and cabrera swings on it. and cabrera swings on it. back to back k's.ful day on san francisco bay and the athletics have the lead. if you're at a party. or, playing golf. like those guys. or, in a bar. [ old timey western bar music ] draw another door. don't say draw. never filling, always refreshing. bud light. the difference is drinkability. seven aces. >> jim: athletics with three in the bottom of the first. first thousand fans 15 and over will receive a mallet sent presented by old bay, with this set you can combine two of bird lands favorite summer tradition, steamed crabs an orioles baseball. tickets start as low as $9. get your tickets, 888-848-bird or online at orioles.com. new first baseman jack hannahan takes over for crosby. and here is ty wigginton -- brian taking over for ty wigginton. the numbers for brian roberts on the trip, just 2 out of 21. caed 2-1.>> buck: of cour this n'fit pinch hit appearance of the season. 2-2.his is one of those tcwhe if brian would bunt everonce a whe,you mighbe able if doesever try on a bunt for a base h

that is there on the inside corner for a strike to cabrera.his average to .235 with two doubles, two rbis, two runs scored and double. 4-in these two games. cabrera down to 3rd. foul ball. that was close. gary right on the line. that one almost skidderred over the bag. >> buck: sure looked like it did. you can see right there it hit once before the bag in foul territory. very casually waved it foul. cabrera didn't make much of a stink about it. he pretty much set the tone for the game tonight. hit a trouble to the opposite field came in to score the first run and the a's were off and running. >> gary: hitters really struggled. davis will stay at 1st base. in these two ball games you said everybody has contributed in this line up. last night hitting the ten batters to the plate in the 1 st inning everybody involved in the 1 st inning. it has happened again tonight. hannahan had 0-4 but only one. 3-2 on cabrera. very tough to double up. lob throw to try and keep him leaning in that direction. 3-2 on cabrera. runner goes. inside. he surrenders th

cabrera delivers a lead off double. take a look at the rest of the lineup for the a's brought to you by southwest airlines. following cabrera, kennedy, cust, jam by, suzuki, two home runs and five rbis cust in the last three. so this team that had not been hitting a lick prior to last night they got on track in the first inning last night scoring six runs on seven hits. ended up with nine runs and ten hits in the ball game. and on the first pitch here orlando cabrera delivers a double. adam kennedy threw for four last night. >> buck: both of these clubs are facing starters for the first time. cabrera's not your traditional lead off hitter. he liked the first pitch he saw. >> gary: cabrera gets his eighth double. pitch up high and count go to 2- 0 on kennedy. kennedy got a rip roaring start to the season. that's why the batting average is up at .340. he has cooled off since then but not enough to pull that number down. delivery to him. towering fly ball to right field. markakis with a runner tagging. cabrera takes off. h

cabrera got a good jump.een a couple of moves from rich hill and the throw was just to the shortstop side of the bag but weiters didn't have much of a chance. he has to wait for the curveball with a strong arm but not in time to get cabrera. >> full countful a runner at second and that is outside, ball four. so jack cust will look him over. 27th walk for cust already on the year. and the athletics have 2 on and 1 down. >> now here is one of the guys in the lineup that has seen rich hill in the past. matt holliday has seen him and has a couple of hits against him and he's been red hot. very tough hitter. has the ability to knock the ball out of the ballpark as he did on friday night against mark hendrickson. but with runners in scoring position, he's a dangerous hitter. >> fastball is over but low. 1-0. matt holliday has three consecutive multi hit games and his last seven games he has six multi hit games. he was traded to the athletics in the off season, final year of his contract. curveball, there's a strike

cabrera makes a big turn. he will come back to first on jones' throw.a who is 0-for-9 against guthrie gets his first hit ever against the orioles starter. >> buck: these are the four pitches that guthrie will use tonight. that's the four-seam fastball. he will use that to get it down and away. jeremy guthrie's curve ball, a lot of emphasis on that the slider, you can see how he slides it back on the handle. that's the change-up because he throws so many four-seam fastballs, he uses the four- seam change-up here as well. >> gary: here is adam kennedy. kennedy currently in his own funk, 0 for his last 14 as part of the seer brings chicago. but oakland came away with three wins. they are on a three-game win streak taking three out of four against the white sox. kennedy will lift that down the line and that will be a foul ball. >> buck: the strength of this team right now is certainly the starting pitching. they have pitched well and they continue to have offensive problems. but the average for the year for adam kennedy is not that bad. >> gary: he has been

