nolasco is paying attention to brian roberts. brian has 15 steals on the year. he has not been running as much as of late. he still is a threat. this is one of the things that nolasco does not do well, buck, is hold runners on. there have been nine streals against him and only one base runner has been caught. 1-0 on pie. a bouncer towards the hole and it gets through for a base hit. brian roberts thinks about going to third. juan samuel put on the brakes. so, felix pie a-base hit, two on, none out. >> chris: good job by -- >> buck: good job by felix. watch the effort as he guides this ball to the right side. gets himself a base hit. thinking about moving brian roberts all the way to third base sneaks pass the diving dan uggla into r.d brian had to stop at second, but a good at- bat by felix pie, the first in a long time for him. >> jim: here is nick markakis now with a chance for an rbi. you scenic batting at . -- you scenic batting at .48491. he has five rbi's in the month of june. here we are on june 24th. pie not being held. he gets a good lead with the leste

brian mccann back there catching goes, geez, you guys are good. it's a matter of days a couple days ago, you guys are the worst team i've ever seen. you never know in this game. >> boy, is brian roberts busted out that have slump he was in in a six-game span, he has hit con sectively, gotten a hit in every one of those games n that six-game period, he's batting .500. so, not only brian roberts, but the rest of the orioles looking to keep it going tonight in their third interleague series on the year. jim? >> amber, thank you very much. mets are in town. let's get a look at the mets starting lineup as they come in. they're contenders in the n. l. east, but they have been under achieving on the year. karr karr, martinez, carlos beltran up top. alex cora in the middle. a couple of gold gloves. david wright in right. church dh's, with the american league leads, daniel murphy will be at first base, brian schneider will catch and luis castillo at second base. david wright is probably the more dangerous hitter in that lineup. he comes in red-hot. however

>> brian is playing up the middle. brian is playing to pull. he's not going to get there. it's just a matter of where everybody is playing. it was just hit in a perfect spot. >> overalthough look back at this game, just missed opportunities? >> oh, yes, oh, yes. we did have chances there late. facing the closer, so he came in and did a good job, you know. that's why the guy makes the big bucks. he made some good pitches. we had some good swings. this game was just not meant for us. >> you get another shot tomorrow, right? >> exactly. >> beauty of baseball. thanks a lot, up with a. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, amber, with juan samuel. we go to bowie where john mariotti had another fine outing. seven innings to pick up the earned run. walk three, struck out one. 12 more ground ball outs for john mariotti. the sinkerballer work very well at double-a as he picks up another win. 2-4 since being promoted to the bowie bay sox. here is a look at the minor league scores as bowie beats

brian bass did the same thing on his last at-bat.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 have been reunited. where have you been? >> jim: i've been out here. congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter. popped foul near the oriole dugout. >> buck: these relievers have come into this game and have done an add admirable jo

i don't want to see brian roberts go for nothing. to get brian roberts, to trade him somewhere else, we have to almost guarantee ourselves a win. [ you can read all about it on masn sports.com. we're going to take a look at some of the red sox-washington nationals highlights. 2-1 boston. brad penny throws a wild pitch allowing ryan zimmerman to score. 2-2. kevin youkilis will come through with an rbi single to left field. dustin pedroia will score. the red sox kind of coasted in this game after that. the boston red sox playing the nationals in washington as we check the scoreboard here. the boston red sox winning 11-3 tonight with the red sox and jason bay hitting a sew lore home run. atlanta shut out the yankees 4- 0. garrett anderson a two-run double. scott rolen, a home run and the phillies beat tampa bay 10-1. phillies with a six-run first, four-run fourth. chase utley with a two-run double. that's a look at our interleague scoreboard. when we come back, we'll preview tomorrow night's game in florida with jason were kin on the mo

here is brian bass who will come on and pitch the 11th. so the orioles after tying the game in the ninth got two walks and couldn't score in the 10th. they got a walk and a single in the 11th and couldn't score. john baker, the catcher, leading off. de aza on deck and then back to the top of the lineup with chris coghlan. >> buck: brian bass, just like the rest of his relief corps has been on a roll. he has been an excellent long middle guy for dave trembley. you can go back to his performance in oakland coming into the first inning in relief of rich hill and pitching fur and 2/3 innings, his longest stint of the season. >> jim: he hasn't been in a game since last wednesday against the mets at camden yards. 2-1 is the count on baker. he plants and he throws and he got him. one down. nicely done by brian roberts on the high chopper. >> buck: he had a little extra time with the catcher running, so he had time to plant the foot and make the strong throw. it is all part of the process here. he knows he has potential running. he takes a little

