family? >> don't know. i actually have a degree in chemical engineering from carnegie-mellon and i worked in that field for several years before coming into the book industry but i am far from being able to go into that. i'm not sure what my future holds. >> al schuman is a co owner of the trover books shop. ..

>> robert mcnamara defense secretary during the johnson and kennedy administrations appeared on booknotes in 1995 to discuss his book, 'in retrospect" the tragedy and lessons of vietnam. according to mr. mcnamera u.s. policy was based on the domino theory in which the loss of vietnam would initiate a collapse of nations including the united states. robert mcnamera died on july 6, 2009. this booknotes is a two-hour

program. c-span: robert mcnamara, when was the first time you can ever remember thinking about public service? >> guest: i hadn't anticipated that question. very early, i think. in the book, you may have noticed, there's a pictorial section, and i was under contract to do 16 pages of pictures. my wife always took care of photographs and things, and so when i began to work -- she died 14 years ago and i have absolutely zero order in my home with respect to pictures, so i took two or three days out to try to find pictures that i thought they might be interested. i wanted to start with a picture of me as an eagle scout, and you may think that's absurd, but that's there for the reason that scouting began to set my values, in addition to exposing me to the mountains, which had become an obsession. but scouting began

to set my values. i, as you can see, i have the eagle scout badge on. one of the merit badges -- we had to earn 21 merits -- one of them was in civics, and i learned in the civics merit badge, in a broad sense, it's the responsibility of every citizen to serve. so to answer your question, if it doesn't sound absurd to your audience, i began to think of public service, in various forms, when i was 12 or 13 years old. but then perhaps the time i really began to focus on it was in -- well, by the way, i volunteered for world war ii, and i don't say that to gain any credit. please don't misunderstand me. i had two deferments. i had an educational deferment because i was teaching at harvard in an officer candidate school, and i had a family deferment because i had a 1-year-old child. but i volunteered, not -- i

don't want any glory for it. that's what i think citizens should do. they have an obligation to serve their country. then it came, more closely hit home because in, i suppose -- i've forgotten the exact year -- but the mid-1950s, when i was an officer of ford motor company, i was asked if i would consider an assistant secretaryship in the air force. at that particular time, it didn't sound to me as though i could contribute anything. it wasn't a position of any great responsibility, so i said no. but it was very much on my mind, and i said to marg, "would you be willing to think about moving, giving up ford motor company and moving to public service?" and she said, "look, you believe, i believe in that. that's what we'll do." c-span: where'd you grow up? >> guest: i grew up in california. i was born in san francisco, and i grew up there.

in the book -- and i want to, i hope we can develop this theme later. but you asked me where i grew up. i grew up in san francisco. my earliest memory is of a city exploding with joy. the date was november 11, 1918, armistice day. i was 2 years old. the city was san francisco. it was celebrating, obviously, the end of world war i, which we'd won. but more fundamentally, it was celebrating the belief that that was a war to end all wars. that was president woodrow wilson's view. that was the view of many, many americans. we were totally wrong! this is the bloodiest century in history. we, the human race, will have killed a 160 million other human beings. in any event, i grew up in san francisco and, you know, in a wonderful environment. i went to first grade there in a school

that i could walk to. there'd been a slight baby boom in world war i, and by the time i got into the first grade in about 1922, there weren't any classrooms in the normal school buildings; they were full. so i literally went to school in a shack, a wooden shack, but we had a fantastic teacher. in the first grade she gave the class a test every month, and she reseated the class based on the results of that test. and there were vertical rows like this, and i worked my tail off to be in the first seat in the left-hand row. and i can remember this as though it were yesterday, and my competition were chinese, japanese and jews. there were a lot of wasps in the class, but i didn't worry about them. it was the chinese, japanese and jews i worried about, and i worked my tail off five days a week to beat them. on saturday and sunday, i went and i played with my neighborhood classmates. they went to their ethnic schools.

they learned their language, they learned their history, they learned their culture, they learned their values, and they came back on monday determined to beat that damn irish. i'm happy to say they rarely did. c-span: what were your parents about? what were they like? >> guest: well, my parents, my father was irish. as a matter of fact, many, if not most, of my uncles and aunts, his sisters and brothers on my father's side, were actually born in ireland. my father was much older than my mother, and his father and mother and many of his sisters and brothers -- it was a rather large family -- had been forced out of ireland beyond the potato famine. the potato famine, as i recall, was 1845-48. and i think they came, as i remember it, in the 1850s to massachusetts, and then the full family went to california.

then my father crossed the isthmus of panama on his way to california on muleback in -- i've forgotten when -- 1863 or something like that. he never went beyond the eighth grade. my mother never went beyond high school. this was one of the reasons i was expected to, i'll call it, achieve. i was expected to learn, to take advantage of the opportunities that were open to me that they hadn't had an opportunity to take advantage of, and this was a tremendous stimulus to me. c-span: you ended up going to the university of california-berkeley, and you talk in the book about you wanted to find the least expensive and the best. >> guest: i was going to -- well, that's not quite correct. c-span: it's close. >> guest: you're almost right, but let me put it slightly differently. in a sense, the best was thought to be stanford at the time. it wasn't the best, but that was the common view, and i think it was thought to be the best because it was quite expensive. so i applied for stanford, and

it was one of the few universities in the country at that time that had entrance exams. today it's quite common; then it was very uncommon. i took the entrance exam and passed it, and it was only then i understood how much it cost. there was no chance of me going to stanford. there wasn't any chance of me going anywhere unless it was almost free. and as it happened, i went to the best or certainly one of the two or three best universities in the entire world, the university of california at berkeley. it cost me $52 a year. i could not have gone to college had it not been for that. and today that university is under tremendous stress because of proposition 13 in california. they're denying it the funds that they need to maintain excellence. people have said to me many times in the last 20, 30, 40 years, "you've been in business. you, why do you think the state of california has been the preeminent state in this country in terms of, i'll call it, industrial advance? silicon valley, for example.

why is that?" there's one major reason. it's the educational system, the public educational system. the schools i went to and the university and that university system trained the people that in large measure contributed to the social and economic advance of that state in the last half century, and they're beginning to lose that preeminence because of financial limitations. c-span: what did you study? >> guest: i really had, in a sense, three majors. the primary major was economics. but in a sense, the two more important majors were philosophy and mathematics, and i say more important because i think -- i came from a family that almost never read a book, and i had a rather narrow focus of the world and ideas when i went to the

university of california. it opened up for me the world -- values. this is what particularly the philosophy courses did -- moral values, ethical values. i was exposed to history, politics, international relations. it was an eye-opener, and i've never forgotten it. c-span: let me jump, if you don't mind, to this photograph right here. >> guest: that's a photograph of what were called the whiz kids. there were 10 of us. we had served in the army together. this is long story, and i don't know how far you want to get into it. we'd served in the army together, and we were led by one man, tex thornton, this man. you just can't believe this story. he went in as a second lieutenant. robert lovett, who had been an

investment banker in new york, had become assistant secretary of the army. there was no air force at that time. there was what was called the army air corps, and robert lovett had become assistant secretary of the army for air. he came in there and they had -- i've forgotten the figures, but these are rough orders of magnitude -- they had maybe a thousand airplanes and maybe 1,500, 1,700 officers, almost all pilots. you recall roosevelt, one of the things he did was say, "we've got to produce 50,000 airplanes a year." you know, we're going to fight germany and possibly later japan, and we had, i'll call it, a thousand airplanes. so lovett began to work on that, and the first thing he found, an investment banker, he found there was nothing to work with. nobody knew how many airplanes they had, what condition they were in, what the plans were for the future, so he thought he had to begin to get some information.

