right now, it's tyler clippard. he's got to get it to those guys at the back end of our bullpen. >> rob: yeah, it's up to tyler clippard right now to be the bridge to the setup guys. they have do do -- to do the job in a one-run ballgame. get -- debt getting back to the offense, 0-16 with seven strikeouts. they need to do a much better job. you're the table setters. you have to be on base when adam dunn and ryan zimmerman get to the plate. they're not doing their job right now. now it's up to the bullpen to try to hold on to a one-run lead and against this really young and talented offense, that's not going to be easy. >> bob: bottom of the seventh under way. tyler clippard to cody ross hitless tonight. one-run game with a lodge way to go.   tyler clippard.  >> rob: we've seen this a  times. our guys will come in and do a great job. go out the second inning and the wheels come off. that's a concentration problem. you've got to concentrate, try to get ahead with strike one.

they will evidently hit for tyler clippard who has given them three good innings of relief. he'd be the pitcher of record, clippard. >> rob: clippard has been fantastic. logan went down to the minor leagues, he's a different pitcher than he was when we first got him from the marlins. >> bob: that ball might have gone 50 feet in the air. landed prematurely. good stop by jose lobaton. >> rob: you've got to give yourself up sometimes. that didn't get his glove. okay, don't do that again, please. >> bob: sequence of signs since the runner is looking in from second. belliard stepped out. that ball really had some tail on it. almost got him on the hands. another animated hitter wil nieves is waiting. 3-2 now with one out. that's a good at-bat by an aggressive hitter that doesn't walk a whole lot. that's ronnie belliard's 10th walk this year. first and second, one out for nieves. willie harris has stepped to the on-deck circle. >> rob: and you're playing into the type of game that wil nieves features. he's going to smack that into right field for at least one rbi. >> bob: let's see,

tyler clippard has established a new nats record, seven strikeouts by a reliever. >> rob: when you get ahead of people, you throw strikes, you throw hard, he's got a great change-up, a great curveball. like i said before, i think that he could go through the order two, three times with that stuff. he's got three pitches he throws for strikes at will when he's behind in the count and i think that's some excellent stuff, after a long rain delay by tyler clippard. >> bob: nyjer morgan 3 for 3 tonight. there's his box score. cristian guzman, zimmerman, the dunn, the top of the order has done a really nice job tonight. the previous nats record for strikeouts by a reliever chris schroeder three years ago september of 06. chris is now in the oakland organization. chris and -- cristian guzman is next. >> rob: i really liked him in the champ, by the way. oh, that was rickey schroeder. i'm sorry. >> bob: look at guzman -- pardon me, morgan flip one to left field. that looked like a cristian guzman swing. nyjer morgan is hitting over .370 since coming to this ball club. >> rob: i think the discus

they made a lot of good contact, and our offense just had one really solid inning. >> how about tyler clippardalk about tyler tonight. >> we will. >> let's go back upstairs to the bottom of the 9th. >> bob: thank you, gentlemen. three outs to go. even though it's not a save situation, francisco rodriguez was warmed up, and rob, obviously, you did this for a living. when you warm up your closer, he almost always pitches. >> rob: they've also lost 16 of 20, so he hasn't had a lot of save opportunities since we last saw him through that jerry manuel just wants to win. >> bob: let's see how many saves he had when they were in town. he had 15 saves on june 7th, and now he has 23. he's had eight saves in the last month and a half. >> rob: that's not a lot of quality work there. you need your teammates to give you the lead. for that to happen. >> bob: austin kearns, in the bottom of the 9th. stopped on six hits tonight, the nats have been. same pitch, same ball. >> rob: glove order finally game through. he now has a blue glove to match his black and blue uniform. he had a red glove to match his angel

tyler clippard takes over for j.d. martin, who goes 4 innings, 5 runs, 8 hypothetics. didn't walk non -- 8 hits. didn't walk anyway. got a double play. one strikeout and a bit of a baptism by fire on his welcome to the big leagues after eight full professional seasons. >> rob: maybe if it was better times here in washington, he stays in the game for five, but you're trying to win every one of these last 70 games. >> bob: it will be appearance for tyler clippard number 9. 2 i 79 era. nearly 10 innings. nine strikeouts, five walks. 2 >> rob: going to be johnny holstad every day. >> bob: i thought that guy's name was harvey. >> rob: johnny. >> bob: and logan kenzie is back, after converting 12 of 13 for syracuse. i say there's a good chance we'll see him tonight. >> rob: if we are going to win tonight, need some help from the bullpen. got to throw some donuts up there, gentlemen. >> bob: they don't look very happy to me. down 5-2 in the top of the 5th inning. chipper jones garret anderson have homered, 3-2 braves in the fourth over the giants. marlins later at san diego,

leading off the inning, cody ross was walked by tyler clippard who is gone. ross gload hit a bouncer. had zimmerman boot it. then chris coghlan walked. >> bob: postseason fly, right field. long run for willingham. foul ball. he drops it, but that's not the worst thing in the world. probably would have tied the game. >> rob: no, would have tied the game. i almost think he was thinking that, but he sticks his head up to see what was going on in front of him and that might have been -- >> bob: they could give him an error on this. >> rob: it happens after this. he looked up right at the end. you saw him just glance up to see what cody ross was doing. >> bob: josh's expression indicates he had no intention of dropping that ball unless he's doing great acting job. >> rob: no, i think he knows he probably should have caught the ball, but like you said, he's not on a line to throw it to home. he's in foul territory by the time he catches t-he's going to have to turn around and throw a perfect strike to nieves. if it's a bang-bang play, nieves is really going to get

