he's been a main stay when healthy of the florida bullpen.280. from venezuela. can't be too comfortable for finaller standing in there and all he does is calmy pull one into right field for his second hit of the night and now over his last seven games nyjer morgan is batting right around .380. >> rob: man's fearless. he's an ex hockey player. probably stood in front of the net and deflected shots in front of the goalie. he's not afraid of pinto. >> bob: here's adam kennedy. >> rob: i don't know about adam, though. >> rob: hitters, they are a special breed. very few are ever even thinking about fear or this guy bothers me that much. >> bob: short lead and kennedy hooks uninto the corner. morgan is off to the races. if this ball sticks to the corner he's home, he is and kennedy make it's 6-1 here in the ninth and adam kennedy has a 2-5 night. >> rob: every team needs a good kennedy. that's every hit, he throws his jaw right out of his mouth. inside heater supposed to be outside. you saw paulino where he set up. nyjer morgan's off to the races.

bullpen 293 e.r.a. of the that's the second lowest earned run average in the league.wigginton to 3rd and foul. >> gary: 2 balls and two strikes. that's a base hit. rolls into left field. young which play that in. and a doubt. they get their base hit. half a dozen of the two baggers for him on the season. and nick markakis lined out. and a chance in the second inning. a chance in the 7th. that's it. runners in scoring position. a strike taken on the inside corner. they have been shut out a couple of times. twins have three shutouts to the staff's credit. a good start and put up 3 or 4 runs. and take 3 out of 4. that's not happened. morneua knocks it down. and guerrier covers it. 1 left on base. 6-0. twins. ♪ bohm-bohm, bohm-bohm, bohm-bohm ♪ ♪ bohm, bohm-bohm-bohm-bohm ♪ bohm-bohm, bohm-bohm, bohm-bohm ♪ ♪ bohm, bohm-bohm-bohm-bohm ♪ bohm-bohm, bohm-bohm, bohm-bohm, bohm ♪ ♪ if you want a revolution, the only solution, evolve ♪ ♪ you gotta evolve ♪ if you want a revolution, the only solution, evolve ♪ ♪ you gotta evolve ♪ if you're getting off track and you want to get

you're a left-handed guy out of the bullpen. coming into tonight, left- handers were hitting almost .400 off of him. .381 whereas right-handers, .077. left-handers continue to play against him. >> bob: that ball right through wil nieves. they've given an error on that play a moment ago. >> rob: six on the throw because it hit the ground? >> bob: yeah, i think you have to. >> rob: yeah. and now he's in damage of walking this lefty -- danger of walking this lefty to get to tulowitzki. >> bob: really the first error ian's made on a throw this year. >> rob: tyler walker, loosening right now. give sean a lot of credit. he knocked the ball down. to blow it up so ian could even make the play. >> bob: ball just foul tipped. >> rob: that got him like right in the thigh. foul tipped. right here, getting wil -- >> bob: long 7th inning here. and a pitch up. strikes out hawpe. rockies get an unearned run on the throwing error by desmond. 4-3, colorado. >> bob: top of the 8th inning coming up here, just east of the cockries, morgan -- rockies

double barrel action now in the bullpen for the twins.xt in your vote for the at&t player of the game. here are your candidates, brad bergesen with a six and 2/3 inning start and ty wigginton, accounting for the only runs in the game and will ohman coming out of the bullpen to get a big strikeout. text in your vote 51862. >> mike: and the double play turns -- double plays turned tonight for the twins, and karl pavano. and three over the minimum. >> gary: that is amazing, and he is trailing. with those three ground ball double plays, the orioles have now tied an american league high and guess who they tied? minnesota. how about that? they are tied with the orioles and hitting into ground ball double plays. jones, and he held on to it. and there are two down. oh-fer four for jones. >> mike: adam jones clearly feeling for that pitch. >> gary: karl pavano worked eight innings in his last outing, a loss to detroit. he gave up seven hits. he has beaten the angels, boston and kansas city. he has lost to kansas city and detroit. >> mike: complete

now jim riggleman really has his bullpen set up.axwell and morgan, and ian has had a big night with a single, a homer, two rbis. he's the difference in the game right now. ♪ we'll begin with a spin ♪ traveling in the world of my creation ♪ ♪ what we'll see will defy ♪ explanation [ male announcer ] remember when you were five and anything was possible. ♪ happy 5th birthday again. ♪ come with me and you'll be ♪ in a world of pure imagination ♪ johnny venters. ians batting average now up to 267. he hit 280 when he got to the big leagues last summer. >> desmond hits one out to center. it will hang imfor nate mclouth, and the bottom of the 7th is underway. here is justin maxwell. haven't seen much of max lately. he's 4 for 23. playing time in right field curtailed a bit since roger bernadina showed up. by the way, that game in philadelphia, cole hamels gave up that run in the 9th. brad lynn came in to finish off the in-- brad lidge came in to finish off the inning. st. louis had runner at first and third and one out, didn't score, and t