somebody mentioned to him there was some second lieutenant who had been working in one of the departments in washington as a civilian but who was, i believe, in the reserve. he could be called up to duty. they said, "he knows something about data and information and facts and statistics. why don't you get a hold of him?" so lovett got hold of thornton, and thornton built the whole thing. it became known as statistical control, and that was the foundation of the management system for managing what became a tremendous operation, the u.s. army air corps. c-span: fill in the blanks on the whiz kids at ford. >> guest: let me say one further thing about that photograph. hold it up again just one second. there are 10 individuals in that photograph, and i'll tell you a little bit about them in a moment. but of the 10, two committed suicide, two became presidents of ford -- me and

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espn. >> sanchez says yes. 2-2 pitch. curveball. struck him out looking. the giants race onto the field. the jump on the back of 26 year old, sanchez. he has become the first giants pitcher, in 33 years, to pitch a no-hitter. >> the scene in san francisco, where sanchez became the first pitcher, in baseball, this sea son to throw a no-hitter. i'm curious to know, what you saw differently from him, last night. >> firstly, i mean, this was unexpected, but, the reality is, he did the -- the little things, which is something that he had not been doing for a quite awhile. get ahead of the hitters. he had 7 walks, and five strikeouts, against the diamondbacks. that's not what you're looking for. get ahead of the hitters.

he was ahead. especially, with that dramatic curveball. i've been so impressed with the ability to throw that long extended yakker. but, he's been hot and cold, with throwing strikes. last night, big difference. great with his curveball. and great defense. and you have to have luck. another sanchez, that was able to throw a no-hitter for the marlins, that did the surprising thing, too. same way. getting ahead of hitters, and throwing a lot of strikes. >> scoring runs is something that san francisco got. it has been an issue, with the giants, this season. but, that rotation, is so good. how far can they take that team? >> take them at least to the "promise land" of not winning this division, but to the wildcard. no doubt, from the beginning, i thought, yes, they'll struggle. but, what a great rotation. when you get into their bullpen.

whenever you have a kane. lincecum, just missed a no-hitter, the night of about. now you have matt cain. so, this is, crazy, as far as what they can throw at you. now, offensively, they have to get a bat. and it looks like sanchez, might be a guy that they're very hot after. >> zito can get it on track. >> another guy. >> three good lefties. >> two games to play, cubs are one game under .500. >> my cubs. >> lou said after yesterday's loss, it's just one game. what does lou know that we don't? >> what he knows is that this is a marathon. and, thankfully, there's enough clogged up, in the central division, that the opportunity, to make a run of still available. one of the keys that maybe he knows that we don't know, ramirez, is back in the lineup.

today, he's knocked in an r.b.i. and less than a week. this is a catalist. you add lee, to the mixture, now he's turned it on. my concern comes in harden. that's the guy, that i'm not -- figuring out why he's been struggling so much. but he has. he needs to get it right, to have the 1-2. >> lineup that has struggled so much this season. soriano, and soto, and list goes on. >> mets sent church for francoeur. what else do the mets need to do? >> well, by the way, that really is an interesting trade because, it's a rare inside the season, inside your own division. they were like, tau our guy and we'll take your your guy. and see if they can wake up. health means wealth and how long do you wait for reyes and

delgado. and the most important player, beltran, most dynamnick, how long do you have to wait for that? bun positive, a guy that might be back before them, wagner, might be back. imagine a wagner, and k-rod. >> with putz, if he gets back. >> health has been terrible. >> first trade between the mets and braves in 23 years. >> who are sellers? >> the bad teams, right off the bat. nats, a couple couple couple of. with nick johnson, and dunn. and fairly, can be had. but, i look at k.c., gil meche, doesn't want to leave but that's interesting. you can look at other teams like the o's. offensively, i love luke scott

and i like huff. two guys that can add some power to your offense. >> every team needs roy halladay. no one would turn him down. who stands the best chance to get him? >> another team that snuck in, that's the cardinals. rumored to be, hot and heavy for doc. take a lot of franchise players, prospects, also, some starting-pitching. i think the price is hefty. but, st. louis, and the key team, is the philadelphia phillies, if they do sign pedro martinez. >> empty out your farm system. >> you can catch him on "baseball tonight," 9:30 eastern on espn. >> thank you. >> coming up, the showdown, is near.

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 coming up in the next half- hour, brian roberts will look ahead to the second half of the season with amber theoharis. adam jones is getting ready for the all-star game in st. louis. jeremy guthrie couldn't pitch tonight with a viral infection. we'll preview the game, the orioles and the jays game two, coming up next on masn.   if the land of pleasant living, welcome to an evening of orioles baseball, game two of the three game series. "o's xtra" pregame on masn 2 brought to you by at&t.

toronto counters with ricky romero who is 7-3 with a 2.96 e.r.a. welcome to camden yards, as the orioles get ready to face the toronto blue jays in game two. jeremy guthrie out with a viral infection was able to start over the weekend. rich hill was taken out of the starting rotation. >> rich has really had a tough time, he struggled over his last three or four starts. that's really not like him, because he really has too good stuff. his curveball is one of the best curveballs i've seen in the american league all season long, but he's got to come up with something else other than that curveball because too many hitters are sitting on his fastball. they just wait for him to just take, you can't throw five curveballs in a row, so they're waiting for that one pitch to come by and it really doesn't have enough movement on him to get him out of trouble. when he comes up with something

that's a big change in speed, we're going to have us one of the better left-handers in the american league. >> should be interesting. for more on tonight's game let's check in with amber theoharis. >> tom, i know there's still two games left before the all- star break, but we're already looking towards the second half of the season. the big question will be will the orioles play better. the hope is that they will, and there's a belief that they could because of the amount of young talent on this roster. logical thinking tells you that matt wieters, nolan reimold, brad bergesen and the other young guys will only get better as they get more big league experience. brian roberts has been on the team for nine years, he's been through some long augusts and septembers. he knows what that feels like, i asked him if he thought this year could be different in the second half and what does he think about this team's up side. >> when you look at the amount of young guys that we have up here and the possibility of some more coming maybe in the second half, i think that as

older guys, we're certainly energized at times by them and in the past we've kind of filled holes with fill-in guys here and there, especially in the second half. this year we have guys that we're preparing for the future and that's good. >> is it also encouraging to think about guys like markakis and huff and really yourself that could have better second halfs and play up to an even higher level than they are now. >> well, yeah, i think all of us evaluate it at the break and see things that we want to improve on and need to work on and i think certainly all three of us older guys wish we'd have had a better first half probably in a lot of ways, g in some ways there are positive that is we can take that we didn't do everything bad, but we certainly want to improve on some things. >> and brian is right, a lot of the veterans can improve on a number of things. you look at melvin mora, he has nine home runs fewer than he had this time in 2008, brian

roberts batting average is down 22 points, aubrey huff is down 29 points since the 2008 season at that same point in 2008. it's obvious that the veterans hope that their bats will come around. a lot of proven hitters on this team. and it will be interesting to watch as these yuck players start to get more experience in the big leagues, it is a positive outlook for the second half of the season. >> our thanks to amber. time now to take a look at the toronto blue jays line-up. we begin with marco scutaro batting lead-off. aaron hill bats second, 20 homers, adam lind is the dh, lind is batting .338 with 11 homers. rick, how do you get adam lind out? >> you try not to pitch him in fastball situations. a lot of times you have to throw him backwards.

