let's look at the cleveland indians -- indians lineup.t laporta is 7-flan than in the series and acquired in the deal for cc sabathia and how about andy. two home runs and three games, both virtually game winners for the indians. >> and marte is on the hot streak with a 10-game hitting streak and has two home runs against the oriole, both go for game-winning home runs and hitting 9ing the in the lineup yesterday, doing a trillion job with the 17 rbis during that stretch. you see the hanging slider right now, left one in there for him last night and second night in a row and inside the foul pole and does it again for the indians and otherwise the orioles will be on the three- game winning streak. >> matt owner's dis-- matt weiner, how about brian roberts, rick? the first oriole team getting back to 1954. the 10 doubles, five homers and five in one month. you know, brian roberts struggled in what we called struggling the first half of the season. and it might seem likele that would have been a great batting average for me. for roberts, it's

the orioles beating the cleveland indians 5-2. when you look back at this game, there is a lot of interest in this from the orioles pitcher, matt massachusetts. let's go back to the both and visit with buck martinez. what did you think of his work? >> buck: we had aequorins with brian. he was kind of casting the ball to the plate, trying to be too fine. today you could see it from the first pitch, commit today executing every pitch. his entire effort was toward the strike zone. all the breaking balls over. a sharpness to the breaking ball we haven't seen. the breaking ball was tumbling to the plate before today. here is brian matusz going 7-0. this was going to be an exceptional start for him. really a great step in the right direction for brian matusz. look what he did. 7 innings, just a single earned run. the biggest thing is 4 hits allowed. he has been given up a lot of hits. today he neutralized him. i think the whole key, rick will understand this, using the fastball nearly the count, getting ahead, and in the middle innings

it was the fifth time this year that the cleveland indians pulled out a win where they have trailed going into the ninth inning. for cleveland, these are friendly confines. in fact, anywhere other than cleveland is is a friendly confine. you take a look at the numbers they have put up this season. for the orioles at home, the largest difference in the majors in their home batting average compared to their road average, but for the indians, they put up runs at home 4.1. but 5.6, nay have the largest difference in the major leagues with runs on the road. so this is a ballpark both are happy to play in. >> i don't want too many pitchers reading that graphic before the game carts. the cleveland indians with the younger lineup, haven't really gotten acclimated to the home ballpark yet. they have a good battle in this lineup. i think this young team plays very well. the orioles, on the other hand, love anytime this ballpark. it is a good background. there is a lot of space, and i just think they're very comfortable and really see the ball well in this park. >> the guys who have to try to shu

we'll remember the bad pitch that gave up the game-winning home run to the cleveland indians, a game they should not have won but they did. stay tuned tonight. >>> what would you do with $325 million? come on. no megamillion winners on tuesday. the jackpot is just swelling out of control right now. now it's up to $325 million. come on. what will do you with that? go to your tv screen at 11:00 and who knows. >> it's been a while since maryland's hit. >> how about somebody from funkstown out in washington county. >> i like it. >> or kent county. >> i say baltimore. >> graysonville. >> flint stone. >> out in western maryland. give me a town. where? parkton? they live enough. >> crownsville. >> there you go. come on. all right. keep it in the state. laurel. all right. you'll be hard pressed to find anyone without a cell phone. >> we have advice from parents to keep the child's cell phone bill down. >>> very scary moments for students on a school bus when a shirtless man climbed through the window and trays to take over -- tries to take over coming up next. >>> guys, check this out. we ha

tonight, when the birds entertain the cleveland indians. game 3 of the weekend set at 7:00. almost 30 minutes or so, here on wjz. >> all right, stan. sounds good. >>> coming up tonight on 11:00, on wjz's eyewitness news. alabama police are speaking out after seven people are found dead inside a mobile home. >>> also, he was able to walk away from a devastating plane crash. but today, the life of dj a.m. is cut short by a tragedy inside his new york home. >>> and tonight at 7:00, it is the orioles' baseball game here on wjz 13. >>> finally tonight -- i think we're out of time. are we out of time, guys? no? keep going? there's nothing left to

