16. over his last 18 games, he's hitting .407. look at that hit streak averaging almost two hits a game. he's hitting ..33 over his last seven games. -- .333 over his last seven games. that ball well hit to right. and moving over to cover the ground is jeremy hermida. so, nats get a zimmerman single a-dunn double with two outs in the first to get on the board first. s your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour

willie harris, cristian guzman, anderson hernandez, ryan zimmerman at one point. everybody contributed to this victory last night. one of the best played games i think all around from the starters to the bullpen to the offense to the defense. so, that was definitely a team victory and a way to get that series win. >> bob: i saw manny acta in his office after the game last night. he was talking about pitching. it leads to good defense and wins. jordan zimmermann's turn tonight. can he like his young teammates continue to feed off each other's success? éa, >> bob: nationals baseball masn brought to you in part by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwest.com. by aflac, we've got you under our wing. and by -- and by acura. acura advance. it's a nice night down there at the national harbor, the woodrow wilson bridge all the way up north to the red least and red porch here at nationals park. blue jays are second in the american league in hitting right behind the angels now. scott rolen a-former philly and cardinal is really, really hot. he's 17-34 last.

nice play by ryan. one down. >> rob: nope .oul ball at this particular time. -- i want to see the replay to see if it was a foul ball. it does go foul. nice call. >> johnny: gonzalez goes to 1 1st 1 1st, bruce stays at 3rd 3rd. >> rob: that's exactly the play you want. he'll try to get a ground ball here. then you'll worry about rolling a double play ball. >> johnny: jason coming back from syracuse on may 20th. grounded to 2nd. johnson, runner out at 1st on a run down. guzman back to belliard, back to guzman. there's two out on the double play. >> rob: nice play. watch the runner. >> johnny: all the time bruce can only stay at 3rd base. >> rob: that was a fabulous defensive play. >> johnny: 4, 3, 6, 4, 6. however you score that, it's fantastic. >> rob: he'll run the runner back to 1st. now you have to tag him out. they do. they get gonzalez. you'll watch bruce can't go anywhere. goes back, what do i do? he goes back to the bag. he gets caught. >> johnny: gomes will pitch now for cincinnati. bruce has been there, double play. bi

ryan, meanwhile, a 5.71 e.r.a., 19 hits in 17 innings.for a set-up guy. >> rob: a lot of arm trouble for the toronto blue jays. they probably paid a lot extra for b. j. ryan and a.j. burnett to get them, coax them to get them up to toronto. a.j. burnette, after he finally paid often, won 18 games, he was able to opt out of his contract and get more money for the new york yankees. >> bob: one's gone, 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 ke

and then they went away from that and started expanding their own zones, especially ryan zimmerman when they started struggling, and we can talk about that. peaks and valleys and some guys get depressed. last night against smoltz they started to go back to their old approach. smoltz threw 35 pitches in the first inning. >> jim: 2-1 to harris. low curve ball high and ball three. >> jim: again he gets behind, i'm talking about brad bergesen. he is now 3-1. and you can see him trying not to be predictable, hence the 2-1 curve ball and that is not his strength. his strene spring training to get ahead and throw take ball out of the strike zone. >> jim: 3-2. >> jim: that is the pitch he is going to have to get from brian knight and we have already seen it from markakis, we have seen and brad knight favors the high fastball. >> jim: here are the numbers, jim. >> jim: yes. 115-point swing and maybe 120 points. >> jim: bard will go. 3-2 with two down, and it is inside, ball four and the inning continues. so three straight hits followed by a walk and the call at third looming larger now for both

ryan zimmerman has to be hungry for another chance. he's 0-4 tonight. he's actually hit right-handers better this year. the winning run is on base. a lot of the bottom of the ninths for relievers fall apart when there's a leadoff walk. i'm not saying this is going to happen but over the years the last couple of years, ryan zimmerman has been a great bunter. if he bunts, he takes the bat out of done dunn's hands and the pitcher -- adam dunn's hands and the pitcher's due up next. zimmerman has to be hacking here unless he can guarantee manny acta he can bunt for a base hit. short lead by nick at first. that's up and in. >> rob: you don't need to bunt if he's going to walk you. >> bob: this is one of those situations where if somebody first-pitch swings, you would just look at them and say what are you thinking? alberto gonzalez for the pitcher two spots away. >> rob: what is he like 5-5 as a pinch-hitter? >> bob: we'll look it up. >> rob: you haven't gotten that far? >> bob: no. >> rob: oh, man. >> bob: gorman is not having a good night. >> rob: i'm telli

and no play for ryan hanigan, the count is each with two balls and two strikes, 3-1 here in the bottom of the sixth. >> rob: ryan has made a lot of strides in one area where people say he struck out 200 times a year, he only struck out 164 times last year, 122 walks, he makes it very difficult on the pitchers, but he is kind of a throw-back. that's what you wanted your four-guy to be, a big power guy and now that he is that big power guy, that's when all these other guys now are saying "oh well he still strikes out," that's the evolution of this

