so, albers with two quick outs.redi gonzalez looking it over on the bench. >> buck: you've got to make a decision. >> jim: sunday, july 12, come out to oriole park to 21 ute taw street. an area -- eutaw street. an area for just $21. fans can he purchase a ticket and receive a limited edition t- shirt featuring nick and adam. that's the place to be july 12 for all of nick and adam's biggest fans. call 888-848-bird or go to orioles.com and reserve a seat for 21 eutaw street. >> buck: nick markakis made another strong throw tonight. he now has eight assists as he got jeremy hermida at the plate in the sixth inning. >> jim: slapped foul by bonifacio. 0-2. >> buck: adam jones still on the bench. should pinto come into the game, you have a reasoned bat with some pop and you have ty wigginton. nolan reimold and oscar salazar have already been used in this game. so, you're down to three bench players. wigginton is aware of the possibility. he's loosening up -- loosening up. >> jim: albers, ahead 0-2. a little bit low. bonif

albers will start up high to him. ball 1. 9 runs, 9 hits on the board as this oakland team all of a sudden finding the power in their bats with the two homeruns they had in this ballgame. that one is hit behind the plate. wieters coming back will not have a play. the last six ball games, including this one, it's now up to 12 homeruns for the oakland offense. still, third fewest in the american league. oakland coming home off that road trip in a great way to open up a home stand. 1 ball, 1 strike count. suzuki will run that to the left side, into the stands no, play. oakland can pick up a win in this ballgame, they'll have a new high for the season with four consecutive wins, the three they put up on the board, only the second time they had done that this year. >> buck: they have two shoutout against the white sox against the white sox in that four-game series and now they are throwing a shutout again. braden only allowing four hits so far. >> gary: albers with the 1-2 count. the strike on the outside corner. he didn't

albers with a 1-1. that will be a base hit.t's going to roll just far enough so that markakis can pick it up while it's still rolling. over to third base goes cora. wright has his second hit. all is well for david wright. >> jim: it is. that's how gent ability to hit the ball all over the field. lawn bowling right here. kind of serves it n we always talk about that hole -- that hole for left-handed hitters. it's there for the righties if they take advantage of it. one thing about wright, he does spray the ball over 36 hits -- actually, 37 now to left, 28 up the middle and 19 to right field. so, he does hit the ball all over the ballpark. >> gary: 11 hits. >> jim: you play in citi field, you better do that. >> gary: 1 hits -- 11 hits for the mets in the ballgame. ryan church with two down, runners at first and third. for wright, he leads the mets in multihit games as would you expect it is his 14th multihit ballgame. he's picked up a couple of singles. he's had six two-hit games. two three-ives it ballgames and one four-it rbi g

matt albers on for his second inning of work.go to work on rajai davis, the number eight batter and then petit and then back to the top of the lineup for orlando cabrera. >> buck: i guess the book on davis is pound him inside. brian bass did the same thing on his last at-bat. threw a couple of in side and weiters is staying inside as well. trying to get something on the ground here. get this first batter up. >> jim: high pop up, left side of the infield, mora near the bag. and he has it for the out. one down. you could really see how they have to concentrate with this high sky. the sun is difficult here in oakland. >> buck: the high sky is not because there is nothing to contrast that in baseball, there is no depth perception and you can't tell where the ball is and then you deal with the high sun and melvin mora keeps looking up there and saying that is tough. >> jim: castillo back with the team, getting loose. several reunions this weekend. there is a strike. castillo and oscar salazar, rejoining the team. >> buck: you and i ha

so bergesen went six innings, baez one and now albers, and albers has allowed three base runners nowwith two men down. >> jim: i was watching him the other night, jim, and for a guy, one, he starts below his belt and then goes all the way up. i used to start maybe a little bit higher and george said if you're going to bring your hands way up, why don't you just kind of rest your arms. so it looks to me -- >> rob: sometimes less is more. >> jim: way up there. >> rob: his first movement is up. >> jim: so why not start higher. number one, you're quicker to the plate. two, you hide the bat better. you can see because his hands are so low, at least from center field, you can pretty much see what pitch he is throwing, whether it is a sinker or breaking ball. >> rob: and you and i were similar of the arms and legs. >> jim: it is all about deception. >> rob: yes. and less is more, especially as a reliever because you want to get your arm back to the relief point up and it doesn't have to catch up. your first movement up dlrks is is a lot going on there. >> jim: 0-2 with the bases loaded and