the orioles wrap up their road trip and got a pretty good victory then came home to face the cleveland indians. action looks really good for much of the game. there's a smile. kevin moore is digging this. that is just deep enough. the bottom of the second. the game tied at one. the bottom of the seventh, go ahead and seventh,4-2. smashes that went out to left. anywhere over the fence is just fine. the orioles are leading. jim johnson gets the first two out. no worries until base hit. reading of some cards at camden yards. the last effort from nick. it happens. the indians get the victory by a final of 5-4. michael vick is back in uniform and on the field for a game, since december, 2006. eagles fans or up in arms about it. but they are happy now. the gained two yards. it goes back in and runs to the left. he gained 1 yards. not spectacular, but it does not look like he is missing anything. he still has that great arm. 13 yards on first down. that led to a field goal. it was hard to figure out what it was. 19 yards. he showed he still has something. the eagles get the victory. the reagans go to

at oriole park against the cleveland indians. this is the way we were told it would be for brian matis. let's get the speed gun out. 91 fastball, 78 slider. 81 offspeed curve. looked more like megan's speedometer on 95. >> yeah, right. >> one run on four hits, struck out eight in seven innings of work. 5-2 orioles. can't wait until next year. >>> figuring out the new credit card rules. >> breaking down changes in this week's "scam alert" so you don't get ripped off. >>> and cleaning up after a massive tornado tosses boats like toys. >>> police thought they were chasing a drunk driver but you will never guess what they found when they finally pulled over this swerving car. >>> temperatures at the airport reading 63 though some north and west of the beltway starting today in the 50s. what better way to start school with decent weather? how about decent traffic? let's check the roads with kim. >> traffic is moving along freely here at route 50 and 97. no real problems to let you know about at this time. we'll be right back with a fu

rob: the thing about neil huntington i do like is part of his baseball resume is work with the cleveland indiansthey've had a great -- or a great history of great evaluations and drafting very talented players. as long as you develop and draft talented players you think and project could play on the major league level, the pirates would be fine. once they get of age you're going to have to sign them. you've got to eventually spend money to win games. >> bob: you cannot continue to be a farm team for the rest of baseball. >> rob: right. >> bob: that's why you have a team in washington. expos did not have the attendance and money base to keep all those great, young players. >> rob: getting guide like vlad goero go and larry walker and groims -- it's sad because you think of what could have been up there in montreal and it was just like, no, we're not going to spend the money. we're going to give these guys to other teams and help their organizations out. >> bob: wil nieves hitting .257. one of the great friends in this business is in the ballpark doing radio for the marlins. that's dan von horn. f

defensively at 1st base and plays against luke scott, number one pick of the cleveland indians back in 2003. >> jim: baez throws a strike to toregas. wyatt toregas the indians catcher today. bounced to 2nd base, brian roberts will play the hop, and gets it to 1st. one down that. looked like a routine hop, but it was a more difficult play because it had the reverse spin on it. that ball was spinning the opposite way before it bounced over. so, there is a groundout for the first out of the 8th, and here is grady sizemore. he tripled and scored in the 6th, 1-3 overall. foul back on 1. >> buck: and baez was really throwing the ball well. to be honest, i am a little surprised he is still here. i thought there would be a pennant race calling for danys baez, throwing the ball so well. it seems like there are a lot of teams out there that could use bullpen help. >> jim: the deadline is inching closer to tomorrow at midnight for a playing to make the team eligible if they make potato season. 1-1, fouled away. >> buck: there are a lot of teams with deals in the works. including the minnesota twi

