>> the orioles move to the roger center in toronto the open a three-game stand. on the occasions, the long ball, 11 of them, has been the orioles' secret weapon. tonight they will take on toronto's secret weapon. a young pitcher by the name of ricky romero. she looking to become maybe the winningest rookie this season. jason berken has faced him before. the two youngsters go against one another who gets the pie? we're about to find out!

it is the beautiful city of toronto, ontario, canada as the orioles come to open a three- game stand against the blue jays, a team they have a winning record against on the season. >> lots of noise here tonight. the 1992, 1993 championship teams of toronto are being recognized. they have a tremendous turn- out. they're being introduced behind us. about winning, bringing the fans back, about reminding toronto about how they got to be a winning franchise. it the same kind of thing the orioles are trying to do. how do you win? how do you get back to that post-season. well, we thought we'd take a

look at how some of the teams are on their way to the postseason this year. here are the numbers. this is what the orioles are striving to do. catch up with the division leaders. we're looking at starting pitching. the wins' column is about how many wins by starters there are for each of these teams. note how far above 27 the orioles' number, those numbers are. the e.r.a., the different shall in numbers may seem small. the orioles, 5.38 to catch up to some of these others, but that run and a half to two runs per game is all about the difference in binning or losing those ballgames. and the innings pitched by starters. the orioles are 5.1. you've got to get up to somewhere around that six-plus inning mark for your starters in order to be competitive with the team whose are winning right now. so if you have goals and objectives for orioles' starters, those are the numbers, buck martinez, that you look to. >> it sure is. all of the teams on the top of the list are go dog the postseason and that's how you

do it, with starting particular -- pitching. >> they're young, talented, they're really confident that they can win up here on this level, but we have to allow them time to grow. we're seeing spurts, but eventually you're going to see the consistent from this starting stuff that will propel them. >> on this road trip, we have seen consistency from a number of players even though they only won 1-3 in detroit. adam jones, home runs acouple of rbi's against the tigerring and quality at-bats. brian roberts has hit in nine of the last 10 and a .326 batting average. for wigginton finally getting some playing time, he's 4-12 against the detroit tigers. he'll play here. izturis, outstanding defensive plays and at the plate he got his second home run of the season against the detroit tigers going 3-10. nick markakis, he has hit in eight of the last nine at a .394 clip.

of course we go back to pitching and brian mat advertise who made his debut against the detroit tigers, a lot of promise with the family on hand to watch him pitch. some of the highlights from the road trip so far. >> and you can see there are a lot of parts in place now. they're going to have to continue to grow. all of those young players that are doing so well will grow. you have to complement them with couple of key pieces. i still think one thing on andy macphail's mind is a punch to be the lead dog with all of these young starting pitchers. >> we have a new back-up catcher tonight. gregg zaun is gone. the start is going to be delayed while toronto goes through these me-game activities. when we come back, buck had a chance to talk with the youngster, brian mat advertise. you'll hear the interview in just a moment! @x@0@p@0@6p)@)@)@

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clear answer. it is the only thing from honda that won't last. >> back here in toronto on an absolutely gorgeous day, the roofer will be open for the ballgame tonight here at the rogers centre. and for the orioles, the hope will be that jason berken, one of the young pitchers, can find his way into a w. column and maybe some significant innings pitched. brian mat advertise certainly did that -- ma toc. >> it sure is. he was outstanding over his start. >> five innings, one earned run, six hits. i spoke to brian how special it was for his major league debut to share it with so many family and friends. >> it was awesome because i had so many family and friends from all over the country. i had my mom's side of the family from new york. i had all of my coaches from san diego come out and family

