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 leaning dome of st. petersburg. presented by firestone, a tradition of innovation, interleague homeruns since 2002, adam dunn is right up there. and the 300 watch is in progress. adam dunn is five homeruns away. he has singled, driven in a run and walked tonight. adam dunn has now walked 89 times this year. those are the major league leaders. well, a blogger to be nameless said that he is not a-did does not have a good batting eye. he is just picky. [ laughter ]. >> rob: i don't know what that means but the guy has a lifetime .380 onbase percentage. >> bob: uh-huh. picky is good. >> rob: picky's good when you're going to have 300 homeruns in five homeruns? >> rob: please. the guy, 40 homeruns three straight years. >> bob: mark it down. >> rob: six straight years, he will be ahead of babe ruth all time in that department. >> bob: and he's going to strike out 170 to 190 times. >>

and a base hit to right field for b. j. upton. look out now. this is where the rays can get their base running going. they have a disrupter who stole 18 and they have a disrupter in the batter's box who has stolen 35. crawford bounced tout anderson hernandez up the middle, first time. upton holding. best defense against that, getting ahead in the count. strikes 1. so these two have combined for 53 steals and they only have been caught eight times. >> that total is probably more than 24 teams in baseball. >> quick release, safe at second is b. j. upton. josh bard got rid of that ball in a hurry and that's number 19 for b. j. >> you want your catcher, you see that josh bard getting ready to fire the ball, does a great job, great throw up there. you can't teach speed. b. j. upton is one of the fastest players in the big league. >> once they get some technique to go with that speed, look out. 1-1 to crawford. >> rob: looking at the bag from the umpire's view. >> bob: he is there. >> rob: he is banging the bag with his heel. had him reaching on 1-2.

here is b. j. upton bunting -- is b. j. upton bunting as early as the 7th inning, knowing it will be lefty-lefty after this? >> i don't think so. 8th inning maybe. 9th inning maybe. >> rob: you already have the tie at home. you go for the jugular right here if you are the rays. they just beat the yankees 11- 1. >> bob: they lead baseball with 353 runs scored. >> rob: i think they go to ped and they score run. oops, they just scored another. they have a very good offense. >> bob: third in homers behind the yankees and rangers. they hit 80. >> rob: they don't have a 200 million dollar payroll either. >> bob: big lead by the runner. upton takes one that misses low and inside, 2-1. >> rob: the yankees' third baseman has a 280 million- dollar extension, the first baseman gets 180 million-dollar to come there and play. that would be pretty satisfying to see what the rays did last year, 66 million and won 97. >> bob: i think everybody was hoping that it would inspire other, quote, have-nots in major league base dual to do it like

b. j. upton with it, no throw and the nationals are on the board. adam dunn's in the top 6 in the league in rbis, national league, that is, and that's number 45. that's a great approach by a big man, rob, behind in the count. >> rob: great pitch recognition. this is a little bit harder breaking ball but he recognizes the rotation, sticks with it, comes down and in and he smacks that into centerfield for a base hit. garza is not happy. >> bob: some scattered boos in the ballpark as not the liquid kind but the cat calls as elijah dukes was introduced. elijah played for the rays here, hit .190 the rays drafted him in the first round back in 2002 and after four years in the minor league, he found himself in the bigs at the age of 22. lays off the breaking ball, the count is even at 1. >> rob: that was pitch number 21. here are elijah's numbers with the rays. >> bob: he is from hillsboro high school across the water in tampa. and dukes goes to the gap in left center. nick johnson scores. adam dunn rumble around third. pat listach will send him and the na

b. j. upton, sit him down as rob dibble would say, get down, boy. crawford, ground ball to second base, nice little sinker. he gets longoria on a nice play by craig as he ?airs the ball. and that's the way he pitched, you know. they didn't do anything with him. they didn't hit him hard. he walked a couple of guys but overall, he was throwing the ball extremely well. look at how our owe bone ends outscored us in that 1st inning. go ahead and talk to me about it, johnny. >> johnny: thank you, fox. 42-35 the opponents outscoring nats in the 1st inning but not tonight. nats 6-13 when scoring in the first. >> ray: that lace to sleep that old theory if you score first, you're going to win most of the ball games, doesn't it? >> bob: it does, you would think so but we will continue. we'll it out for a moment and try to rationallize and see what we can figure out what the heck happened and what to look forward to tomorrow night and talk more about craig stammen when we come back with nats xtra post game. ♪ ♪ ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. th

it will turn b. j. upton around and he will catch that ball about 390 feet away. nick johnson 1-for-3 tonight. the ripken all stars, the valley league all stars, collegiate ball players, the mid-atlantic classic on july 15th, furnish tour stadium, regency furnish tour stadium in wall cover. homerun derby and for ticket information, (410)588-9900. >> rob: i was going to say about cristian guzman, he cannot be hitting the ball in the air like that. he does not have the kind of power to put it out of the stadium. he has to work on getting the ball down on the ground and get on base for nick. they were eating up garza first time through the night. this guy came in with a 5 earned run average. >> bob: nick johnson hits it hard the other way. longoria to his left with a fine play, two outs. nearing the 10 0-0 hour here on the gulf coast in florida. tropicana field, capacity 44,000. the rays are averaging 22,000. pitch change cominging up. bases empty, two outs. brian zimmerman on the way against wheeler. ♪