his bullpen hasn't been that desire. that sturdy.ind the second baseman. falling down is carroll. play at third -- safe. roger bernadina made a very fine throw. carroll came around second base and hit the dirt. got up and still got over there. perfect hit-and-run swing by maybin. >> rob: may have been stick the bat out, make contact. like a good pitch, hit behind the runner. watch carroll. see what happens to him. he looks him -- uh! chips over the bag -- ooh! better see if i can make it. >> bob: zimmerman snapped big tag after a bernadina throw. runners at the corners, only one out. here's mike lamb, a .277 career hitter in nine years with texas, houston, minnesota, and milwaukee. he was at triple-a last year in buffalo for the mets. marlins signed him as a minor league free agent. they had to get a left-hand bat to replace ross gload. to go with wes helms. gload and helms were the best pinch hitting tandem in baseball last year. so it's carroll at third, maybin at first. and lamb will serve one into left field. play into an extra b

the bullpen 4th.ve good work from the pitching staff overall and they are last in runs. >> as they were last year. they scored 50 less runs and were able to win 85 games. that doesn't happen often. >> 1-1 delivery. they decided this year to work on defense and pitching to try to improve the record yet again. they improved the record by 24 games last year, even though they ended up last in average, last in runs. but he surrendered the fewest runs per ball game, and that was enough to get them the wins. >> gary: 2-1, the runner off first and third. izturis to short. a big hopper. figgins for the force out. one run in on 3 hits, no errors and 2 are left in base. dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> gary: rainy night in baltimore. not enough to stop the game. the showers have come and gone. the mariners with 5-7-1. the home run b

bullpen phone just rang.hangeups and left the pitch up in the zone. if you won't pitch inside and in this league, you won't pitch in this league that much longer. you have to pitch inside. >> bob: as if almost on cue from fair faction, we have a great question on "ask about the nats" at masnsports.com. mccatty visit with lannan. i think my answer to that would be "yes, yes, yes." >> rob: yes, and you shouldn't need the catcher to tell you to pitch inside. that should be your plan pretty much every hitter in the major leagues. >> bob: you know, the other thing -- >> rob: the more you come in -- you saw josh johnson do it on adam dunn the first time around. >> bob ? you're a guy like lannan can that doesn't throw hard, you have to do this. >> rob: twice as much. >> bob: i mean, we saw what happened when ross leaned across the plate last night and hit a triple down the right- field line on a two-strike pitch. >> rob: it's not a fear in a literal sense. i'm afraid i may get hit by the ball. if you don't pitch on

you know, i think the back end of the bullpen has been phenomenal. it's been outstanding.f us that need to step us. we're showing signs of pitching well. that's frustrating, we have shown signs, myself ed included. you're only as good as your next time out there. to have this lloyd identifying force in the back, it's huge. you may have someone to bail you out. a lot of guys, we have a great time down there. we're keeping loose. >> yesterday, you turned 34 and there's a kink in the clubhouse. >> i don't think that's ever happened. it might have. but they did a nice job in there. the clubhouse manager here and they did a great job. capps is behind a little bit of the cake, too. i don't think anybody is going to say no to birthday cake in between double headers. >> that's mike wallace and also helped tyler with a change. he has not given up a run after wearing number 35. hernandez will come back on short rest and will start next wednesday against the mets. walker's personality has really come out a lot and keeps the guys loose. >> time for the keep your edge spotlight. you ca

the difference clearly is the bullpen. 11 save opportunities, all 11 converted, suddenly the nats learnedow to finish. >> to have them come at the back end of the game. we feel confident any time we have a one or two run lead they are going to get the job done. >> all the guys in the bullpen are going to come in and do their job. so we are going to keep it there. we have to keep them ready every time, you know, and throw strike and get some outs. >> and the defense has been vastly improved as well this year. we saw some first class evidence last night. did you see the catch roger made? robbing troy glous. one of the best we have seen all year. actually was the number one play of the year on espn last night. tonight for the nats, the 24- year-old rookie makes his third major league start. winning them both, he'll take on atlanta's tommy hampton. a little day baseball today. o's wrapping up their series in the bronx. bottom four, yankees up 4-1. mark teixeira doubled to the gap in right center. jeter and mcjohnson come around to score as the yanks take out the o's 7-5. >>> all right. if you

