. >> and he said the same thing about rob dibble too. he said the guy always has humble. he did. >> rob: i was never humble. >> johnny: scoreless relief in each of his last 18 appearances. look at this number. 16 innings only 8 hits allowed, no earned runs, walked seven and struck out six. >> rob: the one thing i like about ron being here is his approach. he knows he doesn't have a good mid-90s fastball ha he had when heame up through the leagues, he has to locate pitches, be very careful about where he pitches some of these hit terse because every hitter now, when you're an older pitcher, is dangerous. >> johnny: as you got older you justed? you had to. >> rob: absolutely. absolutely. >> 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:

bob carpenter, rob dibble. good to be back home. that was nice wrapup to what we saw in new york. >> rob: yes, it was. it was a momentum builder and a way i gauge yourself against a very good team like the yankees. well-pitched baseball game, well defensively played, great defense and great pitching will when you -- win you championships. last night it was the great defense that kept this nationals team in the game and on the board and keep the yankees off the board with a 3- 0 shutout. willie harris, cristian guzman, anderson hernandez, ryan zimmerman at one point. everybody contributed to this victory last night. one of the best played games i think all around from the starters to the bullpen to the offense to the defense. so, that was definitely a team victory and a way to get that series win. >> bob: i saw manny acta in his office after the game last night. he was talking about pitching. it leads to good defense and wins. jordan zimmermann's turn tonight. can he like his young teammates continue to feed off each other's success?

johnny holliday sitting in for bob carpenter this afternoon along with the dibster, rob dibble. several fans anticipating getting one of these runs home to tie it. maybe two to take the lead in the bottom of the 8th inning, bases loaded. they have gone to the bullpen again. nick nas set came in last -- masset came if last night. -- in last night. >> rob: ryan zimmerman has hit into 11 double-plays this season. 4th most in the major league. he has to change his approach. nick masset thinking double-play to get out of this inning right here. you have to know that situationally coming up to the plate, he is going to be trying to get me to ground the ball somewhere. you have to try not to do that. >> johnny: hernandez at third. guzman at second. gonzalez at first. good look at their reliever, nick masset. nowhere to put zimmerman with one away in the 8th. he jumps out in the count 0-1. nationals all-time leader in runs and hits and doubles and homers and rbis in games played. and a chance to do some serious damage with a base hit here. outfield shaded just a little to the right. her

johnny holiday and rob dibble on masn.

johnny holiday along with rob dibble. bob carpenter taking a couple days off and everybody has been talking about well we're gonna get the guy. now you've got to sign this guy. >> and that's not going to be an easy thing. rob dibble. >> how do you sign a guy with 110 innings pitched and 109 strikeouts. that's the toughest part for the nats. obviously you want him, you want to sign him, it's going to take an awful lot of money. last year they did not sign their number 1 pick and he is still out there in the draft today. listen, if this kid wants to play pro ball are you going to let your agent dictate sitting out another year? that would hurt his development. that's where you got to draw the line. if it's a couple hundred thousand or a couple million dollars is it enough to sit out a season? these agents have done enough. not enough of these guys are making it to the major leagues and you should be rewarded for getting to the major league. there is month more motivation than giving a kid 10 to $15 million out of college. >

johnny holliday along with rob dibble. rob carpenter taking a few days off. great view from our postgame site. as you look toward the infield, an ominous night. luckily the rain drifting off to the right. last night there was almost a two hour rain delay to get the ballgame in. josh willingham, good to have him back in the lineup. over the last six games, hitting .444 with three home runs. he was out a week way viral infection. >> johnny: he's never played right field before. it's been an unusual experience trying to get used to it. >> rob: i find it hard to believe a little bug took this guy down. he's been tough on our team. >> johnny: a terrific young man too, biology man in college. >> rob: very smart. >> johnny: hernandez is out. foul territory, two out. >> rob: i think he hit the catcher with his back swing. check it out. he may have hurt his hand on this play. watch him come back. no. slips out of his hand. i think the bat hits hanigan's hand. you don't make a lot of friends when you do that to the catcher. >> johnny: two quick nationals retired. they

you can take rob dibble with you everywhere you go. we'll feed him. >> bob: there's a good fastball for a strike. >> rob: nice. right at the knees. how do you like that? detwiler, 91 pitches. they pulled zimmermann last night with 92 pitches. this would be the end of the line. ross detwiler feeds to give it everything he's got and finish off. what would go down as a quality start, zimmermann on your left. those two gave up 3 earned runs in more than 10 innings in this series friday and saturday. down the line. that ball leaves the ball park. that's the cheapest home run you can get here. over about five foot fence, kapler has hurt the nationals again. oh those walks! [cheering and applause] >> rob: i'm thinking one hopper against the wall, ground rule double, the thing sneaks out of here. he throws a breaking ball down and in. kapler gets lucky again. he hits a 335-foot home run down the left field line. that's when you're living right. he had not homered in 34 straight game this is year. he had three home runs in the last three games.

