hairston swings through it. strike one. hairston's 0-3 today. >> rob: that pitch on the pitch track, johnny, 0-1, really nice been. down in the zone, getting dirty. >> johnny: hairston's kind of tailed off a little bit the last 9 ballgames. hitting about a buck 75. driven in only 3 runs. tavarez the 0-2 pitch. some nights they have hairston leading off and some nights they have willy taveras leading off. taveras should be the lead off. trying to get one of them to take off the lead-off role. but taveras, the speedster, i don't know if he has a hit this series. 0-3 today. >> johnny: and julian tavarez racks up a strikeout as he heads to the doubt. got him to swing at a bad pitch, rob. that thing was down in the strike zone. >> rob: did a great job. one, two, three inning. keep it right there. give us an opportunity for another comeback. down a run. >> johnny: this is navy day at the ballpark. as tradition would have it, opportunity for all of us to stand up. [singing of god bless america ]. - it's on. - ( music playing throu

hairston staf as he beats it out. >> rob: hairston with really good speed getting down the line. still a fantastic play by cristian guzman. having to do a 360-turn around behind 2nd base. check this out. first you have to catch it and then spin and throw a nice throw. good hop right there and adam dunn kicks it over at first you see hairston diving for 1st base. yes. they say if you dive it doesn't necessarily make you faster. i don't know if i believe that or not. i think his hand got in there because he dove. if he tried to run through like a sprinter, you might not get in there. >> johnny: taveras lays down the bunt. nieves goes to second for the force. for some reason, hairston wasn't running full speed. >> rob: he saw it go up in the air and obviously he didn't know it hit the ground otherwise he would have been running earlier. this ball is hit up in the air by taveras. and he is dead to rights out at 2nd base. look at hairston caught between -- up in the air. that is why you have got to get that bunt down. when they say get it down. try not to have it pop up like that. >>

jerry hairston, jr. stepping stepping in now. 10 th inning, 2-2 ballgame. [cheering and applause] i was going to say, i didn't like when a guy would stand will and not try to earn his way on. that motivates you more to want to come back all the way and finish a guy off, 3-2 and get the 3rd strike. >> johnny: 0-1 to jerry hairston. >> rob: he's had a pretty tough night. [cheering and applause] >> johnny: 0-2

jerry hairston. line drive to center. dukes should have this one. martis bears down. got himself in a little trouble. had a runner in scoring position, got him out. we go to the bottom of the 5th 5th. 2-0 reds lead the nationals. ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. >>> it's time to bring you up to speed. an ominous looking night early. a great night for this young man, the overall selection in the 2009 draft drew storen. amazing to get a runner out. jay bruce goes deep for the reds to give them a 2-0 lead. guzman running out his third triple of the season got as far as 3rd base. the nationals couldn't get him in. at&t your world delivered. hello. jay bruce with that home run. he was 12th overall by the reds in 2005 in the first round. a lot of first year first round picks. >> johnny: i'm looking to see the answer to the question. here's josh bard. it wouldn't surprise me at all

tavares and hairston in a 1-0 cincinnati lead. ross detwiler started four at home this year.  and the pitch inside ca corner for a strike. take it for a ball. for  a 6'5", 175-pounder only gi up one home run this year.  that ball is inside.  . >> rob: as i said in the scouting report just keep making adjustments because he is being heavily doubted right now. every time we're playing a new series he has been scouted. they have probably seen two starts from detwiler. he has to prepare himself. they know my stuff pretty well. they know my habits i have right now, they know 2-1 i might throw a breaking ball. so he has to be making mental adjustments and apply. that's what's going to make him a good big league pitcher. >> johnny: rob, it doesn't take the scouts long to pick up on tendencies. >> johnny: no it doesn't. the key word here is technology, word gets around quicker. in my day the guy would have to see you, s

