inning. >> jim p.: those are command issues. >> jim h.: there's your first change-up right there. he misses with it. hill 6'5" tall. 205 pounds. >> jim p.: as good as romero is with runners in scoring position, it's been a struggle for rich hill. >> jim h.: pulled foul, long and loud, but it's a foul ball. 1-1 on alex rios who had been the blue jays number three hitter, now he's down in the line-up a bit. last night he batted 7th. tonight with a lefty on the mound he's batting 6th. >> jim p.: this is a critical time, because almost all the pitches, whether they're to wells or to rios are up in the strike zone.

even that curveball not as good as he'd like to throw. so you hope if you're an orioles fan that he can somehow find his way out of this inning and then get his rhythm. >> jim h.: now you're 1-2, you're a pitch away from getting out of the inning. you love your curveball but you've had some pretty good fastball command tonight. >> jim p.: we've seen the fastball in, but i think matt wieters something down in the strike zone. >> jim h.: and he got him. he swung through it. went away from the curveball.  ♪ ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide.

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 >> amber: tonight is junior orioles clubhouse night at the yard. junior orioles get a clubhouse hat, a free deal from chick-fil- a, all for just $17, family and friends can purchase tickets for each game for just $6. go to orioles.com to find out more about the junior orioles dugout club. >> jim h.: it's always fun at the ballpark when the kids are here because they bring a level of noise that is enjoyable at the ballpark. >> jim p.: i meet a lot of people that were junior orioles and dugout club guys from a long time back. back in the day. >> jim h.: aubrey huff, foul, 0-

2. >> jim p.: our good friend marianne, she's now in italy for five weeks, but she became an orioles fan because she used to be a junior orioles. that's how they started. saturday afternoons, in the bleachers. hope for a souvenir. >> jim h.: aubrey flied out his first at-bat. romero got out of that second inning jam with only one run coming in. breaking ball inside 2-2. the orioles were actually fortunate the ball fell in because he made a good pitch on matt wieters and it just fell into no plans land in shallow center field. huff bounces it to second. big out for aaron hill. aubrey's retired for the first

out. >> jim p.: what ricky romero has been able to do is what the orioles hope that hernandez, bergesen has already done it. which is just make adjustments. balls the last time that romero pitched against the orioles, he gave up three home runs, he gave up 11 hits. again, he didn't walk a whole lot of guys, only one. he's gone on to be one of the best young left-handers in baseball since then. you work on your windup. you get the experience. you find out what it takes to be successful and you hope it translates into wins. >> jim h.: ty got the rally going in the second inning. >> jim p.: they lost jansen, marken, mcgowan and jessie lidge. >> jim p.: and richmond.

>> jim h.: scott richmond this year who was very, very good. so again, they lost all these guys, and they were the best pitching team in baseball. at least in the american league last year. so, again, the orioles, had you get good pitching, that's how you win more games than you lose. >> jim h.: off the end of the bat to center field, in on it is vernon wells and wigginton is retired. two men down. that guy can go get them out there, vernon wells. >> jim p.: you just look at stolen bases and you see that he's stolen 13 out of 14 that his legs are well this year. good legs for wells. everything is well. because he's had am string problems and -- hamstring problems and wrist problems. he's been injured. that's what the longest, 10 is the longest of his -- longest of his career. mr. consistency this year.

>> jim p.: the little change- up. of course there's been a lot of fastballs. a loft chin music today. and that may not like it as a hitter, but it's very effective. you don't get too comfortable. >> jim h.: romero, six feet, goes 210. played at cal state fullerton, just down the road from los angeles where he grew up. part of a national championship team which you would expect certainly helped him in his quick development in the major leagues. >> jim p.: had a lot of things he had to change. it wasn't pretty much a struggle through the minor leagues. >> jim h.: deep to right field, back it it goes, it is gone. luke scott stays hot, and the orioles have a 2-0 lead. >> jim p.: you talk to dave trembley and you know the

answer, but you say is scott going to play tonight? and he goes, well, first of all, i mean he's slugging over .700 against left-handed pitching. that is guy last year that hit .215 with five home runs against lefties. this year he's not missing anything. and it's just a matter of how far this ball's going to go. happy fan out in the flag court as it bounds into utah street. >> jim h.: we'll have to check if that landed on utah street or if that was an illusion going through the gate. career high hitting streak now. >> jim p.: his 8th home run against left-handed pitching after five all last year. >> jim h.: team high 18th on the year. now with 51 rbi's. melvin mora to center field, vernon wells back out this, ball carries and wells has it for the out in the deepest part of center field. so melvin mora gave it a ride

