slide by adam jones. you can see he is all over adam kennedy. good, clean slide. it is no problem whatsoever, sliding on top of the bag. the umpire at second base has a good look, gary darling and that's how you turn things around and that's how you snap four game losing streaks. >> now you have a runner in scoring position and maybe the teammates now will be sparked by that hard slide by adam jones as markakis has a chance to get the orioles on the board. the orioles have not led in either game in this series and losing both. markakis takes it to 1-0. >> that's a good sign early on. and a little bit of a wakeup call for oakland to send the message saying we're not going to roll over for you here and adam jones set the tone early. >> 2-0 on markakis. who is tied for 9th in the american league in rbis. he has 40. even though he's gone seven con tech sieve games without driving in a run, he's still in the top ten in rbis. >> a bloop to shallow left centerfield and two men are down. reimold holds at second b

. >> jim: let's take a look at adam jones coming in. he get as good pitch to hit down the left-field line the first time up. there is your x-mo here. again, the ground ball, and in his second at-bat, and the third one almost looks like a carbon core my so adam with a couple of grown outs and the double, is 1-3 tonight a chance to erase some of the bad numbers of june. i mean, the one thing about adam jones, he has just been so terrific, and he hit .359 his first month, .333, positive .203, home runs, four, seven and only one this month, 18-18 in rbi's and then seven. >> rob: as you said, every team the orioles are go dog play for the next two, three weeks are scouting jones tonight. >> jim: we talked about adjustments. >> rob: yes. >> jim: but i tell you what, he is a very likable kid, a terrific athlete and he will turn 24 in august. >> bob: he was oh-fer 11 in that series in florida, 5-13. and there is a swing and a miss. >> rob: and a back-up slider. >> bob: now determine is just beyond the second, third-base line. everyone else is a

nothing else as he got a goulet off the ballot of adam jones. -- bat of adam jones. >> jim: roberts will lead off here. he takes the strike. adam jones comes out to pinch- hit for pie and then markakis. brian a-good game. a single, 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,

francisco rodriguez against adam jones. >> k-rod lets it fly, that's exactly what happened. strikeout there to adam jones to finish the game. >> so pelfrey got the win, guthrie the loss, rodriguez the save, markakis the home run. look at the note, the orioles now 2-6 when committing two or more errors in a game. twice this year they've committed three errors in a game and they have lost both those games. the talk in the o's clubhouse was about the errors. >> those things are going to happen. those guys are playing hard, they're giving us 100%. that's not going to make any errors, but again, yes, anytime also that you give teams like that extra outs, they are going to take advantage of that. they are a lot of good hitters and those kind of things happen. it's just part of the game. >> obviously the error changed momentum with the game a little bit. >> not as well as i should have. i think for the way that the team picks up all of us, you know, throughout the season, throughout my couple years here, tonight i didn't execute pitches following that play, and they built off the m

adam jones after 32 games batting .216. dustin was the mvp last year and justin moore turned out to be an excellent first baseman. none made an early impact. matt has struggled in his first big league week and wyatters obviously when you look at this you have to say to yourself what may he be doing a little wrong or are they ganging up on him? >> >> he's not doing anything wrong. everybody knows what he's done in the minor leagues so far. 32 home runs. the rbis, all that kind of stuff. he's a full package player. if you don't think this guy's going to hit, then you know nothing about baseball. he will be a hitter and a switch hitter, he will hit for power and eventually it will all work out. the more attention you draw to him the tougher opposing teams are going to be against him. they're not going to give fastballs to hit and 2-2 counts or change ups. any time there's somebody in scoring position they'll never give him a pitch he can pull because sooner or later he'll relax. they'll let up on him a little bit, they'll thro

adam jones had 35% and vin mazzaro with 22%. and he is just really tough on the orioles all day today. but let's give credit to brian bass who has been magnific sent after the first couple of times out. so that's a look at at&t player of the game. and we'll be back with more as we continue on after the oakland a's shut out the orioles in oakland today. it's the bold espresso beans. ♪ the silky smooth chocolate. ♪ the real steamed milk... and dreamy whipped cream... swirled with delight. in cafe mochas, cappuccinos and lattes... rich taste is everything. especially when you don't have to be rich to enjoy one. mccafé at mcdonald's. i'm lovin' it. ♪ ba da ba ba ba >> and just a reminder, to meet adam jones, the star centerfielder on wednesday june 10th, from noon to 1:00 at the wendys at 1589 west nursery road in lincecum, just in front of the hoist cinema. visit orioles.com for more information. >>> and the orioles have started with a struggle in the series. 0-3. they pitched four and two thirds and look at this line. 18 ea

it is all about hard and harder for matt lindstrom. >> jim: adam jones leads off. he takes a high fastball. he has pretty good giddyup on that pitch. lindstrom's e.r.a. for a closer, buck, quite high for a closer at 5.72. the orioles need to get two men on to get the tying run to the plate. >> buck: that will work. >> buck: lindstrom has been hit around by right-handers. they have hit .314 against him. >> jim: 1-1 the count. the fastball. lindstrom has really struggled here at home. his e.r.a. at home is 9.37. his e.r.a. on the road, 0.75. asaddam just swung on a pitch outside and he missed it, 2-2. that's what happens when you throw that hard. >> buck: i don't think he has thrown a strike yet. the ball adam swung at early on was inside and that ball probably outside. >> jim: 2-2 on jones leading off in the oriole ninth. and he guilty a piece. the birds have only four hits in this game. the roberts' double, the wieters' solo home run and singles by andino and salazar. lindstrom, 14-16 in a save opportunity. 2-2 on jones leading off. ground ball slowly hit to second

