both teams have 11 hits in the ballgame. >> jim: a little page right out of gary sheffield's book rightthere. >> gary: the top of the order, brian roberts. brian still looking for his first hit against the mets. he's had an 0 for 4 in this game, 0 for 9 in the first two. orioles love to get something here in the bottom of the 8th to increase that 6-4 lead. stokes however would like to get a new baseball first. stokes's 23rd appearance. opponents hitting .284 off him on the year. he's pitched with base runners on. andino back into the bag. >> jim: this mets bullpen reminds me of what davey johnson used to say. we had benitez and myers to finish the game. he said it's one of those national league bullpens, everybody throws in the mid 90s. >> gary: comes in, strikes people out. roberts taking. it is a strike on the outside corner from stokes. the orioles trying to set up the rubber match for tomorrow night's game. they can get the victory here after losing last night by a 6- 4 score. they have a 6-4 lead here in game two. way outside, down to second base goes andino with one away. >> jim:

. >> gary: sheffield will look to drive one right here with nobody on.d scored in the fourth. and has been a strikeout victim. big numbers lifetime against the orioles. bass comes in, he was taking all the way. the count will go to 3-1 on sheffield. gary sheffield, among the many categories he's moved up in the base on ball categories. >> jim: he doesn't strike out much, he hits a lot of home runs. he's 25th on rbi's. he can just flat out hit. >> gary: and is scary to watch if you're standing on the mound. that one in the gap to left center field. that is way back and another good-bye home run. gary sheffield, and it is a one run game again. >> jim: i don't think you want to throw him six straight fastballs. brian bass fell behind, two-run lead, doesn't want to walk him. this is 507 and it got out of here in a hurry. he gives him toughness, he gives him the home run bat. he's a gamer. >> gary: gary sheffield trying to move in on mel ott who is 24 on the list of the home run mark. sheffield gets his 19th against the orioles. he's had the 13th most home ru

two years ago or whether they played very poorly, he's going to help not the fact we talk about gary sheffieldt he can still play it appears at 40, ng to give them the stuff that winning teams need. i mean, he's been through the wars. he is a warrior. >> gary: he has done that. he really was going to be done. he was ready to retire at the end of the year. i talked with him early in the season. sheffield said the only reason i came back was the mets and the fact that i have some friends here and they really were on me all winter and said you've got to come. you've got to come play. he said, so i agreed. boy, are they happy did he. with all the injuries they've had, they've really needed his bat in the lineup. a two strike count on brian schneider who is 1-2 and has picked up an rbi. this has been a very tough night for the orioles so far. had a chance in the fourth inning to get out of it maybe. four runs were scored by the mets. an error on the ground ball that -- ground ball that brian roberts had that probably would have been a double play. that one down the line in left. reimold going over

just over -- now gary sheffield. i'm a line drive hitter.r seem him with n upper cut like that. 1-0 delivery. sheffield will take it for a strike. >> jim: just flying open with that front shoulder, thats irrelevant baits. why do you do that? you feel like you have to open up -- that exacerbates it. why do you do that? you file leak you have to open up -- you feel like you have to open up. >> gary: sheffield really is helping this ball club. part it the long ball,. >> jim: he hit it so hard so quickly last night. .377, but that's because the grand stand got in the way. >> gary: there's your changeup again. gary sheffield -- brian snyder who catches, sheffield who hit his 500th home run earlier this year, he was saying wheni used to catch against him, i stood farther back because of the backlash. i never want to get hit with a guy that swings like that. >> gary: 2-2. berken, a long look. home run last night is 19th against the orioles. it is the 11th -- 11th moses's hit against here at camden yar

. >> gary: gary sheffield, a dangerous hitter in that situation. in the dirt, wieters blocks i. >> jim: sandy alomar, junior, he's the bullpen coach for the mets, a 6-time all star, he sd i bet he really blocks the ball well. i have never seen a young catcher that has hands as soft as wieters. and for a big guy, and sandy's what, 6'4," 6'5"? he said, i bet he can block the ball. because he's so low. >> gary: 1-1 delivery. fouled straight back. sheffield has had enormous numbers against the orioles in his career. he's .318 hitter. 19 homers, and 74 rbis lifetime against the os. real tight ballgame and a good one here. 2-1. only one hit for the mets comg into the inning. they have picked up two singls here in this inning. now sheffield with two down, 1-2 delivery, and that will be taken up high. >> jim: he warrants to untighn it -- he wants to untighten i. >> gary: manuel saying about e mets ball club, we are what we are. basically .500 team, said we won't hit a lot of home runs, we have to do things on the field rig

