bob: we ve endured delay of 47 minutes here at land shark stadium in south florida. no sign of the rain letting up. not coming down as hard as it was a half hour ago, but still very steady and it s supposed to be forecast to be raining for quite a while. again, at the top of the hour, we ll keep you posted. for now, back to espn news. if something happens between now and 11:00, we will let you know immediately. who looked the part of a former winner? espnews starts now. hello, welcome to espnews, where we always help you stay current with the latest news, scores and highlights. will sell virginia is here, i m mark morgan. busy 30 minutes ahead 126789:01 eastern time, the nba free agency period begins. espn the magazine writer rick ueker to taushg about it in a few minutes. first, the phils and the bravos. some drama in this one. bottom eight, marquis prado, well that one is a base hit, that goes in. ties it up 4-4. prado s night would continue. bottom ten,
the only difference in the ballgame is the bruce two-run homer. let s continue the conversation about where strasburg s mind might be about money and playing baseball quickly. rob: i think a lot of times these players start believing everything they hear. i heard over 1500 stories were written about strasburg. it s going to be hard for yo to get your work in and get yours to the major league. aspitched innings in the major league last year. he spent the entire season getting ready. it s a ocesalways involving and always changing. you saw storen trying to get out there. that s his like this kid. they like what he s done at stanford, his makeup, his approach to the ballgame, it will fact he s all american the last two years. he s got the whole package. guzman retiring hernandez. great prep career out at stanford. dominating performance. nice play by guzman and a play spinning his way. you can see the way he reacted. rob: win field, hallof famer said a 240 major league hitt
was doing. baseball, basketball, track, every sport you have. but i coached all three of mine. so it was a lot of fun. adam said his dad has given him a lot of good advice. take the walk and if you get on base you can score. he also said that he appreciates the time that he spent with his dad, having coached him so often and especially now he himself is a dad and expecting a second child. johnny. johnny: thank you debbi, very much. we will be talking about adam dunn all throughout the ballgame and give you some information and insights you are not aware of. he would have played for mack brown in texas. rob: yes, he would have. johnny: i think he threw something like 44 touchdown passes. one of the top quarterbacks coming out of high school. rob: my good friend and my accountant out in los angeles is a texas alum and another one of my accountants was a lineman on texas that would have played with adam and they are still upset that he didn t play there. they wanted hi
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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