andy sonnanstine, seven innings, 77 pitches.he's well on his way to his second career complete game. this guy pitches like this, it's hard to believe he's only had one. >> rob: i watched him a lot last year and he was really tough down the stretch for this team. when he's on, he's really on. >> bob: that ball well hit by hernandez, unreachable even for b.j. upton. it will one hop the wall for a double and the nats will have their first base hit since guzman back in the third. anderson hernandez 2 for 3 tonight. it's a pretty good muscle for a guy who bunted for a base hit first time. >> rob: you're going to see him try to roll this curveball over. he hangs it in the zone. you're swinging hard early in the count. connects for a double. top off the order guzman. >> rob: remember he tried to do basically a slap hit, like a hockey slap shot and failed. but i like the idea. >> bob: you cocall that three quality at-bats tonight. >> rob: absolutely. having an idea, having a great approach. watch -- i watch rick work with these guys eve

. >> bob: andy sonnanstine solid night. only one walk and five strikeouts. at one point he retired 15 consecutive nats from the third through the 7th. lefty, lefty match-up. adam dunn against randy choate. in eight games recently, opponents are 1 for 21 against him. >> rob: you have to hope that he'll try to throw a sidearm curveball. >> bob: is this where a guy should be moving up in the box? >> rob: not necessarily on choate. for am add dunn who has pretty much separated the entire batter's box. he's got a lot of coverage. you want this guy to try to throw a breaking ball on the inner half. but if he tries to run a sweeping curveball around, that's when adam is in control. he can turn that thing around. 8-3 rays. top of the 8th. one run in, two men aboard. still only one out. trying to make the longoria error hurt. that's a fastball that misses. 2-1. >> rob: it's going to be an 88- mile an hour fastball. look at that thing i'd arm. you talk about a left-handed specialist. >> bob: adam dunn hits a double play ball. the nationals get an unearned run and into

andy sonnanstine is really being economical with his deliveries.he hasn't even thrown 70 pitches. 69 and 50 for strikes, retiring the last 12 nats. >> rob: he has to have -- remember john burkett, jeff suppan. when you don't have overpowering stuff yet you can throw 88, 89-mile an hour fastballs and place them. throw 78-mile an hour breaking balls and some change-ups, you can be pretty nasty. last year sonnanstine was so much better, they said 21 home runs given up over almost 200 innings. shows you how dominant his stuff can be even when he doesn't break 90 miles per hour. >> bob: jason bergmann has pitched 14 innings. that ball's trouble, left center. willie harris over to cut it off. longoria is not fast. and evan longoria just collected his first base hit of this series after going 0 for 5 with a walk. so the nats have done a good job for two nights of containing this offense, but there's just very little offense to go with the good pitching so far. >> rob: jason bergmann continues to get hurt by that breaking ball. he has a great sinker. gets

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. >>

sonnanstine gets the win, bergmann takes the loss, a rough seventh inning for jason. ryan zimmerman one for four, his 12th homer of the season. pena three for four with a home run, the 20th of the year. tampa bay takes another series. they've taken the first two from the nationals. the margin of error is not very big for this ball club. >> our margin of error is zilch, nada. we can't play a full ballgame without having something happen that just makes us all say, oh, what's going on here? a couple of ground balls, ground ball to nick early in the game error. didn't really hurt us there. but we talk about how good our bullpen's going and how our pitching is going, but the one constant is over the last nine games we've scored 20 runs. and one game we scored seven. in five games out of the last nine we've scored two or less. it's just about not having offense. your pitchers cannot be under that kind of pressure every day that they go out and put a two or three spot on the board and expect to win. and our starters have been. >> when you look at last night, they got off to

they haven't given him the run support like they have for andy sonnanstine. >> last year in 33 start t rays were 23-10. he won 23 of his 33 starts. right now, this is his 99th start of his career. finished them off, this guy old plan, 27. he's the oldest pitcher in the rays rotation. >> bob: the rays defensively bottom four in the league. they've made 44 errors. only seattle with 51 making more. kapler gets to start in left field after homering the win friday night. i don't think the nats pitchers or catcher wills miss crawford not being in the lineup today. we've got curly w's in the house as always. nats trying to improve their road record that stands at 6- 22. >> bob: willie harris leads off. >> rob: be ready. this guy's changeup is almost as -- >> bob: he doesn't walk anybody. he hasn't walked a batter this month. that's over his last 17 plus innings. first pitch fastball. underway at 1:38 eastern time. cloudy skies but still in the 90 range today. paul has the plate today. crew chief joe west 2nd. paul at 3rd. they play willie harris pretty much straight away. >> bob: foul, 1 1-

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