. >> you didn't think rex ryan was going to back down, did you? ryan said he didn't come to new york to kiss bill belichick's ring, and his loss wouldn't hurt him. >> you don't come here to bow down -- nobody is entitled until you step on the field. >> he let us know we shouldn't be afraid to say what we want. it's my first year and they already engrained that in me, we play for the super bowl. that's the way he plays. >> you have respect for the three rings he has and at the same time we're not going to submit to anybody. >> rex line learn that from the man. >> you can't worry about that. i mean, nothing wrong with it. >> it is fun to ruffle featheres. >> in fact, rex ryan has already done that. ryan said, if i was younger why take care of him myself and you got the sense he was only half joking. espn. >> the rex ryan will have work to do when it comes to challenging the patriots. since belichick bill they're coach the jets are 6-12 against new england, and the jets have been outscored by over five points a game. >> baseball now, rough news for p

didn't look like a swing. 2-2. >> sometimes ryan can get a little scripted with his swing. it's almost like he's in an area where he swings. >> broken bat. i had one hitting coach tell me once, which sounded familiar to something a golf coach said to me once. he said when you're standing there try to hit a line drive over second base. that means you're staying on the ball, squaring up because you're hitting up straightaway. but your point is well-taken, stay on if a little longer and take it the other way. adam dunn place its perfectly right over hill, who was the rover in right field. >> 8-iron in the fareway right there. >> here comes kearns. the red sox are coming, masn, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, unique announcer rotation up at camden yards next weekend as well. jim hunter and i will team up on play by play. rob will be there. for some of you we know there are some of you who had a hard time finding nats extra when the orioles were here. we will tell you that despite the fact that the games are a joint telecast on masnhd friday, saturday, sunday, because we're the vi

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that put runners at first and second with two down for ryan church. >> jim: have you ever seen a high fastball that gary sheffield didn't like? so again, young pitcher, rick kranitz is going to come out and talk to him. nobody is up in the oriole bullpen. pitch count at 88. but again, it's up with of the nights where you better be in shape. just hot and humid, maybe ns hot as it's going to get, but the humidity is way, way up. >> gary: and he'll try to work through the 6th inning with ryan church who grounded tout twice coming up. there's the pitch count. second time up to the 18 mark. he has the 7 strikeouts and just one walk in the ballgame. jason berken with the game on the line, trying to get his second win of the season. and the mets threatening here as ryan church stands in. >> jim: he's a little away frm his changeup. [ indiscernible ] if you throw it, boy, is it great when you're getting it over. >> gary: church is 3 for 9 in this series at second base, beltran, sheffield out at first. 0-1 delivery. that will miss outside and a 1

ryan plays just about every inning in every game for the nats.robert andino leads off, bottom seven against yes sus colome. >> rob: sometimes it is easier to come back off of a blow-out loss instead of maybe a 2-1 bottom of the ninth loss. >> jim: i know you were a reliever, but when i lost 2, i didn't sleep well. when you lose 6-1, 7-3, you go loam and you say there are not a whole lot of thins i could have changed differently, even though in this game, the base running call back there when -- >> rob: elijah dukes. >> jim: the one inning where bergesen had trouble. >> bob: the 1-1 game at the time. washington could have had second and third and one out. >> rob: are games and there is nothing you can throw up there to get the out. they just kill everything you threw. >> bob: and here is guzman. one out. >> jim: a couple of augusts ago i did that 30-3 game when the rangers came in. and it was the first of a double-header as

ryan zimmerman will certainly be around for several more innings.he's 1-2 with a pair of rbi's tonight. >> rob: four hits, two runs, both rbi's by this man. this pitcher came in tonight with a 7 earned run average. >> bob: we probably know something right now that ryan doesn't know, and that's lsu won, virginia 0 -- lsu 1, virginia 0. earlier cal state fullerton lost 10-6. sonnanstine's retired nine straight starting with zimmerman's bases loaded ground ball three innings ago. zimmerman, dunn and dukes here, top 6, nats by one. nasty breaking ball low and away. ryan out on strikes. sonnanstine with his fourth k of the game and he's retired 10 straight. he has rung up adam dunn twice. jordan zimmermann has he -- has returned the favor by ringing up evan longoria twice. not a fun night for the big power guys. home run leaders, adrian gonzalez. we mention now that carlos menna has hit his -- pen qua has hit his 20th. ryan howard will be the next evidently and adam dunn will be right after him. adam right now, 5th in the national league in home runs and