johnny holliday along with rob dibble. the nationals still trying to get back in this ballgame, trailing only by a run. but now time beginning to be a major factor in the game. >> rob: it has been a great pitched series by our staff. i mean the starters have down -- done their job. the bullpen has done their job. jesus colome is going to try to get three outs and get you back in there on offense and somebody's got to get these guys pumped up. somebody's got to try to manufacture a run. it is still julian that ver -- julian tavarez can hold hem. that is his job. get -- them. that is his job. three outs, no runs. >> johnny: and he will start with willy taveras to start the 8th. delivers a strike. 2-5-0 for cincinnati, 1-5-0 for the nationals. >> rob: once again, steve mccatty and rick eckstein, control what you can control. if you can get three outs, get six outs, do that and hold your head up. it is just a question right now of some well pitched innings by the cincinnati reds pitchers. it has been a well fought series by th

bob carpenter and rob dibble are there. i can hear you. scott olsen, wasn't that funny, scott olsen -- >> live television, johnny. >> don't you love it. scott olsen really did a heck of a job tonight. >> yeah, if the nationals get what they got out of scott olsen down the road on a regular basis, we're in for something special. you could not have asked other than a shut-out for much more than what he did tonight. >> and he went out there and he showed why the washington nationals traded for him. he dominated after being out for almost two months with a shoulder injury. throw a 90-mile an hour fastball, great off-speed change-up and he just mowed down the florida marlins. the bright spot is olsen. this is in the a playoff caliber team. the bullpen's had its struggles. this kid is one of the future cornerstones of the starting rotation. you saw seven innings, a couple of runs, the six hits, but more importantly it's how he feels tomorrow and how this kid played after being out for two months. you saw how rusty john smoltz was against us afte

let's go out to bob carpenter and rob dibble. he gave the nats a pretty good effort. >> bob: this is the most unhittable we have seen craig stammen so far. rob, this a great line-up. they lead baseball in runs. he fared quite quell against this line-up tonight. >> rob: a lot of this line-up helped this team go to the world series last year. so in his fifth start, craig stammen was pretty good. he was striking guys out once he got his confidence, did a great job, keeping them off balance, changing eye levels. you said this the other night, we said, we are that close to going being a really good team. one missed foul ball here and thins like that. bottom line is the nationals are playing a much better baseball and they gave a heck of an effort tonight against one of the best teams in the al. >> bob: that's a shame that the defense keeps hurting the ball club. i don't know if you have seen a sustained streak of problems like the nats have had. it's june 12th. it's time to start catching the ball. this defense has been a problem for

let's take you back out to camden yards, rob dibble and jim palmer standing by. what did you guys think about the series this weekend? >> thanks, guys. well, jim, that was a great series. we get the finale, but really the last two games were much better than the first game where it was kind of a blowout. >> it's kind of interesting. the nationals had beat the red sox, full houses in washington. the orioles had gone down, they scored one run in 20 1/3 inning, get swept down in miami. we have adam jones hitting .200 for the month of june. so the orioles needed to win on friday, but they end up 11-1 but it was a very close game until the 6th inning. on saturday night, again, a early lead by the nationals, the orioles come back, they hit three home runs, the hanging change-up that one of the better young players for the orioles nolan reimold hits off of martis. so this is a situation where today you have your best left- hander going out there and the orioles didn't do a whole lot of things wrong on friday and saturday. the nationals seemed to take care of it. >> you

great to have you here with us tonight, rob dibble and johnny holiday, the only time the reds come into this ball park this year. we go there later on in the year. >> johnny: rob, i know the same as ray knight when we're talking with ray about a ball game against the franchise you used to be with it brings back many fom fond fond memories for you guys. >> rob: yes it does. but i don't know if i'm more tied to the reds like ray is. i know ray, um, speaks so highly of the oirgs but to me, when i was there, it was fun, it was great, we won a world championship. >> johnny: 6 years, huh? >> rob: 7 1/2 seasons with them and, to me, you know, it is great but that was so long ago now, i have been doing this for 12 years, that you've got new ownership, new management, a whole new coaching staff, and there's not one player that i played with still there so. >> johnny: makes a big difference, yeah. >> rob: the name, yes, but a lot of people still think i have this alliance or allegiance to the reds, yes in some ways i always will in terms of being drafted there and playing there but i like to thin

