coghlan comes across with the first run. right behind him bonifacio. >> jim: what a turn aroundment hoarls two on and none out in the top of the first and did not score. now, the marlins take advantage of a walk and an error to get two in. here is the cleanup hitter, jorge cantu takes ball one. berken, third batter this inning he has fallen behind. cantu had the game-winning hit last night. he's hit in two straight games. 

coghlan, bonifacio and ramirez.appenry ramirez leading the marlins, 83 hits, 42 runs scored and 21 doubles. jorge cantu, jeremy hermida, cody ross, john baker and andrew miller. >> buck: now it is time for the pnc scouting report for uehara. a fastball leads the way. he has a variety of pitches, but it is all about the fastball. he doesn't give up any walks. he has four walk-free starts in 11 starts this year. a cool night here in miami. it might be good results for koji uehara. everybody is a little anxious whenever that thermometer gets up over 90 degrees. it is a cool night relative to what it has been down here in south florida. >> jim: yesterday it got up to 98 degrees in miami. the sun was out the ma majority of the day and there's why it got that warm an was very muggy. when the front went through here about three hours ago, it took some of that weather with it. coghlan, 24 years old. he is a rookie. koji misses inside, 2-1. there is the game-time temperatures, buck, for koji uehara's starts. >> buck: he had

leadoff batter for the marlins chris coghlan.r eight he told me because he loved cal ripken, jr. growing up. he grew up in rockville, maryland, till he was 9 years old and then his parents moved to tampa where he would see the orioles in spring training. he always wanted to meel meet cal. when he was 7 years old, his patients took him to camden yards and waited for the right- field line to meet cal ripken. he was going to throw his hat and ball on the field so cal would drop it. he thought would he pick it up, sign it and give it back to him, but chris' timing was all wrong. he threw the hat and ball behind cal and toad beg a security guard to get his hat and ball back. he says hopefully now that i'm in the big leagues, i'll have a clabs to -- clans to meet cal ripken. >> jim: well, if the orioles hosted the marlins, we might have made that happen. that's a nice story out of rockville, maryland. >> buck: yeah, i can see him too an 8-year-old going he's going to pickup my hat and, would you sign it, plees please. he never saw it.

we don't know much about chris coghlan coghlan just left, the left fielder. haven't seen much of him. >> rob: this has been one of the things west has to work on. 18 walks in less than 40 innings pitched coming into tonight. of those 18, a lot of them have scored on those home runs. allowed 42 pitches -- he doesn't give up a lot of hits. hits those fly balls. he walked a lot of guys. kind of like shairon martis. he finished up about 29 39 walks and 32 strikeouts. that's not the kind of ratio you want. west came into tonight, 24 strikeouts, 18 walks in 40 innings. he's a big, strong kid, but you have to throw strikes at this level. >> bob: leadoff man, guzman next. he's gone 2-1 on the pitcher stammen. that ball -- well, fortunately, we heard a thud. that means it hit off the padding in the marlins dugout. that was scrambling some guys. a tradition of innovation isfirestone. road e.r.a.s by rookies. out of play. so, stammen stays long enough in the batter's box for us to get down to his e.r.a., number five, 2.70 on the road. he's a true professional. he's stil

and down on strikes goes coghlan and the side is retired. second time tonight that rich hill has retired the side in order. three up, three down. orioles coming up in the fifth down by five.  >> jim: marlins have a pa home runs with a 5-0 lead over the orioles. orioles back home at camden yards interleague play. nats are in town. it's student night presented by at&t. students of any age can receive a left field upper reserve seat for just $6 and it's fireworks night presented by aaa mid- atlantic. students can stay after the game -- fans can stay after the game. call fom 888-848-bird or orioles.com. sean west on the mound going against ross detwiler. >> buck: nobody was anticipating that possible return of smoltz to the rotation against the atlanta braves. the red sox go there beginning a three-game series tomorrow. i think they made a good move not creating a little more hoopla around his return by starting him in atlanta. >> jim: doin bounce it is to secondment uggla charges -- andino bounces one to second. uggla ret

