runner at second, potential ahead run, teahen hitting .307 in july. he rips that one downtown the line. that's a base hit. he's going to go to second, butler will score. three consecutive doubles and kansas city has a 3-2 lead. >> buck: chen stranded the bases loaded in the bottom owe second, encouraged the offense to come back here in the top of the third. this is a fast ball away for mark teahen. his 24th did you believe of the season. >> gary: so the tether grows

shorter. olivo lined out the first his first time up. olivo the dh coming off a home stand in which he went 4 for 22. 0-1 delivery by hill turns that over outside. the count will go to 1-1. trembley watching. he's seen this before. the 1-1 is a breaking ball instead and that will go to 1- 2. >> buck: he was hitting over .290 against him and struggled with his control. >> gary: there's the breaking ball that will miss outside, 3- 1. the orioles at times this

season perhaps situations where i pitch starters where you cannot go any further, cannot continue to get starters go out and not get what you need. that will put olivo on. there are runners at first and second. that's going to be it for rich hill. that's tough. it's about the business of baseball and winning because you wouldn't ask for a nicer guy to meet and know than rich hill. he's a great guy. he's trying. he's worked at it and he wants to compete. but the fact of the matter is it's not at this level right now. rim have a 3-2 lead, bass coming in. hey mom i need some minutes.

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second.pena will stand in and take the pitch inside. pena doing to catching opt ball game flied out his first time up. switch hitter, .368 right, .243 left, couple home runs. 1-0 is up high. this lineup has been shuffled all over this year. pena gets to catch mostly, roll have catching too. the 2-0 and a slow roller, only play is at first. teahen moves over to third. pena retired, two away. >> buck: good singing fast ball. bass couldn't do anything other than get one out at first base.

>> gary: this is a big at bat. a home runed as two more to the board. >> buck: wieters kept that so teahen had to hold his ground at third. talk about momentum, they look like the orioles were a base hit away from knocking chen out of the game in the bottom of the second. he got out of it by striking out aubrey huff. >> gary: 1-1 fouled back. bass has delivered three wild

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 >> gary: reamed off the end the battle for a base hit. reimold just purchasing that one, has a four-game hit streak now. he'd drawn a walk his first time up. >> buck: reimold just knows how to get hits. look at this swing. ball is away from him, doesn't try to do too much. ball off the end of the bat, solid hit and just see it all the time. just looks like he knows where he needs to hit the ball to get a base hit. >> gary: not a good night for starters, orioles five hits in the game off chen. scott will take a call out his

first time up. i was in new york last night and jimmy heland, he went on a tirade before the game about trade rumors. 0-1, that's foul. i mean, i can't use all the words that he used, but he said it's disrespectful to players to start trade rumors. it affects players and how they perform. he's looking at all the press people. you guys, you just make stuff up. i know what you're doing. you don't care what's happening to the ballplayers, what's going on. and the tigers have no interest in millton bradley. you hear that? we don't have any interest. i know it's been out there. it was great. he went on for about ten minutes. >> buck: that's how you dispel

rumors. >> gary: that's right. and he was emphatic about i. he said, it's nothing against millton bradley. we're just not interested. and the pitch is taken inside for a ball. >> buck: the main problem is a lot of people would love to have a bat and fans say, trade for a bat. show me one that's available that i don't have to overpay for. that's the problem. everyone is concerned about holing onto their camaraderie. >> gary: runner goes. how about the hitch in that throw by pena. >> buck: pena really loaded up and got a little extra on it, took too much time. great pitch by reimold.

watch pena, hesitation in his throw had no chance basically. he tried to get a little extra on the throw. >> gary: 2-1 count. trembley talked about reimold before the gay. he said one of the things we are trying toe improve on is running. he's got to go to the know when to go and when not to. we're trying to pick pitches for him to steal on. so they're giving him the signs to steal when they think he has his best chance. and a timeout taken by mora at the plate.   rbi chance here for mora. get a base hit, reimold will have a good chance to score. there is only one way, reimold

held close by callaspo at second. the pickoff. >> buck: this pickoff was put on by the catcher. the timing was really bad on that because callaspo has had to wait for the ball from chen. he was looking for the sign. >> gary: 2-1 and mora is there. ducking over at third. t-shirt tuesday returns to easterly park tomorrow. get the nolan reimold t-shirt for your wardrobe and celebrate the run for the rookie of the year award.

it's also holly's bargain night, $8 for upper seats. two away, matt wieters. inside. >> buck: it's always a dangerous situation over the head of. remember that wieters has played about six months of professional baseball. don't be

so quick to criticize the batting average. >> gary: 1-1 on the way. this thing you see is the contact. he's hitting the ball. even the outs are becoming hard outs. that's a great sign because you keep doing that, you'll get your base hits. >> buck: 131 at bats, he's learning about major league pitches for the first time and handling himself all right. >> gary: fouls that back. >> buck: just think what he has too to the deal with. he's a young catcher, new pitchers, new batters. plus he's a switch hitter with two strokes to worry act. he's not shown any signs of confusion or lack of confidence blind the plate. >> gary: and wieters goes down

swinging. no runs for the orioles, 3-2 royals lead. 