matt albers pitched a scoreless 8th giving up two hits and a walk last night. got out of it with strikeouts to dunn and dukes. it's on. - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - it is totally on. jimmy, it's on. it's on. oh, yeah, it's on. pilot: affirmative, it's on. geico's been saving people money and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first 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.  >> bob: beautiful sky on a saturday night in baltimore as we near the end of june, on a gorgeous night. teams trading punches here in the middle innings. it will be ronnie belliard against matt albers with the bases loaded, nobody out. >> rob: can i do the honors? ronnie belliard, four for his last 37. in his last 19, now 20 games played. >> jim p.: so he's due. >> rob: you talked about austin kearns, all he had to do was get a base hit. he did. albers

albers stays on for his second inning of work. he missed outside. 2-1 on jeremy hermida. 1-3 with a double. high pop-up. melvin mora with a play at third has it for the out and one down. you wonder who might play. there's dan meyer with lindstrom lind on the disabled list because of a sprained elbow. the word is he will not even throw a baseball for a month. >> buck: yeah, unfortunately, sometimes precursor to tommy john environmental a -- surgery is a forearm strain and they can't get got tom of it. hard thing to fathom is how he could throw 98 last night. he said the pain is really heightened when he throws his slider. he couldn't get on top of that slider. he's been dealing with this for a while now and it just came to a point where he had to yield to the injury and give his elbow a chance to rest. >> jim: dan uggla takes strike 1-1. they hope it's not serious. it might have to lead to surgery. if it does, he tunt pickup a baseball for a month, that's late july. if he has surgery, that means see you next year or the year after.

albers is now on the mounds. >> jim: matt has been awfully good, labrum tear last year, came in, this year, throwing the ball harder than he did, ich 't translate into pitching down to aaa norfolk, being smoother, ting the ball sink. >> gary: he worked in the first game of the series an inning, and gave up a couple of hits. one run game, top of t9th. and it will be castillo leadig it off, # for 3 about a single in the game, and it will be the top of the orwith cora and if you are minoleagues coming up --and murphy coming up. feliciano charged with a run. not going to get that one. castillo will make a turn and stay. scott was playing so shallo. no chance for him to get two, but he is on with a single. 2-4 in the ballga. >> jim: highest hitter ever at camden yards cos in, it by melvin mora. here is over the front sidd not a bad pitch, just a bad result. >> gary: let's see how jerry manuel plays this. his leadoff batter, core cora is looking for : if he do bunts, and you walk murphy, i don't thk if you'll do that to get to bell tram, 

albers, a perfect 9th inning, no runs allowed. and rodriguez gets the loss. he's 1-2, andino, the third career home run, and orioles first win after trailing at the 8th. we will head back to the masn broadcast booth, and welcome n jim palmer. this is such an uplifting win. who knows how far the orioles can take it, but not to give up for all 27 outs. >> you know, to me, i think for this team to make that major step forward, if we look at jason berken, here's a guy they scored what, five runs in 9 first four starts. pitched very well against the tigers, went a third of the inning against oakland, but tonight he was good. the base hit, this is all it takes, and orioles win. again. >>> you -- you get in a positn to win if you are a starting pitcher. they come back, very difficult to do that against rodriguez, and he wasn't on the top of his game, but it started with matt wieters, and the catching instructor -- pitching instructor. -- [ indiscernible ] >> let's look back at jason berken's effort for five innings.

and giving credit to brian bas and and matt albers were outstanding today. here is the 0-1. davis on the run and he makes the catch as that ball curled back, markakis hit that ball right on the nose. the orioles strand two. bottom of the 8th, the athletics hanging on to a 3-0 lead. with the calendar, i can schedule all my payments. and when funds are low, danger days help me stay out of the red. i can also transfer money with just a click and a drag. so maybe i'm better with money than i thought. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. >> jim: 3-0 athletics lead and now time for the recap. >> buck: he hits a bullet, a one hopper, robert andino has played well in the series and pops up to holliday for the first out of the 3rd inning. >> jim: and the coors light freeze cam. a good day with the glove and good day at the plate and here is jim johnson to work in the 8th inning for the orioles. >> buck: johnson making his 26th appearance. and he certainly wants to continue what brian bass and matt albers has

albers last year left the game at wrigley field interleague game, and that was when it was diagnosed that his shoulder had the issues, and he elected to go the rehab route. last spring troy patton, the pitcher of the orioles, got in the me gel tejada trade. he elected to have the surgery.

