nick markakis. >> jim: back-to-back strikeouts for feliciano against markakis and huff last night. >> gary: three for three ballgame tonight and a run scored for nick. huff has an rbi. melvin mora picked up an rbi. matt wieters two rbi's with the homer. feliciano's pitch is outside for a ball. the count will go to 2-0. >> jim: let's see if nick gets a fastball on a fastball count. last night feliciano was ahead of both markakis and huff, and they saw the big sweeping breaking ball that he has. >> gary: .234 off the lefties. he's taking and it is in there for a strike. he was going it make him throw a strike. john green, whom we've seen in game one, in the bullpen. aubrey huff waiting on deck. tie game in the seventh. feliciano, the 2-1 delivery. that rides inside. markakis forces him into a 3-1 count. feliciano's only allowed four first batters out of 35 to reach base against him, coming out of the bullpen this year. markakis will take a time-out here. classic match-up here late in the ballgame. and it will go full. >> jim: he starts way on the first base side of the pitching rubber.

markakis will foul that one away. will be no play, and a 2 count on markakis. orioles trying to take the series by winning game 3 as these two teams have split 6-4 games in the first two. victory for the orioles would give them a successful home stand, 5-4, before taking off for philadelphia for the three game series there facing three left handed starters. dave trembley noting there wil be five lefties in the next six games against the orioles. which means he'll be, there will be a lot of players coming and going. >> jim: double switches, he ws talking about the opportunityo use some of his bench players. >> gary: markakis goes down swinging and hernandez put t right where he wanted it that time. >> jim: let's go back to the sequence. remember, he struck out the first time. check out this pitch. that was a ball, but they cald it a strike. 1-1. pretty good swing there on a slider. then once again, once you establish that you can get the outside corner and you can s

markakis coming in. roberts out. markakis. they got that straightened out as the other day they had one almost exactly the same place near the triangle that dropped in because nick hadn't called brian o they talked about that and got it straightened out. >> jim: what did nick markakis -- dave trembley, the orioles skipper told nolan reimold pretend nobody is in front of you. that's what happened saturday night. it's a real good swing by fernando martinez. nick just kind of assumed that brian roberts -- i'm sure they did have a talk. you know what? you go for it. if you can get it, take it. it's an easier angle. you can see brian trying to get out of the way it. -- the way. it did expedite rich hill's leaving the game earlier on saturday night. no doubt about that even though he was a little erratic. >> gary: hit in the air to center field. adam jones off the bat of carlos beltran. he's retired on the fly ball out and there are two down with cora going back to first base. two away. now david wright again. >> jim: yeah, he made

roberts, markakis, jones, scott, huff and mora. markakis batting second. first time this year .330 career average there. >> buck: now time for the tmz scouting report. he's got bran don westbound like movement. great movement on his sinking fastball. and he has like so many young pitchers has trouble early had the ball game settling into a groove. it's been a challenge for him early on. >> gary: and we are ready to go. cahill when he is on will get you a lot of ground balls. only 21 years old. one of the many rookies we were talking about in major league baseball. he too will throw a lot of first strikes. roberts takes that one. got out of the funk he was in 0- 17 picking up the two hits in the ball game last night. so he's hoping that little spree is over. 43 runs, still leads the o's and right now tonight third in the american league in runs scored. still very hefty .287 on the season. that one will be hit high in the air. center field. davis has it. roberts retired. one away. >> buck: in the outfield it's matt holliday, jack hannahan a very slick fieldi

markakis coming hard, and markakis will not have a play. >> jim: not quite the result you want.good slider, we saw in game number one when guthrie was on, he struck him out, talking abt david wright, and the second time you, got a slide dr. in the middle of the plate -- slidern the middle of the plate, and remember, rain all day young. it's not one of those -- all y long, it's not one of those tracks where you -- serious burn time. >> jim: oh, yeah. >> gary: wright had a 11 game hitting streak ended last nig. he took a 0-5 in the ballgame. he is 6th in strikeouts in the league. 1-2 delivery, and berken has a solid first inning striking ot two. runner left on second base. orioles lineup when we come back. more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. buy the lg xenon messaging phone for 99.99 after mail-in rebate and get one free after mail-in-rebate. it's easy to identify the leaders of tomorrow. they're all around us. which is why pnc created grow up great. a $100 million program that prepares young children for school. and the world they'll inh

markakis heads for second base!les get a break. >> buck: yes talked about how well bonifacio had played in this series. that's an error. it will be his 13th error of the season as he bottled it, -- bobbled it, picked it up, rushed the throw. looks like nolasco was going to be out of the inning. bonifacio had it go off his glove, off his knee, picks it up, throws it in the dirtment cantu has it go off his knee. markakis reaches on the error and then goes to second base on the second error i believe. they could probably give them two errors on that play. >> jim: the angle of the replay we saw, if that throw is true, markakis is out because the throw without a doubt beat nick to the bag. >> buck: just give him one error. throws to second base on the overthrow. >> jim: now, huff stands at the plate representing the tying run. another runner in scoring position as markakis gets to second. curve is low. 1-0. aubrey last night at had his hitting streak altered. he was 0-5. as buck mentioned, it was almost unfair 0-5 includ

