top of the third, tyler clippard goes to work, tony gwynn, everth cabrera and adrian gonzalez. padres hit in each of the first two innings. nothing like a first pitch strike. first inning double by cabrera with one out stranded at third. luis rodriguez and jose lobaton walking and singling in the second, they were stranded. josh willingham right there for the first out. it's 11:00 in our nation's capital and we are in the top of the third already. bob carpenter, rob dibble, debbi taylor our masn 2 crew, and we of course are on masn hd now. the orioles lost their game at boston tonight 7-2, so our masn hd audience has joined us as well. everth cabrera doubled off the right field wall first time up. he cost his team a run when he didn't run right away out of the batter's box. he should have had a triple and might have been able to score on the ground ball. everth cabrera from nicaragua, hit .284. he was playing single a ball at this time a year ago. that was in asheville, rule 5 draft padres got him from colorado. >> rob: this was what happened when cabrera came back to the dugou

. >> johnny: tony gwynn hitting .289 with a on base average of .259. willingham to cut it off and the padres are in business here in the top of the first. padres defensively still last in defensive categories, playing a little better lately. willie harris gets the start tonight, nothing to be concerned about, a night off for nigel morgan. he has been waiting to pick a spot to give more fan a spot. told him he was gonna do that three or four days ago. cabrera the shortstop. 22-year-old switch hitter from nicaragua. he was originally signed by colorado at the age of 17 in '04, they got him in the trade last november. and that ball gets away from josh bard. some things out of sync here on the first six pitches of the game.   that's gonna be a fastball. >> rob: got to be, hit some leather, and a little extra movement at the end and josh lets it get by. that will happen every now and then.   . >> johnny: he'll leg out a on three hops, mock, high throw, slow throw, cabrera beats it,

the error by tony gwynn, or the error by bergmann on the tony gwynn grounder really opened this up forcingnal walk to gonzalez, guzman off the big hit, the double, and a walk to blanks. no place to put luis rodriguez who is one pitch away from his fourth r.b.i. of the night. it's a strike. and josh willingham, who will lead off in the bottom of the seventh, puts it away. josh hasn't had much of a night tonight with a strikeout and a grounder, he has been great with the battery sently, including sophie red sox on this home stand. nats need to get something going now. ♪ (tucci) only at&t has the best selection of full keyboard phones. like the lg neon, just $29.99 after mail-in rebate. . >> rob: >> it's all about production and we make no excuse about that, we're trying to do everything we can to produce in those situations and as much as you would like to be successful 100% of the time it's just not reality and we're just trying to maximize on getting a good pitch to hit and then putting the sweet spot of the barrel on that ball. . >> deb: rick said the key is consistency and focusing on yo

. >> bob: well, the ball's going to be wet by the time tony gwynn or anybody else picks it up. an easy thing to throw that ball unless you get your fingers right across the seams immediately so the nats have a big time chance here with guzman. nyjer gets on top of it. that's a knock. and the pitcher turned hitter, running the bases. >> bob: morgan is batting .360 for the nats now and he could be running here. the count may dictate that. although guzman doesn't work the count much. cristian hit into that 5-6 fielder's choice that trapped morgan off third base his first time. nationals have four hits in the game already. and then the uniform will get a little dirtier.   cristian guzman got ahold of one last night in the first inning, his fourth home run of the year. he later singled and lined out to left. so it appears guzman is getting his line drive bat, when he hits home runs that's the kind it usually is. low and gone in a hurry. >> rob: not just for our team, rodriguez for the padres, his second home run of the year, showing some pop. >> bob: the little g

he'll face tony gwynn to start off the ballgame. gwynn hitting at .291. >> rob: he's got stuft to pitch at this level. >> bob: cloudy skies, temperatures right around the 90 mark as we get started here, right on time at 7:05. and the 2-0 pitch is a hard breaking ball that catches the inside corner, 2-1. nationals are on a 2-3 home stand at the moment, trying to get it back even tonight, set up a rubber game tomorrow. john lannan goes tomorrow. sounds like a great idea. and a drive to left, adam dunn is right there. >> rob: pnc bank scouting report coming. when he was 10 years old his father taught him his curveball and, yes, his dad pitched in the minor leagues 60s and 70s with the yankees and the angels, so he learned from a pretty good source on the breaking ball. >> bob: and has a brother kevin. they played together in the cleveland organization. here's everth cabrera, the shortstop batting .220. cabrera on base a couple of times, had a sacrifice. and he turns on that one, it's hooking down the right-field line. the runner just s