and friends from arizona. so there were a lot of people and a lot of support. it was just a nice feeling to have that. >> obviously you have developed a great relationship with your college coach rich hill. to hear him at that ballpark, that had to be special or you. >> it it really is. he is pretty busy with recruiting and doing a lot of things with the program there in san diego. to have them come out as well as my three other coaches an colleges, it is just a great feeling to know that they support me and know that they're there. >> we all think about the major league debut and what it will be like. how close is it to you? >> i think about it all the time. i was in the minors, college, i thought about it almost every day, what it would be like to have that debut, and so it is still the same game. it is. other than battling the nerves and the excitement and the bigger ballpark, it is still the same game. you still have to go out there and throw the same pitches an battle each and every inning. i just had such a great time, such a great experience and it

was lot of fun. >> when you came off the field after the first inning, one, two, three, did your heart slow down a little bit at that point? >> yeah. i was able to finally realize what was going on, but i knew i still had to go back out there in the second. and we were still going out there and battling trying to win a ballgame. and the nerves did calm a little bit after that first inning. >> i guess you'll always be able to say to your grandchildren that you struck out miguel cabrera for your first major league strikeout. that had to be special. >> i think so. i think i threw my best changeup of the night to him. i was able to get in front of it and get him -- it down and caught him off guard to be one of the best hitters in the plains for my first strikeout is quite a memory -- memory. >> you got a chance to throw to the number one draft pick. you were the number one draft pick last year. how much growth have you seen in your catcher, matt wieters, since the first time you saw him in arizona? >> i worked with matt throughout the entire fall

league in arizona. we worked real well together, learning each other's strengths, going back and forth, and i thought we worked real well the other night as well. i don't think anything changed. it felt the same. and i didn't shake matt off the entire night. i thought we were on the same page and hopefully we can work together more to come. >> when we talk about the young pitchers on the staff now, how much they gain from each other many in the -- other in the competition and the fact that you're comfortable with one another, how important is that now that you're working a team? >> it is great. we talk all the time. i know berken and i had a conversation in the outfield the other night, just about our experiences and how it goes and even with tillman, hernandez and the other guys. we all talk. we all have fun with it and i can't believe how fast it came. >> you don't hit against him obviously, but take us to sunday and pitching against roy halladay, a cy young award winner. you watched him a lot. what will that mean to you when

you go to the mound on sunday? >> that's going to be a fun game, i can't wait. just to know i'll be standing on the same mound with one of the best pitcher, it will be fun. tillman, his first outings are against greinke and verlander. he has quite a match-up there. it will be fun to be matched against matt halladay. >> there are the numbers for brian ma touse in his maiming league debut a very solid five innings giving up just that one run, six hits. he has five strikeouts and three walks. the 22-year-old getting the victory. buck, i thought most impressive was the fact that he got some big outs in that appearance. >> buck: he never got rattled. he is very calm and collected. >> all right. we have told you special ceremonies are taking place here for the 1992, 1993 championship teams. we will be back for the game and "o's xtra" is coming up!

south florida the ceremonies are continuing in toronto as they honor their 1992 and 1993 teams. there is the hall of famer who had success in toronto as well as milwaukee and minnesota. the o's and blue jays getsing ready to play this three-game set. jim hunter with rick dempsey. all of these young players now that are being given a chance to show what they can do as they learn how to win at this level. the question is who do you go do in this organization maybe

to talk to about what it is like to win? we found somebody, the first base coach and he asked shelby about his millionries about what it took to win and the experience, how they played it on the field. >> i still remember games where we were losing by three runs, four runs, in the bottom of the seventh inning at home and i can hear eddie murray's voice saying we got them right where we want them. the next thing you know we were walking a team off the field. these guys had tremendous amount of confidence. they believed they could win. we had a very good ball club. there was no way in the world i ever actually felt like i could lose being around a bunch of guys like that. that was instilled in me. in 1988, i can't say we were more talented than the 1983 tam, but we were very close together. we played hard. we always went out. to me, for a team to win, you have to want to win every

