nolan ryan has a great idea bringing them to mini camp.hat juan area we -- one area we have lost. the better your legs are in shape the better you are in shape. >> you have to last long and hard. no tougher place to play than baltimore. it's hot, humidity and wears on. if you are not in condition you are nerving go be to win. >> our record proved that. let's look at the rangers lineup. the rangers have a potent offense. and joining us now is dave, the orioles bench coach, tell us about how you get kinsler out. >> kin less has more home-run power than roberts but a similar type hitter. very good offensive player. can run, can hit for power. you have to go ahead and straighten him up inside. you have to straighten him up. >> dave, nelson cruz is a big home run hitter. he leads the club with 30 home runs, big rbi guy. he's a guy we have to be careful work stay out of the middle of the plate with him. s that right. a lot of home run hitters can only pull the ball. he can hit it everywhere. texas is a great place to hit fly balls, so is this pa

this is something nolan ryan wanted.s, and good off-speed pitches. >> knew so roberts down on strikes. one of the thing this orioles have done consistently well on the year, first innings of game this, number one and number two batters regardless of who bats usually behind brian roberts, they have put up big numbers in first innings of games. best batting average, best on base percentage, tied for the most extra base hits, tied for third and home runs, the top two hitters in the line-ups in first innings of of games. >> hasn't this guy been a huge surprise in the second half of the season? he has really showed everybody what label he came over here with. he has put it all together with the power, the average, the running, the arm, the defense, everything is coming together for him. >> jim: takes a strike on the outside corner. 1-1. derek holland is out of newark, ohio. came through the rangers system very quickly. he gets a slow breaking ball past pie, 1-2. you wonder where players find homes in big league organizations.

nolan ryan sitting out in the rain. get him an umbrella. >> bob: a tough guy. >> rob: he is tough but no sitting in the rain. guzman is there. that did not carry. that's 1 out here in the 7th. we love it within you ask about the nats. and roland denny would like to know about the advantage of the situation like this. >> rob: the pitcher if he can keep his footing. any ball that he hits will be beat down by the rain. a lot of guys like me you played under this before whether it be in baseball or other sports. it's not that bad as long as it's not touring down and your footing isn't good. >> bob: detroit broke a losing streak beating toronto. >> rob: this is not the same conditions as shadows, bob. left field. >> bob: there is harris. slicing a bit back toward him. when you keep chris on base that's major. >> rob: is that a victory. >> bob: a victory on the way to winning the war, and ross. two major victories. now nick johnson is considering ramirez is next. fly to center. fly to right. >> bob: throwing a lot of off spee

nolan ryan wanted them to throw deep. throwing more pitches.what an advantage to a pitching staff and how much better the ballclub looked. why they are in a pennant race and the offense is managing to last in ball games, 5 runs before used to be trouble. now it's not. >> jim: the rangers a threat for postseason play. we're going to look at the highlights when the orioles were down 1-0. in the 4th inning. rodriquez singles to left field. 2-0 rangers. >> pudge rodriquez has a lot of life from the bat. the fans are happy to see him back. he drives nay big run tonight. >> the next batter is chris davis, drives the ball to left center field. cruz and rodriquez score. >> this ball gets into gap to the wall. 2 runs score, texas rangers take a 4-0 lead over the orioles. >> in the top of the 6th. cruz hits his 31st home run with one out in the 6thinning the rangers up 5-0. >> he leads the rangers in home runs coming in with 30. that was his 31est home run and texas goes up 5-0. >> the orioles get one back. roberts, was hitting third in the lineup. singl

to have 700 less, you're talking like nolan ryan stuff, randy johnson stuff. just amazing.up, and dunn is gone. the phillies are the the best defensive team in baseball. they have the few effort number of errors, 60,ty pirates have 61. the phillies are tied with their buddies from pennsylvania in fielding percentage at 988. and that's one thing that kept the phillies in games early this year when their pitchers were struggling. they had offense, and they were catching the ball. and that's a breaking ball outside to willingham. i think one of the big reasons the phillies are so good defensively, charlie manuel has pretty much the same 8 guys out there every night. they don't mess with their line- up a whole lot. great continuity on this club. and pedro with that big breaking ball to josh willingham. >> rob: pedro is like livan hernandez, change-up and breaking ball, he still can equalize any hitter, but when he does make a mistake, he can't gets away with mistakes, just like livan can't. of course if you throw 95, 97, you can gets away with mistakes in the zone. >> bob: pedr

give ron washington, mike maddux, john danlts the gm there, new president nolan ryan dead last in pitchingt year. their top five. i think they're fourth in the american league in pitching. that's ahead of the yankees and ahead of the red sox. that's good company. and they're top five in hitting>> bob: they're ahead of yankees, tampa bay and boston next three teams. j.d. martin's pitch count piling up. 13 already this inning. 70 on the game. 2-1 to cody ross. he hits it right off the end of the bat. nice, easy play by the pitcher. baker down to second with two outs. number eight man, cameron maybin coming up. the dodgers are coming to nats town when the boys get home from this road trip, we're giving you the chance to watch it in style, the thursday night game september 24th. how about the comfort of a private suite with 14 of your buddies? enter at nationals.com/win. i would imagine the web site's gotten quite a number of hits on that one. they may walk maybin here and -- i wouldn't pitch to josh johnson either. wil nieves was standing up for quite a while before he went into his crouch. a