kill it. >> jim h.: absolutely. i was just trying to keep our dogs away from it. >> jim p.: ever since our president took care of a fly,

plus, he's on a role. >> jim h.: deep and foul. >> jim p.: you're on a roll. >> jim h.: this fraternity we're with. >> rob: hey, i was having out of body experiences out there. i was out of control. you can ask me what the count was? i was telling guys to get off the mound. >> jim h.: i can't imagine that. ripped to left field. nolan reimold will have to chase it down. that one heads to the corner. willingham stays hot. his third hit. three hits for josh willingham. time now for you to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. john lannan has hell the orioles to one run through seven innings. or oscar salazar who has the rbi. john lannan on the bench. >> rob: you don't know how happy that makes me feel when i see couple of national names up on that list and not three orioles guys. >> jim h.: it's all one big family here. >> rob: and if we do win today, it will be 12-12 in the beltway series a lot riding on this game. >> jim p.: if you really want to go, they would have won nine out of the last 16, too. make yourself feel better if you're a national fan or a national broadcaster

you have willie, cristian, johnson. >> jim h.: fouls it back. >> jim p.: willie, we saw it last night, where he took a 1-2 pitch off of jeremy guthrie who looked like early on at least the first two batters, had pretty good stuff. guzman singled, then jeremy guthrie walked in a couple of runs. >> jim h.: breaking ball outside. >> rob: i always felt when you get a guy like harris who can steal bases six out of seven, you really have to play him away and pitch him that way. it's all right to throw breaking balls when you're 0-2. >> jim h.: he'll go to the bag unassisted. that ball was plastered by aubrey huff and he was able to get it in the heal of the glove. one away. salazar takes mora's place. outfield, reimold, jones, markakis. very good outfield for the orioles. thing about the orioles defense last night, they win 6-3, but they did turn four double plays. you will not have the same guys out there that were able to do that for you last night. there's a change-up. he's got a pretty good breaking ball. i asked gregg zaun who caught him, he said fastball, good velocity, very deceptive

it's on. ( ding )  >> jim h.: so we go to the second. we'll see if guthrie finds his stuff. >> rob: do we have a contest to win one of these shirts? our shirts and our electric blue shirts? >> jim p.: i'm rooting for extra innings and we can be a crossing guard tomorrow morning without even changing. >> rob: all you need is that orange strike across. >> jim h.: we like to push the envelope a little bit. ground ball towards the middle. there's andino. one down, as austin kearns is put aside. >> jim p.: this is really different. >> jim h.: this is a classic orange. >> rob: it matches the masn colors. >> jim p.: or the orioles colors. orange and black. >> bob: there it is. >> rob: got to be observant. >> jim p.: they did a better job on masn on my shirt than they did on the uniforms earlier on in the year. is it spelled right? what, did they forget the t? >> rob: that was the "o" on adam dunn. >> jim h.: a long throw, he got him. and back-to-back outs on ground balls and two men down. here's your chance to save on tickets to upcoming o's ga

. >> jim h.: low ball four. there's that battling eye of nolan reimold. lannan a lead-off walk. >> jim p.: i think it's very comfortable when you're a nolan reimold, even if you've only been in the big leagues for less than a month, that your swing is so sound you can wait and wait and wait and you can hit the ball to all fields that you don't feel that you have to expand the strike zone, and you don't see that with a lot of young hitters. it's just against what i've seen over 40 years. >> rob: it doesn't hurt that there's a guy with 14 home runs behind with you a lot of pop. you're going to see a lot of good pitches. >> jim h.: the other thing the orioles have done, terry has worked very hard with this group on their overall approach, is they don't strikeout a lot. the orioles have struck out fewer than any team in the american league. so the moral of the story is, if you put the ball in play, good things will happen. so you work the count, you look for a good pitch and you go for it. that's one of the things that he works on every day. scott rips it dow

tonight that hasn't been a problem. >> jim h.: there's a base hit. belliard was able to freeze melvin mora momentarily so melvin has to be held at third by juan sam well, and the orioles have the bases loaded. >> jim p.: melvin's job is not to get doubled up. if the ball gets through for a base hit, you know the bases are going to be loaded. >> jim h.: so mora goes to third, zaun at second, andino is on at first with one down. here's brian roberts who is without a doubt due. he's 0 for 4 tonight and 0 for his last 14. >> jim p.: how about winning 11- 1 and one of the best lead-off guys in baseball having what for him is an off night. that 0 for 4 last night. >> jim h.: tonight he was robbed by gonzalez in the fifth inning on an amazing diving grab. there's been some spectacular defense played tonight on both sides. no errors in this game. high fly ball slicing foul down the left-field line, and that will be back in the crowd. >> rob: roberts said coming into interleague play tonight, .304 lifetime batting average with nine home runs. very respectable

. >> jim h.: three scoreless innings in the interleague series at nationals park last month. >> jim p.: he's got a big curveball and a change-up, he's probably using a little more because it does slow the bats down. >> jim h.: that's the swing we're used to seeing from alberto gonzalez as he goes up the middle. tying runs aboard. washington now, lead-off men aboard five out of seven innings tonight. >> jim p.: johnson doesn't want to be there. of course gonzalez takes advantage of it. he wants to be down in the strike zone. >> rob: at the beginning of the year, he would have been swinging for the downs, he would have miss that had pitch. now he's cut down. they do teach you a lot down in the minor leagues and adjusting the attitude to what kind of player you may become is part of it. >> bob: and really good defensively. willie harris, one for three tonight. harris bounces the double play ball. the nats are doubling themselves to death tonight. that's the third of the night. and the other two came with -- with the bases loaded. >> jim p.: i think early in the count it really comes down