the orioles have a 4-0 lead   >> jim: back here with the baltimore orioles and cleveland indians wigginton got to call, 3-1. when you go through a stretch when they are late on calls, they think they should hit and went in 2 video room. looked at tapes from a year or so ago when he was hitting the ball well. oftentimes you can't see the forest for the trees. look at where your hands are, subtle little movement. bounce, foul, nice play by sam. 3-2 on wigginton, birds have a 4-0 lead. and cabrera scoops it up, throws out. that will be an infield base hit for wigginton, and fortunately for masterson, it didn't get too much of his body. >> buck: masterson is really kind of in an awkward position. dramatic but not in time to get wigginton. two hits for ty today. >> jim: and wigginton has a 5 game winning streak going, and masterson back to the stretch. here is cesar izturis. carroll creeps into 3rd. wigginton runs, will it get through? got him at 1st base in a bang, bang play. so the runner does advance as they nearly beat it out. one down. >> buck: playing hit-and-run, first pitch af

you can see them take on the cleveland indians at camden yards. that is tomorrow at 7:00. >>> still at 4:00 tonight. >> gotta go get the kids. there's kids in the house. >> seven weeks after the horrific murders of a florida couple, prosecutors are now releasing some evidence. a mother and child reunion. a california girl abducted 18 years ago, now home. the troubling details of her life during that time are now emerging. >>> and it is the last weekend in august. the surf from tropical storm danny is beginning to kick up. and light rain is falling. our complete coverage is coming up, with vic and mary after th >>> it is 4:29. 75 degrees and overcast. thanks for staying with eyewitness news. i'm vic carter. >> and i'm mary bubala, in for denise koch. here's what people are talking about tonight. >> at this, tropical storm danny. taking its time to move along. first warning weather team has the answers. marty bass and meteorologist tim williams have the updated information on danny and much more. >> well, vic, you know, danny is part of basically we

the cleveland indians leading the chicago white sox 5-3 in the top half of the inning. red sox play the yankees. we'll be back to preview tomorrow night's game in baltimore's camden yards, jeremy guthrie on the hill. that story coming up next. 7 out of 10 men prefer degree fragrances... over a leading old spice fragrance. ♪ ♪ new degree men's deodorant. mind-blowing fragrances. over a leading old spice fragrance. ♪ ♪ new degree men's deodorant. mind-blowing fragrances. . >> jim: this one hit to right field, diving catch as he hung long enough for markakis to get there. >> tom: tom davis with rick dempsey after the orioles lost to the toronto blue jays 7-3. cesar izturis went 2-for-4 with an rbi double. izturis is standing by with wj seo's mark viviano. >> you got some good swings off halladay. tell us what it was. >> it was good. we hit good, especially against halladay. you know, everybody knows he is tough, you know, but in the end, it was not good enough. today is another day. we have to come back tomorrow and see what happens tomorrow. >> you have been playing some

back home against the cleveland indians. three night games starting at 7:00.unday, 1:30 start. 1:00 our pregame coverage. just a reminder if you can't watch on masn, join sports radio with joe angel and fred man from a for complete game coverage. twins win and beat the orioles 7-6. been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. start your three-course meals with a shared appetizer. choose two entrees from over 15 chili's favorites, then share a decadent dessert. chili's -- >> kyle snyder one eight -- brandon snyder heading. he's a contender for first base next season and will be joined with third baseman josh bell picked up from the dodgers and others going out there including brandon erbe making impact. eight orioles head the to the arizona fall league. welcome back. the orioles lost to the twins 7- 6. we'll go back to minnesota where buck martinez is stand

it's a classic and involves the cleveland indians. the allegedly baseball announcer, a man in the baseball hall of fame for his booth work, not his work on the field, bob uecker. the suns, it's just so good. >>> let's look at first morning doppler radar. you're looking at danny right there, now tropical depression. things are pretty significant in the national hurricane center. no more advisories issued for what was danny. really, danny doesn't even have a name anymore. for conversation purposes, we're calling him that. let's take a look outside. harbor cam, that's a beautiful shot. oil park, camden yard. no problems getting into the baseball game today. what you want to put in your mind is a variably cloudy day. passing chance of shower or thundershower. >> all right, coming up on eyewitness news saturday morning. >> good morning everyone, just as the new school year starts, the mta launches a new campaign aimed at young people and violence. >>> take another look outside at camden yards. don't go away. more spe >>> welcome back. 24 m