nolan reimold with the three run home run leading with 57%, 26% for gregg zaun, matt albers 17%. tom and rick will have the results coming up on "nats xtra" post-game. >> jim p.: i think i'd split the vote tonight. if you're earl weaver, you love reimold, but how about the double play by albers turned this game around, gregg zaun with three hits. >> rob: keeping guthrie from melting down. >> jim p.: especially in the first. got him out of the first inning with the double play to belliard. >> jim h.: the double play by albers also prevented the nationals from scoring which means guthrie is still the pitcher of record and the bullpen, they love to be able to hold the lead for the starter after he leads. >> jim p.: and the starter loves to have them hold them. >> jim h.: yes, he does. they're each nodding themselves yes in the different perspectives. >> rob: absolutely. it's your job. you want to save the game for him. >> jim p.: you don't like my rear end in come on, rob. >> rob: every time i go to the pub there in crystal city, i see you in a your underwear. >> jim p.: you've got

they bring in mat albers, with the bases loaded.elliard, can't get a handle on it, but does get the force play. then right here, a really good pitch right there to austin kearns for the orioles to turn the double play. >> jim h.: at&t, the nation's fastest 3-g network. >> jim p.: ryan zimmerman tried to deliver a home run on that swing right there. johnson better down in the strike zone. he was in the launch mode. >> jim h.: the nationals now trail by a couple. as the orioles try to make it back-to-back wins. there's a bloop to right field. markakis charging in, won't get there. plays it on a hop. >> rob: that's a couple of hits for mr. kearns tonight. actually that's ryan zimmerman, sorry. he's another guy who needs to get off the side. got to get the confidence back. >> jim p.: it's an important inning for both the nationals and the orioles. the orioles want to get to george sherrill who is 11 for his last 11 and the orioles closer. >> jim h.: adam dunn now takes inside. >> rob: this is it right here. when you have the 3, 4, 5 guy

matt albers, of course he pitched an inning last night.ame. >> gary: mets have kept the pressure on throughout in this game. koji uehara with a two run, seven hits over five. castillo takes it, a little further away and he wouldn't go after it. >> jim: jerry manuel very patient. his bullpen is still not up tonight. they are an awfully good bullpen. 3.18 e.r.a., the first in the national league. >> gary: castillo, the reaction on the mound by bass. >> jim: it just ran outside. when you drop your arm, the ball runs more laterally. you can see him just getting under it a little bit. just one of those nights where he hasn't been able to find his release point. >> gary: matt wieters got up and gave the infield sign. you have runners at second and third, only one away. will jerry manuel put them in motion here? possibly not because castillo is not somebody you're going to likely double up even on a ground ball. >> jim: of course he makes a lot of contact. >> gary: fouled away. it looks like we're going to play the rest of this ballgame in interm

albers in the bullpen now. first time up for albers. castillo, 33 years old.292 career major league batting average. a good one. 2-1 delivery to him. that slider is going to catch the inside corner for a strike and it will go 2-2. >> jim: certainly not the runner that scored -- stole 50, 62 bases when he first came up with the marlins because of the age and the knee problem. he's got to get on base and turn the double play, play good defense for the mets help in that ballpark. >> gary: 2-2 delivery looped in the air. reimold coming hard reaching can't get it. how about torii hunter? 8-0, runs into the fence, hurts his leg, bruises his ribs. eight-run lead. >> gary: an important ball player who is going to miss some games. i mean, you give it one for the hustle, but you know something? discretion sometimes is the better part of valor. >> jim: especially the way a lot of walls are. obviously, the players most of the walls are pad. there are supports behind them and some of the -- you don't even know where they are. >> gary: straight up the middle baez. gets the

matt albers has been exceptional. brian bass has been their long man and even hendrickson has picked autopsy win. a 1.29'ear. we mentioned wins for bass, johnson, albers and hendrickson. no runs in his last seven appearances and george sherrill is is a perfect 11-11 in save opportunities. >> jim: kind of amazing, the bullpen has four of those wins. the starters only three. even though the starters have been pitching much better as of late. the bullpen gets some reinforcement today in the right arm of chris ray. let's head down stairs and welcome in amber. hello, amber. >> and alberto castillo was sent down to triple-a and in his place chris ray has been recalled to help the bullpen. the word is he is back on track. he looks good, finishes on his pitches, as well as he found some consistency with that arm slot. that's what he has been looking for. in eight games in triple-a, he dropped his e.r.a. to 2.25. he struck out 13 batters and walked only four. all reports are he is ready to go here today in miami. interestingly

there is mat albers warming up. matt holliday said, this week on radio that he -- he said i would assume the smaller market teams, oakland, that is developing into younger players will either trade me at some ., take the draft picks or take the draft picks at the end of the year. he expects that he is going to be going somewhere. he hit, last year, .321 with the rockies at this point, hitting .274 coming into the ballgame. his homerun rate has dropped from 1 every 21 to 1 every 7. but there is no question a number of teams would love to get their hand on matt holliday. 1-2 delivery to him. 2-2. >> buck: you are looking at potential candidates and it would certainly be a rent a player situation for the end of this year as a free agent. how about a st. louis team? right handed hit tore go along and compliment albert pujols. >> gary: 2-2 delivery on the way. >> buck: you can also look at the san francisco giants just across the bay who have a great pitching staff but don't have the offense that holliday would provide.

