it's a good head's up play by uggla hustling. the umpire, chad fairchild, right on top of the play. >> jim: new pitcher on for the orioles. here is mark hendrickson. berken goes five innings. >> buck: hendrickson making his 17th appearance and mark hendrickson coming on here with an opportunity to keep this a one-run game. he'll work the bottom of the sixth inning. jason berken did a pretty good job of minute miegdz the damage after walk, error, base hit, down two before there was an out. >> jim: there's a strike. now, his job is to keep this game as is. here is a chance to possibly pickup a win. cantu, hermida and uggla against hendrickson here in the sixth, -- so, two errors in this gamehave hurt each team. berken, two walks in his fiv innings and both came around to score. high fly ball to center field. pie back on it has a play. has it for the out. -- out. one down. here is amber. >> amber: in rick sigon. an interesting note. we noted that koji uehara might not make a start on sunday. we've been told david hernandez has been

the marlins made a big mistake in dan uggla -- and dan uggla is the guy. he drives what he thinks is an rbi base hit into right field. now, watch uggla. recollection in at first base and gives up on the play. great throw nails the runner at the plate. hermida is out. on that play, uggla has got to be at second base. he has got no where else to go. if he breaks to second base, they might try to cut that ball off and not even have a play on hermida, but because he was at first base when cody ross hit the ball out of the ballpark on the ground ruled double beings he couldn't score. >> jim: how often do you see three straight hits, three of those doubles no, double play involved in the inning and no runs. >> buck: yeah, that just cost you. you can't play like that and expect to win a division or get into the postseason. you just gave a runaway right there. >> jim: instead of it being at least a 4-2 game, orioles still down by a run. here is wieters. tough night at the plate, 0-2 with a couple of strikeouts. nolasco stays on. he has struck out seven. his spot w

here is dan uggla, the second baseman.  dan uggla batting in the spot. he's 3-15 last, however, 2-3 hits home runs. >> buck: he's kind of an all or knot nothing guy hitting .217 with 14 bombs. he and hanley ramirez homered in the same gaft lamb night for the -- game last night for the 14th time this year. >> jim: berken deals high. you don't hear as much about dan uggla when you hear about power hitting second baseman. since 2006, he has 104 home runs more than any other second baseman in the big leagues. popped up foul. back of the plate. >> buck: he has some pop. he is a guy that's always thinking about something on the i be inner -- inner half drifg drilling it to the left side of the diamond. he has had his troubles this year witness the .217 batting average. >> jim: on the marlins last road trip, he homered at fenway park. the 20th different ballpark he's hit a home run in. there's a good-looking breaking ball for a called strike. here -- here is his home run last night against koji uehara. >> buck: koji uehara up 1-0, 0- 2 breaking pitch does

uggla retires. the way the rotation goes with smoltz going tonight, orioles can expect him at camden yards next week. >> buck: yeah, it will be good. obviously, he's not up to speetd speed as he's coming back from shoulder problems, and here we are on the 5th of june he's making his first start. >> jim: rich hill is 0-1. he flied tout to right field his first at-bat. takes a high fastball. orioles only have three hits in the game. there's a bloop foul the other way. marlins have six hits including two two-run homers. birds have lost two in a row and after working so hard to get back even in the month of june with that sweep in philadelphia, orioles are now 9- 11 in june. cantu to the pitcher sean west. hill is retired. two down. time now for the legendary per for -- can't legendary performance -- cabot legendary performance. >> buck: on this date, familiar face. cal ripken at fenway park 1988 right in his 1 -- played in his 1,000th straight game. that was obviously not only halfway to the record, an

what a play by ramirez and uggla up the middle. not only to deny wieters of a base hit, but turning two to end the inning. so, orioles have two on, none out. 6-4-3 ends the inning. birds fail to score.  joilt. >> jim: leer is our coors freedz cam brought to you by frost brewed croors light the world's most refreshing beer. >> buck: rich hill throwing to cody ross. ross squares up on it. you see that ball in the big part of the barrel as he hits his 13th home run. then, dan uggla same type of swing, same position on the bat barrel right in the sweet spot. he drives his 15 lt home run out. also a two-run home run. that came in the third. >> jim: mark hendrickson came on and got the final two outs in thiveth -- fifth. he stays on. 6-0, florida. orioles are having a difficult time grouping their hits. they've had base runners in every inning. they have stranded seven men on. thefd they had eight base runners, seven left on and one erased on the double play by wieters that ened the inning. fine play up the middle by hanley

