conversation is on between the phillies and the jays but it still doesn't look like@@úúú >> let's look around the majors, nationals in an in a rain delay and ryan zimmerman has dropped the home run. his second in two games. mets 3-1 lead on the astroses they play the bottom third inning and placed gary sheffield on the dl the latest member of the mets to go on the dl we

hamstring injury and david ortiz rocked a three-run home run and thrown out the next time up. >> with that we say hello and thank you for stayed tuned to espn. alongside kevin conners i'm reischea candidate to help you stay current with the highlights and scores and of course roy halladay leading all the talk as we approach tuesday. >> the trade deadline the blue jays have set and the 31st is the major league trade deadline and we talked do you mortgage the future for the present. that's the situation in front of the philadelphia phillies right now. one day after striking out ten, in a no-decision the roy halladay trade rumors continued and phils mentioned that's frontrunners but angels and dodgers have entered the discussion according to espn.com

jayson stark and it would see j.a. happ and two minor leaguers and a prospect, kyle drabek. >> you can't trade everybody. that's the phillies' stance. they don't feel as to the they should be asked to trade their best pitching prospect and position player prospect and a guy 7-1. they feel that's too steep to pay. they're willing to give up a large number of prospects . they talked about seven or eight different players but the blue jays are as insist tent as drabek as the phillies are as in not including them. that's the type of thing that happens this year. >> friday, espnews will have live extensionive coverage of the trade deadline. all hands on deck from the

baseball tonight drew. every angle covered, friday beginning at noon eastern on espn. >> let's talk about the blue jays more than taking on the rays. aaron hill had a big day on saturday. the rays started off at -- the blue jays started off with a bying day the two-run shot his second home run of day, an 8-0 jays' lead and then in the top of the 9th the solo shot ties the game at nine. so we're going extra innings. top twelve two, on for jason bartlett and how about bringing home ben zobrist add and the rays take the 10-9 advantage overcoming an eight-run deficit and based loaded for lind but it's not working out and rays come back from an 8-0 deficit to win by the final 10-9. tampa bay lost four to them in

the season and they've done it three times before. as for the rays, first time in the rays' twelve-year history they've overcome an eight-run deficit setting that franchise record as mentioned. fam was the fourth team to over come the deficit and all in the american league. the last time they were four such comebacks in one season in the american leagues back in 1933. >> all right. phillies still very much in the halladay sweepstakes as we talked about. cardinals won the holliday sweepstakes on friday. today rick ankiel won the rick ankiel sweepstakes and takes one from werth and it phillies downe and rollins turns one on here. >> long. >> that's long and gone.

second career grand slam for rollins. first since october 2004 against the marlins. sets a career high with five run batted in and the phils win 14-6. matt holliday is now 6-9 since joining the team and julio lugo is 6-10. first place yankees. riding an eight-game win streak against the as and bases juice and aceves hits and they take the lead up 6-1 until derek jeter gets into one and said you try to ride the wave as long as you can and keep it going and mark texeira said something similar to that. yankees down 6-4. bottom nine, one on jeter, the

tying run but not deep enough. as hang ton win it by a final of 6-4. that's the eight-game win streak so the lead over the red sox just two games right now with boston up 4-0 on the orioles and yanks still have won 21-26. >> we also got the al central first-place tigers taking on the white sox. course the tigers swept in the doubleheader yesterday and granderson going to bring home a run and make this a tie ballgame. bottom of the 10th, winning run on second, carlos guillen, how about his sixth career walk-off hit and cleat thomas led off with the single and tigers get the 4-3 victory with the walk-off hit and the lead is extended to three games winning three state over them. the 6th walk-off hit for mr.

guillen, first since august 24th, 2007 and bobby jenks with his second straight blown save. >> ahead the stars of the wnba have converged on the great state of connecticut and one of the highlight you rarely see in the wnba game coming up and plus ricky and rice. members of the 2009 class of theball hall of fame and hear

>> the 9th wnba all-star game the east versus the west and all kinds of alum in the game including cass who owned the game a record-setting 22 points

in the game and silvia fowles wasn't about to let it happen. >> there it is. silvia fowles throws it down. >> getting jiggy with the rim. silvia fowles didn't help the east meets west though. 130-118 the west reclaims the bragging rights. they lost the last two but the previous six before that and now have the 7th bragging rights as for miss cash she set the record and fowles an injury replacement of lisa leslie and had the record for a minute. >> felipe massa underwent

surgery and went into stable condition. the accident happened when a loose car part hit him in the head causes him to go night barrier at 120 miles an hour. no formula one driver has died on the track since a crash 15 years ago. sprint cup qualifying rain delaying qualifying for hours and mark martin time of 182.054 and dale jr. was feeling under the weather with a fever and will race on friday and juan pablo montoya ha the fattest lap and the pole sitter is this mark martin winning his fourth of year. prior to this year he hadn't won

a pole since 2001 and won a sprint cup series high four races this year and dale earnhardt jr. and tony stewart sitting near the front. >> tomorrow ricky henderson and jim rice will lead the hall of dame induction class. for henner don it was a first-ballot induction for rice a long wait and his 15th and final year of eligibility he finally joins baseball. and both were at the hall of fame ceremony. >> this day has came and it's probably the most thrilling time in my life of being elected to the hall of fame. >> i don't know about ricky but i hope i don don't screw up my speech. >> now that i'm getting inducted to the hall of fame they led us know we're still rookie and i

accept that. >> i think before the hall of fame i think it was more gratifying for me to be able to play 15 years and play all my career with the boston red sox and to follow in the footsteps or to be categorized with williams and yaz and myself and now the half fame is better and thinking about three numbers that are going to be retired and three players in the hall of fame and three guys that played for one team is outstanding. >> ah, yes, the induction to take place tomorrow. both of those men extremely excited. of course we'll have it all covered for you here on espnews. our coverage begining at 1:30. >> course the 400-pound gorilla in cooper's town is steroids and whether admitted users will find a way and mark mcgwire has

failed to garner 25% of the vote and rafael palmeiro will be eligible with bonds, clemens and sosa waiting in the wings. hall of famer ozzie smith offers his take on steroid-era players. >> we as hall of fame members have not had that conversation about exactly where each and every one of them -- i think from an individual standpoint we've all probably had something to say about it so we can only speak from a personal stand points and i think when you look at this era and everything that has transpired the only thing that you can do because there are people who were considered hall of famers before they were the accusations and i think the only thing you can do is put an

asterisk by it and it has to read the numbers were accomplished during the steroid era. baseball has always been a game where we've always had an idea of what was real and what wasn't and this particular e era i don know if any of us know what's real and not because we don't know when a guy started using and stopped. from that standpoint it will be tough once guys that have been accused of using steroids make it to the hall of fame and at that point we're going to have to ask the question of what degree of cheating or what degree of wrongdoing or illlegal things do we reach. you know, pete rose, that certainly will be a question mark and you go back tojackson who wasn't convicted of crime so

there are issues we'll have to deal with in the ne near futured the institution of the hall of fame will have to have to look at it as a group. >> great stuff from ozzie smith. more on the hall of famers talking about the steroid era on outside the line tomorrow on 9:00 eastern. red sox the 4-2 lead atop the orioles and big papi rocked his 14th home run and nationals 2-0 lead in the rain delay and mets lead the astros 4-1 in the fourth and the rangers 3-0, michael young has homered in that one. >> johnny cueto on the mound take on the cubbies and a 6.4 era not an about start and first inning is worse giving up the run shot to aram is ramirez and

he has a 6.9 era after today and chris dickerson robs kevin hart of the base hit. bottom of the 5th, alfonso soriano saying i got your back, cubs hold on for the 5-3 win the 9th win in 12 games and as for cueto in his last four starts now 0-3 with a whopping 10.19 era over that span. lance armstrong may be sipping champagne tomorrow but in honor of alberto contador. we'll get you caught up on stage 20. and america's fast man, usain bolt the world's fastest man on showcase in london.