and it will be breslow coming on to face markakis. as buck mentioned, he comes to plate now, representing a tieing run. andino at second, reimold at first and breslow coming on to face markakis in the 8th. what is it to lead? at pnc, it's doing what most benefits our customers. whether that's having more certified green buildings than anyone on earth, creating online banking tools for the next generation, or making a 10-year, $100 million investment in kids. it's how we've always done business. and will for a very long time to come. pnc. leading the way. >> jim: craig breslow comes often he was picked up by the twins on the 20th and pitched very well since joining the athletics. and one thing you look at, buck, with relievers who come into games with an inning, how many of the first batters does he retire. he has faced 9 and retired eight of those. >> buck: and one of those came last night in the 8th inning when he struckout nick markakis looking and gave up base hits to adam jones and luke scott. but that's the line drive off the b

that nick markakis gets.e thinks he's got a jump. >> jim: i think one of the things they talked about, juan samuel said, hey, we're going steal more bases. so the time, slow to the plate, schneider actually throws year in and year out throws well. though he's coming off the d.l. with back problems. >> gary: pitch will miss. aubrey huff. the orioles get a chance now with a big run out there with two down. markakis with good speed and the benefit of taking off on contact with two away if aubrey huff can put one where they're not. there's that breaking ball again that doesn't, stays up and away. >> jim: anytime you steal a base, there were games when i pitched where it seemed like every time you'd go out there that inning, there would be a guy in scoring position. it really reflects not on your pitch count, because there's the same amount of witches, but the difficulty right here, and we can see it, who are you going to pick to, mora or huff, and they pick pitching to mora. it's just the degree of difficulty and

one hit all night long for markakis. >> jim: from 2-0 to 2-2 on markakis. nolasco deals and he got him. a high fastball to markakis couldn't reach. two men down. now he'll take two-out base hit or a mistake to get that run in. buck, you talk about pavinner that's consistent. how about these numbers for ricky nolasco coming into the game? .315 batting average against opponents. look at the breakdown. there is no difference except for one home run. >> buck: that's pretty interesting that the splits would be identical. lefties and righties. it's just been that kind of year for him where everybody is hitting him hard. >> jim: here is aubrey huff. takes low, 1-0. what started out as a very promising inning. now it will take two-out base hit. aubrey, 0-5 in the game last night snapped his eight-game hitting streak. 47 rbi's for aubrey huff. that leads the club. there's a strike taken all the way. >> buck: aubrey had a tough night last night. actually swung the bat a lot better than his final numbers would suggest. he ended up 0-5 with a walk, but he hit a couple

nick markakis holds off david wright. markakis, 54%. nick had a two-run home run. wright, 44%. alex cora gets 2%. nick markakis is your at&t player of the game. well, tonight here at oriole park, mets go home winners as they beat the orioles 6-4 in the other this have three-game series. samuel adams summer ale is a flavorful wheat beer. it has a very nice spice note. it has a little lemon zest and a historic brewing spice called grains of paradise. it's citrusy, lemony. sam adams summer ale. it just totally reminds you of summer, yeah. >>> tomorrow, middle game  the three-game series. come out and join us. here is the big time collectible that everybody has been anticipating. first 25,000 fans 15 and over take home this adam jones possiblyhead. not only unique, he's going up over the wall to rob a home run and he's blowing a bubble at the same time. so, that is tomorrow night. 888-848-bird for your tickets. it is adam jones bobblehead night tomorrow night. welcome back in jim hunter, rick dempsey. it's "o's xtra" presented by verizon fios. one good sign in this loss is nic

nick markakis had a perfect night. when you look at nick markakis, he's been streaky lately. >> he has been streaky lately. when nick markakis breaks out, he doesn't get just one hit. gets three or four. first inning, look at that. he picks up this double right here. gives the orioles a chance to get on the board early. they just can't get him across the plate. later on in the inning, there is another ground ball up the middle. pitcher knocked it down. they can't throw him out at first. he's 2-2 already. later in the ballgame, now he gets another opportunity. he ended up the night with two doubles and two singles. here is another good shot to right field. good contact. that's his third hit of the night. brian roberts goes to second. we have two men on right here. we still can't get anybody across. we can't get that rally going. it wasn't bee

markakis heads to second base. coghlan a good effort but couldn't reach it. >> buck: nick markakis taking advantage of the brian roberts' at-bat e got to see a lost pitches from sean west. jumps on the first fastball. chris coghlan only played one game in the outfield before they called him up to the big leagues. he's an infielder. he's done an ok job. that's a real challenge for even a seasoned left fielder a line drive off the bat of a left-hander is going to sleight slice awhich from you. -- slice away from you. >> jim: orioles have a chance to getted on board here in the first. here is one of the best hitters on the team hitting in these spots with runners in scoring position. adam jones was given most of last night off. he takes low, 1-0. jones is batting .367 with runners in scoring position. that is second best in the american league. i think kevin youkilis the only hitter in the league ahead of adam jones. he pops it up. right side of the infield. the second baseman dan uggla calls off cantu. uggla has it.

