almost midnight here. tyler clippard has established a new nats record, seven strikeouts by a reliever. rob: when you get ahead of people, you throw strikes, you throw hard, he s got a great change-up, a great curveball. like i said before, i think that he could go through the order two, three times with that stuff. he s got three pitches he throws for strikes at will when he s behind in the count and i think that s some excellent stuff, after a long rain delay by tyler clippard. bob: nyjer morgan 3 for 3 tonight. there s his box score. cristian guzman, zimmerman, the dunn, the top of the order has done a really nice job tonight. the previous nats record for strikeouts by a reliever chris schroeder three years ago september of 06. chris is now in the oakland organization. chris and cristian guzman is next. rob: i really liked him in the champ, by the way. oh, that was rickey schroeder. i m sorry. bob: look at guzman pardon me, morgan flip one to left field. that l
the one ya really need to have if you don t have it. that s why you need it. need what? aflac. well, if you get hurt and miss work it won t hurt to miss work. aflac? and they give ya cash which is as good as money. aflac. we ve got you under our wing. . bob: hi there little lady. going to the fourth inning, the padres lead the nationals 4-1. she says i don t have to smile dad if i don t want to. let s talk about cristian guzman, not that many home runs, 58 in his major league career including the one he hit earlier tonight. but he is a line drive hitter who owecationnally gets all of one. rob: when you get good contact on a guy throwing 95 miles per hour grin good things happen, cristian guzman will swing, he is a great contact hitter and even their guy, gonzalez, when he got ahold of one, you know, , these guys are major league hitters, they didn t get here by chance, they got here by being very good hitters at every level they played at so you can t take even the 8-
politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. hosted the event. for more information visit politician-prose.com.ñ4yw69f> next time booktv, encore booknotes from 1997. frank mccourt s memoir, angela s ashes. born to irish immigrants coming describes growing up in brooklyn with an alcoholic father and the loss of three siblings. frank mccourt died july 19th of this year. this is an hour. c-span: frank mccourt, author of angela s ashes, right before the show started, somebody said to me if i ask you where this cover came from, that it would tick you off. guest: that would, yeah. c-span: why? guest: well, i ve been asked a million times. it s well, it doesn t look like me anyway. that kid looks too well fed. c-span: who is the kid? guest: i don t know. somebody something scribners came up with. some urchin from some strange place. it does look like a little it could be me. it looks like some lane in limerick but he looks too even but i never had bare feet. my mother
he played here. the ballgame got underway at 12:11. we are at 3 0-0 hour now with a 19-minute rain delay. so it s been a slow-moving ballgame, even without the delay. here we are in the bottom of the 7th tied at 3. cody ross the latest florida villain. mets are flying home tonight, day off tomorrow. braves in for 3. well hit. belliard cradlesles it against his body and ronnie will lead off in the top of the 8th inning. 9, 1, 2. harris and guzman to follow. . bob: well, they got soak add little bit there, no worst for wear as we go to the 8th inning here in florida. now coming up at home on friday night. ross detwiler, 0-4, still looking for that first big league win. he will take on kenshi quack mi of the braves. a note of it. first pitch is 6:35 on friday night. here is ronnie belliard already in the game as a second baseman replacement. he takes a fastball right down the middle. belliard, 18 for 37 with a 137 with a .12
. bob: welcome back to land shark stadium in south florida. can you see the good news. the tarp is coming off the field. the guys are rolling it up. they have done a fine job. that was some storm that blew through here but like south florida goes, that s how the storms are. sometimes very brief. we think this game will be ready to be played some time in the next 10 or 15 minutes. we ll get it back before first pitch. for now, espn news will get you back in time for baseball. appears. he did it to randy johnson. what s he going to do to matt cain, off to a career year 9-2 this year. giants and cardinals, wednesday night baseball on the big network, 8:00 p.m. then sunday night, couple of hot ones, rays and rangers. check it out on espn. coming up on espnews, a dream semis at wimbledon with the andys lining up for their shot at king roger. they have only had a few hours to cope with an historic meltdown, but boston sends it stopper to the mound. here com