2-1. what's byron doing in there, writing in his mem wars? >> bob: working hard in there. >> rob: 2-1 take right here is low and outside. that one looked like it came back out across the plate. . >> bob: rob has problems wi that pitch and he did a great job of laying off to fill the count. thanks for staying up late with us on masn2 tonight. we have had the baltimore yankee audience join us. thanks for being with us. it's a 2-1 game. >> rob: put another pot of coffee on and join us until the wee hours of the morning. >> bob: 3-2 and he walked h will nieves just conld a bullet going through the zone. >> rob: i think he stole one right here. there is the plate. no, no, he -- >> bob: kept the hands out in front of the bat. . >> rob: notice my drawing hasn't improved with three days off. >> bob: good pitcher in his own right. buddy black, dar recollection balancesly. livan hernandez, along with elijah dukes hitting the hardest balls tonight. . >> rob: pat and live an just had a meeting while they were meeting on the mound. when you least expect it watch out for the suicide squeeze. >> bob: well there is a fast runner at third. >> rob: and you know there is a man up there that can handle the bat. >> bob: jim riggleman has called the suicide squeeze three times. only once successful. that was with nyjer morgan. >> rob: one bunted, one went after the ball. >> bob: yeah he went after it, just missed it. runner not coming. it's a safety squeeze. and they get the man home and they get the double play. if they would have called t suicide a run would have scored. but it turns into a 1-2-3 double play. well on the by the catcher hundley. he company... it was a perfect fit. find out more at aflac!... ...forbusiness.com what is it to lead? at pnc, it's doing what most benefits our customers. whether that's building more certified green buildings than anyone on earth. creating online banking tools for the next generation. or making a 10 year, $100 million investment in kids. it's how we've always done business. and will for a very long time to come. pnc. leading the way. . >> bob: well the nationals tried what we call a safety squeeze. normally that would be a ball down either line, but they bunted the ball right at the pitcher and they turned it into a one-two-three killing there. >> rob: the only problem is you don't have a very good elijah dukes. hundley jumps out and throws him out. very alert play throwing out livan hernandez, livan hernandez is going to try to make contact and try to put the ball in play. so right there great play by stover 6 stauffer by the way. comes in, bear-hands it, they practice that a lot. called pitcher's fielding practice, worked beautifully for stauffer. >> bob: will venable leads off, bottom of four for the padres who lead 4-1. livan hernandez averaging right around 13 pitches per inning. he had a long first frame, pretty economical since, and venable drew a walk when he pitched around him a double play that salazar hit into. fastball just misses. livan career, 154 wins, 147 losses. got a no decision in that game in chicago. that's a great pitch at the knees and with mike winters behind the plate tonight, boys, if it's close you better be hacking. >> rob: you better be swinging. well that's all we ask for is be consistent, mike, and mike winters is consistent. just off the plate, a hair, but that's a strike. you better be swinging boys. . >> bob: salazar hit sharply into a 67-4-3 last time. in case you missed it one game of importance earlier this evening at florida the braves got a good performance from ken she cam i kawasaki with a, the marlins are back and the marlins go to 8 1/2. that's a swing-back fastball for a strike. >> rob: he set that pitch up, that unbelievable 69 miles per hour breaking ball that he threw in there for the first strike. . >> bob: there was another one had him reaching. alberto gonzalez throws high and adam dunn pulls it in. we have aflac trivia. mr. trivia himself, rob dibble, is back with us. sometime tonight. first padre to win a gold glo award. was it ozzie smith, nate coburn, a big first baseman, dave winfield. >> rob: rupert jones. >> bob: or randy jones, the reliever. >> rob: it is randy. >> bob: i'm not sure ozzie, i'm not sure if he won one before he left here for st. louis or not. >> rob: didn't ozzie win a gold glove too? >> bob: to me the least obvious of the four would be nate colbert. he once hit 5 home runs in a doubleheader for the padres. >> rob: okay. number 35 was? >> bob: jones, right. >> rob: i have no idea. >> bob: livan hernandez has retired nine in a row, top of the order, willie harris, in the middle innings. @x@0@p@0@6p)@)@)p, . >> bob: petco park in san diego, 2-run ball game, harris, orr and zimmerman for the nationals. we want to pay it off quickly. we don't want you to have to wait too long. who got that first gold glove as a padre. it was dave winfield. oh, man. jerry coleman, the hall of fame announcer for the padres, said one of