sheffield now throw over to give beltran back. sheffield has flied out and struck out in the ballgame. >> jim: beltran 8 out of 9. he can steal a base when his knees are healthy, and that appears to be the case this year. mets lead the national leaguen steals. >> gary: gary sheffield, a dangerous hitter in that situation. in the dirt, wieters blocks i. >> jim: sandy alomar, junior, he's the bullpen coach for the mets, a 6-time all star, he sd i bet he really blocks the ball well. i have never seen a young catcher that has hands as soft as wieters. and for a big guy, and sandy's what, 6'4," 6'5"? he said, i bet he can block the ball. because he's so low. >> gary: 1-1 delivery. fouled straight back. sheffield has had enormous numbers against the orioles in his career. he's .318 hitter. 19 homers, and 74 rbis lifetime against the os. real tight ballgame and a good one here. 2-1. only one hit for the mets comg into the inning. they have picked up two singls here in this inning. now sheffield with

as beltran will pick up rbi number 40. so the line complete now on jason berken, and he'll be charged with the four runs on7 hits, a walk and 8 strikeouts. runner goes. baez never looked. and a stolen base for beltr. >> jim: he took about two seconds to get the ball to home plate. beltran obviously again one of the mets that can run, 9 out of 10. high percentage guy his whole career. usually it's reyes leading the club. the guy at the plate, david wright with 18 leads the mets. >> gary: a chopper, knocked down, and got it. good play by baez on the comeback.  7th inning. hour, andy roddick has the fastest serve in the history of professional tennis. so i've come to this court to challenge his speed. ...on the internet. i'll be using the 3g at&t laptopconnect card. he won't so i can book travel plans faster, check my account balances faster. all on the go. i'm bill kurtis and i'm faster than andy roddick. (announcer) "switch to the nations fastest 3g network" "and get the at&t

beltran will foul it away.e hit off jeremy 2-0 the first time. jeremy threw him a changeup and grounded to shortstop. again, he's been able to work the count. >> gary: beltran has been outstanding on the road. a .385 batting average on the road this year, second best. guess who is number one. big ground ball. bobbled. brian roberts, you rarely will see that one happen as roberts commits his fourth error on what would have been a double play. >> jim: pretty much all you have to do is catch it which always seems pretty easy with brian, but that last little hop. it comes up. again, just comes into the heel of the glove. then it's too late. beltran running hard down the first-base line. boy, that did look like a tailor made 4-6-3. one pitch out you're out of a jam. >> gary: instead, you have to face david wright. the game's best average with runners at first and second and nobody out. he'll take the pitch down low. wright is hitting .347 with runners in scoring position this season in another one of the gawdy numbe

beltran swiping the bet well - swinging the bat well. morning right here, you do not want to, hopefully have them d another run. beltran again, he's just not n unselfish hitter, the way he s used the field. he has doubled, singled for a rbi, singled and scored on another occasion. reached on an error and ground out. two down. he is a tremendous two-out rbi man hitting .381 with two away and runners in scoring position. big-time average. he's got a runner at third. 1-0 delivery. >> he took a look. mora was playing even with the bag, and took a look down to e where mora was playing. now melvin is well behind the bag, but he was all the way up in here early on, and since moved back to try to to knock the ball down. >> jim: rarely do you see anybody pitching around cars ltran to get to david wright, but it appears to me they are going to -- >> gary: two of the best hitts in baseball. the decision is to go against the right-hander who hasn't bn particularly hot. he's only had a couple of hit

