joba chamberlain, 6 and a third. as the rumors persist. will joba return to the bullpen to pitch that eighth inning for the yankees? as a starter, one of his best outings of the year, 6 and a third for joba. two earned. yankees win as mo rivera comes in to shut things down. red sox best record in the american league taking on the nationals in d.c. first time since 71 the sox played in d.c., and this is david ortiz. stuck on 999 career r.b.i. not anymore. three-run shot for papi. his 7th of the year. becomes the 25th active player with 1,000 r.b.i. as the red sox win yet again. now 44-27 on the year. boston getting it done. john lester gets the win. >> shane victorino, ryan howard, jason werth, all come up empty. garza, eight innings, 7k's, just allowed one run in three hits. pat burrell against his former team. two-run shot. the rays, 7-1 the final. the story would be garza. gets 500 on the year. nearly unhittable tonight. he was amazing as burrell does hit the home run against his former team. phillies have lost 7 of 8, and 9 of 11. >> or

joba chamberlain ends up taking the loss. his nine decisions are the fewest for any pitcher in his first 25 starts in mlb history. this was the first homerless game at the new yankee stadium. the yankees have lost back-to-back games against the nats, 18-46, with the win the nationals become the worst team to defeat the yankees in a series in new york and the third worst team ever to defeat the yankees in any series. thursday was a shutout win for the nats. washington has the second worst record of any team to shut out the yankees. >> the phillies have put left fielder raul ibanez on the d.l. with a groin injury. in his first season in philadelphia, the 37-year-old ibanez began the day second in the national league with 22 home runs and 59 r.b.i.'s. john mayberry jr. will take his place on the roster. blue jays go for the three-game sweep of the phils, top nine, 7-7 game. here is pinch-hitter rod barajas off ryan madson. center field. gone. solo home run and the jays win it 8-7. jays finish off the sweep. the phils are a major

they had to rush joba chamber lan chamberlain and finally they stopped messing around with joba chamberlain. he probably should have going to the minor leagues for 10 starts. >> johnny: breaking ball outside from lannan to bruce. >> rob: now phil hughes is in the bullpen in new york. they have got all kinds of issues. there's always going to be pitching problems at the major league level. >> johnny: i think that is why this scenario with strasburg is fascinating. he says he is going sit back and bide his time through the negotiation process and let things take place. could be a double-play. to second for one and no throw at first. they get the runner at second for the force-out. strasburg says he is going to relax and have fun. places he would like to go. he will let other people take care of the negotiations. >> rob: he is also being fed some of these lines too. you don't want to seem like you are too interested in signing and getting underway. kind of like storen. drew storen. he said let me sign i need to get to work. >> johnny: and he is. >> rob: he is going right to the minor leagues.

joba chamberlain, dealing, ryan zimmerman, ripping. that is into the gap. guzman scores, 3 of-0, nats. bottom 7, nobody out. a-rod denied by harris. that would be big, because the yankees would lower the bases in the 7th. derek jeter, pinch hitting, grounds into a 6-4 fourth. nice play by guzman. jeter did start with a sore ankle. top 8, still 3-o nats. austin kearns, shopping at the gap. watch brett gardener, makes the catch. but hits hard into the wall. he whiplashed against the plexy glass wall. little woozy, he was carted off. yankees lose 3-0. stop the presses. first time in 35 games that no team homered at the new yankee stadium. is. >> the nats not only beat the yanks two in a row, but the nationals win two in a row for the first time in a more than a month. >> it's over with. i mean, we've got to go out and get on a plane and get ready to play tomorrow. we realize what we've got to do better and move forward. >> i just said i'm not going to talk about it, because the more we talk about it, the more people think about it. bottom line is we have accom

joba chamberlain on the mound. ryan zimmerman lined one into the gap. zimmerman had three hits and an r.b.i., 1-8 in the first two games of this series. a-rod to left. willie harris -- the runway is clear and he's coming in for a landing. robbing a-rod of a hit. bottom seven, bases loaded, willy taveras gets derek jeter to ground to short, cristian guzman, nice play. jeter 0-1, still dealing with the sore left ankle. top eighth, 3-0 nats, austin kearns to left center. brett gardner makes the catch but hits the wall hard. manager joe girardi comes out. gardner is carted off. the nationals win 3-0. the nats are the second worst team to shut out the yankees and the worst to win a series from the yankees in new york. here are notable rain delays that compare to the yankees' 5:26 delay. >> the phillies have put left fielder raul ibanez on the d.l. with a groin injury. in his first season in philadelphia, the 37-year-old ibanez began the day second in the national league with 22 home runs and 59 r.b.i.'s. john mabry jr. will take his place on the roster. blue

. >> bob: your point is well taken because joba chamberlain got a quality start last night. three runs, seven hits, four walks in six innings and left trailing 3-0. but it's save quality start. fastball up. fly ball to left. adam dunn. nice. that's the way to get out of an inning. it will be a no decision for jordan zimmermann, and the blue jays are back even. 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. >> debbi: nice night at t ballpark as we move to the bottom of the inning. manny acta talked before the game about how sometimes it's the little things that can really make a difference even something as simple as moving guys over on ground balls. >> this year, we worked a lot advancing balls in the dirt which is something we want to improve upon because it was big back in the expos days and we spoke to mark about it. we saw the results. it's gradual improvement we're making. >> de