you can see brian trying to get out of the way it. -- the way. it did expedite rich hill's leaving the game earlier on saturday night. no doubt about that even though he was a little erratic. >> gary: hit in the air to center field. adam jones off the bat of carlos beltran. he's retired on the fly ball out and there are two down with cora going back to first base. two away. now david wright again. >> jim: yeah, he made an awfully good adjustment. struck out the first time. it wasn't he hit a slider the last time into left field. it was a -- it wasn't a horrible pitch. just looked -- looked like maybe this is why he has a lifetime average at .307 309 and he's leading the league in hitting because he makes awfully good adjustments. >> gary: he does that. two down here. wright, shattered bat. pops it up behind second. andino is there. whenever you get wright, it's a big out. no runs, one hit, one left object base from the innerharbor across to a famous sign. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. >> gary: 4-5-0

brian still looking for his first hit against the mets.he's had an 0 for 4 in this game, 0 for 9 in the first two. orioles love to get something here in the bottom of the 8th to increase that 6-4 lead. stokes however would like to get a new baseball first. stokes's 23rd appearance. opponents hitting .284 off him on the year. he's pitched with base runners on. andino back into the bag. >> jim: this mets bullpen reminds me of what davey johnson used to say. we had benitez and myers to finish the game. he said it's one of those national league bullpens, everybody throws in the mid 90s. >> gary: comes in, strikes people out. roberts taking. it is a strike on the outside corner from stokes. the orioles trying to set up the rubber match for tomorrow night's game. they can get the victory here after losing last night by a 6- 4 score. they have a 6-4 lead here in game two. way outside, down to second base goes andino with one away. >> jim: you want to make it easier for george sherrill. get on those tack on runs. right here, a little bit breaking

brian roberts hits the second of two home runs on saturday night atwo-run shot off of brian mat soon to break the heart of the phillies' fans, sunday, back to the starting pitching, jeremy guthrie matched up very good against cole hamels and beat him 2-1. every aspect of this team's play has been very good over this five-game win streak. they have outscored their opponents by 10 runs. they have outhit them. they're batting .324 as a team. they're pitching to a .320 e.r.a. and every single thing they have done really makes them understand how you play the game to win. defense has been exceptional. pitching has set the tone, and the hitters have had timely hitting. >> jim: the orioles have won five in a row. they have trailed at some point in each of the five games. how do you win the game ? it starts with the starting pitching and ends with the bullpen. the bullpen has been lights out. >> buck: they sure have. the bullpen has been rested f. because of that, everyone has pitched very well. george sherrill has pitched phenomenal. matt albers has been exceptional. brian bass has been the

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 has been pitching very well. and two down and the bases loaded. and line down the rightfield line. slicing, foul. orioles got a break there. davis, the trail runner at first base may be the fastest runner on the team. he was already around second base when that ball landed foul. >> buck: this is obviously

and brian bass leading with 63%. mazzaro 26%, and jones, 11%. still time to next in your vote, a, b or c to 51682 and we'll have the results, tom and rick, on the o's post game. and strike one to melvin mora. still seeing izturis there after having the breaking ball hit him off the adam's apple. >> buck: and throwing that small breaking ball can get you out in front. >> jim: and checked the swing in time. bailey pitched in college at wagner, which is on stat on island. he was drafted and developed by the athletics. 6th round pick in 2006 and already in the big leagues. good eye by melvin. 2-2 the count. >> buck: one thing when you have a power arm like bailey, if he throws strike he can have success and he's shown the ability to throw strikes. 2-2, outside with ball 3. and melvin was down 0-2 after two pitches. now bailey has the count full. melvin 0 for 3 on the day, trying to get on. orioles need to get 2 on to get the tieing run up there. 3-2 on mora, with one out and none on. foul -- fouls it off to stay alive. melvin has grounded out twice

not much more brian could do with it. >> jim: a pretty good finish, and he's hoping brian makesagood play, and you does. that's what castillo is known for. especially from the left sidef the plate. he seems like he's very coach-able, and again, he's throwing about 94, occasionaly 95 tonight, but was he the tye of kid because this year he didn't even get invited to spring training. did he always have to over achieve at clemson because he wasn't highly touted? >> no, i don't think he had to over achieve here. we loved him from day one, and we knew he was going to be really good. the injury set him back, the e thing that jason has, about all the good ones have, he's going into spring training and -- he didn't complain about not being invited, he didn't blame anybody. he took it as a challenge. i have to earn my way up. >> gary: and he got tested wih the tommy johns surgery. and you probably had to tell him. tell us how that went and what happened in the year he red shirted. >> he went down to meet dr. andrews, and i kept my phe 

brian -- ryan church, double, sing is he will, run scored. murphy on an rbi base hit and schneider on a sac fly. pitch will miss down low. each team has left five on base and the mets have actually outhit the orioles in the ballgame 7-6. bass will work to church, sheffield and murphy here in the top half of the sixth inning. hard hit, roberts. oodles of time the way that ball was stung. church is retired. brian bass has become the go-to guy in the bullpen. 43 innings, 44 hits, only a .262 average against him. that 4-1 mark and a 3.53 e.r.a. >> jim: he came in relief of adam eaton on a sunday afternoon, gave up four home runs, wind blowing out. he had to make some adjustments. he certainly did that. is trying to stay more closed, gets his arm up, i think 93 to 95, pretty good sink. 2-0 on the first two guys. such a feel, you come in, and you've got yourself a few run lead. he's been pretty automatic. but it's not automatic. >> gary: sheffield will look to drive one right here with nobody on. he reached on a fielder's choice and scored in the f