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 >> jim h.: the inner harbor, a 2-0 orioles lead thanks in part to the left-handed slugging bat

of luke scott who has extended his hitting streak to 11 in a row. adam jones teasing him from center field. there's kevin millar hitting it down the line. that's in for a base hit past luke scott and millar is going to head to second base with a lead-off double. so back-to-back innings toronto gets the lead-off man to second base. >> jim p.: ninth double of the year, he's a pull hitter. luke scott's not going to quite get to it. again, the ball gets by him, but no speed by millar. he came in a little bit after struggle. only 14 for his last 79. again, great high ball hitter. >> jim h.: kevin wears number 30 in toronto. he could not get his beloved 15 because alex rios got that number, so he got creative and just doubled it up.

here's rod barajas. did you request number 22 or was it issued? >> jim p.: they gave mae uniform. i said thank you very much, and -- in fact, somebody was saying, i thought it was jack michiganer, it was dean ?oa. tom davis is the number guy. >> jim h.: center field, adam jones has a play. and he gets there for the out. one down as millar heads back to second base. space has sold out for tomorrow's 2110 utah street. celebrating orioles outfielders nick markakis and adam jones. new dates have just been added, so join your fellow nick and adam fans. each day for $21 you get a reserved bleacher street, plus an exclusive, i live at 2110 utah street t-shirt. you could be sitting right there where we just showed you. out behind adam and nick.

>> jim p.: barajas situationally hitting is not a very good job. bautista, base hit his last time. there's a good curveball. single up the middle on the third consecutive high fastball swung through the first two. then punched a single over the head of brian roberts. >> jim h.: jose bautista, one time orioles for a brief time. >> jim p.: the one thing toronto, they are sixth in runs scored, the orioles are 10th. >> jim h.: lined to left, that's going to hang for scott. luke is there. two men down. rich hill is following the same path as last inning. lead-off double, trying to get out of it. >> jim p.: you might as well get on the tightrope if you're going to keep throwing lead-off doubles, but he's done a nice

job and they haven't advanced the runners after the lead-off doubles. last inning he made a great pitch to adam lind, struck him out after hill doubled. got rolen to fly out. a couple of strikeouts in inning number 4. hope three game hitting streak going, but he's 0 for 2 in this game. i just like the fact, there's 91, is that rich hill is throwing the ball tonight. we'll see how that translates, but this is not a tentative guy. that's not the way he's been the last month. >> jim h.: there's a pitch right there for a strike. >> jim p.: try to find your release point, because when you're pitching well, they're all out in front of you. if you're an orioles infielder, if you can't catch it, knock it down. keep millar with not a lot of

speed from scoring. >> jim h.: rich hill has not won a game since june 19. he pitched a fabulous game in the series against the phillies going 6 2/3, only two runs on five hits, but since then 0-1 and a couple of no decision this is three starts with a very high e.r.a. this is only the second appearance in his career against the blue jays, having come over from the national league. >> jim p.: i'm just trying to watch the ball out of his hands. a couple of starts. well, i'm going to be a little bit slower. the ball's just coming out of his hand a lot better than it has over the last month. even that curveball was thrown better. so the orioles coaching staff

would be credited. they're just trying to get him back to where he was a couple years ago when he pitched with the cubs. get over the front side. i think if he has some success, it will get better because he'll get better confidence. the question tonight, with the bench coach looking at rick kranitz is how long do you let him go? bullpen relatively rested. pitch count real low, 64 there. >> jim h.: there's a base hit. toronto's going to get on the board as luke scott digs it out. millar will score and scutaro on at second base with a two out rbi double. >> jim p.: the 26th double of the year. for marco scutaro. he gets a curveball. you can see very much like the double by chavez who caught last night on the slider. a very hittable pitch and he