hairston went 1-3 last night. i noticed how you got all state in soccer without missing a beat. >> rob: i had to prove i had skills. you know how they do the little -- i wasn't all that good. i was 180 pounds back then. >> johnny: that's minus a few now. no balls two strikes to willy. line drive to left. dunn has a beat on it. two quick outs here in the top of the first. hernandez will be working behind the plate. we wish him well. scott at first base. andy fletcher will be working at 3rd. did you see eckstein come out of the dugout? he was after andy on that call on kearns last night to end the ballgame. two down quickly in the top of the 1st. cincinnati 30-27. they're starting rotations in 35 ballgames, bullpen 5. brandon phillips the 2nd baseman. comes in hitting .275. >> rob: the kids would enjoy this. they looked back at the video on eckstein going after andy. he did not swear at him once. he was a gentleman saying you weren't doing a consistent job. >> johnny: quick one, two, three first inning. the national

hairston, phillips. in the first inning, they went one, two, three. >> rob: both pitchers threw two inning, 29 pitches, 19 strikes each. martis one more pitch strike. that's pretty consistent for both men. other than the home run. >> johnny: think about martis, he's had 12 starts. this is his 12th. he's had 11 excellent performances. >> rob: he's so young. once they get 50 to 75 starts underrer their belt, you'll see such a change in all of them. >> johnny: you see shairon has not lost a game at home. overall era 5.31. leads the staff in wins with those five. >> rob: i was just talking to someone about holiday. he's got 10 wins already. 4-0 on the road. on the road his era is more than a run better. >> johnny: willingham had a hold on it and couldn't hold on. first start for josh. the error will be charged to josh willingham. >> rob: he comes in, he closes his glove a little earlier or hit the heel of his glove. the ball is going to do different things when you're coming in off the right side. it's got a

and we have got two down, that will bring up jerry hairston much  he flew out to ce out looking in the third, got a free pass in the fifth and singled to left center his last time up. mike mcdougall works for the nats here in the ninth inning, a 3-2 game. the nats have one shot coming up in the bottom of the ninth. >> rob: i've told you before and bob this, i'm not a big fan of throwing the ball around the infield with two outs. it goes way back to high school even before. got two outs, get the hitter, out of the inning. that ball keeps going to third. rather have him on first than third. past ball. anything can happen. didn't get the high strike, the low strike. >> johnny: to the second and top of the ninth is over. two to the bottom of the ninth innings and see if the nats can tie it up or take the lead and win this baby. we'll be back in just a moment. at pnc, taking the long view is how we help you take the right path. even to change it when conditions demand. keeping you on the road to achieving your goals. it's something we've been

and hairston is on with a single. for  jason bergmann recalled aaa syracuse on may 20th. 2-1 out of the bullpen with a couple of holes holds, no blown saves, a 5.03 earned run average in 56 career big league relief appearances. brandon phillips one for three, a two-run double in the fifth inning. he is up for the fourth time. and takes a strike. the reds second baseman, 43 driven in this year. including a couple here in this ball game. and to the 0-1. guzman phillips one to hernandez and that's it for cincinnati. so we go to the bottom of the seventh here at national's park. the nationals' bats been flat. they need a couple to tie this ball game. local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're out of mayo. how did you get in here? door was open. you'd have tons of ways for you to search for content: by actor, director, any word at all. what about chicken? chicken's fine. any word. no i mean do you have any chicken? i want to eat some chicken. one of

dusty baker, willie tavares, jerry hairston, ramon hernandez, johnny goals in left, jay bruce in right, alex gonzalez in shortstop. rod had eye gan behind the plate catching johnny que et oh. now for the nats manny acta, detwiler goes to the hill, four starts in the past, 0-2 record, 12 earned runs, walked 6, had 17 strikeouts, this ought to be a good duel tonight between two very good young pitchers both at 23 years of age. >> rob: let me give you the pnc bank scouting report. 6, that is what this kid is looking at going, in his fifth start, continue to make adjustments, keep goin' right after people, he has never melt the cincinnati reds so every time he goes out there it's a new experience meeting one of these lineups. keep making adjustments. so these last couple of outings, 10 hits, walking a few people, got to to out there with rod detwiler's stuff and challenge the reds. >> johnny: defensively let's take a look at the nats defense, zimmerman at third, guzman at fourth, hernandez at second base, nick johnston, will nieves will be behind the plate, catching detwiler, dunk and harr

