mind, he would have leaned over, probably wouldn't have caught that ball, but that's just a bonus when you can take the routine ball and turn it into an out instead of it being a base hit. scutaro to me is very good inside of the plate hitter. when you're getting on base as much as he is, you know how to work the count pretty well.

>> jim h: 2-2 on scutaro. >> jim p: you can look at the number at the top of your screen. anytime you get the strikes of the two, 227, not just him, it's just most major league hitters. >> jim h: fouling off the breakingball. bergesen has struck out two, he has walked two. hasn't loud only three hits, as scutaro fouls off another one.

bergesen coming in, 93 hits in 97 and 2/3 innings. so just a shade under a base hit per inning. >> jim h: 2-2-hit to right field for a base hit, off the end of the bat. how about that play coverage for marco scutaro. second hit for scutaro in the game. this copyrighted telecast is presented by authority of the orioles, may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form, and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the orioles. nice view from center field from the picnic area right above the bullpens. and here is aaron hill now,

representing the tying run at the plate. mora to second, roberts to first, and out at first base. 5-4-3 to end the inning. bottom of the 5th coming up, and the birds with a 2-0 lead. . yea i know. i threw them out. they were old so...... old! they are rollover minutes. they're as good as new. and these days we can't afford to be wasteful. saving minutes..... .....saves money. yea. (announcer) only at&t's family talk with rollover saves your family's unused minutes. and saving minutes saves money. get the lg neon from at&t, now only $29.99 after mail in rebate

 .  >> jim h: the important thing, i remember brook tuesdaying it better than anybody, the momentum was always going towards first base. the minute you back up or arch your back, balls go off, right or left, it's very difficult to pick a ball up off your chest or whatever, if you're not able to keep it in front of you and is moving towards the pace and still three somebody out. >> jim h: left field deep down the line, hooking, and foul. so brian down in the count 0-2. he hit that one loud and far,

but foul. brian doubled and scored in the third, driving in a run. rzepczynski has struck out three, he has walked two. fastball sails, 1-2. >> jim p: he's done a nice job. i mean brian but earlfield, who was the interim manager when gaston was away, tremendous respect for the orioles offense. he said they tonight have a lot of holes in thatlineup. so this kid, again, is pitching not just like is just an order linion that you can just throw it up there and get people out. p then great thing about the orioles, i think they can be a lot better, just some of the guys who haven't hit home runs will hit home runs, not trying to do it, but there are a lot of things. i was talking to dave today, and he said a lot of times players will go home at the all star break and think, okay, how can i have a better second half than i had in the first half, and hopefully that will be the case with this club. good breaking ball right there. >> jim h: roberts down on

strikes. two away. >> jim p: very deceptive breaking ball. the hitters are showing not only me but everybody at home that it's tough to get to that pitch. it starts as a strike, spends up as a ball. very rarely has he hung any in the middle of the plate, others than the one to markakis. >> jim h: so here is adam jones, batting with two town and the bases empty. he did walk his last at bat. breaking ball is low. talked to adam the other day in seattle about what he thinks it will be like when he walks into the clubhouse as an all tar star, and he said it's going to be really strange, but i'm going to enjoy it, because at least for one day, i will be teammates with the best in the league, and you are talking about derrick jeter and guys live that that are all stars every year, and now he's their equal, and will always have that tag now adam jones all star attached to it.

>> jim p: yeah, and now you have the home run derby and all of the hoopla that goes along with the all-star game. it use to $be obvious the game is very important, and it still is, because it's determines who is going to have the whole home field advantage -- as we take another look right here, you know can see the protection, and that gets above with so it's on the shin. >> jim h: adam also said he was very happy that his first all-star game will be in the national league, so he'll have on the road jersey. >> jim p: with baltimore on the front. >> knew baltimore on the front. he's proud of that, that he'll be representing the franchise and the city, and all of the fans who follow this team very passion atly, and he's down on strikes. inning over. second three up, three down inning for rzepczynski. we'll enter enter the 6th. good game. o's with a 2-0 lead. ♪