ryan hand eye gan the catcher. two outs here in the top of the second.  bruce at second and gonzalez with the first base hit down at first.  and the count no ball a strike to ryan ha dick. the rookie hitting .322. cincinnati takes a 1-0 lead, because it does. bruce all the way around from second to score, gonzalez winds up at third, and hand eye gan with a base hit to right and it's a 1-0 reds lead. >> rob: some great two-out hitting here for the reds. a nice pitcher's pitch, hand eye gan goes away, hits it to right field, doesn't get a lot on it, enough to score a run.  . >> johnny: so cincinnati with a 1-0 advantage here in the ton of the second. that will bring up johnny cueto. he reminds me of some of the guys i played with in high school baseball, 4 for 23. >> rob: not like march visit. he likes to take some cuts. >> rob: he does. >> johnny: detwiler, gets a base hit, gets him and out of there

ryan will always charge those. >> rob: you have to cut that ball off. if it takes one more hop, he probably doesn't make the play. >> bob: reid brignac, he's been on base four times in this series. >> rob: any infielder is susceptible to getting a little bit too relaxed on a routine play. you don't have the greatest mechanics sometimes, you drop down and you'll airmail one. but when you have time to think and you just got to do a habitual thing like that picking the ball up off the turf and throwing it. ryan zimmerman is one of the best. >> bob: there's a big difference in the two leagues right there. the number nine men in the line- up is 3 for 4 tonight.  >> bob: breaking ball to out b.j. upton who is 1 for 3 tonight with a sacrifice. >> rob: even when you have a young team, you still have to have lots of things go right and certain guys having career years to win like the rays did last year. b.j. upton right now is hitting 60 points below what he did last year. and he hit .273. he hit .278 in the division series, .321 in the lcs and .2

three balls two strikes to ryan zimmerman, you can see he caught it for strike three.you can see the frustration for ryan as the nationals retire the top of the fourth cincinnati up 1-0. ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. buy the lg xenon messaging phone for 99.99 after mail-in rebate and get one free after mail-in-rebate. . >> johnny: it's a 1-0 bal game, cincinnati with a run there in the top of the second as you can see. boat clubs with two hits, a 1-0 lead. we go to the top of the fourth, look who is coming along. >> rob: that's med wick. >> johnny: aflac. >> rob: the last draft pick to go directly to the majors? chip has been waiting all year for this, huh? >> rob: that's a great question. >> johnny: i know dibs will come up with an answer for this one. ramon hernandez having the first-base duties tonight. >> rob: was he their first overall pick? randy johnson. no, he didn't go directly.  . >> johnny: didn't p minor leagues. and the 1-0 to hernandez and it's two balls and no stri

ryan, let's talk about your recent doe nation to virginia. they made the college world series and how proud of you of the program that is being built down there? >> i think it is awesome, for them to take a next step and continue into omaha i think has been impressive to watch. me and a couple of the guys that were there and feel like we had a part in that and we enjoyed our time there and it is just nice to be able to give back to people who got me where i am today. >> speaking of where you are today here at camden yards, the orioles park, do you enjoy being part of this beltway series? >> it is fun. i think, you know, everyone else make as bigger deal out of it than we do. we enjoy playing every day, but for the fans and all of the people around this area, i think it is a good time and it is a growing rivalry, and as both of our teams continue to grow up and get older, i think it is going to get better and better each year. >> over your career you're hitting .296 against the orioles. why so successful? >> i can't tell you. i don't know. i e

what we really need is ryan zimmerman. without him right before dunn makes things very difficult and he kind of hurt this club big time early in the ball game, first and second, no outs. not moving those guys over to second and third. things kind of went into a tailspin for the team after that. ryan zimmerman, i think he needs a day off tomorrow very badly, and that will refresh him. then you've got the red sox coming in. so as they say in soccer, nick johnson, the man of the match today. he was really great all weekend long. >> when you look at what's gone on, basically week after week, nationals pitchers two outs, struggle getting the third out. they get two strikes on the guy and struggle to get the third strike or at least get the guy out. i mean, it seems like it's over and over again. >> you're dead right with that one. you need ultimate concentration to work ahead, get your team back in there and that's one of the. the next time we visit with you, get ready. i hear there's going to be a lot of navy blue ball caps wi

