the following is a masn presentation. >> gary: mets-orioles, sheffield hot in the interleague. 10-game hit streak, david wright. for the orioles, their bats came alive in the last two games against atlanta. looking to make it three in a row, they open up a three-game set against the mets. manuel-trembley, skipper up. 

>> gary: it's the ori masn. the o's hope to continue what they started on the weekend. it's the mets-orioles as interleague play continues. game one of a three-game series at camden yards. hi, everybody. i'm gary thorne for the orioles. now they are 4-2 in interleague play this season. they meet the new york mets for the first time since 2006. for the orioles, the hope is those bats that came alive in the last two games against atlanta will stay alive here. a chance during interleague play to compare the orioles to all of major league baseball. something we very rarely do anymore. it's usually about the division and about the league. if you look at all of major league baseball in the left- hand column, orioles numbers compare pretty favorably in runs, batting average, runners in scoring position in particular. it's the problem of the starting pitching and an overused bullpen probably where those e.r.a. are higher. jim palmer, that's not a surprise because as we've said for two seasons, that's what the orioles are working on

correcting. >> jim: exactly, trying to get better. i think tonight jeremy guthrie will pitch for the orioles. he's 4-6. what he's really been hurt by. he's been looking for all those little earns answers by the home run ball. last game against the mariners. threw the ball great a couple of hanging sliders. again, bergesen has been good. hill from time to time has been very good for the starting staff. berken will pitch in this series. he's been good sometimes. he's a young pitcher just up to the big leagues. bottom line, you want to het help your bullpen. the bullpen has been terrific over last two weeks. if you're jeremy guthrie, thief they've got 19 runs last two games. hope you get some of those runs tonight. >> gary: up against a team that's hurting literally with a lot of injuries. maybe the right time to take on this club even though there are a couple in the lineup who are still red-hot. we'll be back. it's the mets-o's from camden next. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem.

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southwest.com. by acura, acura advance. and by corona and corona light. official sponsors of the time- out. relax responsibly. a cloudy night here at camden yards. the temperature 68 degrees to start. a wind that's swirling around. if it ends up heading out in your particular at-bat, it may just help a ball or two out of this yard. we get set to go. let's take a look at the starting lineup for the new york mets brought to you by southwest airlines. it will be karr, martinez and beltran, wright, church, sheffield, murphy, schneider and castillo. david wright is red-hot in a 10- game hit streak coming in. >> jim: take a look at our pnc scouting report on jeremy guthrie the 29-year-old right- hander. will the real guthrie please step forward. everybody would like that. nobody more than jeremy. 12-16 home runs he gave up to right-handed batters first three innings. he has struggled early on. kind of settled down. his numbers in nine games in

the early play just fantastic numbers. again, anytime you have an e.r.a. under 2.50 runs. there are the numbers for the year. unusual stat start. world baseball classic. opening day beat the yankees. just off and on. last year, he was will consistency. >> gary: the -- in the first two innings, 27 runs in the first -- innings of ballgame. that's what he's had to deal with getting into games. he'll try to not do that here against the mets as cora stands n alex cora, the leadoff batter. left-handed hitter. there you see the .258 average for him a veteran making the start at shortstop. and that pitch is in on the inside corner for a strike. jeff kellogg the home plate umpire. that's what guthrie wants to do. put that ball in the strike zone hopefully where he wants it. here is the 0-2 delivery. fastball inside. >> jim: they all know, alex

cora -- alex cora because he played for the red sox a number of years. great fastball hitter. a real good shortstop. great arm. playing because jose reyes, who is out with the hamstring and calf injury. again, pitch count has a lot to do with it. two quick strikes. doesn't put him away. now you're getting into more of a hirlt's count. now you go from 0-2, down and away. you have to try to come in. that's why the pitch count gets up and it's very difficult to pitch deep into the game pitching like that. your stuff as good as jeremy, be more aggressive early on. >> gary: here is the 3-2 deliver troy alex cora. he'll pop that up third base. melvin mora back. he's got it. on the 3-2 pitch he's got him. let's check in with amber. >> amber: cora is a perfect example of what dave trembley was talk about about jeremy guthrie before the game. he said i want to see guthrie put batters away when he has two strikes on him. he doesn't want him to throw a lost pitches especially in the first inning. take a look at the numbers. jeremy guthrie leads the orioles starting staff with the

