mike pelfrey, pretty good breaking ball. looked like the orioles had a chance, but he strikes out brian roberts. >> gary: and church will lead it off here for the mets. ryan church has singled, brought in a run and scored. rbi's have gone to wright and church, murphy and brian schneider for the mets. that one to left field. reimold with a long run and it will end up in the seats in any event and a two strike count on ryan church. orioles-mets will be meeting for two more. tomorrow, it will be koji uehara, 2-4 against tim redding who is 0-2 for the mets. jason berken thursday night 1-3 against luis hernandez who is 5--- livan hernandez who is 5- 1. the three-game set and then the o's off to philadelphia for friday, saturday and sunday. big cut and i don't think he hit it. he's going to go to first. it will be a strikeout on church, but he'll reach first base. it is a pass ball that will allow him to get there. so, the leadoff man on again. >> jim: take a look. great angle right here. ball just gets under matt wieters' glove.

. >> 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't pitch well. orioles took advantage. got big hits. got some walks. typical way of good, offensive teams taking

. >> jim: mike pelfrey finally gets a ball up in the strike zone. nick markakis notorious to hit the ball to left field especially if you throw him fastballs. that's exactly what he does. >> gary: so, aubrey huff will stand in. the five home runs pelfrey has given have all been hit by left- handers. left-handers hitting with .299. .270 by right-handers. and a discussion here as pelfrey wanted brian schneider to come out. aubrey huff with a three-game hit streak. 2-5 and an rbi in the ballgame on sunday against atlanta to continue the streak. orioles could use a big inning or the long ball here to pull themselves back into the game. pitch on the outside corner for a strike. >> jim: we all know very, very few pitchers, hitters go up there and try to hit a home run and never hit them. what they try do is hope he elevates the ball, drive it somewhere. of course, with aubrey's power, 32 of them last year. >> gary: towering ball to right field. it's back near the wall. church is there and he's got it. aubrey huff gave it a try. no runs, one hit, no errors

that should not be a factor tonight. >> on the mound for the mets tonight is right-hander mike pelfreyy and guthrie. their career statistics are almost exactly the same. guthrie, 22-22 -- excuse me, pelfrey is 22-22 lifetime. guthrie, 21-23. both of them have a 4.30. the other one a 4.10. pelfrey takes the loss and guthrie takes the win, they're tied. not a road warrior. he has trouble on the road with a 2-3 record. it shawbd very good matchup. >> it's the mets. it's the orioles. it's insurance league baseball. what is the rick dempsey key to the game? >> the key is don't go wrong with wright. this guy has been a hot, hot hitter. he leads the national league with a .364 batting average. actually, first in the major leagues. you don't have to pitch to him with men in scoring position right now. you've got some other guys around him that are strugingling -- struggling. you can afford to be careful. let's not have any left-handers come out for him because he is tearing up left-handers right now with a .510 batting average against lefties. >> what the orioles are looking to do is build off

mike pelfrey is coming off a couple of losses. the team has had. and three no decisions. his last win you've got tot to go all the way back to fifth of may for pelfrey. 3-2 delivery on the way. that one towards the hole. picked up by cora. reimold retired. one away. matt wieters coming up the fans on hand to a young player grow. wieters still looking for that long ball trying to get average up. he's had a chance to think about things. a chance to rest some games. as this season rolls along, he's going to be playing more and more and fewer and fewer days off. couldn't believe today i added it up. there are 99 games left in the season. they're trying to get under that 100 mark. that happened awful quick. >> jim: yeah, it did. >> gary: 1-0 delivery. that will be fouled away. 1-1. >> jim: we won't hear a lot of managers for their teams underachieving saying we have 100 games to go. it will be 98, -- >> gary: no, you don't have a lot of games left. you're in trouble. >> jim: if you do, we'll have to anticipate a playoff. >> gary: 1-1 delivery on the way

work, in the bottom of the seventh, the mets got three runs against sean green who just relieved mike pelfrey to tie it up, the mets frustrating fans, they granted 15 base runners through the first nine innings, a season high, so 15 hits so far, but only four runs. pirates-rays, dog night at turner field. some barking going on. >> dog night? >> didn't you see the little doggies. >> i did. i find that an odd promotion. >> all right. a key player here, nate mclouth coming up throwing, laroche trying to score from second, and the throw cut off by first baseman greg norton, laroche is scoring on the plate, and the pirates go on to this, after giving up a two-out homer, matt capps gets norton to fly out and end the game and the danger, 14th save for capps, and the pirates snap their three-game skid, laroche drove in two of the three winning runs. bly the way, pittsburgh starter charlie morton left after pitching only one inning due to tightness in his right hammy, the braves, their three game winning streak comes to an end. colby rasmus hitting cleanup for the cards, 12-6 in his last eight games,