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 . >> jim h: amber, thank you very much, as we go here to t bottom of the 6th inning. what an honor for those two guys to pitch in that game. the orioles pitching prospects not only getting noticed by the orioles, getting foe advertised by major league baseball. sharply hit to first, overbay has it, markakis retired. one away. >> jim p: had another scout, just looking it up here, cavier avery. born in georgia and lives in tampa, but rave reviews.

talking about speed, short stroke, and still learning how to play the game, because not a lot of at bats, last year it was down at the gulf coast where he hit .280. >> jim h: both he and l.j. hose. what is entering about those two, you just mentioned it, last year they started slowly in the gulf coast league, but made the jump to delmarva this year. they both have speed, too. >> jim h: oh, tons of speed. they say avery can just fly. i think about that, i think about al when he came up. not a lot of time in the minor leagues, rookie of the year in '73. >> jim h: 1-2, back to left

field. there it goes, and adam lind. there it goes! home run for salazar! he got a hanger, and he crushed it! >> jim h: well, the one thing about oscar salazar, he's been around the block a few times, so when he's sitting on the bench, and watching breaking ball, breaking ball, and then you heave one up there, one of the few breaking balls that rzepczynski has left up in the strike zone, and it's a two- strike one, and he just goes out and kind of flicks it into the stands here at camden yards to make it 3-0. >> jim h: second home run for oscar as is. ty wiggington goes the opposite way, towards the line. that's a foul ball. >> jim p: if you go into the second half, and i know they have some roster problems with pie and salazar and they will bring back hernandez, but when you're struggling against left- handed starters and your slugging percentage goes down, and when you have somebody like

oscar, it's a good time to rest people. if you look at aubrey huff, this is the first year i can remember where he played every day in the field. put you can dh him sometimes, put salazar if there, give him a day off. so there's a lot of opportunities as the season progresses if he plays on this club, and i'll tell you what, somebody is going to snatch him up if they try to get him back to the minor leagues, because he has proven he can hit and hit. that's a smart hitter. got a great pitch to hit, but you still have to go out and hit it, and he didn't miss it. >> jim h: well, he can play first and third, can dh. he can play at shortstop. not his best position, but he can play there. he'll even go in the outfields for you. so wiggington down in the count, 2-2 now. >> jim p: is well, there is one of those tack on runs you

talked about. >> jim h: check swing, and no swing says jerry. >> jim p: so at least bergesen is going to have a 3-run lead when he goes out to pitch the 7th inning snoop well, i like how you described it with the theory you took to the mound, for every one you got, they had to get two, so now he has to give up four. >> jim p: well, we used to always think that. and when -- and i think i told the story the other night, but when sandy alomar senior came in with the mets, robby alomar played here, and what used to drive davey johnson crazy when he managed the orioles was that anderson would get on, and robby would bunt, but robby's feeling was he we get one, they have to get two to take the lead. davey was saying you could hit the ball in the hole, we could have a big ining. that's a little bit of earl weave be, but good club, number you look at this club, toronto,

they're trying to beat, toronto, they get a lot of quality starts, but they have 13 1-run games, that i have lost 1 of the last 1 one-run games. so the little things. the pitching coach getting on the horn to call the bullpen. >> jim h: here is reimold. curveball for a strike. well, this orioles team does not play a lot of small ball. they're a team that seems to prefer just sitting back and playing for the big inning because of the way their line- up is set up. really the only hitter who is asked to sacrifice with any kind of frequency is the number nine batter, whether it's izturis or andino. >> jim p: but what the orioles do do is spread the ball around the field. so they don't give up outs, and i'm not an advocate of that

until late in the game anyway. team short, scutaro has it, to second out there, because to first, not in time. ball gets away from overbay, but he'll rub it down, so reimold is on on the fielders choice, and now two down. >> jim p: right here, it's not routine, because it's hit very quickly, and easily beaten out by reimold. >> jim h: wiggington gets high fives for the slide into second pace, and a collision as well. >> jim p: yeah, but you wonder what he did to his right hand, because he came off the field -- let's take a look here.

