jerry manuel will have to reassess as manuel as he put it how i use sheffield once i get back into national leaguement for now as a dh, just fine. pitch will be taken inside. sheffield has passed eddy murray into sole possession of 24th place all-time on the home run list. he's also moving up the rbi list 25th all time in rbi's. 2-2 delivery on the way. sheffield will take it inside and another 3-2 count. >> jim: there was an article earlier in the year that the acquisition of k-rod and other people on the ball club will toughen him up. santana another one of the guys, second year with the team. >> gary: runner goes. it is popped up in the infield. mora. he's got it. there's one away. church will go back to first base. on sunday, july 12th, you can come to oriole park for the

jerry manuel, first year of managing. manuel before the game was asked about it. he said i haven't had time tothink about it. he said i'll tell you this much. it feels like it's been 10 years rather than a year. 2-2 delivery. that is foul and it will stay 2- 2. >> jim: yeah, he said every game you manage in the big leagues is about a month off your life especially in new york with the expectations. this is a team that last two years they have lost the final day of the season. you know, last year some -- he wasn't managing two years ago, but he was managing last year. they were terrific under him. 55-38 when he took over for willie ross wolf. >> dick: -- randolph. >> gary: that will miss inside. >> jim: there gts e-- you have to watch brad bergesen pitch and realize how you have to get rid of them in a hurry. >> gary: and got him. guthrie comes back on both hitters as he gets martinez. first strook strikeout. >> jim: great movement here and late movement. fernando martinez, who is only 20, just gives up on it. again, 3-2. it's a tough count to hit in the because yo

will jerry manuel put them in motion here? possibly not because castillo is not somebody you're going to likely double up even on a ground ball. >> jim: of course he makes a lot of contact. >> gary: fouled away. it looks like we're going to play the rest of this ballgame in intermittent showers. >> jim: i heard all kinds of things, 60% chance for rain after 9:00. of course if you're the umpire, you just don't want the field to become unplayable. well t. just ran off the corner again. he's been so good. that ball, it looks like a strike. but it's outside. and it just ran again laterally because of his arm position tonight. he's been so good. you close your front side, the arm gets up. if it opens a little early and you have nights like that, it drops down. >> gary: with cora coming up, hendrickson will be coming in.  >> gary: more saving, more doing. that's the power of home depot. a problem era -- area for the orioles. left-handers out of the bullpen. dave trembley said before the game today. not real confident. to the po

. >> gary: let's see how jerry manuel plays this. his leadoff batter, core cora is looking for : if he do bunts, and you walk murphy, i don't thk if you'll do that to get to bell tram, but i would think with your closer warming up, they want to get as many runners as you can. >> gary: he drops down a ful bunt. gets it to roberts. take that with the runner coming at him. sacrifice for cora. >> jim: that's why the tsgot anthat's why the red sox had him. he can playshortstop, understands that he's not home run hitter, an awfully good ones. puts the pressure on mars tomake a perfect play. wigginton is anticipating the bunt. roberts is covering the bas. there he is, and -- the throw right -- that's why it's a difficult play. you have to pick it off. because the runner is going, supposed to be in the 45-foot line which is in foul territory. lot of guys cheat a little bit. >> gary: that ball was on the other side. that's a tough play by brian reports. murphy with another chance to make his manag

that is the theory of jerry manuel. he wants everybody to be the best players they can be. and he's demanding. that they apply themselves to being that. >> gary: that brings gary sheffield to the plate. the orioles have the 3-1 lead in the game. sheffield the dh a strikeout victim. uehara's pitch taken inside for a ball. a situation where church just came up and there wasn't a soul in the ballpark, except maybe he and manuel thinking he would drop a bunt down to start the inning. sheffield pops it up. third base, mora. there's one. not quite sure what that was. >> jim: i think that's to keep ryan church off base. and church is forced to second. infield fly rule, has to be first and second. right there you can see melvin, it's a smart play. church much younger than sheffield at 40. >> gary: you think melvin processed the age factor in that. >> jim: i think the speed factor which goes with age. melvin should know. >> gary: look at him. >> jim: he's telling him, yeah. melvin started with houston, then orioles acquired him from the mets. a lot of -- not that a lot of guys were

that every time a manager in new york, jerry manuel in trouble, bobby valentine wants to come back from the far east. >> bob: well, he's already managed that team. >> rob: that team 10 years ago. >> bob: heard an interesting story about fred who let bobby valentine go and kept the general manager. he told baseball people after that, that i fired the wrong guy. bobby valentine, last year of his contract over in japan. >> rob: to give you a perspective, yes, we watched some tough defensive plays every night, but a game was lost last night, the yankees win because luis castillo drops a pop fly in the outfield because he doesn't use two hands. milton bradley, two outs in chicago throws the ball up in the stands. >> bob: zimmermann can get the