nick markakis now, you just don't want to run on nick markakis. you can trust that he's always going to give you the best effort of any outfielder in the game. always good throws. always in the play all the time anticipating ahead of time. wieters with an easy tag at home plate and cuts down a marlin there. good tag by wieters tonight on that play who stayed right at home plate. pretty good throw on the part of nick markakis. he's awesome. >> now, nick markakis has eight outfield assists. is he basically has the strongest throwing arm in the league right now? he has eight along with jay bruce of the cincinnati reds. >> at the -- if he doesn't have the strongest arm, he has the most accurate, strongest arm in baseball. every time he makes a throw, he is on the money. it's just the way that he goes about doing it. he knows how quick he has to release the ball. he's always anticipating ahead of time what he has to do. ball down in the corner like it is there. barehanded the ball. hit the cutoff man is what you have to do 90% of the time and he's alwa

markakis and huff, 26 and 28%. fans are excited, hanging out with us at the bullpen picnic area.  >>> the taps are excited ou here. they have their adam jones bobbleheads, the aubrey huff home run is sending them home happy. it's an orioles win. look at the excitement for this team. these fans want to elect rick dempsey the mayor of baltimore. look at the excitement out here. >> that is really good to see. it's amazing how in the span of one night both 6-4 games, orioles last night had to battle back. but tonight the huff home run gave them the lead. >> always exciting here. you know how well the orioles do hit the ball so well here at home. we got a pretty good crowd tonight. david wright and all of them come in here and everything and hit the ball the way they hit the ball tonight and do all the little things we did, it was pretty exciting. i could hardly hear anything you say, they're so loud. >> we're going to head into the clubhouse, he's in the dugout i'm told. aubrey, tell us ab

adam jones and nick markakis need your support. both are in the running for a starting position in the american league. so vote now for all of your favorite o's at orioles.com. plus, with vote orange, save green, you could receive an upper reserve seat to any non- prime o's game after the break when you vote the maximum 25 times. vote early, vote often. for all of the details, online orioles.com/vote orange. >> buck: de aza comes in to play center field. he'll bat in the pitcher's spot, number nine in the lineup. he'll be scheduled to bat second in the bottom of the 11th. badenhop comes on to work the top of the 11th. he has pitched in 16 games so far. he, too, is one of the players' acquired from the detroit tigers in the cabrera- willis trade. >> jim: luke scott fouls it off. so fredi gonzalez's book has gone through six of his seven relievers in the game. the closer had a three-run lead going to the ninth and couldn't close it out. >> buck: and dave trembley has four in his pen including the closer george cheryl. >> jim: luke sc

markakis. the orioles get a run on a couple of hits, and we'll head to 2 second.at of the beltways. battle of the o's. ic, so be careful when you go out. ♪ from the degree men absolute protection line... comes new degree men v12 special edition. protection for the ride of your life. >> bob: tonight's contestan ray, he has a chance to win $90 scratch-off tickets from the maryland lottery for every home run hit. enter by logging on to masn sports.com. here is adam dunn. bergesen retired the side in order in the first. >> rob: may 24 against the orioles is what adam dunn did a huge home run. >> jim: do i see a tear because game yea was really struggle -- struggling. it was game that brad bergesen had an early lead and dunn got them back in the lead with the first home run and then launched the home run with, what, a slider in the middle of the plate and he hit it about 450 to center. >> bob: 2-1 inside, ball three. >> rob: and of adam dunn, it was surprising to see that was a career high with six rbi's with all of the rbi's he's had this year. second in the natio

one away, markakis markakis. he delivered the long ball sixth inning.es singled in front of him. markakis gets his eighth home run of the year, second hit of the game as he's also picked up a single and that is going to be it for green. he's coming out of the ballgame. >> jim: again, you have pedro feliciano who we mentioned has been lights out against lefties. that's what you're matching up with markakis and huff coming to the plate. >> gary: so, manuel is doing it by

markakis gets his eighth. an rbi 41 and 42 qoit. >> jim: gets the best bullpen in the national league up. >> gary: now aubrey huff. [ indiscernible ] >> jim: excuse me. david wright is going to come over. they need time. kind of a little delay here. i'm sure somebody told them -- him go talk to him. >> gary: we mentioned earlier for pelfrey, he's now given up. that's just the 25th home run that he has surrender since 2006 covering 56 starts. the fewest in the majors. >> jim: still has not given up a home run to a reasoned batter. >> gary: huff chases one up and away a two ball, one strike count. the orioles get back in it by delivering the long ball. it is the 68th home run the orioles have hit this season. >> jim: part of this equation is that jeremy guthrie had the one tough inning. the error didn't help. he shuts them down. all of a sudden, orioles think we're back in this game. can we get to their bullpen and pelfrey to get them out of the game. we'll see what happens. >> gary: count will go full again. th

roberts and markakis will follow. a base hit he picked newspaper philadelphia last week. he hits that down the line. it is a foul ball. just did hook foul. >> buck: that one didn't feel good. look at his hands. they don't hit that often. if you go up there without that pair of batting gloves on, you can get blisters in a short amount of time they swing during batting practice. >> buck: he b.j. uptoned it foul. got a piece of paulino the catcher. not a bad idea. bonifacio was deep at third. sean west has two wins in this his rookie season. he is 1-1 in his starts against the a. l. east. he beat toronto but lost to the yankees. this is his third start in the a. l. east and it will be his last. tampa bay will be hosting florida beginning tomorrow night. the marlins final three interleague games. ground ball towards third goes foul. that looked like an inside-out swing. >> buck: no, that looked like self-defense. [ laughter ] >> jim: come on. work with me here. >> buck: that is in the by design. watch this. get out of the

