ron villone is ready for carl crawford. so this becomes a vitally important hitter for joel hanrahan. here is b. j. upton bunting -- is b. j. upton bunting as early as the 7th inning, knowing it will be lefty-lefty after this? >> i don't think so. 8th inning maybe. 9th inning maybe. >> rob: you already have the tie at home. you go for the jugular right here if you are the rays. they just beat the yankees 11- 1. >> bob: they lead baseball with 353 runs scored. >> rob: i think they go to ped and they score run. oops, they just scored another. they have a very good offense. >> bob: third in homers behind the yankees and rangers. they hit 80. >> rob: they don't have a 200 million dollar payroll either. >> bob: big lead by the runner. upton takes one that misses low and inside, 2-1. >> rob: the yankees' third baseman has a 280 million- dollar extension, the first baseman gets 180 million-dollar to come there and play. that would be pretty satisfying to see what the rays did last year, 66 million and won 97. >> bob: i think every

ron villone, one intentional walk. if you take that away, he has had a few walks, 8 of them in 24 innings but he has been pretty unhittable. that ball goes straight up does not hit any girders or rings and josh bard is there to grab it. we are with you tomorrow night at 7:05 even though the game starts at 6:08. jordan zimmerman will again try to win his third. his he will bow is fine. he will take on andy son nanstine with a 6.70 e.r.a. we will have our usual even r menu of post--game programming on nats xtra. pat burrell 0-for-2 with a walk. now, some of you may know who stay up in the wee hours -- and there is gabe cab kapler to hit for gabe gross. now, you know that we replay the game. so rob and i will be doing the play i'm i remember the big satellite dishes? >> bob: yes. >> rob: you used to be able to get the live feed, no sound but the live feed of ball games. >> bob: we used to call that the back hall, right out of the ballpark. >> rob: but occasionally, you know, when you did get the feet and the sound, you co

ron villone still sporting a nice e.r.a., it's his 29th appearance. not good control numbers. 12 strikeouts, but 14 walks. unusual for him.   >> bob: wes helms, as a pinch- hitter this year, 7 for 21 with five rbi's. he's at .33, ron villone nowhere near the plate here. >> rob: ronny's more at the stage of his career where he will pitch around danger more so than challenge it. >> bob: maybe that's why the walk total is up? >> rob: absolutely. the rookie lead-off man chris coghlan next, then emilio bonifacio and hanley ramirez. their top three hitters are 4 for 9 tonight. the nats are 0 for 10. scott olsen finishes with 94 pitches, 66 strikes. oh, what a night. nats couldn't get him a run in the 8th to make him a rainer. ron villone has to hold the marlins. he's battled back now to make the count 3-2 on wes helms. that's a base hit. inside the bag, willingham has a long way to go. if helms was a fast runner, he'd have a triple. there's another runner going to second base looking back over his shoulder to see where the ball is

. >> rob: i talked to ron villone a lot about this. he likes to slow the tempo down f it's a very slow game, he will speed it up. he likes to control the tempo. make it his own. >> bob: 2-2. that's a fastball up and in. if you can get this out, you have the number eight spot and then, of course, cito gaston's hand in the number nine hole. he only has right-handed batters left. the way shawn camp was throwing the ball, wouldn't mind seeing him later this weekend and no more tonight. he struck out dukes and bard. here is a 3-2 to villone to overbay. ball four, bases loaded. now you've got to bring in the right-hander and quite frankly a right-hander who has struggled mightily lately in pressure situations, joel hanrahan. so, only one out registered by villone. double switch coming.  >> bob: how you guys doin tonight? it's a nice night. it was moving along. bases load, one out. patterson will come in on the double switch and play right field. the pitcher is batting fifth and poorlts ninth. the pitcher is -- patterson ninth.

ron villone gets another shot at this guy. kapler take this is 83 miles per hour curveball for strike 3. [cheering and applause] the interesting thing about the bullpen t, the person guarding our bullpen is a kid wearing a tampa bay uniform wearing a glove. >> rob: if it was one of our guys, they would be able to tell our guys to get out of the way. >> bob: it's a lot of responsibility put on the kid. breaking ball by villone to gabe gross who's 0-2 with awalk k. >> rob: we may see something different at that time ballgame. never saw that before. >> bob: that's a good fastball. villone goes soft for the strike out. soft for strike one and over overmatches gabe gross. it's willy aybar hitting for gross, former atlanta brave. villone will throw him a breaking ball hit to the right side. willy aybar originally signed by the dodgers. a couple of years there. atlanta 06 and 07. didn't play in 07 because of a wrist injury and substance abuse problem. he hit .253 for the rays in 95 last year. 0-2. >> bob: still at 2nd, carlos pena. 1

one of those relievers ron villone telling debbi taylor back in the clubhouse this was a big win for the ball club. >> to have a win after we played the last couple of nights. young starters are doing great keeping us in the game and pitching their butts off. >> what did you think of jordan zimmermann today? >> he looked pretty nasty. looked like he had command of everything and the guys pulled it out at the end. >> do you feel too the bullpen is starting to get into a good groove? >> i don't think fwheer a good groove. i think we're getting a chance to go out and have an opportunity to do the right thing -- things and make pitches and execute. it's just everybody is playing. >> does it help that you pretty much know when you're going to come in? >> it doesn't matter to me really. i hope i don't ever have to be told i'll have a role. i don't care for it. some guys they like it. they enjoy it. doesn't matter as long as we have a win. roles are secondary. >> what was going through your mind when adam was down 0-2 in the 11? >> i don't know if you're aware of this, but you were 0-8 in e