uggla struck out his first at- bat. he couldn't check his swing on a breaking ball that broke out of the strike zone. jason berken has allowed two home runs over his first five spots, so he's showing the ability to keep the ball in the -- the ball in the ballpark. that breaking ball missed inside. curtis granderson of the tigers has a home run and yunel escobar of the braves has the other. so, one lefty, one righty. 2-1 in the dirt. ball three. >> buck: that home run that granderson came in a very well- pitched game against the tigers when he was messed up -- matched up against ed win jackson. jackson pitched eight innings of two-hit ball and not much that jason could do against that effort. it was just one of those better ballgames of the entire season that came on the final sunday of the home stand before they went out west. berken with four hits, just a single run that. solo home run by curtis granderson, the only run he allowed in over seb seven innings. >> jim: ball one is too tight. ball four. second walk in the g

then you can go back to the hook. >> jim: uggla chased back to first. there have been only five stolen base attempts against rich hill on the year. four have been successful. the orioles have caught the other. high fly ball deep to right center field. jones, a long runway out there. he runs it down for the out. 404 to that part of the ballpark. jones needed just about every bit of that to haul it in for the out. >> buck: that's what you got to do. you've got to know your ballpark if you're rich hill keep them in the big part of the diamond. this ball is smoked. ronny paulino thinks he's hit it out of the ballpark. look at adam jones. he knows he has plenty of room. takes just a stride on to the warning track and paulino hit it good. look at adam jones. you've got to believe he loves playing in this spacious outfield with plenty of room to roam. >> jim: we see it every game. it still amazes me concentrating running back on a fly ball he can still blow a bubble. >> buck: he's an athlete. >> jim: unbelievable. >> buck: it's not that difficult. >> jim: i th

here is dan uggla. uggla hit a two-run home run in the third inning and also has a single. 2-4. the marlins now have 17 hits. foul ball. >> buck: hanley ramirez tied his season high an rbi tonight with five. he had an rbi single in that eighth inning and then the grand slam -- excuse me, in the third inning. the grand slam here in the eighth inning. previously, he drove in five. >> jim: seven of the hitters have multihit games. ramirez has three hits. cantu has three hits. in fact, ramirez and cantu combine of more hits than the orioles. orioles have only five hits in this game. high fly ball off the bat of uggla. deep part of right center field. there's jones. he has it for the out and the inning is finally over. but, the marlins bat around and score five. hanley ramirez grand slam breaks it open. ninth inning coming up.  >> jim: orioles baseball masn brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwest.com and by honda. you can depend on your honda dealer for great leases and low financing. nighttime in miami. this one has been all marlins. ross

uggla jogs over to third base on the wild pitch. that will draw the infield in with one out. >> jim: 1-2 the count. line drive, base hit, left field. there's the insurance run for florida as uggla scores. a two rbi, three hit night for cody ross and it's 5-2, florida. >> buck: after cody ross got buzzed on an 0-2 pitch and popped up in his first at-bat, he's been locked in. two doubles. now two rbi's and three hits on the night for cody ross batting in the seventh spot. >> jim: so, matt albers in his second inning of work has allowed his second run, anunearned run in the seventh. now an earned run here in the eighth. and a strike. john baker, the catcher, 1-3. cody ross back to first. there's no activity behind albers. so, he'll finish out the inning. wes helms out on deck to pinch- hit for the pitcher. high pop, shallow left. scott is deep. charging out won't get there. that's a base hit. it falls right in front of luke scott who was very deep in left field with the left-hand batter up. perfectly placed off the end of the bat by ba