gary hair ton, top -- jerry hairston leading it off. taveras and then phillips. who were your clubhouse leaders rob playing with cincinnati? >> rob: we had a bunch. it was a great clubhouse to be a part of for 7 plus seasons there. eric davis was wonderful. he would never let you feel satisfied. he was just on your back to try to better yourself. tom browning. obvious lyly paul o'neal and chris. they had their own little language. >> johnny: but that was a veteran team, wasn't it? >> rob: a lot of veterans. >> johnny: dukes has a bead on it and one down. >> rob: nice jump on that ball by dukes. very difficult to get a jump on a ball sometimes when you see the swing and looks like it was hit very hard and all of a sudden it is about 20 feet behind 2nd base. toughest part of a reed for centerfielder or any outfielder. >> johnny: and he can fly with the best of them. willy taveras will step in. lannan delivers inside for ball one. >> rob: the thing about our clubhouse leaders, it wasn't just that. we all hung out together. it wasn't clicky at all. i'm not saying it

hairston steps in with 0-2, strikeout and ground out tonight, two down in the top of the fifth in a 1-1 ball game. tavares tomorrow and lannan thursday afternoon against cincinnati and harang will go for the reds and then micah oh wings on thursday.  they have won six str cincinnati in this ball park. their run coming on elijah dukes' sixth homer of the season last inning of the fourth inning.   and the 1-0.   outside to harrison.   this ball club too, rob you look at the bullpen with guys like joe vy mel, ron valone who has been around. >> rob: a good guy. >> johnny: goodman to feed off of. >> rob: yup. i think the toughest thing is there is a lot of i want to say new bees. they keep coming up and getting signed a and you know it's -- they are still trying to find themselves and keep themselves in the big leagues you know. but look at ron valone who has been throwing the ball well and that, for lannan and tavares, 17 yea

and looked liar hairston wasn't on the bag but you have -- looked like hairston wasn't on the bag but you have to have that in mind. he tried to cut off the lead runner right there. >> johnny: and they get him. lannan on 1st base and nieves is down to second. >> rob: you can still cut this lead in half just with a base hit by guzman. >> jnny: and cristian grounded to first and singled to right center back in the thirds. we are in the inning. reds lead 2-0. cristian's numbers, .256, 10 rbis and a triple this year. grounded down to first. gonzalez got it and tosses wings and the inning is over. the nationals threaten but don't score as we go to the top of the 5th, 2-0 reds lead.  owings and the inning is over. the nationals threaten but don't score as we go to the top of the 5th, 2-0 reds lead. >> johnny: our congratulationses to all of our men and women of the united states navy. the sea branch of the u.s. armed forces. it is one of the d services of the united states. today more than ever the u.s. navy remines committed to supporting our

. >> johnny: 1-2 pitch to jerry hairston. swing and a miss. macdougal strikes out two here in the top of the 10th 10th. ryan zimmermann leads off for the nationals. we go to the last of the 10th at nats park. @@ this is humiliating. stand still so we can get an accurate reading. okay...um...eighteen pounds and a smidge. a smidge? y'know, there's really no need to weigh packages under 70 pounds. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. cool. you know this scale is off by a good 7, 8 pounds. maybe five. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. >>> well the nationals tied ballgame up in the 9th inning. things not looking too good. josh bard and gonzalez came through with base hits. >> rob: josh willingham drew a walk. single down the right field line. alberto gonzalez had the tying run. bottom of the 10th inning. >> rob: this might be our night or our morning now after the nationals introduce their 10th pick in the am