as opposed to the marlins who have just tim wood left in their bullpen, the orioles still have albers. they still have hendrickson and george sherrill. so jim johnson giving them two innings and chris ray an inning and 2/3 has helped at least preserve a few more arms. ground ball sharply hit to short. wigginton has it and gets it across and a three up, three down inning for brian bass and on we go. we head to the 12th and the top of the lineup is coming up. brian roberts, nick markakis and adam jones in this tie game. ? ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. >> jim: the american flag i downtown miami on this breezy night, at least it was earlier. right there in the middle of downtown atop of that tall building, and here is the a.l. east versus the n.l. east in the interleague there year, buck, 32-25, the american leaguers leading it. >> buck: they sure are. thigh have had a good run in interleague play agai

. >> rob: you make the point about albers, the more time it takes you to get to your release point, if there is a guy on base and he is a quick base stealer, that is a millie second you're not getting the ball to the catcher. you want to get to the catcher as quickly as possible so he has a chance to throw people out. george sherrill doesn't have to be as quick as a right-handed pitcher, but the righties have to get the ball to home plate. >> jim: bounced to second base off the bat of willie harris. bobbled there and bobbled again and safe at first as harris as brian roberts bobbles it twice. >> rob: you want to be about 1.2 seconds or less to home plate. >> jim: here is the voting. brad bergesen, 54% and aubrey huff 13%. still time to text in your vote to 51862 and tom and rick will have the results coming up on "o's xtra" post-game. so a runner on, and there's a strike. i was talking to george the other night about how he started in proball, and he had to go the independent league route, and he whereas saying how those leagues are more competitive than you might think because all of

game two, he came on as a pinch- hitter against matt albers and struck out. that also came in the seventh inning. >> jim: 1-1 is off the plate. chris ray gave up a hit. actually, two hits and bo -- and got a double play in the seventh. five hits and he's still not allowed a run. bases loaded. nobody out. >> buck: ross gload went to college at university of south florida in tampa. going to bounce around. played some in kansas city. he's a pretty good hitter. certainly well suited to play in the national league. he's come off the bench and swing that bat. >> jim: 2-2 skied to left. reimold a long run doesn't get there, but it's foul. there's brian bass now getting loose in the orioles pen. >> buck: the orioles would have liked not to have to use another reliever. they have used two here tonight. mark hendrickson came on in the fifth and throws out that inning and gave them one more. >> jim: 2-2. he got him. chris ray gets a big strikeout there as gload goes down and one away. now a double play gets him out of it. >> buck: well, 2-2, he really gets this wall in

we talked about this with albers last night, taking more time to transfer, takes more time for the catcher to throw the runner out. if you're running like adam jones, you catch it on the left side, you got to transfer it to the right side. that takes time. you want to circle the ball and catch it on the right-hand side. >> bob: left side, tried to pull that breaking ball, mora throws him out, two down. >> jim p.: i think jeremy getting a little lucky, because it hung away. if you're going to hang 'em, hang 'em high. and he did. he had to reach for it. >> rob: as a pitcher, you want this guy to have to pull the breaking ball away. belliard does just that. all he can do is hit a ground ball. this is a nice play by mora. >> jim p.: so the inability to get willingham. >> rob: and for belliard, the inability to -- he's going to keep hacking and trying to hit home runs. interleague play, 10 home runs. i'm sure he read that stat and said, i'm going try to hit 11 and 12 tonight. it's just wrong. you can't hit and have that approach at the big league level. >> bob: austin kearns 10 for his last 70

. >> jim: so i think they all know as you look at matt albers. sinking ball right-handed. and the right-hander getting loose. >> bob: josh willingham, nine homers, 16 rbi's. at one point last week he had nine homers and 13 rbi's. there just hasn 't been anyone on base this year when he has hit his home runs, and he is third on club. >> rob: a couple of pitches away from 100 now, bergesen. >> jim: and he is also hitting .115 with runners in scoring position, so when he does get opportunities. >> bob: how did he reach that breaking ball on 1-2? >> rob: it has been difficult when you have five, six outfield everies -- offed everies, getting enough at- bats, keeping them all with an edge. it has not been easy at all with manny acta. >> bob: that might with down to four now because austin kearns' playing time, if willingham produces lbe severely curtailed. he is in a big-time slump. willingham will hit that fastball foul. bergesen working off of the first base side of the rubber to bring take sinker back across the plate and down in on the right-hander. >> rob: did you change s