ryan was the ota winner. ryan said if he were younger he'd probably handle crowder himself. the 26-year-old crowder said i'd have beat the hell out of that big old joker. >> channing crowder had a rebuttal. i love it. the only thing i can say is let's see if he can top this one. i've walked over tougher guys going to a fight than channing crowder. the dude's going to kill me. we'll make that trade. they'll throw us both out. we'll make the trade. i don't think it would hurt that much anyway. you can't hit what you can't see. i'll tell you that. >> it's a yuck fest, isn't it? the jets and dolphins square up twice in the first half of the upcoming season in week five in miami, three weeks later in east rutherford. >> world cup qualifier england at wimbley, david beckham starting his first competitive match in two years. glen johnson finds brian rooney for the header, england up early. already 2-0. johnston to rooney who gets his second goal of the game, 3-0 against the 198th ranked andora. jermaine defoe with a

he sees david wright playing exactly where melvin mora did with ryan church. maybe when you're down two or three runs and there's two outs in an inning. just lay one down there. it's just, remember when you were a kid, if basically you were playing, if you were playing over the line or they were playing baseball, somebody was playing way back, you would drop one down. messing around, maybe get a little more better at whatever you're trying to do. you get the t-shirts out there. >> gary: can't hit anything to the right or left of second base. >> jim: or you're out. tim redding on the mound for the mets. 21 wins, 40 losses in his career. jammed him, center field. beltran under it, he's got it. that's three consecutive fly ball that is have gone to center. huff, mora, now scott. >> jim: you got wright with two, castillo with three, beltran with three. keith hernandez, he won a bunch of them. gold glovers all over the place. >> gary: all over the place. reimold down to third base, business hop david wright. he's got a big arm, over to murphy. reimold retired. the

ryan zimmerman, top of the fifth lining one off joba chamberlain.merman had three hits and an r.b.i. he was 1-8 in his first two games of this series. a-rod lines one to left. willie harris with the gift of grab. a-rod 0-4, batting .212 on the season. bottom seven, bases juiced, julian taveras gets derek jeter to ground to short. cristian guzman, nice glove work. jeter was 0-1. top eighth, 3-0 nats, one on with no outs, austin kearns to left center. brett gardner. nice grab. but he hits the wall hard. down on the ground for several moments. writhing in pain. he would be carted off. the nationals go on to win it 3-0. joba chamberlain ends up taking the loss. his nine decisions are the fewest for any pitcher in his first 25 starts in mlb history. this was the first homerless game at the 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 and the third worst team ever to defeat the yankees in any series. thursday was a shutou

ryan in the series 3-9.e nats order with guzman and gonzalez and zimmerman, all three batting over.300. you toss adam dunn behind that and elijah dukes, it is a pretty good five somsome to look at. >> rob: -- five some to look at. count is 1-1 to zimmerman. 75 hits and 16 doubles, 41 runs scored. chopper left field. that could be in there but a nice diving grab by jonny gomes. and there's two down. home depot covers the bases today. you can visit home depot.com/spring more saving more doing. that is the power. we will cover the bases with adam dunn born in houston texas back in '79. 8th year in major league baseball. 5 straight 40-homerun season. could have been united states a college football player has he chosen. >> rob: he was supposed to start at texas. starting quarterback. how about this, ryan zimmerman and milledge tied for homeruns for the season. he has 17 already. >> johnny: zimmerman's got 11. >> rob: he makes everyone around him better. he is like joey bott with the reds. -- votto with the reds.

gets ahead of ryan zimmerman, 0- 1. he was looking fastball and he swung through it. >> jim p.: that's that well located fastball. it was out of the middle of the plate with a little bit of giddyup on it. >> jim h.: david hernandez has always been a strikeout pitcher coming up through the minor leagues. popped foul, wide of first. huff hoping for a play but it stays in the stands. that's a strike for 0-2. he had 614 strikeouts in 530 innings in the minor league. >> rob: very impressive. >> jim p.: i struck out 14 back on the 22nd of may. on the year, 3-2 with a very low earned run average. not a lot of run support down at triple-a norfolk. >> rob: the one thing i do like, 18 walks. not just a power pitcher. >> jim p.: i watch his windup. he's one of these guys that fans on the first base side. pretty good balance. >> jim h.: high fly ball, right center field, chasing jones back but he has a play. adam has it for the out. let's welcome in amber. >> the orioles minor league catching coordinator has been up with the club.