achopper to second base and uggla gets markakis.t is 10 in a row retired by andrew miller since brian roberts led off a game with a double. >> buck: it is not unusual that the starting pitcher will have a little bit of a problem in the first inning. we see it all the time when the starters are trying to find the strike zone, get complained of their emotions, strike zone and throw all of their pitches over. if you don't get them early, you might not have a chance late. >> jim: the appeal to first and adam fairchild says adam checked in time. he struck out in his first at- bat, one of two strikeouts by andrew miller. >> buck: this is a breaking ball in the dirt and he chased the one the last time and he got real close to chasing one right there. a hard hit ball that is foul down the left field line. 1-1 the count on adam jones. >> buck: adam had a big hit on sunday afternoon as he singled into center to tie up the game and that set the tone later on for brian roberts and his game winner. adam jones had an rbi sing toll right in the si

markakis is there and he has it for the out, and one down.les and the marlins could not take batting practice today out in the field because of the violent thunderstorm that bent through, so the orioles could not play balls off the bat a couple of times you have seen nick markakis break one way and then have to go the other way to get fly balls the first time in the stadium. >> buck: yes. the orioles have not visited landshark slash dolphin stadium since 2001. >> jim: i keep wanting to call it joe robby. >> buck: it was probably in 2001. landshark stadium now, and it is a little different. there are a lot of different angles in the outfield that you have to get accustom to. >> jim: that is spokesperson. ed foul and that will be back out of play. the first time in a stadium, especial little this is a massive stadium because it was built for the miami dolphins. it is a rectangular stadium, and they readjust the seats along the third-base line and roll back some seats in left field, but it is a huge stadium. there is a high chopper to third. mel

nick markakis, this will get a run in. cora tagging up. markakis throws behind the runner and gets it in. did he to? no. and matt wieters has been able to, if he had hung on to the ball, he would have tagged coa out. because cora had to come back and touch home plate. and only then was he called safe. >> jim: see how matt blocks te plate. so he takes away the outside corner, and that's why cora can't get to it, but again, it's also why the ball gets away. so if he catches it, it hit hs bare hand, but he doesn't hava chance. you can see with the left han, trying to get in. this is the way you block the plate. you don't give them the plate, he never touched it. >> gary: and the only plate umpire was right on. he gave no signal. >> jim: we saw brian mccann in the atlanta series give the runner the outside corner of the plate. that's all right, but you br take it away, and that's what wieters did. >> gary: wright will get the rbi, making it an one-run ballgame. wright's 38th 

he packed off on to the grass and markakis has the double 2-3 night for markakis. that's his 17th double of the season. >> gary: jones will get the rbi opportunity here. batting in the three spot. a .447 batting average with runners in scoring position this season. hasn't been a lot of them lately. adam picked up a double his last time up. he's 1-2 in the ball game. both jones and markakis continue in the top ten in runner in scoring position averages. jones is number two. second only to jason bart let of tampa bay. nick markakis is seventh. 1-1 delivery to him. again, they come inside on him. drop down a little. 1-2. >> buck: you get these little sections of games kind of a snapshot of the team and we've talked about the offense and how they've struggled. most part of the season top of the order especially been productive. juggling the line up a bit tonight trying to spark the offense. haven't been able to come up with just one win on this road trip so far dworn 1-2 delivery. swung on and missed. cahill has five strikeouts in the ball game. two of them against jon

markakis coming up.k's got the bat going on, as last night he delivered a single and an rbi, with the home run, his 8th of the season. 21 game home rub drought over. and that's good news not only for markakis but also for the orioles offense, as obviously having nick hitting is vital. markakis in the third hole against the right-hander. and that's going to be a base hit into right field. jones will make a turn. he will stay as church fires it all the way in to third, knocked down by wright. so we talked about first inning offense. the orioles with one down, two on. >> jim: it looks like a high fastball. last night, pelfrey pitched him away, he singled to left. but we're looking at a 25 year outfielder that's a .299 lifetime hitter. as any hitter, when you're going to get 550 at-bats to play, you're going to have the peaks and the valley. just does too many good things at the plate oh go into any kind of prolonged slump. >> gary: now aubrey huff gets the shot. aubrey's .304 with runners in scoring positio

right now markakis on top, cora and wright.ou can still text in your vote to a, b or c, 51862 and results coming up on the post-game show "o's xtra". rick peterson the former pitching coach of the mets made a comment in a talk show that made all the papers in new york today about santana's knee bothering him. jerry manuel before the game said i don't know anything about that. as far as i know, it's not about health. manuel said it's about his control. his manned of pitches. he said ed he has not had command. he's not located and that's been the problem. he's had a couple of bad outings. david wright. he's extended his hit streak to 11 games in this ballgame with a single and an rbi. 1-4. wright continues to lead all major league hitters in average. he has a runner at first base here in the ninth inning with two down. albers with a 1-1. that will be a base hit. it's going to roll just far enough so that markakis can pick it up while it's still rolling. over to third base goes cora. wright has his second hit. all is well for davi