beltran coming. and he'll get there.  >> gary: it is am add jones bobblehead night here at the yard. notorious for those bubbles going, just about in any situation at any time, including catches like that, that will be remembered on a bobblehead like this. being given to the first 25,000 fans that came in tonight. as his agent, i just want to advise, all of the makers of gum in which you can blow bubbles with, we are always available to talk and discuss a deal where you can run video of adam blowing bubbles on the field. >> jim: you are a caring guy, aren't you? >> gary: i am a caring guy. that's going to be a base hit. a great bunt to start it out, and of all people, ryan church. >> jim: we talk about bunting. could be anybody. if they give it to you, take it. look where melvin is. he just looked down there. now, the question is can you execute it. i can't imagine, when we talked about you've got to hit 80 straight curveballs, that the mets don't work on these kind of things, because

on bass -- on-base percentage at 4.37 for beltran. that's fourth best. shattered the bat on that one. andino makes the throw and gets the out. so, a 1-2-3 inning for guthrie. when we come back, we'll take a look at the starting lineup tonight against pelfrey for the o's. - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights to new york laguardia for just 49 dollars one-way starting june 28th. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com. you know why i sell tools? tools are uncomplicated? nothing complicated about a pair of 10 inch hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping is easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. come on. how about...a handshake. alright. priority mail flat rate box

now beltran is 0-8 against him. story talked about how he struggled in spring training coming off tommy john. great pitch. there's the splitter. upper 80s to the low 90s. didn't really think he was going to be able to get through spring training. tried to make him a starter. he got arm strength. the rest has been history. he's been jowz outstanding. >> gary: and a big, big situation here. here is wright. bases loaded. wright will take it inside. he's faced baez only once. 1-1. the major league's leading hitter an rbi single in the ballgame 1-3 now has an 11-game hit streak going. >> jim: pretty good career average .364. >> gary: 1-0 delivery to him. slider will miss outside. no place to put him here. looking for an out that would keep this a two-run ballgame. >> jim: you made a great point. you come oust bullpen bases load to the number one and thn number -- number two and number one leading hitters in the national league and you have to relax. >> gary: there is is the 2-0 victory. baez falls behind. the bullpen of

beltran retired with cora goig to second.hat's an unusual -- normally you take the seams and run them parallel to your fingers. there's the four-seamer. different two seams, there's e curveball. we saw that with the striket of murphy. also throws the slider. you hold it off center, and here's your circle changer. >> gary: that will bring up david wright. so the runner in scoring position in the first inning and two down. leading hitter in the majors will take the pitch inside for a ball. wright continues on top in the national league with that .357 average. miguel tejada is second in e league in batting average. 1-0 delivery. fouled back. wright second in hits in the league, second in stolen base, and on the road hitting .397, which is the best average in e national league. >> jim: there you go. i mean this kid is only, he is a kid at 26, it seems like he's been longer than that, but awfully, awfully good player. and even when he's been young, he has been spokesperson for e mets

beltran retired. so he's been held to a single in four at-bats. >> jim: you talked about his last appearance against atlanta. came in throwing 97. he had five days off. got himself in trouble trying oh get people out with the change-up and the curveball. he did not do a good job that night of receipt reeding the bats of the atlanta hitters. he's got a good curveball. his sinker is his best pitch. >> gary: now faces wright. wright has gone 0 for 3 in the ballgame, 2 for 8 in the series. he still has the 11-game hit streak. with 31 rbi's in his last 43 ballgames. he's tied for 7th in the league with doubles with 19 of those. he's put up great numbers on the road, as well. that's the pitch that they have been able to get him with. >> jim: koji uehara doesn't throw as hard. that's 96 diving. jim johnson lengthened his stride last year. the ball will start at the middle of the plate. >> gary: fouled off. wright is having to make an adjustment seeing a lot of pitches that are in and up on him that he can't