that will score cabrera and 8- 0a's lead. talk about waiting on a pitch. >> buck: watch how kennedy stays back on this ball. breaking ball out of the play. keeps his hands back. drives it to the power alley. all the way to the wall. back to back doubles now. 8-0 and that's going to be the end of the night for jason berken. >> gary: to the orioles starters continue to struggle. the orioles just cannot get adequate innings out of their starters to give their bullpen a decent chance. berken will come out of there as the a's have jumped out to the 8-0 lead. for the next generation, or making a 10-year, $100 million investment in kids. it's how we've always done business. and will for a very long time to come. pnc. leading the way. has the fastest serve in the history of professional tennis. so i've come to this court to challenge his speed. ...on the internet. i'll be using the 3g at&t laptopconnect card. he won't so i can book travel plans faster, check my account balances faster. all on the go. i'm bill kurtis and i'm faster th

cabrera in the game. he's delivered two doubles and a single, two rbis, two runs scored and cahill starter. chance to be the winner. text in your vote. a, b, or c. text in your vote. that one to right center field. that's going to be a base hit played by davis. he'll get it in. jones is held to a single but his second hit of the game. double singled and two strikeout for adam. >> buck: so far the switch has worked. he's going to come in and pitch the 8th inning. markakis had two hits in his first appearance in the two spot and jones as well in the three spot. >> gary: and nine hits now for the orioles. luke scott a single and a run scored in the 7th inning. that is in there for a strike. rbis have gone to zaun and an rbi single and reimold three rbis on a six home run all coming in the 7th inning. by that time it was a 9-0 ball game. the a's on thboard first with a run. they added four in the third. four more in the 4th as they sent eight to the plate in both the 3rd and 4th innings. those are the nine ru

cabrera just broken out of his slump here in these two games.three hits in the game. >> buck: it's swinging bunt up the 3rd base line. has to make a play because it's going to go over the bag. has no play whatsoever. >> gary: cabrera hitting .154 in his last four games. 1-4 last night and 3-4 in this game with two rbis. the lead off man on against david hernandez. here's kennedy. kennedy with two doubles, 2-3, two are rbis and two runs scored already in the ball game. batting at .350 on the year. kennedy trying to launch one one straight back. hit number 10. nine runs on ten hits in the ball game as the a's have come right back and picked up the same number of hits they had in last night's game. the bullpen active. kennedy with a runner at first. takes that one to left field. one away in the 6th. the d.h., jack cust coming up. cust contributions include an rbi and a ground ball out. a walk and a run scored. 0-2 officially at the plate. cust just a .200 hitter lifetime off the orioles but has four home runs against the o's. one away and a runner

cabrera had a double and scored in the first inning.ng .229 he's had two hits, five at bats in the series. roberts will hold the runner close at 2nd base. it's a strike. >> buck: curious bunt attempt in a situation like this with a chance to drive in a runner from 2nd base. >> gary: cabrera .250 with runners in scoring position. that first hit he got just his third of the month of june. he's 3-19. makes the spin. no throw. >> buck: if you can shorten him up by a foot or two at 2nd base should there be a base hit you've got an extra foot at home. there's good arms in the owstled with markakis and jones among the leaders in the american league. >> gary: delivery on the way. inside foul. two strikes. the oriole pitchers right now until the offense starts showing it is alive again, berken and company know they've got to keep things very tight for the best. they just don't have any breathing room. >> buck: that's very difficult to ask rookie pitchers to make adjustments and pitch i guess you could say a little more aggressively. but at the s

cabrera will lead off as he did in the 1st. 0-1. off speed pitch. bag and he's got it. -- getting cabrera and one down. >> buck: now it's important that they put up some zeros and get the hitters a chance to get back. it's only a 3-run deficit. we're just in the 2nd and plenty of time to come back. and with the off day tomorrow, you have to believe that everybody down in the bullpen is available. >> jim: adam kennedy, one the hitters who did not contribute in the rally in the first. 0-1. and kennedy popped foul but melvin mora is first at bat. the orioles off the 18 earned runs allowed in this seares are now last in the league in pitching. the team e.r.a. is up to 5.32 so they have fallen last in the league. and after the way the trip began in seattle, it is very disappointing it didn't carry over here. sharp hit ball, wide to first. salazar has it and he gets the out. >> buck: one thing bass has done is pitch down in the zone with both the sinker ball and the slider. and that has allowed him to come up for three easy outs since he's come into this