jim hunter with jim palmer, rob dibble coming up with bob carpenter and i know one thing, the orioles are happy to be home. >> jim: they're 11-23 on the road. why is that? they have the highest batting average in american league at .300. they give up 4.33 runs per game. here at camden yards and over six on the road. they happy to be here. >> we're combining forces, rob carp -- rob and bop carpenter are with us. >> bob: thank you. 5-4 against the yankees, the blue jays and the bo sox. they're feeling pretty good now. >> rob: yes. they had major competition and it is a good way to tell how good you are. hopefully they can continue that against the baltimore orioles. >> bob: it is always interesting when these clubs get together. the o's have won 2-3 the other two years, the first pitch lineups straight ahead from camden yards! ♪ ♪ ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. get the blackberry bold for $199.99 after mail-in-rebate. only from at&t. >> bob: tonight's beltway series on masn is brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at

johnny holliday in this evening along with rob dibble. >> rob: brandy had just gotten traded from the mets. during spring training, he was watching all of us warm up. we had the great knuckle curveball. then myself and randy threw 95 miles per hour. he said, all your stuff is nasty in this bullpen. then we had a 9-0 start that year, went wire to wire. the name kind of stuck. the exclamation point was sweeping the -- it never meant we were mean and nasty guys. >> johnny: they got adam dunn drifting off 2nd to tend -- end the 6th. nationals need to get runners on base. >> rob: it shows you how well and how much harang does. >> johnny: fly ball to right field. enough room for him to run it down, one away. >> rob: taveras may not be hitting well this season, but he can run it down in the outfield. >> johnny: hanrahan getting back up in the nationals bullpen. we may have seen the last of shairon martis tonight. he's been absolutely masterful on the mound except for the pitch against jay bruce in the 2 2nd. >> rob: he's had great stuff all night, changing speed. he's been outstanding. >> jo

johnny holliday with rob dibble. we're in the 8th inning trying to get something going. guzman, johnson and zimmermann. >> rob: guzman has a couple of knocks tonight including a triple. 0-12 on the night. that's where we're getting hurt. we've got to get it going. >> johnny: guzman is gone in the 8th. there's one down. nick johnson 0-3. they both came in last night, arthur rhodes starting as a terrific starter. works his way to the bullpen. boy, can he bring it. >> weathers is not bad either. >> rob: all state soccer player -- there you go. >> johnny: zimmermann next and adam dunn. 2-0 reds in the 8th. >> rob: time to get it done. come on, nick. >> johnny: take him deep. takes a breaking ball on the inside corner for a strike. 1-2. good eye at that time plate. 34 walk this is year. that's 10th best in the national league. harang seems to have one of the nights where nobody can catch up to him. >> rob: we challenge our hitters with 88 and 90 on the gun. a lot of fastballs. he's changing location keeping them off balance. >> johnny: the 3rd base umpire says he did not go a

. >> bob: rays win it 5-4 with bob carpenter, rob dibble, it's on to new york. tuesday night on masn hd. city tuned for the latest news on the nats. stay tuned now, nats extra coming up now from johnny and ray. so long from just a while. >>> the tampa bay rays have their second series sweep of the season today. they knock off the nationals friday, saturday and to. johnny holliday and ray knight with you. once again the nats couldn't hold the lead. interesting, unusual play. the ball hits the bag at 3rd, goes to left field, tampa scores a run. anything that can happen to this ball club, we haven't seen this, this year. >> i didn't think our catchers in bullpen might disrupt a play. we'll go to the final moment it has game change there had. villone on the pitch. 8th, tie game. pena doubles to deep center field as he drives the ball out there. aybar pinch hitting, hits the bag, willy is all over it. you don't see that happen. i can remember in my career only a couple hitting the bag. most of them hit right on the corner. run scores. just another way to lose a ballg

bob carpenter, rob dibble. as the weather warms up, it's not the hitters, it's the pitchers and we found out lately you can pitch well to win ball games and, rob, in the last 23 1/3 innings by the nats starters, they have only given up four earned runs. >> rob: and they are starting to do their job and that's what they are being paid to do, throw strikes, get ahead of people and throw strikes. martis started this off at yankee stadium. he deserved a little bit better fate that they got. obviously, they should have won that game. john la man then, best start of his career, best start of the year, and a lot of yankee scouts said maybe the best start against the yankees this year. and then nats didn't want to stop that. nice shaving cream pie to boot in his first live interview. jordan zimmerman last night was very special, 23 first-pitch strikes, was dominant. deserved a better fate but the umpire didn't give a lot of calls. we would agree that, later in the game, his strike zone loosened up and now ross detwiler

