nolan reimold.having missed a couple of ballgames with the tendon bothering him, he is back in the lineup tonight. it will make -- he will make the start in left field. reimold will have some kind of procedure done on that achilles tendon done in the off season. he is in the race for the rookie of the year and probably gordon beckham is the one closest to him, the white sox player. very strong numbers for reimold no matter how you cut it. jim, he has had a great rookie year. >> jim: really out of nowhere. i think if you looked at the orioles minor league, who hit the most home run ? nolan reimold. i didn't know that he was going to be above average left fielder with a good throwing arm. he plays the ball. he reminds me a little of b. jo surhoff who came up as a catcher and learned how to play left field. you look at schierholtz, josh bell, you have brandon ware who just got the carolina player oh the year. so you're looking for young player that are going to come out of nowhere and maybe end up bein

reimold, pie, izturis and roberts. aubrey makes his fourth start at 1st base and weeders teamed with his rookie batter a mate. chris tillman. here's andrus the short stop for texas. he takes a strike. we talked about possible rookie of the year candidate. here's another. a 6-game hitting streak going and pretty good numbers. he began as a 20-year-old starter. now 21. >> quite a continue strow versey. they asked michael young to move to 3rd base. young was reluctant. >> it's changed the defense. 2-1 to andrus. tillman makes his eighth start. he's coming off a no-decision, he pitched well. he pitched a game in which he pitched 5 strong and then the rain delay. he couldn't come back after. he's showing improvement. one thing that happened to pitchers they recognize that worked in the minor league will work in the big leagues. >> 2-2 to andrews. lined and in the right field for a base hit. >> as it sails out of the way. a one out single. rick dempsey was talking about how kinsler is dangerous 72. >> buck: he had 6 hits to

reimold and pie. reimold is there at the wall. pie leaps in front of him and makes the catch. reimold had that ballal the way. pie just leaped and grabbed it for the out. >> buck: a terrific catch and he has the advantage of being left-handed. he can reach up and extend over the wall. i don't know reimold would catch. that pie reached wolfe reimold's -- above reimold's glove. >> that would be a nail in the coffin. a 3-run home run and brings it back in the ballpark. >> watching on the replay does not look like pie called him off. the centerfielder grabs anything he can get. borbon tagged him about with the third and the runner tagged him with the second. >> a play like that you don't have time to call for it. everybody is going for it. they knew it would be close to being out of ballpark. pie reached over the glove and made a good catch. >> byrd fouls it back.   >> jim: byrd 2 hits, an rbi texas 75 and 58. they have won 3 in a row.   >> jim: good off-speed pitc- 2. the white sox with a 7-0 lead, kotsay 2 for 2 with a home run against his former team.

a chopper by reimold again to short. he makes the play. davis has a 1-2-3 inning. three up, three down. we completed three here at camden yards. perez with a great defensive play. for. for. - customer service. - low fares. - we're known for a lot of things. - bags fly free. the lowest fares. great pilots too. - customer service. - low fares. we're not saying other airlines are bad; we're just awesome. low fares, customer service, frequent flights, on time performance... bags fly free. come on over here and fly with us. ( ding )  >> gary: orioles baseball o masn is brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwest.com. and by pnc, pnc, leading the way. the orioles after the victory in this four-game set against tampa bay, if they could pick up the win here with jim palmer and amber theoharis. mark hendrickson making the start, just his eighth in the year and the first one since may. he has walked none, struck out none and given up the one run on four hits. the orioles, no runs, two hits with three left on base. her's ben zobrist as we go t

first pitch swinging is reimold, fouls it back.oscoso comes on here in the is 7th inning for texas. reimold, markakis, and mora will be up for the birds. there's a breaking ball inside. 1-1 the count on reimold, who is 0 for 2, but does have an rbi and a sac fly. >> rick: pretty good situational hitting on the part of nolan reimold today. big sacrifice fly back in the 4th inning. drove in a run with that, and that helped the orioles put up a big four spot. that's been the difference for gigahertz today being able to relax with a six-run lead, instead of just two. >> jim: 1-2 on nolan reimold. reimold to center feed. there's gentry, has it for the out. one down in the orioles 7th inning. time to text in your vote for the player of the game. here are your candidates. jeremy guthrie, ty wiggington, and chad moeller. next okay text in your vote few and have your voice heard. so here is nick markakis now. nick is 0 for 3 on the day, and he takes a strike. >> rick: got to be a pretty good feeling for jeremy guthrie sitting on the bench r