hits it. >> jim h.: so millar scores. scutaro's 38th rbi for that lead-off spot. here's one of the best hitters in the league this year. that's a base hit. scutaro will be sent is. luke scott up with it. he bobbled momentarily, fires wide of the plate and wieters able to knock it down. and we are tied at 2 as the blue jays rally here in the fifth inning. >> jim p.: luke couldn't get it out of his glove, then made an ill-advised throw. you could see matt wieters slide back because he doesn't get it to the corner. then hill only ichiro with more hits. right there you could see not getting it out. matt wieters makes a terrific play right here. the go-ahead run easily could have got into scoring position. rick kranitz out to slow everything down for rich hill.

>> jim h.: so aaron hill, 36th multihit game. baez looks like he's stretching his legs out there. >> jim p.: second in the american league, second in total bases, second in hits for aaron hill. >> jim h.: if that ichiro guy wasn't around, he'd be having a good year. >> jim p.: just think about poor ichiro. i mean you would think that you might be leading the league in batting, but joe mauer is hitting .388. poor ichiro is hitting .360- something. >> jim h.: mauer can hit a little bit. >> jim p.: and a lot of people are going to find out adrian gonzalez, terrific player. met him had he was down with texas. >> jim h.: not last night. he got no hit. >> jim p.: that's a terrific

story. sanchez pitching a no hitter. his dad was in the stands. randy johnson hurt his shoulder fielding a ball. he had to go on the dl to bring sanchez out of the bullpen. another good curveball. >> jim h.: eli was at fresno when he got promoted. that was a real nice moment. i caught that last night live as it happened. and the best part was when his father hugged him after the game. what a sense of achievement for your child to do something like that in a big league game. >> jim p.: of course they hailed from puerto rico. he got there before the game. 11 strikeouts, no walks. >> jim h.: and last week they were going to trade him. randy johnson got hurt. >> jim p.: he's got more value now. yes, he does. johnny vandermeer maybe. >> jim p.: it's funny.

if you pitch a no hitter, if you get a hole in one, the next time you play golf, you think about the fact that you could do it again. usually you're trying to make a birdie, get it on the green. if you never pitch a no hitter, you can't do it twice in a row. now, hey, why not? >> jim h.: roger craig once said, he hoped he'd never won 20 games because they'd expect him to do it again. >> jim p.: a lot of people said that, jim. one of the great pitchers in orioles history, mel pappas said that, oh, i don't want to do that. >> jim h.: slow curve. it's ball three. >> jim p.: what happens with rich, all of a sudden everything is coming up, he's a pretty good hitter and he's going to try to drop down here. he will do that 3 to 5 times a game. i haven't seen him throw it for a strike. >> jim h.: hill will be on the move. curveball, called strike three.

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 >> amber: i'm here with rocco from masn sports.com, school of rock. i know there's been a lot of chatter today about adam jones. last night we did see a play where a ball went over his head. >> alex rios ball cleared his head, he turned the wrong way, it kind of renewed that debate. is he playing too shallow. dave trembley did concede there are going to be situations later in games where you might want him to move back. you want to keep everything in front of you. otherwise i think he likes where he's positioned. he thinks for the most part he does get back. if he's playing back and balls are dropping in front of him, people will say he's playing

too far back. >> amber: well, whatever he's doing, he's doing something right because he's going to the all-star game and the question was also asked of dave, when you have a 23-year-old that makes the all-star game, is there any concern that that could go to his head? >> dave has no worries at all. is too much happening too soon for this kid. dave says absolutely not. he's worked for everything. nothing's come easily to him. he's willing to learn, he works closely with john shelby, outfield coach, with the hitting coach. dave has no worries at all. his mom won't let that happen anyway and she's a regular reader of school of rock. she's the one who named him jonesy. my mom calls me sweet pea, i think he is got off easy actually. >> chris is saturdaying a throwing update. he's going to go to minor league camp. nothing serious. when the guy has tommy john here he has arm problems, you kind of hold your breath.

