top of the line-up against albers here in the 7th.rian bass allowed only two base runners in his 3 1/3, both singles. here is matt albers who has not been pitching well, trying to turn it around. he has been quite streaky this year. there have been times when he has come on and has pitched very effectively and other times -- and he is in one of them right now where he seems to give up hit and runs every time he comes in. there is a bloop toward left centerfield. that's going to fall in for a base hit. a leadoff single on as scutaro reaps. he has three hits today. >> buck: he has had a big day including that two-run home run off matusz. just when you want to keep it a two-run game, blue jays get the leadoff hitter on here in the 7th. toronto now looking for some insurance as they lead by 2. now here is hill. checked swing and it's low. >> buck: you mentioned matt albers, it has been a little bit of a roller coaster ride. he came into the 7th inning on friday. he gave up a single, a fielder's choice. and he had to be relieved by chris r

still nobody out format albers. a tough spot for albers as he tries to minimize the damage as best he can. >> if you were on a roll, you might feel somewhat confident but twelve earned runs in his last five innings. rick saying you know what he has to stay over the rubber a little bit longer get your arm out front. great punter at the plate. i told him i said it is a. however you have to figure it out, you have to be able to stay long enough where you can actually get your arm out in front of you. that is when the ball sinks and you get on top of your curve ball. somehow you have got to figure it out. that puts you in the big leagues. the gall goes right with it. he drops his arm a little bit and runs out of the strike zone and away. you find yourself in hitters count. 1-1 on aybar. >> up against the scoreboard, one run is in. two runs in, there is a two-run double for erick aybar and the angels have a three run lead. i can't we'll good piece of hitting. he gets a great pitch to hit. how many times have you seen bal

matt albers is up for the o's.ason berken at the moment becomes the pitcher of record with a chance to win the ballgame. >> buck: he sure does. two starts ago he was in a similar situation and he saw the opponents come back and tie up the game. but give him credit that was a big fifth inning for him. >> gary: the runner goes. melvin mora reaches, takes the ball in the air to center field. vernon wells will put it away. but the orioles have a four-run sixth inning, and jason berken now with a chance to win it as the orioles go up 4-3. ÷pp@@ >> back at the rogers centre with your news an notes of comings and goings. john smoltz is leaving boston, release bid the red sox a day after he gave up eight runs to the yankees in a loss by the red sox last night. minnesota has acquired starting pitcher karl pavano from the cleveland indian for a player to be named and oakland releases jason giambi at the age of 38 with a .193 batting average. now back upstairs to gary and buck. >> gary: those are probably a couple of careers

albers five earned runs. >> that will hurt his era. but again, i think anytime you have at least -- the least amount of starters, when you have the least amount of innings from your starters, hopefully that will change over the next six weeks with the young gaze coming up and getting their feet wet, you have the most out of your bullpen and it catches up with you. we have seen that to some degree. matt albers struggled early went to the minors came back, pitched welling. written bass from time to time over a long period of time has been very consistent. now you'll aof a sudden they are not making their pitches. >> albers has struggled. obviously if you are going to the mound and you are not getting anybody out you have to be thinking about it. >> people are saying well you are overthrowing the ball. it is hard not to overthrow it. it is a tendsy to try harder. talking to jeremy guthrie last night. such a fine line between being intense and having that intensity. and not being tense. gripping the ball. when things go poorly, you know, t

hernandez, albers, baez and johnson hold down the athletics.two runs and the orioles win by a final of 3-2 to even up the series now set up a rubber game in the finale tomorrow afternoon. welcome in, it's "o's xtra." jim hunter with rick dempsey. a lot of sub plots, as we just heard, brian had a very interesting night. he had a huge night at the plate. he had a couple of stolen bases and twice on the bases he was involved in outs on the bases. sometimes if you're a key player, the ball finds you. >> well, one of them was a blunder. earlier in the ballgame, you got to go back. swings the bat very good all night long. later on he hit the ball to the gap in right center field and he gets that one in there for his second hit of the ballgame. again, later on in the ballgame, too, in the fifth inning, his third hit of the ballgame. so swinging the bat was no problem with brian roberts tonight, he drives in that big run that puts the orioles up in that ballgame here. now the play at home plate, now brian roberts gets caught. you don't know whether or