 >> gary: jones with the two rbis, one when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. on the mound is brian bass who came onto end the third inning. that was out of the reach of roberts. gordon on with a leadoff single here in the fourth. >> buck: got on top of that billion and put top spin on it. the second bounce with that 207 spin shoots past him into right field. can't extend far enough to knock it down.

>> gary: betancourt acquired from seattle july 10th. he's batting in the number 9 spot, grounded out his first time up. he's getting a lot of at bats against the orioles. he's 3 for 23 against the orioles this season for betancourt. and he'll take that one to center field, hit it pretty good. jones backing up and just on the warning track. betancourt retired. that will send gordon back to first. >> buck: the mariners are a great example of how difficult a general manager's job is at this point of the season. seattle was perceived to be a buyer looking to add, maybe to get into the postseason. cleveland wins all three over the weekend and now they are thinking, maybe we should sell

some of these guys. >> gary: then look at wild card, which keeps about half the teams in in each league in the wild card race. here's bloomquist. you don't want to say to your fans, we've given up. you do if you start trading away the guys producing for you currently. the wild card has kept so many teams in. that's the whole idea. texas, tampa bay the, settle seattle, washington, chicago, minnesota. when you get down to six and a half, even that is a little bit of a stretch. but you have a shot. 1-0 delivery, and to flip it from the glove to try and get it to izturis. with gordon bearing down,

gordon coming hard, izturis couldn't get the handle. >> buck: brian took a little time to right johima, to get his ambulance. it goes off the edge of his glove. great effort by rockets. if stewart can't make the catch for the force out -- he was running hard to disrupt a possibility of a force out. >> gary: that will be a single credited to bloomquist and that puts runners on at first and second. callaspo up. kansasty needs him at the plate so far this game. he got a double in the third, started offense in the third. he's got a nine-game hit streak now. 0-1 swung on and missed.

>> buck: that ball really starts to sink. sometimes when you're rushed and you overpower the sinking ball, you go straight down on it. >> gary: bass this season against kansas city, only his second game, only two-thirds of an inning prior to this game giving up just one hit. most of these hitters have not faced bass.that's up the middle. and a big ground ball double play, no runs and a couple hits with a runner left on. kansas city leads by one. ?xw@t

 >> gary: royal have the lea today. plenty came to see bergesen, love seeing the kids there. >> buck: especially a young man that represents himself very effectively. >> gary: the strike is taken,

bruce chen by his fingernails hanging in. the easterly have two in the first, one in scoring position in the third. izturis to short. betancourt has made a real difference for them. they were struggling. betancourt, this club commits a lot of errors. they have given audiotape league leading 54 unearned runs this year. it's been a disaster in the field. >> buck: and you can't do that when you have young pitchers because they become tentative, reluctant to put the ball in play. you have to have a good defensive team behind a young pitching staff. give them the confidence that contact is a good thing. >> gary: a strike taken by rockets. >> buck: remember the shortstop

was the first thing andy aardsmaed in the off season to shore up the defense. >> gary: what happened to the shortstop of the royals? they're going to try and turn iminto a pitcher. tony pena jr., they've set him down to try and turn the shortstop into a pitcher. he was not hitting a lick. the 0-2 up high. so that will be an interesting transformation. >> buck: yeah, he had a bull pen session friday. mcclear said, there's something there. frontal him to be some kind of reliefown the road. it was interesting baa mahay was an oath fielder with the red sox and made the transition

. >> gary: into the seats and a foul ball. roberts second in runs, first in dbles in the american league ming into the game. he's there among e leers in at will have owe categories. second in extra base hits, third in rbis for guys who lead ofthneups. is inside, y at 2-2. this is all of major league baseball. >> the witness: pretty impressive up there. >> gary: in the air to right center field, bloomquist. that's one thing brian has done for of this yore and generally doesn't benefit him, butting the ball in the air. he's become a fly ball hitter this season and he's not a fly

ball hitter. ground balls will get him on base. two down here in the fourth inning. and snick markakis, a strikeout victim, drawn a walk, with a six-game hit streak. chen outside for a ball. chen with a 32-42 major league record. pitch for a strike. hank snow wrote the song, and he lived it. i've been everywhere. and he has. he's been all over major league baseball. >> buck: the chance to come back. that ball is twisting on other