ryan church has singled, brought in a run and scored. rbi's have gone to wright and church, murphy and brian schneider for the mets. that one to left field. reimold with a long run and it will end up in the seats in any event and a two strike count on ryan church. orioles-mets will be meeting for two more. tomorrow, it will be koji uehara, 2-4 against tim redding who is 0-2 for the mets. jason berken thursday night 1-3 against luis hernandez who is 5--- livan hernandez who is 5- 1. the three-game set and then the o's off to philadelphia for friday, saturday and sunday. big cut and i don't think he hit it. he's going to go to first. it will be a strikeout on church, but he'll reach first base. it is a pass ball that will allow him to get there. so, the leadoff man on again. >> jim: take a look. great angle right here. ball just gets under matt wieters' glove. right there, ryan church is going to look back. a little breaking ball. matt doesn't catch it. it goes through his legs. he's looking for it. by that time, ryan church down to first

i had a long conversation -- great play right there by ryan zimmerman. >> johnny: not a good throw. a run will score. rosales with a shot to zimmerman's right. amazing he even got to that ball. >> rob: yep. >> johnny: and then rosales goes to second on the overthrow and the reds have got a 1-0 lead. >> rob: getting back to that, i think a lot of it has to do in talking to steve mccatty about giving up singular homeruns instead of 3-run homeruns. right here you see him he is off balance and he probably should have tried to right himself a little more. gotten over the top. this is a fantastic stop right here and you see him throw off that front foot like a quarterback. sometimes you airmail. passes over the middle and they are intercepted. >> johnny: yep. >> rob: 9 out of 10 ryan will make that. as a pitcher you have to get out of this saying he picks me up more than he doesn't. you have to shake that off. >> johnny: a hit, an error, no rbi for rosales. micah owings one of the better hitting pitchers. he won a silver slugger award. >> rob: 4 homers and 15 rbi in '07 and a .333 batting

ryan zimmerman has had a frustrating series, 0-for-4 tonight. last night, 0-for-5. he is 0- for-9 with a walk and three strikeouts. >> rob: scott richmond is now in the game, so. >> bob: 29-year-old starter from north vancouver, canada. >> rob: an extra inning affair out of the bullpen. >> bob: that's a good pitch. boy, i tell you, if i'm sitting behind those guys. >> rob: they were just down there, and don't give them any more time than they need or deserve. they have the little brooms out, they are sweeping off behind there. i mean i have to say they are very original. >> bob: i would have had the spit ball shooter out by about the 5th inning last night. >> rob: they would never be able to get away with that in places like fenway. people are too kind here in washington. >> bob: zimmerman strikes out here. what happened to jesus colome? >> debbi: he probably has a strained quad. probably day-to-day, bob. >> bob: and then tavarez came up. i would love to see adam dunn swing at anything that's close in this at-bat. he does not need our advice but adam did strike out

ryan zimmerman in 2005. the starting third baseman.shot of ryan zimmerman, even guys like colton will leams, and they get a chance to fight through and play for potomac, and of course jimmy. and even guys like efforts who are still in the system as well. >> but morrell and will ems are still bakes, they are 20 years old, they could still be playing in college. we have got them developing and they have plenty of time. you see so often a guy who is a hotshot, takes him time to get ready for the big leagues. four years, you got to have around 500 innings or so minimally. you don't see too many jordan zimmer man's that come up with 100 plus innings and you are in the big leagues. >> the hold of the day brought to you by just a for men hair color. just for men m.l.b. holds st. louis in the top spot with 40, followed by new york, milwaukee, and we'll see who after this home stand, the tampa bay bay rays. weather permitting the nationals and the reds game coming up after this. l right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh,

we talked about this with ryan zimmerman waiting, waiting. you should be charging the ball. you wait with an open glove and it drops right in front of you. >> bob: tavarez deserves better. he pitched 1 1/3 inning. he should have retired five batters in a row. nats deeper into their bullpen now with ron villone.  >> bob: well, the momentu shifted just a bit. we'll see what ron villone can do about it. a adam lind up and a runner aboard. nobody out in the eighth. lind is 0-3. ron villone, a scoreless third of an inning in new york last night with a strikeout of matsui and a walk of jorge posada. and then tavarez came in, got a big out and nats went ton a 3-0 lead -- on to a 3-0 win. when the nationals gave up the run in the sixth inning, it ended a shut tching they hadn up a amon's solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inningwednesday night. adam lind fishing upstairs. 1-2.  alex rios next.   >> bob: th will  out behind anderson hernandez and then dukes will come in to call him off. that ball took a w