we've had 24 runners stranded and rob dibble, the error by guzman, and that knoxville villone out and joel hanrahan came in and did a great job. >> rob: well, joel hanrahan came in with one out. got the ground ball to ryan zimmerman. that didn't work for a double play. kevin millar pinch-hit. got him out. then, got a couple quick outs and then a wonderful play by willie harris on another fabulous catch out in the outfield two nights in a row. possible two game savers depending on the outcome this have one. >> bob: and joe beimel takes over. he'll be the sixth flannels pitcher of the night. -- nationals pitcher of the night. the toronto blue jays in extra innings, 4-3, 1-2 on the road. i'm too frightened to give you the nationals ledger on that one. 0-8. 0-8 and seven of those at home. i'm not sure i ever watched part of a team going 0-7 at home where you have the final at-bat in extra innings. that's unbelievable. here is the first pitch strike to scott rolen. top of the 10th under way. >> rob: hey, it's contagious. you start playing well, you don't want to be the guy that fails. youn

johnny holliday, rob dibble. threatening conditions here tonight. let's hope the clouds continue to go west to east past the ball park. right now you can see a whole lot in the park. tonight it's going to be sharon martis against the reds. they started the season 13-5 p. what about the longest run of the season, this guy has been untouchable, 17 scoreless innings this season tied for first in major league baseball. as you can see, the clouds hanging over nationals park as you take a good look. got to feel good about this ballgame. this has been a good day for drew storen. we'll look at the lineups tonight. hairston leads off at 3rd. brandon phillips at 2nd. laynce nix, notice the way he spells his first name. bruce in right. martis on the mound for the nationals. he's 5-1 with a 5.31 earned run average. >> let's give you the scouting report before i get zapped by lightning. three runs or less in his first starts. has not allowed double figures in any of his starts. not 10 runs or more. 9 or less in all of his starts. after three bat start, 17 run, 4

we'll go to bob carpenter and rob dibble. how about the offensive side, the stick of gonzalez? >> by the way, johnny, we're pretty sure the kid said yikes not get out of the way. detwiler, and a lot of other young guys on display here. gonzalez is one of them. this is the future of the franchise. he sticks out the bat, hit it to right. he crushes this into the left center field. when a young kid like that can contribute three rbis in the game, you know these young kids are really special. you have anderson. >> every ball club needs a willie harris to move around. he was outstanding before the bad luck ball hit the bag. >> great player right there early in the ballgame: right here he starts a great double play. what a feed. you're never playing 3rd base. he's throwing these balls like he's been there for years. willie harris gets a bad break here. they get the go ahead winning run. that's pretty much everything going on for the nationals. they come to the ball park yesterday and learn that josh willingham's brother dies in a car wreck. it's been one thing after another. >> i kno

bob carpenter, rob dibble. welcome to a sunday afternoon of nats baseball. two young starter this is year. better than 10 inning, only 3 earned runs given up so far. >> zimmermann outstanding. this is the perfect offense in the american league. perfect test for a young kid. gets up against the best offense and starts bringing his best stuff. pitched low enough to win that ballgame. zimmermann came up against the great offense the next night. jordan was just as solid. he was out eight days because of an injury. he came out of the ballgame way 2-1 lead. the third pitches, here he come, one of the youngest pitch everies on the staff. >> ross detwiler 23 years of age, that 23, 24 thing is where we go next with the young 3rd baseman. zimmermann is the older of the two of the young sackers we see in this series. >> our guy can play third quarter. boy, he can hit it. gets it over the plate, that was yesterday, got us off to a good start. it's great to see is west -- to see the best 3rd baseman on the field. you're looking at two of the best young 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd ba

bob carpenter, rob dibble, byron kerr with us. we'll fly to new york and come to you from the new yankees stadium tuesday night with martis against sabathia. >> bob: i think some of these young pitchers are going to make sure they're not in awe of the place in which they're pitching tuesday, wednesday, thursday. last time they measured it, the mound was 60 feet 6 inches too. >> bob: and hernandez will drop one to right center. gonzalez with a great jump. going to 3rd. he will be out with the ball waiting for him. testing the arm of gabe gross who threw him out. [cheering and applause] that made him make a perfect throw to get him. >> rob: i like it. challenge the defense. - oh, it's on. - it's on. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights to new york laguardia for just 49 dollars one-way starting j

johnny holliday with rob dibble. the game delayed for two hours and 10 minutes because of rain. umpires are gathered around home plate. elijah dukes goes back to his base. >> rob: he is very impressive. i was taught rule of thumb, if it's an hour rain delay, the guy out there last, he's done for the night. you warm up somebody else. you have david weathers. chord row, two hours and 10 minute, he must really want there at bat. he's back out there. >> johnny: 117 and 109 saves in the national league. talk about a throw back guy. this guy wants to get out and play ball. >> rob: most of the time you do it to protect the guy. you go from humidity and rain and go sit in air conditioning climate inside the locker room. >> johnny: elijah dukes on 1st base. he had walked before the rain delay. >> rob: this is like my softball league. you start way 1-1 count and come back out with a 3-2 count. cordero delivers. 2-2. the score board had 2 hours and 10 minutes to get it right and couldn't handle it. >> johnny: now its 3-2 to willingham. >> rob: willingham goes to 1st 1st. dukes goes down to

