ramon hernandez, had a frustrating series. >> johnny: so, hernandez is retired. jay bruce as we look at it once again out by a couple of steps. >> rob: wilkin castro and dallas buck, micah owings. i apologize. >> johnny: so, there's two down in the 6th inning here as the answer to the aflac trivia question. who did the reds acquire for adam dunn from arizona. micah owings, dallas buck -- you were right. wilkin castillo. two down here in the 6th inning. alex gonzalez up for the third time. singled in the second, scored a run. two cincinnati runs. scored one and driven one in. 2-2 day for the shortstop. rbi total dose up to 17. -- goes up to 17. john lannan, two starts against cincinnati. 1-0. and 3.86 earned run average. bounder down the 3rd base line is foul. hoping the club gets some runs to get him his 4th win of the season. 3-5. and micah owings looking for his 4th win as well. he is 3-7. but he hasn't won a ballgame this a month. lannan delivers a high fly to right. kearns and dukes over. kearns ducks out of the way. last of the 6th. 2-0 cincinnati leading. o

the cincinnati reds and ramon hernandez, 16 starts already this year at first base, joey bad a going down with the injury, normally a catch you are but the big bopper, they expect hopefully more from him today. here is the lineup for the reds. 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

ramone hernandez takes the pitch over the left center field for a triple. and phillips easily wins this one by final of 8-1. brandon phillips was in a two for 19 slump heading into the game. three hits, three rbis and three runs scored on this, his 28th birthday. huff losing for the first time in his last four starts. >> here is what is happening around the majors this afternoon. the top of the ninth and two-run shot. the difference in this game and the game with the astros. there you saw the score. royals and pirates back on. it was raining for a period of time. the rockies keep trucking, up 2-0 and won 19 of the last 22. >> coming up, full highlights and reaction from south africa. one of the most memorable soccer games in u.s. history. we'll show it to you. >> and the heat is on in atlanta and tommy hanson battling the flu. will the rookie have the energy to deal with the red sox? (announcer) what does greatness taste like? miller lite. (announcer on call) off the glass, centered in front... oh what a great move, another great move... he skates in on goa

so, gomes is on with two outs and ramon hernandez looking for his first hit of the afternoon. we will see what he can do against julian tavarez. it is amazing, rob, in all the years julian has been pitching going back to his debut of 1993 with cleveland. he's only been touch eded the homeruns -- no homeruns last year. none with the red sox when he was pitching for them. and most of the years have been under 10 allowed. or given up. >> rob: that is a guy that is hard to hit. he has been in the big leagues 17 years. >> johnny: good control pitcher, too. no balls and strike. and it is 1-1. jay bruce waiting on deck and then alex gonzalez. nats with their only run in the 6th inning, trail it 2-1. what has been a series where washington just not able to get more than two runs. two tuesday night, two last night and one today. pop up behind 1st base. a long run. kearns and it hits the warning track and bounces up in the stands. well, between cordero, rhodes and weathers, they have appeared in 2,230 games. that is the kind of experience the reds have. you can see a relaxed cincinnati

ramon hernandez having the first-base duties tonight. >> rob: was he their first overall pick? randy johnson. no, he didn't go directly.  . >> johnny: didn't p minor leagues. and the 1-0 to hernandez and it's two balls and no strikes. rob vlad guerrero. marquis grissom. >> rob: nice catch. >> johnny: nice catch is right. he kind of carbled that one into his glove in foul territory. >> rob: can't be easy, banging between center and right field back and forth and a tough corner to play, got its little ins and outs and goes up against the wall and makes a great grab right there. oh. i can't believe it.  i can't b they'll make room for you on the benefit ramon. >> johnny: struck out back in the second, right fielder, 7 hits in 25 at-bats. one for one with a strikeout, back swinging in the second.  cincinnati in town  a 14-inning loss to the cubs on sunday. a game in which they had 0-13 with runners in scoring position. swing and a miss from g

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

. >> johnny: and ramon hernandez popped foul down the first base line, nice catch by nick johnson there on the tarp. that one goes in the stands it's all down. >> rob: not just velocity. no lab ryan, his fastball was  little straighter than it was earlier in his career. here is nick johnson, great concentration, got to the tarp early, hanging on the rp waiting for the ball to do. >> johnny: d he has a is for 3 night, single to center back in the sixth. batting average. a .292 fothan 3 e.r.a. for those 16 games, up around 7, came down considerably. . >> johnny: and you  in the background who has to be really happy. >> rob: absolutely. and randy sinclair didn't do ththe pitchers to tait upon seto go job. ake it go out there, attack these guys. detwiler 17 first-pitch strikes tonight, doing a great job. >> johnny: jonny gomes with a base hit, súson consecutive. the reds get a n here in thtoofthe eighth inning. plus detwiler looking on. >> rob: went in, probably changed his shirt, put on a dry one, sweatshirt. protect your monemake  some of these young 

where mon hernandez -- ramon hernandez back where he longs behind the plate today. the reds catcher leads off the top of the second with a scoreless ballgame. manny acta's club trying to slide a three-game slide. across the adam dunn and there's one down. nice to have you with us today afternoon game at nationals park, johnny holliday along with ron dibble. happy to have you along on masn. hope the weather will stay nice as it is now. and you guys hit a plane and fly down to florida for the big weekend series against tampa, beginning tomorrow night. and that saturday night game will be joined in progress after 7 p.m. because of major league baseball rules and regulations. jay bruce the right fielder. he leads the ball club with 15 rbi -- 15 homeruns with 32 rbis far guy that only hits .218. gonzalez on to dunn and two quick outs. >> rob: 14 homeruns off right-handed pitchers. detwiler had a good night against him two nights ago. shy ron martis. airon martis. >> johnny: the key is how you bounce back after that. >> rob: he was fantastic. steve mccatty and manny acta

and brandon wear was acquired in the deal that sent ramon hernandez to the reds. he was part of the deal. he's hitting .280 and playing first base. and flor mon hitting well. and now let's look at the minor league score board. chris tillman was giving up three runs and he's 5-2 for the season. buoy shutting out. and brandon side more, 1 for 3. buoy won the second game 4-2. but brandon slider drove in two. and the frederick keys, 6-1 as jack whitten allows two hits and struck out three. britain is 3 and 2 for the season. >>> time to take a look at top five play this is -- plays this week in baseball. >> and he hits to rightfield. ichiro was just looking. >> hit one in the air to rightfield. luke scott way back. goodbye, home run. >> and the bat of luke scott continues to be hot. >> and a towering pop-up, first base side. and he got it. nice play. >> to short and andino, a great glove. there is one, relay. and a double play. ground ball towards short andino again, and there is one and there's two. andino playing a spectacular shortstop in this game. hill, 2-2 delive

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. now it is time for the stay in the game hold of the day brought to you by just

. >> 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. >> rob: it is. and you know, when i sit here and think that guy is in the middle of your lineup, i don't want to pitch to him so i'm going to pitch around him. and the h