reimold has been real solid. wieters is probably -- wieters has probably improved more in the defensive category. and -- in a short amount of time. that's been noticeable. i mean very noticeable. i think that is attributed to early work and better footwork, et cetera. but it is getting towards the end of the year and the good ones figure it out >> so dave trembley talking about his closer jim johnson. and tonight if the game is on the line you know johnson will be right back in there. one is the number one trait of a loser? you have to have the ability to forget. >> wade davis goes for the rays and mark hendrickson on the mound. he is taking the start of brian matusz. when we come back, rick dempsey's scouting reports on the pitchers. the new mcdonald's bacon and cheese angus third pounder. before taking it on, one must study it first. rushing in unprepared may prove overwhelming... with all that juicy, 100% angus beef. there! you found a point of entry! the bacon beckons like a springboard to paradise. one small

on reimold, with roberts leading from first.ion with the voters for the rookie of the year is will they penalize reimold because the orioles are not a contending team? that pitch was behind nolan reimold, and teagarden somehow was able to glove it. >> rick: let's look at this pitch here. oh, the breaking ball. that might scare you a little rowing across his body. he throw his ball behind non old right he. and it's so hard to try to do what he's inom that corner of the mound. let's watch this pitch one more time. fastball up in the strike zone. when you're ahead in the count, this is when you can pitch up the strike zone. you have swing at it. a big out for holland. two down, and here is nick markakis. grounded out his first at bat. still has an outside shot of making a run at 200 base hits, but he'll havepto get some kin of hot. 26 games remain for the orioles, including today, and he needs 33 hits in those 26 games to reach 200 base hits for the first time in his career. as brian robbers is chased back -- brian robbers is chas

left fielder noland reimold placed on the 15 day dl earlier today w left achilles tendonitis. reimold one of the biggest surprises this year, in a 104 game season, he has batted 279 with 15 home runs, and 45 rbi. reimold will have surgery next week, but it is not expected to affect his status for next year. >> standing 8 feet in 1 inch tall, he is the tallest man. get this. as you can imagine, being that tall makes every day life challenging. duck under doorways, trouble riding in a car and has to get his clothes especially made. >> high school freshman made the football team in jacksonville florida despite limitation. he had both legs amputated when he was just one year old. because of a birth defect. but this team has not let that stop the desire to play football. he played in the first two games of the season inspiring fans and his teammates with his determination. >> kindergarten teachers at a school in pittsburg seeing double and triple. there must be something in the water because this year's kindergarten class at a south allegany school has six sets of twins and two set

and reimold diving and will not get it. it gets by him. pie will back up.t on his way to third. the throw will not be in time, and it will be a triple as bartlett gets it with two down here in the third inning. nolan reimold did in the play in two straight games and it leams to me getting a slow jump. it is the left achilles, an then the ball just gets by him. again, what is your read? i think a right-handed pitcher, bartlett, even if you don't play it, he is probably going to steal a base because he has that capable against the lefty as little different. but nolan obviously thought he could catch that ball and just didn't do it. >> gary: it is going to be the eighth triple of the season picked up -- the seventh, i'm sorry, by bartlett and he takes it back for a strike. so he is on at third base. the league leader in triples is jocolby ellsbury, span and dejesus with kansas city, they all have nine. the rbi chance here in a scoreless ballgame. the third hit off of hendrickson. bartlett at third. crawford will take it down lo

nolan reimold. the orioles, 0-4-0 in the ballgame. reimold will foul it back.avis has now struck out eight. one shy of the nine that he had in his career opener against detroit. >> jim: we talk so much about repeating your lineup. watch this, how simple it is. he drops his hand. he will break his hands over his leg, the way we were taught. and the ball misses outside. but, again, still 94. a lot of guys can do this. you usually don't want him to do this. >> gary: 1-2 delivery. this's going to be taken outside. he is looking, bare in mind, for his first major league win, as he took a no decision in the fine outing against detroit and he lost against boston. 2-2 delivery. growned foul outside of third. the shut-outwise, jeff neimann with the -- with two of those, those complete games he threw were the shut-out games that he pitched. and they had one other combined shut out. the orioles this season are trying to avoid another shut- out here in the ninth inning. not there. wow. so nine k's. >> jim: away, away, away. i think this time he gets it right. right on that