3-1 counts, throw him the off- speed because he's just too devastating a hitter. when he gets a pitch he's looking for in his zone, he is awesome. he's emerged as one of the top blue jay hitters in their organization. at all levels, he's tops in five different categories. rbi's, total bases, first in extra-base hits, hits, the guy's leading it all. he's not the guy you expect in the past like vernon wells to take over their ball club, and he keeps getting better and better. >> time now to take a look at the orioles starting line-up. ricky romero had a tough time getting left-handers out so the orioles have loaded their lineups with left-handers. luke scott hitting .338 against left-handers with seven home runs and 18 rbi's. adam jones has two home runs against the blue jays this season. how about adam jones, he's going to the all-star game on

tuesday in st. louis. how proud and how happy are you for adam jones? >> i really am, this guy right here, second year in the major leagues, he's making his first debut in an all-star game already. for the first couple of months of the season, he was in the top five hitters in all of baseball. so right now he still leads center fielders with a batting average of .308, he's second in rbi's, and he's third with home runs. the guy's awesome. not only does he do it on offense, he does it on defense. >> adam jones, the orioles only all-star. when we come back, rick will take a look back at what jason berken did last night. rick will comment on what he did last night as "o's xtra" pregame continues. fios guy! where ya headed?

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as the orioles tune up for this game with their orange batting practice jerseys on tonight. the orioles losing last night by 2-0. beautiful night for baseball here, nice breeze blowing and the orioles sister- in-law want to include this game hopefully without any rain coming down before the night is over. the orioles and blue jays game two of this three game series. last night the birds lost. it all happened in one inning for the toronto blue jays. dave dellucci comes in. >> good situational hitting. he gets a breaking ball in on his hands. he know he only has to hit a ground ball to the right side. >> raul chavez with an rbi double to left field. alex rios will score on this double down to the left field corner. >> ex-oriole looking for a fastball, he hooks it down the left-field line for the double. another run scores for the blue jays. this was all they needed for this game. >> adam jones gets a little

frustrated here as a nice catch against the railing here. >> not much of an opportunity for any of the orioles, only five hits on the night. very frustrating night. we're getting used to seeing five hits in one inning, but the orioles just could not put it together last night. >> luke scott had two of the orioles five base hits, extended his hit streak to 10. scott talked to amber theoharis after the game. >> well, my body feels good. i'm healthy, i'm thankful for that, and just not trying to do too much with what they've been throwing me, so my patience, you know, i've been patient at the plate, but also i like to call it selective aggressive. but it's been a good first half. >> just got to go in there and just try to do what you've been doing. regardless if you know the hitters or not. you got to come into the situation and just try to keep

the score the same, so you can get george in there for the win or the save opportunity. so just tried to hold the game where it was at. >> i wasn't trying to think every time throughout i'm learning something new. i think this is a good start to build off of. get a couple of days to rest here, looking forward to the second half. made some adjustments and i think my delivery has cleaned up pretty good. tonight the thought was a step in the right direction. >> said that he wanted to see you when you get ahead in the count to get two strikes to be able to put the batter away. earlier you did that with adam lind. >> i think anytime you get ahead like that, it's obviously important to put them away early. tonight was able to get ahead a little better than i have in the past. it's just, it was a, i'm happy with the way things went and i'm looking to build off this. >> jason berken pitched 5 2/3, allowed two runs, five hits,

two walks, a strikeout. rick, size up what you saw from berken last night? >> well, there's a lot of pressure on this young guy to go out there and put up some pretty good numbers. i thought last night was his best effort of the season. when you can hold the toronto blue jays to two runs, any team, even the blue jays, that's pretty darn good outing, especially at home where the orioles are such a good ball club offensively. they haven't really put up any runs for him all season long. i've seen a transformation early in his starts with the orioles, he was up in the strike zone, but now i see an effort down in the strike zone and i think that's what a lot of people don't see is the transformation there. he's missing down in the zone, and that's a good thing. because it's so much easier to bring a pitcher up in the zone than it is to try to bring him down in the course. we score him some runs, help him loosen up a little bit. i think we've got a keeper for our starting rotation. >> some very positive comments from rick dempsey who has caught a lot of pitchers in his

career. rick kranitz had a very yuck pitching staff in miami, he's got a young pitching staff in baltimore. >> we might see after the all- star break, you never know what's going to happen, you might see even younger guys that are down in triple-a come up at some point. what would you say the pitching coach is the biggest challenge that faces a pitching coach when you have so many young pitchers come up throughout the season at once. right now three of the rotation are those young guys. >> number one, they need to be true to themselves and who they are. you never know what's going to work for them until they get up here, and they don't know. they know what pitches they can throw, but when they get here, that's the test. that's even, you don't make changes right away. i don't like to make big changes anyway with guys, especially young guys or anybody that are in the big

leagues. it's tough enough to try to get the guys out to try to make them do something different. so i work within that frame of mind of what they do best, and then make small adjustments. you know, they need to be true to who they are, you know, then we make slight adjustments according to how they're throwing at that time. whether it's just like, for instance, with bergesen, we just added a little dumpy curveball for him. and just enough to, he doesn't use it a lot, but just enough to get the other hitters thinking of something else. small changes, but most of these young kids, they need to trust themselves, they need to trust their stuff. >> do you like being a part of an organization that has the prospect of young talent. >> oh, there's no question, i love watching young pitchers come up and play and pitch. i look forward to that.

