sheer jason berken fouling to have as andino bounced out toshortstop. >> buck: this is berken's firstague at-bat. he did not play yet in interleague play. always a thrill. his heart is thumping a bit. he was a multiple athlete in high school in wisconsin. great football player. obviously, a baseball player and a basketball player. he's had the lumber in his hand before, but probably not since high school. >> jim: he was born in green bay. huge packers fan. a couple of years ago when thepackers were in the nfc championship game, he found out the night before he had a chance to get tickets and drove 14 hours to green bay to seat game and the packers lost. he was there and he had pretty good seats. fouls it off. >> buck: yeah, once you're a packer fan, you'll do strange things to go see a playoff game obviously at green bay. certainly, at lambeau field a- rich tradition. >> jim: one out, none on. marlins have the 2-0 lead. pitch recognition pretty good. they appeal to first. john hirschbeck said he appealed in time. >> buck: pretty good slider they throw to the outside and berken just fo

we'll begin with jason berken. >> well, jason berken was having a june swoon.start in his major league debut and his second ballgame, he had gone into a funk in june. 17 earned runs in 14 innings. he's 0-2 in june so far with a 10.60 e.r.a. that's not like him at all. one thing i've noticed is that sinker was much better in his last game against the new york mets. 6 2/3 innings, he strowktd struck out eight batters. you heard him talk to rick kranitz about how he felt like his windup was just starting to fall into place and he delivered every pitch with the same delivery. i agree with him totally because he had some great sink on that fastball. that's what i'd love to see. >> how about the start of ricky nolasco for the florida marlins? >> well, nolasco is a little bit different. he was getting hard and has been getting hitting hard all season long. 82 hits in 61 2/3 innings. that is a lot of getting banged around a little bit. he was shaking early in april, may. he had a 2-5 record, 6.09 e.r.a. in april, 12.02 in may. in june, he's been a different pitcher now

berken more velocity than his could want part cahill. we mentioned he throws that two seam fastball across the narrow seams and generally a pitcher will throw it with his fingers in line with those seams but berken has made the adjustment according to how he feels and that's where he gets the most dramatic movement. >> gary: cunningham will stand in. for a moment ball out of the sun into the shadows. sun goes down. cunningham will take the pitch for a strike making the start in right field. he's got a five game hit streak. 1-4 in the ball game last night including two rbis he picked up on a bases loaded single. and will chop that one foul right on top of it. 0-2. >> buck: this is what berken does. pounds the strike zone with all his pitches and then throws down and in to cunningham. see young pitchers like this and berken her man doze, they seem to have a feel for pitching. >> gary: very poise the. and a breaking ball will miss outside. berken's minor league numbers he won 25 and lost 18. those are his minor league career. .374 earned ru

berken has surrendered three walks in the ball game. putting runners on at 1 st and 3rd and davis with tremendous speed. zaun's going to go out and talk to berken not only how they're going to pitch to the lead off man cabrera but what to do if this runner goes. >> buck: he's looking in the dugout to get the defense with a first and third situation. they'll give him the defense and the throw through cut off back to the pitcher bunt fake. davis as gary mentioned 6-9 so far and can really run. big lead at first. >> gary: big lead. going to have to throw over or step off here and they do. >> buck: berken with the fake for 3rd just to see if he could get davis to break for 2nd. >> gary: cabrera doubled and grounded out. only one down. 5-0 lead for the a's. still a big lead over there. berken runner goes. throw down to 1 st. i don't know what that was. he had a great jump and took about three steps and came back. >> buck: if he was just decoying a steal he did a heck of a job because he had a full blown great jump at 1 st. see where he stops

berken with four hits, just a single run that. solo home run by curtis granderson, the only run he allowed in over seb seven innings. >> jim: ball one is too tight. ball four. second walk in the game allowed by jason berken. tomorrow, please join us. home depot will present covering the bases with orioles pitcher rich hill. be sure to visit home depot on the web at homedepot.com/spring more saving, more doing, that's the power of home depot. >> buck: rich hill grew up in the boston area. still lives there. went to michigan. he had a fine collegiate career. signed with the cubs. now here with the orioles part of this young, developing pitching staff. it will be good to cover the bases with rich hill tomorrow. >> jim: you see he's charght the game. he'll be on the mound -- charting the game. he'll be on the mound tomorrow night. base hit down the left-field line. scott quickly over as uggla heads to third base. he's being sent. scott having trouble. there will be a play at the plate. here is the throw. safe! he got the foot in. cody