he's okay. he said he couldn't find his arm slot. >> if you want to chat with sweet pea go to masn sports.com school of rock. thank you. >> thank you. >> jim h.: matt wieters strikes out leading off here in the fifth. >> jim p.: what was your nickname, jim? >> jim h.: hunts. >> jim p.: hunts, that's it? >> jim h.: that's what they called me growing up. all my teammates. they still call me that. i don't have a clever one like rock does. just a shrunken version of my last name. >> jim p.: thank you. >> jim h.: i don't have a hall of fame one like capes. there's story behind it. >> jim p.: my first commercial. >> jim h.: i like pancakes.

i should do that. andino fouls it back. >> jim p.: new life for ricky romero. he does his johan santana. he comes out and strikes matt wieters out on a real good change-up. >> jim h.: he's a good looking young pitcher. five of the seven wins have been at rogers center. andino throws on the rub and got him. jim mentioned the 2005 draft. romero was the blue jays first round pick. check out this draft. justin upton, alex gordon, jeff clement, ryan zimmerman of the nationals, braun, then romero. garrett olson was traded for felix pie, then nolan reimold

in the second round and david hernandez in e 16th round. all of those players in the 2005 draft and ricky romero went number six overall. so the have brandon snyder on the verge, we don't know when, but he certainly is making them notice. here's a high chopper back to the mound. and out by a step. so a three up three down inning. 

 >> jim p.: nice play by scott to rob wells, then the orioles would take an early lead. then luke scott, 18th home run. 8th against lefties. the jays would come back in the fifth. scutaro with a double. then the scores on the aaron hill single. so there you go. pitching dual of sorts. rich hill out here for the sixth inning. good to see that even though a little bit of a struggle in the fifth as they score the two runs. >> jim h.: scott rolen fouls it back. >> jim p.: what happens when your windup gets a little out of kilter, your arm drops. the warmups down a little bit. let's see if that will translate into anything. it's funny, when i first saw

rich hill throw in spring training, rick kranitz the pitching coach and the bullpen coach said he's never been a command guy. it's a matter of throwing strikes. gets the ball in. so 88. at the end of the day, can you get over your front side? so pretty good windup there. but the head has to go down to bring the ball down. so if you could throw that pitch, and so you have established in with two strikes, this is what the hitter is looking at. that the front shoulder stays square. so if you could have a change- up, that's the one pitch, a lot of energy by rich hill tonight. that's a change-up that misses. if you could throw it down and away, then all of a sudden

you've really made some strides. >> jim h.: did you like the shoulder from that view? >> jim p.: pretty well. >> jim h.: high fly ball to left. luke scott has a play. and he's there for the out. >> jim p.: he already had that right arm out to find out where the wall was. again, doesn't seem the ball is carrying tonight. there it is. where is it? and so not playing a lot of left. the ball doesn't carry as much as he thinks it is, and he catches it on the grass. >> jim h.: hard hit ball, past mora. that's a base hit for vernon wells. wells gets his first base hit. scott plays it back in. i'm watching luke out there, his first indication might be if he actually feels the warning track with his cleats.

>> jim p.: of course wells, we told you about the average. .337 on the road. not well received in toronto now when you're hitting .172. again, 13 out of 14. will he steal? he was actually moving back to first. they have been able to steal on rich hill, seven out of eight. coming into this game. >> jim h.: saw roberts there shading up the middle. he would cover on a steal attempt with the right-hander rios up. >> jim p.: alex rios, a guy you think one of these years is going to hit 25 to 30 home runs. good high ball hitter. >> jim h.: his career high is 24 home runs. he did that in 2007. last year however he fell off

to 15. that was after he got a big contract. >> jim p.: he's a much better fastball hitter than breaking ball hitter. you can see the first base umpire, and he's making sure that rich hill steps towards first. boy, would it be nice for rich hill to get a ground ball, one of his infielders and turn two. >> jim h.: rios fouls it off the other way. hill has allowed six home runs on the year in his 10 starts. only one of those by a left- handed batter. ellsbury of the red sox has

that. fouls off a good breaking ball. >> jim p.: he's one of those, if he could hit for power and occasionally he'll hit for average, he can do just about everything. steal bases. nine stolen bases in the month of june. >> jim h.: adam jones will take charge. no, luke scott. so luke has it, two men down. still at first base, vernon wells with two men down. 