i like seeing the new young talent come up, you know, and organizations giving them an opportunity. i think that's the way it should be. i think that's the way of the game. get them up here and let's see what they can do. i want to see our future. i want to see our future on the right timetable. i don't want them to come up here and when they're not ready. i think that's happened here a few times in the past, and that's the one thing i will go back and say, of the three guys that we have here, they seem to be ready. our guys in the minor leagues did a pretty good job preparing them to get up here to throwing strikes, to getting their change-up which we really worked hard on this past year because that's a very important pitch. all three of them have a pretty good change-up. and the other guys that are coming also worked very hard on their change-ups. so i'm looking forward to it. >> if the orioles are going to win consistently, they're going

to have to beat the american league east. here are the numbers against the east. bergesen 0-2, berken 1-2, but check the e.r.a.'s out. what does it tell you? >> throw it out, throw all the numbers out right now. all i got to do is watch these guys on the mound to know that they've got good enough stuff to beat any team in baseball. this is baptism by fire when you're born into the eastern division of the american league. you got to face the yankees and the boston red sox, anything can happen. i'm talking to the rest of the team, forget about talking to them. we got to play better defense behind them, we got to do the little things on running the bases to help these guys on the mound. it's going to take a while for berken to catch up with bergesen. he throws the ball over the plate all the time. he attacks the zone. but the guy goes out there. he pitches quickly. watch bergesen and see his

approach. both of them the same repertoire of pitches. you've got the curveball, the slider and the change-up. start changing more speeds with the change-up, keep the ball down. berken, as soon as he starts keeping the ball down, he's going to take off, too. you stop making his takes -- mistakes on the bases, we win more ballgames and everybody gets better from all of that. >> it's a very simple game. >> when we come back, anita marks from sports radio 105.7 the fan joins us. ♪

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 welcome back to o's camden yards. how about the weather for tonight here in baltimore. it's 81 degrees. i can feel it, i'm sweating so much here on the set.

55% humidity, the forecast is for scattered thunderstorms. it really is a nice night. there's a pleasant breeze blowing, but when you come out here with a little humidity it just makes me like a rain -- >> a little balmy. >> yeah, tom davis, rick dempsey, joined now by anita marks. tell us a little about how it all came about. >> absolutely. i was sitting in the press box one day and i was absolutely freezing, and i looked across in center field, the bleachers seats and i said, you know what, i see the sun, i'm going to take all my belongings, i'm going to hang out in the outfield. went out there, set up my computer and i looked around and i said, we have nick markakis and adam jones in this outfield, two hip, young great exciting -- >> go ahead, say it, hot. >> you saw it on my face, you did. i was trying to be professional.

>> i saw it. >> i said, this is the future of the orioles. why don't we do something exciting. why don't we do something fun. you go out to wrigley, everybody wants to sit in the outfield, right? you have manny, wood in l.a. now because he plays out in left field. let's do something cool and fun, so contacted greg bader from the orioles, they came up with the idea, so there's some dates on the calendar for this year. hopefully this can become a regular thing. representing nick markakis and adam jones making the orioles one of the most exciting, fun, hip outfields in major league baseball. >> you don't often see six letter addresses. how can we get the left fielder reimold involved. >> i feel really bad. it's somewhat of a favorite now, i know that, and i didn't mean to leave him out, but i still think we have some question marks in left field, but we know the future of this organization, it's going to be

nick and adam, and they're two pretty cool guys. so i thought it would be really neat. you're right, tomorrow is the first 2110 utah, it sold out 300 seats immediately, 500, with two weeks left, so the orioles added another 250 seats, so we'll have 750 people out there tomorrow. every time nick and adam come out into the outfield they're going to throw balls into the stand. if nick or adam does hit a home run tomorrow, whoever catches the ball, that lucky fan gets to come into the ball club, get an autographed ball, we'll have orange crushes served, there will be bacardi girls. rick, i know where you're going to be. i know you're going to be hanging out at 2110. >> anita, thank you very much. of course she's on ports radio 105.7 the fan. we're going to take a short break. we'll take a look at the pitchers for tonight's starting pitchers when we come back. ♪ ♪

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last time out, 5 1/3 innings, three home runs, he has tough time with those left-handers, too. but he's rolling along for a nice rookie record with the toronto blue jays. if he wins today, he'll have eight wins before the all-star break, that will be the first time any toronto rookie has ever done that. >> as for rick dempsey's keys to the game. >> my key to the game is considered a lock. the orioles have been shut out six times this year. they've come back the first five times and won every single ballgame. today's going to be no different. they got shut out for the sixth time yesterday. it will be 6-0 after today's game. >> you've been pretty good on this player to watch recently. >> nick markakis, i got markakis a lock, if he gets a hit his first time up, he's going to have at least three, you can bet on that. take it to the bank. romero has a tough time against left-handers. of the 27 hits they've gotten off, 11 have been to extra bases. left-handers he has trouble.

>> the all-star game is tuesday, in st. louis. the orioles have one representative, that's adam jones. he got hires jersey tonight here at baltimore's camden yards. jones has to be a proud man at the age of 23 making the all- star team for the first time and the only orioles all-star for the 2009 squad. >> that's so much fun. it's a very exciting day for him. his whole family is going to be here. i know his mother's going to be crying. you're going to watch his mother, you're going to be crying, too. >> adam jones, just a classy gentleman, the orioles are very happy to have him and he's going to be here for a long, long time. it's the orioles and the toronto blue jays coming up here on masn, game two of the three-game series. it's going to be rich hill pitching against ricky romero. jim hunter and jim palmer standing by with the play-by- play. it's orioles baseball.

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 last night at camden yards, the orioles were back home and jason berken went to the mound to pitch well enough to win. tonight the orioles hand the baseball to rich hill, the birds hoping that hill will reverse their fortunes. the blue jays and orioles, game two up next on masn. 

 >> saturday orioles baseball on masn, tonight from camden yards. the middle game of this three game weekend series. hi, everyone. i'm jim hunter. thanks for joining us tonight as the orioles look to get even in the series. the orioles hitting, it has been a contrast. in the month of july, they have not hit well as a club and it has been reflected in the won- loss record. .296 batting average at home, that is the best in the american league. the batting average that is dead last in the league, only two home games in the month. maybe it's the left-handed pitchers. joined by jim palmer. i guess when you look at those numbers, the question is why is it happening and what could the orioles do to change it? >> jim p.: well, they need to play better. i mean that's the first thing and you need mora, who hasn't hit a home run in almost 48

games, adam jones as a right- handed hitter, you need him to step up. i think overall, jim, what happens is that the orioles have very good left-handed hitters so when you face saunders, washburn pitched a one hitter, vargas left, the orioles came back and won that game. then brett cecil probably pitched the best game. the bottom line, when you stack up lefties against the orioles, huff, markakis, even brian roberts, he'll bat right- handed, that's not his best side, the slugging numbers go down. you really need to get good pitching. even when you got good pitching, last night, cecil pitched better than berken did. >> jim h.: unfortunately for the birds, had he goes to the mound, they really don't know which pitcher they'll get. >> jim p.: he just has to throw the ball. last night, brett went out there, he said i want scouting reports. i would like rich hill go out there, throw the ball, stop

thinking so much and hope he has a good outing against the blue jays. >> jim h.: the orioles back in the a.l. east, it's saturday night baseball, we're coming back, lineups and first pitch are next. @@úúxx