berken with a walk and 7 strikeouts in the ballgame. orioles picking up a rbi in the 5th on the double by roberts and the first run, an andino shot. mets have battled back in te 6th, sac fly by wright, and ryan church singled to tie the ballgame up jeep it goes to what you are talking b it's easier when you get good pitching to battle back. >> gary: wigginton gets it in his favor. 3-1 count. santos got part of that foul ball. >> jim: little cutter, little slider, something different. if you look at the pitches, curve balls have been under 80 miles an hour, but the sliders from 83 to 84-mile r hour face balances, all the way up to -- fastballs, all the way up to 89. just add a little, throw a little, get in trouble -- like alfred e newman, what, me worried? i just make some pitches. >> gary: wigginton has had an old month of june, hitting  6 hits, 18 at-bats, had a couple home runs. 3-2 delivery. and wigginton another one up the middle and a base hit. mora will not get that. so ty wigginton pu

jason berken, the starting pitcher. what do you say when you look t him? that's right, nothing. >> gary: mets and orioles continue interleague play, the final game of this 3-game set. and for the orioles tonight, t is a chance to win the series. they are 8-9-4 in series so f. a win tonight and they will have their 9th series win. for the orioles, winning that final game has been the problem. 4-17 in the final games of series so far this year. on this home stand though, the numbers say pretty good chance tonight. 4-4 in the stand, .297 team average, 4.8 run a game, and bullpen has been magnificent with markakis, wieters and reports leading the way. so jim, a chance to take the legal league. >> jim: i think it's another chance for jason berken to stp up. this guy is so young, he had 25 2/3 innings. he struggled a little bit, but everybody says does he have te stuff? he has the stuff, but the lt couple of games where he struggled, he hasn't had the command, but they have been working hard on the fastball command

berken delivers. a chper foul.e are joined by kevin owe sullivan. who was the coach at clemson. how are you doing? >> doing good. my pleasure. >> gary: an overview. i know you really liked, o like jason berken. tell us about your experience with him and the kind of persn he is. >> well, i can remember back, he was a kid from wisconsin that wasn't highly recruited, and. [ indiscernible ] recruited jason, and immedie impact. [ indiscernible ] >> he had the tommy john surgery. when he came after it, a lof times we talk in the major league, guys will throw better afterwards. can you compare him after as opposed to before? in your program? >> well, i only had him for oe year after he had the surgery, but before surgery, he had a really, really good arm. he pitched it in the 90, 92 range, and, but he had 3 pitcs for strike. the changeup was a work in progress, as most kids at that age. but he was very determined and obviously disappointed when it happened. but cam

right now, berken is dominatig through five.n, love that drinkability. drink-a what? drinkability. it's what makes bud light so incredibly refreshing. it's like a wave of refreshment, gently washing over your whole body. it's getting bigger. here comes the refreshment. [ sfx: screaming, wave splashing ] whew. well that almost never happens. easy drinking, always refreshing. bud light. the difference is drinkability. [ sfx: hairdryer ] no hard feelings. >> he has 7 strikeouts. people thought he had a couple bad starts, maybe he was on a short leash and maybe ready to shut down. [ indiscernible ] it doesn't sound like anybodys going to be on a short leash. berken is doing what trembley said what he needed to do. he is commanding his fastball, he has a great curveball right now. i don't think he's going anywhere any time soon. >> jim johnson, there's lots of questions, he's been pitchingo well as a reliever, but the question was asked, could we e him in another role? >> i've been asked would he be a st

