performance this past weekend or scott olsen. we're going to touch on these guys when we come back and continue. this is nats xtra pregame. it's followed one tradition: use the best high-country barley... and only rocky mountain water. and it's been brewed under one motto: never compromise. now maybe this means we're a little set in our ways. but we know a few guys who will drink to that. coors. the banquet beer. >>> welcome back. we saw some great pitching performances from lannan and olsen this past weekend. they were on fire against the braves. >> well, it's almost like they are charging each other. olsen, i wasn't sure what to expect. he was only throwing 88, 89, i'm not sure he wasn't hurt coming out of spring training. but his last two to outings have been lights out. he's thrown the ball 91, 29 miles an hour, has become effect everybody with his change-up. went to the slider the other night, as he was able to figure that out, and just wore people out on that ball down and in, and john lannan, gosh, best pitcher on our staf

this logic the fourth game of that stretch and scott olsen is on the dl for 15 days. we'll talk about all that and more on nats extra free game. johnny holliday and the former new york met ray knight, who hit .298 in '86 and was the comeback player of the year, the mvp of the world series. wouldn't it be nice to take care of your former club and get them out of here? >> it sure would, johnny. it's time we start doing that stuff. you hate to see scotty olson go down. that will give someone else an opportunity, though. big fans here tonight. a lot of people are walking in, and there should be a lot of excitement. >> and a chance for martin to get his first major league start. the chicago series, ray, they did almost everything right while the nationals still trying to get in sync on a consistency base. >> we had 27 hits, they scored 26 runs. they had a lot of base hits with runners in scoring position. every time they put runners on, somebody came through with a base hit. fukudome had a big series, we just didn't hit well, but we just didn't do anything offensively. fro

scott olsen on the dl and designating another player for assignment. >> you've got to fight to win allgame. as i've told the ball club, losing is easy. winning is what is hard. that's the challenge. it is hard to win. and it is hard to win if you are in first place. it is hard to win where we are at right now. >> certainly hard to win no doubt about that. orioles trying to avoid a sweep themselves in chicago today. three-run shot. 4 r.b.i.s on the day. baltimore wins 10-2. three-game series in new york. they lost the first two games of that series but they win today by a score of 10-2. >>> tour de france stage 15. 129 miles through the alps mountain belonging to spain's rider who crushed everybody including lance who finished a minute and a half back. armstrong in second now. tonight, of course, is sports plus and we will be talking about a lot of stuff tonight. football right around the corner. nats and os recap. in-depth on the british open. michael vick update and more. he is officially a free man tomorrow. so a big, by sports plus tonight. >> do you want to recap weather. >> let'

houston for the nats and that is a hop run and right there on console -- home run and right there on scott olsenbases juiced for the 7th. cristian guzman backed up to the box. here comes alberto gonzales, right behind him wlie harris and the nats have a 5-4 lead. now tied at five in the 9th. this is nyjer morgan. thas a base hit. here comes willie harris. can he score? michael 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

. >>> well, the nats picked up scott olsen from the marlins hoping he'd be the back bone of their rotation. he's averaged 32 starts and ten wins over the last three years. but since joining the nationals he has won just twice and nows' done for the year. he paid a visit to the doctor yesterday who diagnosed a torn labrum in the shoulder. he'll have surgery on thursday and he'll be out for the season. believe me, the scar is beautiful. nats and mets tonight at the ballpark. new york sending perrez to the mound, whom the nats tagged for seven runs in four innings back in april. he'll take on dc's lannan. >>> with temperatures set to hit 90 this weekend hockey may not be the first thing on your mind by the caps are deep into their offseason maneuvers and chief among them is this guy. mike knuble making his debut today. the last four seasons were with the hated flyers. knuble has been good for 25 goals, 50 points a year and should replace fedorov as the center on the second line. >> on the ice, i want to, you know, try to complement our star players, our really good players, and just try and h

gets the call up to replace the injured scott olsen. >>> if it is true it means one of football's most reveered criminals or it could be a lie. ben roethlisberger going on the offensive tonight. he has been accused of rape in a civil suit filed by a woman in nevada that claims he attacked her while he was staying in the hotel where she worked last summer. ben roethlisberger's attorney denied the charges earlier this week. ben did the same personally at steelers' headquarters today. >> her false and vicious allegations are an attack on my family and on me. i would never, ever force myself on a woman. i'm going to respect the legal process and i am confident that the truth will prevail. >> meanwhile denials from another quarterback today. lawyers for michael vick say their client did not spend his first night of freedom in a virginia beach strip club. a website reported that he partied at the club monday knight alongside nba star allen iverson. >>> just four days after he almost became the oldest major champion in the history of golf tom watson was added again today at the british senior