 >> jim h.: we're back here at orioles park at camden yards, fans enjoying a pregame party in the picnic area as the orioles and blue jays play the middle game of this three game series. talk about the orioles not hitting. that is not the case for luke scott who brings a 10-game hitting streak into the game tonight. what has been impressive with scott, he has faced left- handers more and he's had more success against the left-handed pitchers than at any time in his career. the numbers for the hitting

streak outstanding.   luke scott, the hottest hitter in the orioles line-up.   ♪banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> jim h.: ritchie mcdonald with his rend else of the "star spangled banner" as the orioles and blue jays battle it out here, middle game of this three game series. looking forward to the all-star break, as each team will play today and tomorrow before the break. southwest airlines starting

lineups for the blue jays for tonight. toronto at 44-44, scutaro, hill and lind with scott rolen in the cleanup spot, vernon wells bats fifth. >> jim p.: our scouting report for rich hill. how about king of the hill tonight, because it's been a struggle lately. and in talking to rick kranitz, he's got the curveball and the change-up, but at the end of the day you better throw some more fastballs. let's hope that's the case. you just want to have amnesia. you want to forget the last couple of starts and just go back and try to command your stuff. he pitched against toronto early on in the year. wasn't a great start. orioles came back and won that game. so, again, everything's been up.

fastball has been up, the curveballs, the e.r.a., the hits, everything. you hope that tonight he will, and he's been working very hard trying to change it, but you'll see if he's been able to do that between starts. >> when you get to a point where he's been working very hard to try to change it. do you go to the mound trying to think of that as opposed to being natural and pitching? >> i think that's one of the problems we had talked about paralysis by overanalysis. i think rich has kind of borderlined on that. i think the disappointing thing for the orioles staff to be honest is that rick kranitz said when you give up six runs and nine hits you don't tell everybody you pitched well. you just try to do better. so hopefully that will be the case tonight against the blue jays. >> jim h.: marco scutaro takes a high fastball, we are under way from orioles park. he's got a three game hitting streak going. and there's a strike.

>> jim p.: here's a guy that over the years, you always figure, well, he's going to be a utility guy. now they're talking about trying to resign him because he's just been outstanding. >> jim h.: andino charges to play the hop and gets it across and one down as scutaro is retired. >> jim p.: the orioles, let's see how they play defense tonight. scott, luke is out in left field, nolan reimold will get the night off, mora, andino, izturis back. but we will see roberts at shortstop. matt wieters behind the plate. >> jim h.: here's aaron hill, he takes outside, 1-0. >> jim p.: you asked what you try to do. four or five years ago i was talking to roy halladay, he struggled early on and it was raining and they kind of called off batting practice. i said how's is going?

he said, well, you know, it's been a little bit of a struggle because i set out my goals, seven innings, three runs. then i forgot what and how i won the cy young award the year before and that was basically one hitter at a time. and i think that's probably the best advice for rich hill. you got scutaro out, easy ground ball, now go get hill out. everybody knows he's a terrific player, high ball hitter. go get him. >> jim h.: got the fastball on the inside corner and two quick outs. >> jim p.: we saw brett cecil out of the university of maryland. he was all over the place. he made great pitches when he got to two strikes. matt wieters receives that ball very well and they get that borderline inside strike for strike three to hill. >> jim h.: so he gets an all- star out on a called strike

three. here's adam lind. he's the toronto dh, there's a pitch for a strike. it's 0-1. >> jim p.: this is such a game of momentum. when you're a starting pitcher, you've got to come out, make the adjustments from the bullpen to actually when the game counts. >> jim h.: shallow left center field. jones moving over. scott is there and adam makes the out. rich hill a very strong start. our 737s fly to over 65 cities across the country every day. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour. almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. starting august 16th, fly southwest airlines from bwi airport to boston logan for just $49 one-way. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com.

 > jim h.: the fans still filing in here at orioles park. good start for rich hill. here's the starting line-up. roberts, jones and markakis. nick has always hit well against the blue jays regardless of the pitching. huff, wigginton and scott with mora at third base, wieters and andino rounding it out. >> jim p.: i tell you what, ricky romero has been very, very hot. four game win streak, 24 consecutive scoreless innings during that streak. this is the second time he's faced the orioles. pitched very well until about the middle innings, then they lit him up for three home runs. this kid, young santana, it means he throws pretty hard, he's got a great change-up, then he throws a curveball in there. not a lot of walks. comes out of cal state

fullerton, pitched them to the national championship. >> jim h.: two foul balls and ryan down in the count 0-2. you see he's 0 for his last 12. he's trying to find that stroke. his batting average over the past 13 games has dipped to its current .271. ground ball towards third. long throw across and he gets the hustling roberts, one away. >> jim p.: that's exactly the way the game started last night. he hit a hot shot off brett cecil and rolen speared it. rolen won seven gold gloves at third base. >> jim h.: let's go back to may 26th. ricky romero on the mound, and adam jones at the plate. >> jim p.: you could see the high fastball. it's one thing about lately, of course adam with 11 of his home runs in i and in may.

still getting his hits. what did you say, his last 12 hits are singles? >> jim p.: he's in a singles mode as of late. actually his last 14 hits have been singles. but what he has done, he's kept that batting average above .300. it is a year of ups and downs, you have the peaks and valleys, the streaks and the slums, and the good ones figure out how when they're in one of those market corrections not to get too deep into it. >> jim p.: right here he's got himself a good hitting count. >> jim h.: there's a ground ball and a base hit into right field. even with millar wide of the bag, adam jones goes the opposite way for a one out single. >> jim p.: that gives you a pretty good idea of what romero and jones are about. if you're a good pitcher you get the ball out of the middle of the plate. a great approach here, there we go. a hit sharp enough to get it

into the outfield. romero says, i've learned a little bit about jones. adam's awfully happy. base hit. >> jim h.: jones now with a four game hitting streak as he sing he is. here is nick markakis. nick's bat has also cooled off, heading to the break. ground ball towards second, that could be two. hill goes to second, scutaro back to first and there's the double play, 4-6-3. the orioles down in the first. . then there's doing it yourself and saving. it's about sawdust in your boots. paint in your hair. - and no holes in your wallet. - ♪ whew... we've lowered over a thousand prices, giving you all the tools you need. and the bragging rights you deserve. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, the exclusive american standard 4" symphony faucet is only $78.