. >> bob: evidently it doesn't have to be ron villone. any nationals left-hander to the liking of aubrey huff. >> jim p.: i asked him today, i said, are you aware of your numbers against ron villone. i said, no, do i hit him well? he said, well, i think you're 6 for 11. i had guys that wore me out. i knew it. the one thing about aubrey, he's pretty relaxed. >> rob: yes, he looks very relaxed. >> jim p.: he's not an albert e. newman, what, me worry, or one of those guys, but he's close to it. he's one of those guys where if you ask him what's going well or why you're hitting, he goes, i don't want to talk about that. >> rob: it's the same with pitchers. you don't want to know because you don't want to jinx it, bring yourself bad luck. >> bob: a three run homer that turned a 3-1 washington lead into a 4-3 baltimore advantage. >> rob: didn't they have the lead when you came on? >> bob: i'm going to be leaving in a moment, jim. you can talk about me after i'm gone. >> rob: when jim hunter was here we were able to score runs. >> bob: this has

ron villone comes on. he has tossed 17 scoreless innings. to start off the 12th inning with jay bruce. he drew in the only cincinnati runs way back. five hours 4 minutes ago. >> rob: 9 scoreless innings by martis at that time. >> johnny: bruce with a two run shot. seemed like only moments ago. >> rob: that's a good spot for most lefties. bruce lights it in. that was his 14th home run after last season. >> johnny: one of the interesting things about this guy from new jersey, he's an all conference tight end. >> rob: built like a brick house. he's looked like that since i met him down in 94 in puerto rico. we worked out together. 1994. >> rob: i was looking for a job. we were on strike. i was a free agent. i used to run the beach every morning. >> johnny: staying in shape just in case. >> rob: i had to prove i was healthy. the white sox gave me a contct it was worth while. i made great friends down ere. johnnyalex gonzalez now 1 hive 1 -- 1-4 double in the 2nd. nobody out. bruce at 1st. the runner is safe. slipped on the t right in front of th

ron villone comes in after that. he nails down the 8th. huge strike out there. then mike macdougal goes out there keeps it a one rung ballgame. as far as the reliever, did a great job. wil nieves did a great job catching the out at. we want to give them credit even though we got the loss last night. they're being well pitched. that's a lot of it, has to do with the bullpen. >> kind of quiet last night. guzman late in the ballgame last night. first pitch on the way. we'll see the nationals can get the second game to go their way tonight againsts cincinnati. like to have verizon fios. these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out 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 the coolest things you can do with fios... ...is str

. >> bob: and ron villone, that's a pretty good baseball name too. ron told me he really enjoyed going to yankee stadium this past series. grew up a yankee fan. his family actually from thebronx been they went to jersey. tap swing and a foul. aaron hill 1-3 with an infield hit off the glove of jordan zimmermann. one of the best hitters in the american league this year. 91 hits. if he gets another hit tonight, he'll have his 29th multihit game and nobody in baseball has had more. that's well hit, left center. dunn playing way off the line and that's great advance scouting by the nats. adam dunn was playing 100 feet off the line. he's not. that's -- if he's not, that's a double. >> rob: as bob said, defense was setup perfectly by the advance scouting or whoever was checking out blue jays. adam dunn only had to run a few steps to pickoff that line drive. >> bob: we understand that was wade taylor for the series. >> rob: very cool. >> bob: a birdie told us. >> rob: nice job. >> bob: yeah, he's pretty good white did he say about the pitching? how are we s

. >> bob: ron villone has been ready for quite a while. that will be strike 2. >> rob: two strikes on a hitter. >> bob: rays have gotten matt garza off the hook here. hanrahan unleashes a fastball way upstairs. one of the problems that joel has had is, when he has missed, he has missed by such a wide margin at times that his fastball does not even challenge the strike zone or even make the hitter think about swinging. that ball served into left. josh willingham right there. so the d rays -- well, now they are just the rays -- tied the game. guzman will lead it off followed by nick johnson and then ryan zimmerman. ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. buy the lg xenon messaging phone for 99.99 after mail-in rebate and get one free after mail-in-rebate. now that college is 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, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no pr

