matt hobgood is in baltimore. he arrived just recently now. he's been taking a physical all day today. orioles should announce on saturday the official signing of their number one draft choice matt hobgood who yef yesterday was named the player of the year by the "usa today". hobgood is expected to report to bluefield after this signing. just a reminder orioles are sending rich hill to the mound tonight. sean west pitches for the marlins. when we come back, rick dempsey has his scouting report on tonight's starters when we continue "o's xtra" brought to you by at&t here on masn. commute. ♪ commuté. with a mcdonald's mccafé hot or iced mocha, a better day is possible. or possiblé. here you go. thanks! cubiclé. if you haven't tried a mocha yet, mccafé your day. ♪ ba da ba ba ba >>> you know, i just remember being batboy and going to the games watching my brothers play. that's probably the first baseball memory and also my first red sox game. i remember going. i got one of the little wooden bats. i was on my dad's shoulders when we were going bac

hobgood's fastball has been clocked at 95.uld be announcing hobgood's signing in a couple of days. when we come back, we'll have rick dempsey's scouting report jason berken and ricky nolasco. that story coming up on "o's xtra" brought to you by at&t, your world delivered on masn. ♪ commuté. with a mcdonald's mccafé hot or iced mocha, a better day is possible. or possiblé. here you go. thanks! cubiclé. if you haven't tried a mocha yet, mccafé your day. ♪ ba da ba ba ba >>> the battle of the beltways resume friday evening here in baltimore as nationals come to town for three games. after the game friday night, it will be fireworks after saturday night's game, you can see the "field of dreams" on the big screen courtesy of the maryland lottery. here is a look at the upcoming games through next monday on masn. orioles conclude the series tomorrow night against the florida marlins. friday, they open up a series against the nationals friday through sunday and then the red sox come to baltimore. just a reminder when you're not able t

hobgood is the fifth overall pick. here is the 2-1 looped into left field. that's going to fall for a base hit. reimold over. bonifacio will stop at second base. reimold plays it back in and jorge cantu has his second hit tonight. two singles in the inning first and second, one down. >> buck: cantu gets out of that front foot. that looks like another splitter. it kind of stayed up. he's able to one hand it into left field. kind of drops the hit on it as it was out away from him and just use that had bottom hand to drive it into left field. >> jim: bonifacio at second. cantu at first with only one out. dan uggla, single, two-run home run. he's scored twice. 2-3 overall. orioles fly home after the game get in in the wee hours and fly home after the nationalities. night games friday and saturday and the day game and the finale on sunday. then, that will do it for the interleague play for the year. it's not a very long home stand. orioles have a long road trip after that because the nats are in for three and the red sox are in for three and then the orioles have

hobgood 11-1, earned run average of 0.92, 68 1/3 innings, he hit .475 with # 1 home runs. 55 rbi's. hobgood should sign with the orioles any day and michael gichts at shortstop draft the by the orioles made the usa second team. david hernandez, kind of an interesting story going on right now. at norfolk, he's 3-2 with a 3.30 earned run average. wall street with the orioles, he was 1-1 with a 3.95 earned run average and he pitched only nine innings. everyone is target to wonder why david hernandez was pulled out of the game after four innings. he didn't walk a bear batter, struck out four, didn't allow a run. then the rawt thought process is that koji may not be able to go pass five or six. could koji be going to the bullpen and hernandez come bamg? >> -- coming back? >> everybody trying to figure out these moves. as soon as anybody tawms talks about uehara on a possible disabled list and david hernandez probably one of the guys considered. the fact he was taken out of the ballgame is absolutely he could be considered. there's been nothing said about that up to this point right here.