brian tallet from oklahoma originally. >> rob: he's a big one. 6'6", 220. he almost throws totally side arm for a big man. >> bob: guzman, first pitch swinging. in the air, shortstop marco scutaro. still a fair ball weapon he puts it away. >> rob: as i said, he's very deceptive. he'll try to throw three quarter and below. zero home runs. that's the amount last year against 101 left-handed batters in 2008. 19th start of his career over six years. 150 relief appearances. he's been more of a short man and a setup guy and the blue jays have eight wins this season in his 16 appearances. 12 starts. >> bob: nick johnson hitting .306. >> rob: like you said, he has a very good changeup. he has a decent slider, decent curve ball a little bit of a cutter he's developed the last couple of years. you'll need all those pitches if you go two or three times through the lineup. it's not an overpowering fastball. >> bob: i got a scouting report on him from former major league catcher allen ash biwho is a radio comoan commentator for the blue jays. he told me there have been

they're going to throw brian tallet tonight at the nationals against jordan zimmermann. >> brian tallet is 31-year-old left-hander 6'6", 215 pounds. broke in with the indians in 2002. this is just husband 19th big league start. second-round pick out of lsu. once traded for a player named boomy bomuchera. zim, his 11th start. hit five unhit innings. 50 k's. gets lots of ground ball outs. i think this will be a real test for him tonight just a good-hitting club he's facing. >> he pitched extremely well against tampa bay last outing. did not get the decision. i had a chance to sit down earlier today and visit with a guy that won his first major league game last night at yankee stadium and you could see the numbers interest. -- there. tallet, 4-4. zimmermann, 2-3. look at the e.r.a. brian a little better than jordan's. the strikeout comparison goes to zimmermann there, phil. >> absolutely. again, 4-1 strikeout to walk ratio. zimmermann doesn't have a win since the 26th of eighteen 6789 -- april. >> craig stammen and i sat down and talked a little about last night's game and what a thrill it

brian tallet pitching a really good game as well. four innings, one run on four hits. 61 pitches, 32 strikes as he entered the bottom of the fifth. yankees lead 5-1 at florida. news out of new york had them benching alex rodriguez for two games to give him time off and get things back together. the nats really pitched him wellin that series. >> rob: tallet didn't like his last interleague start against the marlins as nick hits a single to left field. >> bob: that was an interesting swing, rob. he inside-outed that ball to left field. >> rob: which normally he takes way outside pitch and smacks it over there. he went inside out as he got 3 1/3, 10 hits, eight earned runs, bob, on the 14th of june against the marlins. so, pitching much better against this national league team tonight. you scenic, as bob said, inside part of the bat. >> bob: just for reference, nats held alex rodriguez, 0-10, three walks, two strikeouts in that series. >> rob: yeah, he's down around .200. i think he's about .212. really meaning it looks like that hip is

. >> bob: he has a good change- up, maybe not as good as brian tallet whom we saw last night. >> rob: here is where he has the grip, change-up grip. he may not even throw that kind of change-up. he may change it in the glove. and now he throws it to johnson. zimmerman up the middle, double play ball, turned by hill, 6-4- 3. ryan zimmerman hits into a double play for the 13th time this year. adam dunn got it done in the 11th last night. >> rob: the big hero. manny acta was telling me he was waiting for him to make contact hard somewhere, thought he could win this ballgame and right there you see him shoot down the right field line. and all they were saying around the batting cage today -- and he was launching second-deck house of representatives. sometimes, it's not a big homerun that wins you ball games. it's just putting the ball in play and that's what he did last night. >> bob: here is another such time. front door breaking ball up to dunn, now hitting .268. that was his 48th rbi of the year last night, 6th in the national league in that. the shift is on. scott rolen, though, those

he struck out adam lind and then his opponent, brian tallet. he was sharp last night. had a no-decision but kept his team in the ballgame and that's what it's all about. >> johnny: when you talk about getting the job done, six homeruns allowed, 48 strikeouts and only 37 walks. >> phil: again, there is room for improvement with the walks but the point is that the walks have not killed them. that's the main thing. they have gotten a lot of double plays this month and while defensively, they still have their problems and they are still making errors, they still have the double plays helping the pitchers out night after night. >> johnny: people say, it takes a while for young guys to get acclimated. is there a projected time that you give a young guy where he's going to finally get it as he progresses? >> >> phil: nobody has a specific, you know, date that they're going to get it. i think it cops down to the experience they are getting on the major league level which they might not get otherwise with a better club. that's what it comes down to, really. when you are drafted

tallet who has been around a while. he's 31. >> rob: i thought he was 33. 31? >> bob: he'll be 3 # in september. >> rob: right, born in '77. >> bob: actually, born in baton rouge, but grew up lifts lives outside of oklahoma city. here is anderson hernandez batting .263 overall. tallet cannot wait to get this inning over with so he can step in for his third career at-bat here leading off the third. with everything rolled together in interleague, rob, it was so embarrassing the way the american league pitchers kept out hitting the guys in our league the last couple of years. at least now the national leaguers have the lead in that department. >> bob: maybe they're working hard for -- >> rob: maybe they're work hard for those interleague at-bats. i know when we were in tampa bay -- i was watching the tampa bay hitters take batting practice. i thought a little strange. they're taking batting practice at home. usually you do it on the road. i thought they have interleague coming up they have against us. once thence -- once t