ballgame but it is one game at a time. you go out and pick each other up. our pitching was good. beprobably didn't have the best hitting lineup, but there was nobody that could tell us we couldn't win. the most important thing is we had a lot of fun. the confidence was in us. i think that's what it takes to be a winning ball club. if you don't believe it, nobody is going to believe it for you. >> so john shelby amember of the orioles 1983 world championship team and also the dodgers 1988 world championship team. who else was on those two teams? oh, you! tell us about that. tell us about how the players draw from each other. >> they do. i had a lot of confidence in john shelby. we parallelled the teams. he was with the orioles for a long time and he was also with the los angeles dodgers. ways there in 1988. there were a lot of consistency between the two teams. when they talk about the oriole way, the dodger way, the yankee

way, it is the winning way, and every team that win as championship know what is i'm talking about. everybody pulls together and does the little things that it takes to win ballgames. john shelby was an outstanding center fielder and he did a lot of thins right. he understood his job. i did that. we all had roles to play and we melded together and we worked. good, hard work ethic, that's what provides you with the confidence it takes. once a team gets that, hay are tough, tough to beat. >> the pitching match-up tonight in toronto, it is a battle of rookies as jason berken goes to the mound. he won his big league debut and has not won since. he hopes to turn it around tonight. ricky romero is in contention for rookie of the year. that is your pitching match-up in game one of there three-game series. gary thorne and buck martinez will join you next. we're back with "o's xtra" postgame. it is the opener of the three- game series as the orioles' final stop on this road trip and the birds looking far win

behind the right-hander jason berken. enjoy the game, everybody. we'll see you on the post-game show! xxúú

>> back here at the rogers centre as the pre-game festivities have concluded, and they were great to watch. 1992, 1993 world series championship teams for the jays came back. lots of players returned. it was great to see them.

>> >> gary: now we're ready to play baseball as the teams open their three-game set with jason berken and ricky romero and mark is with us. >> hey, gary, on this turn-back- the-clock night for the toronto blue jays, jason berken would like to turn the clock back to may 26 of this year when he made his major league debut. he came out, had a solid outing. he has struggled since. this will be his 14th major league start. the manager dave trembley says he cannot look at this as a do or die outing as he has struggled here. this isn't a try-out. that has been emphasized by the manager, and he has said that regardless of what happens tonight, the orioles have to score more runs. he says how is that for an idea? keep it simple. we need to score more runs, and hopefully jason berken can get back in the win column. back to you. >> all right, mark, if you want to see the different shall from that date forward, take a look.

these two matched up in the ballgame that jason within. since then berken has gone 07-9 with an e.r.a. over 7.00. ricky romero pitching again tonight. he has gone 8-3 be a 3.67. you talk about the north and south of it, buck. that's about as distinct as you can get. >> buck: ricky romero gave up 1 áhits and he took the loss and jason berken won. it has been a different story, opposite directions. romero, one of the top rookie pitchers in baseball. >> gary: let's take a look at the starting lineups. roberts, jones, markakis. wigginton, wieters and izturis. adam jones, two home runs, the month of august and a .381 average. >> buck: the scouting report, ricky romero, fastball, curve ball, slider and changeup. he is the fourth best rookie pitcher in the majors with his e.r.a. he is very comfortable on the mound her and ricky romero has an outstanding changeup, something we saw from brian

matusz on tuesday. the young pitchers have already polished the pitch that really sets up the fastball. >> gary: he is 24 years old. he has won his last three starts, and we're ready to go. brian roberts stands in. he will take the strike, and we are underway. the dome is open for the ballgame tonight. and it has been such a beautiful day here in toronto. really no need at all to even think about closing it. 0-1 delivery and that is a strike on the outside corner. and he is giving romero the early calls on the corn es. that will help both of these pitchers, if, in fact, they stay that way tonight. roberts is 3-5 often of romero. left-hander. that one will be fouled back. 68 degrees at game time tonight. the ball tends not to travel as far when it is open as it does when it is closed. >> buck: there has always been a lot of discussion about that,

