. >> jim: ball one to jorge cantu. and cantu is now 27 years old. there is a strike. cantu, oriole fans certainly remember when he was with the tampa bay rays. he had a huge season, 28 home runs and 117 rbi's in 2005 with tampa bay. and then the following year, he lost it in part, buck, because of a fractured left foot. he just never could get back in the groove at the plate. >> buck: he fractured the foot and missed significant time and never got his stroke back there and then he bounced from tampa bay to cincinnati. he is kind of a part-time roll there and -- role there and now he is much more comfortable defensively at first. >> jim: 1-2. high fly ball to left field. reimold is back on it. it carries. reaches up and it is over his head. and heading to second base is jorge cantu. 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 th

. >> jim: so chris ray back w the orioles will go to work on jorge cantu. the marlins with a huge inning and there is strike one. five grand slam now by the marlins. hanley ramirez has just hit his second and cody ross has three. there is chris ray back from triple-a. a swing and a miss and it is 0- 2 on cantu. so felix pie comes on in left field in the double switch. reimold made the final out of the seventh inning. so chris ray and pie will bat in the nine spot. outside. >> buck: chris ray threw the ball well in triple-a. he had a 2.25 e.r.a. >> jim: outside, 2-2. >> gary: the thing for chris ray was the election of his pitches. he threw a few too many pitches up in the zone, and his focus and concentration will be to keep the same arm angle and to try to get the brail down in the zone where he is most effective. >> jim: making his first appearance for the orioles since may 27 when he pitched against the blue jays. so a tough outing for danys baez as jorge cantu gets one into right center field. jones and markakis. jones calls and he has it for the out an

here is the cleanup hitter, jorge cantu takes ball one. berken, third batter this inning he has fallen behind. cantu had the game-winning hit last night. he's hit in two straight games. 

jorge cantu swings and misses. 0-1. brian bass on as chris ray left. that one inside nearly hit him. he's gotten -- [ indiscernible ] >> buck: and may not have. >> jim: orioles trailing 11-0. maybe brian bass is trying to tell the marlins we know what's going on here. >> buck: that's good two-seam fastball. he got on top of it. you could see the downward action on that fastball. he put -- put in a real good spot to cantu. >> jim: it's inside. 2-2. >> buck: cantu, pull hitter all the way especially in this ballpark. single left field in his last at-bat against chris ray on a pinch-run in the same area but not with the same movement. >> jim: the only spot in this lineup without a base hit is the pitcher's spot, the number nine spot. west was 0-2. hermida pinch-hit and flied out. gload pinch-hit and struck out. all the other eight starters the position players who started have hits. seven of the eight of them have multihit games. here is cut with the third hit. -- here is cantu with his third hit. florida about to bat around here in the eighth inning. her

jorge cantu. so, not a very good effort there by robert andino as he was trying to push that ball towards the hole at first base and he is out and wieters has to hold at first base. we invite you to join us tomorrow. more o's action. the finale of the three-game series iveltion our coverage on masn begins at 6:30 with "o's xtra" presented by at&t and game coverage at 7:00. we have all the access you need right here on masn. >> buck: there's rich hill charting for this game tonight and oftentimes pitchers kind of enjoy charting. some will choose to chart off the television. gives you a better idea of the pitches exactly. mark wiley the pitching coach out to talk to nolasco again. oscar salazar who has -- who has been announced into this game with the game-tying base hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth last night. time and time again, he's gotten big hits. he had the -- actually had the pinch-hit in the eighth inning. still in the game in the ninth inning. it wasn't a pinch-hit. it was his

cantu hit in three straight games. he takes a fastball low. 2-0 on jorge cantu. rich hill began the year on the disabled list with a bad elbow in spring training. pop-up right side. wigginton backing up on it and the first baseman has it for the out and one away as rich hill retires his fourth consecutive batter. >> buck: let's take a look at the defense behind rich hill. nolan reimold returns to left field as he got the night off last night. jones and markakis round out the defense. andino and roberts, the double play combination. mora and wigginton at the corners and matt wieters catches of the this is his fourth game in a row. this is the fourth time he's done this in the big leagues -- first time he's dug done this in the big leagues catching four in a row. >> jim: dan uggla bats now. uggla moves up one spot with jeremy hermida not in the lineup. gets a fastball 1-0. uggla now in his fourth season with the marlins coming -- he already has 14 this year. he's 4-8 in the series including a home run. inside, ball three. >> buck: pretty good pitch just missed away