. >> really quick, jason berken going to the mound today. what do you expect to see from him to find success? >> i think if he pounds the zone and throws a lost strikes and gives our defense a chance to play, we'll have a good chance to win. >> throw strikes. pretty simple. appreciate it. >> jim: thank you very much. he won in his big league debut still looking for a second win. you continue to see the adjustment process. he's doing it very well. >> buck: he sure is. hiss his last time out u-see what he's doing start to start. he beat the blue jays. he had a pretty gald game against detroit and ed win jackson. got hit hard in oaklandment same by the braves at home. he pitched good against the mets 6 2/3. any anytime you can get your starter into the self seventh inning, you'll be pleased with that. jason berken needs to get all his pitches over. he's got full complement of pitches. he can elevate fastball from time to time. the curve ball is very effective for him and he has a lot of confidence. if he's going to be dominant, he needs to pitc

berken has hurt himself. two walks, each have scored. hanley ramirez now has a six- game hitting streak. he has the best average in the national league with runners in scoring position. he came up in the first with two in scoring position and got them both in. berken faws falls behind him 3- 1 -- falls behind him 3-1. ramirez with his 10 home runs. that is more than any other shortstop in the minor leagues. -- major leagues. it's there's a strike on a breaking ball, 3-2. >> buck: backup breaking ball kind of confused hanley ramirez as it broke kind of in at him instead of breaking away. he got underneath the breaking ball and spun back towards the hitter. not exactly what you want to throw every time. those often end up in the seats. >> jim: here is the 3-2 swept foul. >> buck: that's a better breaking ball. he mid a quick adjustment. threw one down in a very good spot. just his sixth start of his young career. i think it's interesting that berken has made some pretty good adjustments. there's the adjustment on the slider as ramirez is o

berken didn't go the way he wanted it too. i wanted to hold the team there and give my team a chance at giving a run to catching them. >> be able to do two and two- thirds innings you said you felt like you weren't as sharp as before. >> having a good slider tonight was key for me. kept the batters off balance. my first two starts i didn't really have the feel for my slider. tonight it was really low. >> thanks. >> thanks amber. >> david hernandez with amber. tomorrow conclude the three game series. rich hill gets the start for the bird. >> he has been pitching well for the orioles as of late. he's established that curve ball. i don't think anybody in the league can hit. they almost have to just take that pitch and go ahead and wait for the fastball because they're just not going to hit it. when he keeps his fastball, curve ball in the strike zone and football up in the strike zone, he is very very tough to get any runs off of. he's a guy now that's really establishing himself with consistency that starters need. he's had one

. >> nice to see berken get theo decision after the way he did. >> berken pitched a great gam. he needed that. he's a good young pitcher, and to be able to keep us in the game allowed us to come back. >> this is the first time the team has won after the 8th inning. does this start a new leaf? >> i hope so. it shows a lot of heart, and character. [ inaudible ] >> how good does it feel to tn things around and get the game-winning run two nights ia row? >> to be able to get the last four or five games, it's good. >> aubrey is stand on this sie because he won't get the pie in the face. he knows what he's done. >> a veteran move! that's exactly what rick and i noticed. the veteran move, he was not going to get the shaving cream pipe in the face. this was such an ex-tightening win. we have the spire -- excitig win. we don't need this format. the orioles came back and won. the orioles win it 5-4. bottom of the 3rd. andino doing a great job fillg in foresee car -- for salazar. what a big job that was. >> andino gets the orioles o

even berken who walked the first batter of the ballgame. melvin mora makes an error to makes it -- make it first and second. anytime do you, that you set table for hanley ramirez who took full advantage driving in two with his first at-bat, a flare into right field. every aspect of the game as keen as the orioles played in philadelphia, this was as forgettable a game as i have seen for a while now from this ball club. >> marlins win it 5-2. let's send it back to you in and rick in the studios. >> as always, thanks to jim and buck. obviously, rick, they're talking a little bit about the mishaps tonight. i guess the one that glared out the most is on the stolen base that bonifacio was able to run from first to the plate. >> he went from first base on a stolen base and it's up to felix pie to pick that ball up and get it back into the infield scwix you can. you learn that in class a ball. he helped on to the ball, hopped, skipped and jumped and stood flatfootedded. he could have run it in quicker than he threw it. you can't give that much time

berken goes back to work and the pitch is taken for a strike. jam by up. 0-2 in the ball game last night. comes in with a .217 average but eight home runs and 27 rbis. and the pitch will be taken away. he also has continued to be patient. sixth in walks in the american league. >> buck: that's one thing he's always done in the strike zone recognition. a lot of patience. >> gary: 1-1 delivery to him. maybe a little low. 2-1. >> buck: always play the dramatic shift on jason jam bi. he at a hot shot right to him. went in the books at 4-3. he says i'm tired of hitting and getting thrown out. i might run to third the next time. challenge with that long throw. >> gary: and there goes the bat. foul ball. he shook the thumb on that right hand after that swing. and the bat went flying on it. still takes a very big cut at the plate. 3-2 count on him. even if he gets hold of one he can still send it a long way. 44th player to get 400 home runs. foul that one off. been a struggle at the plate for him. sitting .195 in 44 games. lowest mark in the american lea