he's another one of those guy this cleveland indians have come up with. season. 7-3 on the year, and just kind of creeping up. started the season off 2-0, and then had six decision of his first 8 starts where no decisions. so he's been pitching pretty good, although the record doesn't indicate it. >> the orioles will be play thick indians for the first time this season. pregame coverage at baltimore's camden yards. orioles bit of a the twins 5-1. now at chili's -- start your three-course meals with a shared appetizer. choose two entrees from over 15 chili's favorites, then share a decadent dessert. chili's -- announcer: during the autobahn for all event, you can get great lease deals. i love it! i just want to know it's the right move. me? thirteen days in the future. you get a deal on the car you always wanted. scheduled maintenance is included, it's all good. what's the future like? you love your new jetta. and the suit? you like it? no...i love it! seattle seahawks. i think they've got a potential to be a fantasy black holes season. t.j. houshmanzadeh

indians taking bp. tonight it is game two of the four-game series against the tribe as the biers try to bounce back from last night's 5- 4 loss. here is the clevelanderent from last night. brady sizemore still in the lead-off spot. he had three hits including a home run and two rbi's. cabrera, and half of their dh'ing. laporta, marte for the indian. here is the orioles' lineup looking to bounce back following last night's lossment roberts back this the lineup after a night off last night. reimold and markakis. a big night for melvin last night. he had three base hits including a home run. he is 5-8 over his last three games. luke, scott, wieters and izturis will round it out for the orioles. we're joined now on set by masns -- masnsports.com by roch kubatko. apparently it is causal friday. here you are again tonight. there's so much interest with september 1 coming next week, who the call-ups are going to be and i think the fans really need to understand the 40-man roster ramifications here because there might be a play tear the orioles want to look at, but if they put him on the roster, he is son the roster for last year. >> right. it is kind of a

leading 32nd road win. >> twins and indians in cleveland. . trevor crow does that. kind of inside out. bottom of the 7th. the double to left center. travis hafner scores. indians up 2-1. top of the ninth. same score, wood in to close the deal. and he does just that. getting mark redmond looking. indians go on to win it. the switch hitting crow has batted .375 since his recall. after winning four in a roarks the twins have dropped five of six, and the indians have won nine of 13. >> detroit's win coupled with losses by chicago and minnesota makes the al central look like this. white sox two back, twins four and a half back, detroit minnesota starts the series on friday while chicago will host cleveland. >> according to espn's joe schad, david wells, the 'cause in and advisor for wide receiver michael crabtree says crabtree is prepared to sit out this entire season and reenter the nfl draft in 2010. contract talks have stalled. san francisco took crabtree with the 10th overall pick last april. this is what wells said. we're prepared to do it. m

they have been looking for arms in their bullpen like joe biemel, and this former cleveland indian, whohey got for minor league right-hander on july 23. beaten court is -- a couple years ago he was one of the best set-up guys in the game. last year may have tired. seemed to have gotten his stuff back this year. the stock rose high enough to trade him. there's willingham. and the nats are down to that part of the order now. they have one base hit and one pinch hit from 5 through 9 tonight. he had a double against him ins -- jimenez and joe biemel is throwing again.   >> bob: that might be if th nats pinch-hit harris for the pitcher later in this inning. and willingham will play to hawpe in right. the nats are down to their final 5 outs. in fact i think they are sure that willie harris would be the pinch-hitter, there's a right- hander out there, the only other available player is mike morris just up from the minor leagues because nieves would not bat in a situation like that. so beaten court gets one out. takes on dukes here.   >> bob: and a good colorado pitchin