coghlan dreams, the guy ends up committing suicide. be coghlan's dream. >> bob: this guy realized his. >> robs. >> bob: startethe season at o, foul ball, and zimmerman couldn't get it. that would have been interesting. because the r at third brett carrl as going to pp tÑhsvw añ$$$ólÑÑñ60óófÑ so ii that was d g cxcxe' games at new orleans, called up on may 8. he was taken in the compensation round of the 06 draft. so this is only his fourth professional season. big breaking ball, he levels off and singles it into right field. it's a 2-1 game. scott olsen got that pitch up. and for coghlan, his 12th rbi. >> rob: here's the pitch location on the pitch track. going to be a hanging curveball. coghlan fights it off for a single just over the infield. works perfectly to drive in a run. >> bob: he never really was a lead-off man until he made it to the major leagues. here's emilio bonifacio who as we saw in the first week of the season is good as a right- handed batter at hitting the ball the other way. he's goin

coghlan at the plate is the only left-hand batter of the position players.onifacio, who is on deck, is a switch hitter. he'll bat from the right side. there's a strike as rich hill comes back. 1-1 the count. >> buck: time for the pnc scouting report for rich hill. fastball, curve ball, changeup. he made a great, early adjustment last night owm -- time out against the phillies and had a couple of good at- bats that led to an rbi. might be an asset for him tonight as he'll get chance to hit. >> jim: he even pinch-hit one time in this series because dave trembley ran out of position players. there are the numbers for rich on the year making his eighth start. 1-2, he got him. good curve ball down and away. coghlan down on strikes. one away. >> buck: can throw a lot of striems strikes with his fastball. you're going to see a lot of these ugly swings on his curve ball because nobody can stay back. it's a big, wide sweeper. you don't see many big breaking balls like rich hill's. that's why it's so effective and allows him to retire coghlan so easily to start the ga

coghlan bobbled the ball. it was kind of academic. markakis got a good jump.ing -- he was going to score anyway. aubrey huff had to hold his ground at second base. melvin mora delivers another big hit. >> jim: so, for melvin, he picks up his 18th rbi. it's his 14th multihit game. here is luke scott. tying run at second. go-ahead run at first. curve for a strike at the outside corner. luke did not like the call by chad fairchild. here is tim wood the only reliever on the team last night who did not get in the game. >> buck: tim wood has not pitched in a major league game yet. so, if he gets in this ballgame, it will be his major league debut. >> jim: 0-1 on scott. foul. that one rode in on him. 1-2. that gives you the idea of the fastball movement on nolasco. when scott went after that, he had a pretty good sight on it. by the time the bat made contact, he was fisted. >> buck: nolasco did what hitters hate. throw strikes to both sides of the plate. >> jim: scott in the hole, 0-2. two unearned runs in. orioles back in it 3-2. and he got him. scott down on strike

back on it is coghlan and that ball is gone!ing the op ere is his second big league home run and the orioles are trying to chip back here in the eighth. each of his home runs batting from the left and each f his home runs hit the opposite way. >> buck: you can see why people are excited about the potential of matt wieters. this is easy wer. that ball is up probably boarder line high, but he drills it deep into the seats, high above the scoreboard in left field. that got out of here in a hurry. >> jim: number two for wieters and here is andino and he hits a ball towards the gap in left center field. over quickly is coghlan to cut it off and robert andino is on with a single here. still nobody down. so andino extends his hitting streak to three straight. that ball is a rope. >> buck: not wasting any time stepping in and ripping that fastball do left field. robert andino. he came up with the marlins and he played shortstop a lot in 2005, and jorge cantu giving him the business. but once they got hanley ramirez, his shortstop days

that looked like the split inside. >> buck: coghlan is is a good hitter. he came to camp and he is a second baseman. you look around the club and say, 2áb, i don't think i'm going to get a place there. so i they moved him to the outfield to take advantage of his speed and bat. he started out in the minors playing left field and he has come up here and continued to swing the bat well. >> jim: he is just 24 years old. he played in college at the university of mississippi. 74 rbi's last year in just 132 games. >> buck: that grabs your attention if you're looking at minor league stats. you have to find a position for him and so far it is in left field. >> jim: 1-2 the count on chris cog lain. two on, one down and a run in. and that is a base hit off the bag! melvin mora has it and has no play, but the orioles were helped out as that ball hit, and instead of a double down the line, it is an infield single. that was a big break for uehara. >> buck: boy, it sure is is. that was going to produce run one an maybe two and it goes straight up in the air. wally bell g