most pitches thrown on average in the first inning. he averages about 21 pitches in the first inning. dave trembley feels that's giving him problems later in the game. tonight, he wants to see him work efishtly here on the mound -- efficiently here on the mound. >> gary: let's see how he does with it. the pitch will miss inside. martinez, a 2-0 count. one of the many call ups on a much-injured mets team. that will be fouled away. mets 32-29 just four games out in the national league east, but they are having to piece meel a lineup together -- piecemeal a lineup together seemingly every single night as they have players like reyes out of the lineup. jerry manuel, first year of managing. manuel before the game was asked about it. he said i haven't had time tothink about it. he said i'll tell you this much. it feels like it's been 10 years rather than a year. 2-2 delivery. that is foul and it will stay 2- 2. >> jim: yeah, he said every

game you manage in the big leagues is about a month off your life especially in new york with the expectations. this is a team that last two years they have lost the final day of the season. you know, last year some -- he wasn't managing two years ago, but he was managing last year. they were terrific under him. 55-38 when he took over for willie ross wolf. >> dick: -- randolph. >> gary: that will miss inside. >> jim: there gts e-- you have to watch brad bergesen pitch and realize how you have to get rid of them in a hurry. >> gary: and got him. guthrie comes back on both hitters as he gets martinez. first strook strikeout. >> jim: great movement here and late movement. fernando martinez, who is only 20, just gives up on it. again, 3-2. it's a tough count to hit in the because you've got to cover everywhere up and down, in and out, breaking balls, changeups, sliders. >> gary: here is carlos

beltran. beltran a switch hitter batting left. he's second in average in the national league. he has a seven-game hit streak coming in. he and david wright are the two big bats in this lineup right now and not too far behind gary sheffield. on bass -- on-base percentage at 4.37 for beltran. that's fourth best. shattered the bat on that one. andino makes the throw and gets the out. so, a 1-2-3 inning for guthrie. when we come back, we'll take a look at the starting lineup tonight against pelfrey for the o's. - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights to new york laguardia for just 49 dollars one-way starting june 28th. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com.

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>> gary: well, orioles hope offense will continue. it's been spectacular in the last two games against atlanta. orioles since may 1 are hitting .314 which is the number one average in the majors. here are the starting lineups for the o's brought to you by southwest airlines. roberts, jones and markakis. huff, mora and scott. reimold, wieters and andino. brian roberts on his sixth -- six-game streak. >> jim: here is the scouting report on mike pelfrey. good stuff. his pitching coach said at the end of the tonight or today, this will be a night game, it's about the sinker. he struggled lately 0-2. gave up nine runs in one of the games. last year when pitching was hurt, they needed him to go back and revert to what he did last year where he was a winning pitcher with a low earned run average. >> gary: he makes his first

pitch against roberts. thank that is fouled away. he's second in double, third in runs in the american league. first in hit streak boost that had average to .299 flirting again with that .300 mark for brian and the streak has been a good one. he's gone 11-22, .500 batting average during the six-game hit streak. all of the orioles got back into it on sunday as far as gettinghits concerned. >> jim: yeah, everybody in the lineup. got a couple of home runs. it all started in the seventh inning in saturday where atlanta didn't pitch well. orioles took advantage. got big hits. got some walks. typical way of good, offensive teams taking advantage of a situation. >> gary: pelfrey's slider going to miss inside to brian roberts. it is 2-2. >> jim: yeah, mike pelfrey is only 25. he was really rushed to the big leagues.

ninth guy drafted out of all the amateur players. >> gary: that will go to second base. clooflt make the play over to -- castillo will make the play over to first. roberts, one down. >> jim: ninth player chose nineteen 2005, only got about 176 1/3 innings in the minor leagues. rushed to the big leagues. it's all about the ground ball. of course, not only the ground balls, but getting them at people. the slower they're hit especially in this ballpark, the easier they are to catch. >> gary: here is adam jones coming up. adam is fifth in average in the american league start today's play. he's consistently been among the top five in that department throughout the course of this season. first ball hitting down the line in right. church coming in going out murphy. murphy had his back to the play and had to get an angle so he didn't break his back on this and there are two down. >> jim: take a look at the mets defense. martinez who is their number