dan uggla had a two-run home run, a single and a couple of rbi's. rich hill was roughed up tonight over his 4 1/3. six inning runs -- six earned runs. he had three -- six strikeouts. three came in the first inning as he struck out the side all swinging. chris ray comes out of the bullpen after mark hendrickson did a nice job pitching 1 2/3 innings and struck out one and hit a batter. now ray will try to follow him and val have the same kind of success shutting down this marlin team. it the orioles miss another opportunity to get on the board. now nine men left on base through seven at-bats. here is bonifacio. he'll bat from the left side. hanley ramirez and cantu will follow. slapped foul out in the crowd. 12,822 attendance tonight. bonifacio struck out, he fliedout and laid down a sacrifice bunt. fouls it back again. chris ray back with the team. his second appearance. he got into the game on tuesday night and looked very good. that was the game the marlins eventually won in 1 innings. pitched 1 1/3 innings scoreless. check the swing. no swing says

for the marlins, uggla, ross and paulino in the bottom of the 7th. scott olsen, 78 pitches, 56 strikes and he's retired 10 straight. so these pitchers have combined to retire the last 20 hitters. right e corner. uggla 0 for 2 with a pair of strikeouts, one looking.   >> bob: both of these pitchers great strike to ball ratios. that's just outside the bag for a foul ball. the count's 1-2. ricky nolasco 98 pitches, 66 strikes. >> rob: i don't know how much longer nolasco is going to go. >> bob: that's 67%. olsen, 72% strikes. in his six innings. they are indeed throwing buddies tonight. that off speed pitch in the dirt. this sets up well for manny, too, if olsen can get through this inning because he's due to bat second in the 8th. >> rob: most pitches for nolasco, 112 versus the cubs. >> bob: that indicates something. olsen's fastball just 89, but here in the 7th inning, a powerful right-handed batter well late for it. >> rob: those great breaking ball strikeouts. when you start throwing a great breaking ball, you're striking guys ou

uggla has 13 -- excuse me, 14. he has one tonight and cody ross batting seventh has 12. high fly ball, left center field. luke scott was playing deep, but he hustles in and he has it for the out. and we are going to the 11th. so a three up, three down 10th for st an jim johnson. jim johnson. tuesday night in miami in a

it was do or die for uggla with the glove. and the nats get a break on an infield chopper, 2-0. >> rob: we saw this happen to us up in baltimore. they were going over the infield. this one, perfect. >> bob: wil has good speed for a catcher. >> rob: and he's getting down that line. the only chance log had on this play was to try to take it with his glove and scoop it and throw it to first base. never had a chance. >> bob: that accomplished a couple of things. got a run home and it gets scott olsen up here. scott olsen can handle the bat. he is 0 for 8 on the year, but he's a .154 career hitter. for nieves, his 12th rbi. >> rob: don't overswing right here. you just came off your rehab. you're nursing the sore wing. you don't want to do anything bad to re-injure that shoulder. >> bob: good point. >> rob: that's how andy pettitte hurt his elbow one night in houston. swung too hard. >> bob: and a fastball right down the middle. the nats get two. it starts with a blast by zimmerman. úúpx÷ñ÷÷ppúú (man) some days my 8:15 bus i

uggla fouls it back. he was the only batter not to come up in that seventh inning. >> buck: another big night for uggla with the power. he has struggled hitting just .219 with a couple of hits tonight in three trips. the breaking ball he couldn't reach. and there is lindstrom, the closer. the three-run lead. it is hit to right. markakis is there and he has it for the out, and one down. the orioles and the marlins could not take batting practice today out in the field because of the violent thunderstorm 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

uggla thought he would try to take an extra base against the nats. elijah dukes wasn't in the biggest hurry in the world, but he did get his major league- leading 10th outfield assist. >> rob: well, he figured that elijah dukes taking a little too much time running that ball down, but he didn't realize this guy has a rocket for an arm. i don't know. i thought he got in there. looked like he hit the bag and tagged high. >> bob: bang-bang. james hoye called him out. >> rob: you want to get that glove down in front of the bag if you're alberto gonzalez. that was throwing something like the orioles. i liked the way they were throwing the glove down on the base. that's fifth of the year. elijah dukes, right on the money. >> bob: bases empty, two outs. nick markakis of baltimore leads the american league with eight. dukes now has 10. jay bruce of cincinnati has eight. on some of those, of course, you get an assist when you hit the cutoff man and that turns into an out somewhere else. elijah had a couple of those. he's thrown out a bunch of guys on his own.