right there is coghlan. two men down in the orioles ninth. let's get an update on our at&t player of the game voting. brian roberts, 79%. melvin mora, 6%. bonifacio, 15%. still time for you to text in your vote and have your voice heard a, b or c to 51862 and tom and rick will have results coming up on "o's xtra" post- game. so, here is matt wieters representing the orioles last hope. remember, last night it was two out, nobody on when the rally got going. the differences within the divisions and the quality of the teams in the a. l. east and the n. l. east. the phillies tonight are trailing in tampa 7-1. that game in the ninth inning. the rays have the lead. right now, the marlins with a win would go one game above .500, 37-36. they would be two games out of first place. the phillies game holds and this leede liu -- and this lead holds. red sox meantime are 43-27 in first place in the a. l. east. so, they are 16 above .500. orioles began play as the only team in the east below .500. tampa bay is two above. they're seven outs. one above would

coghlan takes forever to try to track it down.when you have a shift on and you see ryan zimmerman, two outs running on contact, come on, ryan. come on. you can do it. scores easily. very nice. a couple of two-out knocks right there. >> bob: with that run, marlins have given up 55 runs in the first inning this year more than any other frame. that's the hall mark of having some young pitchers on your staff. here is josh willingham. josh put good swings on the ball last night. 2-4, flied to center. hit the ball pretty solidly, but that ended the ballgame with two men aboard in the ninth. nothing like two-out hits. maybe the nats can cash another one here. josh has driven in 16. over his last 18 games, he's hitting .407. look at that hit streak averaging almost two hits a game. he's hitting ..33 over his last seven games. -- .333 over his last seven games. that ball well hit to right. and moving over to cover the ground is jeremy hermida. so, nats get a zimmerman single a-dunn double with two outs in the first to get on the board firs

coghlan last year was in double- a ball.an impression in spring training and now getting a chance to play. as buck mentioned, they even switched his position to get his bat in the lineup. this is low again. ball two. this is only berken's second start away from oriole park this year just a coincidence of the schedule. baker, the catcher, leads from second base. four starts at home, and his e.r.a. at home, 4.30. it's one start on the road. he'd rather forget. nine earned runs in just 3 1/3 innings at oakland. this is only his second start away from baltimore. breaking ball first strike. good pitch. >> buck: oakland abused the orioles starters in that series. now two of the starters nought that inning. now berken didn't get out of four. that was a real test for the orioles bullpen. they hung in there. the bullpen really pitched well over that weekend as they wrapped up that six-game west coast swing. >> jim: 2-2 on coghlan. ground ball towards short. andino waits on the hop and gets to first in time and out of it is jason berk

here is chris coghlan, the leadoff man. there's a strike. >> buck: coghlan had an interesting night 1-4. that double came in the third inning and he struck out in his other three at-bats. he's down in the count 0-#. chris ray got himself into a jam not trying to get out of it and keep this as is already trailing the orioles by six runs with only one more at-bat. 0-2 on coghlan, the left fielder. ground ball to first. wigginton will come to the plate to cut off the run and in throw back to first base. is that right play by wigginton not to get hit hard enough by two. he breaks off the run. two men are down in the florida eighth inning. this copyrighted telecast presented by authority of the orioles. may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and accounts and description of this guy may not be disseminated without express written consent of the orioles. two down. here is bonifacio. a very good series against the orioles. lined to left field and that ball for a base hit. ross scores. the other runner held at third. car

chris coghlan and emilio bonifacio score.ick markakis hit a ground ball to the shortstop and third baseman. bonifacio with two outs. he boots it. brian roberts scores the first run. then 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 pitche

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coghlan is out. one away.'s once again visit with amber. >> amber: this weekend, they take on the nationals. sunday, koji uehara is scheduled to pitch, but it appears that start could be in jeopardy after yesterday's game koji told manager dave trembley that he's feeling fatigued in his elbow. today, dave told the media it's up to koji whether or not he's able to pitch on sunday. he will throw a bullpen session on friday. that's when a decision could be made. with all of these issues, the hamstringish, you're the duratiue, the question was d whether or not t putting him in the bullpen. dave said sfarls i know right now, we are not discussing putting him in the bullpen. he is a starter for us. we're going to try to keep him there in thele all-star break and we'll re-evaluate. jim? >> jim: amber, thank you very much. this is one of the things about this organization now, buck, that is such a better problem, if you will. we know there are more prospects on the way. david hernandez has been here and he's gone back

carroll back to first base and back to the top of the lineup for chris coghlan. >> buck: coghlan doubled in his second at-bat sandwiched by two strikeouts. struck out on the first on a breaking ball and struck out in the fourth inning also object a -- also on a breaking ball. had a double as part of the three-run third inning. >> jim: brett carroll leading from first with two men out. sliced foul. this is one of the few stadiums that i have noticed during the game as we're waiting for the orioles to start batting practice in front of the dughts dugouts there are no fences to protect the players on the bench. i guess that's in part because this is a dual stadium and those dugouts do literally disappear when they play football in here. that pitch down and in and coghlan can't reach it. he's down on strikes and the inning ends. a one-out single and a man left. we'll head to the seventh. birds need runs down by six. s. s. - 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. ♪ commuté. with a mcdonald's mc