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 >> jim h.: daniel has a chance to win $99 worth of american classics scratch-off tickets from the maryland lottery for every orioles home run hit tonight. you can have a chance to win, too, tonight. enter by logging on to masn sports.com. as we look in from center field. beautiful shot from our camera out there in the bullpen picnic area. there is scott rolen. and there's a strike. so rich hill, strike one. >> jim p.: we encourage it and we talked about it in our scouting report, more fastballs. because, again, you have to be able to establish it. doesn't matter how good your curveball is. there's a pretty good one. he kind of points the front shoulder up. they tried to speed up the

windup. two starts ago everything was too slow. big lead against the angels. couldn't hold it against joe saunders on sunday. i don't know if you'll ever change this, but as long as you get down. watch the front shoulder. if you can get over the front side, then you can finish your windup and get the ball down in the strike zone. there's a nice pitch right in on his fist. >> jim h.: andino to first, and one away. that's the second ground ball out of four batters. >> jim p.: this is what you're looking at. so a lot of deception, but are your lines straight to the mound? that's what they've been working on. occasionally he'll just kind of open up a little bit. you see the ball better. then it doesn't have that carry through the hitter. at least through the first four hitters tonight as we look at vernon wells. >> jim h.: that was a very telling replay from behind home plate, because it looked like he was very balanced and going the direction you say he must

do more than not in order to be successful. >> jim p.: it's very difficult when you get hurt. had some success right there. >> jim h.: luke scott is back on it, at the wall, he leaps and he's got it. luke scott went back as far as he could go, didn't feel the wall, leaped maybe before he had to, but he still got it. nice play by scott. >> jim p.: normally he's your dh, but he took one look to see where the wall was and then he jumps. probably a foot short. high curveball, wells thinks maybe i've got myself a camden yards home run. that is not the case. so there you go. nice play by luke. >> jim h.: here's alex rios. rios takes a strike. >> jim p.: he said, he will, i talked to millar and millar told me if i throw too many curveballs. i said, first of all, don't be listening to kevin millar eerks

the enemy. number two, here's the deal. it's real simple. you got a release point. you're going to go out to the bullpen, you're going to work on your release point for your fastball, your curveball and your change-up, to the same place, go out there and take your best shot. stop thinking so much. already i think we've seen more velocity than we have. a lot of guys have done the job, throw the ball, show me some good stuff. >> jim h.: andino across, and six up and six down. so rich hill off to a good start. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 "i'm rethinking everything... tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 including who i trust to look after my money." tdd#: 1-800-345-2550

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 >> amber: back at the yard. since making his major league debut, nolan reimold has only been out of the line-up for two games, but tonight he has the night off. we all know how good nolan has been. he was american league rookie of the month for june, but dave trembley just wanted to give him a mental blow. nolan told me, hey, everybody goes through a tough time. he said i'm looking forward just to packing it in today, just taking a break and coming back strong after the all-star break. taking his first major league slump in stride. >> jim h.: thank you very much. there's that phrase again, i don't want to think about it. just go out and react. >> jim p.: what he'll do, he did it yesterday and again today, he worked with terry

crowley. we don't have to change a lot. it's path to the ball. the path of the bat to the ball. that's how hitters hit. you work with that good slider, good breaking ball. very sharp one. aubrey able to hold up on it. this guy's got three about pitches. fastball, we've seen them as high as 93, can get up to 94. we haven't seen the change-up yet. hasn't had to throw it. we're only into the fourth hitter of the game. >> jim h.: he got a lot of it, but vernon wells has a play and he has it for the out. tomorrow is your last chance to see the birds here at camden yards before the all-star break, tickets for the game at 1:35 against the jays will start as low as $9. gather up the family and friends and enjoy a sunday afternoon summertime baseball here at camden yards. one away, here is ty wigginton who is getting his start at

first base tonight. rye mole takes the day off, that pushes luke scott defensively to left field, which allows dave trembley to give aubrey huff half a day off by dh'ing him. it also gets ty wigginton's bat in there. towards the gap in right center field, that's going to get down for a base hit. that's going to go all the way to the wall. there is ty wigginton heading to second base with a one out double. the orioles have their second base hit. >> jim p.: boy, was that ball hit with authority. of course he got the game winner on wednesday. against the mariners. watch this ball just get smoked to right center field. wells won three gold glove. rios can chase them down. neither get to this ball.

>> jim h.: wigginton on at second base. picks up his 17th extra-base hit. the orioles have a chance with one down, a runner in scoring position and their hottest hitter at the plate. luke scott. 10-game hitting streak coming in. ricky romero spent a bit of time on the d.l. this year, so he's worked 12 starts in only now 80 1/3 innings. because of that he does not yet qualify to be included in the league leaders. you need to have pitched at least one inning for every game your team has played. for the jays after tonight he needs to be at 89 innings to qualify. when you look at his numbers, his e.r.a. is 2.96. that would be good for sixth best in the american league. his teammate roy halladay is fifth at 2.85, but he still doesn't have enough innings to qualify although he's getting

close. >> jim p.: that tells you how hot luke scott is, because he didn't want anything to do with that 94-mile-per-hour fastball on the outside quarter of the plate. look at this. this is one of the reasons he's having a good year. 2-1 counts. hitting .500 on the season. >> jim h.: he gets to millar, two men down. wigginton moves to third. >> jim p.: the one thing, romero does so many things well, but the one thing we just saw out there, .159 with runners in scoring position. that's incredibly low. so if you get on, it's still very difficult to be able to score, and the interesting thing that he dominates right- handers but lefties hitting .310. 11 of the 27 hits he's given up to left-handed batters have been for extra-base hits.

so a two out opportunity for melvin mora. there's that curveball and it's a good one. >> jim h.: melvin has a three game hitting streak going so he's trying to finish strong for the first half. it's been an unusual year for melvin. jim mentioned his home run drought which has now gone 50 games. fouls it back. >> jim p.: i think i only had him at 48 in the open. i was trying to be positive. you don't have to get a home run here. i still think having pitched almost 4,000 innings, when you start hitting balls right center, left center which is his strength, then all of a sudden you do that often enough, they start pitching you dlifl and you -- differently, and you get balls you can drive. right here, with two outs and a man on third, won't really

matter. but just a nice soft single somewhere, find a hole. a little just in case you were leaning out over the plate. a little chin music right there. >> jim h.: looked like a change- up. >> jim p.: that's a little low. their pitching coach said he's got a very good change-up. that's why elves the sixth player chosen in the draft in 2005. >> jim h.: i think melvin recognized that, then hoped he saw it as he did. so the count goes full with two down. >> jim p.: you have to find mike who umpiring behind plate, that he's not going to call the curveball that goes around the plate. >> jim h.: first base open, so he can be careful with melvin

mora. ball four. so melvin after being down 1-2 works the walk. the orioles have two on with two down. romero averages about three walks per game. he's very efficient. he averages 11.7 base runners per nine innings. >> jim p.: he was at double-a last year, he went up to the latter part of the year went 3- 3 with triple-a syracuse, the pitching coach said, well, everybody said he's ready to pitch in the big leagues, then he was not good in spring training. because of the wbc he got to work with him a little bit more, and he it pretty much together. he was way across his body. you can see again 95, so 93-95, he's got the change-up. those are the numbers we were talking about. >> jim h.: matt wieters takes a strike. two on, two down. >> jim p.: that's not a very

good change-up. rod barajas saying, hey, get that down. >> jim h.: wigginton at third, melvin mora at first with two down. romero got a double play to end the first. wieters swings through that, 1- 2. >> jim p.: i think he just turned that fastball over at 92. of course if you're ricky romero, i would imagine you have watched some film. if he did, wieters first home run off a lefty was joe saunders about 430 to right center. >> jim h.: ground ball that is foul down the third-base line. that one hung a little bit. wieters 1 for 10 over his last three games. as he continues to go through what nolan reimold is going through. the hitters being exposed to the big leagues. once the advance scouts see you. >> jim p.: what did cal start out, 4 for 55?

he figured it out pretty well. >> jim h.: shallow center, this ball's trouble, vernon wells charging in, makes the sliding try and it's off his glove. wigginton will score, wieters hustling into second base as nobody covered. that ball was trouble from the start because it was hit in no- man's land. vernon wells, he gave it a tremendous effort, but it's off the glove and the orioles get the lead. >> jim p.: the only way he's going to catch this is if he slides. a lot of times you try not to run on your heels, but when you slide, it's hard to get the glove to the ball. so wigginton makes it 1-06789 wieters, heads up play right here. then aaron hill threw it all the way in to one hop to home plate. all the cut-off men were out in the outfield. everybody was out on the outfield grass.

