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>> gary: bullpen for the coming into this ballgame ranked first in the national league in e.r.a. just 3.14. they've given up the second fewest home runs and they are fourth in walks per strikeouts per nine innings. they really have done a job for this team and here is one of the reasons. >> jim: yeah, then you add franky rodriguez and j.j. putz and also sean green,

you're going to have yourself a pretty good bullpen. last year, pedro led the national league in appearances at 86. the lefties we talked aboutmatching up 8-62, that's 129. the number i liked was only five walks. when i say that, he almost clips markakis up and in. a very, very deceptive wind up. big, sweeping breaking ball. watched him -- watched him come in against the phillies. they matched him one ibanez and then ryan howard. >> gary: feliciano, 1-0 count. markakis just trying to get on here. orioles need base runners now eighth inning, one down. feliciano last worked against the yankees on the 12th. he worked twirtsdz of -- 2/3 of an inning, walked one and gave up nothing else. 1-1 delivery. that one is down and away and fouled off the other way and a one ball, two strike count. >> jim: he hails from puerto

rico. a couple years ago in 2005, went to japan and played in the southern part of japan. we played one of our 18 games back in 1971 went down there. that's a vacation island. >> gary: markakis will take it on the inside corner. feliciano, that's what he does to a lot of left-handers. that's the 17th strikeout genls against left-handers in 63 at- bats. >> jim: you could see it just grazes that inside corner. jeff kellogg with the emphatic strike three call. could you tear your rotator can you have with -- you could tear your rotator cuff with all that movement. >> gary: calm down now. >> jim: look at it. >> gary: aubrey huff will take it for a strike. aubrey, a single. flied out and grounded out. aubrey just getting over the 200 mark against lefties.

202 now -- .202 now. that will be taken down low. one ball, one strike count. >> jim: the one thing that feliciano does since nobody on, a lot of times he won't even come set. so, he almost though he's from the stretch position which means he's sideways to home plate, he doesn't stop his hands. it's not a balk. if it was a runner on, it would be f you're trying to time him, it's just another little nuance that makes him more effective. let's see if he actually pauses. yeah, he does this time. sometimes he won't. >> gary: 1-2 delivery will miss inside. orioles offense which had such a dreadful first days of june came back against atlanta over the weekend with eight runs saturday and 11 on sunday. being held to two so far in this ballgame. two runs on five hits by pelfrey, green and now feliciano. 2-2 delivery rides inside. that slernl keep you honest as a left-handed hitter. that will gain your attention.

>> jim: then, he'll throw that sweeping breaking ball in any count. i'm not sure he'll throw with a 6-2 lead. 239 if the game is on the line at least from what i've seen, totally unpredibt digittable --unpredictable. >> gary: 3-2 count. aubrey huff goes down swinging. pedro feliciano comes on and does what he's supposed to do against left-handers. ♪ (tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t

>> gary: orioles baseba masn is brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwest.com. and by wendy's, it's way better than fast-food. it's wendy's. gary thorne, jim palmer, amber theoharis. great to have you with us for the opener of this three-game set which for the orioles has been a tough one. guthrie, five runs, three earned. six hits over 6 1/3. castillo, couple hits. one unearned run. three errors have been costly in the ballgame. matt albers will come out of the bullpen as baez gave up one hit in the 1 1/3 innings he pitched in the ballgame. albers will go to work here as we go to the ninth inning. >> jim: yeah, matt easing his way back to where he was before he had the shoulder problems last year. last 10 games over 14 1/3 innings, only three earned runs. the sinker is sinking. he has the curve ball and changeup to go with it.

>> gary: mets will bat in the ninth inning with the top of the order, cora, martinez and beltran. alex cora at shortstop. a couple of singles. 2-4 in the game. now hitting at .269. foul that delivery back by albers for strike one. the orioles bullpen tonight, castillo, baez and albers so far charged with just one unearned run in the ballgame. the offense for dave trembley's o's has really been shutdown at one point the first nine were retired through the order and then add a couple more in the fourth. it was eight in a row had it been 11 in a row that had been sent down before the orioles were able to get anything on the board. then, picking up the home run in the sixth inning, the orioles have had seven in a row retired since then.

