that double. 1-2 delivery. again, it came back inside a lot of team also be look looking for players and right- handed power bat is one of those kinds of play es. the orioles are certainly going to be doing that. a great crew here. took a look and found some free agents in the off season you might want to look at. there are a number there. beltre probably not. glaus hasn't played at all. molina probably not. sheffield doesn't. but there are a couple of players there obviously that the orioles would like to take a look at. the trouble is so does everybody else. jason bay, will he be back with the red sox? xavier nady, matt halladay is going to go certainly somewhere at a big price. how do you think of that group, those are probably the guys who will be most sought after. >> jim: how about beltre. you say not beltre. he won gold glove. >> gary: yeah, but -- that hit him on the foot. it did. >> jim: you could see him trying to run the ball in. beltre only because if mora doesn't come back. he is a third baseman, and he is a good fielding -- just trying to, again, keep him from hitting the ball around. he runs the ball in and it sails a little bit. he hits it right on the instep. >> gary: and it bounced against the dirt and came right back up and got him. >> jim: rick kranitz will come out. we talked about how many pitches, how long he'll go and the action in the bullpen. dennis sarfate is throwing. the other problem is all of the outfielders, it seems to me, they're excluded here unless you're going to move somebody to the d.l. role. you have luke scott you can use as your d.h. i think first and third seem to be, from a batting standpoint, the airplane i can'ts of somewhat concern. >> gary: i just wonder about beltre as a defensive player anymore. i know he was a gold glove winner, but his play this year at third has not been particularly good. >> jim: and he's had shoulder injuries. >> gary: i don't know. that's the only reason i would wonder. >> jim: again, you just don't know what the market is going to be for him. so maybe, maybe you can wing it and take a shot. i don't think he is going to get a five-year deal. when he did get that deal with seattle, it was coming off a year where he just doubled his home runs, and he hit close to 50 and he has never been close to that. >> gary: as always, off season shopping is not easy. he has two on here and nobody out. aybar drives it to the gap in right center. pie got a good jump and he'll chase it down. tagging up, disco wrist at second. h e eel go over to third base. aybar retired. the runners at the corners now with one down. markakis at the end of the day could have caught it, but felix, he can motor out there. >> jim: a couple of great plays last night. >> gary: kapler will get a chance, but it is not going to be against mark hendrickson. sarfate is ready to come in. so hendrickson has done what was asked of him. a reliever who hasn't started since may, called on to come in and pitch as deep as he could into the game as a rereever. he'll leave here in the fourth. -- reliever. he'll leave here in the fourth. gary: orioles baseball on you by next trip on southwest.com and by honda, the 2009 honda classic. is the only thing from honda won't last. early fall night here at camden yards. out of there up the run. is responsible for the two base runners on and the bullpen dennis sarfate. jim: he came in and hit in an inning pitched. lose that game 8-4. it seems to me, circulatory leg that is a fastball. pretty much what he throws, fastball and a curve ball. off the heater. two on here. the double and a pitch. hit into a double play is oh-fer three. squeeze is zobrist, but kapler couldn't get the ball into fair territory. jim: 6-54. that is .111 hitting righties. is saying we have a guy good news for joe and the not saying that facetiously. what contact. jim: yes, but it wouldn't be time it happened. gary: kapler, an again, this time a safety squeeze. the runner. to first and make as nice play to get the out. up by kapler as he tried the safety squeeze, if you're ben zobrist, you're bunting, but successful. is zobrist. show you and as fine play. this go into foul and throw back. him a they get the out. gary: kapler will get the and earn it on the second put down that will be his the year. base now, two away. at the plate. strategy. a guy that doesn't hit does does he execute runner into to me that is a manager knowing of his players, and having players that understand. gary: yes. it just makes total sense what joe maddon just did. gary: 1-3. navarro's numbers off the orioles' right-hander. base hit could score another two down. that one away. navarro, .281 off of the orioles this year with a homer. rbi's. tampa bay team for another four games incredibly as that part of the road up to end the tuesday, wednesday, tampa bay. toronto. to first base. and that will do it. the bunt adds another run the rays have a 2-0 lead. we have shown you pictures of the orioles and