rob dibble came up with it first. we have some numbers to support t winningest manager, we think it's bobby cox. >> rob ha-ha. >> bob: he averaged 89 wins a year for four years. good question, guys. that was a change-up. >> bob: yep. we weren't sitting dead red on that one. fastball up and away. scutaro 0-for-2, flyball into right and to first. detwiler drops a beauty of a change-up in there, 83 miles per hour. the count is even at 1-1. >> rob: he had not thrown a lot of them tonight. i like it when our pitchers don't throw one of their out pitches until they really, really needed it. he needed it last inning againstry york got the double play ball on it. good to have that surprise in there. >> bob: well hit, left field. dunn is right there. and detwiler five shutout innings and a big assist with one out and a man already on base. willie harris, a beautiful catch again. a few years behind me, it seems i've got three times the bills i used to. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar,

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bob carpenter, rob dibble, byron kerr on masn 2 with you guys tonight. nats with 3 in the 1st and rays with a run in the 2nd and a run in the 3rd. nats have already done some running of their own but navarro gunned them down. that was during a guzman walk. anderson has one foot beyond the cut of the grass which indicates a pretty good lead. lodge look by garza. long look by garza. and nick will take a fastball upstairs, 2-1. nick jan son one hit away from his 18th multi- hit of the year. came in tied with zimmerman at .316, second on the club to the .327 of guzman. just to show you what a designated hitter will do for you, there are only three teams in the national league that have 300 runs or more, the american league has seven. 2-2 target in. nasty breaking ball. strikeout number 4 for matt garza tonight and he gets three consecutive scoreless innings now after his 1st inning problems. 3-2 gnats. oof! i hope he has that insurance. aflac! you really need it these days. how come? well if you're hurt and can't work it pays you cash... yeah to help with ev

bob carpenter, rob dibble, debbi terrell. our nationals version of our masn crew reunited here after a couple of our guys had the weekend off. we were working with the baltimore crew. great to have them back. here's cody ross with one out in the bottom of the 7th. the orioles came in here last week and were swept by the marlins. so our wise guy stage manager/stats man paul newman indicated to me that the marlins are 9-0 on masn this year. time to do something about that. >> rob: time to break that streak. i remember the yankees were 23- 0 allowing three runs or less to their opponent. >> bob: and the nats got them twice, didn't they? of all people, they said. my lasting impression of that series will be walking out of the ballpark thursday night and a security guy came up to me and said, if we miss the playoffs by one game, we will remember the washington nationals. >> rob: the mets a few years ago really remember the nats. took five out of six the last two weeks of the season. they missed the playoffs. >> bob: he pulls the s

. >> bob: the learning proce the teaching process, rob dibble, continues, as student and teacher get together and we'll check on -- thank you, aflac. the two number 1 pick over all on the roster. david price. pat burrell. they tricked us. >> rob: because beckham is not on their active roster but i think he is on their 40-man roster. >> bob: pat burrell. just when we think we've got these guys figured out. pat burrell was originally drafted in the 43rd round by boston, didn't sign and became the phillies' over all number 1 pick in '98. big at-bat here. flyball, centerfield. that's going to guy into the glove of willie harris. carlos peqa tagging. the throw is in behind him and he goes to third. i think willie might have assumed he was going to go to third. he wanted to make sure that the runner from first did not go to second. so what should the outfielder do then? >> rob: he did exactly what he should do. this is a deep flyball and you don't want the guy on first to tag and get into scoring position here with two outs. he did the correct play. what happened is that carlos peqa se