that ball hit hard. a base hit. a three-hit ballgame for cora. that will be hit number 10 in the game for the mets. >> jim: you go out if euro mar minaya if you're the general manager. look the at matt albers gets other the -- over the front side. there is the bat head right on the ball. when you go out getting a veteran player. i had never seen cora play a whole lot of shortstop. end of last year when they had injuries newspaper boston, he has a terrifically strong arm. never realized it was quite that good. played for the dodgers. most of the time when we saw him in the american league, he was the utility guy that played mostly second base. >> gary: a quintessential utility player, alex cora. >> jim: yeah, and he knows what he is. he doesn't overswing. it's not about home runs. it's about can you do the little things to help teams win. >> gary: fernando martinez, he's had a prelty good run. single and a run scored, walk and a run scored.

1-3 officially. for cora, that's his first three-hit ballgame of the year with the three singles he picked up in his last three at- bats. he's on at first. nobody out. matt albers misses outside with it. a one ball, one strike count on martinez. the mets after the orioles coming off the two runs against atlanta. mets were coming off that she lacking they took 15-0 by the yankees as the yankees took 2-3 against the mets in the crosstown rivalry. in the air to center field. jones. martinez retired. back to the bag goes cora. one away in the ninth. >> jim: if they win the game friday night, that game -- castillo just misd a pop fly. they win again on saturday where they had 17 hits, there you go, k-rod, francisco rodriguez, number 75 their closer. you have bobby parnell, watched

him throw a youngster that throws from 93-97 miles per hour. one of those power arms. they certainly could have won at least the first two games. then, you have santana pitching on sunday. gets lit up. apparently, blisters, back problems and some things going object there -- going on there. >> gary: nobody right now is talking about. 1-0 count beltran. runner at first base. he'll take it in the air left center field. reimold back. he's got room. beltran is retired. two down here in the ninth inning. updating you in the at&t player of the game voting. right now markakis on top, cora and wright. you can still text in your vote to a, b or c, 51862 and results coming up on the post-game show "o's xtra". rick peterson the former pitching coach of the mets made a comment in a talk show that made all the papers in new york

today about santana's knee bothering him. jerry manuel before the game said i don't know anything about that. as far as i know, it's not about health. manuel said it's about his control. his manned of pitches. he said ed he has not had command. he's not located and that's been the problem. he's had a couple of bad outings. david wright. he's extended his hit streak to 11 games in this ballgame with a single and an rbi. 1-4. wright continues to lead all major league hitters in average. he has a runner at first base here in the ninth inning with two down. albers with a 1-1. that will be a base hit. it's going to roll just far enough so that markakis can pick it up while it's still rolling. over to third base goes cora. wright has his second hit. all is well for david wright.

>> jim: it is. that's how gent ability to hit the ball all over the field. lawn bowling right here. kind of serves it n we always talk about that hole -- that hole for left-handed hitters. it's there for the righties if they take advantage of it. one thing about wright, he does spray the ball over 36 hits -- actually, 37 now to left, 28 up the middle and 19 to right field. so, he does hit the ball all over the ballpark. >> gary: 11 hits. >> jim: you play in citi field, you better do that. >> gary: 1 hits -- 11 hits for the mets in the ballgame. ryan church with two down, runners at first and third. for wright, he leads the mets in multihit games as would you expect it is his 14th multihit ballgame. he's picked up a couple of singles. he's had six two-hit games. two three-ives it ballgames and one four-it rbi game this season. he's pounded it out.

>> jim: one quick comment about santana. we will find out how he really feels in his next start because the start before he gave up when he gave up nine runs on sunday, he ended up wing, but he gave up four home runs. a lot of people are saying maybe not finishing his pitches that. could be the bad back. ball cutting, that could be the blister. who really knows. >> gary: nobody but him. >> jim: if you're a world class pitch water couple of cy young awards, you'll take the ball and go out and pitch and hope you can work through it. >> gary: 1-1 delivery. runner going to second. no throwmate made. wright -- he ought to get fined for the hit and the stolen base which would both be added to his numbers. no contest on the stolen base and the ground ball that just got through. credit wright with his 18th stolen base, second most in the national league. >> jim: if you kind of give it to him, you've got it take it. game's not over. orioles have three more outs. -- in the bottom of the ninth

inning. >> gary: so, two in scoring position for church who has one rbi in the ballgame on a single. 2-1 delivery by albers in the air to left. reimold sthrmd. he's gone. no runs, a couple of hits no, errors, two are left on base. orioles three outs to work with. we go to the bottom of the ninth. ? gecko: uh, you wanted to see me sir? boss: come on in, i had some other things you can tell people about geico - great claims service and a 97% customer satisfaction rate. show people really trust us. gecko: yeah right, that makes sense. boss: trust is key when talking about geico. you gotta feel it.