the hairston rbi, heading for second. not before the run scores. reds have a lead 4-2. the nationals and the more work to be done here in the bottom of the 12th inning. they're down by 2. we'll be back in a minute. we've got a ton of stuff we've gotta pay for. and a few things we want to pay for. on top of it all, we're still trying to put away some money for the future. with the wish list, we can save up for anything we want. and still have enough to cover the day-t0-day. plus, the savings engine helps our money grow. and that's something we need and want. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at $6.99. flame-grilled tortillas layered with chicken, bacon, cheese, and ranch. crispy on the outside, melted perfection on the inside. new fire-grilled quesadillas. only at chili's. >>> gomes with a pitch and reds have a 4-2 lead. here come the other outstanding members of the bullpen. david weathers who shut out opponents in 20 of his last 24 appearanc

. >> johnny: hairston retired a ground ball to guzman. >> rob: our over all run average is a run er than the closest competitor. we need to get that downder four. if our starters ke going a t mo >> johnny: the ball came right to his glove. the umpire racing out to$ retrieve what's left of the bat. there's two quick outs. he grounds out to hanrahan. >> rob: so surprising that the modern day bat turned into hards of wood. all the bats are just for some reason, i know they're very top heavy. a lot of guys in my day used to shave the middle of the bat to try to harden the end where you're rubbing on the sink in the bathroom to have the bat last as long as possible. i've never seen the explosion and strength of the hitters throwing the bat head. mark hit a home run and snapped his bat off. >> rob: elijah one time earlier this year -- >> rob: it's uncanny these bats are breaking at the rate they're breaking. i know major league baseball studies every one of them. that's headed to mlb headquarters. they're going to try and figure out what's going on. >> 3-2 to phillips. >> johnny: catches the o

hairston has it. two down. our nats xtra coming up with byron kerr and ray knight. they'll be talking about theouting tonight. there was only one mistake the homer by bruce. the nats xtra pregame tomorrow will be at 4:00 and the first pitch a little after 4:30. >> rob: you also have to score a run to win. you may think it's a mistake. the hitters are getting paid to get runs on the board for their ball club too. shairon did an excellent job. >> johnny: 0-9 the last four games willy has played in. he went through three straight sunday through thursday. >> rob: in the last few innings, harang has stepped up velocity against our hitters. now he's throwing a lot of sinkers and cutter, but they're all fastballs. he totally changed his approach to our hitters in the third lineup. >> johnny: that's the mark of a good pitcher to be able to do that and adjust the gameover all. >> rob: he's feeling it. you see him hitting that same spot over and over. he's going to make harris beat him to the field. >> johnny: drives to left field, pops up down the left field line, foul. six

at 3rd, hairston to lineup. phillips 2nd baseman. laynce nix will bat cleanup for the reds. at 1st, hernandez. bruce in right. hanigan is the catcher. harang is the catcher for dusty baker. willingham certainly excite to be back in the lineup. .280 hit with 6 doubles and 2 home runs. the nine homers will come up big if he can connect again tonight. guzman in the top spot, short stop. zimmermann at 3rd batting 3 3rd. dunn batting cleanup in left. willingham right fielder. bard will call the game for the pitcher batting 9th. we look at that time reds and nationals as they try to get things going in this series. trying to add a punch to the lineup with willingham in the lineup. >> no doubt. he deserves to play. he has hit the ball extremely well. i believe he needs an opportunity to go out there and play two or three weeks and see what he can do. it's the toughest thing in the world to try to play part time. the second toughest thing is not knowing if you're going play. you've got to do it bat after bat. he's worked real hard. he deserves a shot to play. >>> the schedule takes

at center field, will lead off, jerry hairston, brandon phillips, ramon hernandez keep happen up at first, johnny domes is the left fielder, price in left field, hand eye gan the catcher and johnny quay tow the starting pitcher. eliza dukes the nationals, he has been stumping the ball, three for four and a big employee out against the mets. looking for more from him to power up the national's offense. here is the lineup for washington. cristian guzman leading off as usual, nick johnston, ryan zimmerman, adam dunn in left field, eli zsa dukes, willie harris, anderson hernandez in second base, will he nieves will catch, because ross detwiler will pitch for the nats. we're ready to go. byron curran and ray knight with you as we count down nats extra and a big day for the nats as they try to get the top picks on the board. and what they want to get here with these next picks, they get steven strasbourg, pitching always something they are looking for but is there a possibility they could look at anything else. >> i think pitching. when you're in the process of building an organization, there's