. >> tyler clippard tonight comes in and just was, as you were right behind home plate, he was lights out with his zone and his strikeouts and his pitch selection, too. >> he does something that really was done a long time ago with that four-seam fastball, he elevates it and strikes people out. you're going to see how he just goes up after the fastball there. as good as anybody in this league. and he throws 90, 91, but it looks like they're going to catch up with it. it's up there at eye level. the good hook that he has. three outstanding pitches. he's got starter stuff. they tried him as a starter. he went down there and had so much success as a reliever. but i'm not sure you're not looking at a guy that's going to eventually work himself into the rotation. he's got confidence, he's got ability to throw the ball to spots and he can elevate that fastball and get people to strike out. >> struck out seven padres tonight. there's more to come on "nats xtra post-game."   >>> welcome back, everybody, nationals park. guys slapping some scib there after this big win

. >> reliever tyler clippard trying to intentionally walk, he baulks in a run. giving away money and set it on fire. can't do anything. ishikawa going after the pop foul winds up doing the parallel bars routine in the padres dugout. they got out of the way. >>> back to arizona, you know, they've a lot of retirees out in the desert so instead of kids as the ball boys they have older folks and old chuck there, get a close up look at the facade, he made it over fo the early bird special on time which is what matters. here's the ugly. roman torres speaking cooper in the gut. he complains to the ref, i didn't do any thing. if you want ugly. this is actually ugly. hammels pitching, and gonzalez takes it off the melon. it ricochetted 70 feet off his helmet. everybody is concerned for him. carted off with a concussion but he's okay. how do you know you're on a hilly golf course? if you lose your cameraman. >> great par 3 which is this one right here. oooh, hang on. [ laughter ]. >> are you okay? >> you're good. >> he got back up. >> as we can tell from the folks here at

. >> one bright spot for the ball club last night was the tiching of tyler clippard. he was lights out and perfect three innings. >> just an example of what scouting does and putting a guy in a position to allow him to succeed. tyler has a good fastball and a dog gone yakking curveball and a change up that hesitates at home plate. when he gets ahead of you, he goes upstairs with a fastball and that's a sign of a guy that knows how to pitch. he changes the eye level up with the fastball and threw last night had five strikeouts in 3 innings and gave up nothing and over the last five outings he's given up no runs, no hits, 7 strikeouts and for the season he's got a 2.13 avj. you'll find gems. >> the numbers will make jim riggleman and steve mccathy happy and he strikes out five of the nine batters he faces and 28 pitches. >> you have to have somebody coming in that misses bats and he misses bats. he can strike somebody out. you get bases loaded situation and got a one run lead, he's a guy to bring in because you know he can punch people out. >> back in the clubhouse last

tyler clippard will inherit a runner and third and nobody out. by the yankees. 89 pitches and 52 strikes by detwiler. >> rob: and 77 fastballs, nine curve balls and three changeups. they are great young men and they are tough lessons to learn at this level. he has great baseball. >> bob: huh he didn't use it. >> rob: and he didn't use it. >> bob: torrealba is the hitter. he launches one in and it is ball one. torrealba, a walk and a strikeout today. it is a 5-0 colorado led as they look for a sweep. the changeup misses. the rockies have atlanta coming in here for four starting tomorrow. they should get some pitching now. they lead now 1-0 at chicago. and clippard drops it in there. two balls and a strike. >> bob: as we mentioned earlier, not too early to start talking about the wildcard now that we're into the second half of the season. the rockies right there, 3-2 in the central. milwaukee, chicago and cincinnati there. >> rob: the west. >> bob: and right behind there, the braves and the mets. the mets still have some issues. reyes and beltran,

. >> last time we saw tyler clippard struggle. >> you go out there enough, you are going to have baddn't look comfortable on that mound. for some reason he could not throw the ball over the plate. his fast ball normally he is able to control his slider is more of a curve ball. his change up stopped. not a real good decision there. it is, if you haven't shown the change up. but he threw it the first pitch the third pitch and seven pitch at bat. got it up and the guy got a homerun that is the learning process. he can strike you out. 16 strikeouts. you have a guy to come in that bullpen with bases loaded you know you can miss that. he is the guy. >> he struck out seven padres last saturday a record coming out of the bullpen for an appearance you have macdougal, ron, the rest of the guys. >> two guys in the middle can bring it, kensing, 95. macdougal, 97. i do believe jim has a lot of confidence. there is a sinker that wears people out. very much of a safe have i type pitcher. malone is always the guy that was a muscle guy. he likes to throw the ball hard. he has lost some of that. you s

. >> bob: tyler clippard up early. and evidently the phillies not very impressed with the cubs.'s 25th, carlos ruiz's 4th. 5-0 2nd inning in philly. >> bob: remember lily has a bad knee, though. maybe he is not 100%. >> bob: he's given up five hits already. and a double play ball. ronnie belliard. [ cheers and applause ] . >> bob: guzman, and just what j.d. martin needed there. [ cheers and applause ] . >> bob: bases empty, two outs. that play had good rhythm to it with the middle infielders. >> rob: he is a ground ball pitcher, gets the ground ball right here by jeremy reed, tailor made for 6-3. >> bob: alex cora will be next. 50 pitches in the first two innings. that will help. willie harris on the grassed a third. cora is a good bunter, good runner on the left side of that box. off speed just missed. nick johnson will take care of that one on a couple of hots and there is that first zero that j.d. martin needed so badly. the double play helped that with the lead off single. pa announcer: final boarding call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost