felix pie in center field. adam jones gets the night off. nick markakis and aubrey huff, melvin mora in the -- melvin mora in the middle with luke scott in left field. nolan reimold not starting tonight. matt wieters in the seven spot. 2-4 last night and a solo home run and an rbi single. robert andino at short and jason berken on the mound will bat for the first time as a beleaguer. >> buck: now, it's time for the pnc scouting report for the left-hander ricky nolasco. he has a -- right-hander ricky nolasco. he has a snappy hook. one if you're not aware of it. throws over the top a 12:00- 6:00 breaking ball. he's been more aggressive. he was optioned to the minor leagues may 23 and made two starts in trim and at got a little more aggressive. he was tentative. he was pitching around the plate not being aggressive enough. it really cost him. you could see his e.r.a. is 7.15 for the season rand the league has hit .315 against a guy that won 15 games last year. behind nolasco, this team committed one error last night. they have r57 on the season

felix pie singled behind him. roberts breaks for thiferd. pie was late breaking for second and stops and gets tagged out easily. then, marlins they too had mistakes. uggla hits what he thinks is an rbi single. nick markakis throws out jeremy hermida. his eighth assist of the season. look at uggla. he's got to be on second base with that throw to the plate. he would later not score on a ground-ruled double to center field. here, bonifacio on the error by the wieters just keeps running around third base when felix pie held the ball. when you have a base runner on base in a tight game like that and he is a fast runner like bonifacio, unload it in a hurry. get it to sene on the -- somebody on the infield and out of your hands. bonifacio did a good job of brung baserunning by going to third base, looking back at pie seeing that pie held on to the ball. once he saw, that

felix pie out of the line up. this is in the 3rd inning. one at bat in this game as the ball bounced up and hit him in the throat. he stayed on. finished the at bat. struck out. did not come out to play defense. and he is being treated. we do not have a further update on his condition. >> buck: having that happen to me as a catcher, you're so vulnerable there to injury. hope it's nothing serious as pie gets checked out. >> gary: he got the worst of it as he surrendered the three rbi homer. charged with the three runs and the homer. nick markakis leading off here against the left hander. claimed off waivers from minnesota. he's worked eight times now nine giving up couple runs, three hits in seven and a third innings since joining the ball club. working out of the bullpen. markakis 2-3. double, single and grounded out and struck out. starts with a k one away here in theth. and time now to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. candidates tonight giambi came out of the ball game but before he left he had a bases loaded double. cab

felix pie will lead off. felix singled his first at-bat. he is giving adam jones a night off. by the way, that first game of the home stand will be brad bergesen against ross detwiler. bergesen is pitching very well gets the first game of the home stand. pie takes the strike. 1-1. nolasco, a fourth-round pick of the chicago cubs in two- on-one. -- in 2001. he's another of the many major league players that when they were acquired by their big league teams, they may not have been well known to fans, but it's another tribute to scouting. he was a pitcher in double-a at the time and he was picked up in a trade with the cubs. it was 3-1, juan -- 3-1. juan pierre went to chicago. pie lines it to left field. on the ball is coghlan. makes a diving catch! he trapped it. excuse me. i thought he had it. >> buck: he had it in his glove initially. when he hit the ground, it snapped out of his glove and landed safely on the turf. right here he has it for a while but just rattled around. looks like it might have hit him right in the face. he's able to keep it in front of him. he should have

what a mental mistake by felix pie. he held the baseball! bonifacio looked up. saw that pie still had it and he -- and he runs all the way to the plate. >> buck: boy, what a mistake. matt wieters digs the ball out of the dirt. never got a good grip on the baseball and throws it into center. look at bonifacio watch this play. he turns around to see what pie is going to do and never stops. pie through the ball -- threw the ball to second and that's costly. look at the indecisive -- he didn't know what to do. last thing you do is hold it. first thing do you is get it back to the infield as quick as possible. credit bonifacio for running with his head up. he had an idea before he ever touched third base that he could score on that ball in center field. >> jim: bonifacio went on a good pitch because the pitch was in the dirt. wieters' throw sailes sailed. the first error charged to wieters and then pie just went to sleep. you cannot hold the baseball in the outfield. you just can't do it. >> buck: it's one of the most explosive base runners in the game. he's got trem

felix pie doesn't run behind brian roberts gets thrown out very easily. then, you have a leadoff walk and an error and severing kind of flat. he said right in the first inning, you had them on the ropes. you could have knocked ricky nolasco out of the game in the first inning and let him off the hook. you don't score a run from third base with less than two outs in qur first at-bat and that settle a bad stoan tone for the team the rest of the night. >> orioles now looking to salvage the finale in the series. it would be a 4-2 road trip if they could pull it off. so, they'll hand the baseball to rich hill and make sure he can get it done. let's send it back to the studio. >> thanks for jim and buck. they return tomorrow. this aubrey just 23 with cleveland's first pick in the 2003 draft. the 11th player pick. orioles picked nick markakis in that pick for the seventh pick instead of aubrey. aubrey joins jeremy guthrie as the number one draft choices acquired by the orioles with 29 rbi's at columbus and reports to norfolk, plays first base. brian schneider na