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they allowed 1 run and it's down to the bullpen and that's the difference in the ball game. they were keeping us off balance with off speed stuff. and the fact that adam dunn was sick maybe helped francis a little bit. fabulous day for both left-handers. for the nationals, they pitched good ball games but were not able to scratch out enough runs to beat colorado. their bullpen has been put together by some needles and thread and they did a great job against us too. they shut us down when they had to. >> when you look at zimmerman, who was fantastic thursday night, but after that dunn, willingham, morgan, rodriguez, the rockies pitched our best hitters as well as anybody has this year. >> yeah. sometimes you have to tip your hat. you can second guess all you want and talk about them being losers in years past. they are a good ball club and they are playing together well and they lose hard. they all lose together. that's exactly what you want. it's off to st. louis. we have some guys coming. it's like we're going to be getting these guys back like trades. i like the way the na

what is he going to bring to the orioles' bullpen. >> kl well, koji brings versatility the our bullpenwe know he can start. he started with us last year when he came over from japan. he had some injuries towards the end of the year and wasn't able to pleat the rest of the season. you can throw limb in and he can give you three innings. he is going to throw strikes. right there you see a great slider. he uses all of his pitches. he can also close coming out of japan in 2007, he had 32 saves in japan. so you can also throw him in late in the game and that is the start of thing you need in your bullpen. we don't have the lights out bottom of the ninth guy right now so guys are going to have to fill in different roles an koji brings that to our bullpen. >> tonight, the first of four. time for the spotlight presented by just for men and tonight miguel tejada has the edge. a six-game liting streak, .435 average with a home run. he has three rbi's and he has gone eight consecutive games without an error. you can keep your edge as well with just for men mustache and beard. when we come back, w

josh willingham places that baby in the bullpen. florida st., nationals when -- 4-3, nationals win.nia dodged a major bowl. stoneybrook with that goal. virginia comes back to win 10-9 and will play duke. in's and women's final four town this week. the virginia women lost on saturday so their season is over. >> a tough season for them. >> a top last month. thank you, keith. do not forget the water cooler question. do you think the term "retarded" should be banned from all federal legislation? e-mail your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. again, that is watercooler@wbaltv.com. here is a look ahead to our next hour. >> a statement concerning a deadly torpedo attack that happened back in march. >> gas prices make another move. >> keith mills will return with another sports report. >> we have some fog and drizzle on this monday morning. much better news in the seven- day forecast. >> that drizzle is impacting the morning commute. i'm going in. troubleshooting runs on dunkin'. america runs on dunkin'. with our new iced dark roast coffee. grab a delicious cup today. america runs on dunki

. >> jim riggleman rested the bullpen. sean burnett pitched the 6th and 7th and then walker the 8th. >> right, here we are go. the strikeout of helton there. a tough out by any pitcher. and then phillips gets the single to the hole -- not to the hole, fielded by guzman and the throw is wide. he had that throw beat anyway. here comes the throw off the glove. into the ground, bounces up. adam dunn can't hold it. the fourth run, the winning run crosses the plate. tulowitzki is out there. then he gets a ground out from clint barmes as well. again, third to first. long throw. zimmerman again one of the best in the business. but look, for sean burnett got the job done, an unearned run. he had two strike outs and didn't walk anybody. tyler walker gave up one hit. he has established himself as a right-handed presence in the nationals bullpen after a rocky start. >> walker is yet to have an opponent score against him. two good efforts tonight from burnett and walker. everybody is talking about stephen strasburg these days. there is

now it's up to the bullpen. >> bob: burnett against helton, stewart and barmes.es, a lot of left-handed bats in this lineup. so jim riggleman will use sean burnett to turn things around here. burnett's last appearance was in new york. i hope everything is okay with bernadina. rather early to be taking him out of the game. >> rob: i think that was a double switch. >> bob: so tavares will bat ninth. >> rob: he'll be in there tomorrow against francis. but yeah, you know, willie needs some at-bats. we have some guys that are very talented and even this guy on the mound, sean burnett is just not getting the reps. we haven't had a lot of situations where we needed him to get a bunch of lefties out until tonight. >> bob: ian stewart is next. and then barmes. nats were down 3-0. they've battled back to tie. >> rob: tough not to like this rockies team too. >> bob: well, what's most likable about them in my opinion, rob, they're almost all home grown. scouted, drafted, signed and developed within the organization. >> rob: yeah. well coached. have some great coaches. not ju

the bullpen did the rest. >>> now as mentioned earlier, matt whiters followed the ball off his rightknee. clearly in pain. he would limp for some time before he got back to his at- bat. he would have to leave the game before the final inning. he is expected to be able to play tomorrow afternoon. >>> former oriole john maine now with the jets. the yankees cash in, kevin russo comes in, brings in the only two runs, the yankees would score and that would be it. the yankees over mets. >>> a 16-year-old high school junior makes the cut competing with the pros. these are his classmates, they get a field trip to watch his buddies play. here is trip finishing it up. he will play on the weekend, one of the youngest ever to make the cut. cameron blakeman and adams tied for the lead. >>> and depending on your personal betting experience, the run away winner may have an appropriate name. he is financial crisis. you needed to wager a lot on this horse to solve your own money issues. final day ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a crafty innovator is caught on camera at the white house. everybody wept into