. >> jim: 0-2 on jorge cantu. ramirez runs. taken inside. throw to second base goes into center field. i think it hit ramirez! 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 goi

fielded there by -- fielded there by jorge cantu. pie is retired as roberts moves to third now with two men down. this copyrighted telecast presented by authority of the orioles may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent of the orioles. once again, a two-out base hit as roberts reaches third second time in this game he's been there. markakis not only is 0-2. he's struck out in each at-bat>> buck: he's under .290 now. it's been a real battle for him of late. that's what this game is all about making adjustments. >> jim: curve ball in there for a strike. he's just 4-17 now on the trip. 0-1 on markakis. nolasco checks roberts. that one too tight. nolasco does have two pield wild pitches on the year. staying from the stretch, he's keeping roberts as close to third as he can. 1-1 on markakis. curve ball outside, ball two. >> buck: ricky nolasco over his career, june has been a good month for him. he is 7-4 with a very good e.r.a. in

cantu doesn't run that well. >> jim: 1-1 on jorge cantu. there is a base hit. luke scott charges. bonifacio and here is the throw to the plate and the tag and safe at the plate! as zaun couldn't hold on to the ball! and the marlins win it on a base hit by jorge cantu. luke scott with a good throw. zaun applied the tag, and he couldn't hold it into his glove. and the marlins after allowing the orioles to tie it in the ninth pull out a 7-6 win. >> buck: what a good throw by luke scott right on the money aone-hop every. the ball arrived about the same time as the base runner. i don't think gregg zaun ever guilty a real good grip on the baseball a strong throw. right to the glove. and you can see he is try to smoother that ball in his glove, but he couldn't put the bare hand on top of it. bonifacio kind of swipes it out of his glove a strong throw by luke scott. he never had it. >> jim: he never had it. >> buck: a desperation swipe and he never had a grip on it. you try to swipe at it like an infielder and hope it sticks in your glove and that wasn't the case. a good speed and it all

make him beat us to the big part of the field. >> jorge cantu had the game- winning single last night in the win overt marlins. whatever cantu's strengths and weakness as soon as. >> he's an rbi guy. not as much power as uggla has and not quite the average hitter as hanley. he had all the rbi's in tampa when you were watching him at orioles a few years ago. he had an off year and all of a sudden the marlins pick him up. here is the guy again very similar in how you pitch him even though he doesn't have as great a power as uggla, you've got to go away, perk -- berken's got to use his breaking ball and you have to stand him up inside so he can't dive out there and get rbi's by hookle ball or staying through it over the second baseman's head. i like berken's matchup against these three righties. >> dave, thank you for taking time for us. that's dave jauss look at tonight's hitters in the marlins game. dave trembley will be interviewed and adam jones will be a part of wired wednesday and when we return, amber theoharis catches up with the orioles pitching coach rick kranitz next on "o's x

and that one hit too high by jorge cantu. let's get a look at koji uehara. batting lineups the second ang  third time through the order. >> buck: the úfirst time throug the order, u can see the hitters don't know him too well. the second time they feel a little better and they have a better batting average, a third is trig o u out of  effect once he goes through the lineup three times. >> jim: and this is going to be a continuing debate until koji can get beyond that five-inning mark whether or not he is better served as a starter or maybe working out of the bullpen a couple of time as week. with those numbers, that would suggest he can give you three good energy innings. >> buck: what has happened, too, is he was brought here for a purpose and that was to be a start early in the season and just create versatility in the season. >> jim: two men down. >> buck: he's done that. when you think aboukoji u larra, and but as the youngsters got comfortable and bergesen got off to a great start in the minor leagues, they can make that transition, call u

he's aboard with two outs for jorge cantu. back on may 10, scott olsen only pitched four innings, and he really sucked it up for his team. >> rob: looked like it was a bad back, but then we found out it was a bad shoulder. he went out with a bad shoulder before the game even started. that's a guy you want on your staff. there's difference between pain and injury, by the time he was fun finished, he was injured and had to rehab and come back. tough kid though. >> bob: he threw 109 pitches that day in 4 1/3 innings to the diamondbacks who eventually won 10-8. the nationals came up big late in the game, they were just too far behind at that point. and logan had a bad game that day leading to his demise from the nats bullpen. cantu to dead center field. that's a graveyard for fly balls here. willie harris has it. ú@pp÷÷

