umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> jim: after no score, we to the bottom of the second as rich hill goes to work against the marlins retired the side in the order in the first on three strikeouts. tonight, we are covering the base wall street rich hill presented by home depot. visit homedepot.com/spring, more saving. more doing. that's the power of home depot. >> buck: you see some of the notes on rich hill drafted by the cubs out of university of michigan. fourth round pick in 2002. 21-18 hinges with the cubs and orioles. 183 strikeouts in 2007 with the cubsment so far this season, a3- 1 record. we mernd mentioned the club is 6-1 when rich hill goes to the mound. >> jim: jorge cantu leads off

takes a breaking ball inside. 1-0. uggla on deck then paulino, four, five and six against the oriole left-hander who is 6'5". he is the shorter of the two pitchers in this game. cantu hit in three straight games. he takes a fastball low. 2-0 on jorge cantu. rich hill began the year on the disabled list with a bad elbow in spring training. pop-up right side. wigginton backing up on it and the first baseman has it for the out and one away as rich hill retires his fourth consecutive batter. >> buck: let's take a look at the defense behind rich hill. nolan reimold returns to left field as he got the night off last night. jones and markakis round out the defense. andino and roberts, the double play combination. mora and wigginton at the corners and matt wieters catches of the this is his fourth game in a row. this is the fourth time he's done this in the big leagues --

first time he's dug done this in the big leagues catching four in a row. >> jim: dan uggla bats now. uggla moves up one spot with jeremy hermida not in the lineup. gets a fastball 1-0. uggla now in his fourth season with the marlins coming -- he already has 14 this year. he's 4-8 in the series including a home run. inside, ball three. >> buck: pretty good pitch just missed away. rich hill thought he hadmate made a good pitch with that fastball. >> jim: john hirschbeck the crew chief takes the plate. there's a flake -- if it was in the vicinity, it would be a strike. noafts as much a pitcher's up pier as he was earlier -- earlier in his career.

3-1 is there for a strike in the outside corner. 3-2. >> buck: this is one thing rich hill did necessary his laststart well. he made in-game adjustments. middle of an inning, he fawltz falls behind 3-0. gets back into a count with two good fastballs. >> jim: breaking ball hit through the middle. there's a base hit. marlins have their first base runner. >> buck: dan uggla made up his mind he was going to get a hook right there. you can see he wasn't thinking about anything but a curve ball. he has two strikeouts in the first inning. came on a tubl curve ball that he is not even thinking fastball. rich hill is a little frustrated. he got back into that at-bat and then allowed uggla to single with one out here. >> jim: for the first time tonight, hill through the stretch. here is ronny paulino who is the backup catcher on this team getting a start tonight. he bats right-handed. so, with hill on the mound, fredi gonzalez gives paulino the start. he's 28 years old.

last year in the pirates organization. >> buck: well, paulino is in here for one reason because he wears out rich hill. 7-16 with a home run. >> jim: there's a strike on the inside corner. 1-1. >> buck: ronny paulino was in spring training camp with the philadelphia phillies and right at the end he was traded from philadelphia to seattle, but didn't stay there at all. ended up down here with the florida marlins. >> jim: 1-1 the count ton paulino. check swing and it's outside. appeal to first. he did not swing says wally bell. >> buck: one thing that matt wieters is going to have to be aware of tonight, is beings -- it looks like when they goat a two strike situation, marlins are going to look breaking ball. he checked his swing just in time on that outside fastball. -- outside fastball.

>> jim: 2-1 is low. ball three. >> buck: used a changeup there. one thing you have to be aware of, if you see batters sitting back looking for that hook, then you've got to throw some more heil high fastballs to make themchange their game plan and start to get on the fastball again. then you can go back to the hook. >> jim: uggla chased back to first. there have been only five stolen base attempts against rich hill on the year. four have been successful. the orioles have caught the other. high fly ball deep to right center field. jones, a long runway out there. he runs it down for the out. 404 to that part of the ballpark. jones needed just about every bit of that to haul it in for the out. >> buck: that's what you got to do. you've got to know your ballpark if you're rich hill keep them in the big part of the diamond. this ball is smoked. ronny paulino thinks he's hit it out of the ballpark. look at adam jones. he knows he has plenty of room. takes just a stride on to the

warning track and paulino hit it good. look at adam jones. you've got to believe he loves playing in this spacious outfield with plenty of room to roam. >> jim: we see it every game. it still amazes me concentrating running back on a fly ball he can still blow a bubble. >> buck: he's an athlete. >> jim: unbelievable. >> buck: it's not that difficult. >> jim: i think it is. i don't know that i could do that. >> buck: i'm sure you could if you had a little practice. >> jim: adam joined us last night on wired wednesday and he told us sitting out of the game he was bored. he likes to get in there and play. curve ball for a strike to cody ross. >> buck: cody ross has been wearing out the orioles on this trip. last night he had three big hits including two doubles and should have had an extra rbi. he ended up with two. ground-ruled double cost him one. >> jim: fastball rode in on him. now it's 0-2. all right.