and when this roof is open, sometimes that wind will catch up on the roof and shoot the wind right back toward home plate. >> gary: brian roberts, he laces that one into the corner and it is going to be a foul ball. roberts hit it hard, just missed. the orioles playing in two consecutive ballparks with a lot of room in the outfield. >> buck: you've got to have good speed in the outfield to have a very good defensive team. you can see how much space there is in the gaps there. artificial surface, the ball scoots through the gaps in a hurry. you have to have good speed in the outfield. >> gary: only one home run right-handed and romero will miss up high with it. and roberts trying to work the count and work romero here early on. off-speed delivery again to him. outfield, fairly shallow in center and right and back in

left. the delivery on the way and roberts to center field straight away. wells perfectly positioned hauls it in and roberts is out of there. >> buck: adam jones who makes his way to the plate hitting .300 for the season. he has had a good year against the toronto blue jays. he has really done a great number against a pretty good pitching staff. a guy that hit ricky romero the last time they met in baltimore, and the win for jason berken. and 19 home runs leads the orioles this season. at the rogers centre. he is 5-15, a home run, a could believe and four runs scored. so he is comfortable in his return to toronto and has great memories of hitting in this ballpark. >> gary: he will stand in against romero with one down, 2- 7 with a home run off of romero and the pitch is taken outside for a ball. for jones against the lefties, .259 as opposed to .323 against the right-handers. adam is already hitting .300 overall. plage when he starts hitting the left-handers which he is almost bound to do. he will swing at that one and

miss, and the hard cut. he has taken in detroit and again here. much harder cuts than we have seen him take all year. >> buck: yes, and terry crowley is a little concerned about this. terry has been talking to him about it. just be smooth. he has enough power. 19 home runs must be sitting in his mind. >> gary: one ball and one strike delivery on the way that is grounded to short. scutaro, two down. >> buck: we talk about speed in the outfield. let's take a look at the blue jays defensively. joe inglett, vernon wells and alex rios left to right. edwin encarnacion, he was just acquired with a deal with the cincinnati reds. a very good double play combination. and rod barajas who has had bun of the better years defensively for pitchers behind the plate. >> gary: and two down for nick

markakis. nick will stand in with a couple of hits and lifetime off of romero. the outfield straight away on him. he pops that one up. a silo shot at the plate. barajas, he got it. so romero retires the side in order. underway here at rogers centre in toronto. we'll take a look at cito gaston's starting lineup when pa announcer: final boarding call... all passengers... w we come vegeback! bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag . it's on™ ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.

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season advantage in this series, but not here, winning here in toronto has been tough. the starting lineup brought to you by southwest airlines for cito gaston's jays. just tear i., hill. overbey, wells and rios and encarnacion. hill is leading the jays' home runs, rbi's and hilts. >> buck: jason berken, and the fastball, curve ball, slider and a changeup. he has made an arm angle adjustment. he has raised his arm a little higher and significant movement downhill with his sinking fastball. >> gary: here is scutaro. a break-out season for scutaro. he leads the american league and the majors in reaching base safely, 191 times this season. that one in the air to left center field. jones coming over. he's got it.

two pitches, scutaro is retired. here is the match-up, head to head for the o's and the jays. let's -- this season. the orioles with the advantage. they have outhit them averagewise, outscored them, outhomered them and a very solid e.r.a. against them. >> buck: that is the biggest surprise that their e.r.a. is better than the blue jays, and they have really played well against toronto. as you mentioned, gary, this is always a challenge here at the rogers centre. >> gary: hill will foul the first pitch away. he has 26. >> buck: he and adam jones rode in the same truck together during the parade and he said it was real pleasure to get to know adam more. these two, you have a feeling they're going to make a few more of those rides before it is saul said and done. >> gary: the numbers they both are putting up, indeed they will. for second baseman, he has the