a pretty good shot from ryan zimmerman.me run number 12 for him this year. >> fastball down, just jumped all over it after two quick outs for sonnanstine. then hernandez sweet little drag bunt there. one of my favorite plays. >> guzman then singles to right field. johnson then walks. here's where we could break the game open. zimmermann swinging at a bad ball down. fortunately they weren't able to turn the double play. it wasn't hit hard enough. hernandez doubles in the 8th to left center field, drove that ball extremely well out there. i haven't seen that kind of power going that way. johnson singles to right. we weren't trying to score there. when you're up that many runs, you just kind of line it back, fire it back to the cut-off man. longoria as he loses the handle of the ball. then adam dunn, ground ball and double play. maybe 6-5-3 as they were playing the shift over. failing to do what we need to do in the third and the 8th. >> only batter to get more than one hit in the ballgame hernandez you see with the double. sc

ryan misses out side. when you compare umpires and look at hernandez, he's not one to take a lot of lip off batters. >> rob: no he's not. he's been consistent coming into the major league. that's what a lot of umpires try to do. i'm going to be consistent whether i'm lenient, tough, a little more reserved. he's always been tough and consistent at that. i think, you know, you might not like him, but you respect him. >> johnny: line drive to left field. base hit for cristian guzman to lead off the bottom of the 1st inning. >> rob: last start 200th of his career, 201. derrick lee was the one thousand strike out victim. >> johnny: guzman kind of getting back in the swing of things. he's 4 for his last 9 now going back to sunday's ballgame. 2-4 against the reds last night. 1-4 against the mets. 1-4 in this ballgame. coming in hitting .330. that's 7th in the national league. nats have the first hit of the ballgame. harang dealing to johnson. >> johnny: nick has been consistent too. 30 driven in, five homer, .320

ryan? mr. ryan: address the house for five minutes and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. ryan: i would like to rise today to speak about an issue that is important to our community in northeast ohio, specifically the city of warren, city of youngstown dealing with the auto task force and the bankruptcy that have been going on in the auto industry. and the community that i come from has been adversely affected, not just over the past few months or few years, but really over the past 30 years. we have seen the loss of a tremendous amount of jobs. the home of delphi started many years ago by the packard brothers, steel mills, have been adversely affected over the past 30 years, but specifically eefer the past few months and new years given the problems in the auto industry. every day we wake up and read the newspapers, we have been getting bad news about layoffs. a steel company goes idle, a thousand jobs. general motors takes over the third shift, second shift. delphi went from 15,000 employees 20 or 30 years ago, down to just

no two steps and a dive for ryan. jim, one thing you will never see, the ball go under his glove, even when he is son the move; he has the glue down coming up. that ball glanced off the thumb of his glove and it is first and second and one out. he really is a remarkable glove man at third base. >> jim: i was doing a game in detroit with brooks and alan trammell caught a ball and brooks was doing color and i was doing play-by-play, and he said the best fielding mechanics that i have seen the a long time. i said maybe we'll come back on the slow mo and now x-mo and you'll show us. and this is a guy with 16 gold gloves, brooks robinson. i used to have trouble keeping my glove down and they told me to lay it on the ground. you can always come up. you can't go down. >> bob: exactly. >> jim: to hear brooks talk about that. this is a guy that would go on to be the human vacuum cleaner and the mvp of the world series in 1970. >> bob: if it wasn't for the throws, ryan zimmerman might have already clinched the gold glove this y

ryan zimmerman, 1-for-2 tonight. it will be zimmerman with his great grandmotherwatching followed by that old guy dunn and the young guy dukes. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at $6.99. flame-grilled tortillas layered with chicken, bacon, cheese, and ranch. crispy on the outside, melted perfection on the inside. new fire-grilled quesadillas. only at chili's. . >> bob: nationals baseball brought to you by southwest airline. book your next trip on southwest. brought to you by ge, imagination at work. st. petersburg is a beautiful town. not exactly a beautiful baseball park but a useful one with the roof and, no, i would not want to be outside in florida tonight. it was a sizzler today. 85th of the game by matt garza and he misses against ryan zimmerman. you see this from outside and you can't really tell but the roof slants. how far is it going? far enough to be run down by b. j. upton. i guess they figure that nobody can hit the roof in the outfield so the roof slants down. it looks like the lea