the greatest calms i've ever heard on a ball hit to dave winfield. he says there is a drive to left field, winfield goes back back back, he hits his head against the wall, it's rolling back toward the infield. dave winfield was not decapitated, he was talking about the baseball. you could hang a star on that year when dave winfield, as jerry would say, won a gold glove, the first padre. that's a great question. they fooled us. >> rob: by the way, jerry coleman an amazing american, fought in two different wars, as did ted williams. >> bob: player, manager, broadcaster. willieie harris, david eckstein grabs it out of the air. >> rob: they have got ann eckstein there. the first of 2, 4, 6, 7 gold gloves for hall of famer dave winfield. there you see eckstein getting up. robbing harris of a base hit. . >> bob: theodore for a 1-2 hi over his head last time. that little guy who stands about 5'9", plays very tall. . >> rob: over 21 seasons in th major leagues, dave winfield made 95 errors. in 5236 chances. .982 fielding percentage. >> bob: and i remember when whitey her swrog traded gary stem templeton for the shortstop named smith. he was an all-star who had came up through the st. louis organization, then ozzie schmidt went over there from here, and anchored three world series teams. and is in the hall of fame. he jacks one way upstairs, way foul. >> rob: first big league hit i gave up was to, he was a padre. >> bob: curt ba vac wah. who were we just talking about. ozzie? >> rob: gary templeton. >> rob: big switch hitting shortstop. ryan zimmerman has taken this pitcher deep this year. >> bob: and then he brought the rain. . >> bob: that was the saturd night game, a two-run shot by zimmerman after a nyjer morgan triple in the bottom of the first. adam dunn hit a grand slam in the second, the runs kept coming, three in the sixth, three in the eighth, the nats hammered the pads 13-1. that was a three-hour and 10 mint rain delay. . >> rob: we waited them out. >> bob: waded. >> rob: waited. wish we could do that to every team. upon bob ryan zimmerman a strike out and pop up to second tonight. the former richmond spider doing well so far. stauffer 27 years of age, born in portland, maine, went to skew school in new york at saratoga central catholic upstate. onto the university of richmond and last year he missed the entire season after surgery for a torn labrum. >> rob: i love maine in the winter. 3-1. you haven't seen scenery until you've taken a fall foliage tour through new england. zimmerman rips one to left center. they are playing him the other way. ryan is thinking about two. he is goin'. >> rob: he is goin'. >> bob: and he is safe. he gets around the tag of david eckstein. in fact, he hit, chris diel letter signaled him safe bunch ryan did. he is there with two outs. great hustle. >> rob: well, why not. if you think you can make it. go for it. never get angry with a guy for trying to hustle or hustling. gwynn, right there, comes up throwing, nice one-hopper, to the other side of the bag. look at that feet-first slide. watch zimmerman go to the other side of the bag. he does a hook slide around eckstein. so a nice job by eckstein, gets a double. more importantly getting in scoring position for hoss, your number 4 hitter, adam dunn. >> bob: he'll tap one to the right side, gonzalez to the pitcher, nats are gone. adam dunn 0-3. the nats hav stranded six already. it's... no, not yet. it back that way. it's on. 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>> rob: goes over the bag, sometimes with his back foot. that time he jam his left hand in there and broke it. >> bob: 2-2. . >> rob: talk about my rhythm. nyjer never comes from that point stand. >> bob: oh, it will be good to see him. >> rob: also getting him back. there you see bob boone. senior manager of player development. five strikeouts, five innings, 2-1, josh willingham leads off coming back. willingham, dukes and gonzalez coming up in the sixth. geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years. and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. . >> bob: onto the top of the sixth inning, in san diego's petco park. mike rizzo with mr. boone, bob boone, and again a chronicle of what he has done. the closer, the exciting center fielder, a good left-handed reliever, nick johnson, about to go out on a rehab by the way with a bad hamstring. the signing of mr. strasburg. then bringing inly von and lee belliard to the dodgers. a litany of effective transactions for mike rizzo so far. >> the scout i was talking to go is within of our washington national scouts, mark bach ca. . >> bob: a good part of the brain trust is here together. >> rob: yes they are. >> bob: some of the menu don't get to see. moose constitutionalling is an interesting guy, a long-time basketball official. then a long-time coach on the field with the then california angels. that's moose in the greene shirt. >> rob: that's mark back a, whose son will be activate by