pie, reimold to markakis. and matt wieters in the number seven spot.ak of big series, how about wieters, 5-10, a couple of home runs abnine rbis in the first three games in this series. aubrey will be at first base and andino at shortstop batting ninth. good to have nolan rye million dollar back in. he bring as five-game hitting streak into the game. >> he does. i really don't think it matters to nolan reimold whether he is rookie of the year or not. what he really cares about is being productive for the ball club. 15 home runs, 45 rbi's. he had nine home runs before he came here. that is 24 on the season. and i think he's really showing the kind of patience now that a veteran hitter shows you. he waits for a good pitch. he drives it to right field. to center field, to left field. it really doesn't matter. this guy is showing great meek ins for a young rookie the that lineup right now. >> tonight it is the finale roof the four-game series and during the telecast tonight covering the bases, we're going to go back in the archives and look all of the cute

and nolan reimold. bottom of the 7th, danny comes in, pouring gasoline on the fire. victor martinez, a base hit that is a clearing double off the base of the area. mark clayton says he will play against the chiefs. he didn't play preseason because of a hamstring injury, but he has been going full string in practice. he's always ready. and they will take that field for their 14th season with the ravens. he gets the fans fired up from that start and they stay loud until the final is gone, after all these years, ray says there's no place he would rather play. >>> better electricity in that building. you know, they have their own oár a about it. you appreciate why people appreciate who you are and it is so loud and so crazy and fans, they are just out of control and they are ready right now, we're ready, they are ready. he just gets so fired up listening to him. he could be a little shorthanded though. they probably won't start it right there. chris chest will. tied for them that is questionable as well. playing exactly one series against the falcons, this whole preseaso

bases loaded, 2 out, reimold, adventure but he ends it. wade davis was awesome. he throws a complete game shutout, ten strikeouts o's lose 3-0. the red sox come to town tomorrow. a lot of fans in the stands. that's your sports, we'll be back with the news right after this. show and tell you weren't always my favorite day. with all the pet hair in the air, i'd spend class preoccupied, bothered by itchy eyes. but now i have new zyrtec® itchy eye drops. it works fast, with just one drop, to relieve my itchy eyes from allergies for up to 12 hours. no other allergy itchy eye drop works faster or longer. which is good, 'cause there's a lotta paws to shake. with new zyrtec® itchy eye drops i can love the air™. (announcer) find it in the allergy aisle next to other zyrtec® products. why not? have you ever climbed a rockwall in the middle of the ocean? or tried something really wild? why not? it's all possible in royal caribbean's nation of why not. on our caribbean cruises, you can do anything you want. which may be nothing at all. for as low as $80 a day, why not reserv

reimold not playing in the ballgame, is obviously a rookie of the year candidate. see that is going to go into the corners. brig flak was playing l shallow right. a stand-up double. brignac way out there in that shift on luke scott. it was about one step away from being able to make the catch. but it is a two-bagger. >> jim: he hooks it and hits it so hard. fastball out in the middle of the plate. there is brignac. a rangy kid who is used to playing shortstop, playing second base tonight even though he is playing in the position there with the shift on against luke scott that is is a little ted williams there. i don't care where you play. >> gary: here is matt wieters. a runner on at second now and matt wieters, and that is going to be a foul ball, but it is to the very last row of the stands and up above the height of the fair pole. >> jim: this is where you get a little lucky if you're jeff neimann. in the only in batting practice, and once again you get to work with terry crowley, pie has done it, wieters, that arm gets through the strike zone very quickly and n