looks like the right-hand hits in the corner of the base. trying to kind of wiggle it a little bit, as he went down into the tunnel. >> jim h: here is melvin mora. bouncer. that is a foul ball. foul ball, says dale scott. >> jim p: well, that's the call you talked about, normally there would be an umpire there, but because of the injury to ron culpa. now, let's xmo this, slow it down. ball well foul. >> jim h: good job by dale scott. melvin is hitless today. he has struck out twice. for a lefty, that's not a very good move. you could see it coming. >> jim p: go, but there's a lot -- guys -- when mike flanagan came up, he did not

have a good move. leg would come up, they would run, and then he went on to have one of the best moves in baseball because he worked at it. >> jim h: down and away. >> jim p: and you don't even need a move if you're going to quick step like that. slide step. you get to the ball to the catcher in about a said, and chavez can flat out throw. we saw that a couple of years ago when he was with the orioles. >> jim p: the almost doesn't ten to first. >> well, that's my point. >> jim h: his momentum goes that way, his body momentum. >> jim p: well, he's going probably for the middle of the orioles dugout. if we took a line, he's stepping maybe that way, and first base is obviously -- you can see that visual medium. >> jim h: oh, fly ball, center

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 . >> jim p: you don't want to be behind the plate today. >> jim h: we've lost an umpire, and now zaun is hit by one. >> jim h: he's going to come back out and -- i don't know if this is strategy or pain, or maybe both. >> jim p: well, toronto knows all about gregg zaun, because he was with them. right on the tip of that elbow. >> jim h: and if it hit the funny bone, it's not funny. >> jim p: not at all. >> jim h: chavez certainly

understands what his counter part is going through. so chavez the one-time oriole catching for the blue jays. zaun a one-time blue jay catching for the orioles. >> jim p: even though he started for the orioles. >> jim h: way back. debut of 1995 for gregg zahn. still going back, it is off the wall, and if play. 5ing back in is joans, and on at second base with a double to lead off the 7th inning is overbay. >> jim p: is and before the in, be a lot of the bullpen for the orioles was getting up and stretching, because normally, orioles hoping this will will not abnormal day, because bergesen has pitched so well, and been able to do it late in the game, an example is the red sox game, one run in 8 innings. so again, everybody getting

loose just in case you have to get up. >> jim h: here is rios. breaking ball for a strike. >> jim p: not a particularly good one, but he gets fooled on it. just backed. and hit the inside part of the plate. let's see how they play it. you're three runs down, but you still have nine outs to work with if you're the jays. are they going to try to advance the runner? they didn't do a very good job of it last night. ended up losing by one run. so if you've been in a lot of one-run ball games, sometimes you just the know how many you're going to score, so we'll see if rios is hitting the ball the other way, or trying to dive it somewhere. just missed a home run that second time up, back in the 4th inning. >> jim h: 1-1 is town and away. -- down and away. overbay at second. >> jim p: now, is the count 1-

2, or 2-1. >> jim h: i think it's 2-1. ,yeah, i think it's reversed. we'll see if he goes back to the dugout. so one of those pitches was called a strike. terrific breaking ball. try to keep the ball in and try to stay away from his power. big long arm rangy guy. pitching is so much about execution, can you make the right catch at the right time, and bergesen certainly did it then. no that was a great replay with the xmo there. left field reimold back on it. the ball carries and it's over his head, and it's bounces again the wall, into second with a double is dellucci. so overbay comes in. 3-1 game. >> jim p: well, once again, coming in with 196 doubles, they are closing in on 200. and again, you know, probably

too much at the late, nice approach by dave dellucci who started his career with the orioles. and that ball is over the head of reimold. and the bullpen will get active for the orioles. so the jays trying to make some noise here in the 7th. >> jim h: david dellucci drafted by the orioles in '95, and he played sparingly with the big club. played about 17 games in 1997, but he showed so much promise, the orioles lost him in the expanse draft. arizona and familiar tapeh joined major league baseball, and tez was claimed by arizona. 1-0 on chavez, the number 9 batter. >> jim p: that lot of change- ups today. so can't feel comfortable throwing them, but has been so good with just sinkers and

sliders all afternoon. four seam and two-seam fastballs. there's a strike at the knees. a lot of late movement, that ball running. >> jim h: toronto now has outhit the orioles 6-5. there is trembley and rick kranitz looking on. slider just missed. four doubles in this game by toronto. >> jim p: leading the american league. >> jim h: chavez is 0 for 2. he has struck out and bounced

