nick markakis now, you just don't want to run on nick markakis. you can trust that he's always going to give you the best effort of any outfielder in the game. always good throws. always in the play all the time anticipating ahead of time. wieters with an easy tag at home plate and cuts down a marlin there. good tag by wieters tonight on that play who stayed right at home plate. pretty good throw on the part of nick markakis. he's awesome. >> now, nick markakis has eight outfield assists. is he basically has the strongest throwing arm in the league right now? he has eight along with jay bruce of the cincinnati reds. >> at the -- if he doesn't have the strongest arm, he has the most accurate, strongest arm in baseball. every time he makes a throw, he is on the money. it's just the way that he goes about doing it. he knows how quick he has to release the ball. he's always anticipating ahead of time what he has to do. ball down in the corner like it is there. barehanded the ball. hit the cutoff man is what you have to do 90% of the time and he's alwa

nick markakis had a perfect night. when you look at nick markakis, he's been streaky lately. >> he has been streaky lately. when nick markakis breaks out, he doesn't get just one hit. gets three or four. first inning, look at that. he picks up this double right here. gives the orioles a chance to get on the board early. they just can't get him across the plate. later on in the inning, there is another ground ball up the middle. pitcher knocked it down. they can't throw him out at first. he's 2-2 already. later in the ballgame, now he gets another opportunity. he ended up the night with two doubles and two singles. here is another good shot to right field. good contact. that's his third hit of the night. brian roberts goes to second. we have two men on right here. we still can't get anybody across. we can't get that rally going. it wasn't bee

here is nick markakis. a ground ball to him. nick markakis grounded out his first time up. nick on the home stand, 6-24. he's had a couple of doubles, two runs scored. orioles are 3-3 so far in this home stand with these three games to be played against the mets before they move on to philadelphia with interleague play continuing in one of the band boxes of baseball. one ball, one strike count. markakis to left field. that takes care of the no hitter. martinez over to get it. the first hit off pelfrey comes with two down in the fourth inning. >> jim: mike pelfrey finally gets a ball up in the strike zone. nick markakis notorious to hit the ball to left field especially if you throw him fastballs. that's exactly what he does. >> gary: so, aubrey huff will stand in. the five home runs pelfrey has given have all been hit by left- handers. left-handers hitting with .299. .270 by right-handers. and a discussion here as pelfrey wanted brian schneider to come out. aubrey huff with a three-game hit streak. 2-5 and an rbi in the ballgame on sunday against atlanta to continue the str

look at nick markakis, four out of four. it is the second time this season that he has a four-hit game, the 11th time in his career and he's also beginning to heat up. >> nick markakis is one of those key guys, he's like brian roberts, this ball club just doesn't win unless nick markakis is swinging the bat well. one thing i really love to watch about nick markakis when he hits is wherever they pitch him, that's where he hits the ball. tonight he was picture perfect. another shot to right field. a little sidearm slider up the middle of the plate. last at-bat for nick markakis, another base hit right up the middle. it's good to see him using all the field, using all the pitches and getting him back on track. >> markakis is 7 for 13 in that streak. a .387 average. tonight he goes four for four as the orioles are able to win by a final of 6-4. koji uehara tonight made the start, his second start since coming off the dl, and he gave the orioles five pretty good innings. >> you could tell through portions of the ballgame he was a

nick markakis has been consistent with his defense. mechanically, he dawz lot of rings things right. he charges the ball well, he has a strong, accurate arm, and he's always given the infielders a good throw to make plays on. last night he picked up his ait's eighth assist of the evening. he's halfway to his total a year ago. he led last the major leagues last year with 17 assists. nick markakis takes a lot of pride in what he does. i asked him what his check list is as he prepares to make a throw to the plate. >> anytime you have run aer on second base, you're always thinking, anticipating what if the ball is hit to me trying to position yourself. you know, when it's hit to you, the main part is executing and it that's always the the -- always the tough part and you have to think scenarios in your head before it actually happens. >> how much does it matter the score, where you are in the game, who the runner is? for instance, hermida last night probably an average run her in your estimation. >> yeah, aid chance to play him a lot young

nick markakis holds off david wright. markakis, 54%. nick had a two-run home run. wright, 44%. alex cora gets 2%. nick markakis is your at&t player of the game. well, tonight here at oriole park, mets go home winners as they beat the orioles 6-4 in the other this have three-game series. samuel adams summer ale is a flavorful wheat beer. it has a very nice spice note. it has a little lemon zest and a historic brewing spice called grains of paradise. it's citrusy, lemony. sam adams summer ale. it just totally reminds you of summer, yeah. >>> tomorrow, middle game  the three-game series. come out and join us. here is the big time collectible that everybody has been anticipating. first 25,000 fans 15 and over take home this adam jones possiblyhead. not only unique, he's going up over the wall to rob a home run and he's blowing a bubble at the same time. so, that is tomorrow night. 888-848-bird for your tickets. it is adam jones bobblehead night tomorrow night. welcome back in jim hunter, rick dempsey. it's "o's xtra" presented by verizon fios. one good sign in this loss is nic