>> rob: now getting into the shower, rob dibble, dibble getting into the shower. >> bob: ah, look at that. i love seeing families at the ballpark. is she adorable? >> rob: yep. >> bob: wow. here we go, bottom seven. top of the order. guzman has been first-pitch swinging all night. he takes one a foot high. >> rob: just a little late with the feeding one time and see how quiet that baby is. [ laughter ] >> bob: babies are just like managers. they just want be to be on time. [ laughter ] >> rob: very nice. >> bob: on time and get your work done. guzman has hit the ball in the air three times tonight. he haddite quite a series in new york. cristian guzman, 6-14 in the series scoring a couple of runs playing really good defense. maybe the best sequence of defense we've seen him -- ee we've seen from him this year. 2-1. nick johnson, perfect night. a walk and two singles. by the way, nick with 19 multihit games on the year now. zimmerman to follow. maybe adam dunn here. guzman, right side. overbay to the pitcher! he's late! guzman is safe. hayhurst did not beat guzman to the bag. >> rob:

i'm johnny holliday for bob carpenter along with rob dibble. when you talk about pitching, this ball club over the last 7 games have been pitching pretty darned good. >> tom: yeah. the starters are starting to kick it into high gear. they have thrown really well. 3.5 runs per game. average innings over 6 which is quality starts for me and the opposition only hitting about .217. in the john lannan's last start against the new york mets where he threw his last ever complete game in a 7-1 defeat. that was a very got outing. helped his cause there with a base hit down the left field line. so, john lannan is on the hill gets to try to continue the great starting pitching that we have been getting so far, johnny and that is the key. if they can go out there and pitch 6 strong, 7 strong and kick it over to the bullpen who has been doing a great job, there's john lannan warming up. love the blue top look we have today. that is your job. get 6 or 7 and get the bridge and get it over to the bullpen and then to the closer and you have a shot. >> johnny: d

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it will be jim hunter and jim palmer and bob carpenter and rob dibble. good night, see you tomorrow. x hit two home runs. and the sixth career multi-home run game. and the phillies giving up plenty of offense and the 10-0 win. and the phillies winning the second time in the last 11 games. and j.a. happ's first career shot yut the fourth interleague shouldout in phillies' history. >>> and andy roddick taking on his good friend, jurgen melzer. third set roddick with break point. want to get hay way? roddick l loses his footing ande would loose the game as well and the set. and his wife, brooklyn decker, unphased by it all. she had confidence. the fourth set, enjoying the sun as well, melzer a nice drop shot here. roddick comes up with the big forehand winner. roddick, a nice stroke from the base line. roddick wins in four sets. 33 aces, improved to 9-0 against melzer. >> and considering the way he served the first two sets, i was glad to get through with a two-set lead. you know, i was having trouble getting a read on hill. he was hitting all of his spots.

bob carpenter, rob dibble. receipts talk -- let's talk about who is leaving with troubled layers in this organization. it's lastings milledge and joel hanrahan to the pirates. >> rob: well, lastings milledge has been demoted to the minor leagues out right now with a broken finger. joel hanrahan has a ton of upside. throws in the mid-90s, upper 90s. he's getting in trouble with off-speed stuff. they were sent over to pittsburgh. you know, we get nyjer morgan in return also sean burnett a- very good reliever. we got speed. can fly on the base pads. he's got i think 18 stolen bases so -- so far this year. more importantly on the defensive side t-makes our outfield a little better. in the bullpen, burnett has a lot of appearances and been very successful at the major league level. so, we gave up a couple guys that maybe don't fit into our future. here the future is now with nyjer morgan and sean burnett. >> bob: morgan 18 steals, number five in the national league, sean burnett, six saves, in the bullpen kind of an

bob carpenter, rob dibble, jim palmer, jim hunter and amber theo hair advertise and debbi taylor from oriole park at camden yards. it is all o's and rob villone inherits the situation. >> jim: he has done a nice job against left-handed batters, in fact, the same with righties. >> bob: markakis, 2-2 tonight apair of singles. >> rob: villone's nemesis is standing on deck. >> jim: he hit that, what, triple? >> rob: yes. but i asked rob the next day and he said, well, the last couple of times i faced him, he smoked a fastball up and a slider away. so he was going to try to throw him a fastball up and in and he killed it. >> bob: aubrey huff the man they're talking about. >> jim: those are nice numbers for villone. >> bob: that is the bates hit. the one-hopper and the merry-go- round is still spinning and it is 7-1. >> jim: rick dempsey was talking in the pregame. i don't know. the orioles were trailing, and they got five straight hits to tie the game up in the ninth inning. nick markakis is, he is a .300 lifetime hitter and he is not getting any worse. he is only 25 years old. he can flat

