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 . >> bob: yesterday ryan zimmerman received his first all star selection ask then went out in delivered in the first inning. the nats left home on a modest win streak. tonight the scene shifts to denver, the rockies in are are the thick of a wildcard chase. stammen faces all star marquis. the first of three on masn. >> its been a mixed bag of weather in denver today. beautiful all day, a big-time storm about an hour and a half ago, and now its nice again for the nats and the rourk...

 . >> bob: the mats were in position to win last night. craig stammen helped his own cause. adam dunn made a lot contribution but the marlins fought back. hanley ramirez provided the two big hits. and then the rain washed away any opportunity to respond. today, jordan zimmerman tries to deliver the win for the nats while josh johnson has other ideas for the fish. ♪ jiets another salvage operation for the nationals. welcome to land shark stadium. a lot of kids on hand. camp ...

and if you missed partúxx hi, everybody. happy sunday afternoon to you. nice to have you along with us. "nats xtra pregame" here on masn. as the nationals try to salvage game three of this big weekend beltway, battle of the beltway series at camden yards, after an 11-1 loss and a 6-3 loss last night. kind of an interesting news coming down last night about the situation involving craig stammen who had started seven games, now he goes to the bullpen for the nats. >> im really happy f...

last year he had the seventh lowest run support. so the record to me doesnt mean anything. >> rob: you put that kid on the red sox, that kid is 15-9. >> jim p.: kind of what francona said about managing. he said, well, im still a dummy but now ive got better players now that im with the red sox. its a great line. i think a managers -- a lot of managers will tell you that. >> jim h.: low ball four. theres that battling eye of nolan reimold. lannan a lead-off walk. >> jim p.: i think its...

toronto tie in here. >> rob: going to say vernon wells. >> bob: no, vernon wells hasnt done that. oa a minute. now wait a minute. he did. it is vernon wells. >> rob: so vernon is one of them. >> bob: griffey do you think? only problem is vernon wells has only had 100 rbi season since. >> rob: vern, hey, vern. >> bob: bouncer by the mound. hernandez to get it drops it. in his haste to make the exchange probably his sixth error of the year. first two outs. >> rob: knits there. he had ov...

jordan zimmermann. 57 strikes, 18-21 first-pitch strikesment an update on a graphic we saw in new york. >> rob: people wanted to know how well steve mccatty has been doing since he joined up the washington nationals pitching coach. the -- the record is coming along. look at the earned run average. two runs less per game. batting average is below 40 points less. then you see the e.r.a. of the starters. these young kids are rookies, but he had a huge effect on them because he had most of...

great batting eye. 2-1. >> rob: in the two week stretch of inner league play, a lot of pitchers he hasnt traced an awful lot here. >> bob: by the way, were heading for yankees stadium. theyre having a little fun now. 5th inning, yankees 15-0. >> rob: thats not fun for the mets. >> bob: guess who the starter was? santana. hes not liking that. >> bob: johnson stays. two outs. 3:00 on a sunday afternoon. where else would you rather be at the ball park or here with us on masn. good crowd a...

young trade. >> johnny: zimmerman running and a couple of walks here. >> rob: willingham draws a two-out walk. two-run ballgame. bob carpenter back tomorrow night. heres a 2-1 game bottom of the 7th. austin kearns will step in. he walked in the second and struck out and popped out his last two appearances. >> rob: i dont think they wanted a whole lot to do with josh willingham. i think they wanted to attack austin kearns here, even putting the tying run on at second to do it. >> john...

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 throughou...

>> 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...