cora, martinez and beltran, wright, church and sheffield. murphy, schneider and castillo. >> jim: let's take a look at our pnc scouting report on koji uehara. mr. splitter, he will use that pitch along with his fastball. two walks in 29 innings here at home, so he's going to command the strike zone. his last win, even though he's pitched better than his record indicates, was on the 13th of april. so, again, not a whole lot to show. they don't give him a whole lot of runs. he hasn't been hit particularly hard by lefties or righties. just seems maybe six innings, hopefully after that, you really have to go to your bullpen. the ball not likely to carry very well with the winds swirling in. pitch is up high for a ball. cora had a 3 for 5 in the ballgame last night. cora getting work in the lead- off spot. reyes continues out at shortstop, so he's in. he's taking all the way for a strike. the mets come in now, 15-18 on the road, while the orioles here at home are 19-17 on the season. fooled him, way behind on it. and a 2-2 count. >> jim: it will

cora, martinez and beltran. beltran has won three gold gloves, four all-star teams.los beltran, switch hitter, he has power. >> here's a guy, for the last three years, he's put up some huge numbers with the mets. 41 home runs, 31 -- 33 home runs, 27 home runs. the average on the road, you just don't ever expect it to be as good as he is. all right .369 batting average on the road. fourth in doubles, the guy's got 29 extra-base hit games in a row. it's just unbelievable what he does. on the road a 22 game hitting streak. >> and a switch hitter in the middle of the line-up, certainly an advantage for the new york mets. birds looking to draw even in the series. roberts, jones and markakis up top. huff will be followed by mora, scott will dh, reimold in left field, wieters will catch. andino at shortstop. the orioles getting a bump last night from luke scott who continued his hitting streak. >> what i really like about luke scott, everybody knows he's a very streaky hitter. when he's hot he just powers the ball everywhere, but those streaks are starting to cut down quite

. beltran is there. runners will stay where they are. wigginton retired on one pitc. and two down here in the 2nd inning. that will leave it up to matt wieters. wieters happy to are that one under the hr column. get that out of the way. now he'll try to pick up a rb, a two-out rbi with runners on at first and second base. >> jim: something he's failed to do. he's only had 13 opportunities, so he has the home run, but when he hits a home run, the runnes at first. so still looking for a runner in scoring position. >> gary: two down. wieters will take the pitch, and it will miss for a ball. two game hit streak. you see the 2 for 7 he has matt with 21 walks off hernandez, tough to get a walk off him. you have to swing. third base will be cut off by wright. he's going to have to go to first to get the out, and he does. no score. ♪ cold refreshment is an unstoppable force. because every coors light can is cold-activated. when the mountains turn blue, your beer is as cold as the rockies. the coors light cold-activated can. enjoy refreshment at its peak. a

carlos beltran standing in. beltran, first ball hitting right field, nick markakis coming, he's got it. beltran has been so anxious in this ballgame at the plate. he's had a single, he's 1 for 5:00 but he's been going after first pitches, that's the second out in the ninth inning. but as baseball drama will do, the game's leading hitter average-wise is coming to the plate in the ninth with two away. >> jim: he's also hitting .510 against lefties. >> gary: don't need to say much except david wright. he has not had a hit tonight, 0 for 4. he's 2 for 9 so far in the two games. that one to center field, the bobblehead man is going to end it. he got it. this one's in the book for the o's. a 6-4 win setting up the rubber match for tomorrow. johnson will get the win, feliciano the loss. the save to sherrill.  >>> hi, everybody. rick, what an uplifting win. orioles had the lead and the mets able to tie it, but it didn't matter. the orioles pull it out. >> matt wieters hits his first home run of his career

adam jones off the bat of carlos beltran. he's retired on the fly ball out and there are two down with cora going back to first base. two away. now david wright again. >> jim: yeah, he made an awfully good adjustment. struck out the first time. it wasn't he hit a slider the last time into left field. it was a -- it wasn't a horrible pitch. just looked -- looked like maybe this is why he has a lifetime average at .307 309 and he's leading the league in hitting because he makes awfully good adjustments. >> gary: he does that. two down here. wright, shattered bat. pops it up behind second. andino is there. whenever you get wright, it's a big out. no runs, one hit, one left object base from the innerharbor across to a famous sign. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. >> gary: 4-5-0 for the mets 0-1-2 for the orioles as guthrie settles in and gets the side out. now it's about the orioles bats. last thing orioles want to see after what they went through for five days is any kind of -- the