hhe astros tomorrow. >> bob: nice. but these are men of great experience and long-time basell guys. kouzmanoff, very steady at all year, out willingham. >> rob: now moose constitutionalling, is he related to cap table stabbing of the love boat. >> >> bob: i don't think so. he is a great guy, a lava mint. but he used to dabble, baskball games in the west. elijah dukes. he was 2 for 3 and he has oú oñ ye sixth inning. came into this frame with 757 yvohernandez has only thrown 63 in his five innings so these three are hooking up well tonight. >> rob: okay batter. pay back time. he hit you in the chest last time. what are you going to do. >> bob: stay and line one right through the box. >> rob: you see howly von shades his eyebrow there on the left side. you don't notice things that i do. see this right there? so i used to put those in my side of my head. that was the inthing. remember vanilla ice? >> bob: to do what. >> rob: we used to have some of the african-american guys with the sheers would sheer the lines in our heads. >> bob: i gotcha. >> bob: we thought we were cooler than vanilla ice. so many things in this game i had no clue about until i worked with4ó.,% >> rob: thank you. hanks for the great shot ofly von. >> that's the best eyebrow shot i've ever seen, guys. three in a row for stauffer. he is cruising. 2-1 padres, livo back to work. >> bob: time to bring you up to speed with the at&t rapid re- wind. it's all about pitching tonight and a little flare for an r.b.i. here and there. at&t the nation's fastest 3 network, your world delivered. david eckstein, adrian gonzalez and kevin kouzmanoff, bottom 6. live on hernandez gets another ground ball. gonzalez gets behind it, fires, nine ground outs and 13 in a row retired piely von hernandez. two players with power coming up. >> rob: he'll be working with bernadina and scott olsen to get ready for the instructional league down in viera and go down to the arizona fall league. fonz 0-2, a ground ball to second. he has been nibbling at those knees and getting strikes all night. >> rob: well, and the one thing that will keep live on hernandez around is that slow breaking stuff because even if he loses the fastball down to 83 he can still stop the schusser ball at 63, 65, which is almost a 20 miles per hour differential. still hard to hit. i mean paul byrd, if you watched him pitch for the red sox the other day who didn't want to pitch the first four months of the season he pitched beautifully. >> bob: well there is a guy in philadelphia in his mid-40s still changing speeds. >> rob: i thought davey lopes. yeah. jamie moyer is fantastic. and pedro martinez, a little bit younger, is doin' exactly the same thing. brad penny was picked up by the, cleared waiferls, picked up boo eye the san francisco giants. signed at about 10:30, 7:30 on the west coast here. but 10:38 i think was eastern standard time with the giants so they get another arm for their push as they swept the rockies over the weekend. it ties them in the wildcard standings. going to be interesting. they play each other an awful lot. >> bob: that ball not hit very hard. it droops in for elijah dukes. colorado picked a tough time lose five in a row. the rockies and giants lead atlanta by four and florida by four. >> rob: another really good pitch by leave on. if you're an outfielder you don't want to take that first temperature in because if it isn't hit soft it will go right over your head. better to play it into a single instead of a double or a triple. >> bob: 69 home runs standing right there between those two big fellas. this guy has hit 16. r.b.i. double. 77 ribs to tie gonzalez for the san diego lead. >> rob: last time we saw him, scuffling, hitting about 250 something. >> bob: yeah. >> rob: the only protection is kevin kouzmanoff. 66 r.b.i.s. here the -- >> bob: when they came to d.c. he was hitting .248, kouzmanoff, .242. and they started tonight at 242 and 257. as i mentioned, the padres seem to like hitting on the road bore than they do in this ball park. they really came on with the bats in this road trip hitting nearly .300. >> rob: would you like hitting here? >> bob: no. >> rob: this is like the grand canyon of ball parks. >> bob: double play ball, zimmerman to orr and the nats go right around the horizon and turn their second of the night. live hernandez now has seven ground ball outs tonight. the top of the seventh rolls around. if they leave him in there. eed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. eed of 590 mph... nothing's gonna hold you down. liven liven bags fly fre on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag . it's on™ ( ding ) book now at southwest.com. we've got a ton of stuff we've gotta pay for. and a few things we want to pay for. on top of it all, we're still trying to put away some money for the future. with the wish list, we can save up for anything we want. and still have enough to cover the day-t0-day. plus, the savings engine helps our money