. >> jim: oscar sal la star is going do pitch pinch hit for felix pie. because of the pitching change, pie will be lifted for sal la star as the orioles are run out of time here trying to get back in here. >> buck: what a good pinch hitter sal la star has been with andino at first base. he'll come here and try to keep this rally going a lead-off home run, base hit, nobody out. salazar will pinch hit for felix pie who technically took over defensively in the second inning. >> jim: so salazar will bat and andino is on at first base and still nobody down. they had a five-run bottom of the seventh and the orioles are trying to get back in it here in the eighth. dan meyer was originally drafted by the braves and made his way to oakland as buck mentioned and the marlins got him on a waiver. and here is salazar, and he intakes high, 1-0. >> buck: oscar had a big at-bat sunday against cole hamels and that came as he pinch hit with robert andino at second base. he hit a ground ball to the right side to move the base runner up to third and set the table for brian

felix pie will try to resume here. he's at bat with a 2-2 count. cahill tossed a couple while waiting there. the delivery is swung out and miss. cahill off to a start here as he's got three strikeouts already. one down in the 3rd inning. >> buck: that's a pretty good combination. that looked like a fastball that just got up and away from pie. with two strikes he chased and couldn't make contact. >> gary: the orioles struck out nine times in last night's game without getting a walk as we were talking about earlier. both sides of the coin have changed for the o's as they were not striking out at all. in fact they were leading the american league in fewest strikeouts. they are striking out and they are not getting walks. he knows he's going to be in the line up now on a daily basis until izturis can get back. he played outstanding defense in the ball game last night. batting is just .239. 0-3 at the plate. cahill's pitch is in there for a strike. 2-1. orioles on this road trip just seeing the offense disappear. taken down low. showed you the numbers h

felix pie coming off the bench to pinch-hit. pie had a tough game last night even though he did have two hits. >> buck: he got thrown out in the back end of a double steal in the first inning after the first two batters for the orioles get on base. that kind of took the air out of the balloon early on. then, he had a miscue and a misplay when bonifacio scored in the seventh inning on a steal and error and pie is holding on to the baseball.  >> jim: pie has just in june coming into tonight. 4-10. there's a bouncer to third. bonifacio battling. a long throw, safe at first base! another close play and this one goes the way of the runner. that will be an infield hit for felix pie. >> buck: you picked up on it. bonifacio playing in his home ballpark. that bouncing ball gets in nice. watch how he's trying to look around the lights. actually plays the ball off to the side. pie extends that leg out, steps on the bag before the ball is in the glove of the first baseman. see how he plays around that

. >> obviously, felix pie had a tough game last night. it seemed like pie had trouble in more ways than one. >> you saw what felix pie said in that interview did he forget who is running. you cannot do that at the major league level. when you take a guy like this and look at him overall, you say what kind of player do we have. he's a player. he has all the talent you want to see in a major league player. he has the power, the speed, ability to hit for average. he has everything you want. he has a good arm. all of those tools put together, but he can't play right now at the major league level. this is where if he's going to be here right now, you take a kid like that off to the side and start to nail him on every little thing that he says and does just like he admitted right now thr i didn't no who was running. can't forget that. all the little things that he does, not throwing to the right base, lackadaisical at times. here is a guy who could be animpact player on your ball club. i love his talent and his speed and power. he's got to star

felix pie will hopefully get t tied. rodriguez looking back. reimold it get it by. >> this will be the 27th pinch hit for the orioles. mets have 88. all the bench players. double switches. no dh. >> gary: 2-0 count to reimold. and it's ball 3 outside. reimold will be followed by brian roberts at the top of te order. 23,009 on hand, the announced attendance. 3-0 delivery, reimold taken al the way. and it's in there for a strik. like livan hernandez who stard the game, rodriguez a lower average by hitters when there are runners on base. 83.083 with runners on. .197 when bases are empty. there's the 3-1 delivery. reimold will take it. ball 4. two on, nobody out, 9th inning. here is how the voting is g. you can still text in your vo results owner the os extra post game show. >> jim: the pitching coach is going to come out, and how wih we going to defense this bunt? if you bunts them over, if you're dave trembly, you comep th the same situation, except with one out. adam jones who has been struggling