nick markakis is batting .195 since may 14. he evaluates his last three weeks. >> i think hitting's contagious. a lot of people say that. i firmly believe that. it's better having the whole team in a slump than having just a couple guys in a slump and a couple guys hot. we'll come out of it. we'll get things going. we just got to keep battling. everybody will eventually get on the same page. our pitching's doing great. can't ask anything else from our pitching. step up as hitters and get out of this funk we're in. >> one thing about baseball a series of ups and downs. downs the last few games. four rbis. four extra bases. last home run made against the new york yankees. what do you see is his major problem? >> he's starting to swing at pitches out of his strike zone. this happens to every single hitter in major league baseball. anybody that knows about slump, when the food for thought comes in your mind, instead of just seeing and hit the ball you start to guess up there at home plait. the pitch that you're looking for or guess

over to get it is markakis. heading to third is cabrera.he throw all the way through, not in time. so kennedy gets out of an 0-for- 14 and the two of the top of the order, both had not been hitting, get the hit. >> buck: jeremy guthrie tries to get the fastball away, leaves it out over the plate. kennedy hooks it. markakis has a shot at cabrera going from first to third but it's to the home plate side of third base. >> gary: this is a very big park here. balls get hit out there, outfielders really have to hustle because oakland will always try to get the extra base. if it falls anywhere near the gap or down the line, you get a chance to pick up an extra base. here is jack cust and he will take the pitch up high for a ball. a big chance early as oakland has got runners at first and third. and only one out. and cust hitting in that number 3 spot, 0-for-5, lifetime, off guthrie will take the pitch. that's going to be inside and the count will go to 2-0. >> buck: cust had a tough road trip as wellings going 3-for- 17. a homerun on the trip. he

second time in the game markakis has struck out. that's four already for nolasco. >> buck: this was a hard slider and backdoor slider. again, look at the target. trying to go inside. they miss all the way across the plate. that's why i kind of laughed to myself when i hear pitchers over the course of a good ballgame say i only made a couple of mistakes. in my mind, that's the mistake trying to get the ball inside. he gets a strikeout. >> jim: one down. here is aubrey huff with pie at first. double play ball to second. uggla plays the hop. goes to ramirez. wide to the bag. out there. back to first for the double play. somehow, hanley ramirez kept his foot on the bag as he came across to receive the throw. base hit, none left, middle of the fourth, 2-0, florida. woman over phone: no problem. you know, maybe other people are content to sit around and wait. wait for something to happen. for business to pick up. but for you, it's time to kick it in gear. time to get going. time to get tough. take control. you're not gonna run and hide. b

adam jones comes out to pinch- hit for pie and then markakis. brian a-good game.ingle, a double, a luna scored. he's know scored a run in five straight games and has a six- game hitting streak. there's adam on deck to pinch- hit for felix pie. 1-1 on roberts. renyel pinto who is now on and nolasco who start were picked up that trade from the cubs. when juan pierre was sent to chicago. that was in december of 2005 3-1 the count. 005 seas it was a very good trade for florida. they got pinto, nolasco and sergio meet ray all for juan pierre who eventually lept left chicago and went to the dodgers as a free agent. 3-1 on roberts. he walks. leadoff walk. the tying run can come to the plate. that's not what fredi gonzalez wanted to see. time now for you to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. here are the candidates for tonight. brian roberts, melvin mora or emilio bonifacio. text in your vote now and have your voice heard a much, b or c, 51862. roberts has two hits and a walk. melvin mora has an rbi and two hits. you what he bonifacio has done. >> buck: he

markakis waiting. takes it, he was going to make him throw a strike. there's no rush for nick markakis with nobody out heren the bottom of the 9th. and the tieing run in. >> jim: pretty gutsy pitch, 2-0 changeup. >> gary: there's the potential winning run. reimold who drill the first of two walks -- drilled the first of two walks. big cut, 2-2. >> gary: this series is finishing the way it's been played. there's been quality baseball, and exciting games with the tm splitting the first two 6-4. 6-4. benches up on the railing, both ways. 2-2 delivery. markakis takes it, and he's done. one down. >> jim: that's pretty impressive. 2-0. terrific hitter at the plate. and he just places it knee hih in the outside corner. so it's, they always talk abot the game being somewhat humbling. back to back nights, it shows you how quickly it can turn. >> gary: aubrey huff coming up. interesting year. keeping beltran in, now they're going to move him out. now they have a chance for the ground ball double play. so beltran will

nick markakis around. orioles pull to within one run of the marlins with this base hit to left. >> marlins get another run in the seventh inning. emilio bonifacio. matt wieters throws the ball into center field and bonifacio is going to score all the way from second. >> felix pie kind of goes to leap sleep a little out there in the outfield. right away, bonifacio takes advantage of it. gets that one extra step that allows him to score and marlins go on to win this game 5-2. >> five runs, 11 base hits for the marlins. nolasco gets the victory. he came into the game with a 7.15 e.r.a. save goes to mier. berken one win and four losses. he deserves probably a better fate. he got into a hole in the first inning. brian roberts 2-3 performance including a double. melvin mora drove in a run and orioles wound up lose that i go second frait straight game to the florida marlins 5-26789 orioles in the series were nine wins and three loss and now drop two quickly to the marlins. >> i know. you have to play a good, soli