. >> bob: diaz is a stays in to replace coghlan in the left field. with the rain falling, top of the ninth. dan meyer, a rather inexperienced closer. especially has one major league save. it's for the marlins this year. >> bob: it's possible he could get the first two hitters, then nunez could come in to face zimmerman because he's warming up. fredi gonzalez is mix and matching his bullpen here with matt lidstrom on the d.l. >> rob: he loves room service. >> bob: 27-year-old lefty. two games for atlanta in 04, oakland in 07-08. guzman flies one out of play. cristian guzman has to lay off of that pitch. he's not going to hit it out of the ballpark. the nats need him slashing ground balls and line drives. >> rob: don't help this kid. he's going to throw one chest high to you, let it go. >> bob: you don't need a home run to tie the game here. >> rob: need some base runners. you need at least one base runner to tie it up. >> bob: nick's been good against left-handers. then there's zimmerman. right side, and two, to the pitcher. the top of the order tonig

right on the bag, right on the runner's arm and coghlan gone for the second out. you couldn't throw it or place it any better. >> rob: but watch how quickly wil nieves gets up and just one fired strike right to the bag. beautiful. watch how he just gets up, doesn't try to shake off the mask, just throw it, great tag by anderson hernandez, right down on the bag. >> bob: two outs, bonifacio shows bunt once again. >> rob: they teach catchers to throw from the ear. you don't reach behind you like a pitcher. you have to come right up to your ear and just fire. as quick motion as you can possibly do. olsen got him the ball really

nolasco sacrifice bunt, coghlan singles to right field, carroll scores. then after bonifacio triples to deep center field, ball that willie almost ran down, hanley ramirez hitting .333 coming into this game. one of the best players in all of baseball singles up the middle. nolasco k'd, replay here on the pitch track as he gets a slider down and in to ramirez, cantu chases. seven strikeouts on the night. couldn't pitch much better. glad to have you back and glad that he's healthy. >> take a look at olsen's numbers tonight. gives up six hits, two of the runs were earned. didn't walk anybody. that's amazing for a guy that's been out of the rotation for more than a month. he strikes out seven. five ground outs, eight fly outs, 94 pitches, 66 strikes and 28 balls. >> that is great command. i always look for 70% on the top side strikes. that's a little over 70% there. he just threw his breaking ball very effectively around the plate, his change-up was good. he just pitched, the way we remembered him pitching. as i think bob said, this is a guy that we acquired.

the rookie lead-off man chris coghlan next, then emilio bonifacio and hanley ramirez.heir top three hitters are 4 for 9 tonight. the nats are 0 for 10. scott olsen finishes with 94 pitches, 66 strikes. oh, what a night. nats couldn't get him a run in the 8th to make him a rainer. ron villone has to hold the marlins. he's battled back now to make the count 3-2 on wes helms. that's a base hit. inside the bag, willingham has a long way to go. if helms was a fast runner, he'd have a triple. there's another runner going to second base looking back over his shoulder to see where the ball is. good running, i mean good hitting, not very good running. but he's at he could base with nobody out. they have probably pinch run for him here. >> rob: wes helms is always known for his hitting and his infield play. inside off the bag. knows he's got at least two. he doesn't even think about three. never looked at the coach at third. >> bob: deaza will be the pinch runner here. the scouting report on coghlan is that he doesn't really bunt for base hits, because as we mentioned earlier, h

watch the leadoff batter for them coghlan. no chance to hit that curve ball. another good one on the outside corner to bonifacio. both ramirez go ahead and pitch down. that's how good it is. they know it's coming. they still can't hit it. later in the game, he tries this little cutter that moves insidement he doesn't get away with it. right here, we already see cody ross with a power shot to left field. another home run on the season. his 13th. here again, uggla, he just monsterred this ball into the seeth seats and it's the same pitch cody ross hit. we're going to have to come up with something because rich hill is awesome with that curve ball. we've got to find one other really good pitch that he can throw that will cueto those -- get those people off the curve ball. you just can't continue to throw that many curve balls. it's too much stress on the elbow. you've got dom up with something that moves away from right-handed hitters. everything you -- everything you know, fastball is fairly strai. gets away with it sometimes weapon he use thaz fastball up in th