quality at-bat and nick markakis has a four-hit ballgame. four singles tonight. >> jim: i was talking to alex, i said you really came and got that ball last night very quickly. he said because the infield is very hard here. all of a sudden balls caroming through. a little topspin. cora's trying to catch it. maybe gets off the glove a little bit to slow it down. >> gary: that's his second four hit ballgame of the year. the mets have the potential go- ahead run on with their eighth hit of the night. huff has an rbi, 42 on the year. almost got away. >> jim: look where schneider is and look where the ball goes. nick markakis already, and he's got a big lead already with the steal tonight. i don't know what kind of move feliciano harks but he's very quick to the plate. that's a huge lead. >> gary: one down here in the 7th inning. >> jim: you want to deliver the ball to home plate in under 1.3 seconds. about as quick as you can get. >> gary: orioles trying to get to a number that they haven't reached in a while. that's that four run number. they h

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

nick markakis is batting .195 since may 14. he evaluates his last three weeks. >> i think hitting's contagious. a lot of people say that. i firmly believe that. it's better having the whole team in a slump than having just a couple guys in a slump and a couple guys hot. we'll come out of it. we'll get things going. we just got to keep battling. everybody will eventually get on the same page. our pitching's doing great. can't ask anything else from our pitching. step up as hitters and get out of this funk we're in. >> one thing about baseball a series of ups and downs. downs the last few games. four rbis. four extra bases. last home run made against the new york yankees. what do you see is his major problem? >> he's starting to swing at pitches out of his strike zone. this happens to every single hitter in major league baseball. anybody that knows about slump, when the food for thought comes in your mind, instead of just seeing and hit the ball you start to guess up there at home plait. the pitch that you're looking for or guess

nick markakis, head's up night last night outside that sacrifice fly. he has -- he had a 12th inning single. that was the only other hit he had in the game. one hit all night long for markakis. >> jim: from 2-0 to 2-2 on markakis. nolasco deals and he got him. a high fastball to markakis couldn't reach. two men down. now he'll take two-out base hit or a mistake to get that run in. buck, you talk about pavinner that's consistent. how about these numbers for ricky nolasco coming into the game? .315 batting average against opponents. look at the breakdown. there is no difference except for one home run. >> buck: that's pretty interesting that the splits would be identical. lefties and righties. it's just been that kind of year for him where everybody is hitting him hard. >> jim: here is aubrey huff. takes low, 1-0. what started out as a very promising inning. now it will take two-out base hit. aubrey, 0-5 in the game last night snapped his eight-game hitting streak. 47 rbi's for aubrey huff. that leads the club. there's a strike taken all the way. >> buck:

and nick mark will stands in with the -- and nick markakis will stand in with the bases full. nick has struck out and grod out against hernandez independence with the fielders choice, roberts the double, joins the walk -- andino with the fielder's choice, roberts the double, and jones the walk. >> jim: markakis is very much like not a switch hitter, but much like one of my former teammates, kenny singleton. and kenny always trusted the umpire to know the strike zone. when gets called on out on balls off the plate, it from your traits him, but that is reali. some guys have bigger strike zones than others. >> gary: markakis has one grand slam this year, 2 for 7. that's a borderline strike. once he established that, it is more difficult to hit. >> gary: orioles with a chance to get to hernandez. bull pens is stirring for the mets. 0-1. markakis will take that one y outside. 1-1. hernandez will continue to do the same thing with the bases loaded that he's done with nobody on. same kind of at-ease pitching, trying to get hitters to chase. >> jim

nick markakis around. orioles pull to within one run of the marlins with this base hit to left. >> marlins get another run in the seventh inning. emilio bonifacio. matt wieters throws the ball into center field and bonifacio is going to score all the way from second. >> felix pie kind of goes to leap sleep a little out there in the outfield. right away, bonifacio takes advantage of it. gets that one extra step that allows him to score and marlins go on to win this game 5-2. >> five runs, 11 base hits for the marlins. nolasco gets the victory. he came into the game with a 7.15 e.r.a. save goes to mier. berken one win and four losses. he deserves probably a better fate. he got into a hole in the first inning. brian roberts 2-3 performance including a double. melvin mora drove in a run and orioles wound up lose that i go second frait straight game to the florida marlins 5-26789 orioles in the series were nine wins and three loss and now drop two quickly to the marlins. >> i know. you have to play a good, soli

markakis and you're -- nick johnson, you're already trailing by a run, with one swing it can really change your numbers for the afternoon. >> bob: that ball a little bit high, jim joyce is not giving anywhere near a high strike today. >> rob: he's been missing with that curveball up all day. i don't think he was going to give it to him right there. >> jim p.: this is your hanger. >> rob: that was outside the