felix pie gives adam jones the night o his eighth start in center. nick markakis in right. mora, andino, roberts and huff, third to first on the infield and matt wieters is behind the plate for jason berken here. not a good start for the skipper. >> jim: jeremy hermida now, first and second. still nobody out. fastball is outside. 1-0. hanley ramirez at second. cantu at first with a left- hander up. you see huff playing behind the runner at first. ground ball slowly at short. andino back to first. double play! just gom him. nice pivot by roberts. two men down. now, if berken can get an out, he's out of it with only the two runs. >> buck: not that sharply hit. andino shovels quickly to brian roberts. gets around to second base to first to against him. brian roberts did a heck of a job of turning it quickly. >> jim: ramirez ends up at third now with two men down. here is dan uggla, the second baseman.  dan uggla batting in the spot. he's 3-15 last, however, 2-3 hits home runs. >> buck: he's kind of an all or knot nothing guy hitting .217 w

felix pie got all of it. it will be hauled in. davis got to it. the world's most refresh feeling. >> buck: in the 1st inning, jack cust was hitting with two aboard, nobody out. he squares up on that high change-up from jeremy guthrie, drills it to the wall in centerfield over the wall, his 9th homerun of the season. >> gary: one away in the 9th inning. no lan reimold will get his first at-bat. did not start in the ballgame. he came on for nick markakis in right. strike taken. after the ballgame got out of hand. orioles did not get on the board until scott hit a homerun in the 7th. with two down. his 13th of the year. that is the only extra base hit that the orioles have in the ballgame and the only runner who passed second tonight. the o's stranded just 2, 1 in the 1st and 1 in the 2nd. >> buck: of this scored a total of 6 runs on this trip. they were fortunate to win the first game 1-0. >> gary: the bats have just disappeared. 9 runs in 6 games and the orioles don't score anymore in this one. one down in the 9th inning. springer, 1-2 delivery. re

felix pie had to leave because of an injury to his throat. he drove in three.ing clean up. orioles still lose by a count 9- 4. birds have dropped six of their last seven. for more on the orioles on latest losses go back to oakland and visit with buck and gary guilty or not guilty thanks very much. very disappointing getting behind in these two games so early taking the stuffing out for the o's. they got runnings late the offense is doing what they weren't doing. they are getting strikeouts. they weren't doing that before. >> you hate to put so much on the starting pitching, but when you fall behind early difficult as hitters to focus. and they were up against a guy they'd not seen before in transfer cahill. a tremendous sinker early in the ball game and led to a lot of early strikeouts. the thing about cahill when you don't see a guy before, you want to be patient and look at him and unfortunately they were so far behind they couldn't use that approach. one of four on the road trip so far. i don't care who you are or how well you pitch you can't win games where

it's felix pie who is 2-2. pie starting in center field tonight. strike on the inside corner. >> buck: two hits tonight. only two hits in his previous nine games. his playing time has been reduced dramatically. >> jim: roberts at second. orioles trying to get on the board here in the sixth inning. pie takes. gets the call. 1-1. nolasco won one here at home. his other two on the road. he is a winning pitcher in his career as he battles pie here with a runner at second and one down. 2k3wr0u7d ground to first base. fielded there by -- fielded there by jorge cantu. pie is retired as roberts moves to third now with two men down. this copyrighted telecast presented by authority of the orioles may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent of the orioles. once again, a two-out base hit as roberts reaches third second time in this game he's been there. markakis not only is 0-2. he's struck out in each at-bat>> buck: he's under .290 now. it's been a real b

nolan will hit for the first time as felix pie batted in the first inning, batted a ball off his throathad to be taken out of the game. >> gary: finished up his at bat but did not come back out on to the field. and he moves onto take his place in left field. take the pitch down low. and a 1-1 count. cahill is not walked anybody. he has struck out four. one shy of his high. he has hit twice this season. runner at 1st base, he's down to 3rd. hannahan, reload. kennedy. double play. [ cheering and applause ] no runs. one hit. no errors and nobody left on base. bottom after the 59 co u

