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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 them in the minor leagues. >> bob: scott rolen turns that around for a base hit and rolen now has a...

great batting eye. 2-1. >> rob: in the two week stretch of inner league play, a lot of pitchers he hasn't traced an awful lot here. >> bob: by the way, we're heading for yankees stadium. they're having a little fun now. 5th inning, yankees 15-0. >> rob: that's not fun for the mets. >> bob: guess who the starter was? santana. he's 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 at tropicana field in st. petersburg. dukes 2-2 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored stepp...

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. here's 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 don't 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. >> johnny: fisher walked two. walked zimmerman and willingham. and the pitch to kearns and it is 0 ball...

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...

>> 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 sta...