castillo pitched an inning and now brian bass will take his turn. >> buck: brian bass has been throwing very well with a lot of confidence. he had a 1.55 e.r.a. in his last four games. he has really kind of become an important cog in this bullpen. for the season, this is his 17th appearance. >> gary: so brian bass comes out to work here as we go to the bottom half of the 8th inning. kurt suzuki leading it off. he doubled and scored 1-for-3 in the game. everybody in the line-up contributing for oakland in this ballgame. 9 runs, 10 hits an error for the a's. 1 run, 5 hits and no error for the orioles. castillo worked an inning, struck out one, hit a batter. fifth pitcher to be used. 1-1. bare hand back in there. andino, the 360 and suzuki is retired. one down. on cat day, june 13th, the first 10,000 fans 18 and under -- on saturday, june 13th, the first10,000 fans. aaron cunningham. cunningham a two-rbi single in the 1st in, 1-for-3 the ballgame. now has a five-game hit streak going. hitting .158. >> buck: we mentioned the balance of the attack. everybody in the a's line-up either scored

brian swings over the top of it. west has a good fastball at 94 miles per hour and a good late, breaking slider. >> jim: he is averaging since coming to the big leagues, this is only his seventh start. just under six strikeouts for every nine innings he works. here is nick markakis. slices it to left field. on the move, he can't get it! he goes into a dive and it got by him. markakis heads to second base. coghlan a good effort but couldn't reach it. >> buck: nick markakis taking advantage of the brian roberts' at-bat e got to see a lost pitches from sean west. jumps on the first fastball. chris coghlan only played one game in the outfield before they called him up to the big leagues. he's an infielder. he's done an ok job. that's a real challenge for even a seasoned left fielder a line drive off the bat of a left-hander is going to sleight slice awhich from you. -- slice away from you. >> jim: orioles have a chance to getted on board here in the first. here is one of the best hitters on the team hitting in these spot

. >> gary: brian schneider has hit into a ground ball, -- double play, grounded out. the left-hander luis castillo. that's in there for a strike. last five games, he's hit pretty well .368. good on-base percentage over the last month for castillo. he, again s-like a leadoff batter in the number nine spot. he's trying to get on and use his speed to create havoc on the base paths pads. >> jim: jerry manuel in spring training let him off. came in 17 pounds lighter than last year. had knee problems. i asked jerry why did you do that? he said, number one, castillo showed me he cared. came in in great shape. number two, i want jose reyes to hit because if we had any injuries, he could be a number three hitter. >> gary: that one grounded towards the hole. andino will have to make a great play. not this time. it came off the wall. he turned to second, realize it had and gets back to the bag. >> jim: i like the range of being able to get to that ball. again, a kid that has proved probably defensively he's an every day shortstop. look at this range. long, long way. that's an aw

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brian roberts leading off the game and he got it going. >> buck: then the wild pitch and that mos brianroberts and that sets up nick markakis for a textbook sac fly opportunity. he delivers flying out to left field to chris coghlan that was the first run of the ballgame. the florida marlins tied it up on dan uggla's 14th home run of the season. extra-base hits by middle infielders. brian roberts is tied with freddy sanchez of the pirates. ian sanchez continues to lead and hanley ramirez as well as brian takes ball one. the double extended brian's hitting streak to five straight games. there is the strike. >> buck: when miller is down in the zone, you can see how that ball finishes very effectively. 94 miles per hour at the knees. >> jim: he is 6 '7". >> buck: and one thing you want to do if you're that tall is stay tall and really use the downward angle to your benefit. trying to throw that breaking ball a little too hard. it came out of his hand too early and just stayed out of the zone. >> jim: roberts works the count to 3-1. there is the fist walk allowed by andrew miller and he aver

. >> jim: ball two to brian roberts, 2-1.aged about six strikeouts per nine innings but also is averaging four walks. he has not yet walked a batter here tonight. roberts has worked the count to 3-1. that's hard hit but foul. it's into the orioles bullpen. >> buck: when you see these young pitchers, you have a tendency to forget they're so early in their career. just seven starts. he came up from double-a. eats going -- he's going to have command issues and his mechanics are going in and out as he works his way through big league hitters. efer every once in a while, eel he'll make a good pitch like that one 93-mile-per-hour fastball away from brian roberts. just 23 years old. he just turned 23 this month. i still marvel at the fact that he is coming back from shoulder surgery and throwing so well. >> jim: fouled off the foot of brian roberts. the orioles have been having trouble scoring runs. main reason is run producers are not producing. look at this the recession of the rbi column in the month of june. it's amazing that th