jerry manuel before the game said i don't know anything about that. as far as i know, it's not about health. manuel said it's about his control. his manned of pitches. he said ed he has not had command. he's not located and that's been the problem. he's had a couple of bad outings. david wright. he's extended his hit streak to 11 games in this ballgame with a single and an rbi. 1-4. wright continues to lead all major league hitters in average. he has a runner at first base here in the ninth inning with two down. albers with a 1-1. that will be a base hit. it's going to roll just far enough so that markakis can pick it up while it's still rolling. over to third base goes cora. wright has his second hit. all is well for david wright. >> jim: it is. that's how gent ability to hit the ball all over the field. lawn bowling right here. kind of serves it n we always talk about that hole -- that hole for left-handed hitters. it's there for the righties if they take advantage of it. one thing about wright, he does spray the ball over 36 hits -- actually, 37 no

certainly jerry manuel looks like a gene just so far in this game. he moved murphy up -- go far in this game. he move murphy up. >> jim: he did it after he was 0-3. so he kind of one of those grind-out nights. >> gary: martinez waiting runr goes. ground ball towards second, robert is over, goes to first. good one, and a good play. good play by roberts to get te out. no runs, no hits, no errors. and one left on base. looking for markakis, huff and mora when we come back. hi, my g got moved up. i need to change my 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 ) >> watch as the runner will ms cora came back and touched and was called safe. close play at the plate. wieters did the one. [ indiscernible ]

he is like charlie manuel. they are very reserved. they are not like lou piniella who i played for. he is more like pete rose where he is very reserved, you don't know what he is thinking but he notices everything. there is nothing that gets by manny acta. i think one of the worst things this organization could do is fire this man at this point. he is not responsible for what's happened. >> bob: and in a world we live in today, where celebrities constantly make fools of themselves by throwing tantrums and emoting in public, i find it quite refreshing. >> rob: and i was one of those tantrum thrower as a player. i was a poor loser but manny is not about that. that's not his style. i can tell you, he privately -- which is very classy and respectable and that's how you get respect in this game, he won't call guys out publicly. i hated that about managers who would do that in the papers and do it publicly, press conferences, so if you are looking for that from manny, you are not going to get it. if you are looking for that from charlie manuel, you will note get it. >> bob: nick johnson w

as jerry manuel talk about whn he's in that number one spots. he says he sets the tone for everybody else. he is so patient at the plate that everybody up there watchg on the bench gets a chance to see maybe every pitch the starter has. >> jim: ideally, that's always been what a leadoff guy wants to do. wants to require a lot of pitches to be thrown. >> gary: he's just not afraido wait. he's comfortable hitting with two strikes. >> jim: you can see the canner consistency. -- you can see the z can ci. >> gary: take the pitch inside. and the count will go to 3-1 as berken falls behind. >> jim: you don't go up to walk. you go up to, at least until you get to two strikes, get a good pitch to hit. >> gary: the 3-1 delivery to him. and he takes it, and gets te count 3-2. >> jim: to give you an idea. when we look at jason berken, when he goes strike one, they are 1 for 11. 1-0, .455. that one down the line, and tt will be a foul ball. no play. luke scott getting to start ot in left field. >> jim: when the

. >> jim: dan came on last year when jerry manuel became the manager and has done a terrific job, and that's the cut fastball that he has worked with tim redding. so it just gives you extra movement. watch this ball kind of veer in. you think it's going to stay in the middle of the plate, just keeps coming at the left-hand hitter. break your hands over your knee and go. >> gary: nolan hitting at .281, three doubles and seven homers. had an 0 for 2 in the opener last night. 1-0 pitch is going to be put in the air and foul. speaking of last night, there's a young lady named lane celebrating a birthday, we're continuing to today from her real birthday yesterday. tim is our director, lane is his daughter. so happy birthday lane, and i apologize that i didn't get it in last night, but birthdays should be extended so we'll continue the celebration today. >> jim: no older really. maybe a day, but the number's the same. >> gary: the father has advised us that there will be no additional presents despite our attempt to continue the day. fastball is taken inside. that is foul back. the count wi