berken had one of those nights. worst outing so far this season and pretty much the same last night when gutly was up there. every pitch they hit was belt high. that's something that none of the pitchers have been doing as of late. the starting pitching has been pretty good and all of a sudden in this funk now where all of them are in the strike zone but

berken just walked one. first walk surrendered by bae. >> jim: santos, his first home run was a grand slam in floria on the 27th of april, and he gets to hit a two-run home run in boston. >> gary: two away here with a runner at first. and martinez will take it awa. 0-3 in the ballgame tonight. martinez had been bating in te number 2 spot. certainly jerry manuel looks like a gene just so far in this game. he moved murphy up -- go far in this game. he move murphy up. >> jim: he did it after he was 0-3. so he kind of one of those grind-out nights. >> gary: martinez waiting runr goes. ground ball towards second, robert is over, goes to first. good one, and a good play. good play by roberts to get te out. no runs, no hits, no errors. and one left on base. looking for markakis, huff and mora when we come back. hi, my g got moved up. i need to change my southwest flight. woman over phone: no problem. you know, maybe other people are content to sit around and w

guthrie went two-thirds and berken last night, 3 and a third. 3-2 is in side, ball four and there is another walk. and that will load the bases again. hill thought that was a strike. here is dave trembley coming out. and we'll get brian bass in the first inning. so another starter goes just two-thirds of an inning. so he asked weiters, wasn't that a strike? so rich hill will leave. brian bass coming on. trying to keep this a 3-0 game. ♪ ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ always feel like mebody's watching me. ♪ ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. ♪ who's watching? ♪ i always feel like (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ somebody's watching me. ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. >> jim: rich hill out two- thirds of an inning. and there is the line for the starters in this series. 18 earned runs in four and two- thirds for guthrie, berken and hill and the three men on base are hill's responsibility. and there is a strike to gregorio petit. brian bass comes on and inherits three men on. bass h

livan, he is 5-1, and jason berken trying to stop a 3 game losing streak.  >> ir the packers, he has tickets on the 45-yard line, he -- drove 15 hours to get to wisconsin, went to the game. it was like 50 below, and it s a loss. but a great experience. >> so jason berken, you're a major league player, you have connectionths in the front -- connections in the front office. the giants beat the packers tt day. today we will cover the bass during the telecast with jason berken, home depot covers the bases. visit www.homedepot.com.  rick, tonight, he's looking for his first win since his debut. he has pitched pretty well, hd one rough outing in oakland, t for the most part, he keeps the team in the game. what do you have for him? >> jason berken, if he keeps e ball down in the strike zone, he'll stay around for a long time in this game. and you can see his first two ball games, he was keeping everyone of his pitches down in the zone, and he had a beautiful two-game winning streak there. he averaged 6 innings, 2.2 e.r.a. but

you get a good start out of berken. >. >> i'm impressed with berken. he will get a good guile.s been playing well at shortstop with the exception of one play. start with the start can pitching, especially on the road. we have to get a good start out of berken tomorrow and loosen everybody up and come up there and swing the bat. you have to have a short memory, put it behind you and go get them tomorrow. final question on izturis. do you have an update on how long he will be out or do you have to have somebody up here is this. >> i'm sure somebody will have to come and take his place. i have not met with ritchie bancells. i was talking on the phone to andy before the game. so we'll have to get somebody to take his place. >> gary: dave trembley after the orioles lose the first of three. as he said, you wipe that out, come back and try to win again and even the series up. >> jim: thank you, gary. gary thorn and buck martinez. jeremy guthrie one of his poorest outings as an oriole. he is knocked out after 2/3 inning. dave trembley mentioned pitch location. what i saw and what you s