they play starting pitcher scott olsen on the 15-day disabled list with back injury.ve called up j.d. martin from syracuse to make his major league debut tomorrow night against the mets. the nationals are still going for their first win after being swept by the cubs this afternoon. nationals park. a decent outing for garrett mock until the fourth. chicago's jake fox, hot shot under the glove at shortstop. alberto gonzales. that is not supposed to happen. that was the beginning of the end for the nationals. that error really caused the snowball effect for this team. next batter, the former national, alfonso soriano who nailed a home run last night that made a difference. a repeat performance today. takes the mock fastball to left field. that's gone. soriano's 16th home run of the season made it 3-2 cubs. now we're still in the same inning. the guy at the plate, jake fox. he's back. yep, everybody in the chicago uniform batted in the fourth. this time fox sends it over the head of alberto gonzales and into left field. derek comes around to score. nationals lose 11-3. ji

>> oh, geez. >> all right, that's scott olsen, john lannan. hope you enjoyed visiting with our two outstanding left- handers. they've been gate. and when we come back to coors field, line-ups and first pitch. the nationals and the rockies straight ahead.    >>> nationals are 7th in the league, hitting at .259. ratzmann -- ryan zimmerman has been driving in some runs. with 55 runs, if the top 4. >> bob: two year air ago, the rockies were second in defense.    those fees can go get 'em here we go, first pitch of the game. misses low and away. we're underway at 6:41 local time out here. 8:41 for you back home. morgan shows bunt. pulls the bat back, and it's 2- 1. when it's pretty out here, it's as nice as anywhere in the country. 2 for 2 in steels. he has 20 on the year. and a little tapper, right back to the pitcher. 17-year veteran, angel hernandez has the plate tonight. crew chief randy march at first, hudson at second, and bartsdale at third. last year the nats beat the rockies 4

the nats of placed pitcher scott olsen on the 15-day disabled list with an injured back.e team remains winless under interim manager jim riggleman. yesterday, the nationals were clobbered by another alfonso soriano two-run home run. the nationals fall to the cubs 11-3. >>> the orioles were on the other side of the equation yesterday, and largely because of this guy, greg zahn was 3 for 4, including his three-run home run as the orioles beat the white sox 10-2. the os improve to 15-29 on the road. >>> the road home was good to washington freedom's abbie wham back, playing for the united states against canada in an international-friendly whamback notched her 100th goal of her career in front of her hometown crowd, including her parents in upstate new york. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a great day. >> time for traffic and weather on the 1s. >> let's check in with meteorologist tom kierein. >> good morning. starting off with a cloudy sky on this monday morning, temperatures around the region are pleasant at 71 in washington, from foggy bottom to new carrollton, vienna, potomac,

they scot word that scott olsen will not pitch this year and undergoing surgery on thursday and finished for the year. that's a big loss for a guy battling all season long. >> yeah, it is. i felt something was wrong with him early and throwing 88 miles an hour and you don't lose velocity unless there's something wrong and he didn't have the velocity coming out of spring training and throw 93, 94 and dominate and i read a quote one time that every time he takes the mound he has a chance to throw a no hitter and that wasn't the pitcher we saw here. we saw two good outings after rehab and the second time i didn't know what it was going to be but i felt like it was trouble. >> we hope, we're keeping our fingers crossed it will be a successful surgery and back with us gwen next year and he knew something was wrong and we wish him the best. tonight the business at hand, go out and get the win and knock off new york. >> yeah, and we can do that. basing oliver perez, he's struggled this year having a lot of physical problems and the new york team is not the team that started the season. they've

joining us is scott jacobson, chief investment strablthist with capstone sales advisers expect pp and greg olsen partner at lennox advisers. good to have you on the program. let's talk about these markets and how you want to be positioned in this environment. an enormous amount of money going into the bond market. that continues today as well. do you want to be getting ahead of that trade? do you think the money's been made there? how are you investing? >> we love municipals right now because we think with all the proposed changes to the health care bill that income tax rates are going to be going up and that's going to mean very good things for municipal bonds. >> you hope income tax rates are going to go up just from the idea that the economy recovers soon and you get that revenue. what do you think? >> the stock market is certainly discounting a recovery right now. we've had a little correction.8 we've rallied back significantly. say, 10% in the last two weeks alo alone. so the market is discounting a v bottom in earnings and a big return to earnings. bond market a littles certain what's goi