inning. jim p.: those are command issues. jim h.: there s your first change-up right there. he misses with it. hill 6 5 tall. 205 pounds. jim p.: as good as romero is with runners in scoring position, it s been a struggle for rich hill. jim h.: pulled foul, long and loud, but it s a foul ball. 1-1 on alex rios who had been the blue jays number three hitter, now he s down in the line-up a bit. last night he batted 7th. tonight with a lefty on the mound he s batting 6th. jim p.: this is a critical time, because almost all the pitches, whether they re to wells or to rios are up in the strike zone. even that curveball not as good as he d like to throw. so you hope if you re an orioles fan that he can somehow find his way out of this inning and then get his rhythm. jim h.: now you re 1-2, you re a pitch away from getting out of the inning. you love your curveball but you ve had some pretty good fastball command tonight. jim p.: we ve seen the fastball in, but i thin
mind, he would have leaned over, probably wouldn t have caught that ball, but that s just a bonus when you can take the routine ball and turn it into an out instead of it being a base hit. scutaro to me is very good inside of the plate hitter. when you re getting on base as much as he is, you know how to work the count pretty well. jim h: 2-2 on scutaro. jim p: you can look at the number at the top of your screen. anytime you get the strikes of the two, 227, not just him, it s just most major league hitters. jim h: fouling off the breakingball. bergesen has struck out two, he has walked two. hasn t loud only three hits, as scutaro fouls off another one. bergesen coming in, 93 hits in 97 and 2/3 innings. so just a shade under a base hit per inning. jim h: 2-2-hit to right field for a base hit, off the end of the bat. how about that play coverage for marco scutaro. second hit for scutaro in the game. this copyrighted telecast is presented by authority of the orioles, ma
there is the good curveball. now what to throw. curveball, underneath the strike zone. no? gave two, and wept down. that s usually so gregg zaun, you little tricky guy. jim h: he fooled you! jim p: well, he did. he can always fool me, i ll old, but you want to fool wells at the plate and get him out. jim h: there s a bus hit to right field. all wells was doing there was protecting the outside corner, and he has a two-out single. jim p: well, wells protected it well, and singled in to right field to get the tying run to the plate. and again, it s so imperative that jim johnson really pitches to the maximum level of his ability, because you don t have a match-up lefty in the orioles bullpen. jim h: here is the tying run at the plate, overbay. fouls it back. jim h: 2-2 on overbay, and he got him! down on strikes goes overbay, and that ends the threat! so with the tying run aptsty plate, a huge strikeout for jim johnson. bottom of the 8th coming up. orioles up by 2.
reggie said to cat fish, tell them i just wasn t a hitter. you know, catfish looked at him and said, you did not get in the hall of fame few your throwing or fielding ability. it s because you had 546 home runs. we were in oakland and there was a ball over the first base bag and he argued the call. reggie came up in the call and as cater is arguing, he hits him in the back of the head. catfish said, the only cutoff man you ever hit was danny kateer and you weren t even looking. match that. you re arguing with the umpire jim h: that had to hurt. jim p: oh, it did. reggie had a good arm. it wasn t accurate. jim h: see if reimold has the green light. two on and one out. and it s a high strike. should have let him hit but no. jim p: i m sure dave trembley is saying, you know what? probably get as good a pitch at 3-1 because of the situation. again he has been able to get in on him the first two times. i don t think they will 3-1. jim h: off the end of the right to rig
bat, but certainly picking it. rob: pick it in the field if you re not doing it with the bat. belliard will be leading off next inning. there you see him spin, take at least the fastest guy off the base pads in felix pie. at least they reduce that number. jim p.: here s gregg zaun. ground ball towards the hole, the other way, this one gets through. gregg zaun has a three-hit game. jim p.: he s been around long enough to know, hey, that s how tony gwynn did it. two of those tonight. he tricked him early on. you re going pitch me away, that s where i ll hit it. he s had a pretty good night. jim h.: he s also able to help the orioles pitchers get out of some serious jams. rob: that veteran leadership behind the plate, doing his best to get the most out of pitchers. he s been a clinic at the plate. doesn t get a lot of playing time. you ve got the new rookie sensation wieters in there almost every day, and he contributes with three hits. jim h.: may be a coincidence,