jason berken gave up two runs. berken admitted after the game first inning was problems and they were very costly. >> oivelg, you want to go out and have a quick first inning and set a tone for the game. unfortunately, we kind of minimized the damage in the first. it was kind of a struggle the whole night and i had my best -- i didn't necessarily have my best stanley cup stuff and command wasn't as good as it usually is. so, numberswise it wasn't that bad. overall, it was disappointing not being able to throw the ball better. it's a learning experience so i'm going to continue to work hard and get ready for the next start. >> berken pitched five last night allowing four hits and three runs. he is now 1-4 for the season. rick, evaluate what you saw from berken. >> i liked him last night. i think he's really coming along. i think he'll be one of our better pitchers because of that sinker. the sinker is starting to get a lot of movement on it. i see him making a lot of good pitches with his breanl breaking ball. i'm v

berken starting tonight for the orioles. enthused about berken and the oriole's young pitching staff. >> just by looking at him and seeing what his stuff does, it's exciting for me to be able to go to them and say you can do this. you can go there with this sequence and get guys out. and it's exciting. i love young pitchers. i love guys that come up. they're so eager. i think it's a boost for the whole ball club too. i know the guys that have been here for a long time. aubrey and b rob exciting about seeing these guys coming up and attack hitters. >> pitching coach rick. time now for rick dempsey's scouting report. >> off to a good start for 2009. two starts so far. five plus innings. 12 innings so far with three earned runs and lost his first game after giving up only one earned run. that's the best so far. he's a full package player. he's got the good sinker, curve ball, slider, change up and what i like the most he is a grinder. >> lower earned run average to .225. >> roberts and markakis hitting one and two for the shoe

berken one win and four losses. he deserves probably a better fate. he got into a hole in the first inning. brian roberts 2-3 performance including a double. melvin mora drove in a run and orioles wound up lose that i go second frait straight game to the florida marlins 5-26789 orioles in the series were nine wins and three loss and now drop two quickly to the marlins. >> i know. you have to play a good, solid, defensive ballgame most of the time much. when you get in the streaks we talk about how the orioles would be in their win streak. they had a five-game win streak against the marlins. one baserunning mistake will cost them the ballgame. cost them the mom yum and put enough in favor of the florida marlins to really stop them. two games in a row now and they really had a good chance of win ago orioles lose tonight 5-2. for more on tonight's show, back to florida and revisit with jim hunter and buck martinez. jim? >> all right. tom, thank you thanks very much. buck, you look at the scoreboard and three actual errors in this game. there were more me

berken knocks out. allows seven doubles tonight as the a's have tied a franchise record with doubles. >> gary: he will come out of the bullpen. hernandez gave up four hits, no runs, didn't walk anybody. now baez and his first pitch up high. the orioles back to within striking distance bottom of the 7th inning. suzuki 1-3 in the ball game. baez making his 19th appearance. gets the strike. >> buck: this is his first appearance on the road trip. last pitched on sunday against the tigers. >> gary: hitting only .178 off baez who has the 4-1 record. only 18 hits in 28 innings worked. three home runs, 20 strikeouts, 13 walks. suzuki the 1-2 delivery to him and fouls that one up under his arms. >> buck: coming back from elbow surgery has certainly gotten off to a great start here this season. his arm strength is back. he's throwing a great split finger pitch. curve ball has been consistent. and certainly one of the most consistent pitchers out of the bullpen all yearlong. >> gary: not working in back to back si

berken versus cahill. 9 0-0 game coverage. 8 3-0 eastern. o's extra. 8:30 eastern, o's extra. >> they have a concert after the ballgame so they are starting an hour earlier. swung on and missed. springer gets the strikeout. let's update you on the voting for the at&t player of the game. braden, the starter, could be the winner. holliday the leader. cust. springer trying to wrap this up. aubrey huff stands in. 0-for-3. springer with pretty good heat. gets a swinging strike. aubrey at .264, 8 homeruns, 39 rbis. designated hit another this game. getting wigginton a chance at 1st. orioles never really got a chance to get going in the ballgame. 6 runs on 7 hits for oakland in the 1st. that was pretty much it. braden is an oriole killer and he did the rest. huff takes that one to right field. cunningham, warning track. this game is in the books. and the a's come away with a dominating 9-1 win here in game 1. 9-10-1 for oakland. 1-5-1 for the o's there is your final. a's 9, orioles 1. . >> jim: hi, of course, jim hunter with rick dempsey getting re