beltran is retired. two down here in the ninth inning.pdating you in the at&t player of the game voting. right now markakis on top, cora and wright. you can still text in your vote to a, b or c, 51862 and results coming up on the post-game show "o's xtra". rick peterson the former pitching coach of the mets made a comment in a talk show that made all the papers in new york today about santana's knee bothering him. jerry manuel before the game said i don't know anything about that. as far as i know, it's not about health. manuel said it's about his control. his manned of pitches. he said ed he has not had command. he's not located and that's been the problem. he's had a couple of bad outings. david wright. he's extended his hit streak to 11 games in this ballgame with a single and an rbi. 1-4. wright continues to lead all major league hitters in average. he has a runner at first base here in the ninth inning with two down. albers with a 1-1. that will be a base hit. it's going to roll just far enough so that markakis can pick it up while i

hauled in, runner tagging, beltran's throw will come into second base.so roberts retired on the long fly ball out. andino will move over to third and there are two down here in the 8th inning. there's the bobblehead given away to the first 25,000 that were in the ballpark here tonight. a great collector's item. he'll get one more shot at it here. he started the day 7th in average in the league. there are some of those bobbleheads that will be taken home as souvenirs tonight. >> jim: if you can blow bubbles when you're hitting, when you're running the bases, you're not uptight. that's the way you want to play the game. >> gary: he does that. >> jim: they tell you if you throw the ball, don't put a death grip on it. blowing bubbles, maybe that's adam's way of relaxing. it's worked so far this year. >> gary: sure has. he's got a three-game hit streak. a walk and a run scored. that will even up the count on the foul ball. >> jim: there's been a tendency just to chase a few pitches out of the zone. if you take that pitch, you're going to be hitting 2-0. if yo

beltran has been real busy in center field. he's hauled in four of them.ere's nick markakis, two down, nobody on. markakis has two singles in the ballgame. he's gone four for six so far in these two games. the slider will miss inside for a ball. >> jim: got about as low as .283 and that average up 10 points. i mean i look at him, i was talking to mike pelfrey, i said, markakis is one of those guys, he's kind of like pete rose or he's like, especially like brett, carew, where you decide, okay, do i want to give him a single to left or do i want to speed up the bat. something he did right there with the change-up and maybe a possible home run ball. >> gary: nick markakis has indeed got the bat going again. >> jim: this is the same pitch that he hit off pelfrey for the home run last night. so, again, put down. one of the keys to hitting. then the bat head gets speeded up. so markakis gets his fifth three hit ballgame. and his 21st multihit game. and, again, the orioles looking for that big two out hit which aubrey huff will try and find. he's got a single and

beltran flied out to center field his first time up in the ballgame. our leader board tonight is presented by firestone, a tradition of innovation. david wright is at the top of the pile in the national league. runner going, left field, coming on reimold, not going oh get it, but a great stop and will hold him to a sing 'em. boy f. that had gotten by, that would have been a whole lot of trouble. it will an base hit. >> jim: i think once he commits himself, he has no choice. he thinks he might get there, and coming hard. then right there, the ball just tailing away. he's able to come up with it. outstanding play. not only does he get to it, he keeps beltran who, what, fourth in doubles in the national league with 20 at first base. so now you have yourself a force play. >> gary: four hits on the board for the mets. they have the corners covered, two down, and david wright at the plate. he popped out his first time up. wright coming in with an 11- game hit streak. you see the home run totals as the power, has increased. he was going for a long ball right