bobby parnell delivers and it will be taken by brian roberts. brian looking for his first hit in the series. 0 for 3 tonight. if reimold is going to think about running, it's now. roberts gets the advantage while he's there of that hole between first and second. slider misses. a real struck he will for these two ball clubs. -- a real struggle for these two ball clubs. roberts will take it away. 3-1. parnell, control problems. at least against brian roberts. you have jones waiting on deck. as he works against the left- handed switch hitter for the orioles. roberts taking all the way. that is in there for a strike. >> jim: ninth round draft choice. you have overpowering stuff and you hope anywhere in the strike zone they call it. >> gary: roberts to second base, castillo, and that will do it in the inning.  >> jim: take a look at our summary. major league home run for matt wieters that will make it 3-1. bases loaded, 4-3 orioles. walk to cora, then the double play ball. hendrickson comes in, gets out of trouble. you could see markak

brian roberts scores the first run.hen melvin mora delivered an rbi bathe base hit in the inning to make it a 3-2 game. chance for an insurance run here. uggla singles to right field, but nick markakis guns down jeremy hermida to end it and with the marlins threatening second and third and two outs, mark hendrickson comes up with a big strikeout of the catcher john baker and we stand at 3-2 as the marlins hit in the bottom of the seventh. melvin mora had two singles, an rbi. brian roberts a-double and a single and -- single and hanley ramirez, two more rbi's tonight. that came in the first inning off jason berken. hanley ramirez now with 42 runs driven in. hit 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

brian schneider will be coming to the plate.rt tonight as the catcher for the mets. you see the numbers that he's put up on the season so far. he's done pretty well in the starts he's had behind the plate. it will be his 13th start of the season. santos, castro, schneider all worked behind the plate for the mets. breaking ball is up high. 2-0. >> jim: i was talk to go brian. he said santos has been so good. he's hitting 12-16. he really hasn't played that much. he's thrown home runs in there. we saw last year when he was called up by the orioles. brian is a guy i said are you pla took? he said, no, again taken my job. he had the back problems and pulled a calf muscle trying to rehab. there's a strike. >> gary: the injury list is long and important. delgado with a hip problem. john maine a starter right shoulder problem. j.j. putz, former closer. jose reyes with a right calf. wagner woorks left elbow surgery. a lot of people jerry manuel and mets thought would be available for them are not and are out for extended periods of time

when she realizes it is legitimate, she types a message to brian lamb. the next call says this is from washington, d.c. the club can show the rest of what happened. >> let's go to the videotape. >> washington d.c., go ahead please. hello? hello washington? one last time time >> is this mr. bryan lamb? would you hold one month for the president? [laughter] >> we don't have a commercial ready. >> mr. lam andb students, i came upstairs to the study and turned on the set and there you were. i watched long enough to hear several questions that showed your concern about the exclusionary rule. evidently, i did not finish the answer. you are so conscious of the clock going but i did not mean that the police would be free to do whatever they wanted in the line of getting evidence and breaking the law. i did explain the exclusion rule is not a lot. it is something called case law. judges made rulings in a court and he's become president. --precedent. >> classic damage control. >> this gives us a word said -- it on to say a word about brian lamb. tell us about him.

and the catcher brian schneider.neider had a good night last night as he ended up with a two for three, a couple of hits in the ballgame. single, double, rbi. >> jim: the rbi single went right through the legs of jeremy guthrie. that was the fourth run in that four-run fourth inning. >> gary: schneider, brian roberts will have plenty of time and gets the out. 

brian roberts might be able to turn it into a 4-3 put out.runner is going to score from third with a ground ball up the middle. >> jim: jorge cantu batting with a runner at first. still

i think the only guy in the lineup that didn't get a hit was the lead-off batter brian roberts.nd willingham goes 1-3 with a run scored. so now they have met four time this is year. the orioles have got the upper hand, three of those, twice down in washington and once up in baltimore tonight. >> they ran special a good, young pitcher in bergesen, and when you pitch, we said earlier tonight, you're going to be in ballgames. give your team a chance to win. they're excited about this kid talking about how smart he is. we have the same situation, but our offense, our offense, i mean, it befalls me. we score runs in bunches, and then we just all of a sudden get shut down. it is not always the big name pitchers that do it, johnny. we're just -- we've become really inconsistent on the offense. >> let me ask you this before we talk about ross detwiler's performance, it seemed like when you played against the jays an the red sox and the yankees that this ball club is very, very close to getting that consistent groove that they needed to do something here in the second half of the year. n