most home runs in the majors. alfonso soriano was the last second baseman to lead the ball club in home runs at second base. that one is going to be deep and foul. he just got a little bit out in front of that on berken. it is just a long strikeout, one and two. >> buck: he has established a franchise record for home runs in the single season for a bliewjs' second baseman, which is kind of significant tonight with robby alomar in the house, the great all-star second baseman here, part of that 1992- 93 world series team. and aaron hill has erased him from the home run record book. >> gary: 1-2 delivery up the middle. a chance for brian roberts, running throw and a good play and good positioning as roberts was shaded. they squeezed hill to the middle and that's exactly where he hit it. two down. >> buck: especially on this artificial surface. so positioning becomes very important. this ball skipped right over the monday and there is roberts shaded up the middle.

>> gary: good off-balance throw. >> buck: this turf will create top spin and sometimes that ball won't pop up as high as you expect. >> gary: two away. berken has a chance to have a 1- 2-3 inning. we talk about the numbers. forty in total bases. he has been red hot here in the many of august. >> gary: it is amazing to see this trio. here are these two teams with roberts, jones and markakis, scutaro, hill and lynn. you e more -- enormous offensive numbers for all six of those players all hitting at the top. the delivery is a line drive to center. jones coming. he's there and he's got it. so berken retires the side in order. each pitcher get as one, two, three to start it out. one complete. no score.

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taken away. the orioles against the left- handers on the year, left- handed starters, 18-22. the orioles continue to hit better against the righties than lefties. .260 as opposed to .273. and the orioles continue to see a lot of left-handed starters in -- in one part because of those numbers. there are the numbers during the streak for him. 7-20 for huff. and aubrey in a big cut object on the fastball. romero came in with it. a two ball, one strike count. >> buck: you can see romero throws 93. that is good velocity and he has an exceptional changeup. aubrey huff had a pretty good idea of the velocity of the fastball. >> gary: here is the 2-1 delivery on the way. a home run against romero came this year. >> buck: back on the 26th of may in his first at-bat, it came in the second inning and got the orioles back into the game. they had fallen behind 2-0 and huff went deep to right field. >> gary: aubrey huff will go

down swinging. romero gets his first strikeout. one away here in the second inning. >> buck: watch how dramatically this ball moves down and in. it is late movement, quick movement and a very well thrown changeup for the strikeout. >> gary: that look brought to you by northrop grumman, the information systems power house. that has become the new breaking ball changeup that we talk about with so many pitchers. it used to be it watts the straight change. now almost every pitcher's changeup has movement on it. it is a breaking ball changeup. >> buck: and there are different grips that will create that, and it is easier for a left-hander. >> gary: reimold is trying to chase one of those. 0-2. >> lori: the left-handers have basically an arm action that really turns the ball over that will create the downward movement on the changeup. >> gary: reimold is hitting .301 off the left-handers.

the ground ball towards third. encarnacion's throw there. two down here in the second inning. >> buck: ricky romero, five up and five down. this is in the an accident. you see where he ranks among the american league pitchers. he is tied with first with 10 wins, second in winning percentage, second in strikeouts, and his e.r.a., just behind brad bergesen. he is second in the american league. >> gary: and he is just having an outstanding season. i was talking with cito about romero before the game, cito gaston, the toronto a manager, and he said he's the one rookie i've got i don't have to worry about the innings that he pitches. he said i can keep him out there for the rest of the season. he can go as deep in games as he wants. he says we don't have to worry about that. with the others, case true with the orioles, these rookie pitchers, innings pitched and pitches thrown are going to be watched carefully because for most of them they just haven't

had the experience. romero, on the other hand, has. he was in the minor leagues for four seasons briar to the major league full season this year. swung on and miss bid mora. melvin with a big cut off of romero. romero is throwing strikes, i tell you that right now. everything is in there, and ahead on these hitters. two down and nobody on. melvin will take it inside for a ball. >> buck: and looking at ricky romero, a little bit of agarra comes to mind. very good delivery, good fastball up in zone. we have seen a slow breaking ball and a changeup already in this game. >> gary: 2-2 delivery on the way. that one right back to the mound. romero stabs it and gets the out. i can pitch and i can also play defense. another 1-2-3 inning. six in a row retired, overbay, wells and rios. ♪

