week, do you have to find a way for him right now. well, willie, we have always given handle at-bats. even if he does not start, it s tough not to give him a place out there if he is the guy, we re going to do it. he is a luxury. johnny: and he was the guy tonight there is willie harris being led across home played in the bottom of the 12th moments ago as the nationals win it 5-3 in 12 here at nationals park. phil: well, again, you have a couple of things at work here. you have a bullpen that seems to have found itself and a young starting rotation that has been remarkably good, defying logic good. obviously, you would have loved to have won this game 3-1 for ross detwiler s first major league victory. that didn t happen. he pitched well enough to win. he had a situation tonight where kip wells came into the ballgame and he had not yet allowed an inherited runner to score and sooner or later it was going to happen. it happened tonight. bottom line, they won and willie h
. bob: 22142 at the ballp tonight and we have some interesting game notes revolving around canadian players. larry walker brought to the big leagues by the expos and inducted into their hall of fame. and erik bedard from seattle. rob: he is on the d l again? bob: yes. and present red sox, jason bay leads the a.l. rob: manny who? they love bay in boston. bob: well, he is at times more lovable. kemp against camp against zimmerman. ryan hits the ball hard but right at the centerfielder, vernon wells. we go to the top of the 9th inning. it s going to be another one of those kinds of games. 3-3. we build fish finders. we build battery chargers. we build base camps. we build transporters. we build sanctuaries. we build the technologically advanced jeep grand cherokee. come see what we ve built for you. . bob: bottom of the order for the blue jays, top of the 9th in a 3-3 game. they have outhit the nats 9-8. it s always nice to know that our fans are paying at
bob: kind of interesti when you go to toronto fo games up there. the fans aren t real raucous. they sit down and lot and applaud more than they scream. it s a different kind of atmosphere up there too. a breaking ball fouled away. we ve reached 10:30. ballgame started three hours and 25 minutes ago. it s moving very slowly for a 1- 1 game even in extra innings. once the starters were out of this one, the nats now have used five relievers. the blue jays, four. no one able to breakthrough. that ball pretty well hit to left, but adam dunn is right there and we re going to the bottom of the 10th inning. good pitching continues. now the nats need some hit to go put an end to this thing. we build motion detectors. we build troop transports. we build moving vans. we build tv stations. we build the 25 mile per gallon chrysler town & country. come see what we ve built for you. bob: bottom of the 10t josh bard, willie harris, hanley ramirez. nats were swept three
8:00 eastern time the nationals get the victory over the reds and a nice way to head into the evening. have a nice dinner and get pumped up about the tampa bay rays. byron kerr, ray knight with you on nats xtra. missed opportunities. getting the 1st inning going early on. they had chances certainly but left guys on base. ray: the last 10 days we have had chances but haven t been able to deliver. ground ball shortstop. fielder s choice there. first, third, single. hit-and-run to advance guzman and he strikes out, durn strike snn strike. not able to dunn strikes out. and there s the base hit to right. and then flying out to right field to end that inning. 7th inning, zimmerman walks. willingham walks. still have runners on first and second. there s the walk to willingham and kearns chases. as we talked about earlier, 12 runners left on base. the only real big inning there i thought was when dunn and dukes struck out with runners on second and third after they advanced on a
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