so markakis is retired and two away. he's not out of it yet, because here comes a red-hot hitter aubrey huff. >> jim p.: of course last year nobody in the american league with more extra-base hits. you can see the numbers right there, six rbi's, a home run, good numbers against the nats. also he's handled the lefties pretty well. >> jim h.: aubrey huff takes the strike on the curveball. now 10 home runs on the year. adam jones has 12 to -- excuse me, luke scott has 14, adam jones has 12. >> jim p.: how they try oh get him out. is a lot of slow stuff. but against the yankees, he hit a couple of three run home runs on curveballs. so it's not like he can't hit these pitches. it's just he's such a good fastball hitter. >> rob: if you're going to change speeds, you better keep it down in the zone. especially with reimold, markakis, huff, adam jones. they get their arms extended, they're going to hit it out of the ballpark. >> jim p.: another thing is, we talk about it so often, is that most left-handed hitters leave the ball

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 hits or home put wins in the orioles can put wins in the win column. jimmie johnson and sherrill closed it out. he was outstanding, let's get more on the oriole right-hander. hello, amber. spring training, there were so many questions bullpen, the the guys bounce injuries in 2008. the bullpen has the team, the season. that doesn't get a lot of is johnson. he has made more appearances i reliever, and been one most effective, the last 10 appearances. from a period of may 17th he's pushed 13 2/3 one earned run. i caught with him and asked him what allowed him to get in the groove. we're al

markakis is there. one down in the florida fifth. covering the bases tonight with rich hill and one of the things we were curious about, we asked him what was one of his most interesting jobs other than baseball. >> i don't know if i should be saying this, but i sold perfume, men's cologne at the filene's in massachusetts at the mall. my first offseason as a professional baseball player. >> do you have a favorite scent? >> i don't know. i'm pretty good at it though actually. that's awful. >> jim: now, if you're looking for cologne and go to the filene's in massachusetts, you see this 6'5" guy, do you have confidence he understands what he's doing? >> buck: i appreciate his honesty. he could have kept that story to himself. you know what? early in your career, a lot of players worked in the offseason just to get through the wintertime. he came out of university of michigan and was drafted. and then went into play pro

markakis going over and that is a foul ball.ometimes, that will shut down an offense that wasn't geared to face a left hander. >> buck: you lose your head a little bit, too, when you have a 6-0 lead. mark hendrickson has come in here and shown that he will throw the strikes on both sides of the plate. >> gary: 0-1 delivery underway and that one is popped right to right field and markakis has it. holliday is gone on a 1-2-3 inning for mark hendrickson and the orioles' bats, starting with andino markakis and jones. ? to paint with primer already mixed in? test samples instead of can commitments? what do you say we dip into our wallets less and grab a hold of the latest tools out there so we can quit all that messing around with extra steps and get busy turning our doing dials up a notch? more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. for the next minute, i'm gonna show you what it's like to have verizon fios. these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffi

huff's has had 63 chances, markakis 85, jones, of course he's had 54.the numbers, if you look at the first six, seven hitters in the orioles line-up, they're almost all of them hitting over .300. >> jim h.: zaun swings through it. >> jim p.: that is with runners in scoring position, so they've done a terrific job. >> jim h.: martis looking for his first win since the game against san francisco, san francisco traded him to the nationals for a left-handed pitcher mike stanton. >> rob: he's pitched 39 innings since then, 29 runs have scored and he's walked 19. given up 37 hits. he just has not been as sharp, and it's almost like he won five of his first seven starts and he started thinking about it. hey, i'm tops among rookies in wins. well, he's been at five for six weeks. you and i talked about this the last time we worked together. job one for a starting pitcher, go six or seven innings, nowadays, back in your day it was a complete game. try to give your team an opportunity to win. some starting pitchers have lost that kind of focus where my first job i

markakis, he guilty ahead of markakis, he had a pitch. now you fig your you have the bases loaded -- loaded. he has watched scott get a couple of hits his last time up. it is difficult to pitch under these circumstances for anyone, whether it is the orioles or the nationals >> bob: luke scott, 2-3 tonight. his batting average out .299. and that will be a double play ball that guzman boots. now it is 10-1. a one-hopper just to his left. christian guzman has had a terrible time on balls hit to his left this year. >> jim: don't you think maybe huff gets in the way here? it looked to me he blinded him. he doesn't see that ball. it is pretty routine. i don't think he picks it up at all and the ball was hit sharply, but it was a perfect double play ball to get them out of the inning. >> bob: guzman's 10th error of the year. washington with 68 errors. and guys are swinging from the heels smelling blood here. the hitter is mora, huff, reimold and scott on the bases. >> rob: jim made a great point about rhythm at the plate, guys. they'll stand the

markakis fouls it off. pinto got into 67 games last year.e has been used often to get a lefty out and that's it. markakis is hitless on the night. he does have an rbi on a sac fly. ball three. the orioles scored two in the eighth and three in the ninth to get even. the marlins, their big inning was in the seventh when they scored five runs. the 3-1 is inside. ball four. and a lead-off walk in the 10th. >> buck: we can't overstate it enough, when this team started winning games, but those five straight wins together, the hitters became more patient, more selective. the walk totaling increased. the hits started to come in bunches, and the patience has paid off big-time tonight and how about five straight hits with two outs in the ninth. gyp the orioles really have to be given a lot of credit for their perservance. they never believe the game is over. think have shown that time and again this year. all right, mr. manager wlarks do you do here? markakis on, jones at the plate? >> buck: you let him hitno question about it. >> jim: hit and run? bo

and markakis slow roller to castillo for the out. and one away here in the bottom half of the 8th inning. >> jim: they were talking about pedro feliciano at the cage, and aubrey huff says he stands right on the first base side of the pitching rubber, and he stepst you, he's very deceptive, so he's almost stepping really right, almost behind you. and he has the slider to go. so, he's going to throw across his body. >> gary: another left-hander. as he gets huff who has singl. grounded out and the big "d," the line drive out caught by castillo in the 5th inning with the bases loaded. that sort of changed the complexion of the ballgame. os chance to get to hernandez and open the door. the mets responded by coming back with 26th and 2 in the 7th -- two in the 6th and two in the 7th. >> jim: he throws it, gets on top of it, doesn't hang, doest stay around. very difficult to stay on and hit. >> gary: 1-2 delivery. feliciano is 32 years old. he has been around a long time, and it took him 7 years

markakis goes back to first base. that will bring melvin mora up. >> should we let you give some signs? >> i gave one, did you see my leg up? you saw nicky go. >> now i got to stop it. i'm hoping melvin hits a gaper, nick scores from first. >> two down here. mora will take it outside. just explain that, skip, one last question, what you said about mora. the sequence you're looking for here with melvin at the plate. >> he's going to get a breaking ball at some point in time. if he gets it, i would expect he's going to bought hurting on it. and that would be a great time for nicky to run. there it is. >> nick's got the green light down there in these situations? >> well, he did, but i just took it off. because back-to-back pitches redding is usually the slide step. sandly alomar is over in that dugout, sandy and i were with the cubs all those years in the minor leagues, so i learned a lot of these things from him. >> skipper joining us here with mora at the plate. that was the one he wanted. >> i was talking to you

markakis had to pull the trigger with a two strike count. willingham has it. two outs.t will be aubrey huff now. >> jim p.: remember ron, it's an interesting thing about slow breaking balls. it appears that you just look for it. kind of big and looping. i used to watch him and i go, why didn't he just look for that. then i got to hit off him, it was big but it was going straight down. hard to, that a ball can break that much and still, cuellar had one. the big overhand curveball. >> rob: like mussina, for many years had that knuckle curve. >> jim p.: with the spin it's just incredible. >> bob: i've had hitters tell me the pitch may not be coming in that fast, but it's spinning real fast. >> jim p.: he could kind of snap his fingers and flip the ball up. incredibly strong forearms and hands. >> bob: aubrey huff hits one to right, that ball is out of here and the orioles continue to hit home runs. all of their runs driven in with the long ball tonight. it's 5-3 baltimore. >> jim p.: the opposite of last night when you have 11 on the board and don't get a home run. this is

markakis battles it away. it will stay at 1-2. road trip now have been outscored 29-10. five games. that one for a shortcut off to 3rd. play to 1s. just in time. and this one's in the books. so oakland got the runs early and made them stand up as they had a 9-0 lead at the end of the 4th inning and come away with a 9-4 victory. we will be back to wrap it up from oakland. there's your final. >>> welcome back. when you look at this game seems like the orioles hitting came a little too late. >> it did. ten hits again tonight. four hits through the first four innings and then four in the 7th. didn't turn out to be enough. orioles couldn't come up with more than nine on the board. >> pitching an excellent game last sunday. we'll talk about all that when o's extra post game begins in a moment. now back to oakland for more with gary and buc. >> 4, 10-0 for the orioles. lost the first two games of this three game set. and rich hill takes the mound tomorrow. coverage on maasen 2:00. the at&t game at 4:00. for all of our crew, i'm gary thor

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castillo up with it, and markakis is retired. but the orioles get the long ball.career, and first of this season. robert andino. and the orioles lead.  that one bounces off the bat, nice play andino. but the throw is in the dugout, and another base t will be a throwing error, and beltran is going to go down to second ba. >> jim: i don't know how the original hit will be, up the middle, nice range, trying to get his bearing, and normally, it's a tough play, because the ball stays down. he drops his arm a little, and just doesn't have enough on it to see where it bounces. and the, kind ever the swirl with the love by wigginton. >> gary: a straighter call, to baser on andino for the moment, and that puts a runner at secd base, the potential tieing ru. and here is reed. he struck out in the 1st. wright gets another shot at it here. >> jim: let's see what his approach it. comes in leading the national league in hitting. .397 coming in. good right field hitter. >> gary: orioles have been working inside to him, tryingo pre