then versus jorge cantu, he blew 90 right by him. that means he's changing speeds well. hitters let you know what kind of stuff you've got. like craig stammen against the yankees. they couldn't hate ball hard off him. it doesn't matter velocity. it's movement versus the differential between your breaking balls, your change- ups. keep them off balance. they can't hit you. >> bob: centering the ball like adam dunn found out last night. you can go a long time without centering the ball. threw him a strike. right on to nick for the first out here in the seventh inning. bob carpenter, rob dibble, debbi terrell. our nationals version of our masn crew reunited here after a couple of our guys had the weekend off. we were working with the baltimore crew. great to have them back. here's cody ross with one out in the bottom of the 7th. the orioles came in here last week and were swept by the marlins. so our wise guy stage manager/stats man paul newman indicated to me that the marlins are 9-0 on masn this year. time to do something about that. >> rob: time to break that streak. i re

reimold plays it back in and jorge cantu has his second hit tonight. two singles in the inning first and second, one down. >> buck: cantu gets out of that front foot. that looks like another splitter. it kind of stayed up. he's able to one hand it into left field. kind of drops the hit on it as it was out away from him and just use that had bottom hand to drive it into left field. >> jim: bonifacio at second. cantu at first with only one out. dan uggla, single, two-run home run. he's scored twice. 2-3 overall. orioles fly home after the game get in in the wee hours and fly home after the nationalities. night games friday and saturday and the day game and the finale on sunday. then, that will do it for the interleague play for the year. it's not a very long home stand. orioles have a long road trip after that because the nats are in for three and the red sox are in for three and then the orioles have to head to the west coast. ground ball towards third. mora plays the hop. goes to second for one. roberts, out at first base! wally bell a little delayed c

they've got the bases loaded for jorge cantu. brian wilson gets him to ground out to end it. wilson's 14th save of the year. tied for second in the national league. he saved it for barry zito. giants win 2-1. >> let's update things in washington. the mets beat the washington nationals. david wright, two had of run double. -- david wright, two-run double. >> virginia and ole miss in the ncaa super regionals. game one of a best-of-three series. bottom nine. logan tower into left field. evan button being waved home from second. scores on the play to tie it at 3-3. we go to extras. bottom 12. still a 3-3 game. first-pitch swinging. there it goes. matt smith. the walk-off home run. ole miss takes game one 4-3. they are one win away from going to the college world series in omaha. here's "what 2 watch 4" on saturday, belmont stakes. riding mine that bird, calvin borel will try to win the jockey triple crown, the belmont 1 1/2 miles long, longest of any of the triple-crown races. mine that bird trainer chip woolley says his horse can go the distance. >> it comes down to each one of

here is the clean-up hitter, jorge cantu. >> buck: actually it is five hits in the last seven at-bats, and they have just figured out uehara. he's got to counteract their adjustment and the bullpen will begin to loosen up down down the left fieldline line. >> jim: there is brian bass. he just did get up. the orioles have been outhit in this game now 7-1. high pop-up. and andino is backing up into the shallow left field, and he has it for the out and one down. that is a huge out for koji uehara. florida, no runs on two hits, through the first four innings. they got the run last inning on four hits, stranded two because of the double play to end the inning. and now a double leading off here in the sixth inning. jeremy hermida is oh-fer two. hermida has never lived up to the advanced billing. he was their pick in 2002 and they really believed they had a future star in the making and it seems no matter what he does it isn't enough. last year 17 home runs, 35 home runs the last two years, but you always hear the word underachiever when you hear about jeremy hermida in florida. >> buck: i j

jorge cantu. aggressive swing. he fouled it back. >> buck: when you think of that trade that involved hanley ramirez, it was a pretty, aggressive trade for both teams. ramirez came down here with anibal -- anibal sanchez and garcia. he was obviously the focal point of the trade n return, red sox got josh beckett, mike lowell and guillermo moto. that's pretty good trades for both clubs. we understand the impact it's had on the red sox with mike lowell recapturing his swing. he was perfectly suited to play at fenway park. >> jim: as for florida, they were looking to get rid of the contracts, the salaries and boston was happy to take it on because of the players that came with those contracts. >> buck: what's really interesting too is boston has done such a great job of developing that they had to make a decision between a guy names dustin pedroia or hanley ramirez. they, too, made another good decision there. >> jim: cantu gets into one deep to left field down the line and it is foul! it hooked foul at the last momen