opponents hilling over .300  against the right-hander. >> jim: here is coghlan, the lead-off hitter, fouled it back. as opposed to the marlins who have just tim wood left in their bullpen, the orioles still have albers. they still have hendrickson and george sherrill. so jim johnson giving them two innings and chris ray an inning and 2/3 has helped at least preserve a few more arms. ground ball sharply hit to short. wigginton has it and gets it across and a three up, three down inning for brian bass and on we go. we head to the 12th and the top of the lineup is coming up. brian roberts, nick markakis and adam jones in this tie game. ? ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. >> jim: the american flag i downtown miami on this breezy night, at least it was earlier. right there in the middle of downtown atop of that tall building, and here is the a.l. east versus the n.l. east in the interleague there y

this ball slicing toward the corner, and over there to grab it, chris coghlan.t some interesting plays in that part of this ballpark. josh willingham played 12 games in 04, 16 in 05, so he was one of those guys in 06. so 12 of the last 13 nats batters retired by ricky nolasco. here's zimmerman who took him way deep leading off the second. ryan takes his first pitch of the night. he'd only seen two pitches. homered on one, popped up on the other. >> rob: he gets a hard slider there. nolasco pulling another trick out of his magician's hat. he's got a lot of pitches, this kid. >> bob: usually that would indicate fastball, but he tried to go front door with another hook. >> rob: he dropped down, threw like a sidearm slider. >> bob: ronny paulino was considered a very good young defensive catcher when the pirates had him. he and john baker, left-handed batter the platoon here. ricky nolasco career, 31-27. his 62nd career start. he doesn't have that many more starts, about 11 more than john lannan. he did work out of the bullpen some. zimmerman takes another breaking

. >> jim: so here is johnson basing chris coghlan, the lead- off batter.o every player on the orioles' bench has been used in this game as well as jeremy guthrie, a pinch runner. >> buck: we talk about no give- up in this oriole ball club and they have proved it on saturday night, sun and tuesday in the opener of this three-game series. >> jim: there is a strike. 2-1. the marlins have -- >> buck: dave them bring using his score card reminding him who is in and who is out and things happen in a hurry and you have to do a lot of crossing out and rewriting positions and who is available. >> jim: ground ball to short and testing wigginton right away and one down. there are two players left on the marlins' bench. carroll came on defensively and he is in hermida's spot, i think. they could have put the pitcher in there, although that spot coming up before the pitcher, so it is likely that carroll is in the number five spot in the lineup. there is fred drink gonzales on the other side. >> buck: freddy still has amezaga, de aza and paulino, three players on their

the rest of the marlins lineup, chris coghlan in left field leading off the batting order for florida hanley ramirez with the .333 average will be the shortstop. jorge cantu at first. then comes jeremy hermida. dan uggla, cody ross in center, john baker catching and sean west on the mound tonight. bonifacio, 18 infield hits this year. that's third in the national league. now, for manny acta for the washington nationals, elijah dukes .284 batting average. runners in scoring position. overall season average at .237. he has nine outfield assists. that's tops in the major leagues, but only 4-32 his last 10 ballgames. look for elijah to hopefully break out of that slump tonight against the marlins. cristian guzman leads off. he'll be at shortstop. nick johnson, the number two hole. then comes ryan zimmerman, adam dunn, josh willingham in right against his former ball club. elijah will be in center field tonight with a .237 average. second base will be handled by alberto gonzalez. wil nieves will be catching and craig stammen on the mound for the nationals with a team batting average of .25

. ♪ ba da ba ba ba >> wieters auto high fly ball to left field and coghlan and that ball is gone.ters is going the opposite way. there's a second big league home run and the orioles are trying to chip back here in the eighth. >> matt wieters with a pretty good time over the last 10 games. 13 hits in 37 trip0s the plate. he has hit .351 during that period acouple of home runs, six rbi's, six runs scored and three doubles. when you look back at wieters, it looks like he has finally gotten into a groove. >> it is safe to say that swing has shortened up like to when he was in the minors. at first his swing got real long and as of now he is showing a lot of confidence with his swing. it is very short. it is very quick. he's going with the pitch, and he's going with the pitch from power. second home run on his career. both of them are opposite. that one tonight got out of the ballpark and a bullet. a shot. again, he showed you just what he is capable of doing a good fastball down and in. he still gets the head of the bat on it. he drives it by the first baseman. two hits for matt wieter