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the plate. now the gary and buck. >> gary: and our best to gregg zaun who goes the tampa. the delivery will be taken for a strike on the outside corner. there's zaun traded to tampa bay. chad moeller called up, what the orioles get in exchange, to be announced later for a player or cash consideration, and-or. so that will be announced at a later date. and chad is here, so the orioles are not short-handed. [ and chad is a welcome addition to this ball club again. he does a very good job of working with the pitchers, the young catchers. fortunately i think the orioles feel very pleased he was still in the organization because he had to clear waivers to go down to the my more leagues and spend the first four months of this season in triple-a. >> gary: chad moeller ser back. lyle overbay, he is making the start in the outfield here, overbay, the left-handed hitter, 2-3 lifetime off of

jason berken. the first baseman for toronto. 1-2 delivery to him and a chopper. he got jammed. the play will be made to berken covering and get the out. overbay is retired here in the second inning. the orioles are going to be back in town monday to begin a seven-game road stand against the a's and angels. you can celebrate brad bergesen t-shirt. the first 10,000 fans will get that brad bergesen orioles' t- shirt. 888-848-bird or orioles.com for information. >> buck: i think it is very important that mark pointed out what dave trembley said about jason berken. this is not a do-or-die situation. he shouldn't feel that way. you can imagine there has been a lot of things circulating in his mind about his record, 1-9, and about the fact that make he will lose this opportunity. but there is nobody to replace him. >> buck: and he knows that, too. the orioles don't have anyone else to move in, unless they move up one of the other kids,

and they don't want to do that. so he is fully aware that the opportunity is created by circumstances, not by the way he has pitched. here is the 1-1 delivery. that one is grilled. how far? vernon wells, way back, good- bye, home run! number 11 for wells. >> buck: it is the election of the pitch. it is -- the target is down and in, and they just don't get it in far enough. it is about mid thigh high and there was no doubt about the home run as he broke into his shot immediately. he hit that ball well. >> gary: the home runs have been flying against the orioles pitchers of late and the 1-0 lead. here is alex rios as wells puts him on the board. there are stories circulating,

we believe, it started at espn, that rios was claimed off the waiver wire by the chicago white sox. it is not confirmed. and if you are claimed off the waiver wire, the team in this case, toronto, has a right to pull you back and then negotiate maybe with the white sox. interesting, though, if that story is true, that rios is even playing, and he's going to get one. way back in left field. i hear the phone ringing. >> buck: almost the identical pitch that vernon wells hit. rios extends down, another fastball just kind of on the inner half of the plate. not great movement. not great location, and back-to-

back home runs for wells and rios. >> gary: and i mean shots. nine surrendered now by jason berken. fouled back off of the mask, encarnacion for the oriole pitchers, these home runs, they have been a problem all year. of late they have become a serious problem. home runs allowed, the orioles on top, 137, and they have given up home runs in 10 of the last 11 games, 19 home runs have been hit off oriole pitchers, 19 in the last 11 ballgames. one ball, one strike count. encarnacion. one dunn and nobody on. the new third baseman fouls it away. 1-2. >> buck: encarnacion was traded from cincinnati basically for scott rolen, but the blue jays also got two minor league

process spents in the deal, and a lot of people around baseball are wondering why cincinnati would need him at this point when they basically are out of the pennant race. but it is more than just this year that they're concerned about. >> gary: 1-2 delivery that is to the gap in left center field. adam jones chasing it dunn and encarnacion on his way to second base, and he will have a stand-up double. the fourth game he has played for them or fifth game tonight and second double. >> buck: it is like a breaking ball. again, location is a problem for jason berken. matt wieters slides to the outside. you can see how badly the ball missed and hung over the heart of the plate. by the time jones gets it off the center field fence, encarnacion has a double. >> dave: the toronto blue jays lead the world when it comes to double and they have another, they have 241 two-bagger -- baggers on the year.