he's very much like nick markakis, where if you look at his pattern of hits, all over. left, center, he's got more -- >> bob: sprays the field. >> jim p.: a lot of hits to center and left for nick. to me, that makes it just hardatory pitch to him. because if you make a good pitch down and away, which is a good pitch to a pull hitter because they roll over and they try to pull it. to him it may be a ball that finds a gap or a hole in the left center or left field part of the ballpark. >> rob: the thing we've found with nick, ryan zimmerman and adam dunn is sometimes they take too many pitches. they're so disciplined that in situations where you'd kind of like your guys swinging, they're walking. sometimes it's not that bad to walk your three, four, five guys. >> jim p.: if you're david hernandez, again, this is your third major league start, if you pitch around nick markakis and you're -- nick johnson, you're already trailing by a run, with one swing it can really change your numbers for the afternoon. >> bob: that ball a little bit high, jim joyce is not giving anywhere

that nick markakis gets. he thinks he's got a jump. >> jim: i think one of the things they talked about, juan samuel said, hey, we're going steal more bases. so the time, slow to the plate, schneider actually throws year in and year out throws well. though he's coming off the d.l. with back problems. >> gary: pitch will miss. aubrey huff. the orioles get a chance now with a big run out there with two down. markakis with good speed and the benefit of taking off on contact with two away if aubrey huff can put one where they're not. there's that breaking ball again that doesn't, stays up and away. >> jim: anytime you steal a base, there were games when i pitched where it seemed like every time you'd go out there that inning, there would be a guy in scoring position. it really reflects not on your pitch count, because there's the same amount of witches, but the difficulty right here, and we can see it, who are you going to pick to, mora or huff, and they pick pitching to mora. it's just the degree of difficulty a

he came on for nick markakis in right. strike taken. after the ballgame got out of hand. orioles did not get on the board until scott hit a homerun in the 7th. with two down. his 13th of the year. that is the only extra base hit that the orioles have in the ballgame and the only runner who passed second tonight. the o's stranded just 2, 1 in the 1st and 1 in the 2nd. >> buck: of this scored a total of 6 runs on this trip. they were fortunate to win the first game 1-0. >> gary: the bats have just disappeared. 9 runs in 6 games and the orioles don't score anymore in this one. one down in the 9th inning. springer, 1-2 delivery. reimold will fight it off. a foul ball. orioles, this will be their third loss in a row and oakland will have a season high 4-game win streak with a victory in this ballgame. guthrie would go to 4-5. dallas braden would go to 5-5 on the year, 4-1 lifetime again the orioles. 1 ball, 2 strikes count. reimold fouls that one right straight back. we will be right back here with you tomorrow, earlier start for tomorrow's game. berken versus cahill. 9 0-0 ga

nick markakis, two rbi homer in the game. cora who a -- who had a couple of hits and run a scored and wright, the world's leading hitter, rbi base hit picked up 11-game hit streak. text in your vote to a, b or c to 518626789 baez remains on the mound. gary sheffield will stand in against him as we go to the top half of the eighth inning, a 6- 2 lead. let me correct the line i gave you on rie. guthrie, 6 1/3, five runs, three earned on six hits, two walks and four strikeouts. an unearned run charged to castillo part of an inning gave up two hits and now baez working. gary sheffield has singled, 1-3 in the ballgame. the dh hitting at .1. he'll fight one that off. throughout his career, he has donesomeing you would never teach hitters to do and that's be in constant movement at theplate. that ggle waggle has always been there. he just winds upand swings. that one to center field. jones back. sheffield retired. >> jim: i think aisle i'm going to tack that with hard. swings hard. >> gary: yes. >> jim: one of the great -- larry han

>>> nick markakis, a four f four night. he also scored the game winning run ahead of aubrey huff's home run, into the clubhouse. and nick markakis. >> for the most part it's just repetition. go out there, feel comfortable, wait on good pitches to hit. i'll stay within the strike zone and put good swings on the ball. that's basically what i've been trying to do. when you do that, good results come out. >> yeah, i think it was probably one of the tougher stretches in my career so far. i'm sure it won't be the last. baseball, it's a funny game, anything can happen. like i said, just got to go out there and work hard, keep battling and eventually good things will happen. >> absolutely. i think hitting is contagious. we go out there, you know, the guys that are supposed to start hitting the ball start hitting the ball and guys feed off of it. it's good to see it and hopefully we continue this. >> yeah, you know, i've always felt comfortable in the box. it's just a matter of staying if the strike zone and getting good pitches to

. >> buck: nick markakis made another strong throw tonight. he now has eight assists as he got jeremy hermida at the plate in the sixth inning. >> jim: slapped foul by bonifacio. 0-2. >> buck: adam jones still on the bench. should pinto come into the game, you have a reasoned bat with some pop and you have ty wigginton. nolan reimold and oscar salazar have already been used in this game. so, you're down to three bench players. wigginton is aware of the possibility. he's loosening up -- loosening up. >> jim: albers, ahead 0-2. a little bit low. bonifacio takes. bonifacio's run in the first inning right now is the difference in this game. he reached on an error on a throw by melvin mora. not only did he reach. both runners coghlan and bonifacio advance. so, there were two in scoring position. they both scored on the base hit. the single by hanley ramirez. >> buck: yeah, matt albers has to get bonifacio right here. 2-2 count, two outs. end the inning with him the third out. leave hanley ramirez standing on deck. >> jim: 2-2 chopped towards the mi