back to the mound. here is a strike. 2-2. >> jim p: and raul looking down at the inside corner. terrific pitch. just missed, ball 3. and he has pitched at least 7 full innings in four of those starts. and he has learned about pitch efficiency to be effective and stay in the game. 3-2 on the number 9 batter, chavez. dellucci, a good lead at second base with one down. hard hit ball towards mora, again deflects off mora, this

within into shallow left field! what is going on out there in front of melvin mora? they are bouncing up on him. >> jim p: well, that ball hit so hard. that ball blistered down at melvin, slider that stays in the middle of the plate, and that a problem 3-2. he just didn't get to it. i don't know fits a bad hot, it just caromed up, and is just couldn't get the ball to it. again, the paul just hit extremely hard. plan   . >> jim h: that's a base hit for chavez that ball was hit so far. rick can little come out for a chat with bergesen. dellucci moves to third, and so the tying runs are on with only one down in the 7th inning. >> jim p: well, you cruise into the 7th with a 3-0 heed, but fastball to overbay up, fastball up to dellucci, double, and then a high slider

to chavez. so all hits on balls that brad bergesen, areas he wants to stay out of, and that's up in the strike zone.    .  >> jim h: scutaro has two today. fastball for a strike on the outside corner. >> jim p: yeah, hit a double down the left field line, and we always talk about pitches being information pitches. he hit a ball right on the outside corner, hit a soft

single, so look at the series that he's had. there's a good pitch. so again, you're wondering, if you're brad bergesen, where can i go to get the out? i came in, el58ed the wall, he doubled town the line. i threw him town and away, and this tells you a little about the year that scutaro has had. runners on first and third for the jays. where do i go right now to get an out. and scutaro is saying how to i get the ball in the air, stay out of the double-play, maybe even drive someone somewhere. >> jim h: well, there it is to center field. that will be deep enough to get dellucci in. jones mas to back track, has it for the out. fires back in, but chavez moves up 90 boat. >> jim p: well, adam forgot how many outs there were. he was going to throw the ball in the stands. >> jim h: so the sac fly cuts

the orioles lead to a run. >> jim p: which is food think that he didn't, but the way he caught that ball, it appeared to me that he didn't know that was just the second out. >> jim h: mcdonald will finch hit for chavez now. good base running there by chavez.

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to ewhich a row. 1 for 9 lifetime. so at least a comfortable match- up. >> jim h: sharply hit toward this hole. mora diving stop, gets up and throws, and out at first base! mora ends the inning and saving a run! blue jays settle for two, they get back in the game. 7th inning stretch, and the orioles holding on to a 1-run lead. to over 65 cities acro 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.

 >> if you're hot and really playing well, you're probably not happy about the all star break coming. it does give the body a little bit of a break, a chance to recover, but four days is just long enough to get rusty. so it's kind of a catch 22. some guys are looking forward to it, and aren't, and then there's the other side of the coin,, it gives you a chance to reflect on your first half, the body of work, and, you know,

you can think about the things that you want to improve on over the break, and come back with a fresh mind and hopefully a fresh body. >> jim p: so greg zaun, his thoughts on the all-stair break. >> jim p: we talked about the opening how good the oriole bullpen has been, and they're going to have to do that again, and we saw them last night. johnson could not hold that 3-2 lead in the 8th inning, so again we'll see that. the orioles, until this game ends, certain want to start hold something runs, but again, bergesen pitched. he gave the team a chance to win, which is pretty much the idea for a starting pitcher. >> jim h: there will be ups and downs and peaks and valleys. the last week has been very encouraging, because the starters and bullpen in union

son have pitched well together. >> jim h: le well, they have, and that's what you want. but i know brad bergesen is the guy that even though he's been pitching very well, he'll go back and look at this game and say maybe i could have mixed in in a few more change-ups, when we start the second half, he'll have to do that, because when you pitch as well as he has, people goring to notice and make think adjustment. seems to me like he has three pitches he can throw for strikes. >> jim h: and what has been encouraging about bergesen, he has proven to be very coachable, and of all of the pitchers, he seems to adjust to the adversity that he has in a game, and really can build from that. >> jim p: yeah, and all of that adversity came early on. his last game he got one hit by jarod washburn, so you say well, i sleet to change a few things, but all in all, i pitched well enough to win, and he has certainly donees that again this afternoon. and he can pick up his 6th