and, you know we had some guys shuffled around because i didn't want to use reimold today.ys came up big in some different slot ins the lineup. they did. >> talk about brian, et setting the tran chias record. >> it is like we said before when all is said and done, the guy is going to have a tremendous season, and you know, we just -- you know, roberts a special player, a special person. he means a lot to the team, and you know, i think especially do going down the stretch here he has picked his game up, you know, he certainly kept his part of the bargain. he said he would continue to play hard and he's got some big hits, and it is hard to ask a guy who is one of the premier lead-off hitters in the league to bat third for you, and he's done it. he has done it and he came up big tonight. so, you know, he's in the books now. he is in the books, you know, for the orioles. we got the ball. crow was happy. roberts probably is real humble about it as he always is, but it is kind of neat to be a part of, i'm sure. >> and did he pull the ball? it seems like a lot of his power is opp

remember, that outfield is locked up with markakis, jones and reimold.s fighting to be the fourth out fielder of the future. >> thank you. amber will be along in the game and in the postgame. how about pie. putting pressure to team for the playing time with what he's doing. >> i've seen another side of felix. this is a side i like. we have seen that he makes a lot of mistakes and doesn't seem he knows how to play the game the way he should. which is true. the basic tools are there. he can hit and hit with power. he's proved that. after he lost his job the first month of the season he sat on the bench and watched and see how guys do thing and knew he had to make adjustment and he did. i love his spirit. put somebody in charge of him and ever othery time he steps out of line you impress he has to be disciplined if he'll be one of the best in baseball. i think we have a gem here. we have to polish it up. >>> bergen pitched against the yankees the other day. 5 1/3. pitched effectively and evaluated what he did. >> yeah, i think obviously, missing the off spe

there are hitters like reimold and jones and markakis who can hit for power, but in the a true numberer. today dave trembley said you need that to compete in the a.l. east. you have to have one, you have to have power. as far as filling that hole. andy macphail said he will look for free agents in the off season, trades and other ways to find a big bat to come here to baltimore. now, also if you look to the minor leagues, there is power in the minor league system and dave trembley said it is usually raw power. those guys just need to learn to hit right now and then come to the big leagues and that is where the power will develop further. gary? >> certainly the search, amber is on. melvin mora's got one down the line that's going to be a base hit into the corner. carl crawford is over to get it. mora has a double and there is the first hit of the ballgame and a four-game hit streak for melvin mora who is having a big- time september at the plate. >> jim: he has hit in 31 of the last 45 and what amber just talked about is the one disappointing thing not only for melvin, but also for the

here's nolandreimolld -- noland reimold. fifth career grand slam.g a lot of help all over. the effort. somehow he hangs on despite the interference. brian matusz, he made us all stand tall. kid is looking really good. took air of jeeter. they get the win 7-3. go for the sweep. later today. that, of course, is something impressive. 7-3 is your final. of course it is also game day for the ravens. i'll see you next from the field for a 6:00 show joined by gerry sandusky. we'll you pook back here from the field -- we'll see you back here from the field. see you then. >> baltimore county public schools superintendent dr. joe harriston joined other dignitaries for the dedication of the field, joseph yates senior. he was the first african-american superintendent in the school district. he passed away at 83. he coached the knights for more than a decade. >> it is 66 degrees on tv hill. here's alook ahead to our next hour of "11 news sunday morning." >> how to avoid unwanted pounds during the football season. healthy tailgating menu ideas. >> we all need to

. >> gary: nolan reimold had the achilles tendon problem that kicked up on him the other night.e go? yes a 1-2-3 inning for balfour. he gets a couple of strikeouts. fiorentino didn't think he went around orlando that, ch but en. he'll lose the battle.  >> jim: the geico game summ 10-5 last night. tonight, without the clutch hitting, who makes the plays, who doesn't? does your starting pitcher pitch well? does your catcher throw out runners? wieters does it a couple of times against the always sleek carl crawford. tillman leads with a -- leaves with a 2-1 lead. he comes out to try to stop him. melvin mora early on for the first rub and now it comes up to the bullpen. danys baez very good last night. he came in and the ball was sinking, 94 miles per hour. i said, boy, whatever that felt like, just -- he said it was receiptity easy last night, but that we know is not always the case. terrific stuff that is about can you get the ball down in the strike zone and when he does, he is very difficult to hit. >> gary: it will be zaun, iwamura and bartlett coming up. zaun making his