cla meredith will come in. the a's coming in earlier in the week. winning 2 out of throw gave up a bunch of runs. he's a sinker baller. sinker-slider guy. 5 earned runs in the 3 inning pitched. >> gary: he's been a workhorse. this is his 11th appearance for the orioles and his 36th appearance over all. and he faced guererro, runners at second and third. this is a big at bat. guererro singled, lined out and walked. mathis a runner at third and figgins at second. and if guererro can get one or both of them in it changes the ball game. >> jim: this is what relief pitching is about. do have an open base. it's about inherited runners you can keep them from scoring. there is 2 outs. bad thing is guererro is at the plate. >> gary: nice pitch. bore in to hands on that one. >> jim: and then, he has that sinker that will dive down and in to the righties and the breaking ball that if he locateds it well can make you look silly sometimes. >> gary: guererro inside. the right handers hit .364 against cla with the orioles. left-handers .238. last outing was a toug

cla meredith on the left. they have pitched well. meredith pitched in last night's game.a nce he's ined minnesota has put the leadof man and now they have venth. harris looking down at the third base coach scott ullger to make sure he has he. he's on deck, 3-3 with three doubles and he scored three runs. melvin mora comes in to tell ray his responsibility. he's there guarding against the bunt.jim: rogaenre does. if he gets the lead in the seventh, he could go to setup man, closer in the thisill be a lose if the orioles can't get lead back because they have more opportunities to break this open. matt guerrier gets up. harris again bunts. ray has it. he looks to second. throws to first for the out. , gardenhire playin eters s chris a at second base delmon young, everything has hit tonight every pitch tot. has thrshsingles to left. >> jim: fouls to have the back of the plago piece of it. >> jim: matusz went five innings, three runs on seven hits. bass not record an out. hendrickson a-scoreless inning and now ray. >> buck: got away with one right there. threw a high breaking

. >> buck: pretty good advice, cla meredith has come over here and done a good job.om the respectmond area. chance for his family to see him play ball, get closer to home. will be interesting to find out more about cla meredith tomorrow in covering the bases. >> jim: guthrie on in the 7th inning. cube fouls it off. in his win in chicago last friday, guthrie pitched 7 innings, did not come out to pitch the 8th. just hit foul. he went 8 innings in his win against the white sox july 19th. we also had an 8-inning outing in his complete game loss in toronto against the blue jays back in may. so he's had two games of 8 innings, and has just that one complete game, and that was in a loss, gave up four runs and went 8 innings and lost it for the jays. >> the thing that's so impressive about it tonight is how much in control he is of a very good line-up, the minnesota twins. >> jim: and kubel down on strikes. he came off speed. so guthrie gets strikeout number 5 in the minnesota 7th. time for you to text in your vote for the at & f player of the game. here are the candidates.

couldn't get the play at home, and cla meredith with the bases loaded and strike us out river e -- rivera. >> meredith will work in the 7th inning as kendrick, quinlan and matthews are due up. kendrick, 2 single, rbi and ground ball out. howie kin dreck is hitting.-- kendrick is hitting .276 this season. the angels had contribution from everybody in the lineup one way or the other, gets on with a hit or walk and scoring. now meredith has to hold them down as the orioles have had chances. the orioles had someone on base against lackey in every inning. they have left 7. ground ball back to the mound. meredith has it and gets the out on kendrick. keep up with the latest orioles news to favorite social networks. facebook.com/orioles and twitter.com/bird land. >> gary: one down, quinlan two singles, did not play in the ball game last night. has picked up an rbi. >> jim: we're going to see morales come in and pinch hit. and go out to play 1st base. that tells you not only hits home runs with a lead you don't mind putting him out for defense. 22 of his 25 home runs from this side of the plate. >

the first batter cla meredith faced was guerrero, his leg tightened up behind the knee. original lineup and then was scratched so mike scioscia moved rivera into that clean up spot and he comes through. morales off the plate 1-1. >> jim: look at those numbers. that is since the 16th of july. again this is the guy that you believed in. bonus kid out of cuba, back in 2003 when he was 21 years old citizenship in the dominican republic. when you let him go you better have someone to play first base. he went to atlanta and now with the red sox. you needed somebody to come in and to me, jim, what i saw last night even with the lead they put him in to pinch hit and felt comfortable with him playing defensively. you cannot play for mike scioscia's ball club if you can't help the club defensively, along with your bat. he made a fine play in the innings last night. >> jim: the angels do lead the league in batting. they are only ninth in home runs. they have the ability to prolong innings. we saw what they did last night. five runs in batting around in the third inning and every ba

on the season, only the third home run surrendered by cla meredith. got a sacrafice fly to center and a fly ball out to center. a two ball, one strike count on the .271 hitter for the indians. laporta got that home run, he spent the ma majority of the d ru and 60 rbthis year and in 93 s playedthere. and he was among the international league leaders in a number of offensive categories. ninth in homers. down to thiratbe a fo ing it. 2-2. buck: and laporta,as we mentioned, he was acquired in the c.c. sabatthia trade last year at the july trade line, and they're going to find out what they have here. they talked about it when they called him up from triple-a. we're going to find out if he is worthy of a spot in the y day lineup. >> gary: wedge is getting a look at a number of these columbus players that is taken inside. marte is anonwhspentú time down th he gets the walk. take a look at our ford trivia question on this friday night. last night's shortstop nick green pitchetwinnings for boston. the only oriole non-pitcher to work two innings in a game. >>