the pitch is down low. barajas, the catcher. jason berken gets tagged. boston, second in two baggers, new york, tampa bay and cleveland. those will get you runs. >> buck: and there has always been a great doubles' ballpark because of the artificial surface. >> gary: is tour is and two down. bishop you get athletes that can run, it splits the infielders and goes up, before the outfielder can cut it off. you're going to get an awful lot of doubles in this ballpark. >> gary: jason berken got his major league win this his first outing giving up two runs an seven hits over five outings back on may 26. he faced toronto on july 10, and he gave up two runs, five hits in five and 2/3 in that ballgame but was a loser in a 2- 0 affair. he has pitched his best baseball against toronto in the first season.

major league level. that one hit him. it will go to second. brian roberts gets it there in time. inglett is retired. a 1-4-3, and it looks like jason berken is all right. a 2-07 jason' lead.

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way. rogers centre in toronto, and ricky romero has a 2-0 lead on the home runs by wells and rios. between the innings, jason berken in the dug-out talking to rick kranitz, and it looked like he is okay on the shot that came back against him. wigginton, wieters and is tour is are due up. >> buck: this has been a real challenge for these hitters as they have had to play catch-up an awful lot lately. we always talk about how close they are in runs scores to the opponents. a lot of it comes after the fact. early deficits and they keep chipping away at the deficits and the score actually looks much closer than the reality has it. >> gary: wigginton, 4-12 on this road trip with a couple of rbi's. he'll foul that one back. ty is actually getting a chance to play more obviously at third, fist and even d.h.ing. he is at first base tonight and

he has hit in eight of the last 10 at a .343 clip. so the kind of bat the orioles thought they might have, dave trembley is saying before the game, it is just matter of getting him in and up to the plate. and that will be fouled back. >> buck: i don't care who you are. if you're playing on a more regular basis, your timing going the come around and you're going to have a chance to get hits. ty wigginton is a guy who gets about 425 at-bats, and it looks like he might close in on that number this year. >> gary: here is the 1-2 delivery to him and strike three called. he didn't like it. wigginton will head back. the second strikeout for romero. >> buck: and wigginton had a pretty good look at it. he stays on this ball pretty effectively. barajas with the big target that is the curve ball. it just caught the inside corner. that was a big breaking curve ball that started off the plate outside and got the inside corner. >> gary: that is a pretty good

look there. here is matt wieters. rios is going back. rios at the wall. that phone your hear ringing. hello. the chicago white sox, reyes, we'll like to talk to j.p., please, about rios. >> buck: alex rios makes a nice running catch. i think he got surprised by how well that ball carries. it looks like he had a beat on it short of the warning track. it just took him right up against the wall. a little bit of grimace. i tell you what, if indeed there is a deal working, i would be a very nervous general manager with him on the field. >> gary: and, again, it is unconfirmed. >> buck: we don't know. >> gary: we don't know for sure, but there is a report that the white sox have put a claim in with toronto trying to clear rios on waivers, which means if that happens toronto has a rite to negotiate with the team that claimed him. izturis up. will punch that one down the line and that will be a foul ball, and just out of play, the

fan reaching out. real madrid is in town. they're playing exhibition football, known to us in the united states as a soccer game. last night at $15 a head, 18,000 people showed up for an hour practice, and the tickets for the game being played tonight were going for over $1,000 online, if you could find them. a massive turn out for real madrid and their soccer team. izturis swings and misses and sidney crosby came back with a stanley cup to nova scotia today. 25,000 people showed up. he brought the cup back to his home community. he is 22 years 'ol as well today and celebrated a birthday and they had 25,000 that came for a day of festivities. 1-2 delivery, breaking ball will be down low. >> buck: a pretty good birthday party. >> dave: not bad.

a lot of folks showed up for take one. two ball, two strike count. they were -- the cbc was covering that live today all day long, the activities going on in nova scotia. two ball, two strike count izturis. romero to short, scutaro, and he got him. so romero has gone through the order and retired all nine o's faced to this point. 2-0, jays.