nick markakis has struggled. still struggled. melvin mora was struggling. that's three of the first five guys you're going to see in our order that weren't getting on base. weren't getting those business hits or driving the runs in from second base. the other guys will have their days here and there. luke scott was doing outstanding. nolan reimold was doing very good. players like that were trying to pickup the pace. just not enough to overcome some of the pitching performances we were seeing. >> new york mets in town. interleague baseball continues. pitching matchup tonight. it will be mike pelfrey on the mound for the new york mets and jeremy guthrie looking for a win. he's trying to get his fifth on the year. he will go for the orioles. it's the 0s-mets, it's -- o's- mets, it's interleague play at camden yards. getting set for the new york mets. and this is your movies on demand screen. oh cool. (cable guy) so what are you going to do next? who are you? who is he? it's okay. well, i'm going to... activate over 100 hd channels? program his remote? sync hi

maybe even one more to get nick markakis a chance to get up here with a couple aboard. >> jim: 3-0 on reimold. and now there is a four-pitch walk. not exactly what bob geren had in mind. so markakis will have a chance to come up, representing the tieing run. suzuki out to the mound, possibly to stall. breslow is up in the bullpen, not throwing that long. and it will be breslow coming on to face markakis. as buck mentioned, he comes to plate now, representing a tieing run. andino at second, reimold at first and breslow coming on to face markakis in the 8th. what is it to lead? at pnc, it's doing what most benefits our customers. whether that's having more certified green buildings than anyone on earth, creating online banking tools for the next generation, or making a 10-year, $100 million investment in kids. it's how we've always done business. and will for a very long time to come. pnc. leading the way. >> jim: craig breslow comes often he was picked up by the twins on the 20th and pitched very well since joining the athletics. and one thing you look at, buck, with relievers who co

there's no rush for nick markakis with nobody out heren the bottom of the 9th. and the tieing run in. >> jim: pretty gutsy pitch, 2-0 changeup. >> gary: there's the potential winning run. reimold who drill the first of two walks -- drilled the first of two walks. big cut, 2-2. >> gary: this series is finishing the way it's been played. there's been quality baseball, and exciting games with the tm splitting the first two 6-4. 6-4. benches up on the railing, both ways. 2-2 delivery. markakis takes it, and he's done. one down. >> jim: that's pretty impressive. 2-0. terrific hitter at the plate. and he just places it knee hih in the outside corner. so it's, they always talk abot the game being somewhat humbling. back to back nights, it shows you how quickly it can turn. >> gary: aubrey huff coming up. interesting year. keeping beltran in, now they're going to move him out. now they have a chance for the ground ball double play. so beltran will leave the infield, and go back to his center field position. >> jim: you play in

nick markakis. nick is bat fling the two spot there is a pitch that is a wild pitch and that will allow brian roberts to go to third as john baker could not keep that in front of him. so the orioles now a runner at third and nobody down. >> buck: this is the problem with the young pitch here has good stuff. that ball, no chance at all for the catcher to make a play on that. john baker just couldn't do anything with it. it hit so far in important of and wide of home plate. he couldn't even put his glove on it. >> jim: 1-0 on nick markakis. miller will stay from the stretch with roberts at third. high fly ball left field. back on it is coghlan. near the warning track and he runs it down. roberts will tag and score. that goes the sac fly and the rbi and the orioles grab a 1-0 lead. that ball was slicing away from coghlan, but he stayed with it and hauls it in for the out. >> buck: baseball can look so easy at times. lead-off double. take third on a wild pitch. the sac fly, thank you very much. markakis

nick markakis has found his stroke on the home stand. last night, it was a four-hit game, and following the game, markakis was asked about getting into a hitting groove. >> it's repetition mostly. feel comfortable, wait on good pitches to hit. stay within the strike zone, d put good swings on the ball. that's what i've been trying to do. you do that with good resul- they come out. [ inaudible ] >> it was probably one of the tougher stretches in my career so far. it won't be the last, i'm sur. baseball is a funny game. anything can happen. you have to work hard, keep battling, and eventually good things will happen. >> he looks like nick which is probably the best compliment. he looks like nick, using the whole field, letting the ball get deep, not chasing pitches nick's a bureau, bona fide mar league -- a pure, bona fide major league hitter, and a good one. >> he is a good warnings he ia good one, and he seems to get better as the years go on. and here he is, june, .317, ts june, he got off

adam jones, nick markakis are both in the running for the all- star game. you can vote for your favorite orioles at orioles.com. the all-star game suddenly closing in. >> jim: is it ever. >> gary: that will be foul back. martinez, a strikeout victim. his first time up. orioles up 3-1. each team's got three hits in the ballgame. koji uehara getting his first start against the mets. quick toss over to get cora back to the bag. >> jim: he actually has stolen and attempted six steals, five of them successfully. the mets do lead the national league in stolen bases. come in with 64 of them. situational hitting. the new ballpark, citi field huge. jerry manuel, he understands, he said, if we're going to win, we're going to have to situational hit. >> gary: that one behind the plate. >> jim: especially when you lose delgado with 39 home runs. we talked about his hip injury. i talked to the trainer, he said he's actually doing quite well. when you get to be in your late 30s, it's difficult to project that a guy will be back on a certain day. >> gary: another one foul

