it looks like the weats going to help us out today as the nationals get ready for the cincinnati reds. byron kerr and ray knight with you, welcome to nats xtra. last night, we could use a couple of adam dunn long balls as we saw in the preview, ray, because 12 innings, two-hour rain delay, offense in the 9th inning, they lose 4-2. that was a tough one to swallow yesterday. ray: we have had a lot of tough sexualing. my esophagus i think has tightened up for trying to swallow so much. we are doing a lot of things better. our pitching has been so much better, bullpen and starting pitching. and i m excited to come to the park every day to watch these young pitchers work. offensively that is the part of the game. you will have streaks scoring. when you get into that feeling if our pitching can just come around we are going to do something because our offense is pretty stable. that was the case for the better 2/3 of the season we have gone through so far. we have all been
he ll with u friday. the reds coasting along after bruce s two-run homer in the 2 2nd. that s thonly runs in this % shairon has shut them down other than the home run. johnny: a quick one, two, three 6th inning for shairon martis, the third time he s had them three and three up and three down. 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 june 28th. grab your bag. it s on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com. back at nationals park, bruce two-run homer in the 2nd inning. when you talk about legendary players and broadcasters, there s a picture of ronny. his son a terrific guy. tom does a lot around the country. rob: he was the youngest player ever in the major league, world war ii, he was 15. he came up. they didn t know he was from ohio. they said hey we need a bo
saint. but i mean it s tough. johnny: sure it s tough. rob: we have beaten ourselves so many times on the errors and the pitching. you can t blame the coaches for that stuff. that s stuff that s happening out between the lines. johnny johnny got it going. called third strike. willingham strikes out looking. we go to the top of the eighth. plapap and it s a 3-1 ball game, cincinnati up by two. who s watching? tell me who s watching. (muffled music) who s watching. (announcer) it s right here. it s easy. i always feel like somebody s watching me. it s the money you could be saving with geico. . deb: we re back at national s park, manny acta s nats trailing the reds by a score of 3-1. just about five hours ago the nationals drafted highly touted pitcher stephen strasburg out of san diego state and the question is can he live up to all the hype. and manny acta thinks he has the right make up to deal with it. the main thing is what he s going to do after
troy percival and then used the rest of their talent that they had mostly from trades and from within their own organization to win 97 games after winning 66 the year before. so it can be done. and it can happen that quickly. johnny: two balls and a strike to to ryan hanigan. just going over dusty baker s numbers as a manager. rob: amazing aren t they. johnny: the flip ball to second, gets him at second. a great play by the shortstop and the reds are out of the inning. so we go to the bottom of the sixth and the nats are trying to tie this up, they are down by two. pounds and a smidge. a smidge? y know, there s really no need to weigh packages under 70 pounds. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. cool. you know this scale is off by a good 7, 8 pounds. maybe five. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. . deb: nats looking for runs
the stars of tomorrow with prospects like marcus jones and dean brown launched their careers. see all the stuff on masn hd. come out for the home run derby at 9:30. your donation will be greatly appreciated. going to www.ripkencollegebaseball doarg or call 9900 and you ll get more information. tavares on at first. and we have got two down, that will bring up jerry hairston much he flew out to ce out looking in the third, got a free pass in the fifth and singled to left center his last time up. mike mcdougall works for the nats here in the ninth inning, a 3-2 game. the nats have one shot coming up in the bottom of the ninth. rob: i ve told you before and bob this, i m not a big fan of throwing the ball around the infield with two outs. it goes way back to high school even before. got two outs, get the hitter, out of the inning. that ball keeps going to third. rather have him on first than third. past ball. anything can happen. d