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>> gary: it is time to bring you up to speed with the at&t rewind. >> buck: he gets a fastball and he hits his 11th home run of the season. and then the next batter, alex rios, he, too, hits it into the seats. the fourth time this year the jays have gone back-to-back. >> gary: at&t, the nation's fastest 3 g. network. at&t, your world delivered. gary thorne, buck martinez, and wjz's mark vive an know is is on hand for the first of three. we go to the bottom of the inning. jason berken is back to the top of the order. marco scutaro. he flied out his first time up. he is having an unbelievable year for marco scutaro. a tremendous job in the lead- off spot for this team getting

on base. that's one of the things he does. he takes a ton of pitches. in fact, he leads the majors with 28 walks when leading off an inning. as we said, he gets on base somehow, some way most of the time. that is in there for a strike. and the count will go to 2-1. scutaro, hill and lend coming up for toronto. the jays have lost their last two games. they had a two-game set against the yankees. they lost both games 8-4. 2-1 pitch. fastball inside, and the count goes to 3 -- 3-1. >> buck: again, the location has continued to -- jason berken down and now he falls into a hitter count and it gets very difficult when you're not commanding your breaking ball to be able to come back and throw breaking balls in fastball counts. >> gary: swung and a miss by scutaro. now he gets really tough. scutaro's average with two strikes is .293.

it is the fourth best in the league. >> buck: that's just a product of understanding who you are, not trying to do too much and just have defensive approaches, two strikes. >> gary: and still got him. berken came away with his first strikeout. he is retired and one down. >> buck: a little bit of an upstairs fastball. he swung through and then the 3- 2 fastball, almost in the same spot. upstairs, he chased that pitch and look at that big wild swing, just when we're bragging about the two-strike approach, he goes deep. >> gary: that's why he did it. he doesn't like announcers and anything they say, he does the opposite. >> buck: i'll show you. >> gary: watch this. aaron hill. fouled off. has berken moved further over to the first base side of the rubber? >> buck: yes. he has made some adjustments. he is trying to create an angle that is going to allow him to

pitch to the corners. he has slid to the first base side. >> gary: in this game. the pitch is taken inside. hill grounded out his fist time up. so rick kranitz is working with him. obviously not only between games, but during games. here is the 1-1 delivery on the way that will miss outside. you can almost see when berken pitches how he is thinking about mechanics, can't you? >> buck: yes. he has been very tentative the last couple of starts. we didn't see this early on. he came up, was throwing the ball well. he had a free and easy approach. but there is a deliberate approach now. >> gary: melvin mora up for the ground ball. hill is retired, and there are two down here in the third inning. tickets have sold out for the 2110 utah street presented by first fidelity mortgage on saturday, august 15. but you can still follow nick and adam with the fans who will be joining the great utah street bleacher seat august 3

and september 5. for just $21, you get to reserve the utah street seats and the i love it utah street t-shirts. 888-848-bird for information. two down and here is adam lind. lend flied out to center his first time up. ninth in rbi's. second in doubles. we'll show you during the broadcast here, this could be a doubles series. the way these teams hit them and the way the individuals on bet of these teams collect them and lend is one of those when it comes to the doubles' department. >> buck: he has the tape of swing that really plays well in this ballpark as he basically uses the whole field. a left-hander with power. because of that he has produced power. >> gary: berken has to be going what is this? this is the second time he has had a ball shot back at him. he is able to get the out and

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