nick markakis! a two rbi shot for the orioles and they cut the lead in half. it is 4-2. >> jim: you want to mess around with breaking balls. something off-speed. that's a hang changeup. with one swing of the bat, it's a soft single by jones. watch this changeup. middle in. nick again see the bat head up. x-mo, bat head to the ball. talk about the baltimore didn't seem to be carrying. the right field didn't have a -- didn't have a problem. two quick runs to get back in the game. >> gary: a big time shot in the arm by markakis. sixth home run given up by pelfrey all to left-handers. markakis gets his eighth. an rbi 41 and 42 qoit. >> jim: gets the best bullpen in the national league up. >> gary: now aubrey huff. [ indiscernible ] >> jim: excuse me. david wright is going to come over. they need time. kind of a little delay here. i'm sure somebody told them -- him go talk to him. >> gary: we mentioned earlier for pelfrey, he's now given up. that's just the 25th home run that he has surrender since 2006 covering 56 starts. the fewest in the majors. >> jim: still ha

. >>> on saturday, the first 15,000 fans 15 and over receive a batting practice jersey of nick markakis presented by real street staffing. fans are invited to stay after the game for american classics movie night presented by the maryland lottery as the movie "feldt of dreams" will be shown on the center field video board. don't miss this classic night at the ballpark. >> buck: what a great idea. go to the ballpark, get a jersey, get the stay after the game and watch a great movie. >> jim: absolutely. >> buck: in a great atmosphere. the perfect set-up. >> jim: there is nick on the orioles' bench. here is the pitcher leading off, koji uehara. markakis will follow. koji is able to get out of that inning with only the one run on the lead-off home run by dan uggla and the marlins have do really be kicking themselves now because they had four hits in the inning and managed only that one run. >> buck: koji did a nice job of min nighing the damage. he threw 23 pitches in that inning. that's why rick kranitz came out to give him a little bit of a breather. >> jim: he is ahead of him, 0- 2, mill

nick markakis has a strong, accurate arm. he comes in and fires a strike to the big target matt wieters. watch wieters' glove. it goes right to the corner of the plate. puts the tag on the toe of jeremy hermida. there's no question about being out. the umpire with great position, chad fairchild. you've got to continue to follow that ball into home and get yourself to a point where you're not blocked out by the catcher. >> jim: so, markakis' eighth assist. and the tag by wieters and the orioles gun down hermida. cody ross now batting. uggla on at first. >> buck: that's pretty interesting. uggla's throw to first base after that throw no, cutoff man involved whatsoever as he became a spectator anticipating the rbilook at the throw to home, forgot to go to second. he should be in position for thescoring run with two outs and he's not. >> jim: ross, 1-2 with an rbi double. that keeps it a one-run game. good breaking ball off-speed pitch. that was a pretty good pitch to uggla. he just was able to serve it into right field. there's

markakis now at the plate. he takes a strike. nick struck out his first at- bat. he had a chance to get a run in from third. roberts was at third with one down. he could not put the ball in play. lined foul down the left field side. >> buck: after that line drive down the line, he jogs out to the mound to talk to ricky nolasco. saw something about the location of the pitch he wasn't too pleased about. talking about nolasco, now they're going to attack markakis from this point forward out in front of him at 0-2. watch the target trying to come in inside. the ball is all the way across the plate. that's why the catcher was a little concerned that nolasco wasn't really hitting his targetsment he goes out and says make sure you focus on me now. >> jim: 0-2 on markakis. he's down on strikes. second time in the game markakis has struck out. that's four already for nolasco. >> buck: this was a hard slider and backdoor slider. again, look at the target. trying to go inside. they miss all the way across the plate. that's why i kind of laughed to myself when i hear pitchers

brian roberts, adam jones and nick markakis who is on fire. melvin mora last night, 2 for 3 with four rbi's. melvin really starting to break out of it now. gregg zaun catching, batting 8th. >> rob: give you the pnc bank scouting report. he's got to cut down on the walks. 19 walks since he won that last game in the middle of may, it's turned into 30 runs over that time. and he really needs to attack the strike zone and relax out there, because got to get ahead to get to his out pitch which is his change-up. >> bob: shairon martis on the mound. foul ground, gets there and he makes the catch. willingham just sticking the glove out and it came down, so roberone pitch is retired and one away. >> jim p.: a big breezeerat camden yads. we couldn't figurout ónn'th field how it was blowing. the turf here, warning track. >> bob: adam jones looking for the breakout game and he got it. >> jim p.: arted out with the double, he ends up a single, double, triple. the at-bat he had against hanrahan, part of that eight- run sixth inning. there you go. you ca