carlos beltran. off jamie moyer. couple i have guys that have been around a little bit. beltran drove in all three runs. top of the 7th. run scores, game tied at 3. top of the tenth. two on for raoul ibanez. goes out, and gets it deep into the new york sky. 21st jack of the season for raoul ibanez. a career season for the 37-year-old. phillies get the win, 6-3, improving that lead in the national league east, bit by bit by bit. ryan howard, a bagel. but still the phillies finish up their ten-game road trip 7-3. tomorrow they're home against boston. the mets are cross town against the new york yankees. >> speaking of which, the yankees were down 1-0 early. came back with three in the 7th to go up 3-1. now boston takes the one-run lead. highlights when it goes final from fenway park. angels and rays are over. top of the fourth. david price, jeff mathis. price went 4 and a third. top fiefn. guerrero, the shot. doubles off bobby abreu. oh, you're killing me, smalls. >> bottom of the eighth. and carlos pena for the 19th time this season. he's a sandlot kid. look at the effort

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beltran has a two-run shot. ibanez on a tear. 20th home ohm of the season. >> pirates and braves needed 15 innings yesterday. do it in just nine today. 3-1 game pirates on top in the bottom of the fourth. laroche gets the pirates going there chipper jones has been on an absolute tear. eight rbis in his last three games. >> despite an e.r.a. nearly as good as his cy young number has year, has had a hard time winning this season for the tribe. he tried to win a second start for the first time this season. a victory over the royals would pull cleveland out of the last place. they have a .276 on-base personal. the royals are leading right now in the top of the fifth. olivo, his second homerun in june, averaging just two homeruns in the month of may. >> evan is alall mighting, leads derek jeter for the 2009 all-star game. rays hosting the angels and so far it's all angels. leading 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth. taylor, an rbi sing until the first, followed up by an rbi groundout by juan rivera. >> mariners and the o's, seattle openi

and now, carlos beltran is getting a second opinion on his ailing right knee. >> and a beloved high school football coach is laid to rest in iowa. espnews continues after this. ♪ 100 calorie light beer with lime. miller chill. >> orel: in some ways, with nieve, you think it's about time they started to hit him, he's been up here three starts, won every game, his e.r.a. is microscopic. >> dan: hardy sends mcgehee dob energy resources of the native americans and we talk about that in the book. >> i worked with immigrants mostly from latin america. this is a group of people like my family who came here looking for work because either they were driven out of their homes by war or in an wismar recent time the economy is worse than ours. incredible disparities in wealth, historically a disposable group of people. how you see the green in economy affecting them? how you bring them justice for their work and labor and give them a voice and not continue the cycle of this possibility? >> well, he raised the point of the two sides of it having to do with the global economy, the fact that i think we g

cora, murphy, beltran in the middle. gary sheffield, he went deep last night and that got out in a hurry. >> we're looking at one of the classic home run hitters of all time. home runs in the major league. an amazing fastball. i never met a fastball he didn't he is a hard swinger. almost always looks for the fastball, and it doesn't matter where you throw it, down and in, up and away, down and away, this guy finds a way to get finds a way to get the head of the bat on t you wonder how he doesn't pull his back. when he gets the fastball he's looking for, he can hit anybody's fastball. that rick dempsey bat home run. a slight change as trembley the lineup. roberts, jones, markakis, markakis 6 out of 8 in the series, huff, mora. is catching, and ream at >> you talk about nick markakis his four hits and what -- getting on base with his four hits, when he's the ball, this club does nothing about win. in games in which aubrey huff hits a home run. and that's what this club needs to do. they are an offensive strong club, they d

coming up, the mets have been battling through injuries all season long, and now, carlos beltran is gettingon his ailing right knee. >> and a beloved high school football coach is laid to rest in iowa. espnews continues after this. there's something big happening at pizza hut. - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! now get big meals like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mia, the p'zone... and our personal panormous pizza starting at just $5. the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut. >> it would be hard to find a coach, teacher, or leader more beloved than ed thomas. after being gunned down last week in a school weight room the questions have yet to be answered as to why a pillar of the parkers berg, iowa community, would be gunned down in cold blood. on monday, more than 1,800 mourners gather to lay the former nfl high school coach of the year to rest. among those in attendance were members of the football teams from across iowa who were all dressed in their football jerseys. he also coached a number of players who went on to the nfl including four of whom served as pallbearers on monda