so ryan and jordan doing quite well, andy sonnanstine giving up another home run.'s given up 14 of them this year. so now you're up to date and carlos pena hack as foul ball. to begin the bottom of the fourth inning. nationals by the way have austin kearns in the line-up tonight. you might have heard by now that the nats are without josh willingham. byron kerr will have more on that shortly. a tragedy in the willingham family, and josh left the ball club this morning to go back to alabama. we'll check in with byron shortly. pena, disoab rift, burrell. that ball is going to leave the yard, way out of here. almost to the scoreboard. and pena's 20th of the year gets tampa bay on the board here. he becomes only the fifth player in the major leagues with 20 home runs. >> rob: this is going to be a 95-mile an hour fastball down and in, it's supposed to be down and away. that's what happens to those pitches when you throw them down and in to a lefty. you throw that hard, you're going to give up home runs. shake it off, come right back. attack the strike zone some more. >>

i think ryan would probably like to kickback and maybe start fresh against the red sox. everyone knows what a good hitter he is. you saw it earlier, a 30-game hitting streak, but over this weekend, i'll tell you what. i'm not sure i've seen him take as many called strikes as i have this weekend against the blue jays. >> i think you also said the fact that everybody goes through a little dip in the roller coaster some time throughout the season. >> absolutely. there was only one ted williams, and ryan is a guy who i think is very scientific at the plate, oney guy who goes up to the plate with a plan, and right now the plan just isn't working. >> joel hanrahan almost came in trying to hold the jays down, unfortunately not a successful one for him. >> it's unfortunate. >> these guys can come back from four runs any day. it suction that you get in that situation and get two quick outs and let the game get out of hand right there. the team that we have, we feel like we can come back from four runs. we started out getting the first three guys on base right there, so it's tough

ryan delivers to zimmermann. >> rob: italked to him earlier.g from a guy like that, over .500 plus home runs, making adjustments everyday. that's what you have to do. >> johnny: 1-2 to ryan zimmermann. duke, willingham. 2-0 cincinnati bottom of the 3 3rd. bob carpenter off for a couple of days. he is down in tampa. 1-2 to the rays -- to the 3rd baseman. >> that's interesting. we talked about them yesterday. >> rob: they made a lot of trades. we got elijah dukes from the rays. we picked up a lot of talent. then you sprinkle in veterans. he gets people to believe in his style of baseball. the bottom line is once everybody gets on the same page. we talked about this whether the offense playing well or now the pitching, you've got to get everybody on the same page everyday as often as possible. >> johnny: zimmermann with a full count. takes ball four. if you take a look at the last pick, last overall picks -- >> upton, brother bj upton, price. >> johnny: brian fullington. beck am. >> rob: he held out for a year. who knows the that year he took off

. >> rob: this is an outstanding play right here by ryan zimmerman. airmailed the ball earlier in the ballgame. he puts that behind him right there. he knows i have got a very fast brandon phillips coming down the line. actually on the inside and he hits adam dunn right here. that could have been a nasty collision. >> johnny: jonny gomes for the reds will step in. >> rob: that is the thing. you have to get rid of the ball quickly as an infielder and knowing who is at the plate is part of situational baseball. that is fundamental stuff. gomes takes a ball. >> johnny: tavarez hoping to make it a one, two, three, 8th inning. nobody on and outfield playing it straight away. not too deep either. takes a strike on the outside corner. 92 on the gun for that pitch from tavarez. gomes with a .323 batting average. no homeruns this year. and only 6 rbis. a late swing at a fastball. and it is one ball and two strikes. >> rob: see him trying to get pitch reck nation. gets it a lit -- recognition. gets it a little bit late. back up slider you lucky is not over the

listen to somebody holler got 'em when ryan zimmerman hits the ball. he centered that one, and the coors light freeze cam centered that one. that went into the second deck. and now it's a souvenir. run around, they'll get it. got a little jack from dunn. that was funny. >> bob: diaz is a stays in to replace coghlan in the left field. with the rain falling, top of the ninth. dan meyer, a rather inexperienced closer. especially has one major league save. it's for the marlins this year. >> bob: it's possible he could get the first two hitters, then nunez could come in to face zimmerman because he's warming up. fredi gonzalez is mix and matching his bullpen here with matt lidstrom on the d.l. >> rob: he loves room service. >> bob: 27-year-old lefty. two games for atlanta in 04, oakland in 07-08. guzman flies one out of play. cristian guzman has to lay off of that pitch. he's not going to hit it out of the ballpark. the nats need him slashing ground balls and line drives. >> rob: don't help this kid. he's going to throw one chest high to you, let it go. >>