>> jim h.: matt wieters will be credited with the double. here's robert andino, who is back in the line-up tonight. so it's been a little bit of a struggle. but the one thing he's done well, talking about andino, he played dwes well and he's hit it home well. there he's got a good pitch to hit. that change-up that stays up. again, great instincts. i don't think anybody, maybe even including himself, thought he was going to be able to replace izturis for a month and play as well as he did. >> jim h.: runners at second and third. he laid off. >> jim p.: but a much different, of course the whole team seems to hit better at home, but for robert, .296 at home, .169 on the road. one thing he's done well this

year, .273 hitter with runners in scoring position. >> jim h.: ground ball foul. >> jim p.: it would be huge if the orioles could get a base hit here. perfect situation. wieters doesn't have the greatest speed. they play him very shallow. any ball up the gap is going to fall in. but again, wells throws well, rios with an outstanding arm. that's a couple of them. there's nothing wrong with pitching in. you don't like to pitch up around the head. again, he overthrows this. robert gets down. you can see him turn his head. use the, at least potentially use the flap, the ear flap which you're required to wear. >> jim h.: curveball called strike three. around the plate. he said it hit the corner,

andino didn't think so. romero gets out of it very inexpensively. 

 >> jim p.: let's take a look at our pitch track. you'll why the orioles don't agree. it's a curveball, it went around the plate. so andino with a chance to drive in a couple of runs gets called out. we'll see if rich hill can take advantage of what seems to be

an ample strike zone here tonight. of course lou, the umpire for many, many years in the american league. >> jim h.: here is kevin millar leading off against rich hill. rich hill, who loves his curveball. see if he can take advantage of that if that's the strike zone. he called that one and it was on the chalk of the batter's box. >> jim p.: so the first two pitches up in the strike zone and what you like to have rich do is make an adjustment. >> jim h.: off the end of the bat, left field towards the line, a long run for luke scott, he doesn't get there, it's a foul ball. >> jim p.: if you've had a chance to see kevin millar play, we used to joke about it when he was playing for the orioles, any hit to right field was accidental. kind of a bail and wail type of

hitter. pull hitter. no doubt about it, he's trying to hit the ball from center and you can see way out there, around the ball, that's why he hooks it foul. told him not to throw any curveballs and he didn't. i can't believe they had that conversation. and if you did, you wouldn't be listening to him. >> jim h.: roberts is back of the base. and he'll get it to first and one down. seven in a row retired. of course one of the gauges for a pitcher is how many base runners do you allow per game, because that means how many might be able to score. rich hill does not qualify for the league leaders but if he did, he would not only be leading in this category, he'd have a healthy lead. >> jim p.: but what was my third key to the game. amnesia. forget about all this. it's a new opportunity. chamberlain, he's been getting lit up. of course he was very much like rich. oh, i'm pitching great. but if you give up eight runs,

five runs like he did last night. he blew i think a 6-0 lead. just you've got to forget all that stuff. to go out there and react to the way the hitter reacts to you. you know about them. stop overanalyzing. make your pitches and take your chances. but it's not good to a good that leads all american league catchers in rbi's to keep falling behind 2-0. >> jim h.: fouled back the other way. barajas comes in 0 for his last 10 and 2 for his last 15. hill already with four ground ball outs. this one popped up, shallow center. here comes jones. adam gets there. and two men down.

you could purchase the official all-star game program limited player edition here at the ballpark or at mlb.com. we've got your players covered. adam on the field, the pregame ceremony getting his all-star jersey. part of the american league. >> jim p.: i was hoping maybe he'd be in the home run derby. they announced it was going to be joe mauer, and brandon inge of the tigers. >> jim h.: as a first time all- star f. a veteran has that number, you can get another number. >> jim p.: jose bautista trying to do a home run derby impression at home plate. >> jim h.: there's a line drive

and a base hit to center field over the leap of brian roberts. so on a 1-2 pitch the number nine batter able to get on base and the first base runner for toronto tonight. >> jim p.: so now we have to throw from the stretch for the first time. we'll see how rich handles that. look at those numbers. of course this is the whole team, what toronto comes in with the second best away batting average, .283 for the season. only # hundred points better on the road. even though their road record is 18-26. >> jim h.: and a balk has just been called by the home plate umpire. >> jim p.: if you go behind with your right leg, behind the pitcher's rubber you have to go home, but you also have to step to the base. so let's see if he stepped to the base. i don't know.

that's pretty close. so, again, the base hit, and now the balk. tying run at second base. >> jim h.: scutaro into left field, luke scott has it for the out. so the base hit, the man left. the orioles organization would like to send their condolences to the family of bert simmons, the great player who passed away this week at the age of 85 years old.

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 >> jim h.: second inning, and luke skywalker, star wars. vernon wells thinks he's going to get his 10th home run. huh-uh. nice play by luke scott. take away a home run by vernon wells on the high curveball. >> jim h.: here's bribes leading off for the orioles in the third. jones and markakis follow against romero. there's a strike on the outside corner, 1-1. brian grounded out his first at- bat. romero not only is 4-0 over his last four starts, his e.r.a. in that span is 1.59. >> jim p.: he had that 24 could

be executive scoreless innings start. he doesn't get that pitch inside. >> jim h.: one of the things he's done better as of late is keep the ball in the ballpark, in those four starts he allowed a total of only one home run. that was a solo home run to the yankees in his last start. there's roberts getting a lead- off walk. the lowest e.r.a.'s in the league since june 5 and ricky romero and brad bergesen are both on that list. you have the young veteran at the top, a veteran third, then three consecutive youngsters. >> jim p.: we'll see brad bergesen tomorrow afternoon. so, again, you're on a roll. you've won, what, four in a row. 10 of your 12 starts are quality starts on the season,

but the one thing you don't want to do is walk the lead-off batter. to brian roberts struggling with the bat, on-base percentage just went up by taking the free pass. let's see what adam can do. >> jim h.: takes ball one. romero lost to the orioles on may 26th. we showed you the home run hit by adam jones. he allowed three home runs in that game. reimold also hit a two-run home run. aubrey huff hit a solo homer. when brian roberts gets on base, and when he doesn't and scores a run, the numbers are dramatically different. >> jim p.: that is for a team that hasn't had a winning record. so he's just such an important part of the offense. again, he comes in tied for, what, third in the american league in runs scored with 62.