 >> jim h.: i think adam jones there, luke hit a home run, so he's letting him have one. >> jim p.: scott's had a pretty busy night tonight. one, two, three, four, five i have on my scorecard. the one off the bat of vernon wells, that was huge. made a nice play. they don't really play millar, he's a pull hitter. they don't play him down in the corner. even though that's where he's trying to hit it. there you go. you couldn't throw too many curveballs. throw me that fastball i can double down in the corner. but he always looks fastball and adjusts. >> jim h.: pop foul back this way. >> jim p.: the one thing rich hill has done tonight is throw

the ball. so we've seen a lot of guys sky fastballs even though they haven't been around the knees. you think back of some of the balls, hill hate double on a ball down. now, the ball to scutaro for the double was up. fastball to hill. >> jim h.: wells is going, now he stops. wigginton getting him in the run down and gets it to andino who tags him out. that will go as a caught stealing on a good move by rich hill. hill gets out of it. ♪ detachability bad. now, you see, that's why i don't ride a bike.

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 >> amber: back at the yard, the orioles first round draft pick is receiving quite an honor. the right-handed pitcher is receiving an award for gatorade's high school player of the year at the espy awards. it will be in l.a. on july 15, but it will air on tv july 19 at 9:00 pm on espn. also, matt is a finalist for gatorade athlete of the year. that will be announced during the show, so be sure to tune in on july 19 to see the orioles organization's newest pitcher receive that award. >> jim h.: thank you very much. he's now at bloomfield and they're getting him in pitching shape so he can pitch some games. adam jones leads off the sixth.

yet another of the very solid arms. >> jim p.: a lot of it intrigued with the number one draft choice. biggest intrigue for me this summer is what's going to happen with steven strassburg of the nationals. >> jim h.: he'll wait until the deadline. >> jim p.: we they moved back two days. >> jim h.: 1-1 on jones. >> jim p.: and no low strikes tonight. a little bit off the corner. so let's see. now, all but nine of the earned runs now make it 10 are directly with the long ball for ricky romero. there's a good change-up. >> jim h.: hill charges, gets it to first. let's go back to that final out of the top of the sixth inning on the pickoff attempt. the key is the tag. >> jim p.: here's your throw. andino goes to tag him, really

hard, maybe, nope, phantom tag. very hard for ken to be able to get the angle as an umpire. of course vernon is going to plead his case to no avail. he was still in the baseline. andino as you could see was on the grass. had to reach back into the baseline. >> jim h.: that's going get down for a base hit and it's going to bounce towards the wall. markakis flying to second base and he has a one out double. >> jim p.: we have seen all night long routine balls and they are running their rear ends off. this automatic double right here. again, a pretty good breaking ball. you want to speed up nick's bat, throw him a breaking ball. the ball stays under the wall. play in front of you, you know you're going to make it. go ahead, run now. >> jim h.: ears aubrey huff, a chance to get the orioles the

lead back. >> jim p.: remember, aubrey with a home run against romero earlier in the season. >> jim h.: the orioles have been retired three up and three down in this game only once. that was last inning. they had a three batter inning in the first. jones singled with one down. markakis ended it with a double play ground ball. that's the drive towards the gap right center field, that's going oh get the orioles the lead. that gets all the way to the wall. markakis scores and there's huff with an had been had been double and the birds have the lead back. >> jim p.: you could dry some clothes on that rope. that is a bullet up the gap. you can't hit a ball much harder than this. that ball just rifled into the gap. so the bonus, the run, there he is. nick markakis with the third run. then you get aubrey huff into

scoring position. you could just hear the sound off the bat. of course if you're pitching, you don't like that sound. >> jim h.: that is the first time in this game that romero has allowed back-to-back hits. he's averages less than a base hit per inning which as a starter is amazing. wigginton has a hit tonight. >> jim p.: a chance to add to it right here. he got a fastball in the middle of the plate. got a curveball in the middle of the plate. good hitters hit those pitches. that's what markakis and huff did. >> jim h.: high pop-up wide of first. millar has a play. and he has it for the out. two down as wigginton is retired. time now to bring you up to