the famous give me liberty or give me death speech, patrick henry did. this my hometown. first name, and i played for former big leagueer in high i have a beautiful and a new baby girl named ade? i? a deafening silence roars from the broadcast booth. is cla meredith. wouldn't have gotten that one. i wouldn't have done it. no. 1-2. for. good game. jim: making a lot of money here. gary: a strike is taken on the inside corner. markakis up rather. hit special a fielder's choice his first time up. first base this time and aybar's got it. make the underhanded toss. retired. time now for our cabot performance brought you by our cabot legendary stains. performance is legendary. this date in 1955 at the age 18 that brooks robinson went with abredskin making his league debut, september 1955, brooks arrived at the league level. he'll be back tomorrow right here at camden yards to make a special presentation to melvin mora as melvin has moved into second base all time in games played base for the orioles. jim: and then he hung around about 23 years. the only a terrific player, people. gary: yes. jim: you meet a lot of them. gary: brooks, if you're listening, because we tried to get a phone call true to to your today, if you're listening, we know you have commitments tomorrow after make a presentation but we would like to you in the booth. it is just a half an inning. you to come up and say hi. you would consider doing that, we would deeply appreciate it. we know he is going to be on pre-game show. jim: if brooks' people, we know he has people. >> jim: if you're listening, to our people, and tell brooks to get up here. gary: that's right. jim: please. gary: we want to see you up here for half an inning, brooksy, if you have time. can't wait. be here tomorrow night. mora takes it to left field. crawford has it. is retired and two down. was another special name on day in history, another debut. one was in 1941. was 21 years old. great stan musial, stan the made his major league debut. went 2-4, two rbi's for, of course, the st. louis cardinals he spent his entire career. great hall of famer. stan musial. jim: 3,630 hits. at home. do you pull that off? do you get that many hits? gary: much less divide them up. jim: coyou know where he got nickname? man is coming. lot of people think i pitched in ebb bitz -- ebb bit's field, i didn't. it was a very intimate, ball field. robin roberts, another hall to play because there were great and the phillies lad a of good players. home runs gary: yes. delivery to luke scott inside. the man has had some health problems over the last of seasons. a little and still whenever he around to the hall of fame. jim: he was up there this just a wonderful -- i was waiting to get a ride to a couple of years, probably five, six, seven years ago. said you must have been one of a player. i didn't meany -- i had one good year. lead the league in average, rbi's, hits, doubles, triples. everything. gary: that is a pretty good year. jim: yeah. >> gary: swung on an missed. luke scott. three strikeouts for wade davis. he retires the side in order again protecting the rays' 2-0 lead. ust a click and a drag. so maybe i'm better with money than i thought. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high-definition, online view of your money. pnc. leading the way. >> the 2010 orioles pet calendar now vail at orioles pack and it is packed with 15 months of your favorite orioles, their pets and some lovable animals with the spca. the proceeds will benefit the maryland spca and their work with local pets. pick it up at the official orioles teamster at camden yards and online at coirls.com. gary? >> gary: and as jim has repeatedly noted, it is a great stocking stuffer. >> jim: you know why? because christmas is just around the corner! >> gary: he is a switch hitter. as we said, getting back from an injury to the wrist that kept him out virtually the entire season. 0-1 delivery and again showed bunt. again this time will take and it goes to 1-1. >> jim: you could see dave trembley after starting mark hendrickson, his last start was in early may, he is going sequence his way through this game and try to stay close. >> gary: 1-1-a swinging bunt that time and it goes to 1-2. >> jim: it is fernando doing what he does so well. the home runs, he hit three in 60 at-bats last year down at triple-a and he hit five in 511 at-bats. he came to the big leagues and showed a little power. >> gary: running on two strikes and he's out of there. >> jim: well, rodney carew did it all the way oh the hall of fame with seven batting titles. what i like about this is one of the great hitting instructors and one of my teammates as catcher used to say, throw the high fastball in a bunting situation. now, obviously dennis sarfate doesn't know he is going to try to bunt, but the curve ball is a very difficult pitch to bunt because it changes the a angle of your bat because it is going straight down. here is jason bartlett at