wes helms facing ron villone. >> nolasco gets a 3-0 count, he works himself back to get the 3- 2 pitch. right down the first-base line. ends up going to second base. they pinch-hit de aza, coghlan sacrificed perfectly to first. get the runner over, get him in. sacrifice fly deep enough to be able to put that runner on the board. tavarez walks cantu, he walks uggla, then he walks cody ross, as you're going to see right here, three walks. hanley ramirez ends up scoring, that was all she wrote. the two runs makes it 4-2, they get eight hits, we get six hits. we scored early, set the two spot in the second inning. looks good at scott olsen pitched very well. >> nolasco had beaten the nationals the opening game of the season. scott olsen had lost to florida in the second game of the season. nolasco continues his mastery. he gets his fifth win. nunez gets the save. villone 3-5 now, tagged with the loss for washington. ramirez and bonifacio had good nights for the florida marlins, they win by a score of 4-2. so close and yet so far. >> all 'boils down to hitting. we just hadn't sustained an o

and mike mink doing al becomes the nationals fourth pitcher following jason bergmann, ron villone and the starter ross detwiler. for  . >> rob: can't allow a r got to tell you're a one-run up. >> johnny: the sixth game with washington, only one unearned run and stranded all three inherited runners when he has come in ball games. came back from syracuse may 29th, a couple of saves and a 3.24 e.r.a. in eight appearances a. >> rob: from the d.c. area, born right here. >> johnny: likes to pitch inside and francisco cordero goes to work on the cincinnati pen. >> rob: he was given a contract nearly $50 million to bring him over here. he has done a great job for the nconati reds closing out ball games. >> johnny: ground it down to hernandez on first and it is one down. in the top of the ninth.  hernandez on  nick jo. and with one away mike mcdougall retires the first batter he faces a shot up the middle, a base hit. chris dickerson on with one out here in the ninth. for robob running >> rob: the redsare going

ron villone, on the mound for 7 1/3 innings, his e.r.a. is the highest, one hold. and just as these relievers come out of the nationals bullpen to keep washington in the game, you, too, can stay in the game with just for men hair color. the pitching staff is getting it done, starters and relievers. we'll take you to look at matt chico on the mound. @@pp÷÷ . >> johnny: we are back on a beautiful night for baseball here in the nation's capital. joby holiday along with phil wood. this is just the middle game of the three-game set against the jays. right back at you tomorrow night at 2 0-0. and then the red sox come into town and then next weekend against the orioles in baltimore. we'll be on masn 2 for that series against baltimore. tonight, the fashion us that try to make it 4 in a row. let's bring the folks kinds of up in date of what's happening notice minor league with matt chico. then we'll talk about another young man that i'm sure the young fans will be familiar with quickly and that's drew storen. >> phil: matt chick yo is on assignment in the minor

ron villone who pitched so well in relief gets tagged with the loss. he is now 3-2. kapler, a pinch hit homerun, his second. he had his first on monday again the yankees. he had his best year as a homerun hitter when he came up with texas when he hit 17. very opportunistic minute for him to connect i i when you hit a pop-up between first base and the stands, you are pretty much dragging your bat back to the rack and all of a sudden, they drop it and that's jaws new life. it's like getting oxygen pumped into you when you already have been drowned. >> bob: tonight, craig stammen looking for his first career win. 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

ron villone has been unstoppable. one run allowed in 15 appearances since coming on to this ball club. mike mcdougal, he gets released and finds another ball club. and joe beimel, he looks like a reliever. all the chicks dig him. chicks like it when you get your job done. >> bob: debbi taylor has the night off so byron kerr is with us. you have more on this bullpen. >> byron: we talked about that bullpen and it's been a couple of weeks for them as the pitching coach is kind of settling in. so much is made in baseball about who is the middle reliever, who is the guy in the 7th inning. >> i know some guys like to know who is the closer, who is the relief guy. i think guys need to be prepared to pitch. i'm not saying that might not come about or manny and i have not talked about but i like to have guys ready to pitch. >> byron: mcdougal is getting close with that nice action that he had with the royals. >> bob: it doesn't hurt when mcdougal with throw mid-90s with all that sink. two years ago, the tampa bay rays won 66 g

he is hitting about .600 now off of ron villone. >> jim: he came in oh-fer his last 10 and he has a couple of hits. >> jim: a good night to get healthy. aubrey with the baltimore chop with that high hopper. >> rob: you can thank the groundskeeper for the rock hard dirt in important of home plate. >> jim: and you can thank the hitting instructor. >> jim: it is summertime. it bake as little bit. >> rob: i'll give you that. it was 95 all day. >> jim: aubrey huff. deep right. that ball is hooking back and is fouled. time now for you to text in your vote. it is the at&t player of the game. brad bergesen, six strong innings, melvin mora abig night at the plate with four rbi's, and aubrey huff has had a big night at the plate. a couple of ribbies, text to have your voice heard, 51862. >> rob: your lefties are a little better than most. >> jim: that is a really good point. huff is is a .278 lifetime batting average against left- handers. a lot of people don't -- obviously you know this as well as i from pitching and doing the numbers as a broadcaster, what usually happens is the slugging average g