i you think the guy offensively other than delgado they miss is jose reyes.c an offensive player he is as far as with the triples and stolen bases and the average and not to forget that he's a high quality shortstop. >> gary: he's the ignition on the engine. 2-0 count to luis castillo. castillo batting ninth. switch hitter. runner at first base. shows bunt again. he's taking all the way. it's in there for a strike. on the season for castillo, right-handed .323, left-handed, .254. extra-base hit wise, a couple triples and six doubles. castillo uses his speed to try and get on, move runners around. lead at first, schneider who is not fast. that pitch is in there for a strike to him. the count will go to 2-2. >> jim: that's why when you get a -- get a 2-0 fastball which he took, let's take a look at jeremy's delivery. a little bit smoother. a lot of times that head will get going left is when he leavesballs up. >> gary: two ball, two strike count. runner not going. the pitch is way up high. the count will go to 3-2. 3-2 with one down. >> jim: it's never about ve

murphy at first base sharing time with fernando tatis with delgado out there have. they're in the happy with the offense being put up there. the offensive numbers of their first baseman we'll talk about later, but it's virtually zero. they're wondering whether they have to make a trade or whether they can wait for delgado. markakis really turned around the home plate umpire jeff kellogg after the last pitch and had a major conversation. he also -- kellogg looked over into the dugout as there was something being cawlgd there about a called strike. 1-2 delivery. that is inside. it will go to 2-2 on markakis. the orioles are hosting the mets here for the fifth time. last time mets played at camden yards was 0-1. last time these two teams played was '06. the overall record for the orioles, they have a 7-12 mark against the mets in interleague play. >> jim: you're seeing a little bit of jeremy guthrie right here with mike pelfrey. he's trying to get and stean establish all his pitches in the first inning when -- that's why we're going to get to a high pitch count here. s

. >> jim: the one thing you're to the going oh get from daniel murphy is a home run guy like delgado.>> gary: a lot of work if he can do that consistently. >> jim: because the mets come in, they're 6th in runs scored in the national league, but they're first in average, first in stolen bases. 14th in home runs out of 16 teams. you get the message. >> gary: on base percentage, moves people around. national league baseball. here's brian schneider. schneider has singled, rbi and a sac fly and he's grounded out. another ballgame in which the offenses have taken charge. 10 runs, 21 hits and 14 runners left on base so far in the game. that will miss inside. it will go 1-1 on schneider. it's been true for this ball club, the mets all year, 75% of their runs come on something other than homers. tonight they've had the home run from sheffield for one of them. but the other three have been, this a ground out. jim johnson working his second inning, a very effective 7th as he set is the side down in order and in a hurry. and went after it and missed it. two down. >> jim: good sinkatory a low ball

this year because of the injury to delgado, he's had to play first base. i watched him last week.rills. hit the ball the other way. jerry manuel and howard johnson, they almost tell you, hey, you've got to be a situational hitter. >> gary: here's a situation. fernando tatis, he's already had one grand slam this year. hendrickson has the sacks loaded here, only one away. and a tie ballgame. schneider is the lead runner now. in the dirt, wieters with the stop. as he did with cora, hendrickson falls behind on the count 2-0. dave trembley talking about the lefties in the bullpen before the game, he said you get three strikes when you're out there and you're brought in to get left-handers out. he said right now we're at two strikes. ground ball towards second base, there's one, relay, they get the double play!  >> tonight at adam jones bobblehead night. this orioles fan won the orioles.com adam jones bobblehead night v.i.p. experience contest. he had the chance to watch batting practice from the field. george also got great seats for tonight's game behind home plate. che

. >> jim: especially when you lose delgado with 39 home runs. we talked about his hip injury. i talked to the trainer, he said he's actually doing quite well. when you get to be in your late 30s, it's difficult to project that a guy will be back on a certain day. >> gary: another one fouled back. there will be no play. this is a 20-year-old out of the dominican republic who is only in his fourth professional season. a .282 hitter in the minors coming in this season. so a very young player getting a chance early because of injuries with the big club. martinez has had only 42 at- bats and it's only his 13th game since being recalled from triple-a. >> gary: that one in the air. it will be jones coming over. he's got it. two down here in the third inning. >> jim: a pretty good swing, but splitter just moved enough where he couldn't center it. and you know that it's, koji doesn't have a lot of those easy innings. a lot of splitters, trying to get them out in front. the problem has been maybe the 6th inning where they've seen it the third time through the order and the hitters have

you think about carlos delgado at first base, 38 home runs, over 100 r.b.i.s. 100 on the d.l. beltran. jose reyes 100 runs scored and david wright is now an average hitter, but he's not driving in as many runs or hitting as many home runs. the run production is down. the mets' lineup as far as their offense may not even qualify for a spring training game to put enough starters in there to actually put a represented club out there for a spring training buying a ticket. they are so hurt and they need help, and they need the play a perfect game on the offensive side of the ball. >> mets' manager jerry manuel says the team is entering a crucial period right now. how do they get out of it with some wins? >> well, the crucial period is they have milwaukee on the road. then you've got the fill -- phillies and then the cincinnati reds and the l.a. dodgers. they have a make-up game against pittsburgh. most of those teams are very, very solid. they're chasing the phillies, so they have to play well there, but they'll be undermanned. the pitching has to come through. that's been banged u

. >> we're here with aidan delgado, what does your title, the sutras of abu ghraib mean? >> for me it represents the lessons or teachings of abu ghraib. for me it's something not only the lessons we learned as a nation, but what i personally learned about myself serving at abu ghraib prison. >> what promised you to -- prompted you to write this book? >> i was reacting to what i perceived as other war novels out there, and i wanted to write a different war story that was about the moral or internal struggle that goes on in being a soldier, especially in the controversial war like the iraq war. >> why did you join the army? >> for a lot of reasons that were nebulous even to me. i think i wasn't fitting in very well at college, it was a bit of a culture shock to me coming from egypt, and i wanted to feel more american, more part of this american project. >> you mentioned that you grew up in egypt. how did that affect your choices to join the american army? >> well, i joined the american army almost on a whim, but having grown up in egypt strongly familiar with the muslim soc

think about here in the deadline for trades coming and whether or not he can get his first baseman delgadoack by the end of july. 1-0 delivery a strike on the outside corner ninth inning. melvin mora. mora struck out, grounded out and hit into a big double play this the sixth inning. orioles had a couple of runs on the homer by markakis. huff got a single. nobody out. then, the double play hit into by mora. that got pelfrey out of what looked like this might be a big inning. >> jim: yeah, you're down 4-0. you get one, two, three, four, five, six -- 6-7 players on base. only get two runs. that was the markakis home run. >> gary: that one down the line in right field. that's going to fall in. it's a base hit for melvin mora. picked up by ryan church. he'll get it back in. so, mora has a single to lead off the ninth inning. >> jim: well, their closer is still up in the bullpen,francisco rodriguez. again trying to come in. of course, 97. doesn't get it all the way in. melvin able to fight it off fair for a base hit. you will definitely take it. three more outs to work with. >> gary: 6-2 lead f