the top of the order. he has tripled, scored and flied out. the rbi by kapler on a safety bunt scored the other run on the board for the race. the shortstops leading their team in average and there they are. cabrera and cleveland and escobar and jeter and ramirez, all having their teams' best average. and bartlett is good enough to be fifth in the league in hitting. joe mauer and ichiro. mauer has jumped out to a 22- point lead over ichiro for the batting title. if both of those guys at the top should hit over .360, which they well might, it will be the first time in 70 years that a guy hitting .360 will not win the title. mikey mantle and ted williams did that. that is to right field. markakis is there and he's got it and bartlett is retired for the out. celebrate object fest on saturday, object 3 in the bullpen picnic area. german foods and more. the space is going to be limbed, so your chance to celebrate october fest in that experience in a new way, you have to get on board at 888-848- bird or visit orioles.com. >> jim: so mickey hit over .360 and didn't win a batting title? >> gary: mantle hit .365 and williams at .388. >> jim: well, that explains it. >> gary: 1-0 delivery is outside to crawford who has singled and flied out. and ichiro probably will hit .360. >> jim: he got his 205, but he was like a 1-17 right before that. so it seems like he comes up when he really needs hits. so .350 is the magic number. >> gary: three points off of that right now. >> jim: he'll figure it out. >> gary: carl crawford. he has eight runs batted in against the o's this year. sarfate can't get him and there is the first walk picked up by tampa bay. he just has a knack of getting on base ahead of longoria. he picks up the free pass and the second-leading base stealer is on. longoria has had a double and he has grounded out. the third in rbi's, seventh in homers, ninth in strikeouts. longoria. crawford is back to the bag. hendrickson gave up the two runs in three and a third on five hitsno walksno strikeouts. and one hit batter. we started out perfect, 27-41. the toss-out ofs by wieters. two of them. >> jim: a lot of the orioles talking about that and so do the rays. the perfect throws and that's exactly what matt wieters did. >> jim: you know that crawford is standing over there just dieing to try it again and get a stolen base, but you don't want to take the bat out of the hands of longoria. >> jim: it is difficult because it can be a distraction. he can be a big aid to your ball club because he can have such a high success rate a huge lead. that cut-out, that is when you know you're getting the kind of lead, and that's one of the things you do, step off. hold the ball. >> keith: h. >> gary: sarfate is probably working his last inning here. >> jim: the problem with side stepping, with a lot of pitch es, it affects your command and you get a fastball up out over the plate, that's how longoria hits the home runs. he doesn't miss those pitches too much. >> gary: one ball, one strike. runner not going. the off-speed breaking ball is in. one ball, two-strike count to longoria. >> jim: i read something where he said he had modeled his swing after tulowitzki of the rockies, and he said, yeah, we went to college together. it worked for him. >> gary: very quiet at-bat. that's the way he is is. he is about as emotionless as anyone at the major league level. >> jim: the key is to get the front foot down. it slows the ball down. >> gary: the runner goes and wieters throws and this time it is crawford who gets the stolen base. >> jim: last night if we looked back and looked at the film, the fastball the first time, and both were away. watch matt wieters there time. watch him have to reach up and in. so now he has to transfer the ball all the way across his body. it is a much more difficult throw. but, again avery quick release. not the perfect throw as we saw last night. i don't think it would have mattered. >> gary: crawford had a big jump. two free passes in a row. two on and two down. last night against crawford; just watch how perfect these throws were by wieters. and then matt wieters delivered the blow that won the ballgame in the bottom half of the ninth inning. putting one out of the yard. the game winner. he's had game-winning rbi ins the last two ballgames now. rick kranitz, the pitching coach, heads out to the mound. the bullpen is ready if needed. sarfate with -- he would like to get this final out as zobrist will be at the plate with two on and two down. >> gary: last night, one of the though-outs on crawford. that is perfect. >> jim: it is there is the curve ball and another perfect throw. we think he thought he was safe on that. it was much more bang-bang. >> gary: ben zobrist will take the high slider inside. he has one off of sarfate. 