. >> gary: mets-orioles, sheffield hot in the interleague. 10-game hit streak, david wright. for the orioles, their bats came alive in the last two games against atlanta. looking to make it three in a row, they open up a three-game set against the mets. manuel-trembley, skipper up.  >> gary: it's the ori masn. the o's hope to continue what they started on the weekend. it's the mets-orioles as interleague play continues. game one of a three-game series at camden yards. hi, everybody. i'm gary thorne for the orioles. now they are 4-2 in interleague play this season. they meet the new york mets for the first time since 2006. for the orioles, the hope is those bats that came alive in the last two games against atlanta will stay alive here. a chance during interleague play to compare the orioles to all of major league baseball. something we very rarely do anymore. it's usually about the division and about the league. if you look at all of major league baseball in the left- hand column, orioles numbers compare pretty favorably in runs, batt

. >> gary: that brings gary sheffield to the plate. the orioles have the 3-1 lead in the game. sheffield the dh a strikeout victim. uehara's pitch taken inside for a ball. a situation where church just came up and there wasn't a soul in the ballpark, except maybe he and manuel thinking he would drop a bunt down to start the inning. sheffield pops it up. third base, mora. there's one. not quite sure what that was. >> jim: i think that's to keep ryan church off base. and church is forced to second. infield fly rule, has to be first and second. right there you can see melvin, it's a smart play. church much younger than sheffield at 40. >> gary: you think melvin processed the age factor in that. >> jim: i think the speed factor which goes with age. melvin should know. >> gary: look at him. >> jim: he's telling him, yeah. melvin started with houston, then orioles acquired him from the mets. a lot of -- not that a lot of guys were playing when he left and came over to baltimore. he knows. both hail from venezuela. >> gary: did you lose it in the sun? sheffield, the runner at first ba

it. >> jim: there's only 25 in the history of the game. >> gary: so there aren't many active at once. >> jim: the amazing thing about sheffield's also 25th in rbi's. so he can drive runners in. you can see the numbers right there. >> gary: fouls it back. there will be no play on it. >> jim: i asked him, i said at 40 do you feel like you have to cheat on the fastball. he said, no, because the games i've seen him play over the last 10 days, looked like he was ex-banding the -- expanding the strike zone in. that's what the yankees were trying to do. over the years, quickest tbhat i've seen. >> gary: and it's as hard a cut as he's taken. one of the problems last year was physically he couldn't do that the way he wanted to. he couldn't give it that full cut and he never found a way to adjust. >> jim: that front arm so important for the extension and quickness to the ball. >> gary: church on at second base. sheffield, off the end of the bat fouls it away again. and it will stay at 1-2. >> jim: the amazing thing about a guy that can hit all these home runs, all the rbi's, is that he's never struck out a hundred times. swing that har

gary sheffield doing what he's been doing forever, it seems, hitting home runs. there are the number for johnson. >> gary: johns you now needs to put in a couple of innings. this is another one of the games with the starter going just five innings, you're asking the bullpen to carry a big load and jim johnson, the rested one, last pitched on the 12th against atlanta and only a third of an inning. gave up a couple of hits in that appearance. ground ball towards second base. beltran retired. so he's been held to a single in four at-bats. >> jim: you talked about his last appearance against atlanta. came in throwing 97. he had five days off. got himself in trouble trying oh get people out with the change-up and the curveball. he did not do a good job that night of receipt reeding the bats of the atlanta hitters. he's got a good curveball. his sinker is his best pitch. >> gary: now faces wright. wright has gone 0 for 3 in the ballgame, 2 for 8 in the series. he still has the 11-game hit streak. with 31 rbi's in his last 43 ballgames. he's tied for 7th in the league wi

gary sheffield, omir santos with homers, alex rodriguez hit his ninth. >> rob: when a guy like jordanzimmermann really sticks it to a team like tampa bay, as soon as he's out of the game, you can kind of take a deep breath, a sigh of relief. we've got that guy out of the game. now let's work on their bullpen. >> bob: you can probably make a case that the walk to gabe gross with two outs in the fourth inning kept zimmermann from pitching into this inning. it probably added 10 to 12 pitches during that 27-pitch bottom of the fourth. he'd given up a solo homer. >> rob: then he threw about a eight pitch at-bat to hernandez after that. >> bob: there's another try to right for a home run. five hitters, five runs. here in the sixth. and the rays lead 6-2. >> rob: here's the 3-2 pitch by jason bergmann. way too much of the plate. sinker has to be down and away. it's over the plate. >> bob: jason bergmann faces five hitters, every one of them scores. the rays up by four.  >> bob: it's been a sixth inning disaster for the nats here. rays have scored five to lead it 6-2. big cro