brian tallet from oklahoma originally. >> rob: he's a big one. 6'6", 220.he almost throws totally side arm for a big man. >> bob: guzman, first pitch swinging. in the air, shortstop marco scutaro. still a fair ball weapon he puts it away. >> rob: as i said, he's very deceptive. he'll try to throw three quarter and below. zero home runs. that's the amount last year against 101 left-handed batters in 2008. 19th start of his career over six years. 150 relief appearances. he's been more of a short man and a setup guy and the blue jays have eight wins this season in his 16 appearances. 12 starts. >> bob: nick johnson hitting .306. >> rob: like you said, he has a very good changeup. he has a decent slider, decent curve ball a little bit of a cutter he's developed the last couple of years. you'll need all those pitches if you go two or three times through the lineup. it's not an overpowering fastball. >> bob: i got a scouting report on him from former major league catcher allen ash biwho is a radio comoan commentator for the blue jays. he told me there have been g

brian roberts hits towards the middle. he jumps up. all great timing right there by alberto gonzalez. we talked about this. defense really gives you confidence as a pitcher. >> bob: i don't think we can count that as an adam ball. >> rob: that's an adam rocket. >> bob: the kid can really play some short. he replaces cristian guzman as the shortstop tonight and guzman has had all kinds of problems this year going to his left of all places. not going into the hole, but going up the middle on balls. >> jim p.: if you're manny acta, you're saying, okay, we need to have more offense so we leave guzman in. unable to come up with it. you have to hurry, but you hope that you help yourself defensively, but you still have guzman to help your offense. so, again, very tough play there. i know that he knew he had to hurry, just couldn't make the play. >> bob: it appeared that ball took a funny hop on him. >> rob: i think that's a hit. that's why he tried to rush it. i think the official scorer will know that is rookie out there at shortstop. >> bob

brian roberts.l league teams when they goo on the road to the american league cities, it mean as bench player gets four at- bats and they thrive on that, happy to be in the lineup. brian deep to left. that ball is hooking back and will be fouled. he got a lot of it but it will be a souvenir to one of the fan whose can get to it. >> buck: brian is swinging the bat with an awful lot of confidence right now. he had a home run in saturday night's game that was the game winner. he gets out in front of this fastball a little too quickly and hooks it foul. >> jim: the line drive to left and coghlan and he has it for the out. so playing shallow, that ball hung up long enough and the orioles go three up, three down for a second straight inning. the middle of the third, 1-0 o's. 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. you have high blood pressure... and you have high cholesterol. you've taken steps to

nick markakis scores brian roberts. that made it 1-0. and then to lead off the fifth inning, dan ugly hits his 14th home run to tie it 1-1. bases loaded, one out as bonifacio hit as one, two -- 1-2-3 double play to to end the inning and koji uehara pitches out of a big jam. he allowed just the one run and that was the home run to uggla. seven hits. he hasn't walked a batter as has been the case all year long. andrew miller is nearly as good with the same numbers. just one hit allowed. that was the brian roberts lead- off double and fortunately for the orioles, they were able to cash that in. >> jim: the orioles have had in this game only three base runners. adam jones gets ahead. the roberts' double. reimold reached on a throwing error by hanley ramirez in the fifth and roberts' one-out walk in the sixth. that's it. three runners. the ball towards third. bonifacio has it. he turns and he fires and he got it. so another hard smash by jones to third. last time it was a line drive. this time a one-hopper. >> buck: adam gets the barrel out a

brian bass on as chris ray left. that one inside nearly hit him. he's gotten -- [ indiscernible ] >> buck: and may not have. >> jim: orioles trailing 11-0. maybe brian bass is trying to tell the marlins we know what's going on here. >> buck: that's good two-seam fastball. he got on top of it. you could see the downward action on that fastball. he put -- put in a real good spot to cantu. >> jim: it's inside. 2-2. >> buck: cantu, pull hitter all the way especially in this ballpark. single left field in his last at-bat against chris ray on a pinch-run in the same area but not with the same movement. >> jim: the only spot in this lineup without a base hit is the pitcher's spot, the number nine spot. west was 0-2. hermida pinch-hit and flied out. gload pinch-hit and struck out. all the other eight starters the position players who started have hits. seven of the eight of them have multihit games. here is cut with the third hit. -- here is cantu with his third hit. florida about to bat around here in the eighth inning. here is dan uggla. uggla hit a two-

you can see brian roberts at the top as usual. aubrey huff, and nick markakis is back in right field. he has hit .375 in his last six games. as for the marlins, jorge cantu, and dan uggla has a dozen home runs at second base. when we come back, dennis sarfate show what is he does to keep busy while being on the orioles' disabled list. that story comes up next when we continue "o's xtra" here on masn! anmy southwest flight. woman over phone: no problem. you know, maybe other people are content to sit around and wait. wait for something to happen. for business to pick up. but for you, it's time to kick it in gear. time to get going. time to get tough. take control. you're not gonna run and hide. because backing down's not your style. grab your bag. it's on. ( ding ) >> masn is being brought to you by train, a heating and air conditioning dealer by you. it is hard to stop a train. >> welcome back to "o's xtra" in south florida. the winds blowing out of the southwest at seven miles per hour. the humidity is 94%. there is a 90% chance