the second baseman dan uggla calls off cantu. uggla has it. two men down. in in at-bat, jones can't get it done. markakis at second with two away. >> buck: one thing ding different with this ball club in this series compared to the philadelphia phillies series, they have not come one key hits. they've had plenty of scoring opportunities especially in the first inning and last nightate's game. they had a runner at third base and couldn't score after brian roberts had hit that leadoff bathe base hit and pie had a base hit hient behind him. first and second, nobody out and you end up with nothing. >> jim: two down. here is ty wigginton batting cleanup. he's playing at first base tonight. aubrey huff the early part of the game off. it's low, 1-0. we'd like to apologize for the technical problems as we came on the air doing our open to the telecast. there's a bay here where both the marlins and the orioles television trucks where all the transmissions are generated from. the power in that entire bay went down. the marlins television truck still does not have the

might have been uggla. >> rob: hanley ramirez? >> bob: it was uggla. >> rob: didn't ramirez win? >> bob: he did. >> rob: ramirez, ryan zimmerman was fourth, fifth? >> bob: he was third. no, zimmerman was second, uggla was third. that thing was a marlin-fest. and a 1-1 to nick johnson. >> rob: no, leo nunez was a rook any 07. >> bob: yeah, he wasn't one of them. maybe ross gload. i think he was with the whosm at that time -- the white sox at that time. hermida only played 23 games in 05, so he was a rookie. but he was hurt a lot. he's probably not one of them. >> rob: what about willingham? >> bob: nick johnson, high fly ball, left field. this ball slicing toward the corner, and over there to grab it, chris coghlan. boy, they've got some interesting plays in that part of this ballpark. josh willingham played 12 games in 04, 16 in 05, so he was one of those guys in 06. so 12 of the last 13 nats batters retired by ricky nolasco. here's zimmerman who took him way deep leading off the second. ryan takes his first pitch of the night. he'd only seen two pitches. homered on one, popped u

dan uggla has tied the game asolo home run, and we are even at 1-1. well, he is 2-2 -- excuse me, two of the three hits and now he has tied the game with his 14th home run. >> buck: this is the same pitch that cantu hit for a double. it ask a splitter. watch how he takes that top hand off and really drives that pitch that is down. it is down and out over the plate where uggla can really go and get it, extend his arms and drive it out of the ballpark. we mentioned he is the power guy, the bottom of this order. that is his hth and he has tied it up. >> jim: cody ross takes it outside. uehara had four leading up to his stint on the d.l. and two since coming back. off-speed pitch for a strike. 1-1 on cody ross. so the seventh home run on the year now allowed by uehara. high pop foul that will be back in the seats. the count to 1-2. a very sparse crowd here in miami, and the weather really hurts the marlins' hainses of getting any kind of a walk-up because you're just not certain the game is going to be played. >> buck: yes, and their drawing area is proba

. >> jim: markakis plays it and uggla is on with a two-out single. >> buck: dan uggla is a power guy. 13 home runs so far, so if you can keep him to singles, keep the ball away from him and make him reach for the ball, you're going to negate his power. that's not the kind of swing he wants to take. you can see how he just takes that ball down and away and strobes it into right field. but they need him to hit the ball out of the ballpark and koji did a good job with two outs keeping him to a single. >> jim: and here is cody ross, the florida center fielder. 12 home runs for cody ross. he has 25 home runs, back-to- back hitters in the florida lineup. cody ross is now 28. he was acquired in may of 2006 from cincinnati. last year he hit a career high 22 home runs. you see the first 32 games very slow, but the last he's coming on strong. grabow misses low. is ---1-1 the count. >> buck: the interesting thing about cody ross. you mentioned the home runs. he has 12 home runs, be but three of the home runs are grand slams. timing is everything! >> jim: yes. that will pad your rbi total in a hu