. >> last year, the bullpen lost 39 games. they wanted to avoid a repeat of that.the scouting report was he throws really hard and he'll walk some guys. i don't think they're going to be tolerant of that much, much longer. >> they've shown that in the past. somebody is down there they're going to bring up. >> livan hernandez suffered the loss and both the losses have commote the hands of him -- come at the hands of jimenez and the rockies. >> we had a couple of chances and hit the ball really good. got really lucky on the balls we hit. we fought and kept fighting and pitched good and he beat me a second time. >> you go against a guy like ubaldo, do you have to change the way you pitch? >> i go in and pitch my game. you know, nobody is unhittable. so you know, we play better, we win. so you know, we play hard and we try to win the game and you know, he comes in and pitches better than me and won the game. >> so the rockies take the opener today. the first of the day/night double head i have. 6-2 -- header. 3-2 they win it. debbi taylor is at coors field in denver an

and jason berken in the bullpen. cuddyer leads in that department. he has four 3 r.b.i. and five runs on 7 hits. the twins reach new highs against brian matusz and in the run department. he has given up 9 hits against the yeeks. runner goes, throw, not in time. span steals 3rd. >> that's a play you better make it in you are going to run. little easier to score and. >> gary: 8th stolen base for him. caught once. now punto another r.b.i. chance. into second. wiginton back. a base hit and r.b.i. nor nick punto. 2 out r.b.i.s piling up here as the twins lead it 6-0. stolen base. >> and right off the end of the glove of wiginton eurbgsz now in the afternoon the hitters are 6 for 6. we have six runs scored. >> gary: maure talk into a fielder's choice. matusz getting roughed up here. across and 3 runs in the thissered inning. the pitch taken town low for a ball. >> gary: the hopes of coming away with three out of four will depend on real offense here. maure for a strike. count is 1-1. all of the inning coming with 2 down. >> two retired quickly. driving the count -- count up to

their bullpen is double barrel and see if they can get him over 100 and out of the game. >> bob: timeunners to be smart and not too frisky. there's flores. that ball hit him in the foot, evidently, foul ball. i would like to see him start swinging awayment he's trying to hit behind the runner in every at-bat. he's got home run potential. this guy can jack francis out of here. he keeps tying himself up trying to go to right. nice save from francis. 1-2 count. >> bob: gonzalez has two career homers and his first was two years ago. atlanta was in september. he gets one to the left side. that sets up the bunting situation for olsen who had a short chat with with riggleman before heading to the batter's box. >> another good breaking ball by francis, down and in. he gets the single by tulowitzki and they were pinching in for the double play. nationals have selected 3 hits for the 7 and 8 hitters today. olsen spins it perfectly once today. francis doesn't throw very hard and our guys are not at the top of the order and they are the guys right on them. >> bob: stewart is hanging here the bag

the sac fly, santana coming off his worst start in his career, 7 1/3, two runs, pulled after that, bullpen would allow another run. in the 11th, henry blanco, his first home run of the year, his first career walk-off job. he said, "i never thought it was going to go out." but it did. the fans in queens loving every second of it. blanco finished with three hits. he's batting .429 in his last starts. catchers getting it done for new york. friday it was rod barajas with the walk-off and saturday henry blanco playing hero. >> "what 2 watch 4." friday the cavaliers took back home court advantage beating the slicks by 29. it marked the celtics' largest postseason home loss. >> we want to be aggressive. when we're aggressive, we're a really good team. that means offensively and defensively. when we get stops, when we help each other defensively, it makes offense that much easier for us. that's how we're going to approach game four. >> it's turned into the series to watch. celtics took home court advantage. cavs took it right back in game three. setting up game four. sunday 3:30 eastern time on ab

their pitching staff and bullpen leaves a lot to be desired.t will get better, but right now they are not pitching as well as st. louis or other teams in the league. st. louis has quality. penny a big guy and now learning how to pitch, that could be dangerous. >> you look at what else is going on around baseball. the national league -- the washington nationals they called up strasburg from double-a to triple-a. they are getting ready to take the next step with him. how would you manage the career of a young talent with an electric arm like this? >> a lot of us who have been blessed to manage in the major leagues had ha surprised prospect come up through the ranks. i think washington is taking it slowly with him. you don't learn to pitch at the major league level in the minor leagues or hit. but you do learn that professional way of life. it's a little different or a lot different than college. i think he is sharpening his teeth on the experience of the professional baseball. not on the hitters. the good hitters are the next step up. he will mak

