last night the baseball guards were having fun. for the orioles, oh, did it make for a long night. errors piled up, three unearned runs and a win for the visiting mets. so tonight, koji uehara will take the mound, the orioles will try -- the orioles will try and set up a rubber match tomorrow. 

it's the orioles on m and, yes, it's here. it is bobblehead night, and adam jones is the man blowing the bubbles. game two, three game set. the mets coming away with a 6-4 win in last night's game. hi, everybody. i'm gary thorne. last night it was a long night for the orioles. just didn't seem to work very well. for the orioles this season, it's not just been there have been errors. keep in mind, the orioles talked about better "d." it's that the errors have mattered. this is a whole new stat we put up. this is about unearned runs per error. the detroit tigers almost every time they commit an error there's a run. the orioles are not very far behind kansas city, atlanta and houston. it's that the errors result in opponents runs. >> jim: and rick dempsey just told us in the pregame if the

orioles are trailing after six, they're 2-30, so when the errors are committed. last night jeremy guthrie will be the first guy to tell you, even though you don't want to do it, i lost my cool. it happened the second time through the order in the middle of the line-up. he didn't execute his pitches and the mets took advantage of that and that's where they got the first four runs. >> gary: so you try and come back from that. uehara needs to have the performance that will take him deep into the game and the defense needs to be able to catch the baseball. probably because i've never had much. but now that i'm making more, it's time to be a little smarter about how i manage it.. with the calendar, i can schedule all my payments. and when funds are low, danger days help me stay out of the red. i can also transfer money with just a click and a drag. so maybe i'm better with money than i thought. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way.

>> gary: overcast night her camden yards. it's going to be on the cool side to start the ballgame, some swirling winds tonight. rain this afternoon prevented

either team from getting out on the field pregame as the field was covered. this is going to be their first chance to get out on the natural green. let's take a look at the starting line-up, for the mets, same as last night. cora, martinez and beltran, wright, church and sheffield. murphy, schneider and castillo. >> jim: let's take a look at our pnc scouting report on koji uehara. mr. splitter, he will use that pitch along with his fastball. two walks in 29 innings here at home, so he's going to command the strike zone. his last win, even though he's pitched better than his record indicates, was on the 13th of april. so, again, not a whole lot to show. they don't give him a whole lot of runs. he hasn't been hit particularly hard by lefties or righties. just seems maybe six innings, hopefully after that, you

really have to go to your bullpen. the ball not likely to carry very well with the winds swirling in. pitch is up high for a ball. cora had a 3 for 5 in the ballgame last night. cora getting work in the lead- off spot. reyes continues out at shortstop, so he's in. he's taking all the way for a strike. the mets come in now, 15-18 on the road, while the orioles here at home are 19-17 on the season. fooled him, way behind on it. and a 2-2 count. >> jim: it will be interesting to see the hamstring problems, his last start against the mariners, probably not a litmus test of his abilities as a pitcher because of the rain delay. pitched very well, came back and then struggled. >> gary: that one looped to second base, roberts has got

it. there's the first out of the ballgame. >> well, in koji's last start dave trembley really paid attention to his pitch count, but he said he's not going to do that tonight. instead, he's going to focus on how hard koji is work to go get batters out. he said koji is master of deception. he said when the batters are a little late, that's when he knows koji is still on his game. but when that's not happening, that's when it's time for him to come out. >> gary: and here is fernando martinez, he's playing in left field, a 1 for 4 in the ballgame last night. one of the youngsters -- youngsters on the mets getting time. uehara, age 34 a. starter for most of his career in japan, but the last two seasons was a reliever. and so he's not used to putting in the innings or throwing the number of pitches that's being asked of him this season and

he's had to readjust trying to get back to the role as a starter. >> jim: then you couple in the hamstring problems he's had. conditioning not what it should be. >> gary: got him. uehara gets the strikeout. >> jim: we talked about mr. splitter. he's got about as good a split fingered fastball. what did keith hernandez say, he said this is one of the toughest pitches to hit. that ball just dives down and away. martinez, only 20. you've got to take advantage of him. one of those guys you pencil in. >> gary: two of the game's best hitters back-to-back in the line-up with beltran in right, two down here. beltran standing in with that big cut. he took it 0 for 5 in the ballgame last night. right now he's fourth in the national league at .336, fourth in on-base percentage, fourth

