you can see matt laporta has the ball right at the bag.wigginton turns and sees a play, goes for the catcher, trying to knock the ball out of his glove, toregas gives with the throw, has the ball out of his glove. if wigginton slides to the outside of the base, he might have been safe, but he saw where the throw was coming and just went after the catcher and couldn't draw it loose from toregas. >> jim: he looked like a full back, trying to make it down for the running back. takes inside, ball 2. leek here is the replay. peeks over his shoulder, knows there is going to be a play and trying to jar the ball loose. you saw he was trying to make the plate. goes back to touch it just in case, but toregas held into the ball. >> buck: good throw by matt laporta. he has been impressive here, playing left field. so, 2-0 on pie, with rock down on the first. outside, ball 3. >> jim: pie homered his last at bat. look at these numbers. he has done a nice job. not really pulled the home runs. home run it is opposite field. outside, ball 4, here is the 4-

and matt laporta in the 8th inning. plays by the orioles and number one occurred last night and missed five games with back spasms. adam jones above the center field guam and -- wall and for a home run and great defense by the orioles, a great job of finding the plays by jim hunter jr. who is doing a great job put that package together. the top 5 plays for the orioles this week. time for a look at the starting pipers and begin with brian madis and the orioles, rick. >> brian has to getnast oat north balls, the right-hand hitters who have had success against him. hitting at a .324 pace against brian so far. left-handers are having trouble. they're hit ago .176. you have to get better against the right-handers. he hasn't felt himself yet. we talked yesterday about the way he has felt since he's been up here after going 7-0 at double-a ball and said we haven't seen the real brian maddis. guaranteed today it was going to be different. hope it's in the positive column. >> justin was acquired from boston and victor martinez.

and matt laporta with a lead off, andy marte will follow him, and luis valbuena, the 3rd batter. and there is a strike at the knees. strike two. port laporta is hitless on the day. and there is a gloop. brian roberts packed. and has it for the out. back on his heels, brian able to get there and haul

jammed matt laporta. good job retreating and backing up for the infield. >> jim: big out. first up. that was almost not fair. terrific pitch that almost fell for a base hit. bases every nighty. ball one inside. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are hitless today. 0-13 combined. and they have been such an important offensive part of the attack throughout this series. matt malt 7 outstand -- brian matusz 7 outstanding innings, now johnson here in the #th. 2-2. wednesday he got him.   update on the player of the day. felix pie getting the fan club going. he has the lead. still have time to text in your vote. we will have the results on the post game. >> you start hitting home runs and fans notice you. it is impressive. >> buck: he has really swung the bat well and taken full advantage of his increased opportunities of late. >> jim: 1-1 as johnson try to close it out to earn his 7th save. 2-outs, nonnone on in the 9th inning. and does he check in time? and valbuena has struck out twice and slide out. and into first. top hop for aubrey. picked up a flip and the ball game is over. so the orioles b

third homer in 22 games. >> buck: and matt laporta has some pop.at we heard when they drafted him. milwaukee drafted -- drafted him number one out of florida. he was a powerful college hitter. he clears the front side. he just drop as barrel on it and drives it into the seats about 10 rows back. >> gary: so laporta picks one up and gets one of the runs back in a hurry. that will be fouled off. marte up at the plate. meredith greeted with the long ball. that one was well back. second home run he has given up since joining the orioles. on the season, only the third home run surrendered by cla meredith. marte has got a sacrafice fly to center and a fly ball out to center. a two ball, one strike count on the .271 hitter for the indians. laporta got that home run, he spent the ma majority of the d ru and 60 rbthis year and in 93 s playedthere. and he was among the international league leaders in a number of offensive categories. ninth in homers. down to thiratbe a fo ing it. 2-2. buck: and laporta,as we mentioned, he was acquired in the c.c. sabatthia t

matt laporta. on the first pitch. and takes a strike on the outside corner. >> buck: one thing we have seen from matt. he handles the inner half of the plate well. last night he hit the homerun against mer digit. inside. off the plate inside. he opened up and hit it hard. he handled it fairy well throughout the series. o-1. down the line. that's fair. laporta on his way to 3rd. that ball is going off sale val -- valbuena. probably prevented him from going to second base on the throw over. and that for the moment at least has saved a run. >> buck: another pitch. look at how inside out down the right field line. he hits everything. that's his 4th hit tonight. first to the opposite and ends up at 2nd with a double. indians have something going here. draw the infield in. nobody out in the 8th inning. >> gary: indians trying to get the run back on the moeller homerun. heading out to talk with bass now. that's the 11th hit in the ball game for the indians. 2 on in the scoring position. nobody out. and shoppach. single. 1 fo

later in the inning matt laporta, two-run double for laporta, and the indians go on to win big time 11inning number 100 is going to have to wait another start as he takes the loss in this one. the angels, just their ninth loss in 33 games since the all-star break, their five-game win streak is over. justin masterson getting his first win with the indians, the red sox one game over the rangers, big night for j.d. drew, in the third off brett cecil. home run. cecil's allowed seven home runs in two starts against boston this year. in the fourth drew gets cecil again. this time a two-run home run. now, 15 on the season, the red sox win 8-1, victor martinez also homered for the red sox, his fifth for boston, 20th of the season, red sox sweeped toronto since 2007. jon lester wins for the first time since july 25th. the rays three back in the wild card, taking on the baltimore orioles, bases loaded for brian roberts in the sixth. a grand slam for brian roberts. his 12th home run of the year. also his fourth career slam. in the seventh, nolan reimold, two-run home run, his 11th of the year, or