. >> jim: jerry manuel in spring training let him off. came in 17 pounds lighter than last year. had knee problems. i asked jerry why did you do that? he said, number one, castillo showed me he cared. came in in great shape. number two, i want jose reyes to hit because if we had any injuries, he could be a number three hitter. >> gary: that one grounded towards the hole. andino will have to make a great play. not this time. it came off the wall. he turned to second, realize it had and gets back to the bag. >> jim: i like the range of being able to get to that ball. again, a kid that has proved probably defensively he's an every day shortstop. look at this range. long, long way. that's an awfully tough throw. nice play by huff at least trying to get over there anticipating. you can see how far he had to come off the bag. >> gary: it will be an infield single. that will be it for jeremy guthrie. top of the order, left-hander cora coming up. jeremy guthrie will come out of there working 6 1/3 inningssurrenders the six hits so far, four runs, three earned and castillo will come on to

i have no reason to believe they are not being done according to the army field manuel and all the other restrictions we place upon them. but i am sure we'll take a look at what your allegations are, but i'm not aware of them specifically. yes? >> secretary gates said yesterday the chief of defense ministers in washington, d.c. that iran keeps training, supplying groups, threatening iraq's stability. do you have any information or any details on that? could you elaborate more? >> i don't think what i'm going to get in the

 >> rob: i find it inter that every time a manager in new york, jerry manuel in trouble, bobby valentine wants to come back from the far east. >> bob: well, he's already managed that team. >> rob: that team 10 years ago. >> bob: heard an interesting story about fred who let bobby valentine go and kept the general manager. he told baseball people after that, that i fired the wrong guy. bobby valentine, last year of his contract over in japan. >> rob: to give you a perspective, yes, we watched some tough defensive plays every night, but a game was lost last night, the yankees win because luis castillo drops a pop fly in the outfield because he doesn't use two hands. milton bradley, two outs in chicago throws the ball up in the stands. >> bob: zimmermann can get the lead runner here. the runner is going to be out at second base, that was hernandez trying to make the exchange when he dropped the ball. and really, he had no chance to get b.j. upton. >> rob: no, he didn't. this is the catching that's been going on lately, you need catchers that take command. last ni

jerry manuel is on his way out again with reimold coming up. feliciano the left-hander on the mound. he doesn't want that match-up. they'll go to the bullpen yet one more time. ? ? times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. >> gary: let's look forward tomorrow's pitching match-up. livan hernandez, opponents have gotten hits off him with that .295 average. jason berken, will make his fifth start. they will go against one another. >> the rookie and the veteran. livan said one year in the american league, i wanted to come back here. he's given them a lot of innings. brian stokes, pretty good numbers. he's only been scored on in three of his 22 appearances. that's what you need right here to try to slam the door and come back against the orioles bullpen. >> gary: nolan reimold with a runner at first and two down

and jerry manuel not a fan of a loss, especially to a division rival. >> any game at this point for us, i mean like i said, we are trying to take game off the board because we're somewhat depleted any game that we have a lead, and i thought we got pretty good pitching, you know, for the most part, and we hit the ball well. so i think we still, you know, are in a good spot. we need another good pitching outing tomorrow to give us a chance and go from there. we have to keep pitching well. we do that, we'll be fine. >> major league baseball has reminded manny ramirez and the dodgers he is not allowed it the clubhouse when media is present for the remainder of the suspension that runs through july 2nd. and joe torre on the pros and cons with manny being with the team. >> we want to see him. you know, i'd like to have him here on a regular basis. again, i don't want to make -- i'm all for whatever makes him comfortable. as long as he's working out, that's the most important thing. i told him next week we would talk about his rehab and, you know, and when he's going to go. and where he's goi

. >> jim: as we look at jerry manuel, hoping that somehow livan can extricate him from e situation, adam jones plays an important part. he needs to break up the double play. or the potential double play. john shelby is telling him that. don't get doubled up. get a good primary lead, secondary lead. murphy playing behind him at first. >> gary: nick has grounded ino tour double plays this year -- four double plays this year. markakis will foul that one away. wright will give chase, and there will be no play, and a 2 count on markakis. orioles trying to take the series by winning game 3 as these two teams have split 6-4 games in the first two. victory for the orioles would give them a successful home stand, 5-4, before taking off for philadelphia for the three game series there facing three left handed starters. dave trembley noting there wil be five lefties in the next six games against the orioles. which means he'll be, there will be a lot of players coming and going. >> jim: double switches, he ws talking about the opportunityo use some

we will emblem of this policy, changing your foreign affairs manuel, standard regulations to allow same-sex domestic partners for service employees to qualify as family members for a variety of benefits. the statement will have a long list of changes. this involves working with foreign governments to provide same-sex domestic partners, to the extent possible with diplomatic leases, privileges and obligations to work in the local economy. at the conclusion of this briefing, we will have a couple of osha shalls -- a couple of officials to talk about this. >> there are certain countries where homosexuality is illegal. >> in implementing this policy, we will have to negotiate certain privileges and immunities with governments that will do so. >> in negotiation is that possible in a country where it is against the law. >> this will be one of the day tasks that are before us as we implement what the president has signed, with the enthusiastic support of the secretary. >> what if a foreign country refuses to accept a diplomat or ambassador based on sexual orientation? >> again, this is something t