he got jammed by that one, up the middle to brian roberts.how the fourth inning gets underway. the next two hitters, dukes and bard hitting safely so far. >> jim: there the a gad eye -- good adjustment. he guilty ahead of willingham. the last time he got behind him and hit a single into left and part of that one-run inning, which should have been more. of course dukes saw, what, four straight breaking balls, hit the fourth one into left field, a soft base hit. >> bob: and elijah dukes, in all honesty, has been a little reckless on the bases this year. he has been picked off three or four times off of first. and i agree with you guys. the replay showed he was safe. the nats and hunter wendelstedt don't seem eye to eye. there's always it seems one umpire that has a hard time with certain ball clubs or vice versa and this all started a couple of years ago when he tossed john lannan out of his major league debut. two balls and a strike. here is i lee gentleman waiting and taking one. >> rob: a hard sinker. >> jim: it looked a little bit to me tha

second right behind brian roberts who has 10 steals on the season. izturis had 9.is going to be sorely missed. >> jim: we are not sure how long izturis will miss. if somebody is going to come up from the minor leagues, there are four players currently at aaa norfolk that can come up and it in at shortstop. rojas is probably the truest field another this group. you see he is batting just .160 for the tide. cabrera is the oldest for the group. the veteran guy, utility guy. turner, a second baseman but he may be able to play shortstop a couple of days. and dorya. one of these four might have to join this veteran team. you can't go into a game without a backup shortstop and right now robert andino is the only true shortstop. andino is looking at extended play at shortstop. he had a fine play. >> rick: he had an outstanding play. you see how he turned the big double play. that's one the best plays we have seen at shortstop all season long. seeing it again, quick, out of the glove to brian robert, over for the double play and there, throwing to his left, up the middle, p

brian schneider is wondering where the ball went. it got one of the hands. it appears to be the top hand, the right hand am dave trembley out. richie van sells, the orioles trainer. >> gary: that has mighty movement on it when you get a wall or take -- ball or take a swing that hard and still get hit on the hand with it. >> jim: you have a guy who is 6'7" who has that running two seam fastball. we talked about being a sinkerball. then, you have a two strike count where you're trying to guard. you're anticipating i have to cover everything. i have to cover down and away. wigginton with a couple of home runs played third when melvin took sunday off. he was change to dave trembley. i was red-hot and didn't get to play. >> gary: you want guys complaining to you. melvin i guess wants to stay in. he's putting the glove back on. it looked like that hurt when he was touched. >> jim: and that's his throwing hand. it will be something you'll have to monitor. if you're richie van sells, the orioles head trainer, you're wondering, ok. is it starting to swell? do we have

>> it's nice of you to ask, brian. i have three kids. my oldest daughter is benton who is 6. >> named after? >> after the famous painter thomas hart benton. i models my career as it were on thomas hart benton because he used to do these great murals of america and had all of these characters that could be in it. it could be the laborer and i used to have just prints in my bedroom that got me so excited of paintings. so i named my first daughter after benton. second is johnny brinkley. i had an uncle johnny which i never met. he was killed in world war ii at guam. he was a marine and my mother, he was kind of a hero in my life even though i never met him because he died in world war ii. i was a big fan of johnny cash. >> you are going to call him johnny for the rest of his life or john. >> i'm going to call him johnny. he can make that decision when he gets older. >> he is 4? >> yes. >> my youngest is 2 and that's cassidy is her name and it's from a character of on the road and a grateful dead song called cassidy. so it's cassidy brinkley

brian roberts with a smart play and maybe a gamble with bonifacio running.onzales is going to come out to argue. >> buck: well, the advantage brian roberts has is he can see exactly where the base runner is because he is right in his field of vision. gonzales is going cocome out leer and argue maybe more out of frustration than anything else. it didn't take long to get an answer. it looked like he was headed back and maybe that's what he told him sunk in. but brian roberts pitched a chance, but it is a well calculated risk as he gets bonifacio with the lead. the base runner right in his field of vision. he knows where he is, how much time he has. boy, it is close. >> buck: the umpire had a couple of bang-bang plays at second. one earlier in the game when andino didn't tag the bag on the force attempt and that one right there, bonifacio was clearly out. >> jim: brian, you could see clearly on that last angle, buck, he was concerned with simply getting that one out. keep that winning run out of scoring position. by the way, just to tidy up the score card, the

brian roberts to get out of the fifth. then, the double play ball to mora. until then, he was lights out. >> gary: jerry manuel takes the big hop to the third-base line and makes his to the mound. that will be it. the walk to scott will send the mets to their bullpen. green will come on to do thepitching. orioles will get the potential tying run to the plate in the person of nolan reimold. two runs in on the markakis homer here in the sixth. it's made it a 4-2 game. times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. >> gary: this copyrighted telecast presented by authority of the orioles may not be reproduced or retransmitted and accounts and descriptions of the game may not be disseminated without express written consent of the orioles. so, on the bench, mike pelfrey with a chance to win his fifth game against two losses depen