. >> any thoughts of suiting up rob dibble anytime soon? >> yes, but you do not -- you do not want to know what kind of suit i have in mind. >> , was with a broadcaster the other day. it least he has flute -- if your tattoos. i asked him if he knew that for sure. how do you know that? >> that is all i have. >> what is your season ticket base? >> it is a number that we just have not publicized this year as all of our industry struggles. we understand the reasons. another reason is the second year in the ballpark. the biggest reason is a factor. all three of these things happened at the same time. it gave us quite a hit. i am pleased to say that we're far above what teams and our position and get. we need to get it back up and as we grow, i know we will. the one thing that i say for sure is how great it was and how much support there would be. as soon as we do our job, which we have not done well enough yet, as soon as we do that, we are going to be one of those teams. i feel firmly about that. >> the nats are losing and tickets are plentiful

i knowy holiday in for bob carpenter alongside rob dibble in national's park. will nieves tries to get a base hit. nice driving catch. willie tavares with a heck of a play in center field robbing nieves of a base hit. >> rob: the orioles won their game and the reds have taken a 3-1 lead over the nationals in the top half here, two in the top half, willie tavares always known for his speed, agility right here, a nice wet field so a soft l.a.p.d.ing, can layout. and you see his right hand come up. you don't want to jam your arms in your ribs. joint jam the glove hand. he also kept that hand up so he wouldn't injury himself. >> johnny: good defensive center fielder. >> rob: uh-huh. >> johnny: come-backer. >> andy: detwiler is retired. it's two outs. >> rob: you want to take hits and runs away from the other team. that's where you make up for a bad night at the plate when you're a goodie fender. . >> johnny: so two wic here in the bottom of the fifth inning. >> rob: plus i can always tell you as a former pitcher when i see my outfielders laying out for ba

debbi taylor, rob dibble, bob carpenter right here on masn 2. thousands of our best friends in the ballpark with us tonight and they're enjoying a good ballgame a-well-pitched game and a beautiful evening. here is a one pich out off of willie harris. -- one-pitch out off to willie harris. >> rob: you know what's great? not seeing black clouds over us. >> bob: sh., bite your tongue -- shhh, bite your tongue. >> rob: that was a great night. >> bob: i'm surprised somebody didn't ask what happened with a five-hour game delay. >> rob: somebody asked why didn't you do your radio show. we were busy eating cheese steaks. >> bob: i thought your answer to why didn't do you it because i could. >> rob: no, i would have gotten in trubl trouble if i said that. >> bob: i know. those bosses. >> rob: honestly d-they not keep updating the start time of the game. i mean, they had a new start time every 15 minutes. >> bob: yeah. >> bob: outside, 1-1. >> rob: reach deep right here, joshden. finish this inning. >> rob: there's the pitch tally. >> bob: one ball, one s

johnny holiday along with rob dibble. bob carpenter taking a couple days off and i'm glad to be working alongside the dib sister here in national's park in this 3-1 senate lead. and go to the bottom of the seventh. repair stop is retired in one pitch. >> rob: that good change-up you saw, down on the ground, a little 4 to 3. here is the pitch location the this 0-1 pitch right there, 1-0, excuse me. it's all about selling it with the arm speed. so, you know, very difficult. that might have even been a fastball because that was a change-up and the guy is heating it up. >> johnny: did you take long to learn one. >> rob: i never had one. i never learned one. >> johnny: you'd be pitching today yet if you had one. >> rob: maybe. ron ba loan, 16 strikeouts, in a nine-inning game with the reds. >> johnny: yeah, loose helping up. johnny cueto facing, now, anderson hernandez. >> rob: that curve paul in there for strike one. >> johnny: will nieves will be on deck. pitch just outside and it's one ball and one strike.  time

jim hunter with jim palmer, bob carpenter, rob dibble coming up. the orioles looking for a three game sweep. what's encourage inning the two wins, two different styles of games and still two victories. >> and two closely contested ballgames. the game on friday night, they get 16 hits, they win 11-2 but they get 8 runs in the sixth inning. last night they're down early, 3-1, they get the big home run, they get two more home runs. today i don't know how many home runs you can hit off john lannan because he's been very special for the nationals. >> nationals go back into n.l. east competition following the game. >> of course it's on to florida for the nationals, the orioles know all about playing down there. ryan zimmerman bats cleanup for the first time since october 1st of 2006. >> i think it's a nice switch. you've got willie harris and cristian guzman at the top, now you have nick johnson in the three hole, then adam dunn. but anything to get ryan zimmerman going. if you can get ryan zimmerman going, then maybe adam dunn gets going, that's, the mi

.   >> bob: bob carpenter back with rob dibble, jim palmer. now, when the nats were going well at new york and against toronto, these were the kind of games they were winning because their starters were able to get deep into the game. >> rob: this is where john lannan has been at his best. he can get the double play and he can pitch his way out. that's pitching to me. you're able to work it out and keep your team in a game. this is a tight ballgame. it's probably going to go over to the bullpen. that's where we've been having a little bit of a problem. >> jim p.: he got wieters to get the double play. i tell you, i've already learned, i've only seen adam dunn play on two sundays, he has 8 rbi's and two home runs. i'm not pitching to him the rest of the afternoon. he's been that good against the orioles. boim matt wieters, bottom of the fifth. john lannan, after a few struggles early has a very economical pitch count. he's right at about 14 pitches per inning threw his first four. and usually when john pitches like this, guys will start swingin