dan uggla the second baseman. cross, john baker and ricky nolasco. >> buck: time for the scouting report for the right-hander jason berken. two fastballs, curve ball, slider and a changeup. age is everything for him. he's got to pitch at a downhill angle. it really makes the fastball deceptive to the hitters and makes his breaking ball that much bemplt he's got to be aggressive in getting his breaking balls over in fastball counts. >> jim: fastball misses josh smith outside to chris coghlan, 1-0. coghlan playing in left field. he has earned a job every day in the lineup. just 24. he's a rookie. takes outside, ball two. >> buck: those first two pitches are a perfect example of what i'm talking about of not creating the angle. he got underneath the fastball staying up in a dangerous part of the plate. up out over the plate. that's a better angle, but still out of the strike zone. what we mean by creating an angle is you throw a high to low angle so the batter can't seat baseball straight out of your hand. whether yo

it came off the bat of dan uggla. he scared up on it. it is down in the zone split and it was the lead-off at-bat in the fifth inning and that made it 1-1 and uggla's 14th home run of the season. at that point we had a heck of a pitchers' duel. >> jim: here is leo nunez coming on to relieve andrew miller who is the pitcher of record on the winning side. >> buck: nunez has done a great job. he was assigned -- signed originally by the pirates. he has been a good addition to this bullpen, which is anchored by matt lindstrom, the big hard throwing right-hander. >> jim: wieters and pie here for the orioles who now trail by five. wieters has ground out and struck out. the orioles after winning three in a row? philadelphia to begin this road trip now trail by five in the eighth inning and the opener here in florida. >> buck: it is really pretty academic. you get one hit and the ances are you're going to. >> ji cieters a high fly ball toleft field. back on it is coghlan and that ball is gone! matt going the op ere is his second big league home r

uggla, ross and ronny paulino for the marlins, bottom four against scott olsen. 40 pitches, not a bad count in three innings, 28 of them strikes. but he made some location mistakes in the third inning. he struck outlawing swinging first time. the breaking ball is low. a fastball. interleague of course is over for another year. i'll give you some of the final numbers after this at-bat. kind of interesting with the american league winning the whole thing again. things were most even in the west, where the american league west and the national league west both won the same number of games, 39. out of play. in the central, the american league central won 46 games, the n.l. central 40, but in the east, no contest, the national league east won 35 games, the american league east won 52. i'll give you the final total in a second. here's the two strike pitch to uggla. >> rob: that was a great pitch. >> bob: the only man scott olsen has struck out. >> rob: he gets ahead with the fastball. then he just breaks off, a very nice uncle charlie, or snap dragon on that one. >> bob: a little off the pi

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 xtra" here on masn. xx♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like

and then uggla who doesn't walk much, the bases are loaded with two outs for cody ross and he's 0 for 3. cody ross has three grand slams this year. so does hanley ramirez. who has hit two in the last week and a half. >> rob: sometimes you don't have to tell everything. >> bob: but if tavarez doesn't throw any strikes, a bases loaded walk will be a dagger as well. >> rob: wil nieves goes out for a little chitchat. manny acta will go out and have a little chitchat. what's going on. one of the biggest outs of the game right here, julian. >> bob: rain starting to fall again.   >> bob: this guy's almost unstoppable when a count gets to this point. >> rob: i don't think he's ever been put out at 2-0 and bases loaded. >> bob: that's ball three. julian tavarez has been in the big leagues for almost 20 years. he knows nibbling in the late innings gets you in trouble. the marlins always find different ways to beat the nats. not even close. four hitters ago there were two outs and the bases were empty. and now the marlins get a huge insurance run and le

he walks uggla. then, we see what happens. a double down in the left field corner. nothing good ever happens after walks. uggla around luke scott just kind of hits the cutoff man and right from there it's half a step play. but enough for the marlins to score on there. that's how it turned out for jason berken tonight. really a pretty good effort on his part. he didn't get supported by a lot of good defense tonight either. >> you're going to see the stat five innings, four hits including the two-run single by hanley ramirez who gave up the three runs, just two earned. walked two, and struck out three. 81 pitches, 46 strikes. do you think jason berken might have pitched deeper in the game had it not been for the idea he was coming up to bat there. >> national league baseball, you've got to pink hit for -- pinch-hit for him down 3-0 in this game. tough do everything you can to get back it into -- back into t we have plenty of long relief ready to rock 'n' roll for him. tough take your chance force him. this is national league. if it's an american league game, he's in t