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month for adam. >> jim p.: luke's got four this month. pretty impressive. >> jim h.: he has the balance back on his back leg. >> jim p.: he said what you really want. he said, listen, you just want to be able to be healthy so you can compete at your best. tremendous faith in god. so he just, as we look at baez. orioles have taken a one run lead after six. rich hill has done a nice job tonight for the orioles pitching. >> jim h.: high fly ball to right. rios is back on it, in front of the scoreboard, he will make the catch. so luke just missed hitting it out. pxopo fios guy! where ya headed?

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somewhere. good place to start. >> jim h.: kevin millar leads o. >> jim p.: he comes in hitting about 112 points higher than lefties than righties. has more home runs against righties. the bullpen is pretty well rested. you have baez warming up now. you have jimmy johnson pretty well rested. >> jim h.: bullpen has been pitching very well as a unit as baez continues to heat up. lined to left field. scott in on the ball. he'll have to play it on the hop. millar has a second hit. third time tonight the lead-off runner has reached. or lead-off hitter has reached

to become a runner. as millar has now done it twice. here comes rick kranitz. this might be all for rich hill. remember, dave trembley is serving the second game of his two-game suspension, so rick kranitz in charge of the pitching here. >> jim p.: there you are, 92 pitches. probably a little bit of a stretch to let him even face millar because of the numbers. >> jim h.: so he goes six innings, plus, baez coming on. hey mom i need some minutes.

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 >> jim h.: rich hill on the orioles bench. birds have the lead 3-2, tying run is on. there's danys baez who is having a very good year for the birds. >> jim p.: he last pitched on tuesday. he hit one of those little rough spells where, of course he's a big guy, great extension, long armor. had trouble getting the ball down. gave up a grand slam and a three run home run when they were in philadelphia. but when he's thrown the ball down in the strike zone, very difficult to hit. >> jim h.: jim referred to the bullpen. over the past four games, here are the numbers for the orioles relievers. they have been winners in two of the four, with a 1.20 e.r.a. that is very solid pitching by the relievers. >> jim p.: we have seen them give the orioles hitters a chance in some of those games,

to come back and win games where they trailed it. >> jim h.: barajas has flied out twice to center field. in this situation you don't have to worry about millar taking off, so baez can really concentrate on barajas. catcher running, a candidate for a ground ball for a double play. >> jim p.: if you could make your pitch. that's really what the game comes down to. splitter, sinker, got the hard slider. he misses with the splitter right there. so getting the problem is only when he's gotten behind and the ball has gotten up. barajas has yet, that's an amazing number, yet to hit into a ground ball double play. he's been up almost 240 times. that's hard to believe. must be starting a lot of runners. bouncer foul. but every once in a while, you're going to roll over.

power guy. second season with the blue jays. he'll turn 34 in september. >> jim p.: what i was going to say is that -- >> jim h.: are you okay? >> jim p.: sure. a little frog came in there. 39 rbi's. >> jim h.: baez gets him. strikeout, and one away. as of july 9th, orioles pitchers have record add total of 505 strikeouts, that means care blue cross blue shield is closer to their goal. >> jim p.: so you know it's not about voluntarily os it for

danys baez. mid 90s. again, when he's thrown the ball well, splitters going down, that's how you get those ground balls. >> jim h.: brian butterfield does not go to the bench for dellucci, in part i guess because the orioles closer is left-handed. so if you lift your right- handed bat now, if it comes up again in the ninth inning, you would have the lefty facing sherrill. here's the 1-1, ground ball towards short, double play ball, andino to roberts, there's the double play and baez erases the base runner and the orioles get out of it. 7s fy 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