here. there is barajas. he takes over behind the plate after they pinch ran for the catcher chavez. and here is gregg zaun who talked about the all star break. he'll lead off. zaun will flip over and bat from. the left side, izturis will follow, and then brian roberts been three consecutive switch hitters here in the 7th. and zaun looking it over low. so shawn camp takes over for rzepczynski. >> jim p: camp a sinker ball change-up guy. >> jim h: and scutaro gets it to first. one down. >> jim p: good dedense everybody club. i think that's probably the

frustrating thing for gaston, is that again the 13 one-run paul games, they've lost 12 of them, even though they do a lot of things right. unable to get at least so far the big hit. >> jim h: there is izturis, batting with one out and nobody on. there's a tapper hit towards short, tough play, scutaro charges, throws on the run, not in time, and it's into the stands! and izturis will be awarded second base. so that will be a single and an error, and the orioles looking for an ad-on run, have izturis at second base.

>> there is error number three for scutaro. enter and a base hit to left field for roberts, and the orioles get a run right back, taking advantage of the error! rob errs comes through, and a 4- 2 lead for the birds. >> jim p: right here, you throw it away, sinker baller, second tomb you've seen him in

this series, so know a little bit about him. he makes a pretty good pitch, but even a better approach at home plate garners the orioles another run. >> jim h: so shawn camp allows a run. at the moment, it is up earned. we'll see fit stays that way. and here is adam jones. throw to first, and roberts back. so rzepczynski went six innings, and he allowed three runs, and the orioles pick up one against camp here in the 4th. pitchout, roberts wasn't going. >> jim p: well, you have a control guy, so if you're ghast, not a problem.

good ear by adam jones, he takes low. >> jim p: adam hitting .344 coming into this game with runners in scoring position. huff over .300, markakis over .300. scott over .300. >> jim h: fouled again down the line. >> jim p: see, and that's a pitch that adam jones has to take, because it's a ball. if you take it, you're hitting 3-0. you may not be swinging 3- 0, but you work the count in your favor. but as terry crowley, the hitting instructor for the oriolest says, he's still a baby. crow says it has to be at least 1500 at pats before a guy really has a good sense of kind 0 what he needs to do. i mean, adam has mapped

tremendous strides. more control, all of the mull the hit games, but he can get a lot better. >> jim h: roberts doesn't go. swing and a miss. big healthy cut. and johnson, who allowed a run last night, back up again today. >> jim p: you would think they may run here. and he does. you hold the ball, and you hope that he'll give himself away. if he would have tried to throw over, sometimes they say throw over, and you justify turn and fire, they may have v caught

brian. >> jim h: roberts at territory, doesn't go, and another foul. >> jim p: well, lease a sinker, slider, change-up guy. he's been pitching a long time. he's 33. first got to the big leagues with kansas city, and in minor leagues, 392 games, has almost always been a bullpen guy. quick throw to first, and roberts back.

2-2 an jones. second out.

another throw to first chases roberts. nick has one hit today, an rbi, so hole hit the break on a three-game hitting streak. >> roller towards first, and markakis is tagged out. nice play by overbay to quickly get to that ball and get

markakis. orioles gate run. we'll head to the 8th in a two- run game. 

 jim johnson will come on. lind, roberts rolen and wells. i'm sure the thought process

here is to get him back in after he allowed a run last night, but at least did keep the game tied. they want him heading to the break, though, feeling better about himself. >> jim h: well, he's so important. cardo getting lose for the jays, who have a very deep bullpen.

>> jim h: this one carries, markakis back on it, and has it for the out. >> jim p: didn't look like dick got a good read on it. a lot of background here in the daytime. able to run it down on the warning track. 0 oh, i have to get back, and he does. terrific right fielder. never loses sight of it for the

second out.