>> rob: and jim and jim. >> jim h.: james and james. james alvin, james dennis. and a slow ground ball to short. and a toss to first. that ends it. the nationals salvage the finale in this three-game series. nationals win 5-3.   >> jim h.: both these teams head back to league play tomorrow. scott olson on the mound against nolasco. coverage begins. the orioles stay home, they'll welcome in the red sox. now for bob carpenter, jim palmer, rob dibble, amber theoharis and debbi taylor and our entire masn family, jim hunter saying so long. >>> johnny holliday, ray knight. the nats salvage the last game of the weekend series. the nationals finish 6-9 in their 15 ballgames. >> tonight lannan, he's going to be our stopper. they tacked on two runs there, but just three runs in the seven-plus innings. >> and gets his fifth win of the season in doing so. >> evens that record. i've always felt he's going to be a 15-game winner. if he has a big second half, that could happen for him this year. >> defining moment came in the

to trick people with that slider. >> jim: we saw h him early on and we talked about the grand slam by willingham in the exhibition game. hanrahan came in with the one- run lead and threw balls and came back with sliders and sped up the bat and they took advantage of it. but he does have the kind of stuff that you need to try to come in and strike people out, if he can command it. >> bob: down the line in left and it's 4-1 baltimore. they're going to send the other runner, luke scott. the nationals missed the cut- off man, and on a breaking ball those runs will be charged to ross detwiler closing the book on him. those three pitches might be the microcosm of hanrahan's season. >> rob: he gets ahead with the fastball. he gets beat with 2 breaking ball. if you're a hitter and the guy throws 95, you're hoping he throws you an off-speed pitch. mora just kills it. a bad relay there. hernandez falls down trying to make the catch that wouldn't have had scott at home anyway. bob, if you can't trust your best pitch, which is your fastball and you continually get beat with a breaking ball, you j

>> jim: matt world series h he went the opposite way. >> buck: this pitch is up in the zone an watch how he star r stays on it. he is able to extend out over the plate and drives it deep into the seats in left field that is is a no doubter. >> jim: so matt wieters, number two. time for you to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. hanley ramirez, he has a grand slam. and matt wieters or an dry miller who went seven innings and allowed just one run on one hit. text in your vote to 51862. >> buck: dan myers comes on here and that will allow him to make as many pitches necessary to get loose. he has been a good pitcher for fredi gonzalez in this bullpen. he came out of the o's -- a's organization and they picked him up on wafers as they needed to add depth to the left-hand said of their bullpen and he fit the bill. >> jim: oscar sal la star is going do pitch pinch hit for felix pie. because of the pitching change, pie will be lifted for sal la star as the orioles are run out of time here trying to get back in here. >> buck: what a good pinch hitter sal la star has been with

>> buck: he h is oh-fer five. he grounded into a double play in the 10th inning. he hit a couple of balls sharply. they have been pitching him inside. as a result of flay he has pulled the ball on the left side of the diamond most of the night. >> jim: he looks over a strike. he lined out hard to don phase owe in the fourth and then in the seventh he hit a hard smash that appeared to be going down the line and bonifacio gloved it for an out. so oh-fer five. one strikeout and he has not hit the ball out of the infield all night. a good cut there, but he fouls it back. 0-2. >> buck: the score is 6-6. you can see the outfield for the marlins are playing no doubles. they are way back. a lot of room in the gaps. they're back because they're trying to prevent that. so if adam jones put one in play, maybe a single in front, there is nick markakis, he goes first and third. >> jim: 0-2. he just did get a piece. the breaking ball down and away, and he just got it fouled off to stay alive. markakis on at first. the one-out single. the 11th base hit for the birds in this game

. >> jim p.: guzman is 2 for 4. >> bob: guzman has multihit games in eight of his last 10 and h batting average is climbing toward the .340 mark. he started the night fifth in the league in the national league, so he's becoming one of those line drive machines again. he has to fight off an 0-2 pitch. and mora swipes it and makes a very good play. >> jim p.: andino, the shortstop sprinting after that. but what a play by meln mora. four rbi's last n. he took one look tsee where everybody was, then there you go. people forget that when melvin % met of venezuela, there you go, he kind of got it centered, he was a great soccer player. played professional soccer down there. and then went to houston, went to the mets, came over here and played shortstop, playe cene fiel.%it and ught it. knew andino was coming down on him, too. >> bob: broke in the mets in 99 after signing with houston at the age of 19. eight years before that. it took him a while to get to the big leagues. >> jim p.: that didn't work too well. i mean right here, 0-2, you're down by two runs, you've got to figure out,

their legs underneath them so that's what that down inside fastball where you have to skip does. >> jim: markakis, 1-2 with an infield hit and a bouncer to the right of anderson hernandez. so in -- does that ball get picked off? >> jim: yes, it does. they just speeded up the infield. and, again, you go to boston, yankee stadium, certainly toronto, you know, the astro turf. >> rob: we just noticed it at yankee stadium big time. >> jim: and they're throwing more more home runs in that ballpark than anyone else. if you have a fast infield, it is going to be very difficult to pitch in those ballparks. >> jim: here is aubrey huff. >> jim: how do you figure out