gary sheffield, he went deep last night and that got out in a hurry. >> we're looking at one of the classic home run hitters of all time. home runs in the major league. an amazing fastball. i never met a fastball he didn't he is a hard swinger. almost always looks for the fastball, and it doesn't matter where you throw it, down and in, up and away, down and away, this guy finds a way to get finds a way to get the head of the bat on t you wonder how he doesn't pull his back. when he gets the fastball he's looking for, he can hit anybody's fastball. that rick dempsey bat home run. a slight change as trembley the lineup. roberts, jones, markakis, markakis 6 out of 8 in the series, huff, mora. is catching, and ream at >> you talk about nick markakis his four hits and what -- getting on base with his four hits, when he's the ball, this club does nothing about win. in games in which aubrey huff hits a home run. and that's what this club needs to do. they are an offensive strong club, they depend on their offense, and that guy is who is right in the middle of it all. hits the ball with any base hi

gary sheffield hits another home run against his former team. one bad note for the yanks, xavier nady will be out for the season. they found out today he tore a ligament in his elbow. back to a-rod. he continues to climb the charts. number 11 now on the all-time list with six more at-bats as rafael palmeiro for tenth place. it's conceivable he could get into the top sixth before the year is done. >> ahead on espnews, plenty more baseball. you have to see lou piniella's reaction to milton bradley's latest temper tantrum. >> also, check in on the hottest team in baseball, and the team with the best interleague record this year. also on the way, the dodgers haven't missed a beat since manny ramirez was suspended going 26-18. friday they were on the verge of doing something they haven't done all season. >> tony stewart crashed during practice at loudon friday. we'll tell you why that won't affect his starting position come sunday. >> and why plaxico burress could be facing punishment before his case goes to trial. we're back right after this. >> sun

just to mention elijah dukes one more time, hillsboro high school in tampa produced doc gooden, gary sheffieldarl everett, mike heath and nationals prospects michael burgess. burgess. of course, a lot of other major leaguers have come out of high schools in and around tampa. garza falling behind most of his hitters here with the exception of adam dunn, had him 0-2. willingham has had a great base-on average lately. that's a good pitch, under his hands for a strike. he already tripled. >> rob: he only tripled the amount he has given up in his prior starts. >> bob: maybe he was due and so are the nats who have not scored many runs in the 1st inning this year. willingham, slicing away from gabe gross. this is one of the few ballparks where the bullpen is on the field of play. he did not have to contend with the mound but he was not far from it. >> rob: you see that warning track right there that's like crushed rubber, higher sneakers, et cetera. that's the warning track around the entire field. this is kicking up a little bit. one thing about being out here for the world series, that stuff is loo

guthrie not getting a lost breaks here in this one and a 1- 0 count on gary sheffield. sheffield has singled and struck out the designated hitter for the mets hitting at .273, sevenhome runs, 23 rbi's. he's really had a very solid season for the mets after a tremendous struggle last year for the detroit tigers. >> jim: i was talking to himbefore the game. i said do you like the national league a little better. he said, yeah, because he hated the deght designated hitter. -- designated hitter. he didn't feel comfortable doing it. he should be comfortable doing it. he's come off shoulder injuries. a lot of guys who are 40 think they can play in the outfield, weapon you play in the american league and you're just a dh, that ball right off the mask of matt wieters, you don't ever get to redeem yourself with a good play. you're not in the game as much. it takes a lot of getting used to. he was uncomfortable doing it. [ indiscernible ] >> jim: that's another factor too. >> gary: he really wants to play every day:he can't do that every day with the knee he's got. he doesn't any

gary sheffield coming up. >> jim: take a look right here. this is a guy with 506 lifetime home runs. this is where jeremy guthrie throws him about as good a slider as he's thrown all year long. watch this one here right on the outside corner. second time around, in all hohn he see it, he walked the leadoff batter. they should have got two outs on the double play ball. brian roberts unable to handle it. he has a slider up and a fastball up to wright and church. they've taken advantage of it. again, if you look at the scoreboard right here, it's 2- 0. the game is not out of hand yet. >> gary: yet. >> jim: this guy, he's got hall of fame numbers, but he is 40. if you make a pitch, you talked about the right knee earlier even though he says it doesn't bother him, you've got a chance to maybe throw a double play ball and hope your infielder catches it. >> gary: so, guthrie has runners at first and second now. wright at second. church at first. church, the rbi base hit. two hits off guthrie. sheffield still nobody o