orlando cabrera has the other. 6 and a third scoreless innings by bass bers -- bass bers. sliced down the leftfield side, out of play. kennedy does a good job looking at the bat and dropping it down leftfield line. that's where his base hit went in the 5th inning. >> buck: he has an upper cut swing and when the ball is away you can take the pitch and loop it down the leftfield line. right of the power is to right and right center. >> jim: outside, 2-2 the count. getting loose in the bullpen. and foul it's -- fouls it off the opposite way. jim johnson, the third reliever used by the orioles in this game. here is the 2-2. hit to centerfield. jones is there. has it for the out, and one down. 2 orioles will be out and about in the community coming up this week. on tuesday you can spend your lunch hour with rich hill at espn zone in the inner harbor. he'll sign autographs and answer your questions from noon until 1:00. and then on wednesday adam joans will be signing autographs at the wendys on west nursery road in lincecum, maryland, from noon until 1:00. and from all of the d

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 they face but just about every night, you face pretty good pitch in the big leagues. that goes back to that tigers series. first two games, they had five runs on 11 hits in the opener on thursday against armando galarraga. melvin mora to second base, kennedy up

miguel cabrera comes around and miggy beats the throw. 3-0 tigers. top eighth, 4-3 tigers.one out, placido polanco drives this jason mott pitch over the fence and the tigers win 6-3. mets and o's. k-rod on the mound. bases loaded. 3-2 pitch to adam jones low and out of the strike zone. felix pie scores. k-rod entered the game with a 4.56 e.r.a. two batters later, aubrey huff, second straight game, deciding hit. orioles win 5-4. >> for the second straight year alexander ovechkin is the hart trophy winner as the league's m.v.p. ovechkin who led the nhl with 56 goals is the first non-goalie to repeat since wayne gretzky won eight in a row from 1980 through 1987. ovechkin also won the lester pearson award begin to the most outstanding player as voted on by his peers. >> pavel datsyuk won two awards. the best defensive forward and the lady byng for gentlemanly conduct. >> rafael nadal will decide friday if he will be able to defend his wimbledon title. the number one seed in the tournament, nadal lost an exhibition matched this to lleyton hewitt and his knees continue to bother

they got matt holliday from colorado, signed giambi as a free agent, brought in orlando cabrera as freegent and they are still down in the order for the fewest homeruns in the american league. here is the delivery by hendrickson. breaking ball will be taken down low. the homerun ball has really bitten the orioles pitchers as the orioles have surrendered 76 homeruns. only the phillies in the majors have given up more. o's starters were tied with minnesota with most homeruns surrendered. he gets the k. hendrickson has two down here in the 2nd inning as cust is retired. one of the things that will happen in a game like this is that, all of a sudden, that line-up you put in to face a right handed starter is not going to face -- is now going to face a left handed starter. when it happens early in the game, if you are bob begin, there is nothing you can do or want to do. markakis going over and that is a foul ball. sometimes, that will shut down an offense that wasn't geared to face a left hander. >> buck: you lose your head a little bit, too, when you have a 6-0 lead. mark hendrickson has co

and cabrera should have seen the curveball early in the count, first or second pitch should have gone curveball because you have to get that pitch over. his fastball is not tough to hit. it's a straight fastball. he doesn't have much movement on it. so therefore, you can't have hitters sitting and waiting until he decides to throw the fastball. he has to have the big sweeping curveball. when he does, he cruises through ballgames. backward that's first inning. it come hist the rest of the game. >> 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 seas

daniel cabrera start that had game and pitched into the sixth inning, but not for long. that was one month and one week ago and none of those pitchers are still around. willie harris, austin kearns and wil nieves here in the 7th. andy sonnanstine. >> rob: look at that stat. >> bob: that's how you go 4-6 with a 7 e.r.a. >> rob: second in the major leagues with run support, over eight runs per start. >> bob: you brought this up numerous times. what is it about these guys with 6 and 7 e.r.a.'s, our ball club can't hit them. >> rob: i don't know. maybe we take them for granted that they're not throwing the ball well. >> bob: that's a way to help out a pitcher. willie harris will fly out on a pitch that was way up out of his zone. the nats now have been set down 13 in a row. >> bob: last night matt garza with amazing stuff. then let them off the hook after that. you've got to keep charging every inning. >> bob: the nats had one hit out of the fourth inning yesterday. tonight they had no hits after the third. kearns puts a charge into one, straightaway center field. it keeps o

cabrera the shortstop and one away. one down notice 7th.ne of the most popular oriole park promotion is back. it's the first 25,000 fans, 21 and over, you will receive an oriole floppy hat which features the logo on one side and the o's on the other. that's this coming friday. >> melvin mora singled his first time up, 1-for-2 and the breaking ball in there for a strike. orioles with the four hits, all singles. braden has worked 7 innings twice this season. that's a ball. that will miss outside. pretty economical in this ballgame with the big lead he had in the 1st inning. he has been throwing strikes. here is the 1-1 delivery, mora will take a fastball up high. it will go to 2-1. melvin hitting at .272 on the season. and he will take that one right centerfield and there is the speed of davis. this is a guy who looks like he is coming out of the blocks. >> buck: tremendous acceleration. see how this speed allows him to track that one down. great play. he had a great jump. >> gary: that was not that easy. >> buck: no, he got to it quick. >> g