in beltran.se reyes 100 runs scored and david wright is now an average hitter, but he's not driving in as many runs or hitting as many home runs. the run production is down. the mets' lineup as far as their offense may not even qualify for a spring training game to put enough starters in there to actually put a represented club out there for a spring training buying a ticket. they are so hurt and they need help, and they need the play a perfect game on the offensive side of the ball. >> mets' manager jerry manuel says the team is entering a crucial period right now. how do they get out of it with some wins? >> well, the crucial period is they have milwaukee on the road. then you've got the fill -- phillies and then the cincinnati reds and the l.a. dodgers. they have a make-up game against pittsburgh. most of those teams are very, very solid. they're chasing the phillies, so they have to play well there, but they'll be undermanned. the pitching has to come through. that's been banged up. you have

there is ryan up there amongst the best, number 2, miguel tejada of houston, carlos beltran and hanley ramirez. >> rob: hanley ramirez scuffled in april, johnny, and he has come back in the last six weeks and has just been phenomenal. got to be one of the hottest hitters in baseball. >> johnny: yeah, in fact early games we were playing him the year before, last year in florida, you could see this guy, the tremendous potential he has. >> rob: no. and he is the type of player i now consider an all-star, a perennial all-star. >> johnny: how long is he locked in for there now? >> rob: he just signed an extension so he in there for 6 years. >> johnny: good hustle by zimmerman. phillipss to to gonzalez. watch ryan hustle down that first base line. >> johnny: line.johnny. >> rob: let's see those 24-year- old legs run. good job by ryan zimmerman not being turned over in a double play.  . >> johnny: so zimmerman, johnson erased as a force at second and zimmerman on at first. there's one down in the bottom of the sixth. and a adam dunn with cincinnati, led in home runs in 200

carlos beltran of the mets scores. the mets take a one-run lead. the mets are celebrating. hold on.m of the 9th. two on, two out. alex rodriguez pops up. he says, i got t he drops it. both runners score. the yankees win 9-8. how about that? braves and orioles tonight, top of the 5th. this ballgame is tied at 2 and brian mccannn sing tolls center, newly acquired nate mclouth scores. just like our game in tampa, a 4-3 ballgame. how about the yankees and mets? >> you know what my father used to tell me what to do? son, you better split in that glove make that ball stick in there. i didn't see the back of that glove. >> johnny: taking a look at the nationals bullpen. thee guys came out of that bullpen. joe beimel is scoreless in the 8th inning. >> ray: again, bullpen pretty solid. certainly villone deserved more than what he got and the bullpen continues to hold down the opposition and, hey, nothing wrong with our pitching. they have given up under two runs a game. >> johnny: tomorrow night, the game start at 6 0-0. the first pitch for you here on masn because of major league baseball r

karr karr, martinez, carlos beltran up top. alex cora in the middle. a couple of gold gloves. david wright in right. church dh's, with the american league leads, daniel murphy will be at first base, brian schneider will catch and luis castillo at second base. david wright is probably the more dangerous hitter in that lineup. he comes in red-hot. however, he is not hitting the long ball. >> he's not hitting the long ball. i talked to keith hernandez early on and try foig you're out if -- out if they were trying to pitch around david wright at this point of the season. it's not been that so much as david wright started the season off with a very long swing. nobody better to tell me about it than keith hernandez because he certainly knew a lot about the swing. that's one thing he's really cut down the amount of home runs. early on, he had trouble really getting that short, quick, powerful swing to the paul that he's had in the past to put up 30 plus home runs almost every season he's been a regular. the problem now is he's getting back on track again especially as of june. he's h