gonzalez at short, gary hairston jr. at third, the air field, johnny goals at left, bruce in right. >> rob: well and ramon hernandez is plagues first base, former catcher of the baltimore orioles because johnny ba var oh is on the disabled list, you have a catcher at first, but joey ba vat oh missed in the lineup. >> johnny: looking through the record books, his name is displayed prominently. boy did he have some numbers with cincinnati. >> rob: he did, yes he did, and he is working on his sixth straight year with 40 or more home runs.  . >> johnny: let's take a  what he did 1087 games, .247 batting average, 270 homers, 646 runs driven in. and when you look for a single season home run total only ted cla swriew ski and ted foster had more in a season than adam dunn did. >> rob: didn't he hit 42 and foster hit 52. >> johnny: back in '54 for ted ecu swriew ski and 77 for george foster. but from '04, '05, '06, '07, 46, 40, 40, and 40.  i mean that's getting t done. >>

hairston defeats binghampton. single a ball from riley, carolina, some big names, 7-1 in the seventh. potomac also getting a rehabilitation chance. over lakewood, matt chico got roughed up a little bit after two innings but after tommy johnny nice to see matt back in june as they were thinking about september for him. this could be a good chance to see him back earlier than that. >> a great sign. went two ins and a great sign to have him back t young man can pitch and, eh, he was a guy that through more innings than anybody on our staff a couple years ago so it's good to have him cranked back up. >> kip wells a scoreless inning, that's a good sign as he tries to climb back up to the top spot. the nationals had a big top spot tonight with stephen strasburg the number 1 overall. finally we can exhale a little bit. now the negotiating begins but look at that draft board for the nats. >> i just wished everybody could feel what i feel and the only reason i say that is i've had a little bit of experience at watching bal

bottom five, jerry hairston jr. off zambrano. look at michael hoffpauir. how you make up for an 0-4 day, zambrano 6 2/3 scoreless innings, in the seventh alex gonzalez back at zambrano. he gets his 100th career win. cubs take it 2-1. >> tom glavine was drafted by the l.a. kings and could have played hockey with wayne gretzky. instead, he chose baseball and pitched for 22 years, 17 with atlanta. after how the braves treated the future hall of famer, they might get two minutes for roughing. trying to come back from surgery on his left shoulder and elbow, the 43-year-old glavine says he was released to make room for top pitching prospect tommy hanson to be promoted this weekend. >> i feel i guess a sense of betrayal a little bit, i have a little bit of resentment for the way things were handled. i didn't feel it was a performance issue. i felt as though it was a business issue and they had better options with tommy hanson or medlen or -- as things turned out they had an opportunity to get nate mclouth and by not paying me, i think that freed up principles of

jerry hairston will lead off and bat from 3rd base. willy taveras. ramon hernandez, gone sal guess zalez, rosales and micah owings, the pitcher. and guzman top of the order trying to get the bats going. alberto gon salzales, ryan zimmerman at third, dukes in center, willing ham is the left fielder, kearns in right, nieves will call balls and strikes with john lannan, the pitcher. >> welcome back to the nats xtra pregame show. >> ray: ryan's going to be there. he's creeping up. he's got almost 800,000 votes right now and he continues to swing the bat well and i have always said it, i have said it since i have been here, he is the best defensive 3rd baseman barring nobody. barring none. >> byron: he has down a great job. adam dunn as well. when you look at the standings right now, david wright at the top of the list from the mets. almost a million votes and david wright with new york, chipper jones, pedro feliz and bill hall. >> you can vote at least 25 times per your ip address to get the guys to st. louis for the middle of july and the a-star game. n