. >> gary: manuel saying about e mets ball club, we are what we are. basically .500 team, said we won't hit a lot of home runs, we have to do things on the field right situationally. have picked up a big rbi by wright. >> jim: what livan hernandez was able to do by getting out of that 5th inning was keep them in the game. the perfect play by luis castillo. >> gary: 2-2 count. beltran not going. sheffield right field for a be hit. runner is stopped at second. markakis getting it in to the cutoff man, to three hits in the inning, all singles. that put runners at first and second with two down for ryan church. >> jim: have you ever seen a high fastball that gary sheffield didn't like? so again, young pitcher, rick kranitz is going to come out and talk to him. nobody is up in the oriole bullpen. pitch count at 88. but again, it's up with of the nights where you better be in shape. just hot and humid, maybe ns hot as it's going to get, but the humidity is way, way up. >> gary: and he'll try to work through t

. >> mets' manager jerry manuel says the team is entering a crucial period right now. how do they get out of it with some wins? >> well, the crucial period is they have milwaukee on the road. then you've got the fill -- phillies and then the cincinnati reds and the l.a. dodgers. they have a make-up game against pittsburgh. most of those teams are very, very solid. they're chasing the phillies, so they have to play well there, but they'll be undermanned. the pitching has to come through. that's been banged up. you have a newcomer on the mound that has done very, very well, but they need a surprise at times in the good side of the category. >> well, good side is red hot fernando nieve who you had eluded. to why has he been so good lately? >> well, back in '06, he had 11 starts. he was the 3-3 with a 4.20 e.r.a. he was like 24 years old. in '07 he hurts his arm. he has to have tommy john surgery. comes back maybe a little too quick. now he's got a different mindset. he's aged and matured. he's not thinking about what people think about. he's thinking about what he needs t

governments of central america are sought leave behind nine well zelaya and are -- sloppily -- solidly behind manuel zelaya. host: can you give us a brief history? guest: central america has been a source -- a problem for the united states because we neglected for decades and then we intervened militarily as we did in the 1980's. we sponsored the war in el salvador, in nicaragua. these were useless exercise is because now both of the parties that we intervened against are in power -- the revolutionary party in el salvador and daniel ortega in nicaragua. i think that the history of u.s. intervention in central america has been a sorry one, and we recently at least been on the side of democracy. i wish that we would put less emphasis on military assistance and more emphasis on helping them with public administration and economic and social development. host: this came just a day after -- it took place yesterday with the president of colombia in the oval office. our relations with the president's colombia, uribe? guest: the bush administration overlooked a lot of offenses that the uribe government has

. >> one year ago today, judgery manuel replaced willie randolph as mets manager. mets are 88 and 67 since then. camden yards tonight, oriole top prospect, matt weeters with the home run and r.b.i. and the o's are up 3-1. bottom 7. huff making up for that error last night. comes through with the two-run home run. his ninth of the season. cheryl got wright to fly out to end the game. 0 for 5. came in leading the nationals in runs. mets have lost 9 of 14. >> >> back out to omaha. mike patricka and/orel hershiser with this live look in between arkansas, and virginia. >> ikener in center, the pitcher pitched game 2. and mckinney has a rocket in it right . they need a ball hit at those guys so they can use their arms. >> the thing is he's coming in cold from the bench. it's not easy to make that firt throw to the plate to try to get a runner. >> i'm really surprised they don't have theke infield up the middle in. >> they're back now. >> danny doesn't run real well. we saw that. he's a first baseman, but still, that's putting a lot of confidence in the ball t being t pro

this morning gino manuel low gave his report about the courts' functions. i want to show the highlights which show i think that 15 courts of this circuit are in good shape. first and most important, court of appeals, the district courts and the bankruptcy courts, are current in their work. this isn't to say that some cases may not take too long. it isn't to say that there's no room for improvement. but i think we can be proud of the judiciary's everyday performance. this is possible in large part because case loads have remained reasonably steady. during the 1970's, for example, appeals rose about 9% per year. and with compounding that was deadly. i concentrate on the court of appeals but the numbers are very similar for the district judges. after all, appeals are coming from case closures in the district courts. so please excuse my concentration on appellate numbers. during the 1980s appeal rose about 5% annually. but since then the annual rate has been 3% and under. a bad year, such as 2005, when appeals rose about 15% is balanced by good years such as 20