felix pie scores. k-rod entered the game with a 4.56 e.r.a.rs 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 him. wimbledon gets under way monday on espn2. >> mother nature washes out the open's first round. what this means for tiger and the rest of the field. top stories on the way. >> i'm eric karabell with your fantasy news. let's look at information you need to know fo

felix pie will pinch run to get more speed on there.oles looking for an insurance run and melvin mora takes a strike. melvin, 0 for 3. struck out his last at-bat. orioles have eight hits tonight after getting 16 last night. a win by the orioles would increase their interleague record to 11-6. and they're trying it put together a winning month. they would also move within a game of .500 in june. they would be 11 and 12 this month. >> rob: they would also go to 13 of 17 against national league teams at camden yards in interleague play. >> jim p.: obviously not all this year. dave trembley knows also when this weekend ends, you're back for at least for a while, you've got three games against the red sox, then you've, you're in and out of baltimore going to anaheim and going to seattle. then you come back, and play toronto, then the all-star break, then you've got a nine day trip to chicago, new york and boston. so win as many games as you can. >> jim h.: the orioles have won four of their interleague series and lost the one in florida when

felix pie -- come on in. k-rod entered the game with a .56 e.r.a. ends up blowing the save.y huff, second straight game, deciding hit, o's end up winning it 5-4. >> still to come, mother nature washes out the open's first round. what this means for tiger and the rest of the field. the rest of the field. stay current with espnews. - ( cheerful tune playing ) - learned how to change my own oil. think i did something wrong! but you know how pricey these german cars are to maintain. right? max: actually, volkswagen has no-charge scheduled carefree maintenance. even the cc. ( chuckles ) ...no charge. even on the cc. bus: you know what they say about the best things in life, amigo. that's awesome... for volkswagen owners. ( cheerful tune playing ) >> the nhl awards show was in las vegas, thursday night. 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 1980-1987. ovechkin also won the lester pearson award as the most o

gregg zaun is tonight's catcher and felix pie plays in left field. dave tells us why he made the changes. >> i'm trying to do what i can to help the team. it's not one particular guy. it's just mix the lineup up so we can help the team and get a little more offensive and score runs and win tonight. that's what that's all about. >> luke scott again is hitting clean up tonight. 13 home runs for the season including nine in his last 12 games. rick, is luke scott a clean up hitter? >> we don't know until we give him a chance. right now the way the things are going for the orioles not getting many runs or even hits but the one guy who is is luke scott. you kind of have to give him a shot. he's been the guy that backed up the number four hitter. gives stability to the offensive lineup in that respect. throw him in the number four spot because the way things are going right now it's not working. i like the moves he made. markakis back to the second slot and jones to the third slot. jones should never really be a number two guy. it worked for the first month

so felix pie comes on in left field in the double switch. made the final out of the seventh inning. so chris ray and pie will bat in the nine spot. outside. >> buck: chris ray threw the ball well in triple-a. he had a 2.25 e.r.a. >> jim: outside, 2-2. >> gary: the thing for chris ray was the election of his pitches. he threw a few too many pitches up in the zone, and his focus and concentration will be to keep the same arm angle and to try to get the brail down in the zone where he is most effective. >> jim: making his first appearance for the orioles since may 27 when he pitched against the blue jays. so a tough outing for danys baez as jorge cantu gets one into right center field. jones and markakis. jones calls and he has it for the out and there is the second out of the inning. fans, on sunday, july 12th, come on out to oriole park for the debut of 2110 utah street. that is an area of the right center field bleachers named for nick and adam jones and their uniform numbers. for just $21 fans can purchase a ticket and receive a limited edit

even felix pie, forget the defense, he was 5-11 this month.wigginton is red hot. >> jim: wigginton-13, 26. >> jim: how are they losing? >> rob: pitching. >> jim: yeah. >> rob: everybody needs pitching, though. >> jim: except the red sox. >> rob: had they not picked up brad penny and john smoltz, where do you think they would be? matsuzaka is on the disabled list now. >> jim: and buchholz, masterson would be starting. >> rob: yes. >> jim: they have so many options up there. a lot of depth. >> rob: and even coming off their bench. think have baldelli, and that is like the orioles. the orioles have a tremendous bench. like you just said, wigginton. the last time we were in washington, i think he played tw of the three games. >> jim: he is heating up. the numbers are more to -- yeah. gip and if wigginton is in the game, huff, mora or scott is not in the game because he can play the corners in left field. >> rob: and he can actually play shortstop and second base. the versatility, man, that is outstanding. i have always liked wigginton. >> bob: 2-1