1-0 count. there are the two base runners on and nobody has had a better season than the orioles than this guy. 404 home runs, 12 rbi's against the o's. another slider high and inside. and the 2-0 count on zobrist. >> jim: they sure look like sliders. i'm not sure he is trying to throw him. they could be zoom balls that just cut off. the only good news is the velocity is up this inning compared to last for dennis sarfate. >> jim: crawford and longoria on. >> jim: they have a lot of movement. u f if you can control this, you can with the next mariano rivera. unbelievable. >> gary: if you hit that, you'd break yob hands. fastball away. >> jim: it would be like cricket, you know you hit it behind you sometimes that's the only way you can do that. >> gary: that has like two feet worth of movement right at the plate. 3-1 count. there are two down here. sarfate's delivery will be fouled off and he gets to 3-2. >> jim: there is another one. five straight cut fastballs. again, i don't know. i really have not seen him do that. he hasn't pitched that much this year because of the circulation problem in his pitching hand. >> gary: zobrist hurt something on that last swing. >> jim: you wonder if he hurt his rib cage. you think it is going to maybe run back. once you come in, and maybe he hit his leg. it is hard to tell. but you can see him cringing. >> gary: he will stand back in. the runner also be going. crawford at second and longoria at first with two down and the 3-2 delivery to him and that walk will load them up. so three consecutive walks after there were two outs here in the fifth inning and that will be it for sarfate. he will come out of there responsible for the three base runners on. cla meredith has been warming up in the bullpen for sometime, so he is ready to go. it is a 2-0 lead for the rays. they're trying to add to anytime the fifth inning. three on, two down. i had a pretty good job, but it wasn't what i wanted to do, and i thought, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life i probably don't want to do it tomorrow. i told my dad, "i want to start a brewery." i told him, "i think you're crazy." i started sam adams with boston lager to make rich, flavorful beer. and he went and sold it one bottle at a time. no one had tried an american beer that had that kind of flavor. boston lager really was a groundswell. there's that saying, "do something you love "and you'll never work "a day in your life." i don't feel like i've worked for 24 years. >> gary: this copyrighted telecast is presented by the orioles and may not be retransmitted in any form and any accounts may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the orioles. tampa bay has a 2-0 lead on rbi's by crawford single and a kapler bunt. they are threatening to add to it here. cla meredith is on trying to stop it. >> jim: you would certainly like to stay close. games one and two, tampa bay behind in game one and the orioles behind in two and they, too, came back to win it as tampa bay did in game one. >> gary: pat buehrle has the bases loaded. he has been hit by a pitch and grounded out. the designated hitter has crawford, longoria and zobrist on all reaching by a walk. meredith goes up in the count in a hurry where the bases loaded this season, buehrle has gone 1-13. >> jim: it has been that kind of a year. different league, injuries acouple of epidurals for the neck problems. >> gary: .227. >> jim: oh-fer four lifetime alittle bit of history, because they both came out of the national league. >> gary: 0-2 deliver whether i that is going to be catchable by pie. and he's got it. no runsno hitsno errors. the bases are left loaded. it remain as 2-0 rays' lead. @y >> it is no secret the orio would love to follow the same blueprint that the tampa bay rays took from 2008 from last place all the way to the world series, and i spoke to joe maddon about this. the way that the team was able to change that losing culture around is early in that 2008 somebody, he said they really built confidence from some big wins early on. he says he remember as week in which they won six in a row from both the blue jays and the red sox. he said at that moment he saw his young players start to realize they could compete in the n.l. east, they could beat the red sox and the yankees, and we're starting to see some of the big wins and the confidence boosters happen with the orioles here in september. we saw them take 2-3 at yankee stadium and then we saw them this week take 2-3 so far here against the rays with the big matt wieters' walk-off last night. it is the wins in september that do build confidence that help them believe they can compete, gary. >> gary: amber, absolutely right. we mentioned at the top that the orioles have won four out of their last six ballgames and have a two-game win streak here. you do want the positive feelings to take with you and follow you to next spring. matt wieters astrikeout victim his first time up. aubrey and andino will follow as wade davis, the 24 yield right-hander, and he struck out three and he has given up nothing on just two hits as pie has had a double in the ballgame. aubrey has