that ball was scorched  >> rob: three straight wi the nationals. >> bob: rob dibble, they found out the last two days you stick around as long as you haveto get a w. >> rob: absolutely. you stick around to get that curly w. >> bob: how do you win despite three errors? >> rob: very carefully. adam dunn, seat swing, head down, making contact. mashes it by overbay at first. >> bob: he think so far it did not have time to hook foul. adam dunn's 48th rbi of the year. nationals win it improving their interleague record to 4- 6. their third consecutive win as you said. those three wins against high quality american league east clubs. >> rob: what about that extra inning record that we had? see you. bye-bye! all right. debbi taylor and adam dunn. >> debbi: ok. we talked before the game about carrying the momentum from new york into this series and you get the win tonight and your patience at the plate and --  >> we had opportunities to  the game away. we just didn't get that big hit. so, it was a good game to win. it was a long game. it was hot out here. it was a good gait

bob carpenter coming up with rob dibble. we'll see you after the ballgame.

rob dibble, jim paneller here, amber theoharis. >> rob: i'm jealous of your black shirts. when jim changes later, i'm going to have to steal his shirt. >> jim: and one down. so the first batter retired in the third. let's get a look at the leader board presented by firestone, a tradition of innee vision and the national league batting leaders. some pretty hefty averages there, including christian guzman who just popped up. tied for third coming in. he is also tied for eighth in base hits and has 28 multihit game which is is one more than the orioles' leader adam jones. >> jim: he had seven in a row until last night against the red sox. >> jim: sharply hit to start and he'll get nick johnson and quickly two outs. >> jim: there is the brad bergesen who we know, which is get ahead. and, again, the big, big, play as the throw by reimold who -- to get dukes out at third base because it really takes them out of the possibility of a big inning. so when we saw ryan zimmerman back in, what, may, he was hitting about .330, maybe .335, somewhere in there. >> rob: he was on fire. he w

. >> any thoughts of sitting out rob dibble anytime soon? >> yes, you do not know what kind suit i have in mind. [laughter] i was with a broadcaster the other day to said, at least he has few words tattoos. i said, do you know that for sure? how'd you know that? >> what is your season-ticket -- above or below 12,000? >> all our industry struggles with the economic situation. we are down from last year. we understand all the reasons. second year in a new ballpark and there will be a drop off. the biggest reason is the fact of the economy. all these things are happening at the same time. it gave a quite a hit. i am pleased to say that we are still far above what teams in our position get. we need to get it back up. as they grow, i know we will. one thing i will say for sure, it was great. the fans are great. there was a lot of support. i've had a reinforced every day since i have been here. as soon as we do our job, which we have not done well enough yet, we are going to be one of those teams that can sell stadium's night in and night out. >>

i feel like father flanagan with these two up here, jim palmer there, rob dibble. despite a lot of glitches by both pitchers, both are still in the game. >> jim p.: the score is similar to what it was going in the middle innings last night, then that eight-run inning the orioles were able to come up with. >> rob: this kind of performance, just what the doctor ordered. shairon martis going out throwing 90-mile an hour fastballs. shairon martis has the change- up and the fastball, keeping the orioles off balance. >> jim p.: you know this is a game of adjustment. when martis pitched against the orioles, adam jones hit a home run in washington. he is better tonight than he was back then. i know he struggled, but that's what i think you want to see in a 22-year-old pitcher. are you better as the season progresses even though you're going to struggle. that's part of learning the game. that's what steve mccaddie who has come on as a pitching coach said. >> rob: you have to make mistakes on your own to learn at this level. we have so many guys, he's got less than 20 starts

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bob carpenter and rob dibble will join us at camden yards. two outs, nobody on. ramirez up. takes ball one. there's a strike. berken has allowed three runs, two earned, one unearned. marlins have four hits. orioles have four hits. berken has hurt himself. two walks, each have scored. hanley ramirez now has a six- game hitting streak. he has the best average in the national league with runners in scoring position. he came up in the first with two in scoring position and got them both in. berken faws falls behind him 3- 1 -- falls behind him 3-1. ramirez with his 10 home runs. that is more than any other shortstop in the minor leagues. -- major leagues. it's there's a strike on a breaking ball, 3-2. >> buck: backup breaking ball kind of confused hanley ramirez as it broke kind of in at him instead of breaking away. he got underneath the breaking ball and spun back towards the hitter. not exactly what you want to throw every time. those often end up in the seats. >> jim: here is the 3-2 swept foul. >> buck: that's a better breaking ball. he mid a quick adjustment. threw one dow

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