jerry manuel sends the same line-up out tonight. cora, martinez and beltran. beltran has won three gold gloves, four all-star teams. carlos beltran, switch hitter, he has power. >> here's a guy, for the last three years, he's put up some huge numbers with the mets. 41 home runs, 31 -- 33 home runs, 27 home runs. the average on the road, you just don't ever expect it to be as good as he is. all right .369 batting average on the road. fourth in doubles, the guy's got 29 extra-base hit games in a row. it's just unbelievable what he does. on the road a 22 game hitting streak. >> and a switch hitter in the middle of the line-up, certainly an advantage for the new york mets. birds looking to draw even in the series. roberts, jones and markakis up top. huff will be followed by mora, scott will dh, reimold in left field, wieters will catch. andino at shortstop. the orioles getting a bump last night from luke scott who continued his hitting streak. >> what i really like about luke scott, everybody knows he's a very streaky hitter. when he's hot he just powers the ball

. >> jim: i think a lot of it has to do with jerry manuel again who took over for willie randolph anticipating that with a new ballpark because it's a pitcher's -- pitcher's park. you go back to the hitting drill the 80 breaking balls in a row where you have to hit it to the opposite field in about 6:00. that was designed they bring the machine on the road because situational hitting, hitting the ball the other way. advancing runners important to this ball club. >> gary: a good job by reimold to draw the walk here with two down. the first walk surrender by pelfrey in the game. that will give a shot to matt wieters who flied out to center first time up. kind of interesting on that let's, -- list, jirjs you have national league teams except one in the top five who scored most of their runs other than homers that. would be one of the teams that plays more like a national league team than maybe any other american league team, the angels. it's that brand of baseball you're talk about situational hitting ortmeier way. >> jim: having good teams. the national league even with reyes out in the national

talking to charlie manuel about that. and their explanation is it's just the way they've gone so far. this is a team last year that went 7-0 in the post season. i don't think it's anything of them putting too much pressure on themselves at home or being more relaxed on the road. i think for whatever reason, it's one of those quirky baseball things that you think over the course of a 162 game schedule it's going to even out, and by the end of the year they'll be a good team at home as well. >> going for the eighth win in a row. thank you, todd. >> thanks. >> on the other side of the equation, phillie beat the dodgers last night. and joining us now is jim pelts from the los angeles times. and l.a. has to have relief. they don't have to face hamilton tonight. but what do you think of this team's offense? they've managed just two runs in the last four games. >> joe torre said as much before the game started tonight. there is no question the offense has eased up a bit. the dodgers still have -- they're tied for the best battin

a lot of people jerry manuel and mets thought would be available for them are not and are out for extended periods of time. so, the leadoff -- the one- outwalk is the first surrender by guthrie. that will put schneider on. what we were talking about earlier, schneider is one of those batters you've got to get. >> jim: yeah, it really sets up this inning for the mets. castillo not a power hitter, but he's a high average guy and it opens up first base, the hole into right field. it's going to turn -- at least you're going to get to the top of the order more quickly. i you think the guy offensively other than delgado they miss is jose reyes. when you start looking how dynamic an offensive player he is as far as with the triples and stolen bases and the average and not to forget that he's a high quality shortstop. >> gary: he's the ignition on the engine. 2-0 count to luis castillo. castillo batting ninth. switch hitter. runner at first base. shows bunt again. he's taking all the way. it's in there for a strike. on the season for castillo, right-handed .323, left-handed, .254. extra-base hit w

then, later in the ballgame, of course, jerry manuel with the mets brings in and matches up people. of course, when they brought parnell in, if this is a closer game, you don't get parnell. you get rodriguez. i tell you. i think wade pretty good sampling of why he's 17-18 and why he had 62 saves last year. he has electric stuff. >> jim, this was another situation where the orioles couldn't put all the facets of the game together. we talked about it on sunday. that day they did. today, pitching was pretty good. hitting twlats at times. that's certainly enough. the defense really three errors and that without a doubt affected the starting pitching. it's very difficult when you have good teams and merts a conned ten -- contender extra base runners and extra house. >> -- outs. >> you're right. that's the problem. when orioles change those little things is when they'll become a winning ball club. again, what you'd like to do is when you go back to the fifth inning, if they had done what they had done not on saturday night in the seventh inning are what they did all day sunday which is ge