braden the winner, 5-5 and guthrie the loser, 4-5. o's xtra right now. >> jim: hi, of course, welcome back in t is o's xtra presented by verizon. you talk about the orioles and what has become a lethargic offense on this west coast road trip now. in four games, the orioles are 1-3, have scored a total of six runs oakland scored six runs in the bottom of the 1st against jeremy guthrie. that's the kind of week it has been into into they don't seem to be putting things back to back. can't say much. might be their first little slump like that. luke scott is the only guy in the middle of the order to hit the ball out of the ballpark but he has nobody on base in front of him so it's very, very tough for the orioles to score runs right now now. >> gary: now. >> rick: taking a look at the game now. >> jim: cust, goes deep. this one kept going. >> rick: almost a great catch by adam jones in centerfield. can you see what a powerful swing. jack cust used to be an oriole at one point. boy, does he produce. >> jim: 5th inning against hendrickson,

dallas braden on the mound.ndino up playing at short as cesar izturis discovered this afternoon that he needed an appendectomy. yahoo. so they are doing that. may be done by now. pop-up, second base, kennedy over to get it. andino retired. one away. >> buck: a couple of years ago, hayden penn was in seattle anticipating his start and he, too, had an appendectomy and missed significant time. the suggestion that i'm hearing is that he may into the miss significant time so that's a little surprising. >> gary: they are hoping for the best. >> buck: yeah, absolutely. >> gary: brian roberts and the pitch is taken outside for a ball. he delivered a single first time up and got out of the 0- for-17 he was in. that one will be fouled back upstairs. >> buck: this is the kind of game that, as hitter, you have to dpriend against dallas braden. you can't think about getting all six runs back in one i inning. one thing they have not been doing in this road trip is string back-to-back hits. >> gary: the road trip in seattle wa

braden has walked none, struck out seven. fifth time in his career he has struck out seven in a game a career high for him. brian robert, the day off yesterday that he hopes will allow him to get going. you see the average, .269 after he had a day off this season, going 7-for-26. brian tends to tire in some portion of the season. be a a day off for him, a day when the team does not played or a day when he does not start really seems to help, comes back with a quicker bat. >> buck: sometimes, when you gets beyond being tired, it takes you a longer time to come back. that's why managers always keep an eye on their player, keep an eye on their body language. and gets a sense of when they need a day off. >> gary: that one is hit in the air to centerfield. davis has it. roberts retired. one aday. 62nd inning, 9-9-1 and 0-4-0 for the orioles. orioles came on this roads trip with not verballized but high expectations. they went into seattle feeling they went up against a team that was not particularly playing well, young pitchers, a

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 what the orioles hitters are doing at the plate. >> buck: baseball is all about adjustments and the hitters will have count act those adjustments. you can blame it on the quality of the pitching

braden's delivery, jones will take it outside. refuses to chase. >> buck: and the oak land a's have been doing a great job shutting down runners. >> gary: jones will take that for a strike. braden has had hardly anybody run against him. he is 0-for-2 base stealers when he is on the mound. nobody has stolen a base against him with only two attempts. brian roberts getting out of the 0-for-17 with a single, short lead at first base. jones swinging. the count goes full. >> buck: a lot of good fastballs to the arm side of home plate so far for braden and in the scouting report, the orioles have the same one is that he would throw the fastball inside. >> gary: 3-2 delivery, fouled it away. trying to make the earlier orioles hitters reach. braden's record may be 4-5 but if he had any run support at all, he could have three or four more wins. he has the lowest run support in the maim jurors coming into this game. 24 runs, 67 innings. >> gary: that one is fouled off. he has been the start can pitcher in three the four games in which the a'

jeremy guthrie against dallas braden. into first three four inning, a 5.7 e.r.a. ant team opposition hitting against him is almost .300. no doubt he puts a lot of time in on his mechanics and everything he averages now 6 innings per starts and that's 103 pitches for jeremy guthrie. that's not like him at all. he has to start cutting the pitch count down. after the 5th inning, he is great. no doubt about that because after that, the team is batting only .221. jeremy just has to cut down the amount of pitches and we need to get him late into some ball games. >> jim: on the other side, dallas braden. >> rick: he loves the o's the wrong way, though. that's his second best e.r.a. again the oriole, 1.33 in 2007. he has been really tough on the o's. quality pitching, yes but not quantity. he is another guy who has own given up one time over three earned runs per game. he has the stuff but he can't go more than six innings. that's puts a lot of pressure on the bullpen. another one of those guys who gets to that 100-pitch mark around the 6th inning and he has to be taken o

saturday, dallas braden gets th. start. he's been red-hot, seven quality starts.ity his e.r.a.home this year, 3.02. his opponent in that game, jorg, della rosa. 40 strikeouts in 40 road stri innings. finally, i know, paul mulholland with the pirates has struggledod lately, but he's at home against the royals. h when pitching in pittsburgh this year, a 1.84 e.r.a., and faces the royals. no team in baseball has scoredal less runs on the road than the kansas city royals. presence of surratts and in advance of having a tax on private industry and and there is a lot of skepticism about how that might work and when senator rockefeller wrote he was hoping to get an engagement to help us outline how we can make it work in the real world. so i'm excited to send us their comments as we try to refine that legislation before we try to market up. >> , asked about the steps history something i asked about if you have any thoughts on that and also what to think about some of the most important things that the military could be doing as far as its role in moving toward? >> so let me talk about

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