. >> and out of the bullpen that came back. and berkson making an ano. pick off the span there.is alert. he joes what i has to do. >> he did the job. >> i want to leave you on a positive today. we talked about tejeda and how well he is playing. in the series last night in game 2 and today he is starting to show the nuances for being comfortable at 3rd. he is making great plays i'm surprised that he is coming in on the ball. 0 stays with it. you want a good strong arm. here today another shot. easy play because of his arm. boy you love to see. it he has to charge. it one thing you worry about is his speed. you have that. >> and the challenge and that didn't work out. you had reimold. infield hit. 1 for 3. didn't leave but good necessary now 6 ahead a commanding lead for rick in the challenge. twins win it 6-0. birds come home on a tuesdaying streak. we'll see you tuesday a day offtomorrow. and enjoy your day off tomorrow. get outside! see you tuesday night. bett er than carfax. i have a note from the previous owner. just show me the carfax. a carfax report can help you choose a g

i think bullpen -- b.p. has brought its sacrifice and i've been involved in this oil spill since it happened, trying to see what we can do to stop this thing. and there's also another plant which might be crobes or natural organisms that the are drived from this plant and absorb oils. host: ok, mr. spotts? guest: it's gratifying to hear there are some techniques to be used. why they haven't tried it, i don't know. i just -- that's a good question, you know, we ought to be putting to b.p. and, you know, as far as the plant remediation, as far as the use of the plant, again, that is an importtnt tool and, you know, in the i didn't ever and again, why that hasn't been applied. -- quiver and why that hasn't been applied to. this is trre -- i hate to say it, any technological enterprise up to a point that's involved in something like this. they try what they know and only after they exhausted trying what they have had a fair bit of experience with do they then go for, you know, for some of the less well tested ap

the bullpen was striking people out and getting ground balls. keeping us in the game. tonight we got struck out 15 time and still scored seven runs, eight runs. we beat them pretty bad and it's pretty good combo we've got going offense and defense. >> you also finished the month april with 13 games, three games over .500. that has to make you feel pretty good. >> it goes to show that hard work and spring training and believing in yourselves you we can compete with anybody. >> nobody competes higher than nyjer morgan at centerfield. remember when he came to the ball club last is year he said nobody gets a hit in morgantown. watch this catch. great jump. and extended totally. he has struggled a little bit this year because he's been in between on balls that are been in front of him and you just have to play by instincts out there. he has great baseball instincts and i think that he was thinking a little bit. i talked to jim riggleman about it. >> instead of reacting? >> instead of reacting. i think he was thinking because there was several balls that he broke for and sto

but part of the cause lies in the bullpen last fragmented regulatory system designed in a different erahat lags far behind changes in the financial markets. the government's system of the financial oversight was simply not designed to constrain the risk-taking in this parallel financial system. credential regulations were limited to the banks. the federal reserve had no legal authority to set and enforce capital requirements on a major institutions to operate essentially banking businesses outside of the bank holding companies. the fed also had no legal authority over the investment bank's diversified institutions like the aig for hundreds of small and big financial finance companies. yet as you know no legal authority to set and forced capital requirements on a consolidated basis across the full range of activities across investment banks. more broadly this is more critical no regulator or supervisor of the core system taking action to prevent the diversion of activity away from the protections regulations designed to provide. the result was a system of the applied a safety and soundne

but part of the cause lies in the bullpen last fragmented regulatory system design in different era that lags far behind cnges in the financial markets. the government's system of the financl oversight was simply not designed to constrain the risk-taking in this parallel financial system. credential regulationsere lited to the banks. the federal reserve had no legal authority to set and enforce capital requirements on a major institutions to operate essentially banking businesses outside of the bank holding companies. the fed also had no legal authority over the investment bank's diversified institutions like the aig for hundreds of small and big financial finance companies. yet as you know no legal authority to set and forced capital requirements on a consolidated basis across the full range of activities across investment banks. more broadly this is more critical no regulator or supervisor of the core system taking action to prevent the diversion of activity away from the protections regulations designed to provide. the result was a system of the applied a safety and soundness regulati