brian roberts will score. orioles down 3-1. >> the orioles had this opportunity right from and melvin mora with a ways hit -- base hit to left field. orioles are -- orioles are tightening up the score right here. nick markakis around. orioles pull to within one run of the marlins with this base hit to left. >> marlins get another run in the seventh inning. emilio bonifacio. matt wieters throws the ball into center field and bonifacio is going to score all the way from second. >> felix pie kind of goes to leap sleep a little out there in the outfield. right away, bonifacio takes advantage of it. gets that one extra step that allows him to score and marlins go on to win this game 5-2. >> five runs, 11 base hits for the marlins. nolasco gets the victory. he came into the game with a 7.15 e.r.a. save goes to mier. 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

brian tends to tire in some portion of the season.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 chance to maybe do something against them. they took one, come here to oakland, same kind of situation. that 1st inning said otherwise about the a's. >> buck: they have just come off a 5-2 home stand with a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of energy, and reason for optimism. >> gary: that one heading towards

so brian walks away. he is down on strikes.ne away. >> rob: you see him on the inside half right here. he took something off the fastball. maybe a cut fastball. sheer the delivery of detwilerer. watch him as jim palmer says steps across his body to first base, delivers the ball. but as soon as they tried to change him, he could not pitch at the minor league level. he thanked mick rizzo and all of the people up here who let him go back to throwing his natural way and he got back to the big leagues. >> jim: when you're a number one draft choice, you want them to obviously stay healthy and usually throwing across your body can lead to health problems but if you have done it all your life and he is healthy ychange him. the sixth player in 2007? i don't know if you want to mess too much with him. >> rob: and the player chosen before him? your catcher matt wieters. >> bob: jones fouls it off the right side. no balls and two strikes. >> jim: you talked about that the last time ross pitched against the orioles, only the infield hit by

brian schneider nay play third base. orioles acquiring michael aubrey for a player tore named later. david hernandez, will he be coming pack to baltimore's in -- baltimore? that story up next when we continue in a moment. on masn. ? >> welcome back. the orioles number one pick in the draft named player of the year by the "usa today". hobgood 11-1, earned run average of 0.92, 68 1/3 innings, he hit .475 with # 1 home runs. 55 rbi's. hobgood should sign with the orioles any day and michael gichts at shortstop draft the by the orioles made the usa second team. david hernandez, kind of an interesting story going on right now. at norfolk, he's 3-2 with a 3.30 earned run average. wall street with the orioles, he was 1-1 with a 3.95 earned run average and he pitched only nine innings. everyone is target to wonder why david hernandez was pulled out of the game after four innings. he didn't walk a bear batter, struck out four, didn't allow a run. then the rawt thought process is that koji may not be able to go pass five or six. c

here is brian roberts for his second at-bat. >> buck: brian has his hitting shoes on in south floridathe ball very well. seeing the ball very well n last night's game, he got that double and then andrew miller, we must talk about him a little bit because that was the only hit andrew miller allowed over seven innings. he drove a dumb double in his first at-bat here ghent again tonight. swinging the bat very aggressively had a great series in philadelphia. five rbi's -- five rbi's including two game winners. >> jim: the voters -- the orioles have won each of the interleague series. one of those a sweep. that was against the phillies first stop on this trip. if they're going to continue that trend, they would have to win tonight for a chance to get the second game tomorrow. they took 2-3 in washington and then they got 2-3 from the mets, 2-3 from the braves in the three-game sweep in philadelphia. brian thriens and caught by the second baseman uggla on the soft line drive and orioles go three up, three down for a second consecutive inning. middle of the third in florida. martin luther ki

uncharacteristic for brian to walk people. usually doesn't walk people. you can't steer the ball. he got ground balls. they just found the holes. >> well, johnson and i talked before the game. he knew that he was going to get two innings tonight likely. i talked to him way before the game. he had had three full days off, i mean four really, and we were hoping that the limit we were going to get with koji would be six, it was more like five. we were trying to duplicate what we'd done with him the last time, not really extend him a whole lot more than what he did the time before. to the mets credit, they really battled their butts off against him, especially with two strikes. there was a lot of foul balls with two strikes. but johnson came in with power stuff. but i think it's good that he knew before the game he was going to, he was probably going to be in that situation to throw to and he was well rested and he was up for it. >> does it surprise you to look up at the board and realize he hasn't won in two months. >> well, there's a whole lot of factors that go along with that. i m

