only the 6thhome run hit by sat old and kotchman has half of them. kotchman has lined out.a 5 game hit streak with a homer. bottom third of the order coming up in the bottom of 6thinning. that's teen away, 2 -- taken away. 22--- 2-1. kochman has hit in 8 of the last 9 games he's a piered in -- he's appeared in. 2-1 inside and berken falls behind, 3-1. the roof is closing, it looks like there may be rain out there if mother nature will dish a little. they will close the roof. hit hard to first. backhanded by scott. berken to cover. one down. orioles host the red sox first time this year. 3 game weekend series. good seats remain for each game. won't last long. get your tickets. visit orioles.com. >> gary: the red sox have not hit better with runners in scoring position than the orioles. >> jim: they had done an 0 for 25. today may be one for 6. one for 31 in the tampa bay series. gives you an idea. we saw matt garza talking about cy young stuff, and of course today with neiman beating lackey, 5 run 3rd inning. >> gary: laster we thought was their best pitcher. 0-2 with e.r.a.

this is in the middle of the plate and speeds up kotchman. runners in scoring position before. that a line-drive hitter and all of a sudden he's a home run guy. didn't want the do it but did. >> gary: he takes the rbi lead back, that's 11 for him on the year. that's his third home run and that's it for brad bergesen. he does not get through the 3rd inning. seattle leading 7-0. that is the first home run allowed in 38 1/3 innings by the o's. the last one upton last wednesday. for bergesens that 4 home runs in 10 one third inning. he didn't get a lot of defensive support. berken who came in and gave up a home run to upton. he's pitched well out of bullpen. >> gary: he's been needed as the long man to ball game where the starters do not go deep. especially for bergesen. johnson off the bases empty. johnson started by flying out the centerfield. 9 mariners have come to the plate. bergesen leaves giving up 7 runs on 6 hits. 3 walks and no strikeout. that will do it here in the inning. but the damage is done. 7 runs are put across and it's a 7-0 se

kotchman, 5 for 16 with three homeruns. jones, continuing to shake off whatever it is on the right hand, the throwing hand. >> jim: hence the 3-0 record at safeco and 8-11 lifetime because of the matchups. >> jim: one down, runner on 1 1st base. runner kotchman, fly ball to center his first time up. right handers, 2-95. -- .295. kevin has given up four homeruns all hit by right handers this season. 1-1 count on kotchman. -year-old. who has given the orioles everything they could have wanted in the first part of the season. the orioles with a run on the 1 1st and they have not been able to do anything since. here's the 1-1 delivery. wieters. 4 rows back behind the screen. >> jim: kevin has done a great job of managing the things he can manage, that's his performance. >> gary: the first month kevin millwood in his career is 23-25 in the first month of the season he has pitched. the only month in which he doesn't have a better than .500 record in his career. he certainly has pitched better than to be 0-2 so far in the first mo

kotchman, moore, and wilson. kotchman 0-2 in the game.has a five hit streak still. .324 against right-handed pitchers. three home runs. 12 rbis off the rightys. tonight not so against hernandez. 1-0 delivery. fas ball at the knees. 1-1. >> jim: remember when he broke in in 2004, he went 48 at-bats. his first 48 at-bats in the league without a strikeout. only bob baylor more with 51. >> gary: the third, yellow, wigginton. >> jim: glad you were standing there, ty. real estate. position, position, position. >> jim: casey doesn't bunt. area seeing him bunt. right now if you are ty wigginton, you are playing deep, elevates the ball not where david wants to be. he needed to throw a strike. and sometimes you just get fortunate. >> gary: one down. here is moore, who has flied out and popped out. adam moore doing the watching in the ballgame. and a towering fly ball left field going back. looking, looking, that's going to fake a hop. center field. jones, a double. add am a gets it in. big tag by moore. one-bagger. two down. >> jim: the pitch count

kotchman, sweeney, tuiasosopo in left field, and rob johnson and kotchman has a two-run home run in theays a dangerous hitter with the home run threat. >> he is. that's what they are looking for him to do he has not had a lot of luck against the orioles. only hitting .206 with them. he has put up the home run numbers. don't get behind in the count on this guy. he has four homeruns on a short amount of time against the club with 13 rbis. we want to keep the ball down on him. stay ahead in the count. mix your pitches but stay out of the upper middle pa half of the plate. >> the orioles looking to salvage a game in the series. it's wired wednesday. during the game tonight, jerry and jim will visit with dave trembley and will ohman is the guest tonight. finale of the three-game series in seattle. when we come back, you will hear from the skipper, dave trembley on the ballplayers' efforts. >>> nick markakis in the batting cage as the orioles prepare for the finale in seattle. dave trembley meeting with the media before the game. the big topic today was again the word effort. the skipper was

figgins, kotchman two games out an error.ets the night off. >> gary: here is nolan reimold. he is batting clean up again as the designated hitter outside to him. le reimold has had only three hits in his last 23 at-bats. and nolan down to .162 with a home run and 4 rbis. he does have a couple of doubles among the extra base hits. vargas' pitch high. reimold 2-6 with a home run. lifetime off the left-hander on the mound for the mariners. at least in the start here the orioles are getting some hitters' counts against vargas. >> jim: four in a row. >> gary: 2-0. runner at first. floats that one outside and it goes to 3-0. >> jim: he is not going to be overpowering. i watched the oakland game that he pitched very well at. he will throw a change-up. he has a breaking ball between a -- >> gary: gets the inside corner with that. the left-handers have hit only .133 against him this year. they hit .290. >> gary: he got a lot of that. it is in the gap. it's way back. and it's going to hop off the wall. coming around third is wigginton.

kotchman, goodbye. home run, two rbis. 7-0, seattle. >> reporter: the orioles could use some help. and hall-of-famer cal ripken sees himself lending a hand in the future. the ironman says he's had discussions with o's team manager and owner about having a hand in the team. ripken's time line is to be back in the big league in some capacity in two years, after his son graduates from high school. >> ladies and gentlemen, join us come welcoming the newest hall-of-famer. >> reporter: sources quoted there being a divide being ripken and the management. >> just because a player is really good, that doesn't make them a potentially good manager or good person in the clubhouse. >> reporter: and we hit the streets with fan cams to ask you, do you think it would make a difference if cal ripken was working in the orioles front office? >> in the locker room, it's all about attitude. i think he would bring a different type of ball experience to the orioles. >> i think it would bring good team leadership. >> i think it would make a difference. he's a hall-of-famer. he knows how the game is played