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dan uggla. there is is a fastball for a strike. 0-1. of course if the orioles were to make any kind of a change with the role of koji uehara, somebody then would have to come over or come up and take that spot in the rotation. >> buck: i think there are a lot of possibilities and i don't think andy macphail has made up his mind one direction or the other. i think with baseball being so bunched up at the top and so many teams included in the wildcard race, there's going to be a lot of activity moving around, and rosters shuffling

he'll get right to it in the second inning as he strikes out uggla. fastball away. fastball. he fouls off a slider. fastball he fouls back. then he buries him with a fastball downment took a little off of that one. third inning, he'll base hit to left field. double by carroll. nolasco sacrifice bunt, coghlan singles to right field, carroll scores. then after bonifacio triples to deep center field, ball that willie almost ran down, hanley ramirez hitting .333 coming into this game. one of the best players in all of baseball singles up the middle. nolasco k'd, replay here on the pitch track as he gets a slider down and in to ramirez, cantu chases. seven strikeouts on the night. couldn't pitch much better. glad to have you back and glad that he's healthy. >> take a look at olsen's numbers tonight. gives up six hits, two of the runs were earned. didn't walk anybody. that's amazing for a guy that's been out of the rotation for more than a month. he strikes out seven. five ground outs, eight fly outs, 94 pitches, 66 strikes and 28 balls. >> that is great command. i always look for

leads off, he'll be in left field, emilio bonifacio at third, then ramirez, cantu will be at first and uggla at second base, ross will be in center field, robs catching, brett carroll will be in right field, and ricky nolasco who has had major success against the nationals, he'll be on the mound tonight. ramirez the guy you've got to keep off the bases. i think you just mentioned, pitch around him. don't even pitch to this guy. >> you've got to pitch one guy tough in the line-up and he's good night that when you look at all the charts, he's just hammered us with 37 rbi's, 15 home runs, steals bases. so you can afford to, with two outs, pitch him tough, let him get on. i'd much rather have a guy on second base with two outs or have him on second base with nobody out. he's a guy i would pick in the line-up not to let beat me, because he's done it so many times. >> debbi taylor moments ago reporting about the rain falling down in florida. and this game may or may not get under way at 7:00. 8:00 now they have projected the starting time tonight. 8:00 for the first pitch in south florida. that me

marlins up 2-1 on home runs by dan uggla and ronnie paulino. as soon as we know more, we'll pass it along to you here on espnews. >> the rain didn't just disrupt the u.s. open on thursday, it also kept the yankees and nationals from starting on time. scheduled it begin at one:05 p.m. eastern it didn't -- 1:05 eastern. you can run 2 1/2 new york marathons -- there is no official record of the longest rain delay in mlb history, but 5:26 certainly ranks up there with other wet games. we would tell you now, but then again, we don't want to delay the highlights and longer. this was the final meeting for the yankees and the nationals and the teams have only one common day off the rest of the season, so they had to play this one. joba chamberlain on the mound. ryan zimmerman lined one into the gap. zimmerman had three hits and an r.b.i., 1-8 in the first two games of this series. a-rod to left. willie harris -- the runway is clear and he's coming in for a landing. robbing a-rod of a hit. bottom seven, bases loaded, willy taveras gets derek jeter to gr

-leading red sox going for a three-game sweep of the marlins, top of the second, dan uggla off lester and into the monster seats. 1-1 game. two batters later ronny paulino takes lester deep off the volvo sign for his 14th of the year, marlins win 2-1 in a rain-shortened game to avoid the sweep, ricky nolasco pitches a one-hitter for his first win since may 8. he entered the game 0-3 with a 9.64 e.r.a. in his previous four starts. >> the rain didn't just disrupt the u.s. open on thursday, it also kept the yankees and nationals from starting on time. scheduled to begin at 1:05 o'clock p.m. eastern, it didn't start until 6:31 p.m. eastern. what can you do in n.y.c.? you can run 2 1/2 new york city marathons. there is no record of the longest rain delay in mlb history but it ranks up there -- last season, game five of the world series was held up nearly two days after rain forced a suspension in the sixth. brewers and reds waited 5:45 in 1999. this was the final meeting firefighter yanks and nats. the teams have only one common day off the rest of the season so they had to play this one.

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 burnett and you look at morgan's speed and what this will do to the nationals running g

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 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