brian, 1-2, and he has also walked. here is andino at third and salazar at first and still nobody on. >> buck: brian has hit two bleats leer tonight. he lined out right at the left fielder in the second inning and he walked in the sixth. >> jim: inside, ball two. brian roberts has a tremendous batting eye, even when he is down in the count, buck. he rarely chases. if you're going to try to make him chase, you're making a terrible mistake. the confidence, even went down in the count. >> buck: we saw that on display saturday night when he hit a two strike, two out two-run home run against ryan madson to give the orioles that win. >> jim: 2-2 on him. ground ball foul down the third- base line. >> buck: one thing that is different about this team and i know it is a mini five-game win streak, but there is no give-up in their approach. hey, you win two games against the phillies, that is a nice series and that wasn't the case sunday against cole hamels. it would have been very easy to mail in your effort and say, hey, we just

here is brian roberts. he's 0-2 with a walk trying to extend a hitting streak to seven straight. 1-0, ball outside, 1. tim wood was brought along very slowly after he signed. he didn't even pitch in 2002 the year he was drafted. that's outside ball three. if he was in a-ball every year of his career from 2003 through 2008 before last year, finally earning a promotion to double- a. there's a two-out walk. >> buck: you can see he has pretty good movement on -- movement on his fastball. so far in this inning he's really battling his butterflies and nerves as this is his first inning in the big leagues. he's got good arm strength and a lot of good movement on that fastball. >> jim: nick markakis has a a couple of hits in this game. looking to find that stroke. now has 23 multihit efforts on the year. there's another base hit. hard-hit ball pass the glove of uggla. roberts goes to second and holds there. two of his three hits tonight have come on the first pitch. >> buck: he's basically all the offense tonight.

. >> now brian bass has been somewhat magnificent. today he goes 4 and a third and allows one base hit. the bullpen count was 7 and a third, one hit and two strikeouts. evaluate what you saw from brian bass. >> he keeps getting better and better every time out. 14 at-bats that he faced today. one right after another. great movement on the fastball. used the slider. the slider is his setup pitch for the sinker and he's really done a very good job of keeping it out. look at the movement on that ball right there. andino with another pretty good play. but think about this, at the beginning of the season, the first three appearances which went for 7 and a third innings, he gave up 12 earned runs and in his last 13 appearances, which is 26 innings. he's only given up three earned runs and during that time, only one home run, which the orioles starting pitchers and the orioles pitching staff have given up more home runs than anybody in the american league. >> how about the earned run average over the last 15 appearances. 0.92 victories and 2

they're going to throw brian tallet tonight at the nationals against jordan zimmermann. >> brian talletd left-hander 6'6", 215 pounds. broke in with the indians in 2002. this is just husband 19th big league start. second-round pick out of lsu. once traded for a player named boomy bomuchera. zim, his 11th start. hit five unhit innings. 50 k's. gets lots of ground ball outs. i think this will be a real test for him tonight just a good-hitting club he's facing. >> he pitched extremely well against tampa bay last outing. did not get the decision. i had a chance to sit down earlier today and visit with a guy that won his first major league game last night at yankee stadium and you could see the numbers interest. -- there. tallet, 4-4. zimmermann, 2-3. look at the e.r.a. brian a little better than jordan's. the strikeout comparison goes to zimmermann there, phil. >> absolutely. again, 4-1 strikeout to walk ratio. zimmermann doesn't have a win since the 26th of eighteen 6789 -- april. >> craig stammen and i sat down and talked a little about last night's game and what a thrill it was for himse

brian roberts staying in. does brian want to get a hit quickly. he is 0-for-his last 17, continues to be tied at first in run. he has been above .300 but has now dropped to below 300. the count is now even 1-1. roberts with the outfield in a couple of stems on him. that one in the air to centerfield. davis coming, coming, coming, diving and there is the base hit you need to get out of the funk. how on does a hitless streak end with a blooper, a dying quail or an infield off the end of the bat. you see him smiling. that's the nature of baseball. >> buck: you can't defend against that, the old blooper. holliday, davis and cunningham in the outfield, hanrahan cabrera, kennedy and giambi from third to first. and kurt suzuki, the young catcher has taken the position now and he is a mentor for these young pitchers. adam jones is 7th in the league in average. the only one of the orioles still in the top 10 in that department. at third is juan samuels. brian roberts has not been doing a lot of running because the top of the order has been hitting so well

.: two down, here's brian roberts, his second at- bat.he swung at the first pitch in the bottom of the first, popped foul for the left fielder and he takes a strike. we were talking about brian roberts and willie harris both being drafted by the orioles in 1999. they were teammates in that 99 season and they each made their big league debut for the orioles in 2001. he was a shortstop still then and he came you and started at shortstop on june 14. willie was a september call up and he came up and started in center field. the tie between those two, as melvin mora still with the orioles, was in each of those games, the game willie started, melvin played shortstop. the game roberts started, melvin played center field. then after that season, the orioles traded willie to chicago for chris singleton, and willie went on to have some good years there. played for the braves, now with the mets. >> rob: and willie was an integral part of that world championship team in chicago. then picked up by the nationals after that. he's a great clubhouse guy.