jason berken walked three, all three walks scored. berken believes that the walks started his downfall. >> the two walks prior killed me. you can't walk hitters like jason giambi. so that was a big hit to them. but [ inaudible ]. i just have to keep working hard and staying after it. >> the ball had good movement and that's what i see. but if you can spot that and keep it moving, he had all of our hitters baffled. all of the strikes he threw, it was never nothing really good to hit. so you show respect to the guy and tip your hat and come tomorrow and next time we face him and we'll be prepared and it won't be that easy next time. >> and adam jones leads off. reimold second, markakis removes. scott batting cleanup. salazar will start at first base, ty wigginton at second base and that means that huff has the day off. and reimold is the surprise rooking on this team and the american league. >> i think he is. and i think he's done the one thing that everybody expected him to do and that's that he hit and hit for power. not the batting a

. >> and after a bases clearing double in the third against berken yesterday.gh, fastball down into the corner, with two outs. >> nowhere to put him. bases loaded, one down. and 3-1, it's high. ball four. he's walked three in a row and he forces in a run. and as cabrera comes to the plate, jogging to the mount for a first inning visit. >> this is the concern that they had, was it takes a while for rich hill to get into the flow of the game. he gave off a leadoff double in his last start to ichiro and then was able to avoid the damage and had a great first inning when he got a pop-up, strikeout, and a pop-out to get out ichiro. but it hasn't been the same today. >> what hill could use here is a double play to get out of it. here is the catcher, kurt suzuki, the 6th batter to come up in the 1st. three consecutive walks and th -- the athletics have a 1-0 lead. and a curveball well off the plate. the athletics have dead last in the american league in team batting. you wouldn't know it by this series. the 9 runs on 10 hits, 9 runs on 12 hits in the first two games a

and jason berken will face trevor cahill. he pitched well, unforth in thely he was facing edwin jackson. orioles will try to get it going against the 258-year-old left hander. dallas braden comes in at 4-5 on the season, 3.47 e.r.a. aubrey huff struck out in the first inning. interesting that the a's do not the shift against aubrey huff at all. third baseman and shortstop moving a couple of stems. shallow left centerfield. shortstop, cabrera, and he's got t one away here in the 4th inning. nick markakis, adam jones, both in the running for starting positions in the american league and all-star game. vote for your favorite orioles at orioles.com. vote for your favorite bird, the maximum 25 times. you gate free upper reserved seat to any prime non-o's -- to any o's non-prime games. orioles bats have just gone quiet after they just were explosive. that one will be fouled off. through the first couple of months. entering june, it quieted down. the books are being written, the baseball books that go to the pitchers, stories on wha

jason berken, will make his fifth start. they will go against one another. >> the rookie and the veteran. livan said one year in the american league, i wanted to come back here. he's given them a lot of innings. brian stokes, pretty good numbers. he's only been scored on in three of his 22 appearances. that's what you need right here to try to slam the door and come back against the orioles bullpen. >> gary: nolan reimold with a runner at first and two down. reimold will pop the first pitch up behind the mound. shortstop wants it. cora will put it away. éa, >> gary: time to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. here are your choices for tonight. text in your vote, a, b, or c. jim johnson on the mound, the benefactor of the run scored, right now he's the pitcher of record. as uehara again will be nondecision. bass a third of an inning. mark hendrickson came on and had a walk in 2/3 of an inning. now jim johnson. gary sheffield is home run came in the sixth, 8th of the year. does have a couple of runs scored in

jason berken thursday night 1-3 against luis hernandez who is 5--- livan hernandez who is 5- 1. the three-game set and then the o's off to philadelphia for friday, saturday and sunday. big cut and i don't think he hit it. he's going to go to first. it will be a strikeout on church, but he'll reach first base. it is a pass ball that will allow him to get there. so, the leadoff man on again. >> jim: take a look. great angle right here. ball just gets under matt wieters' glove. right there, ryan church is going to look back. a little breaking ball. matt doesn't catch it. it goes through his legs. he's looking for it. by that time, ryan church down to first base. >> gary: third consecutive inning and three in the game that the leadoff man has been on for the mets. guthrie not getting a lost breaks here in this one and a 1- 0 count on gary sheffield. sheffield has singled and struck out the designated hitter for the mets hitting at .273, sevenhome runs, 23 rbi's. he's really had a very solid season for the mets after a tremendous struggle last year for the detroit tigers. >> jim: i w