let's analyze this, mr. analyst. jones going back on the ball. >> buck: looking to see where he is in relationship to the wall. casual, little bubble right there. >> jim: there's one. there's two. >> buck: got room. >> jim: not a big deal. >> buck: see how he separates his glove from his body and keeps his glove in his vision. john shelby has done a good job about that. i asked him about that. he says you always know where your hand is where you see it. it's in your field of vision. it gives you better hand-eye coordination and made adam aware you want o'keep your glove to a point where you have a sense of where it is. don't threat get up over your head where you lose that glove in your field of vision. he's done a great job separating his body from his glove, but keeping it in his eye line. >> jim: runner goes. pitch is swung on and hit deep to left field. back it goes! it's gone! cody ross with a two-run home run and the marlins grab the

sleed. -- grabt lead. buck mentioned he's been wearing out the orioles in this series and keeps it going. that's his 13th home run. >> buck: only the second home run that rich hill has allowed. it's a fastball. inner part of the plate. cody ross is all over it. he had a wig night -- big night last night. there's a no doubt home run. he just tosses the bat aside. it's deep into the blue seats above the scoreboard in left field. he had three hits including two doubles last night. two rbi's and picks up two more here tonight. >> jim: here is brett carroll, the number eight batter getting a start tonight in right field. fredi gonzalez like dave trembley has stacked his lineup tonight with right-handers. brett carroll gets the start. >> buck: well, fredi gonzalez now has a new rbi leader with cody ross hitting the two-run

home run, he now has 45 rbi's to lead the ball club. >> jim: fastball is outside. >> buck: good balance in this lineup. they have four hitters in their lineup with 40 or more rbi's. >> jim: 3-0 the count on the marlins right fielders. there's a strike. he took all the way. carroll, 10th-round nick 2004 now in his third season. last year, he had a right shoulder sprain which really hindered his ability to play. there's a two-out walk, so down to -- counsel -- down to first base goes brett carroll with two men downment here is a way to save on orioles tickets to the next game. by the flex pack and save on tickets to four upcoming games of your choice including a prime game plus for a limited time purchase two seats. you'll receive an autographed photo of nolan reimold and if you purchase four seats, you'll also get an autographed pitcher of matt wieters.

details, 888-848-bird or on- line at orioles.com. here is the pitcher sean west. there's a strike. of course, you can get out of it by getting the pitcher. if you're rich hill, you really wanted to get brett carroll so west would lead off next inning. fouled. looked like he got a piece of wieters. it's 0-2. >> buck: well, sean west doesn't have any hits. he's 0-6. you can see how he swings the bat and how big he is that if he ever squares up on it, i don't know if the ballpark can hold it. 6'8", about 235. >> jim: there's the 0-2. curve ball, he got him. so, strikeout number four ends the inning, but not before cody ross with a two-run home run his 13th on the year. marlins now with a 2-0 lead.

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both -- like to boat or fish or both. rich hill leading off for the orioles now down 2-0. roberts and markakis will follow. rich hill has a base hit he picked newspaper philadelphia last week. he hits that down the line. it is a foul ball. just did hook foul. >> buck: that one didn't feel good. look at his hands. they don't hit that often. if you go up there without that pair of batting gloves on, you can get blisters in a short amount of time they swing during batting practice. >> buck: he b.j. uptoned it foul. got a piece of paulino the catcher. not a bad idea. bonifacio was deep at third.

sean west has two wins in this his rookie season. he is 1-1 in his starts against the a. l. east. he beat toronto but lost to the yankees. this is his third start in the a. l. east and it will be his last. tampa bay will be hosting florida beginning tomorrow night. the marlins final three interleague games. ground ball towards third goes foul. that looked like an inside-out swing. >> buck: no, that looked like self-defense. [ laughter ] >> jim: come on. work with me here. >> buck: that is in the by design. watch this. get out of there. [ laughter ] that was not an inside-out swing. >> jim: i guarantee it will be as he fouls it back. >> buck: his base hit against the phillies came against the left-hander antonio bastardo, the starter. rich hill had a base hit in his first at-bat in that ballgame. droan drove in a run. >> jim: the count holding 1-2

