tuesday, you can celebrate brad bergesen's great start in his big league career with brad bergesen t-shirt. receive a brad bergesen, number 35 orioles t-shirt. for your tickets, 888-848-birds or online at orioles.com. melvin mora takes strike 1. melvin has a batting average of .250. he has a modest two-game hitting streak going. when this road trip began, the orioles were third in the league in team batting. mora late on that swing. 0-2. and the struggles against the tremendous pitching they have seen on this trip, the orioles are now fifth in the league in team batting. they dropped two spots. >> buck: that's a sub stages drop this late in the season with the team getting so many at-bats but they ran into great pitching in detroit. the same here in toronto. >> jim: ground ball towards the middle, off the glove of aaron hill. that's into centerfield for a base hit. huff goes to third. so by hitting the glove, it slowed the ball down and allowed huff to go to third base. >> buck: mora goes right up the middle and gets the ball past halladay. he does a good job staying inside. hill gets a pi

t-shirt night and the fans proudly wearing the number 5 brad bergesen t-shirt.elcome in, it's "o's xtra" presented by at&t. game two of this three game series against the oakland athletic. jim hunter and jim dempsey. birds looking to snap back. rick, when you look at the season, we knew what it was going to be all about, the younger players arriving in baltimore, they're part of the future, trying to work their way in and figure it out. we knew there was going to be inconsistencies. i have to believe that as the players go through this, they and the team are going to benefit long-term. >> they will. they're going to learn things that they don't like to see most of the time and it's losing. this is how you're going to find out what kind of players they are in the future. what nolan reimold is going to be like when he approaches next season when they wipe the slate clean. is he going to make some of the mistakes that he's made this year, and every single player has to look forward themselves. they've got to start rounding out into a much better ball club. they've

brad bergesen is in studio. he hopes to get back with the orioles. it is game one in toronto. we know what the season is all about. the experience r. experience that the players are learning is invaluable, but somewhere along the line the winning has to factor in. what step has to be taken, in particular for the players, to go from being prospects to guys who can go in and know they have a chance to win? >> if the orioles want to win their division next year, go out and get a number four hitter and stick him right in the middle of the lineup. one of the kind of guys that is going to hit 40, 50 home runs and drive in 125, 150 runs. that would help. two, you would get an ace like roy halladay, and they can watch. he has great work ethic, and they're going to learn a lot from him and they're going to get a lot about the way he goes about doing it that is going to help them all. if you don't get those guys, can we win? i think they can. it is a matter of developing what i call killer instinct. i think it is coming w

you can celebrate brad bergesen t-shirt.,000 fans will get that brad bergesen orioles' t- shirt. 888-848-bird or orioles.com for information. >> buck: i think it is very important that mark pointed out what dave trembley said about jason berken. this is not a do-or-die situation. he shouldn't feel that way. you can imagine there has been a lot of things circulating in his mind about his record, 1-9, and about the fact that make he will lose this opportunity. but there is nobody to replace him. >> buck: and he knows that, too. the orioles don't have anyone else to move in, unless they move up one of the other kids, and they don't want to do that. so he is fully aware that the opportunity is created by circumstances, not by the way he has pitched. here is the 1-1 delivery. that one is grilled. how far? vernon wells, way back, good- bye, home run! number 11 for wells. >> buck: it is the election of the pitch. it is -- the target is down and in, and they just don't get it in far enough. it is about mid thigh high and there was n

brad bergesen stopped by the studio. rick and i chatted with him. mate a lot of progress in the weeks since the beaning. he will get it to first to get wieters. one down. good to see bergesen coming in without the crutches. he is doing therapy on that leg three times a day, twice with the physical therapist that has been set up through ritchie bancells and he has some pull things that he does. you can see the progress he has made. >> buck: they just want to make sure that he is healthy physically before he gets back to his baseball activities. a moment teary delay because one of the bat boy has to run on the field to get alex rios and marco scutaro their sunglasses. whenen they ran out on defense, the roof was closed. now, the sun is a factor so the shade is now on. here is andino who takes ball 1. remarkable technology. you don't even hear the roof moving. andino swings through it. 1-1. >> buck: that's that good curve ball from halladay. we talked about halladay's approach. he throws a cut fastball, a sinking fastball, a curve ball that he has real

>> koji is now actually closer than brad bergesen. go figure. in the next day or two at the minor league camp in sarasota. we should see him at some point in september in a bullpen role where they maybe want to have him pitch an inning or pain two to stretch him out, not go any farther than that. the problem with brad bergesen is he is still only able to throw on flat ground. he has not been clear the throw from the mound. they're not sure when he is going to be. i asked dave trembley and he said he is having doubts if he is going to the six-man rotation. he said yes, we have doubts now that could change their plans for that rotation and for what they do with the call-ups because they want to protect these young starters and start limiting the running, berken, hernandez, which is why they're bringing in more relievers. bergesen was supposed to be part of the six-man rotation. he has to will listed as doubtful as to whether he will be able to throw from the mound in time to be able to pitch in september. so he could be absolute down or he could b

you have come up here now with two other rookie pitchers, brad bergesen who, too, also is off to a veryn. all three of you have come up through the minor league system. give me your impressions of them. >> the guys like to compete. bergesen and berken are two different types of pitchers. it's been a pleasure being able to pitch with them. we have always talked about since we were in frederick how great it would be if we were in the same rotation. >> rick: you talked about that? >> yes. we thought that someone might go here, someone might go there but it's fun having both of them next to me. >> rick: you came up here, won your first game here at camden yard want did that feel like? >> i was very, very, very nervous, had a lot of energy. it's great to have my family here. they flew out here at very short notice, get through five innings and get the win. >> rick: a little pressure knowing that your family was up there screaming. could you pick up their voice? >> my dad was sitting behind home plate in the lower level. i throw a pitch and i glanced up and i see my dad so nervous. it was lik

i also want to mention brad bergesen, he -- as far as the september call up, he was expected to be calleder 1 and we toned out he will not be. he has in the thrown you have of the mound in sarasota. he is still nursing the bruised shin bone. we do expect to see him before the end of the season. the orioles will go to plan b. as far as expanding to the six- man rotation. they don't want to have them pitch a lot of innings in september, gary, the rookies. >> gary: okay, amber. they really hoped obviously that bergesen was going to be ready when the call-ups start on the first. as amber says, not to be. there will be others looked at. brian roberts working against lewis, and the pitch is in there for a strike. pitchingwise, ben is sarfate, his rehab stint after the circulation problem, should allow him to be up. koji uehara is waiting. they want to use him out of the bullpen, though. swung on and missed bier roberts. matt albers just went down and is available. chris waters 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

brad bergesen, espn for the lunch hour, noon until 1:00.riday, august 14, brian bass, wendy's at lakeside boulevard in owings mills from 11:00 to noon. for details go to oriolesreach.com. coming up this week. here is hill. he has grounded out twice in the game. berken takes that lefty right at -- oh, reimold, it went over his head! -ming in to score is inglett. the how will come in third. it will be a double for hill, and no one will feel worse about that than the guy out there in left field. >> buck: reimold came in a cull of steps and that bll took off. it takes off beyond its reach all the way to the wall. that is a tough one right there. berken sure could have used that out obviously, the second out of the inning, but hill ends up with a double and an rbi. so. >> gary: so the doubles keep piling up as we told you they would in this game. 22 doubles for hill. 77 rbi's. he is fifth in the league in rbi's. the infield is going to be drawn in, a 3-0 lead for the jays. adam lind flied out, grab grounded out. he takes the first pitch ins