coming up on espnews. the old saying is let nature take its course. but no one said anything about nature taking over the course. if getting shut out by the worst team in baseball wasn t bad enough, the yankees add injury to insult. north carolina has already won the national title in basketball. the tar heels trying to keep the dream alive in baseball. and, why team u.s.a. has its work cut out in the confed cup and the world cup. this is espnews. hi, and welcome to espnews. along with will selva, i m j.w. stewart. normally, bethpage black only has one hole with a water hazard. thursday, the whole course was a water hazard. they re not wearing life vests, but scott van pelt and andy north are anchoring our coverage from a very soggy bethpage black. they told us it was coming, but i m not sure anyone was prepared for what fell from the skies here thursday on long island bethpage black absolutely inundated. it s difficult to describe how miserable conditions w
upset. 100% chance of rain basically from :30 on. i don t know. seemsúúxx the following is a masn presentation. interleague play has come back to nationals park as at group of birds from the great, white north have flocked to the nation s capital. it s another a. l. east opponents for the nats as the toronto blue jays are in town without their cy-young award winner roy halladay. his absence means an opportunity for the nats who are looking to get on a roll as the summer starts to heat up. tonight, it s jordan zimmermann s turn to take the mound as he searches for his third win of the season on masn 2. it s a beautiful night for the beginning of a series against the toronto blue jays at nationals park. get your red on and come on down. fans are nielg. tonight against the jays. welcome, everybody. interleague play continues between washington. they got wane in new york take 2-3. now they have to see if they can do damage against the jays here
good pitch count for one out in the 8th inning. rob: that home run in the first inning, the first one in june for ryan zimmerman. bob: we re almost halfway through the month. tried to pull that breaking ball away. and evan longoria never could get the handle on it. i don t know why he would peak at nick johnson, now they ve given the nats a chance to get back in this game with adam dunn coming up. but he won t be facing the right-hander. rob: well, you can t take your eye off the ball. you saw him there. he peaked at nick. trying to sneak a peak at nick and it cost him and error. bob: i think that s a classic example of making a play more complicated than it was because the nats are down by five and nick johnson is not going anywhere. so the nats get a break. how far can you see? at pnc, taking the long view is how we help you take the right path. even to change it when conditions demand. keeping you on the road to achieving your goals. it s something we ve been doing
nationals baseball on m brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip al www.southwest.com. palm trees in st. pete, outside tropicana field west of downtown st. peters berg. we go to the bottom of the 8th 8th. do we have a defining moment in this game? rob: the defining moment was the walk here. kapler gets an inside curveball, hits his bat, you know the rest. bob: he hit that ball maybe 330 possibly less. rob: the dimension would have been less. they cut it in to make a smaller field. remember jack measurety stadium in san diego? they put a fence inside the brick fence. you had to hit a ton to get it out of the field. they moved it in, cut off the an the end to have corner action. bob: this ball is drilled to left center by pena. elijah dukes will pick it up. that s the lead run here in the 8th inning. [cheering and applause] in this series, the nationals have not scored an earned run after the 4 4th inning. bob: fastball up in the zone. second ba
down, which did keep michel hernandez from possibly going to third. that will be a base hit all the way for b.j. upton. ryan with a great head-long dive to get his glove on that bouncer. rob: ryan zimmerman here is going to try to keep this ball on the infield. really has no chance. at the feet of b.j. upton. that s taking one for the team right there. bob said, you don t want hernandez going over to third. fastball scores another, fly ball scores another. bob: hope you re having a good saturday night. ours was just fine until about 20 minutes ago. the nats had led all the way in this one, then 2-1 and the roof of tropicana field has fallen on the bullpen. that will be the second out of the inning. the men who the man who led off the inning with a base hit evan longoria will bat again. bob: longoria singled to lead off this inning, his only hit of this series. in the last three innings, the rays have outhit the nationals 8-0. the last nats hit, a single by guzm