on rich hill. high fly ball to right. brett carroll has a play now backs up a few steps has it for the outs. rich hill gets some good wood on it and one away. covering the bases tonight with rich hill, we asked him about his clubhouse personalities. >> i like to joke around. i do. it's kind of like that comfortlevel getting in there just kind of seeing which way you can go and which way you can -- how far you can i guess push the limits and joke around with some of the guys. >> jim: of course, he's in his first season with the orioles. he has to learn the other personalities. >> buck: absolutely. first thing he wants to do is be a contributor to the baseball effort and then he'll be more comfortable once that happens and falls into place. he's been a nice piece and done a nice job since he joined the club. as jim mentioned earlier, he

started the season in the lesion. -- minor leagues. he had problems in spring training. they shut him down for periods of time. he had to rebuild stamina and work his way back from the minor leagues. >> jim: ball two to brian roberts, 2-1. west has averaged about six strikeouts per nine innings but also is averaging four walks. he has not yet walked a batter here tonight. roberts has worked the count to 3-1. that's hard hit but foul. it's into the orioles bullpen. >> buck: when you see these young pitchers, you have a tendency to forget they're so early in their career. just seven starts. he came up from double-a. eats going -- he's going to have command issues and his mechanics are going in and out as he works his way through big league hitters. efer every once in a while, eel he'll make a good pitch like

that one 93-mile-per-hour fastball away from brian roberts. just 23 years old. he just turned 23 this month. i still marvel at the fact that he is coming back from shoulder surgery and throwing so well. >> jim: fouled off the foot of brian roberts. the orioles have been having trouble scoring runs. main reason is run producers are not producing. look at this the recession of the rbi column in the month of june. it's amazing that the leadoff man not known necessarily as a run producer by driving in runs, more so in scoring runs, brian roberts lead the club in rbi's this month. >> buck: he had five in the three games in philadelphia, so that will boost his total and you look at the rest of the team. just not an awful lot of production. brian is having a tough time of walking off the effects of that foul ball. it looked like it caught him on the left foot somewhere whether it's right on top of it or on the inside of the ankle bone.

john hirschbeck is giving him plenty of time to regroup a bit before he steps back in against the big lefty. >> jim: 3-2 the count. chopper towards the right side. uggla to his left and far to his left has roberts for the out and two men down. one pitch after fouling it off his foot he puts in play. he has to run down to the -- run down to first base. roberts retired for the second out -- second out. that will bring up nick markakis for the bases empty. nick doubled in the first. just his second hit in this series. he's had a pretty rough road trip now 5-20 on the trip. >> buck: it doesn't help when you're scuffling a little bit like markakis right now when you face in so -- face so many

left-handers. two in this series. two in the phillies series. they're not soft tossing lefties either. andrew miller held the lefties to seven hits over the first inning and that was the first batter of the ballgame brian roberts. you saw bastardo and cole hamels in philadelphia and cole hamels, of course, has steapd established himself as one of the premier left-handers in all of baseball. it's a challenge when you're not really swing the bat the way you would like and then you compound that with a whole lineup of left-handed starters. >> jim: on a four-pitch walk with two men down, markakis on base a second time. first walk allowed by sean west. west coming off a loss. he lost to the yankees last friday night. lasted only four innings and allowed five runs on 10 hits as adam jones comes up representing the tying run. markakis now will take his lead

from first. that's over, but low, 1-0. he had won his prior two starts before facing the yankees in interleague play. two wins since coming up from double-a. he made eight starts in the minors. this is his seventh for themarlins. he misses inside adam jones with ball two. adam popped out to second base his first at-bat. he's now 0-8 in the series and 0-- 0-9 last overall. there's a strike taken all the way. 2-1. west has been stingy with the base hits allowed in the big leagues. he's -- he is allowing 7 1/2

per nine innings so less than one per inning. check swing low breaking ball. ball three. >> buck: yeah, west has not made any real good pitches bottom of the strike zone. we talked about how important that is for him during our scouting report. when he gets those low strikes, man, he can really be a tough opponent for hitters. so far he hasn't zeroed in on the low strike. >> jim: 3-1 on jones. markakis takes his lead. high fly to center field. cody ross in on the ball has a play and has it for the out. the orioles are done in the third. a two-out walk, but a man left. marlins coming up in the bottom of the third against rich hill with a 2-0 lead. change it up a bit... and you're sure to get a reaction. [ motorcycle engine growl ] ♪ don't let erectile dysfunction slow things down.