. >> buck: cleveland indians come to town for a four-game series at oriole park at camden yards.th david hernandez opening up against aaron laffe, the young left-hander who is 7-3 this year. >> jim: span takes a strike. matusz still this inning and next inning so qualify for a win. he is very much so battling his command here. he's only walked two, but he's been in so many deep counts. 0-1 pitches inside. 1-1. >> buck: yeah, you can see him. he's been battling himself all night long. we noticed it in the first inning when he threw 27 pitches. he's not a had a real comfortable delivery all night long. because of that, brian bass has beguto throw down n. fourth answered doesn't have an out yet. minnesota left the bases loaded in the if i remember -- in the first. scored two and left one on in the second. scored onend left one on in the third. runner goes. pitch swung and missed. throw to second. not in time. casilla steals the base. his ninth on the year. %%-- >> buck: he had a pretty good jump at first base, too. first move by the pitcher. casilla is off and running. the throw

victor martinez traded from the cleveland indians to the red sox today cried at the press conference.eped. he did not want to leave. >> bob: where do they play him? i know he's a great catcher, but -- i mean, jason varitek not going away, is he? >> rob: maybe next -- >> bob: maybe next year, but not now. >> rob: maybe next year, but they have a player club option on varitek i think dlartion 6 million, $8 million. whatever it is. victor martinez can play first base not well. he can catch but not that well and he can dh. he can hit very well. i talked to nick on my radio show today and he talked about who is going to catch wakefield if perez goes down when he comes back off the disabled list. neither one is a good knuckle ball pitch catcher. >> bob: called out on strikes there not liking it. garrett jones for the first out. >> rob: josh bard got a chance to catch that knuckle baller up there. >> bob: that didn't last long, did it? >> rob: 3-2, this is just a hard fastball on the black. grab some pine, kid. >> bob: second strikeout for john lannan. he faces ryan doumit who is 0- 2. good

minnesota has acquired starting pitcher karl pavano from the cleveland indian for a player to be namedd oakland releases jason giambi at the age of 38 with a .193 batting average. now back upstairs to gary and buck. >> gary: those are probably a couple of careers that are over. smoltz and giambi. >> buck: i think so. i think john smoltz has so much pride. we heard him firsthand about how he needed to pitch better if he was going to stay in the bigs. eight home runs in eight stars and an e.r.a. over 8.00 for smoltz. >> gary: that will be taken outside. the orioles are on top now, 4-3 lead over the jays. wells, the home run, his 11th, came in the second inning. he has also flied out. the orioles, while they hold the edge here, 5-4 in the season series and have yet to win a ballgame here. they're 0-3 in the games played in toronto. the jays won the series last year, 12 games to six and the jays have won the season series four years in a row. berken's pitch growned to third. a nice play by melvin mora. and he will get the out. wells retired. now our legendary performance brought to you by

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. >> well, cliff lee will always be remembered as part of the cleveland indians, but he's really played well since coming over to the philadelphia phillies. 3-0, with one complete game, going for another one tonight. top of the fifth, lee, five ks through five innings, and then in the bottom of the fifth, ryan howard, a three-run home run off dan haren, his 31st of the year, five home runs in his last six games, lee looking to go to distance here on the night, he strikes out mark reynolds, we've seen that a lot over the last couple of years, lee, the complete game two hitter, struck out 11, phils win 8-1, cliff lee 4-0 since joining the phils with two complete games. all right. last season mark reynolds established a major league record of 204 strikeouts, in season 18 games, at least three strikeouts, and he's well on his way to establishing a new record. will and i are just getting warmed up here on "espnews." coming up more baseball for you, justin verlander takes matters into his own hands. why he could have used some help on wednesday. >> and the angels, a baseball oddity. t.o., oh,

he threw well for the cleveland indians in a small market team.ta. and kevin is done for the season and they needed an extra arm. liriano is not the guy they thought they would have earlier. they need a guy who can give you 6 to 7 solid innings and take a lot of pressure off the offense and their bullpen. >> espn's eduardo perez, we didn't get away completely from the yankees and red sox. thank you. >> how they got there is brought to you by: >> is what happened to tiger at the open an anomaly? is phil's head back into playing golf? the 2 megastars of the sport. lost in the shuffle is gite who won more majors than both of them: padraig harrington. he tinkered with his swing and saw his results go south. now he might be back. this is what it looks like on the scoreboard at the second round of the bridgestone invitational. woods and mickelson, tiger is done for the day want even par 70. 5 shots off the pace. and phil mickelson started his round with an eagle on number 2. he has given one back. through 11 he is 1 under par. 6 shots off the leader boa