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

adam jones backing up will play it back in. that ball just kept on carrying and all the way to the wall in left field. >> buck: cantu has great extension. he really extends through this ball. it is a down pitch. it looked like it was a splitter. again. he takes the top hand of the -- off the bat, and drives it off the wall as adam jones goes over to back up nolan reimold. it is a two-out double for cantu. >> jim: reimold playing his first game here in miami. here is jeremy hermida. the tying run at second base with two down here in the fourth. there is an off-speed pitch for a strike. >> buck: what a way to bounce back against hermida. get ahead, strike one, with an off-speed pitch and you really force him into a swing mode early with just one pitch. >> jim: u larra has one strikeout. he has not walked a batter. for the season he has walked only 12. check swing, 0-2. >> buck: he has a good splitter. he has not thrown a lot, but the ones he has thrown he has been throwing top shelf. he can't check his swing in time. once he iden

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 down. aubrey's a great high ball hitter. especially the fastball. >> jim h.: lannan has allowed 12 home runs over his 15 starts. as jim mentioned in the open, the orioles last night found that home run stroke with three home runs in the game. >> rob: he's given up three home runs, is they've been solos. he's not walking guys, he's not giving up the three run home runs, he's just giving up solos. you can give up 35 home runs a year, just try to make them solos. >> jim h.: big sweepin

: adam jones has singled, 1-4 in the ballgame. 6-4 game. rodriguez, jones. a big cut. >> jim: you're at the point of the game now where you don't need the home run. obviously, a home run wins it for the orioles. a double up the gap and the outfield for the mets playing very deep. there's your fastball throaz throws it right by adam. >> gary: you got rodriguez where you want a closer. he's over 20 pitches. you can get most closers over 20, you generally get a better chance. good pitch down and away andcount goes to 0-2. >> jim: this is just nasty, nasty stuff. you talked about sharp breaking ball. obviously, adam having trouble picking it up out of his hands. of course, so does the rest of the baseball. >> gary: an 0-2 count. rodriguez after his 17th save. it will be 17-18 if he can get it. the orioles have rallied in the bottom of the ninth with two runs on the board to make it a 6-4 game f they don't come back, they'll look back on how the defense let them down in this game because it will be the difference three unearned runs. runners on

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 an awfully good adjustment. struck out the first time. it wasn't he hit a slider the last time into left field. it was a -- it wasn't a horrible pitch. just looked -- looked like maybe this is why he has a lifetime average at .307 309 and he's leading the league in hitting because he makes awfully good adjustments. >> gary: he does that. two down here. wright, shattered bat. pops it up behind second. andino is there. whenever you get wright, it's a big out. no runs, one hit, one left object base from the innerharbor across to a famous sign. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. >> gary: 4-5-0 for the mets 0-1-2 for the orioles as guthrie settles in and gets the side out. now it's about the orioles bats. last thing orioles want to see after what they went through for five days is any kind of -- the

juan said, yes, tag up and get going. >> jim h.: adam jones fouls it back. a 2 for 4 night, including an infield hit. after a three-hit game last night. so the orioles leader multihit games has added another. he now has 29 multihit efforts. >> jim p.: mcdougal indicating it's not about velocity. he's gone up to 98. >> jim h.: zaun the lead runner, andino is the trail runner at first. ground ball towards second. right there is belliard, plays it in between hops, gets it to first and the inning is over.   >> jim h.: lovely night at the ballpark. a nice shot of the moon. here is george sherrill who has been about as automatic as you can get going all the way back to early may. >> jim p.: they said you can't, he's given up one run in seven hits over his last 19 appearances. it was kind of when dave trembley because he was struggling against right-handed batters. lefties are 3 for 33, that's .091, that's never been a problem. but he change his windup. now all he has to do is lift up his leg, bring the arm up a little bit, better command. the one thi

look at adam jones. he knows he has plenty of room. takes just a stride on to the warning track and paulino hit it good. look at adam jones. you've got to believe he loves playing in this spacious outfield with plenty of room to roam. >> jim: we see it every game. it still amazes me concentrating running back on a fly ball he can still blow a bubble. >> buck: he's an athlete. >> jim: unbelievable. >> buck: it's not that difficult. >> jim: i think it is. i don't know that i could do that. >> buck: i'm sure you could if you had a little practice. >> jim: adam joined us last night on wired wednesday and he told us sitting out of the game he was bored. he likes to get in there and play. curve ball for a strike to cody ross. >> buck: cody ross has been wearing out the orioles on this trip. last night he had three big hits including two doubles and should have had an extra rbi. he ended up with two. ground-ruled double cost him one. >> jim: fastball rode in on him. now it's 0-2. all right. let's analyze this,

jones takes charge and adams gets there and has it. two men down. the high sky and the rough sun, jones taking charge and he caught that ball side ways to get a better look at the sky and the baseball. >> buck: and we'd like to welcome those who are watching the wash nationals. mets beat the nats by 7-0. jim hunter with buck maine[ ane a amtheoharris sukikes a strike oakland sent 9 people the plate in the first inning. and brian bass has retired all six batters he's faced. broken bat ground ball. to first and brian bass has back to back, three up and three down innings. orioles coming to bat in the fourth. markakis, scott and mora are coming up. ♪ ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. get the blackberry bold for $199.99 after mail-in-rebate. only from at&t.

adam jones back in the number two spot in center field. pretty good numbers head to head in the brief interleague match-ups he's had against the nationals. markakis up and reimold with scott d.h.s and is luke happy to be back with american league rules. more of wieters and andino. >> rob: the pnc scouting all right on detwilerer. he did a very good job against them he has great stuff a breaking ball and he continues to pitch better every time out there. he went seven innings. work ahead of the hitters. strike one is still the best pitch for ross detwilerer. the last time we talked about him, jim, he throws across his body. he has to continually go towards home plate or else he gets a little lax with his arm. >> jim: i was talking to steve who took over for randy st. claire and he said that is who he is. you try to get a little straight, but he is way over on the first base side. i don't think he is over as much as some other guys, like rick ankiel who is now an outfield were st. louis. he used to be about two feet across his body. >> bob:

it is bobblehead night, and adam jones is the man blowing the bubbles. game two, three game set. the mets coming away with a 6-4 win in last night's game. hi, everybody. i'm gary thorne. last night it was a long night for the orioles. just didn't seem to work very well. for the orioles this season, it's not just been there have been errors. keep in mind, the orioles talked about better "d." it's that the errors have mattered. this is a whole new stat we put up. this is about unearned runs per error. the detroit tigers almost every time they commit an error there's a run. the orioles are not very far behind kansas city, atlanta and houston. it's that the errors result in opponents runs. >> jim: and rick dempsey just told us in the pregame if the orioles are trailing after six, they're 2-30, so when the errors are committed. last night jeremy guthrie will be the first guy to tell you, even though you don't want to do it, i lost my cool. it happened the second time through the order in the middle of the line-up. he didn't execute his pitches and the mets took advantage of that and t

adam jones quickly gets in on it and flips it back in. that will be a stolen base and another throwing error on matt wieters. >> buck: kind of tied up with the hitter cantu. never made contact. watch the break first. not a great break. he's got a chance to throw out hanley ramirez. watch where he is inside pitch. he has to really wait on it and got on top of it and really kind of threw a two-seam fastball down to second base. well off the mark. >> jim: here is the same situation, runner at third, one down, runner in. 1-2 foul down at the plate. cantu has 45 rbi's. uggla has 43 and ramirez has 43. pretty good balance. 1-2 hit sharply to short. dloon freeze the runner and fire to first for the out. that time having the infield in paid dividends as andino is able to keep ramirez at third and now two men out. >> buck: the sharply hit ball but right at robert andino. once he gloves the ball, watch the reaction as he's going to look at third base. check hanley ramirez. ramirez jockeying off the bag. no thawfts going home. dan uggla now with two

as is with adam jones and blair. >> rob: you had paul blair and i had eric davis. eric would be in full dead stride on a ball going away from him and tapping his leg. as soon as i saw the glove tap the leg, i knew he had the catch. >> bob: did anybody play more shallow than paul blair? >> jim p.: blair played really shallow. he'd play where he, the one thing about paul blair, i'm sure eric davis, he had such great body control. so if you play shallow, you better be able to go back and not jump into the wall. paul just had, he was a very good basketball player, great leaping ability, shot too much when he played in the off- season, but he could go over the fence and never hit the fence because he had great vertical leap. >> rob: actually eric davis made one of the greatest world series catches that gets overlooked and he pierced his kidney. lacerated his kidney on the catch because he was 6'3", 185 pounds, about 4% body fat, his elbow went up underneath his abdomen and into his kidney area, it was still a game saving catch. we went on to sweep the a's. and he was pl

adam jones is 7th in the league in average. the only one of the orioles still in the top 10 in that department. at third is juan samuels. brian roberts has not been doing a lot of running because the top of the order has been hitting so well he has not had to. he is 10 out of 14 in stolen bases. pitch taken inside. we'll see if the orioles -- if dave trembley wants to change that up at all because of the fact that the orioles have not been scoring. 8 runs in the last five games for the orioles. braden's delivery, jones will take it outside. refuses to chase. >> buck: and the oak land a's have been doing a great job shutting down runners. >> gary: jones will take that for a strike. braden has had hardly anybody run against him. he is 0-for-2 base stealers when he is on the mound. nobody has stolen a base against him with only two attempts. brian roberts getting out of the 0-for-17 with a single, short lead at first base. jones swinging. the count goes full. >> buck: a lot of good fastballs to the arm side of home plate so far fo

he is giving adam jones a night off. by the way, that first game of the home stand will be brad bergesen against ross detwiler. bergesen is pitching very well gets the first game of the home stand. pie takes the strike. 1-1. nolasco, a fourth-round pick of the chicago cubs in two- on-one. -- in 2001. he's another of the many major league players that when they were acquired by their big league teams, they may not have been well known to fans, but it's another tribute to scouting. he was a pitcher in double-a at the time and he was picked up in a trade with the cubs. it was 3-1, juan -- 3-1. juan pierre went to chicago. pie lines it to left field. on the ball is coghlan. makes a diving catch! he trapped it. excuse me. i thought he had it. >> buck: he had it in his glove initially. when he hit the ground, it snapped out of his glove and landed safely on the turf. right here he has it for a while but just rattled around. looks like it might have hit him right in the face. he's able to keep it in front of him. he should have

adam jones, 43. that one swept the first base. big bounce, and he takes it unassisted an the inning ends. the orioles ged a run a double awild pitch and a sac fly. we head to the bottom of the first. the orioles with a 1-0 lead. - it's on. - it is totally on. jimmy, it's on. it's on. oh, yeah, it's on. pilot: affirmative, it's on. >> jim: the orioles grab a lead on the wild pitch and the sac fly and the double. here is the southwest airlines' starting lineup force the florida marlins. they come in at 35-36. coghlan, bonifacio and ramirez. happenry ramirez leading the marlins, 83 hits, 42 runs scored and 21 doubles. jorge cantu, jeremy hermida, cody ross, john baker and andrew miller. >> buck: now it is time for the pnc scouting report for uehara. a fastball leads the way. he has a variety of pitches, but it is all about the fastball. he doesn't give up any walks. he has four walk-free starts in 11 starts this year. a cool night here in miami. it might be good results for koji uehara. everybody is a little anxious whenever that

adam jones will play it on a hop. so here come the nats, back-to- back singles to begin the first inning. >> rob: that was about a half a swing, kind of like a slap in the water, and that's all he does. >> jim p.: i look at so many guys that overswing and this is not one of them. last year looked like he was on his way to getting 200 hits. ended up with 183. as jim said, when you can switch hit, his uncle taught him to switch hit when he was young. >> rob: a guy that has killed us from the mets is louie castillo, all he does is slap the ball, hit it on the ground. >> bob: here's ryan zimmerman, the third baseman and the heart and soul of this nationals franchise. >> rob: we saw corey patterson, a tremendous speed. amazing speed, can play outfield. but his on-base percentage is under .300. he overswings. sometimes i think when you hit a lot of home runs as a young hitter, it messes you up mentally. >> bob: when corey was here, we often marveled why he didn't understand that bunting was legal. because he was so fast and

adam jones gets ahead. the roberts' double. reimold reached on a throwing error by hanley ramirez in the fifth and roberts' one-out walk in the sixth. that's it. three runners. the ball towards third. bonifacio has it. he turns and he fires and he got it. so another hard smash by jones to third. last time it was a line drive. this time a one-hopper. >> buck: adam gets the barrel out and hits it down the line. bonifacio make as fine play. he has strong arm. he has enough time to right himself and take aim across the diamond and throw out adam jones, the first out of the inning. bonifacio who has committed 12 errors on the year is playing a fine game defensively. a curve ball for a strike. aubrey is looking to extend the hitting streak to nine in a rojas twice grounded out to first base. ground ball towards third. wide to the bag is bonifacio and he gets up and two men down. >> buck: the complexion of the defense chains dramatically when your pitcher is pounding the strike zone and that is -- this is a team that has committed 29

it gets beyond elijah dukes, and adam jones is off to the races. dukes misses the cut-off man. >> jim: 11-1, you're not sending a guy. first of all, it is embarrassing, but he was thinking. the one thing about adam jones, he is a fun - loving guy. dukes tries to catch it. the ball just gets inside the line, and then it is off to the races. a very tough corner here at camden yards, but he's thinking right about here he's thinking, you know what? maybe i'm going to get a triple. but here he is thinking i have an inside-the-park home run. >> rob: he put it in another gear here. >> jim: the coach says we don't need to do that. it is the respectful thing to do. >> rob: yes. >> bob: he's at third base. two outs and mar cake advertise hitter. nick is 3-4 tonight with his 47th rbi. and his batting average has jumped up from .297 to .303. >> jim: he gets into a low period and he'll put four hits on the board like he did last night or the week before last. >> bob: 11 more opportunities with runners in scoring position for the home team tonight. >> jim: and t

i know some of the guys had a chance to and adam jones told me i really like the guy. he kind of has that kaleigh attitude, like me, i think we'll get along great. >> jim: another guy who has that kaleigh attitude. >> jim: they didn't shoot -- >> jim: did you give him a lesson yet? >> jim: no. i tell you, what the kid asked a lot of very, very, very insightful questions. but -- >> jim: luke scott takes ball one. >> jim: i said dave trembley, dave said come out on the field and he did. he is wearing plaid shorts with black shoes and white socks and that's when adam jones said you must be from california, the santa monica look. so anyway, i look at him and i say i hear you're siping tomorrow. i said you have the wrong kind of agent. aren't you supposed to wait? he said that is the wrong kind of agent. i want to play. he said i'll make my money the the big leagues. >> jim: luke scott fouls it back. is d.h.ing tonight. >> jim: that tells you how old you are when the number one draft choice is wearing braces. >> jim: 18-year-old out of high school. breaking ball, check swin

adam jones gets the night off. nick markakis and aubrey huff, melvin mora in the -- melvin mora in the middle with luke scott in left field. nolan reimold not starting tonight. matt wieters in the seven spot. 2-4 last night and a solo home run and an rbi single. robert andino at short and jason berken on the mound will bat for the first time as a beleaguer. >> buck: now, it's time for the pnc scouting report for the left-hander ricky nolasco. he has a -- right-hander ricky nolasco. he has a snappy hook. one if you're not aware of it. throws over the top a 12:00- 6:00 breaking ball. he's been more aggressive. he was optioned to the minor leagues may 23 and made two starts in trim and at got a little more aggressive. he was tentative. he was pitching around the plate not being aggressive enough. it really cost him. you could see his e.r.a. is 7.15 for the season rand the league has hit .315 against a guy that won 15 games last year. behind nolasco, this team committed one error last night. they have r57 on the season

that will bring up adam jones, he has walked, grounded outd lined out. adam with the .314 average, and orioles will try to mount their own two-out rally. fouled away. obviously, that second run scored by the mets in the 7th inning ear normal mustily important to make it -- enormously important to make it two run difference. >> jim: you see the numbers, and one for 11. until saturday night, 118 for adam, it's been -- 1 for 18 fr adam. it's been a tough june. >> gary: he knows that he's struggling a little bit. givers you an idea of how hard it is to hit. >> gary: chops that one foul. and a 1-2 count. he has been hitting behind in the counts a lot during the struggle, and that's part of e reason for the struggle. >> jim: this is not just a guy in his second year. it's adam jones. i mean, again, the runners in scoring position numbers are awfully good. batting averages coming down and the good news is you're going to play just about every day unless you get hurt. so you have a chance to come t of this, we talked about it

. >> and adam jones leads off. reimold second, markakis removes. scott batting cleanup. salazar will start at first base, ty wigginton at second base and that means that huff has the day off. and reimold is the surprise rooking on this team and the american league. >> i think he is. and i think he's done the one thing that everybody expected him to do and that's that he hit and hit for power. not the batting average we like to see but i think in time they'll figure out how to throw him. and he has a lot of work to do before that and what i like is that it's not all limited to the fastball. ooze hit the breaking ball, the cuts fastball out of the ballpark, he's hit a fall bast, a changeup out of the ballpark. ' justs well to the different speeds thrown at him. when you get behind in the count, he cuts his swing down and can go the other way and go up the middle. those are the little things i look for. the batting average will come in time but right now i'm impressed with how he handles himself at the base and in the field. >> and cusp has a three-run home runner and giamb

adam jones who has been struggling come the to the plate. -- coming to the plate. you have all kind of strategy. >> gary: this is where the philosophy long time in baseball, home other visiting team. philosophy has been you're the home team, you get the last at-bat. if you're playing in a situn like this, you play to tie. because the game can on the ground on. if you are visit, you play to win. that means you do bunt. let's see. first and third creeping in. nobody out. brian roberts swears, drops i. a fair ball. chance at third, and no, they did not get pie. and david wright is going to argue about it with the third base umpire and so is jerry manuel. >> jim: not very long. engineer we've already seen livan hernandez -- jerry is not happy. here's the play right in front of him. i'll tell you what, the pinch runner makes a difference. it appeared to me he was out. not a great bunt. bang-bang. jerry comes out, and but to no avail. >> gary: the orioles have not won a ballgame this year where they have trailed after 8

. >> gary: time's running ou for you to win the adam jones bobblehead. it's for june 17th when the mets are in camden yard. you will receive four passes to watch batting practice right on the field. don't miss your chance. the contest ends at midnight wednesday. you can enter at orioles.com. brian robert, two singles. two of the four hits that the orioles have. braden has walked none, struck out seven. that is the fifth time in his career he has struck out seven in a game a career high for him. brian robert, the day off yesterday that he hopes will allow him to get going. you see the average, .269 after he had a day off this season, going 7-for-26. brian tends to tire in some portion of the season. be a a day off for him, a day when the team does not played or a day when he does not start really seems to help, comes back with a quicker bat. >> buck: sometimes, when you gets beyond being tired, it takes you a longer time to come back. that's why managers always keep an eye on their player, keep an eye on their body language. and gets a sense of when they

on wednesday adam jones signing autographs on wednesdays on west nursery road. that will be from noon to 1:00 as well. for details on appearances, visit orioles reach.com. >> buck: good opportunity to go out and meet a couple upbeat guys on this team. rich hill with his first season with the orioles off to a great start looking to improve upon his 2-0 start. certainly adam jones one of the bright spots. >> gary: cunningham against baez. he says he'd use the season in terms of ten game segments. talked to dave about it today and said i do too and never told anybody that because i thought it was crazy doing it. i said it was lao to you may have been right on both counts. he says i've always done that. ten game singments gives you the best view of how a player's performing at that moment except start. look at starters in bigger terms. for hitters enough bats and games know what they're doing and bullpen people tells you who's hot and who isn't. who's getting people out and who's not. offensive categories who's got a bat going and who doesn't. said that's how you ma

 >> tonight at adam jones bobblehead night. this orioles fan won the orioles.com adam jones bobblehead night v.i.p. experience contest. he had the chance to watch batting practice from the field. george also got great seats for tonight's game behind home plate. check out orioles.com for the next contest for your chance to enjoy a night at orioles park like never before. >> gary: well, battling on here in this one is tim redding the starting pitcher. he's still in the ballgame. fernando tatis goes into left field for martinez, that's who he hit for. reimold's ground ball, david wright up, and does not get him. an infield hit. rye mole beats tout, a lead-off single. ji

roberts, adam jones and markakis up top. adam still hitting very well with runners in scoring position, .447, still fourth best in the american league. huff, mora and scott who is in left field. myreimold starting tonight. with cesar izturis about to under go apen appendectomy. >> luke scott already in 50 games so far has five homeruns against left handed pitchers. now, in order to get comfortable, you have to play against them. the skipper gives him a chance to play against left handers and he has produced right off the bat. what an unbelievable week we have seen out of him. he got seven homeruns. i think in his last eight games and 17 rbis. he is carrying the ball club right now. they are just not getting enough people on base in front of him to make it work. >> the other night in seattle, the orioles scored two runs and he drove both of them in with a homerun and an rbi double. adam kennedy has bounced around and has found a home in oakland. matt matt holliday in left build, giambi, suzuki and hung cam with hanrahan and r

nick markakis, adam jones, both in the running for starting positions in the american league and all-star game. vote for your favorite orioles at orioles.com. vote for your favorite bird, the maximum 25 times. you gate free upper reserved seat to any prime non-o's -- to any o's non-prime games. orioles bats have just gone quiet after they just were explosive. that one will be fouled off. through the first couple of months. entering june, it quieted down. the books are being written, the baseball books that go to the pitchers, stories on what the orioles hitters are doing at the plate. >> buck: baseball is all about adjustments and the hitters will have count act those adjustments. you can blame it on the quality of the pitching they face but just about every night, you face pretty good pitch in the big leagues. that goes back to that tigers series. first two games, they had five runs on 11 hits in the opener on thursday against armando galarraga. melvin mora to second base, kennedy up, two down. >> buck: you can't blame on, he is a tough pitcher. they are all tough pitchers. and they were

uses the strong arm to throw out adam jones. he certainly has all the attributes thanks to being an all-star. pretty good defender will make some errors just by not paying attention before he gets a lot of defensive skills. of course, you know about the bat. he hit three grand slams this year. >> jim: you are talking about the very tight a. l. east. mets have already won. the phillies are trailing in the seventh inning 9-4, tampa bay. marlins are leading here. the marlins are about to win as ramirez gets it at short over to first. inning ends. the phillies lead would be down to half game over the mets and one over the marlins unless they rally back and they're down by five in tampa bay. so, orioles get three on the board in the ninth to get on the board and break up the shutout. marlins go on to win 11-3 and sweep the series and dave trembley going over some final notes before heading back tobaltimore. >> buck: not too many good notes that's for sure as his team really get hand it to them down here in florida. just eight hits an

. >> i thought adam jones tried to make a statement, breaking up that play in the first inning and i thought this was going to be the day things would turn around. you have to be pleased with his effort today. >> it was a very good game. and i thought we played with some life. there was some energy out there. jones set the tone with a hit, with a clean and good slide. we just didn't put any runs on the board. >> dave, you mentioned the lack of scoring on this trip. are you at least encouraged, you mentioned some of the bills hit well. markakis nearly hit a ball for a double but davis ran it down. you can't guide the ball but if you have good swings, eventually the -- the hits will ball. >> there was quality at-bats but nothing to show for them. melvin hit a ball good. they just didn't drop in. that's just the way the game goes. >> dave, we appreciate the visit. >> all righty. >> manager dave trembley joining us. the athletics complete the three game sweep. back to the studio. >> and the dave trembley interview brought to you by verizon wireless. >>> and now, rick, when you look at ad

.: adam jones runs it down, and two away here in the 8th inning. we decide today look back over the history books for we had to get the dust off, but we were curious if anyone overlapped your career, jim, and your career, rob, which hitters did you both strike out. here's the list. >> jim p.: some pretty significant guys. harold baines at the top of the list, alphabetically, he hit his first major league off me. >> rob: rick dempsey is in there. >> jim h.: deferty sold me he owned you, he absolutely told me he owned you. maybe i'm exaggerating. >> rob: gibson did own me. he hit a game winning home run off me in detroit my only year in the american league. >> jim h.: ken griffey, sr., not, jr. >> jim p.: howard johnson. batting instructor with the mets. >> rob: i think mike had about 300 minor league home runs. >> jim p.: i'm just talking about -- >> rob: did you face over 20,000 hitters? >> jim p.: i don't know. let's not get depressed. my arm will start hurting. >> jim h.: well, 4,000 innings, times three. all the walks. one or two base hits. >> j

adam jones, against the nationals in his career, is now 22 for 47. he's approaching the .460 mark against washington pitching. >> jim p.: he doesn't miss a whole lot of belt high fastballs, especially in the middle of the plate. watch this one right there. that's where it is. you know that john lannan wanted to maybe get it away a little bit. sink it away. the thing about adam, he's a much better hitter against right-handed pitching. only three of his 12 home runs. well over .300 against righties, but .275 against lefties. >> bob: ty wigginton next, popped out to right first time. orioles have had a couple of runners walk. this ball slapped out of play to the right side. >> jim p.: it seems to me a lot of times when you get young pitchers, you don't want to discourage them from throwing strikes. they don't have to be perfect strikes. >> rob: i know exactly what you're saying. that was time where jordan was throwing everything so well, and he was throwing almost 80% of his pitches for strikes, including his last start i think he threw 77 pitches for s

it is adam jones bobblehead night. for more on the game, 105.7fm, more on masnsports.com. for jim, i'm rick. we're out of time! we'll see you tomorrow. boston lager continues to be a very special beer. six weeks after jim started the business it took the best beer in america award. nobody had tried an american beer that had that kind of flavor. twenty years off, jim is still obsessed with boston lager. sam adams lager continues to win medals all over the world. that's pretty cool. scores two. mets take a 6-2 lead would that be enough? we know how this mets bullpen operates. we've got drama, bottom nine, two on, two outs. francisco rodriguez able to get adam jones, the former mariner great gets nothing against k r rod. by a final count of 6-4. 11 games, pelfrey with his first win since may 7. baltimore has lost 9 of 12. >> well, the tigers and cardinals have played three times in world series history. most recently, 2006, where in game 5 justin verlander's throwing error led to a pair of unearned runs. st. louis went on to win game 5, 4-2. they won the series 4-1. on this n

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he'll be hitting in the number two hole, because adam jones leads off for baltimore, he'll be in center field, wigginton the second baseman, nolan reimold in the cleanup spot who homered last night in left, the dh is luke scott for the birds, third base oscar salazar, matt wieters will catch and robert andino at shortstop. ty wigginton, nine of 18 his last five ballgames for the birds. let's see what they can do today against john lannan. lannan is about due to get back on the winning track? been pitching as good as anybody on this ball club. >> in his last seven games he has a 2.65 earned run average. over his last 14 starts, take away the first start, he's at 2.98. he can't pitch any better. he's only yielded more than three runs in one of his starts over his last 13, so he's our staff ace, he's the guy that goes out there and makes pitches day after day, it's a continuation of last year. i'd like to see us get him some runs. we're still only scoring three runs a game for him throughout his career. you could have that won/loss record reversed. he's going for his fifth win to even up h

we have adam jones hitting .200 for the month of june. so the orioles needed to win on friday, but they end up 11-1 but it was a very close game until the 6th inning. on saturday night, again, a early lead by the nationals, the orioles come back, they hit three home runs, the hanging change-up that one of the better young players for the orioles nolan reimold hits off of martis. so this is a situation where today you have your best left- hander going out there and the orioles didn't do a whole lot of things wrong on friday and saturday. the nationals seemed to take care of it. >> you saw a lot of our young guys. you saw detwiler the first night, martis, second time, third time through the order is a lot of difficulty getting outs. today lannan was masterful the second and third time. as you go along in your career, how can some of the younger pitchers that were in these two series really start focusing the second and third time through the batting order. >> i think if you paid attention today, a lot of times your jam could come at any par

how about the baltimore chopper, aubrey huff there, brings in brian roberts and adam jones. orioles score eight in the sixth inning, tied for their most prolific inning of the season. they get their 100th interleague win. they're just 100-127 all time. >> meantime, in cleveland, the reds, facing the cincinnati. ryan -- facing the indians. garko's, seventh home run of the year, harang winless in his last six starts. they've dropped 7 of their last road games to cleveland. trady sizemore, four straight games with an rbi. >> nascar rolling into new hampshire this week. how tony stewart won the poll without taking a lap. after flirting with the 50s in yesterday's first round, kenny perry was dodging raindrops in connecticut. like the rest of us. we'll tell you if he's still leading. would you like to see our new menu? look at this! (laughing) - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! yo, those things are so-o good. mmm, amazing. you think anybody can eat that whole thing by themselves? it's like i hit the lottery in food. now get big meals, like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mia,

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. two men down. in in at-bat, jones can't get it done. markakis at second with two away. >> buck: one thing ding different with this ball club in this series compared to the philadelphia phillies series, they have not come one key hits. they've had plenty of scoring opportunities especially in the first inning and last nightate's game. they had a runner at third base and couldn't score after brian roberts had hit that leadoff bathe base hit and pie had a base hit hient behind him. first and second, nobody out and you end up with nothing. >> jim: two down. here is ty wigginton batting cleanup. he's playing at first base tonight. aubrey huff the early part of the game off. it's low, 1-0. we'd like to apologize for the

. >> gary: here is adam jones coming up. adam is fifth in average in the american league start today's play. he's consistently been among the top five in that department throughout the course of this season. first ball hitting down the line in right. church coming in going out murphy. murphy had his back to the play and had to get an angle so he didn't break his back on this and there are two down. >> jim: take a look at the mets defense. martinez who is their number one prospect in left. beltran, gold glover. church last year the concussion problems. he's back. wright a-couple of gold gloves. cora, castillo, murphy who played a little bit of left field this year but came up as a first baseman and then brian schneider had all kind of injury problems early on. that's a pretty nice play right there especially when the wind is gusting up to 17 miles per hour. >> gary: it's blowing around here tonight. there are two down. that will bring up nick markakis. >> jim: the one thing that jerry manuel said is that daniel murphy is defi

adam jones back in the lineup. markakis, huff and mora with scott dhing. reimold in lpd left field, wieters will catch and andino at shortstop. he stepped in because cesar izturis on the d. l. he's contributing on the field and at the plate. >> well, robert andino is a good, contact hitter. i think the more you see him play, the more you'll like this guy. he makes a lot of good plays on defense. pretty good range for a utility player and a guy who goes to his right very well. one thing i really like. he gets a hit his first time up, he's going to get more than one hit. he's one of those kind of players. he's very selfish when it comes to contact. he loves that base hits. he's not just satisfied with one. he had four three games ago, four base hits in one game and he's starting to hit the ball more like did he in the minor leagues right now he says. >> so, orioles have turned the corner. they've won back-to-back games looking to make it three straight as interleague baseball conditions here -- continues here at camden yards. when we come back on "o's xtra",

adam jones gets a rest. luke scott in left and aubrey huff hitting .311 with two home runs and three rbi's with runners in scoring position. matt wieters is starting to hit over last 10 games hitting .351. has wieters started to feel good about himself now that he's in the majors. >> i would think so. after the start he had, it wasn't that great. as of late, he's starting to put the good part of the bat on the ball. you can see how easy it looks like he can hit the ball out of the ballpark the opposite way. he's got a nice, little swing. he stays inside the ball. you know, it just seems effortless that the ball jumps off his bat. he's got a lot of power. there's nothing he really doesn't try to experiment with at all. he has a nice, easy swing. he doesn't overswing very often. i haven't seen him do that yet. he kind of goes with the pitch. pretty much like mauer does with the minnesota twins. he's an excellent hitter that won two batting titles. i'm looking forward to seeing this guy hit over the course of t

jones, he had three hits last night, as did nick markakis, aubrey huff at first base batting in the cleanup spot. nolan reimold also three hits last night. luke scott will be the dh for the o's, gregg zaun will be catching and robert andino will be batting ninth. the nationals trying to even up the series tonight at camden yards against baltimore. one of the questions i think everybody's asking, ray, as we go to nightly notes, knightly. >> the k is silent. >> yes, the k is silent. let's touch on the problems of joel hanrahan. we know he can pitch. he's proven that before, when he's on, he's very good. when he's not on, there's problems. >> we've got a tape here, we just, you know, he's got a great fastball. probably the best fastball in our ball club. he's got a devastating slider, but sometimes he doesn't command either one of them. when he does command, we're going to show you how effective he can be. last year seven saves. as he was able to throw the fastball and elevate it. when you get a fastball number this area and you're throwing 97, hitters have to cheat. they're going to c

. >> jim: here is your chance to meet adam jones, the orioles centerfielder. from noon until 1:00 p.m., adam will at the wendy's at west nursery road in linthicum. welcome back. prior to the game tonight, the orioles learned that he have lost their shortstop its its and if things were not going bad enough, he came down with a case of aici -- appendicisis. this is blow because not only do you get the defense but that bat was coming around. >> rick: it was. izturis i had was starting to swing the bat consistently. 11 for 28 at a .393 clip. not only that but the way he hit left handed pitching, the orioles orioles can't do without him in the order. that's something that they looked for for a long time. outstanding base runner. second right behind brian roberts who has 10 steals on the season. izturis had 9. this guy is going to be sorely missed. >> jim: we are not sure how long izturis will miss. if somebody is going to come up from the minor leagues, there are four players currently at aaa norfolk that can come up and it in at shortstop. rojas is probably the tr