. >> bob: it will be rob villone against nick markakis. lefty-lefty match-up and the orioles are trying to put this game away early. a. >> bob: this copyrighted telecast present bid the baltimore orioles an the washington nationals may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and any form may not be disseminated without written consent. bob carpenter, rob dibble, jim palmer, jim hunter and amber theo hair advertise and debbi taylor from oriole park at camden yards. it is all o's and rob villone inherits the situation. >> jim: he has done a nice job against left-handed batters, in fact, the same with righties. >> bob: markakis, 2-2 tonight apair of singles. >> rob: villone's nemesis is standing on deck. >> jim: he hit that, what, triple? >> rob: yes. but i asked rob the next day and he said, well, the last couple of times i faced him, he smoked a fastball up and a slider away. so he was going to try to throw him a fastball up and in and he killed it. >> bob: aubrey huff the man they're talking about. >> jim: those are nice numbers for

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. >> rob: jim made the point earlier on huff, you've got to get those pitches in, and even on nick markakis, you know, if you don't get it in far enough, they're going to let it. you might even jam them. you have to be able to locate it in and under their happens, and that is two lefty this is inning that have gotten base hits on jam shots and singles on fastballs. >> jim: there is aubrey huff and he is having a nice night tonight. and steve talked about again not calling pitches. he said, listen, i was a young pitcher and played for billy pleater and i made a lot of mistakes. he said not only that, the adversity that goes with it when you make those mistakes. so i'm going let them learn on their own. he likes their arms, likes their make-up. there you go. this is -- it is almost like you want to work for state farm because you have to be an adjuster. you get them out the first time, and the second time, and then they're making adjustments. you're just learning how and what you need to do. >> bob: i think a lot of that goes to what rob talked about earlier. our pitchers up until recently th

and that's good news not only for markakis but also for the orioles offense, as obviously having nick hitting is vital. markakis in the third hole against the right-hander. and that's going to be a base hit into right field. jones will make a turn. he will stay as church fires it all the way in to third, knocked down by wright. so we talked about first inning offense. the orioles with one down, two on. >> jim: it looks like a high fastball. last night, pelfrey pitched him away, he singled to left. but we're looking at a 25 year outfielder that's a .299 lifetime hitter. as any hitter, when you're going to get 550 at-bats to play, you're going to have the peaks and the valley. just does too many good things at the plate oh go into any kind of prolonged slump. >> gary: now aubrey huff gets the shot. aubrey's .304 with runners in scoring position. about 60 points higher -- 40 points higher than his overall batting average coming into the ballgame. he's got 41 rbi's. he'll take the fastball away. nick markakis with 42 runs batted in is the leader for the orioles in the rbi department, just

roberts still on at first base and here is nick markakis. markakis will take that to first, going to try for two in the dirt, there is one, nice play cabrera. the shortstop got pulled off the bag but was able to get his foot back in time to get the out and the throw from giambi at first base. >> buck: this is a play that's got to be turned into a 3-6-3 double play. it's right at giambi. he makes a terrible throw and cabrera is able to catch it and get his foot back to the bag but you have to turn that into two. look at the effort by cabrera. they are lucky they got one there. >> gary: that's a big play. one of those plays that changes the whole look of the inning. so, now, markakis on on a fielder's choice and here is aubrey huff, the designated hitter in the game. aubrey will take the pitch and that is in there for a strike. huff's numbers on the season, .268, 8 homeruns, 39 rbis. against the left handers, he has gotten over the .200 mark, patting .203 against left handers now. fouled trying back now. >> buck: aubrey huff has been swinging

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 chase that pitc

he did it to nick markakis yesterday. that was in left field. this may be the best play we've seen from josh as he repairs his divots in right field. >> rob: josh willingham has played this outfield many, many times. he knows it's beautiful, soft football turf. you'll see him pull up a few divots here and he makes a great grab. soft line drive. >> bob: guzman has got it. it stayed close enough to nick johnson. @úpxx?xxúú@@ >> bob: nothing like some good glove work to give your pitcher an eight pitch half inning. it will be nieves, olsen, then willie harris in the top of the fifth. nationals 0-6 against the marlins this year. three of those here. they've lost seven straight in this ballpark and 16 of 21 dating back to the beginning of the 2007 season. this is a different nationals club than the one that played here first week of the season. for that matter, it's a different marlins club, too. mike rizzo got some good news today. seven more draftees signed. 23 of 50 now have signed contracts, and three of the top four. first pitch, one hopper.