markakis is one for two on the night with a single back in the third inning. now with a guy on first though, a little different. martis in the stretch. >> bob: markakis having a good series with four hits. that ball driven to left, willingham is well in front of the track to put it away for the second out. so martis finding a way here in the middle of the game to get outs. and getting them a whole lot quicker than he was earlier. >> rob: once you start showing them you have such a good change-up right there, he sped up the bat of markakis and he couldn't get around on an 89- mile an hour fastball, he flied out to left field. >> bob: and because the shift is on, it's a base hit, that gives the orioles runners at the corners. in a conventional defense, the defense is heading back to the dugout. >> jim p.: but they didn't really shift the shortstop over as far as they normally do when they put it on. if he's over a little bit more, you can see gonzalez can't get it, belliard can't get it. jones just doesn't even hesitate. it was a good pitch. did not hit it very

markakis will follow.koji is able to get out of that inning with only the one run on the lead-off home run by dan uggla and the marlins have do really be kicking themselves now because they had four hits in the inning and managed only that one run. >> buck: koji did a nice job of min nighing the damage. he threw 23 pitches in that inning. that's why rick kranitz came out to give him a little bit of a breather. >> jim: he is ahead of him, 0- 2, miller is ahead of him. fouled back. koji struck out his first at- bat. he is one of the three strikeouts recorded by andrew miller. that is high. miller is making his 43rd start. 13-19 in his career. again uehara fouls it off. koji has one walk this year, but not a base hit. he just get as piece of it, if nothing else. >> buck: he is getting closer to the field! >> jim: and he is making miller work a little bit. >> buck: managers have very, very mixed emotions about pitchers' at-bats, pes personally managers during interleague play. >> jim: he puts it in play at rig

markakis is retired for the second out. vin mazzaro, 22 years old old, drafted in 2005, a third round pick and now getting set to go to work on luke scott. in the cleanup spot. he's been on some kind of tear since coming off the d.l. tied for 8th in the log for -- in the league for home runs. and inside. 1-0. >> one thing the orioles haven't done recently is score early in a ballgame and when you don't score many, you just take them whenever you get them, but early in the season that was the real trademark. first inning runs, it would be huge to cash in here and give rich hill an early lead. >> fall ball off the mask of kurt suzuki. luke scott, the current hitting streak, 3 in a row. the way he's been going, when he doesn't get a base hit, that's news. >> it's a big surprise. he's been swinging so well since he's come off the disabled list with the injured shoulder. >> a ball and a strike with reimold at second base and it's just outside, good take by luke scott. 2-1. >> and this is the kind of guy that you don't need an aw

and the orioles with roberts, jones and markakis. >> rob: and the dodgers. they have been phenomenal this year even without manny ramirez who is less than a week away from coming back. >> bob: two of the five team ifs last place, interesting. >> rob: maybe the one, two, three hitters shouldn't be so good. they should be the four, five, six. >> bob: make, them the one, three, five and put somebody between them. >> jim: they give numbers for everything now. of course when the mets came in, david wright, as he still is, was hitting the highest average in the national league. of course everybody was saying that they should move him from -- that they should move him from fifth to third or fourth, whatever, because if you start looking at the total of at-bats you get in a year, it is something like 780 to 730 depending upon where you hit in the lineup. >> bob: oh, nick johnson takes another one. >> rob: another curve ball. >> bob: he is wearing a shin guard tonight. >> rob: i think that got him in the toe bone. >> bob: the lump on his shin had totally disappeared.

nick markakis.ick is bat fling the two spot there is a pitch that is a wild pitch and that will allow brian roberts to go to third as john baker could not keep that in front of him. so the orioles now a runner at third and nobody down. >> buck: this is the problem with the young pitch here has good stuff. that ball, no chance at all for the catcher to make a play on that. john baker just couldn't do anything with it. it hit so far in important of and wide of home plate. he couldn't even put his glove on it. >> jim: 1-0 on nick markakis. miller will stay from the stretch with roberts at third. high fly ball left field. back on it is coghlan. near the warning track and he runs it down. roberts will tag and score. that goes the sac fly and the rbi and the orioles grab a 1-0 lead. that ball was slicing away from coghlan, but he stayed with it and hauls it in for the out. >> buck: baseball can look so easy at times. lead-off double. take third on a wild pitch. the sac fly, thank you very much. markakis d

roberts, jones and markakis. huff, mora and scott. reimold, wieters and andino. brian roberts on his sixth -- six-game streak. >> jim: here is the scouting report on mike pelfrey. good stuff. his pitching coach said at the end of the tonight or today, this will be a night game, it's about the sinker. he struggled lately 0-2. gave up nine runs in one of the games. last year when pitching was hurt, they needed him to go back and revert to what he did last year where he was a winning pitcher with a low earned run average. >> gary: he makes his first pitch against roberts. thank that is fouled away. he's second in double, third in runs in the american league. first in hit streak boost that had average to .299 flirting again with that .300 mark for brian and the streak has been a good one. he's gone 11-22, .500 batting average during the six-game hit streak. all of the orioles got back into it on sunday as far as gettinghits concerned. >> jim: yeah, everybody in the lineup. got a couple of home runs. it all started in the seventh inning in saturday where atlanta didn'