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the amazing thing about the performance from rich hill tonight, unfortunately the orioles really had no idea of knowing which rich hill would show up the tonight it was the goodrich hill. he was very effective. >> jim p.: we talked about king of the hill, being aggressive, forget about the bad starts. i think he did a good job of that. you've got to be on egg shells when he's pitched. tonight he threw the ball well, he made some great pitches. >> jim h.: you talked about, hey, forget about everything. don't go out there and think, just go out there and pitch. >> jim p.: i thought he threw the ball better, he had better life through the strike zone. we could work on change-ups and i think that's what he's going do the second half of the season. yogi never, he just called the pitches. he never pitched. he hit 358 home runs. >> jim h.: this the final start for rich hill prior to the all- star break. this is really something he

might be able to build on. >> jim p.: the orioles certainly want to win. unless last night, it was whoever was playing at home was going to win, so they kind of changed that. >> jim h.: the orioles now will go for insurance and rich hill explaining to one of baltimore's finest how he got the batters out tonight and the police officer agreeing with him. yeah, you had that one pitch, kind of sailed inside. then you swung and missed. i really liked that change-up you threw. that was in the sixth inning. rich hill will say, yeah, that was a good change-up there. >> jim p.: that's a great shot. rich hill, a nice guy. he's talking to everybody on the bench. >> jim h.: you pitch a good game, you get your own security. melvin mora has run the count to 3-0. >> jim p.: he's probably saying, don't you think i should have thrown a change-up back there to millar? make it easy for the bullpen.

romero pitching quite a game tonight, too. >> jim h.: so the lead-off walk, and here is matt wieters. matt wieters must be wondering if he's ever going to get to bat left-handed again. so far. >> jim p.: we talk about why it's difficult to win against left-handed starters. because a lot of your guys see, first of all, if you're a switch hitter like brian or matt, you see so many more at- bats. >> jim h.: millar runs it down to hill, romero is involved in it. lock at all these throws. what's barajas doing out there. barajas finally tags him out. >> jim p.: either romero came up with a new move or the advanced scouts, because he just did one of those step off moves. we've seen it before. melvin. >> jim h.: one to three to

four, to one, to three, to two. >> jim p.: so there goes your lead-off runner. back to the thought. if you're a switch hitter, you have to maintain two swings. you see righties at least most of the time more often than you do left-handers. a lot of times you say, okay, if you're matt wieters, i believe a national right-handed hitter as did brian roberts, you learn to hit left-handed. a lot of the single hitters, it's usually because they want to utilize the speed if you hit from the other side of the plate. hit down to first base quicker. >> jim h.: matt's been switching hitting since he's 5 years old. there are so many more right- handed pitchers that the switch hitters just get so much more

comfortable batting left- handed. a little bit low. this is as unusual a stretch as we've seen. it's going to be seven consecutive left-handed starters against the orioles. >> jim p.: what happens is, just think about it. not that aubrey huff and markakis and scott, especially scott's having a great year against left-handers, but the home runs go down, the extra bases go down, slugging average goes down. left-handed pitchers neutralize people to some extent. >> jim h.: hill taking charge. second baseman has it for the second out. find out if one of your favorite orioles has what it takes in the kitchen at the orioles cookoff. you can join orioles players brian roberts, jeremy guthrie and gregg zaun at the espnzone, they'll compete in the team's first ever cooking competition.

amber has been digging for the information. what are the orioles going to cook? >> amber: you know they're competitive so they're taking this very seriously. jeremy guthrie is going to make spanish tortillas, brian roberts is still undecided. a funny moment, guthrie informed me that the spanish tortillas are a spanish dish from spain so i'm glad he told me that because i would not have been able to figure that out. when i called hill on it, he did tell me french toast is not from france so he did feel a need to clarify. >> as i understand it, whichever of the three players wins, that dish will be added to the menu at espnzone, is that right? >> amber: that is right. and gregg zaun is very excited about that. he said at first he wanted to make some sort of omelet, but he found out they didn't have eggs. but he thinks hissen chill lad das will get there.