reimold did not start in the game last night but after felix pie left after one at bat when he fouled the ball off his adam's apple and he eventually came in and hit a three run home run. a bouncer toward short. kennedy back to first. and beyond the first baseman and that goes into the orioles dugout and reimold will head down to second base. good job by adam jones at the bag at second base to upset the throw of adam kennedy. >> what a great slide by adam jones. you can see he is all over adam kennedy. good, clean slide. it is no problem whatsoever, sliding on top of the bag. the umpire at second base has a good look, gary darling and that's how you turn things around and that's how you snap four game losing streaks. >> now you have a runner in scoring position and maybe the teammates now will be sparked by that hard slide by adam jones as markakis has a chance to get the orioles on the board. the orioles have not led in either game in this series and losing both. markakis takes it to 1-0. >> that's a good sign early on. and a little bit of a wakeup call for oakland to send the messag

there you see him spin, take at least the fastest guy off the base pads in felix pie. at least they reduce that number. >> jim p.: here's gregg zaun. ground ball towards the hole, the other way, this one gets through. gregg zaun has a three-hit game. >> jim p.: he's been around long enough to know, hey, that's how tony gwynn did it. two of those tonight. he tricked him early on. you're going pitch me away, that's where i'll hit it. he's had a pretty good night. >> jim h.: he's also able to help the orioles pitchers get out of some serious jams. >> rob: that veteran leadership behind the plate, doing his best to get the most out of pitchers. he's been a clinic at the plate. doesn't get a lot of playing time. you've got the new rookie sensation wieters in there almost every day, and he contributes with three hits. >> jim h.: may be a coincidence, maybe not. over his last five games he's now 9 for 13. >> rob: that will keep you in the big leagues. here's andino. and he takes a strike. >> jim p.: it was kind of interesting, gregg zaun was talking yesterday, he said, becaus

felix pie gets a start in center field. adam jones gets a rest. luke scott in left and aubrey huff hitting .311 with two home runs and three rbi's with runners in scoring position. matt wieters is starting to hit over last 10 games hitting .351. has wieters started to feel good about himself now that he's in the majors. >> i would think so. after the start he had, it wasn't that great. as of late, he's starting to put the good part of the bat on the ball. you can see how easy it looks like he can hit the ball out of the ballpark the opposite way. he's got a nice, little swing. he stays inside the ball. you know, it just seems effortless that the ball jumps off his bat. he's got a lot of power. there's nothing he really doesn't try to experiment with at all. he has a nice, easy swing. he doesn't overswing very often. i haven't seen him do that yet. he kind of goes with the pitch. pretty much like mauer does with the minnesota twins. he's an excellent hitter that won two batting titles. i'm looking forward to seeing this guy hit over the course of t

matt wieters' first error and emilio bonifacio would score from first base when felix pie held the ball too long. that was the difference in the ballgame. when you look at the two series, it's quite a departure. 3-0 in philadelphia. they've lost the first two games here and scored five runs per game in philadelphia. different story down here and they only hit .240 against a very good florida marlins pitching staff. they have to grind and win this game. a 4-2 road trip isn't bad, but it's not as good as you expected when you start out 3- 0. >> jim: nick markakis last night in right field picked up another outfield assist gunning down a runner at the platement for ach an every day player, a hitter might going into a slump. day in and day out, you can help your team defensively. >> buck: you sure can especially when you throw out a runner at the plate it makes you feel like you've hate home run. nick markakis has been consistent with his defense. mechanically, he dawz lot of rings things right. he charges the ball well, he has a strong, accurate arm, and he's always given the infielders a

now he'll pinch-run at first base felix pie. it's a 6-3 ballgame. pie representing the potential tying run. two walks in the inning by rodriguez and here is brian roberts with a bases loaded and 0-4 for brian roberts. rodriguez delivers. slider. nasty bite is in there for a strike. >> jim: how about the 3-2 breaking ball. you really cannot throw a better breaking ball. that was the one you'd like to obviously throw when the count is not 3-2. brian not a lot of success off of rodriguez. nine lifetime answers -- at- bats, a couple of hits. >> gary: 0-1 count the delivery to him. brian towards second base. castillo hayes got it. cora will have nowhere to go. run scores. they get the force out on pie as luke scott will cross and the orioles make it a 6-4 ballgame. roberts on the fielder's choice. now runners on at first and third, but there are two down. >> jim: yeah, at this point mets are trading outs for runs. the guy that they're concerned about is brian roberts. now, here we go. the ability to steal a base. you also have a guy that can hit a home r