albers came inside, foul ball. >> juan so good over the plate.once in a while you get him to chase something down and in and he pulls it foul. >> the other play was jones. >> the throw. >> the end of the first inning on a throw at first on rivera. rivera tried to extend the double ended up making the final out at third which let tillman give up the third. that one is going to be in the corner. rivera has his third double of the ball game and his second rbi and makes it a 16-6 game. matt is not fooling anybody. the good news is the orioles still have a ten run lead. it's a little -- you get the day off, again the ability to make the quality pitches that make him effective when he is on a role. >> robb quinlan will come on as the pinch runner as rivera will come out of the game. mike getting players off the bench in this one. and the pitch is taken for a strike. morales had a single extending his hit streak to seven games. a one for three ball game. for morales. finding the league to his liking tied for 6th in homers. 9th in rbis. second best slugg

matt albers just went down and is available.rs available. >> buck: what you don't want to do, you don't want to take a roster spot by adding somebody to the roster in september. they'll probably hold off of jack because of that. he is not yet on the 40-man roster. off days in september are kind of interesting. >> gary: foul tip held on to. you deserve major league service; stub hub official fan- to-fan market place for tickets. >> buck: tomorrow and then the day game on sunday wraps up the four-game series. then the yankees come to town for to three straight. all on masn hd all starting at 7:00 p.m. >> gary: one down. regarding the action tomorrow, the game is going to be on wjz in baltimore. it will be on masn 2 in the d.c. area. and the pitch is taken inside. so wjz for the o's tomorrow. everywhere else on masn two. >> buck: looking ahead to the yankee series, the yankees are going to feature andy pettitte and c.c. sabatthia coming into the three- game set. they'll be accompanied by guthrie, hernandez and berken. you can see t

the stage caved in saturday right before costner and his band were going to perform in l alber albertacanada. he wasn't hurt. organizers canceled the last day of the country music concert. >>> tiger pulled out another win, but it could be the last for this tournament, anyway. here's rafer with more on that. >> it may not mean much to the non-sports fan, but it's bittersweet to us that it's potentially the last buick open. now the ap is saying the car company will not sponsor the event after this year, spending 7 million on a golf tournament probably not in their best interest. but for tiger, he said knowing this could be his last time playing it says it pushed him a little more. he bombed at the british open, so he need ted this win. we had some strange sightings at this tournament. that in the next hour. >>> olympic champion michael phelps and his team walked away world champions after phelps suffered his first major loss. he finished the meet after helping the u.s. win the 400 meter relay and he finished the butterfly. his mom was very proud. >>> a funeral for slain boxer vernon forr

matt albers coming on. victor martinez, youkilis coming in to score. 9-6.still in the 4th, victor martinez, two-out, two-strike. the drop in for two more runs. 13-6. the o's trying to come back again. adam jones, another part of his big day. solo homerun. his 18th of the çseason. made it 14-7. for every pitcher that came in, it was like gasoline on the fire. in the 9th rock a solo shot off jim johnson. the red sox go on to win 18-10. the o's in detroit for a three- game series in detroit starting tomorrow. >>> it sounds as if brian madis will make his major league debut. he was drafted last year only got to double-a the middle of this year. looks like he will make his debut in detroit. the yankees and white sox today, this one in chicago. buehrle with a perfect gay game recently. melky cabrera was nearly perfect for the yankees at the plate. makingmaking it 3-0. -- making it 3-0. a hit shy of the cycle and then played into a triple. melky cabrera with the cycle. >>> jimmie johnson winning the race in nascar. we will have high lights of that and update the