east, mets and phillies squaring off, mike pelfrey winless in his last five starts, top of the fourth might be a reason why, giving up the long ball, chase utley his 14th home run of the year. tied at 1-1. move to extra innings now, bottom 10, tied at 4-4, david wright with one man on, jayson werth coming in to make the grab. wright has been red hot. hitting over .600 in his last 10 games. would have loved to get that hit. utley again getting it done -- his second home run of the game, second multi-home-run game of the season. phillies on top 5-4. ryan madson on to close it out replacing brad lidge on the d.l. with the sprained knee. he picks up his third save of the year. cole hamels started the game, 11 hits allowed ties a career high for him, but chan ho park gets it done. his first win since being moved to the bullpen. he's thrown out five straight scoreless innings. mets shot themselves in the foot. 16 left on base. >> jerry manuel not a fan of the loss, especially to a division rival. >> any game at this point for us -- like i said, we're trying to take games off the board becau

i mean i look at him, i was talking to mike pelfrey, i said, markakis is one of those guys, he's kindf like pete rose or he's like, especially like brett, carew, where you decide, okay, do i want to give him a single to left or do i want to speed up the bat. something he did right there with the change-up and maybe a possible home run ball. >> gary: nick markakis has indeed got the bat going again. >> jim: this is the same pitch that he hit off pelfrey for the home run last night. so, again, put down. one of the keys to hitting. then the bat head gets speeded up. so markakis gets his fifth three hit ballgame. and his 21st multihit game. and, again, the orioles looking for that big two out hit which aubrey huff will try and find. he's got a single and an rbi. markakis goes, not if time. stolen base. well, we had dave trembley on, he talked about the green light. that nick markakis gets. he 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

hamels gave up 11 hits, four runs, and the mets had a 4-1 lead, but in the top of the seventh, mike pelfrey gave up three consecutive singles to load the bases and then sean green proceeded to give up three runs, and so here we stand, tied at four, ibanez and rollins with rbis for the phillies. they're in the bottom of the seventh tied at four, and here's a note about raul ibanez in his 15th major league season, he leads four offensive categories in the national league. a post on a midwest sports fan site said enhancing drugs could not be ignored. an angry ibanez said the following. another game going on >>> ranother game going on rig now. cards, marlins in st. louis. top of the 8th. they hold a 6-4 lead over florida. they've led this throughout after a homer in the 1st to make it 3-0. st. louis is trying to get out of the season slump, five losses losses in a row. he scored a run and also a stolen base. >> the vikings have backed off their pursuit of brett farve after he failed to report to organized meeting this is week. we have his version of what was expected this week. >> was there a d

gave up four runs and 11 hits, plus the mets came to tie it, three runs against sean green after mike pelfrey gave up three straight singles to load the bases. feliz and ibanez and rollins have the rbis, pelfrey one, and castillo, another one. taking you out to atlanta, dog night at turner field. start a barkin'. two on, two outs, jason hair me -- jaramillo singles. mclouth throws, seems to be on the money, the pirates go on to hold the lead, and 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth, two outs, matt capps gets norton to fly out to end the game and the danger, garrett anderson had the two-out homer that brought atlanta within one. pittsburgh starter charlie morton left after pitching just one inning due to tightness in his right hammy. the braves see their winning stream come to an end. the braves have seen their winning streak come to an end. >> the vikings have backed off their pursuit of brett favre after favre failed to report to organized team activities this week. brad childress hit the radio air waves with his version of what was expected this week. >> was there a deadline or not placed on bre

i think we've got to give a little credit to mike pelfrey. he had the one bad inning. this was a sinkerballer. he went to his strength. mets played defensively a lot better behind him. then, their manager who is used to playing without the full deck. they had 11 guys on their disabled list. he kind of sequenced his way through the latter innings. just a couple mistakes against a good ball club. mets considering all the injuries are a lot better third baseman team than people give them credit for. they're four games over .500. most teams really would have folded the tent. they're all about good defense, timely hitting. they got that tonight. you know what? going to their bullpen, the best bullpen in the national league, we saw all the facets the orioles self-destructed. that's a difference sometimes between wing and losing. >> you mentioned bullpen there. that's the one difference with this team. they have a guy they went out and paid big money for francisco rodriguez even though he allowed the two inherited runners to score, he did his jobment orioles never tied the ga

. >> no, you have to give credit to mike pelfrey who cooled off the orioles bats on five hits so faronight. that's all the o's could muster was two runs. >> on the other side, the orioles have committed three errors in this game. two have been very costly. orioles coming up down by four. they still have a chance. three outs to go. let's head back to the booth and rejoin gary and jim. >> gary: jim, rick, thanks very much. it will be bobby parnell coming out of the bullpen here in the bottom half of the ninth inning to try to wrap it up in a nonsave situation. >> jim: young kid at 24 24 out of salisbury, north carolina. you can see again the numbers. a lot of strikeouts because he throws real hard. last year, a starter in their minor leagues at double-a. another one. we talked about the best bullpen in the neil. he's -- in the national league. he's been unscored on in his last outings. for a youngster, only been scored on 23-31 times all year long. again, the power arm. ninth in the majors with 11 holes. >> gary: the question for the mets -- 11 holds. >> gary: the question for mets dor