indians 2-1. first career loss for nick blackburn against cleveland, and it was rookie trevor crow crowe who doublesians the 2-1 win. >> first-place tigers looking the take 3-4 from the baltimore orioles. david hernandez on the mound. brandon inge takes him out of the yard. two-run shot for the 2-0 tigers' advantage. part of a four-run second for detroit. bottom of the third. alex avila making his major league debut. he's the son of the tigers' assistant general manager, and that, folks, is his first big league hit and an r.b.i. team president dave zambrowski said about the hit, "wow." rick porcello becomes just the second pitcher in franchise history with double-digit wins at the age of 20 or younger. >> the angels looking to avoid their first three-game losing streak since june facing the white sox. john danks delivers to vladimir gurrero. top third, solo shot. first homer for vlady. since returning from the d.l. 6-3 angels. a two-run lead for l.a. bobby abreu to left. he homers off danks and abreu's 250th career home run en route to the 9-5 angels' win. jeff mathis and erick aybar also went deep

cleveland. and including the double plays. a strikeout recorded by smith. only three strikeouts in the game 1 each for the three for the indians. , this is tough. you can see where it pulls off. on the other part of the plate. >> gary: 2 down. chad moeller. single and a sacrifice. playing in a that will be inside a little off ta pitch it gets fouled. big game in the west coast. the giants and colorado playing a matchup two teams contending for the wild card. they giants have 59-0 lead. they're in the 8th inning. lost in that. rockies are in trouble 67891 ball two strikeout. they're still in the race but they would then have a 1 game lead over the giants. barry zi. it o has been throwing the -- zito has been throwing it well. >> buck: they had the spirit getting into it. >> gary: 45 days worth of outstanding baseball. coming back on the attack. they are another vise team. the giants are somewhat of a surprise. no question about it. they added the pitch. we didn't know how it would fare, they made some additions and they had to put sanchez on the list. >> gary: 1-2 delivery. but the braves could be 3 and a half back in the wild

cleveland surges ahead, and johnson blows the save. the orioles lose by 5-4. with that, this reminder, it's masn on wjz this weekend, orioles- indians saturday at 7:00 here on wjz. >>> in chicago, bottom 7, wild pitch, derrek lee trying to score, but he's tagged. the nats win 5-4. >>> football, tonight before the game in philly, a show of support, and those opposed to quarterback michael vick's presence in philly. his on-field debut after being reinstated, this following two years of prison time for financial dog fighting. against jacksonville tonight he was four of four for 19 yards and carried the ball one time. don't forget to catch nfl football tomorrow night at 8:00 when the washington redskins host those new england patriots right here on wjz. we're showing a whole lot of football, and you know i will be glued to the tube. >> absolutely, i know you will. than >>> the princess of the minnesota state fair gets immortalized in a very special way. she was crowned miss kay of the milky way. the princess' buttery likeness will be on display during the fair's twelve-day run. >>> 17-year-old mike perrin was congratulated by his father

indians far player to be named later. he has a 9-8 record with a 5.37 e.r.a. pitching for cleveland this season.hunter's old number, 48, in minnesota. while carl pavano has had a mediocre 2009 season -- >> what to watch for tonight. we'll get to that in a moment, michelle. game two between the four-game set between the yankees and red sox. the yankees sale john smoltz to the showers after only three and one-thirdment smoltz giving up three earned runs. the yankees increase their lead over the red sox to three and a half in the a.l. east. and tonight at the the new yankee stadium, the red sox will try to bounce back from last night's 13-6 loss to the yanks. amelie benjamin covers the sox for "the boston globe" and she's also joining us here on espnews, she does right now on the phone. amelie, john smoltz shelled, eight earned runs in three and one-third. he's within designated for assignment by the team. is this the end of his career? >> i would imagine that this is the end of his career, mark. it seems that he just really couldn't put it all together. i was talking to jason varitek earlier, and