jason berken and jon lester. game coverage at 7:00.e have all the access you need to the nationals and the orioles, right here on masn. john lannan's 41st pitch of the day. aubrey hufup thr >> rob: if you're going to give fourth home run in the same game that mark witten hit in cincinnati. and i had given up a home run in the first game of the double- header and i was just trying to get my stuff back together, i fell behind him 2-0, i was like, oh, geez, he's already got three home runs. you can't not challethis y. he hit that ball of the four home runs it was by far the farthest was just an absolute bomb. was about 480 feet. sfoonf e first times my career i was happy okay, i d hit or a walk to this guy, he did what i wanted to do. if yocan hit it, let's see you hit it, e did. >> jim p.: manny acta did not want john lannan to the first batter. >> rob: no, cardinal sin. you don't want to do that. >> bob: the orioles have had their lead-off man on every inning. i haven't seen john lannan do this, the out of four lead- off walks

slam jim mentioned then a two-run base hit in the first inning in last night's game against jason berken. probably going to be the starting shortstop in the all- star game coming up in st. louis. >> jim: by the way, i saw the rosters were announced today, buck, for the futures game and the orioles once again have a couple of prospects heading to that game and they're both pitchers. >> buck: yeah, that's great news for the organization. both brian matusz and chris tilghman will represent the orioles at the futures all-star game sunday july 12 in st. louis as part of the all-star festivities. tilghman is 5-4 with a .259 -- 2.59 e.r.a. in 12 starts for the norfolk tithes tides and brian matusz between a-ball and double-a is 5-2 with a 1.98 e.r.a. in 12 starts between frederick and bowie and struck out 85 while walking just 22. so, congratulations to both of those orioles farmhands. >> jim: ramirez down on strikes. chris ray gets him. one away. last year, jake air yetia went to the fewiers game and then right after that he shortly went to the olympics. >> buck: that's a pretty good breaking

that came in the first inning off jason berken. hanley ramirez now with 42 runs driven in.it total the same. error totals the same. orioles trail by a run as matt albers takes over here in the seventh. >> jim: so, albers becomes the third pitcher used by the orioles. a pinch-hitter will face him first for the pitcher's spot and chris coghlan and emilio bonifacio. veteran right-handed batter ross gload will pinch-hit for ricky nolasco. >> buck: ross gload pinch-hit in the seventh inning and got a hit to right field part that have five-run, four-hit seventh inning last night. >> jim: and albers misses low. ricky nolasco goes seven innings. he allows two runs. they are unearned runs. it's been a one-run game. gload fouls it back. >> buck: 3-4 starts since his return from the minor leagues has been good. this marlins pitching staff has a lot of promise. if nolasco can recapture the form he had a year ago in josh johnson is just off the chart. many people believe not only here but around baseball you've got a chance to win the cy young. >> jim: albers gets ahead of ross gload 1-

jason berken pitching against ricky know has co- >> he'll be back on the mound for the o's looking fornd win of the season. he has struggled but he is really starting to pitch better. at the same time ricky nolasco has struggled his whole season areal bad start. as of june he's had three very good starts already. he is trying to win his fourth game of the season. it is going to be a battle out there again b's, and the orioles never get anything easy. >> nolasco's earned run average, 7.15. the orioles lose to the marlins. we'll return tomorrow night at 6:30. for more coverage, right here and don't forget 105.7, the fan! pxopo@@pp÷÷÷÷úú

berken will pitch in this series. he's been good sometimes. he's a young pitcher just up to the big leagues. bottom line, you want to het help your bullpen. the bullpen has been terrific over last two weeks. if you're jeremy guthrie, thief they've got 19 runs last two games. hope you get some of those runs tonight. >> gary: up against a team that's hurting literally with a lot of injuries. maybe the right time to take on this club even though there are a couple in the lineup who are still red-hot. we'll be back. it's the mets-o's from camden next. and they're getting in the way of things i'd like to do. with the money bar, i can move my money around instantly, so when there's more bills than usual, it's no problem. and i use the wish list to put any extra money aside for anything i want. being in control of my money feels good. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. >> gary: orioles baseball on masn is brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwes