Six Innings

Highlights and lowlights from the Orioles' 2-0 victory over the Florida Marlins in Viera, Fla.UP -- Cal Ripken: The last day in Florida brings his first home run.UP -- Juan Guzman: If he's this good when the games count, clear space for the Cy Young.UP -- B. J. Surhoff: Reaches base three times and steals second.UP -- Doug Johns: Two scoreless innings in relief.EVEN -- Jesse Garcia: Singles in his first at-bat, but gets picked off. Hey, he did play 13 innings the night before.UP -- Rich Amaral: Has proved that he's healthy enough to start the season.

Cards 8, Orioles 1 Rating the players *** Jay Gibbons: Gets his third double of the spring and runs down a pop-up near the stands beside the Cardinals' dugout, a difficult play that shows he's not all thumbs in the field. Greg Myers: Reaches base twice, including a walk. Compared with the other Orioles, he was on fire. *** Brady Anderson: Goes 0-for-3 and takes a hard spill in left field, but also throws out a runner trying to advance to second. Chad Paronto: Retires the first five batters he faces before running into trouble.

Deserving better Steve Trachsel's final exhibition start was a dandy, but he ended up with no decision. Trachsel left after six innings with the score tied 1-1. He allowed four hits, walked one and struck out two. The only run came on a homer by Washington's Felipe Lopez in the third. "Curveball was really good today," Trachsel said. "I'd just like to be a little bit better down in the zone with my split." Dennis Sarfate replaced Trachsel to start the seventh and hit Ryan Langerhans with two outs.

MIAMI - -Orioles right-hander Koji Uehara's next start is in jeopardy as he deals with what the team is describing as arm fatigue. "Physically, I'm OK," Uehara said through his interpreter, Jiwon Bang. "Elbow-wise, not perfect. It's like a fatigue." Uehara acknowledged that he asked out of his start Tuesday after six innings in which he allowed only one earned run and seven hits while throwing 76 pitches. Uehara (2-4, 4.05 ERA), who got a no-decision and remained winless in his past 10 starts dating to April 13, said after the game, "I couldn't really [use]

County tri-champion Glenelg has shown resiliency all season. The five-time state champion Gladiators did it again yesterday in the Class 2A West region baseball quarterfinals at Hammond by defeating the Bears in extra innings on Mike Corona's three-run homer, 8-5. Hammond had tied the game 5-5 in the bottom of the seventh inning on a two-out, three-run home run by Marcus Anders, his second homer of the game. In the top of the eighth, Joe DiMarco led off with a double for Glenelg. Randy Gardner walked.

The first six innings of yesterday's Class 1A state semifinal against Frederick County's Catoctin were an exercise in frustration for No. 10 Owings Mills.The Eagles made numerous mental and physical errors, ran themselves out of innings and every bloop, bunt and grounder by Catoctin seemed to find a hole.And the Eagles almost won anyway.Down to its last strike, Owings Mills rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh to send the game into extra innings before Catoctin scored four in the ninth to post a 10-6 victory at Randazzo Park.

Calvert Hall took a right turn and stayed in the chase for the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title while visiting McDonogh took a turn for worse yesterday.No. 4 Calvert Hall shut out No. 8 McDonogh, 6-0, behind senior right-hander Joe Pease in what has not been a good week for either perennial MIAA contender, especially McDonogh.Calvert Hall (11-5, 3-1) dropped a 3-2 decision in eight innings to No. 5 Gilman on Monday with the last two Greyhounds runs coming after two were out. Meanwhile, the Eagles (8-4, 2-3)

AMERICAN LEAGUE Who's hot Shannon Stewart of the Blue Jays has four multi-hit games this season. Who's not Tim Salmon of the An gels struck out four times, three looking. It's a fact The game-time temperature of 42 degrees in Boston was the lowest in Devil Rays his tory. NATIONAL LEAGUE Who's hot Braves pitchers have yet to hit a batter, throw a wild pitch or commit a balk. Who's not Steve Trachsel of the Mets tied a career high, allowing 10 runs on nine hits in five-plus innings.

BEDARD DAZZLES In his latest dominating performance, Orioles starter Erik Bedard pitched eight shutout innings, allowing just four hits and two walks while striking out five. In his past six starts, Bedard has pitched 42 innings and given up only eight earned runs, lowering his ERA to 3.67. Before last night, he hadn't won since April 18, but in eight outings since then, he has gone six innings twice, seven innings four times and eight innings once. EIGHTH-INNING BREAKTHROUGH It took until the eighth inning for the Orioles to finally get a run off Royals starter Gil Meche.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Orioles have almost come to expect this. But just in case the Twin Cities had forgotten, Scott Erickson showed his former employer how dominant a pitcher he can be.Extending the best start of his eight-year career, Erickson gave a lesson in how powerful location and aggressiveness can be when mixed properly. With the Minnesota Twins reduced to props in their eighth loss in a row, he roared through their lineup almost uninterrupted. The not-so-surprising outcome was the Orioles' 3-2 win and his fourth victory of the season.