here is jorge cantu. the florida first baseman. he takes a strike. he wasn't going to make it a three-pitch inning. cantu, it seems like he's older, buck, but he's only 27. second season with florida. came up young with tampa bay. bounced towards third. that is a foul ball. >> buck: yeah, he came up as a shortstop/second baseman. they weren't sure where to play himment he ended up playing at third base in tampa bay wynn when he had the big year in 2005. drove in 117. he went went to cincinnati, played with the reds for a while. he found a home here. last year at third. this year at first. >> jim: fastball is high. 1-2. >> buck: defensively, most of his problems came from froadz froze. ed he has pretty good hands. doesn't have great range. i think people back in tampa bay felt his position would ultimately be at first base. >> jim: pops it up foul. that will be in the crowd. his family has a big ranch just over the border in texas in mexico. when he retires, he'll become a full-time rancher in mexico. berken deals inside. breaking ball slipped out of

jorge cantu with the rbi single off of brian bass to give the marlins the 7-6 victory. >> that is just a heart breaker. jeremy guthrie scoring the tying run. and dave trembley did everything he possibly could to win this ballgame. >> you throw everything at them but the kitchen sink and that's what dave trembley did. he at least tied this ballgame and gave the club a chance to win. all of the players ready to do a good job. all of the pitchers are anxious to get their pinch hit. guthrie was the only one with hill. if the orioles hadn't made that one base-running mistake, they had a chance of winning this ballgame on that fly ball to left field, possibly scoring a run with a sacrafice fly. >> and koji uehara pitched a pretty good game until he was taken out there. >> he did. he has been struggling to get deep in ballgames. you can see him laboring through the hot water. -- weather. he is just not used that youd to that now. a pretty good job on the part of koji to get the ball club deep in that game. >> again, the orioles lose to the florida marlins 7-6 in the first of three in florida.

as for the marlins, jorge cantu, and dan uggla has a dozen home runs at second base. when we come back, dennis sarfate show what is he does to keep busy while being on the orioles' disabled list. that story comes up next when we continue "o's xtra" here on masn! anmy southwest flight. woman over phone: no problem. you know, maybe other people are content to sit around and wait. wait for something to happen. for business to pick up. but for you, it's time to kick it in gear. time to get going. time to get tough. take control. you're not gonna run and hide. because backing down's not your style. grab your bag. it's on. ( ding ) >> masn is being brought to you by train, a heating and air conditioning dealer by you. it is hard to stop a train. >> welcome back to "o's xtra" in south florida. the winds blowing out of the southwest at seven miles per hour. the humidity is 94%. there is a 90% chance of rain. as amber just reported, it has been hard afternoon down there in south florida. i remember them saying last night on the weather it was 100 degrees in fort lauderdale for

jorge cantu at first. then comes jeremy hermida. dan uggla, cody ross in center, john baker catching and sean west on the mound tonight. bonifacio, 18 infield hits this year. that's third in the national league. now, for manny acta for the washington nationals, elijah dukes .284 batting average. runners in scoring position. overall season average at .237. he has nine outfield assists. that's tops in the major leagues, but only 4-32 his last 10 ballgames. look for elijah to hopefully break out of that slump tonight against the marlins. cristian guzman leads off. he'll be at shortstop. nick johnson, the number two hole. then comes ryan zimmerman, adam dunn, josh willingham in right against his former ball club. elijah will be in center field tonight with a .237 average. second base will be handled by alberto gonzalez. wil nieves will be catching and craig stammen on the mound for the nationals with a team batting average of .258. time for nightly notes. we turn to ray knight. when you think about the addition today of nyjer morgan and

jorge cantu and dan uggla have also done some damage. cody ross, the center fielder for the marlins is hitting .280 with 12 home runs including three grand slams. how impressed are you with cody ross? >> i don't get a chance to sthee guy enough. i like what i see. he has an outstanding swing. he's a very powerful swing. pretty good center fielder. aside of that, this guy has three grand slams on the season. he's somebody now who is really looking for pitches in certain situations. i can tell by watching those replays, he is thinking pull all the time. you know, you just got to be real care informal fastball situation when you have a guy like that who wants to get extended. he's got the bat speed and the leg power and everything to drive the ball out of the ballpark. you don't give into his wishes. you have to pitch him a little backwards at time. make him hit the off-speed stuff for a while. he'll be so anxious to swing at it he'll pop-up and strikeout a little more. >> last nice, cody ross hadthree base hits including an rbi double and