nick markakis, 0-for-2, force out, strikeout. some of the signs coming into the ballpark say otherwise. >> buck: have not changed. >> gary: have not changed yet. the 0-1 delivery. nick starting the day 9th in rbis in the american league. .290 batting average now. he has yet to have a hit off dallas braden, 0-for-10 the times that he has faced him. 2-1 delivery. orioles have had only one runner to second base in this ballgame and that was notice 2nd inning. mora had a single and moved up on a ground ball out. orioles only left two on base. 2-2 delivery. markakis reaching to second, kennedy. gets the out. the orioles are retired in order in the 6th. matt albers goes back out. a's still lead it 9-0. you salt-wash everything and let it breeze dry. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. . >> amber: back in oakland colyseum, time to check in with news around the major league. big papi, david ortiz, will get his eyes checked on monday. he believes maybe that's the problem. that's why he is beati

nick markakis, this will get a run in. cora tagging up. markakis throws behind the runner and gets it in. did he to? no. and matt wieters has been able to, if he had hung on to the ball, he would have tagged coa out. because cora had to come back and touch home plate. and only then was he called safe. >> jim: see how matt blocks te plate. so he takes away the outside corner, and that's why cora can't get to it, but again, it's also why the ball gets away. so if he catches it, it hit hs bare hand, but he doesn't hava chance. you can see with the left han, trying to get in. this is the way you block the plate. you don't give them the plate, he never touched it. >> gary: and the only plate umpire was right on. he gave no signal. >> jim: we saw brian mccann in the atlanta series give the runner the outside corner of the plate. that's all right, but you br take it away, and that's what wieters did. >> gary: wright will get the rbi, making it an one-run ballgame. wright's 38th 

nick markakis is seventh. 1-1 delivery to him. again, they come inside on him. drop down a little. 1-2. >> buck: you get these little sections of games kind of a snapshot of the team and we've talked about the offense and how they've struggled. most part of the season top of the order especially been productive. juggling the line up a bit tonight trying to spark the offense. haven't been able to come up with just one win on this road trip so far dworn 1-2 delivery. swung on and missed. cahill has five strikeouts in the ball game. two of them against jones. 9-0 a's lead. @p @>pk@c@" ep6l.xopnpq.cp+pgú >>> back at oakland coliseu time to check in on the minor leagues. have o to wonder if he'll be in much longer. he's pitched 20 straight scoreless innings. now 4-2 with a 2.16 e.r.a. leads the carolina league. so wonder if that phone call double a coming any time soon. >> gary: it will be interesting. obviously the movement will be made. that's one pitcher. the orioles will not have may jog league level. he'll be in the minors. >> buck: this is first professio

nick markakis. next batter is red hot. he has a 3 game hit streak coming in. last night for the second time this year. 11th time in his career, a four-hit ballgame, stole the base, and scored a couple of runs. and against the mets, .588 wih -- >> jim: that is not going to work, throwing the off speed stuff. he's adjusted well. i head the home run on the changeup. if you look at the numbers,s 27 to left, 28 up the middle, 26 to right. he's spread the ball around te field. and again, we talk about gus hitting the ball where it's pitched. he does that. >> gary: livan hernandez witha breaking ball. but it's in for a strike. hernandez has faced markakis,7 at-bats, in this case is 1 fo7 off the starting -- nick is 1 for 7 off the starting pitche. hernandez will dish one outside. livan hernandez continues to have one of the easiest-lookig rocking chair deliveries in al of baseball. you look at him and you thinke can just pitch for about five days in a row, and it would never bother him. very little effort. he gets the s

nick markakis leading off here against the left hander. claimed off waivers from minnesota. he's worked eight times now nine giving up couple runs, three hits in seven and a third innings since joining the ball club. working out of the bullpen. markakis 2-3. double, single and grounded out and struck out. starts with a k one away here in theth. and time now to text in your vote for the at&t player of the game. candidates tonight giambi came out of the ball game but before he left he had a bases loaded double. cabrera in the game. he's delivered two doubles and a single, two rbis, two runs scored and cahill starter. chance to be the winner. text in your vote. a, b, or c. text in your vote. that one to right center field. that's going to be a base hit played by davis. he'll get it in. jones is held to a single but his second hit of the game. double singled and two strikeout for adam. >> buck: so far the switch has worked. he's going to come in and pitch the 8th inning. markakis had two hits in his first appearance in the two spot and jones as well in the three spot. >> gary: a

nick markakis will stand in. double single, 2-4. starter. jason berken will take the loss here and be 1-2. cahill will get his third win against five losses and get out of the streak of four games without a win. three losses and a no decision. jumping up to get that one. >> buck: this will be the fifth win in a row for the oakland a's. the starters have won every one of those decisions. that's how you get back to it. good starting pitching and i don't care how. >> gary: tom davis i know what you got there. that one just right on by. a 1-2 count. markakis fouls back into the screen. oakland's going to win their fifth in a row. and their seventh in a row against the orioles going back to last year. orioles will have a four game losing streak and full-time game of the road trip tomorrow. 1-2 delivery. markakis battles it away. it will stay at 1-2. orioles on this road trip now have been outscored 29-10. five games. that one for a shortcut off to 3rd. play to 1s. just in time. and this one's in the books. so oakland got the runs early and made t