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huff, mora, scott, reimold, wieters and andino. >> jim: our scouting report on tim redding, not otis, has a misleading record. he's pitched much better recently. had some shoulder problems early. that's his career average, and when he gets ahead, he's really tough to hit. when he gets behind, 1-0. >> gary: there are the numbers for the former national. 31 years old. who last season went 10-11 in washington. brian roberts leads it off. roberts shows bunt, pulls it back. bryan had his hit streak ended in the ballgame last night. brian went 0 for 5 in the opener last night's game. roberts still third in runs in the league. brian will take that one to left field. martinez will have plenty of

time to get under it. >> jim: let's take a look at the mets defense. they play their home games at a big ballpark. martinez, beltran, he's won three gold gloves, church in right. castillo, a three time gold glove winner. murphy has moved over to first, then brian schneider with a couple of hits last night. and mr. bobblehead. >> gary: mr. bobblehead, it's his night. so we'll see whether or not he takes advantage of it, as the fans picking up the adam jones bobblehead, blowing the bubble. robbing an opponent of a home run. he had a 1 for 5 in the ballgame last night. off the end of the bat of, off redding's slider away and a two

strike count. >> jim: i watched the game, wasn't broadcasting the orioles, and he really moved the ball around. 87, 89, good change-up. got a curveball and a slider to go with it. >> gary: jones will foul that one back on a fastball. >> jim: but he's not overpowering. i never saw him throw any of that kind of velocity against the phillies. but the one thing that he did do, you talk about the record, the nationals were the worst team in baseball, at least record-wise, 20-13 in his starts last year. >> gary: a very impressive number that the team would perform that well. that had to be the best on the staff for the nationals last year with the team winning in games started. the struggles have been a bit harder this season. redding works quickly. jones will take it the other way. that is going to be a foul ball.

orioles last night picked up four runs on seven hits, generally enough to give you a chance to win. by the time they got those runs in the ninth inning, the ballgame had pretty much run away from dave trembley's team because of the error and the three unearned runs. gives themselves a chance in the rubber match tomorrow. both these teams can produce runs in the first inning. most in the majors you're looking at there. the mets 50 and the orioles with 44. >> jim: an intriguing number. i was wondering, when you think about that, do you think that maybe you prepare better for the starting pitcher than you do some of the relievers because you see them, you see the film, get a better handle on them? >> gary: they're the ones you're looking at. >> jim: obviously you're at the top of your line-up.

roberts and markakis and jones have been so hot throughout the year. >> gary: the other interesting part about scoring runs in the first inning is that these two teams, the mets and the orioles, are also the only teams in the majors who have allowed more than 40 runs in the first inning. so there's a lot of offense in the first couple innings when these two teams play both ways. >> jim: you wonder, because we look at the orioles, they had an ineffective and an injured laden starting staff early on and they made some changes. we're going to see those really over the next couple of months. the mets with perez out, maine out, they've lost 40% of their starting pitching. >> gary: and what a walk that was. did he earn that one.

only 13 walks surrendered, and that will put jones on. markakis coming up. nick's got the bat going on, as last night he delivered a single and an rbi, with the home run, his 8th of the season. 21 game home rub drought over. and that's good news not only for markakis but also for the orioles offense, as obviously having nick hitting is vital. markakis in the third hole against the right-hander. and that's going to be a base hit into right field. jones will make a turn. he will stay as church fires it all the way in to third, knocked down by wright. so we talked about first inning offense. the orioles with one down, two on. >> jim: it looks like a high fastball. last night, pelfrey pitched him

away, he singled to left. but we're looking at a 25 year outfielder that's a .299 lifetime hitter. as any hitter, when you're going to get 550 at-bats to play, you're going to have the peaks and the valley. just does too many good things at the plate oh go into any kind of prolonged slump. >> gary: now aubrey huff gets the shot. aubrey's .304 with runners in scoring position. about 60 points higher -- 40 points higher than his overall batting average coming into the ballgame. he's got 41 rbi's. he'll take the fastball away. nick markakis with 42 runs batted in is the leader for the

orioles in the rbi department, just one behind him is adam jones who has 41. >> jim: that batting average down because of the .200 average against lefties. he's a .278 lifetime hitter against left-handed pitching. that's the type of pitcher that tim redding is. not that overpowering. he's more comfortable at about 88. >> gary: 40 rbi players, there aren't many. orioles have the three, the indians and the phillies, luke scott being the fourth with 36. huff will reach, he's got a base hit. going oh bring jones home. church coming in. he'll just lob it back. the orioles have a 1-0 lead. aubrey huff the rbi. mr. bobblehead is bouncing. >> jim: he really earned that walk, as you mentioned. here's the change-up again.

you can see by x-mo, aubrey's out in front of it. but he's able to get it by daniel murphy into right field. a great jump. >> gary: good at-bat by aubrey huff after he got fooled on a couple of pitches. now melvin mora. mora's got a five game hit streak going. tailor-made for two. and the relay throw made by castillo. that will do it. - oh, it's on. - it's on. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - 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.