. >> bottom of the third, it's meg el cabrera. homered yesterday, homers again today.the tigers go on to win 9-5. alfredo figaro wins his major league debut. his family not able to make it from the dominican republic in time to see him pitch. he said, quote, they must have . my phone is full of messages telling me i looked good on tv. five hitters. >> albert pujols and cardinals taking on the royals. top six. 1-0 saint luis. la machina. two-run shot. his 24th jack leads the majors. the cards win it 7-1. they've won 7 of the last 10 overall. tony larussa one win shy of 2,500 wins. you know that commercial where they call pujols a machine? in his first tn games in june, he seemed like a slightly broken machine. but his last nine games, pujols is back to his unhuman-like efficiency, slugging a thousand with six homers in that span. >> the twins have thrived in interleague play. the astros can't wait to resume the nl portion of their schedule. they've dropped 6 of 7 to the a.l. second home run of the year, astros hold off the twins by a final count of 6-5. it's his first r

cabrera is the oldest for the group. the veteran guy, utility guy. 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, pitch to robert. get an easy double play. you see it again. south standing back hand. this guy really knows what he is doing with consistent play. every now and then, he will have a bad shot at throwing the ball away and everything. you know that's going to happen pause he just does not get enough playing time. you see this one, he lets it get away. when you don't play every day, those are the kinds ev

they've got andrew miller, dontrelle willis, miguel cabrera trade. great, young left-hander. >> bob: ryan zimmerman this year having a very ought year -- odd year in one respect. he's hitting .333 against right- handers and well under .300 against lefties. 0-2 here. he's gone for the second out. first strikeout by sean west. adam dunn coming up. >> rob: well, 0-2. this is a perfectly placed breaking ball right here in on his feet on the ground. >> bob: if you hit it, it's going to hurt. >> rob: if you hit it, it's going to be foul or in the ground. you can't hit that fair. it looks good coming in and then bottom drops out of it have. especially from a 6'8" guy. >> bob: how about the size of this matchup? that's a short hopper to uggla in right field. the nats go in order in the top of the third. they've outhit the marlins 3-2 and it's time.   >> bob: nats fans well represented here in south florida whenever we come here on to the bottom of the third. let's check defense. it started with hanley ramirez trying to steal third.

we look at others who got out and played on this basically wash-out thursday, angel cabrera, his thirdo that uphill par 4 you're talking about, pulls the string nicely. >> playing with tiger woods, he made a huge putt for bogey at the first hole to keep from starting with a double. >> rough around the green, bluegrass gets tacky, then it's wet. >> he's trying to hit a shot where he goes underneath and pops it straight up in the air because it's straight downhill to the hole location. didn't work out for him. >> led to double. justin leonard. he's got the straight ball going. is he long enough to contend here? if he hits irons like this, i think so. >> a 4-iron from 186 yards. you see how soft the greens are, the ball stops dead with a 4-iron. >> beautiful shot from justin leonard. on eight. that pond had company by the end of the day, nearly a lake that inundated the green. >> they moved the tee way up, 163 yards instead of the normal 220. >> ian poulter a pick a lot of folks like, a gritty player, here for a par, you've got to do this in the u.s. open. >> you've got to save some pars

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he, too, is one of the players' acquired from the detroit tigers in the cabrera- willis trade. >> jim: luke scott fouls it off. so fredi gonzalez's book has gone through six of his seven relievers in the game. the closer had a three-run lead going to the ninth and couldn't close it out. >> buck: and dave trembley has four in his pen including the closer george cheryl. >> jim: luke scott is retired for the first out in the 11th. so luke who pinch hit and singled in the rally in the ninth now a one out, and here is zaun. he will bat for the first time. hehe is in matt wieters' spot. wieters was lifted for a pinch runner the ninth inning. guthrie did come around to score. >> buck: and don't forget gregg zaun lit that home run on saturday night that set up brian roberts. he hit a one-out home run, his second of the season. that came against the phillies' acting closing ryan madson. >> jim: there is the strike. 1-1. brian bass is up once again. he was up back in the fifth inning and then did not get in the game. good eye by zaun. he works the count to 2-1. sliced foul the other way. >> buc