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>> amber: back the oriole trailing 2-0 here in the third. leadoff batter for the marlins chris coghlan. coghlan wears the number eight he told me because he loved cal ripken, jr. growing up. he grew up in rockville, maryland, till he was 9 years old and then his parents moved to tampa where he would see the orioles in spring training. he always wanted to meel meet cal. when he was 7 years old, his patients took him to camden yards and waited for the right- field line to meet cal ripken. he was going to throw his hat and ball on the field so cal would drop it. he thought would he pick it up, sign it and give it back to him, but chris' timing was all wrong. he threw the hat and ball behind cal and toad beg a security guard to get his hat

and ball back. he says hopefully now that i'm in the big leagues, i'll have a clabs to -- clans to meet cal ripken. >> jim: well, if the orioles hosted the marlins, we might have made that happen. that's a nice story out of rockville, maryland. >> buck: yeah, i can see him too an 8-year-old going he's going to pickup my hat and, would you sign it, plees please. he never saw it. you know he would have had he seen it. he was great signing autographs. at the end of his career, i don't know how he did t every night standing out there signing autographs for hours after the game. when you've got to alaud that, man. he was something else with all the demands on his time, he still had plenty of time for the people that meant the most him to and that was the fans. >> jim: 0-2 is outside. coghlan moving to the tampa area then went to college at the university of mississippi. outside, ball two. >> buck: we mentioned what a

good athlete he is. he's an infielder and second baseman and he went to the outfield. played a total of one game in the minor leagues this year and then they called him up and he's been in left field most of the time. >> jim: takes a close pitch for ball three. coghlan was down 0-2. now he's worked -- worked it full. marlins lineup has a lot of energy. hit hard foul. you talk about how they do with what they have and the athletes they have and versatile baseball players. for the most part, they start four second baseman, but they all hustle. they all have a lot of energy and they all seem to play well together. they're really developing a pretty good team down here. here is the 3-2 curve ball puld pulled. markakis towards the line. coghlan is hustling to second base. the throw will not be in time. after getting no balls and two strikes, coghlan gets on with a

leadoff dubl double. >> buck: he has a breaking ball with two strikes. you can see coghlan he saw the ball out of rich hill's hand. still trying to create deception dropping down from the side. coghlan back used his hands very hard and ripped the ball into right field for the double. his eighth double of the season. >> bob: >> jim: marlins with a 2-0 lead now the double. emilio bonifacio coming up. orioles expecting a sacrifice as mora creeps into third. he shows bunt inside. >> buck: well, melvin mora is in front of the bag at third. he angles his body so he can keep an eye on the base runner at second base. he's got to be aware should there be a steal attempt, so he has to angle his body to keep that base runner in his sights. >> jim: bunts toward third and

melvin let's it roll foul. one thing about this marlins lineup i guess in part because they have so many inexperienced hitters, but if you're aggressive and you throw strikes, you have a good chance to get them out. they lead the national league in striking out. with the four tonight, it's 589 strikeouts now. that's more than any other club. >> buck: they're showing good patience tonight by staying back and anticipating curve balls on two strike counts. >> buck: he bunts again back to hill. he turns and gets it to first and sacrifice is successful. fredi gonzalez already with a lead trying to get an add on run. leadoff double who sacrifices him to third. he's now at third base with one down. >> buck: there's the base runner at second base. rich hill comes over and fields t you can see he doesn't think about third base. he had his body position to go

to first befored ball -- before the ball was in his glove. it wasn't the type of hard bunt you get a chance to get that runner from second to third on the force out. >> jim: when there's no force, you have to be certain that you're going to be able to get it there in time. he took the sure out. here is ramirez with the field in. he takes inside. hanley ramirez is the leading hitter in the national league run withers in scoring position. he comp with a man at @hird. >> buck: that average is elevated in this situation with the infield drawn in. you really limit the infield arrests range. i understand the strategies eadown by two. >> jim: there's a strike. good pitch opt hitting with runners in scoring position, you play the infield back, he'll play pepper with the middle infielders and pickup the rbi. now you have to force him to hit a base hit or hit one to the outfield. >> jim: off the glove of hill through the middle into center

field there's a base hit. coghlan scores. 3-0, florida. ramirez comes through again driving in frthird his 43rd rbi. it's 3-0. florida. >> buck: he stays up the middle in this situation. watch how he keeps his hands inside the baseball not thinkiut too much baseball. he really kiofjammed onside fastball because he's got a good approach here atúúúúúth ppp hnkigúaoteeiñg8txe8ball he g part of the field, pp @oóglove into center. brian roberts couldn't knock it down. it wasn't that sharply hit, but was a drawn in infield. you give up the base hits. now, if that infield is played in normal positions, you give up the run anyway. brian roberts might be able to turn it into a 4-3 put out. runner is going to score from third with a ground ball up the middle. >> jim: jorge cantu batting with a runner at first. still