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>> gary: tonight's contestant is michele, she has a chance to win $99 worth of scratch-off tickets from the maryland lottery for every orioles home run hit tonight. michele, good luck. it will be a tough night for the homers with the air as heavy as it is with rain around in the area, and the wind which was swirling has pretty much stopped now. ball didn't carry particularly well last night. >> jim: luke scott said he thought he hit a ball to left field that normally would have had a chance to go out. >> gary: here's david wright leading hitter in the majors. he's second in hits in the

national league. pops that one up, first base. let's get this over with right now. >> jim: one thing about -- we talked about only the two walks in 29 innings, but the amazing thing to me, he has that track record of not walking anybody in japan, 206 walks in almost 1600 innings. those are amazing numbers. but he doesn't give in to hitters. it's on his terms. it looks to me, you made such a cogent point before about being a reliever the last two years, but he really does command the baseball. >> gary: i'm beginning to think for koji uehara, that stamina may be the number one concern to have about him and what he's going to do as a starter. particularly as the weather

heats up. this unseasonably cool weather is very favorable for uehara, but when it gets to summer in baltimore and that humidity and the temperatures are up, how will he fare as a starter in games here. church drills that one into the gap in right center field. that will take a couple of hops and hit the wall. he's on his way to second base. ryan church kicks it off tonight with a double. gary sheffield, the designated hitter coming up. all about the long ball. it's about getting to the number 500 which he has done as he continues up the list playing in another season, that he really thought he would play. passing eddie murray on the all- time home run list, for what is obviously a magic number when it comes to home runs. that's .500. runner on at second base. and he takes it outside.

.500 is a big number on this date, ernie banks and willie mayes who had already hit 500 both had a home run in the same game. it was the first time ever, two 500 home run hitters caught one in the same ballgame. two more deserving there couldn't be in that department than banks and mayes. and since then, home runs in the same game by double 500 hitters, sosa and griffey the last two, bonds and palmeiro, aaron and mayes, and mayes and banks. that's about it. >> jim: there's only 25 in the history of the game. >> gary: so there aren't many active at once. >> jim: the amazing thing about sheffield, he's also 25th in rbi's. so he can drive runners in. you can see the numbers right

there. >> gary: fouls it back. there will be no play on it. >> jim: i asked him, i said at 40 do you feel like you have to cheat on the fastball. he said, no, because the games i've seen him play over the last 10 days, looked like he was ex-banding the -- expanding the strike zone in. that's what the yankees were trying to do. over the years, quickest tbhat i've seen. >> gary: and it's as hard a cut as he's taken. one of the problems last year was physically he couldn't do that the way he wanted to. he couldn't give it that full cut and he never found a way to adjust. >> jim: that front arm so important for the extension and quickness to the ball. >> gary: church on at second base. sheffield, off the end of the bat fouls it away again. and it will stay at 1-2. >> jim: the amazing thing about a guy that can hit all these

home runs, all the rbi's, is that he's never struck out a hundred times. swing that hard, but it's the ability to center the ball. and he has hit, from my vantage point, some of the hardest line drives i've ever seen hit. >> gary: i would think has a pitcher, this has to be one of the pitchers are not necessily fearful, but mo concerns hitters youce. >> jim: the guys i worried, jim rice, frank howard, guys that that could just center the ball and hit it as hard. george scott was another guy that really hit the ball. rice was so adept at doing that. >> gary: hef field went around. he's gone.

>> jim: mr. splitter. get ahead, and we saw what happened. there you go. there's the tumble. it comes out like a fastball, except you split your fingers. and it shows that. the good ones you don't really discern the spin. >> gary: here's daniel murphy. murphy with a potential tying run on at second base. trying to pick up the rbi here. murphy had an 0 for 3 in the ballgame last night. this is the bottom part of the order that because of the injuries is one that pitchers have to after. u't to get murphy, schneider. murphy and schneider are a couple in the line-up you really want to get out of there and not let hurt you.

reimold over, he's not going to get it. he hu him. this is a tie ballgame as murphy delivers an rbi single, and church scores. >> jim: last year he came up, out of the minor leagues, he goes 10 for 20, and this is what he did well. you can see matt wieters move up and in and the ball runs out over the plate. so they don't get the ball where they wanted to. >> gary: good job of hitting by murphy. that's his 21st run batted in. so he's on at first base, it is a two out rbi. and the catcher brian schneider. schneider had a good night last night as he ended up with a two for three, a couple of hits in the ballgame. single, double, rbi. >> jim: the rbi single went right through the legs of jeremy guthrie. that was the fourth run in that

four-run fourth inning. >> gary: schneider, brian roberts will have plenty of time and gets the out.