tony gwynn, jr. 0 for 3 tonight. tough play for nick. he had to charge it. if you laid back, gwynn's probably going to beat it out. i wouldn't be surprised to see that called a hit. had a lot of overspin on it. look how high that ball came out.   >> bob: there's a clean hit. off the bat of cabrera. that kid has swung the bat pretty well tonight and in the series. so first and second for the padres, one out here in the 8th. that was a base hit for gwynn. padres, their fourth and fifth hits of the night here. and that big young man kyle blanks coming in here replacing gonzalez. kyle blanks, 6'6", 285. played right field last night. and went 0 for 3, three strikeouts and a walk. he's a former 42nd round draft pick of the padres back in 04. off speed pitch. zimmerman might be a double play. no throw and that's a wise decision. blanks for a big guy got down the line quickly. ryan got the force play. thought about two. >> rob: hard shot down the line. zim saves a double, maybe more. takes the force. >> bob: big man moving. eating up

tony gwynn in center field, everth cabrera will be in shortstop, then adrian gonzalez, kevin kouzmanoff third, drew macias in right field, rodriguez at second base, lobaton will be catching. rodriguez two for four last night. that home run and three rbi's. nyjer morgan for the nationals did not play in last night's ballgame. he's in that line-up, he will lead off for jim riggleman's ball club, and with the nationals 25 for 73. take a look at the speed he's got. 10 runs, 11 stolen bases, the pride and joy, nyjer will be in the lead-off spot, cristian guzman batting second, ryan zimmerman, adam dunn, wil nieves will be catching jz martin looking for his first major league win. johnny holliday and ray knight with ben and a loft rumblings about what went on last night back in that clubhouse. >> it was a little different than anything we've really seen this year with jim riggleman kind of laying into the guys after the game. to me it was, we kind of knew we were going to see a little bit more are of this from riggleman. to this point i hadn't really seen it. we hadn't seen him kind of talk a

tony gwynn jr.rera at short top, adrian gonlz the first baseman, kouzmanoff will be the clean-up hitter, felice rodriguez the second baseman, alfonso catching and matt lath toes on the mound tonight for the padres. now for jim riggleman, and the nats try to get back on that winning track. adam dunn 3 for 3, that rain- shortened game loss for the cardinals. last three ball games, adams 6 of 11 on a six-game hitting tear and a 476 clip. willie harris at center field, nigeriaer morgan gets the night off. guzman at short, adam dunn and nick johnson, josh willingham in right field, josh bard will catch alberto gonzalez the second baseman and depending will be on the mound. mark swriker man from the washington times in the hot corner and i guess a hot topic would be the trading deadline is coming up and you've got some names that people may be interested in. >> yeah, there's actually a few names on this team given, you know, considering how bad the team has been over all this year, there are actually some

. >> jim: contrary to what you may think at home, you can't look at the defense unless you are tony gwynnarew or something like that. john camp getting loose for the blue jays. again, brett cecil has been outstanding. when he has struggled, he has made the pitches. 1-0 change-up. for a young pitcher who just turned 23 with an e.r.a. over 6 runs a game, he has pitched a very, very good game. >> gary: reimold has struck out and grounded out. 1-1 delivery and that will be taken down low for a ball. 2 balls 1 strike. orioles trying to keep a two- game win streak to three and improve on their 3-3 season mark against the jays. >> jim: remember, neither team has won on the road against each other. >> gary: checked swing, foul ball. they have swept each other. homeruns through 50 games for rookies, nolan reimold's 9 tied with curt belfre and gym trailblazerer the all-time leader. bellbre with 5. >> jim: he was the rookie of the year back in '95. >> gary: nolan leading most of the first half of the season among rookie offensive numbers. and -- oh, come on. >> gary: he is called out, but. >> jim: i