one prospect in left. beltran, gold glover. church last year the concussion problems. he's back. wright a-couple of gold gloves. cora, castillo, murphy who played a little bit of left field this year but came up as a first baseman and then brian schneider had all kind of injury problems early on. that's a pretty nice play right there especially when the wind is gusting up to 17 miles per hour. >> gary: it's blowing around here tonight. there are two down. that will bring up nick markakis. >> jim: the one thing that jerry manuel said is that daniel murphy is definitely a lot more comfortable at first base than he was in left field. >> gary: 0-1 delivery. murphy being much talked about as this may be a three-game set that decides whether he stays or goes. murphy at first base sharing time with fernando tatis with delgado out there have. they're in the happy with the offense being put up there. the offensive numbers of their first baseman we'll talk about

later, but it's virtually zero. they're wondering whether they have to make a trade or whether they can wait for delgado. markakis really turned around the home plate umpire jeff kellogg after the last pitch and had a major conversation. he also -- kellogg looked over into the dugout as there was something being cawlgd there about a called strike. 1-2 delivery. that is inside. it will go to 2-2 on markakis. the orioles are hosting the mets here for the fifth time. last time mets played at camden yards was 0-1. last time these two teams played was '06. the overall record for the orioles, they have a 7-12 mark against the mets in interleague play. >> jim: you're seeing a little bit of jeremy guthrie right here with mike pelfrey. he's trying to get and stean establish all his pitches in the first inning when -- that's why we're going to get to a high pitch count here. some 3-2 counts. i always felt when you go 3-2,

you don't want to walk people not with home run hitters coming up next. >> gary: that one down third. david wright running throw. held the bag. each pitcher retires the side in order in the first. we've completed one here at oriole park at camden yards. no score. 

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from the maryland lottery for every oriole home run hit tonight. you have a chance to win too. enter by logging into masnsports.com. they played the beatles between innings. i was look at the notes for the mets. swing and a miss, david wright. paul mccartney is going to do another concert at shea. they've add add third. they sold out the first two. they've added another one. 0-1 delivery on the way. fastball taken i signed by -- inside by wright. here is one of the game's outstanding hitters not just at the moment but particularly at the moment as he leads the majors in batting average coming into this game and he has a 10-game hit streak getting there. >> jim: they always talk about young players. here are the numbers we talk about. at that average, steals. look at him right here. you know, he won a couple of gold gloves. he's only 26. ex-he can hit for power, steal bases. he can hit for average. >> gary:.309 average career coming into this season. clearly has upped that so far

with the .364 number. a good slider away foul tipped into the mitt held on to by wieters. second strikeout for jeremy guthrie. >> jim: right here, a little extra. i don't know if it's a cut fastball, slider. it ends up in the low 90sment for wright who loves the ball out over the plate f you're hitting what he's hitting, you'll hit about anything. he couldn't get to it. >> gary: that is something david wright will also do and that is strikeout. he is in the top 10 in the national league in strikeouts. one away and ryan church coming up. church in right field hitting at .270. he's got 10 doubles, a couple of home runs, 12 rbi's. he's been the right fielder on a regular basis. pitch is taken inside. there are points in this lineup jim and i were talking about this before the ballgame where you just got to go after some of these met hitters who are not hitting right now. watch out for the ones who are

such as beltran, wright, sheffield. they are the three. the rest of this lineup, jim, you have a shot of getting outs a good shot. >> jim: yeah, they hit very well as an average. >> gary: left center field reimold. two down. tomorrow night, the promotion everyone is talking about here. first 15,000 fans 15 and -- 25,000 fans 15 and over, that bobblehead with him catching a ball with a bubble. go to 888-848-bird or orioles.com for the adam jones bobblehead. >> jim: you make a great point. look at the lineup every time you pitch. you know who is hot. who is not. jeremy sernl certainly knows about that. if you watch tape of sheffield, now he's been hot. he's 6-13 against the yankees with a couple of home runs.