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nonsave situation. >> jim: young kid at 24 24 out of salisbury, north carolina. you can see again the numbers. a lot of strikeouts because he throws real hard. last year, a starter in their minor leagues at double-a. another one. we talked about the best bullpen in the neil. he's -- in the national league. he's been unscored on in his last outings. for a youngster, only been scored on 23-31 times all year long. again, the power arm. ninth in the majors with 11 holes. >> gary: the question for the mets -- 11 holds. >> gary: the question for mets dorks they make a deal to get a first baseman. it's the parnells of their organization of that they can deal to get a first baseman. few clubs wlant to do that. at this point, omar minaya has been inclined to say no as far as cutting a deal for a power bat in return for a young pitcher. that's something veal to think about here in the dead -- something he'll have to think

about here in the deadline for trades coming and whether or not he can get his first baseman delgado back by the end of july. 1-0 delivery a strike on the outside corner ninth inning. melvin mora. mora struck out, grounded out and hit into a big double play this the sixth inning. orioles had a couple of runs on the homer by markakis. huff got a single. nobody out. then, the double play hit into by mora. that got pelfrey out of what looked like this might be a big inning. >> jim: yeah, you're down 4-0. you get one, two, three, four, five, six -- 6-7 players on base. only get two runs. that was the markakis home run. >> gary: that one down the line in right field. that's going to fall in. it's a base hit for melvin mora. picked up by ryan church. he'll get it back in. so, mora has a single to lead off the ninth inning. >> jim: well, their closer is still up in the bullpen,francisco rodriguez. again trying to come in.

of course, 97. doesn't get it all the way in. melvin able to fight it off fair for a base hit. you will definitely take it. three more outs to work with. >> gary: 6-2 lead for the mets. luke scott walked his last time up. he is officially 0-2 in the ballgame. and scott's got a base hit into right field. hit it hard. orioles get the first two on in the bottom half of the ninth inning with nobody out. you've got reimold and wieters and andino. >> jim: i tell you what. you have a young, inexperienced pitch mother slide steps. no reason with a four-run lead. throws a fastball to a really good fastball hitter. jerry manuel -- i mean, he sprinted out of the dugout. you don't need to do that. watch this. sliep slide step, middle of the plate. luke's not going to miss that pitch. thigh high. he's all over it. first and second, nobody out. >> jim: so, parnell will leave

pitching to two hitters getting nobody out. they will go to the closer as the orioles make a run at it here in the ninth -- ninth. - 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. you know why i sell tools? tools are uncomplicated? nothing complicated about a pair of 10 inch hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping is easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. come on. how about...a handshake.

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something publicly. francisco decided to come over to say something to him publicly and that drew everybody out for the discussion and they were separated. >> he's going to do it. he set the all-time record with 62 last year. you can see it right there. he was 16-17. he should be 17-17. they dropped a pop-up on friday night. he's got great stuff. he has a curve ball. he has a changeup. kind of factored in over the last couple of years. there are the e.r.a. it's just look at this. these are glowing numbers. brian said why doesn't he be humble lieb like mariano rivera. how many guys do that? >> gary: not francisco. delivery up high. nolan reimold has drawn a wawm walk. he's 0-2 officially in the ballgame. orioles are down by four here in the bottom half of the ninth inning. they have been out hit 11-7. they have surrender three

unearned runs in this game --verned three unearned games in this -- runs in this game which throughout the game have loomed mighty big. one ball, one strike count. reimold and a check swing that's a strike. 1-2. >> jim: pretty good fastball right there with a little tail. the only number that is a little disturbing is that the first batter has reached nine times out of 31st batters. he's only retired the first guy 21-30. if reimold gets on, all of a sudden the tying run comes to the plate. that's a big if. >> gary: one ball, two strike count on reimold. runners on first and second base. reimold will take it down the line in right field headed to the seats and it is out of play. no really averages against rodriguez. left-handers hitting .119 and right-handers .192. that's ridiculous. he's given up only one home run that to a reasoned they are