>> jim h.: rolls out there on the grass. adam now, we talked about his run of singles here. he now has 15 consecutive hits that are all singles. he's got 46 at-bats since his last extra-base hit. he had a triple, on june 26th. and since then they've all been singles, but base hits are base hits. >> jim p.: i think he's pretty much taking what they've given him. trying to stay down. >> jim h.: chopper towards third, rolen goes to second, an out there. no throw back to first. >> jim p.: there's the first change-up romero has been able to get over. take a look at adam the way he attacks romero. there's the low fastball he swings at, there's another change-up. 84 miles per hour that he rolls

over. again, in the first couple of innings, romero not being able to command the change-up. he will, it's an important part of his arrests na. he did get a big break on the curveball that was called that was off the plate to andino. otherwise the orioles might have had an opportunity to score a couple of runs in the second. >> jim h.: markakis takes, throws down to second base and out at second base is the call. scott looked it over. good throw by barajas and two men down. >> jim p.: how about the tag. one of the keys is when you get the ball, if you're a middle infielder, you can see right here, just slap the tag on him. that's exactly what scutaro does. great throw by barajas, but he's got to reach back. again, lifts the foot up in the air and that's what he tags. how quick can you get the ball and the glove down to tag the

runner. we refer to a play where it was really more of a base hit into left field that pedroia tagged him with the glove and the ball was in his bare hand and they still to the the call. still got the call. >> jim h.: marco scutaro, he's committed only two errors all year. toronto overall has the best fielding team in the league. >> jim p.: 31 errors. >> jim h.: all year. markakis fouls off a breaking ball. romero just 24 years old out of los angeles. one loss in his last seven starts. he has emerged as a very fine complement behind roy halladay. there's a tapper towards short, scutaro waits on it and hurries the throw and markakis nearly

beat it out. so a walk and none left. 

 >> jim h.: we'd like to welcome the vietnam vets who visited with us today from the v.a. hospital, they spent some time

with tom and rick out on the pregame set, now enjoying the game here at the ballpark. our thanks to our veterans who are enjoying a night of baseball here at orioles park at camden yards. aaron hill leads off against rich hill. big swing and a miss and a slow curveball. >> jim p.: but it didn't roll and that's the key. a lot of rolling curveballs over the last month, but you get on top of your stuff, you can see that ball go down. even if you're looking for it. much more difficult to hit. much more aggressive. better windup. >> jim h.: that ball's up against the wall. adam jones plays the carom, bobbles it momentarily, then fires back in. hill is on with the lead-off double. >> jim p.: that's really all it is. with the 1-0 lead. fastball not well located. so he just drops the head. this is why this guy's going to

the all-star game. concussion last year, after a collision with david eckstein. this year all-star numbers. >> jim h.: the only hitter in the american league with more hits than aaron hill is ichiro suzuki. >> jim p.: he's having a really good year. that's only the tying run. if it happens, just make sure you try to get lind out, then take your chances. >> jim h.: today's leader board presented by firestone. toronto with more doubles as a club than any team in the american league. that's pretty good if you have more doubles than the red sox because of the way they can hit doubles off the green monster. one of the things i've noticed with rich hill with the breaking ball, and he obviously likes to throw the pitch because he throws so many of them, but the hitters seem to

be going up there expecting that and looking for that, and at times forgetting about everything else he throws. maybe that's why they're so much more effective. if you sit on that pitch and you know he's going to throw because he throws so many, well -- >> jim p.: i talk about they, and that's rick kranitz and dunn, they had him in the cubs tiou could look it au couldn't hit it. they're just trying to get him back where he's a little mo hletic, his lines are straighter to plate, n arou. i thk th do with fastball mmand. the last fastball wasn't a good location, but you sometimes get away with it if you throw the ball through the hitter to the catcher. but if your windup is a little side to side, they see it better, it doesn't have the late life. that's had you get hit hard. -- that's when you get hit hard. >> jim p.: we have not seen that pitch in about six weeks.

i mean this is a live fastball and he hits the corner. again, it's a b strike zone tonight. mike has a dinner date, so tches off thcornerof we've aeady anino, terrific pitch ght there. de. now all of a sudden you start thinking, okay, there's your tying run, aaron hill. >> jim h.: high fly ball, left center fld, luke scott has it for the out. so the ball not carrying out the togh >> j p.: off the ba horun. again, this is a on a normal night, pretty kindly ballpark. another aggressive rich hill. he%% @@gewsay e ott makes a nice ay. that was a guy that has the third best batting average in the american league that he just got out. >> jim h.: about the ball carrying or not carrying,

vernon wells thought he had one in the second inning on this hanging curveball. >> jim p.: watch this ball hang up. one of the few hanging curveballs, then nice play by luke scott. so off the bat, you make a great point. it's very difficult sometimes at camden yards because of the warehouse and the wind swirling. we could see the flags way, way, way out on some of the buildings blowing out. but here in the ballpark, sometimes that's not the case. then we have always had the birds on top of the scoreboard. well, the wind blows wherever the beaks are facing. they're talking to each other right now, so they're even confused. >> jim h.: they're looking at each other. >> jim p.: usually the birds kind of go where the wind's blowing. >> jim h.: here's the building jim's talking about the flags. >> jim p.: this is a little more sheltered in the ballpark.

and of course with the blue jays here, the canadian flag is flying next to the american flag. .337 on the road, .172 at home. >> jim h.: he must like room service. >> jim p.: i don't know. again, they have the second best batting average, talking about the toronto blue jays. it's a ball that's close to the inside corner. pitchers strike zone tonight. take advantage of it. >> jim h.: it's fouled off the other way. >> jim p.: he missed by about a foot and a half but got away with it. you make a good point. i always thought vernon wells, a big contract, he's had hamstring problems. but against the orioles he's hit about every conceivable pitch over the years that

you've thrown. change-ups, right center, left center, down the line, three time gold glover. >> jim h.: and just inside. wow, that looked better than the strike three call to adam lind. >> jim p.: i would say it's probably inside a little bit, and it is. but that hasn't stopped mike from calling it a strike on occasion. >> jim h.: that's hit hard but foul. >> jim p.: now you're thinking right there. fastball in, bat head to the ball. you got to keep it out of that zone. perfect crime to throw a change- up but he hasn't thrown one yet tonight. >> jim h.: aaron hill at second base. hill has two strikeouts on the night. he has not yet walked a batter. curveball popped foul back this way.

>> jim p.: he comes out of his shoes again to hit a high curveball. that doesn't mean you can't throw it. it's just you can't throw it in the middle of the plate belt high. he's going to have another one of those swings. >> jim h.: vernon wells, a first round draft pick of toronto in 1997. down and in, ball four. and a two-out walk. first walk allowed by rich hill. who averages six per game. two more than his career numbers. >> jim p.: very efficient, at least through 3 2/3 innings, 49 pitches. >> jim h.: that efficiency is something that has eluded him all year. when you look at his starts by starts, he has pitched seven innings only once the entire season and only one other e