normally, he likes the ball out over the plate. i think he's become -- you can look at the numbers. he only has five base hits to right field. 22 to lefties. become more of a pull hitter. he is 40. you know, he's one of the 25 guys that have hit 500 home runs. he has 506 lifetimement he takes that pitch. -- lifetime. he takes that pitch. that's going to be a helicopter hit all the way up to towson which is north of here. >> gary: he has a knee problem that's been talked about. he was going to get an mri. that's what everybody said. yesterday, mets announced he's not going to get an mri. he feels fine to play. there's been no explanation why to first there was and there wasn't. sheffield himself told jerry manuel i'm good enough. i can play rand dh. jerry manuel said before the game i have to rethink how i use gary sheffield once our interleague play is over. i have no problem putting him out there as a dh playing him in all the games. one they have to play him in

the field again, i'm going to have to rethink it. good pitch as he got him. guthrie starts out strong. bear in mind, 27 runs off him in the first two innings. none first two. you can tune it in, but it's still not summer... until you bring it out. bud light lime. superior drinkability. ultimate refreshment. a splash of 100% natural lime flavor. one taste and you'll find, the summer state of mind. bud light lime.

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sixth in runs. they are sixth in slugging and first in on-base percentage. their home runs are 14th in the 16 teams in the national league. so, for them it's about getting on and moving people around. aubrey huff pitchingwise they are seventh right in the middle of the pack in e.r.a. in the national league. mets have given up the sixth fewest home runs as a staff. aubrey huff has a three-game hit streak. aubrey on the ground ball to first base played by murphy. one down. mora and scott to follow for the o's here in the second inning. melvin mora got the rbi he needed to end the big o-for epps he had going there. now he's looking for the long ball. mora has not had a homer in 31

games. his longest homerless streak is 43 set back in 2000-2001. >> jim: how about david wright in 100 at-bats this year yet leading the league in batting average. i think the same thing applies for melvin mora in the fact he's a better hitter when he hits it all over the ballpark where. did he get that rbi? hit a softball into center field even though he was hitting the ball extremely hard before that. got four hits saturday night. >> gary: he's got 16 rbi's on the season so far. orioles would like to see that picked up as melvin hits in this number five spot generally and has chances with people on base. melvin has a four-game hit streak. lays down a bunt or tried. it will be a foul ball. believe me. he caught everybody unexpectedly with that bunt as wright was way back. >> jim: yeah, if you're going to bunt, you'd like to do it with no strikes because then you get wright who is playing back behind the bag. remember, he's a gold glover. you get him to play in a little

bit for at least two strikes or at least another one. now 0-2 or 1-2, he's going to play back where he's almost about closer to the outfield than he is to the infield. >> gary: pelfrey with a one ball, two strike count. melvin got hit. >> jim: yeah, but he was swing at that time. >> gary: right on the hand's fouled it off. >> jim: you're hoping he's all right there. i imagine they'll call this a foul ball because that ball really drops his arm. he's a big guy -- bevel is a big guy at 6'7". the ball runs in. brian schneider is wondering where the ball went. it got one of the hands. it appears to be the top hand, the right hand am dave trembley out. richie van sells, the orioles trainer. >> gary: that has mighty movement on it when you get a wall or take -- ball or take a swing that hard and still get hit on the hand with it. >> jim: you have a guy who is

6'7" who has that running two seam fastball. we talked about being a sinkerball. then, you have a two strike count where you're trying to guard. you're anticipating i have to cover everything. i have to cover down and away. wigginton with a couple of home runs played third when melvin took sunday off. he was change to dave trembley. i was red-hot and didn't get to play. >> gary: you want guys complaining to you. melvin i guess wants to stay in. he's putting the glove back on. it looked like that hurt when he was touched. >> jim: and that's his throwing hand. it will be something you'll have to monitor. if you're richie van sells, the orioles head trainer, you're wondering, ok. is it starting to swell? do we have to get ice on it? do we need to take an x-ray to see if it's broken? >> gary: the umpires are meeting. i think they'rtalking about whethe should be a hit batter or foul ball.

the call was foul ball. jeff kellogg asked for tim timmons and rob drake at first and third to come in and talk with him about it as to what they saw. mora is going to try to stay in. >> jim: i'm wondering are they going to call him out because the ball hit his hand and didn't hit the bat. >> gary: that's what he's talking about. >> jim: yeah. i don't know if the out was ever put out. the ball was live. they're going to call him out. he may say the ball got my finger and the bat. i don't know if we can see that. >> gary: he's -- >> jim: otherwise our out. i'm not sure schneider -- you look back and brian schneider is look where the ball is because the ball is live. jeff kellogg is trying to explain that now that we've had this little parlay down to