. >> jim: here is nick markakis. he takes outside. five in a row out of the strike zone. nick has one of the three hits tonight. he went after the first pitch in his first at-bat in the first inning and doubled. ground ball off the glove deflected towards ramirez. that will be a hit. that probably would have gone throughout middle, but uggla was breaking towards the bag and markakis benefits from the ball hitting the glove of the pitcher sean west. >> buck: it is probably sharply hit enough to get through the infield. as you can see, the infielders are straight away that. ball was a pretty good one- hopper back off the glove side of the pitcher. ramirez changes directions and picks it up. he had no chance with roberts, nora and markakis at first. so, a little something going here now for adam jones. >> jim: here is where you can get back in the game with a long ball. unfortunately, orioles have not been hitting home runs. they have only one home run total over the past three games. that was matt wieters' home run here on tuesday night. >> buck: yeah, opposite field home 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

markakis. through six innings. >> rob: yes that is the thing. he doesn't know a lot of these lineups. he does now know the orioles because he faced them once. he is going out there now on guts and guile against these big league lineups. >> bob: willingham is not going to get it and it bounces against the wall and adam jones will head to second base snapping an oh-fer 13 drought with a one-out double. >> jim: and he does it on an 0- 2 pitch. maybe a cutter and just trying to get in. you can see there where bard gets in. the ball get dallas. but when adam jones gets the foot down and you elevate the ball and don't get it way in, there is a big difference between going in and getting in. >> rob: absolutely and that fastball was up and high so he could get his arms extended. it just shows you the quickness of some of these major leaguers' bats. they can hit a 100-mile-per- hour fastball and that was not a good 0-2 pitch. you want to throw something out of the zone or down in the dirt. >> bob: so ma

. >> jim: nick markakis has a a couple of hits in this game. looking to find that stroke. now has 23 multihit efforts on the year. there's another base hit. hard-hit ball pass the glove of uggla. roberts goes to second and holds there. two of his three hits tonight have come on the first pitch. >> buck: he's basically all the offense tonight. only other hit is a nolan reimold base hit. actually, wigginton had a single into center field. so, markakis has more than half the hits tonight. that's his third a bullet pass the diving second baseman dan uggla. that's a good sign. get nick going again. >> jim: again, orioles are a long ball away from getting back into this game. they continue to get base runners. they've had base runners in all seven of their at-bats. they can't get the big hit to get a run in. here is adam jones. hard had been hit -- hard-hit ball the but right to the shortstop ramirez. there's the force on markakis. a hit, a walk and two men left. seventh inning stretchtime in miami. tonight's seventh inning stretch brought to you by jack daniel's tennessee whisk

that bent through, so the orioles could not play balls off the bat a couple of times you have seen nick markakis break one way and then have to go the other way to get fly balls the first time in the stadium. >> buck: yes. the orioles have not visited landshark slash dolphin stadium since 2001. >> jim: i keep wanting to call it joe robby. >> buck: it was probably in 2001. landshark stadium now, and it is a little different. there are a lot of different angles in the outfield that you have to get accustom to. >> jim: that is spokesperson. ed foul and that will be back out of play. the first time in a stadium, especial little this is a massive stadium because it was built for the miami dolphins. it is a rectangular stadium, and they readjust the seats along the third-base line and roll back some seats in left field, but it is a huge stadium. there is a high chopper to third. melvin mora, that one lost in the light. how about that? a chopper lost in the light. you can see melvin looked up, and as he saw the ball, he saw the lights. >> buck: and obviously the stadium is constructed, as you

. >> jim: and don't think he didn't pay attention to that thirst strike call on nick markakis in the 1st. ball off the corner that wagnr called, so you cannot take a chance on trusting the umpire, because the ball off the corner has been called. >> gary: brian is third in doubles, and fourth in runs in the american league coming ino this ballgame, and as we mentions in his first at-bats, he's had 4 hits in 9 at-bats against hernandez, so good numbers off the mets securityalarmnow.com starter. -- mets starter. reports to to second, somebody's going to cover first. pitcher does, murphy went aftr the ball. >> gary: one away, adam jones grounded out his first time u. hitting at .350, tenth best average in the league. >> jim: he's one of those, we talk about peaks and valleys. peaks were early. the valley is a 3 for 32 witha couple of singles and home run on saturday night. and he said i know i'm chasing bad pitches. >> gary: that one right into e glove two down. markakis with two away and the bases empty. >> jim: let's look at that

nick markakis, adam jones both in the running for a position on the all star team. you can vote for your favorite orioles at orioles.com. don't miss your chance to vote orange and save green. by voting for the birds maximum 25 times you get a free upper reserves seat. vote early and often. for details go to orioles.com vote orange. number two hitter kennedy flied out. first time up. runner at 3rd base. berken trying to get out of this with davis on a third. and the pitch is inside for a ball. davis will get as far off the bag as he can at 3rd in case the ball gets away from the catcher. he'll be off. kennedy lifts it. going to be a tough play. and there is none. and it gets by jones. kennedy on his way to second. backed up, an rbi single. and a 2-0 lead for oakland. probably an error on jones allowing the runner to go to 2nd base. >> buck: kennedy has delivered big hits for this team and this is just a flare sinking and getting away from jones in center field. kind of overran that ball as it had spin on it and kicked back to his left. kennedy delivers the rbi as dav