year. francisco rodriguez last worked against the yankees on the 13th. he worked an inning, had one strikeout. one ball, two strike count. mora and scott the base runners. here is the 1-2 delivery. reimold takes the slider away. 2-2. >> jim: that's the pitch that kind of brought him to fame. he came up in 2002 at the end of the year and he only pitched 5 2/3 innings, so struck out 13. so, angels who would go on to beat the giants in the world, he struck out 28 in 11 games. that's where he got the nickname k-rod. not too many guys hit the ball during that postseason. >> gary: here is the 2-2 delivery. that's fouled back. >> jim: that's the changeup. he got it up. brian schneider comes right out and says wait a minute. the orioles just trying to get

somebody on. it is a difficult place for a young hitter, but the one thing about nolan reimold, you talkedabout it before the game. it looks like he's got a pretty good idea at the plate for such a young guy. not even closing in on 100 at- bats in the major league -- at the major league level. >> gary: he doesn't chase pitches. >> jim: from time to time, everybody does. even pujols swung at a ball out of the zone, didn't he? >> gary: that kind pavin, sometimes young players will go after it and he's inclined not to. >> jim: he has a very quick bat and a great hitting instructor with great drills. terry crowley. you can wait a little bit longer. obviously, you don't want to wait too long. i think also his ability to hit the ball over the ballpark. >> gary: 3-2 count. runners at first and second base. reimold draws the walk! rodriguez comes on and surrenders the free pass. the 14th that he has given up

in 31 innings wynn when compared to 33 strikeouts. orioles are going to get the potential tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning. nobody out. >> jim: wouldn't it be nice for matt wieters who hit his first home run or maybe get his first base hit with runners in scoring position and not a lot of at-bats to go by. is again, you were -- again, you're down 4-0 -- 4-0, you can tie it up or get back in the game. >> gary: matt wieters, bases load, nobody out. rodriguez fastball is in there for a strike. a leadoff single by mora, luke scott a sing and then the walk to reimold that loaded them up. the orioles trying to get back in it against the mets in the bottom -- bottom of the ninth. infield, double play depth. wieters will take it down low. good stop made by schneider. a one ball, one strike count. >> jim: you get the idea this

is just no a closer that's one dimensional. all four pitches and he'll throw them at anytime. back-to-back changeups for matt wieters. you don't need a home run that. would be the bonus. just a single, walk, anything. >> gary: keep the inning going. >> jim: yeah. >> gary: one ball, one strike count. wieters over the top of it and it goes to 1-2. >> jim: we can talk about the transition from the minor leagues to the major leagues. when do you see a guy who can throw in the mid-90s throw you three straight changeups and good wunz ones? that i had this third one the bottom dropped out of t that was a pitch he worked on just because of long gist. you lose -- longevity. you lose anything on your heater. >> gary: 1-2. delivery to wieters. swung on and miss -- swung on and missed gets the strikeout. rodriguez, first out of the

inning recorded there now wigginton will pinch-hit. >> jim: there is is your x-mo. very unusual wind yu. he's worried more about the hirlt at the plate and four changeups in a row. >> gary: sheer hot bat coming on sunday's two-homer day. it what was he 1-5 off of lowe and then those numbers changed dramatically. >> gary: one down, bases remain loaded. ty wigginton, five home runs, 18 ribs, hitting .235. wigginton will take it down low for a ball. the orioles have made it most interesting. would love to be able to come back here and get one against the mets and against rodriguez to open up this three-game set. >> jim: yeah, only two at-bats ty wigginton against k-rod, franky rodriguez. >> gary: 0-2 off him.

1-0 delivery on the way. wigginton will take it outside. not biting and it's 2-0. >> jim: now you get pretty interesting. 2-0, fastball count. a guy that will throw everything. again, the tying run at the plate. other runs are pretty much meaningless. >> gary: orioles will get this lineup turned over if wigginton can stay out of the double play here. bases loaded. one out. here is the 2-0 delivery to him. he's going for a tie game and it's 2-1. >> jim: well, 94. a lot of late life. moves back in the middle of the plate. it was moving. again pitching is not where you throw it up to the hitter. you throw it through the hitter to the catcher. that's where you get the finish on your pitches. >> gary: one grand slam in his career. 1-3 with bases