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i want to thank paul ryan, our dinner chairman for helping pull this event together. and i want to thank him for the pivotal role that he's playing on our house republican team. i also want to thank pete sessions for the outstanding work that he's doing to build a stronger and more aggressive nrcc. you know, raising moin, recruiting great candidates and really going after the vulnerable democrats around the country and let me tell you, they're doing great work. now, i wasn't really going to talk about my senate colleagues because you know, this is a house-senate dinner. they do our thing, we do ours. let me tell you what, i could not have a greater partner in this town than senator mitch mcconnell. you know, there are an awful lot of those senators now who were former house members and friends of ours. let me tell you what, working together on behalf of our party, i think we're showing the american people the best of the republican party and the best that we can do on their baffle. behalf. i also want to thank newt for being here tonight, as well. newt is a true agent

ryan zimmerman lined one into the gap.merman had three hits and an r.b.i., 1-8 in the first two games of this series. a-rod to left. willie harris -- the runway is clear and he's coming in for a landing. robbing a-rod of a hit. bottom seven, bases loaded, willy taveras gets derek jeter to ground to short, cristian guzman, nice play. jeter 0-1, still dealing with the sore left ankle. top eighth, 3-0 nats, austin kearns to left center. brett gardner makes the catch but hits the wall hard. manager joe girardi comes out. gardner is carted off. the nationals win 3-0. the nats are the second worst team to shut out the yankees and the worst to win a series from the yankees in new york. here 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 jay

. >> bob: ryan had the hitting streak going, these were the kind of base hits he was getting. having a chat with carlos peqa as he is the 6th national bat tore hit his way to first base and the second one to visit peqa so far i here is adam dunn who collected rbi number 45 two innings ago. at least for now, that put adam in the top 5 in the league with 45 rbis. offspeed breaking ball. he took a little bit off and dropped it in. >> rob: that's how he got ahead of adam in the first at- bat. on the first pitch of that at- bat, adam read it right and got a base hit. when we talk about pitch recognition, you look for the top spin or a little dot on the ball for a breaking ball. the pot on the ball means the hard slider. the over-the-top rotation means a curve ball. >> bob: elijah dukes has had quite a night so far, two-run double, should have had a runner thrown out at home plate. 2-1 to dunn. that's low and away. ball 3. >> rob: ted williams said he could see the seams on the baseball as they came towards him. >> bob: i do believe that ted williams could read the commissioner's si

ryan takes his first pitch of the night. he'd only seen two pitches. popped up on the other. >> rob: he gets a hard slider there. nolasco pulling another trick out of his magician's hat. he's got a lot of pitches, this kid. >> bob: usually that would indicate fastball, but he tried to go front door with another hook. >> rob: he dropped down, threw like a sidearm slider. >> bob: ronny paulino was considered a very good young defensive catcher when the pirates had him. he and john baker, left-handed batter the platoon here. ricky nolasco career, 31-27. his 62nd career start. he doesn't have that many more starts, about 11 more than john lannan. he did work out of the bullpen some. zimmerman takes another breaking ball out of play. this time right side, 2-2. john lannan, 52 starts now? took him 50 to get his 15th win. that was the one at yankee stadium. ross detwiler next to him. eight career starts. and then jordan zimmermann who will pitch her wednesday, detwiler friday at home when the braves come visiting. everybody got pushed back a day when the nati

ryan zimmerman makes a great play, then falls over the mound. nick johnson getting a night off with a bad foot, a bad shin. i told him before the game, i said, you know what, nick, i said i think you're just going to start hitting every part of your body so you can't hit off the pitchers anymore. he just laughed. >> jim p.: if he was a race horse, they'd give him a lethal injection. >> rob: they'd have to put him down. >> bob: not our nick. here is brian roberts, having a very unusual series. he's 0 for 7 with one walk and four strikeouts. >> jim p.: then he got robbed the last time, gonzalez making a terrific play. >> bob: josh willingham made the good pick on his foul ball. on the first pitch that shairon martis threw that, ball stayed down for adam dunn. orioles are done in the sixth inning.   >> bob: celebrate the fourth of july weekend next week at nationals park, the braves are coming in. saturday, first of 20,000 fans receive many u.s. flags. sunday, family fun day. post-game the kids get to

ryan burr along with michele lafountain on what is a monster day and night in the