. >> gary: and he'll watch against sheffield who has had a singl. and continues a very solid season in the dh role. baez will miss inside to him, and count goes to 2-0. ballgame still up for grabs he as the orioles still get a couple of at-bats. 2-0 delivery, sheffield takes it. >> jim: they will get somebody in the bull pep, only because baez, a -- bullpen, only because baez -- maybe up in the zone, little more than he normally . >> gary: 2-1 delivery to shor. andino. he got him. sheffield retired. one away in the 8th. time to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. jason berken the starter, ando delivered his first home run f the season, and livan hernandz on the other side who continues looking for his 6th win. text in your vote matt albersn the pen. [ inaudible ] >> gary: andino gets the big hope. church who had the being rbi t is retired -- had the big rbi hit is retired. two away in the 8th. murphy, beltran, wright and church. >> jim: you look at that curveball he hit, one of

. >> gary: 0-2 count. sheffield is going to get a base hit the other way! coming to third, david wright. he'll stay there. the bases are loaded as markakis gets it back in. they were playing sheffield the other way to pull and he put it into right field. >> jim: gary, at jerem guthrie said is that boy, you've got to relax. he said it's not about relaxes. --relaxing. it's about executing. he strikes him out first time. took that high slider. ve how many times have we seen over the years drives the ball the other way. >> jim: now a real battle. murphy stands in. he. >> gary: now a real battle. murphy stl nobody out. two runs in. bases are loaded. rick kranitz has already had one visit here this inning to meet with guthrie. murphy a 1-0 count will have to wait. hes. e seen sam up the difference between here yes, there's an error, base on balls and the quality of pitches have stopped a little >> gary: that e down low tonight's leaderboard presented by firestone innovation. runner in scoring position leaders. orioles at ls. th third are the mets at .279ston

beltran and wright are two of the best hitters, d sheffield having a good series right behind him. table setters. get them on. >> gary20-2 delivery, and berken gets a strike. he sends murphy back on three pitches. >> jim: check out this curveball. it's off the plate. why did he chase it? he got strikes to hit. 0-2, you make, i don't care wo you are, expands the strike zone because they have two strikes. that's the difference between ahead and getting behind. >> gary: here is carlos beltr. the big .333 batting average, 4th in the national league in that department. runner at first base and one down. he is among the leaders in the majors with that .362 batting average on the road. that is the 6th best number in the majors. tied for 5th in doubles in the national league. and will take the pitch outsie for a ball. berken being very conscious of that follow-through tonight, s to where he's landing and whee the iron is going on each pit, it's almost like that's the thing he's thinking about. there's the changeup that you talked about. >> gary: 1-1. >> jim: if you're going

sheffield is waiting on deck. >> jim: that's no bargain eitr >> gary: nope. write 1 forward 3 off albers. 29-0 delivery. taking some massive cuts. 2-1. >> gary: ground ball andino and a good job by albers. no runs, one hit, no errors. two are left on. orioles, bottom of the 9th. can they do it again? matt wieters, first major run came last night. he will lead off the bottom of the 9th. oriole down a run. waterproof and sweat-proof sunscreen... can wear out... leaving skin vulnerable. new neutrogena ultimate sport with helioplex. provides the highest average uva/uvb protection and is also 3x... more waterproof than testing standards. neutrogena ultimate sport >> gary: series win and chance to head to philadelphia feeling good on the lynn in the bottom half of the 9th. mets have trailed but came bak in the 6th and 7th. and there's a base hit, wieters is going for two. the throw coming in is not in time. a double for matt wieters. >> jim: there's your. [ indiscernible ] remember the changeup on tuesday? watch this fastball. he smokes it. we always talk about the difference in

they brought in sheffield, giambi, a lot of free agents but it never came together for them. >> gary:ll take that for a strike. the homer off guthrie is the 14th he has surrendered. started the game second high in homers given up and cust jumped on it, really launched one. oh, that hit guthrie. it goes to second base. and i have no idea what that hit, except it hit him. >> buck: it sure did. it sounded like it got flesh and he is walking around. not really sure what happened here but there is another line drive right back at the box. it looks like he got his hand up. it was off his wrist. and that can't be too good. he gets his hand up protecting his face maybe on the forearm and certainly hit his right hand, right arm. and he has assured ritchie bancells he is okay. boy, he took a shot. he has his hands up just in time, not unlike what happened to dallas braid en in his last start with vernon wells. >> reporter: well, wells. >> gary: . >> gary: well, now you hope that he is all right. they get the out on a fielder's choice. here is kurt suzuki. here is an inning for guthrie to forget