also told me, he whistled at barry bonds and tried oh get him to move in two steps just before the cabrera hit that put the braves in the world series. bonds might have been able to get that runner at home. the speedster, sid breem. here's belliard flying one right-field line, twisting and turning away from aubrey huff and bouncing in for strike two. >> jim p.: it's kind of an interesting thing. dave winfield who is in the hall of fame, he said the reason he teaches, not only his son but young players to catch the ball with two hands is that if you do that, not that a lot of outfielders do it, it's already close to your throwing hand. how you go get the ball as a catcher. if you have to move your glove, it takes longer. we know sometimes there are those bang, bang plays that if you execute them properly they're bang-bang in your favor. >> bob: belliard has driven in seven runs this year. >> rob: it's a transfer, too. we talked about this with albers last night, taking more time to transfer, takes more time for the catcher to throw the runner out. if you're running like adam jones, you catc

and then he was traded down here as part of that dontrelle willis and miguel cabrera big trade.efensively the marlins have had problems. only two teams in the national league have committed more errors than the marlins. they have committed 56. and in the outfield is coghlan, ross and her mada -- hermida. the catcher is left-handed hitting john baker. the infield has committed 32 errors when you factor in three behind the plate for baker. >> jim: there is fredi gonzalez, the skipper of the florida marlins doing a fine job down here as the marlins with a win tonight would get back to .500. they're at 35-36. to give you an idea of the differences, a.l. east versus n.l. east, the marlins are a game below .500 and they're only three games it of first place. >> buck: it is going to be a real log jam in the national east as there are no real clear cut favorites. even the reigning world champs are struggling there. >> jim: the fastball is in for a strike and we're underway in miami. brian's bat has come alive, especially over the weekend in philadelphia. he looks at a fastball wide to t

was one of the focal points of that big trade buck talked about when dontrelle willis and miguel cabreraigers. so the tigers had to give up some young talent. that was a 5-2 trade that the marlins pulled off and miller was really the focal point of that deal. >> buck: andrew miller and another, those two probably the two keys to the entire trade. >> jim: high chopper to first. right there to cantu and he'll go toking the band the orioles go three up, three down for a third consecutive inning. 12 in a row retired by andrew miller. (announcer) you do have health insurance don't you? if you don't, now you're in luck. carefirst bluecross blueshield can cover you for as little as $75 a month. depending on the plan you choose. just call us at the number on your screen for the plan that's right for you. carefirst bluecross blueshield lets you customize coverage so you have an individual plan that suits you best. select a ppo or an hmo, add vision or dental-- you can design a plan that fits your budget and protects you even as your life changes. call us at the number on your screen and get this

daniel cabrera actually started that game and got in a little bit of trouble and then it was just unbelievable. every ball looked like it was tee wall and minnesota was coming in the next night and they landed about 8:30. they thought -- you know, they were looking at scores and going that must be a mistake. so there are games like that. >> rob: you have to try to put it behind you and come back and battle the next night. >> bob: brian roberts the hitter. on a night you figure brian would be on base three times or more. >> jim: it is kind of good news an bad news. detwiler made some great pitches to him. >> rob: yes. struck him out looking twice. >> jim: and then he got behind him 2-0 and he either cut it or took something off and got him with a chance to drive in a couple of runs, and he got the ground ball to shortstop. web again, if you look at this, detwiler, 3.6 run as game, the number is going down. not a lot of run support. >> bob: the nationals have been in a swoon since about the third week of may. he was very late on that swing. colome has good stuff and he can throw hard if he throw

they said daniel cabrera didn't do that. he put his foot on top. i didn't know that. >> rob: i always used the rubber like a sprinter. you know, like a sprinter gets out of the block. you're pushing towards home plate. >> jim: of course. that's why it is out there. >> bob: 1-1 to dukes. they have been giving him a steady diet of breaking stuff. the bat flew right past the pitcher's head. that was chuck and duck for brad bergesen. he gets the ground ball to brian roberts and a one, two, three top of the sixth. the orioles lead 3-1. this was dangerous. >> welcome back to the yard everybody. today, dave trembley told the media it is highly unlikely that koji u har aye will make his scheduled start on sunday against the nationals. cocky returned home today with the team. he met with team doctors, and although the reports were good, but the swelling and the inflammation in his elbow seemed to have subsided a bit, it seem that is the orioles are not prepared to put him back out on the mound. andy macphail is going to talk to the team doctors again to