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>> indians looking to win three in a row for the first time in a month and continue the weekend in seattle. chris jakubauskas replacing erik bedard and a change of pitching didn't help as jimenez takes him deep and his third and tribe up 8-zip, olson gets taken out the yard and they like the pitching from seattle. that was his 11th home run and the tribe win this with ease by the final of 10-3. they have now won three in an on

the road for the first time all season but it is their first three-game win streak since may 25th through the 28th when they won four straight. >> all right. twins and angels. pick things up in the fourth inning of a 2-2 game and watch kendry morales double home bobby abreu and angels take a 3-2 lead. later in the fourth inning, angels in front by two, two on for chone figgins. sort of slices one to the opposite field, gary mathews jr. comes around to score, halos led 6 of 2 and next man up maicer izturis, the angels are red hot. eight straight wins. that's longest active streak in baseball and go on to win it by a final of 11-5. angels have scored 51 runs in their last seven games and batting .320 as a team over the

span. >> on the mens 200 meter at the london grand prism, tyson gai dealing with a groin strain and doesn't show up and ran this thing in 20 seconds flat. let up at the end, says i'm just taking it one day at a time and frustrating the mind has to get strong again as far as dealing with that injury. meanwhile, usain bolt running for the jamaican team in the 4x-100 and usa sitti sitting inh and you're not going catch him. jamaica wins in a time of 34.46

seconds. usa finning in third. >> 20th stage of tour de france. 104 mile claim from mount lemars to mount ventoux. a wind-swept terrain. overall leader alberto contador ate lance armstrong and andy schleck looking to pass armstrong and ahead of that battle, frank's brother, andy, trying to make up time on contador and one kilometer to go and then juan manual garate and contador and armstrong and both schleck brothers cross the finish line and lance in third overall where he will likely finish but stage 21 the finale expected to belong

to alberto contador culminating in a ceremonial trip down to the champs-elysees and contador won in 2007 and will win it again in 2009. >> senior open championship. tom watson came in seven shots back at minus four here on his second shot the 18th hole, nice approach, lands just a few feet from the ten. whoa par the hole and finish with an even round of seven and six shots back and meanwhile greg "the shark "norman that was a nice birdie putt and he came win tom watson but got busy on the back nine and another red number on 15 and shot a 54 and atop the leader board at minus ten. how about that. once again, shot minus nine on the back for 31 on the back. only three men have won the open

championship and the senior open championship. tom watson, gary flair and tom charles and norman hoping to add his name to the list. >> rain has been the story at the canadian open and they tried to finish round two and get to three and birds all over the course. watch this. >> i'm watching. >> if you can see it. un >> unbelievable. >> a hole in one. an incredible ace you have to see again. >> did he call that short beforehand? >> like pinball. >> does the call that? >> if he does give him a car or whatever. in fact, olson, not a big money winner just $19,512 in winnings so far and wins a bmwz 4

roadster. good gay for leif olson and this is the eagle shot but tap-in birdie. that one of nine birdies in a row for calcavecchia. third hole of the third round, calcavecchia just right of the hole and then the floods came. >> that doesn't look good. >> whole lot more rain but back to mark calcavecchia and his second round. he shot a pga tour record nine consecutive birdies. all nine of his birdie putts from 15 feet or closer. his 15-year-old son eric was working as his caddy and last week his wife was on his bags. >> family affair. >> previous record set by bob goldie. >> is that what your card looks

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conversations between the phillies then blue jays but it still doesn't look likeúúú >> red sox have now opened up up a 5-2 lead on the orioles and jacoby ellsbury with an r.b.i. double in a game that david ortiz has rocked a three-run home run game and trey hellman has been eject and michael young has a solo home run and mets up to a 4-1 lead on the astros and

cory sullivan with an r.b.i. single and score on a double play in the fourth inning and the nationals and padres still in a rain delay in our nation's capital and ryan zimmerman a home run in that one. >> with we say hello from espnews along kevin conners i'm reischea candidate and with the latest highlights and stories. lets start with the task at hand, baseball. roy halladay the tuesday as opposed to friday deadline. >> it's approaching and still no movement although they're said to be negotiating and more on that in just a minute and indeed one day after striking out ten and allowing just one earned run in nine innings the halladay trade rumors continue. phillies have been mentioned as the frontrunners and their

reluctance to part ways with young pitching has entered the angels and dodgers according to jayson stark. the proposed deal with phillies would see j.a. happ and two minor leaguers for halladay. >> you can't trade everybody. that's the phillies' stance. they don't feel as though they should be asked to trade their best pitching prospect, their best position player pos spect and a guy 7-1 in the big leagues rights now in j.a. happ. they think that's too steam a price to pay. they're willing to give up a large number of prospects. they talked about seven or eight different players but the blue jays are as insistent on drabek that's phillies are in not including. that's what happens this time of

year. >> espnews will have live extensive coverage of the major league trade deadline. all hands on deck from our baseball tonight crew friday beginning at noon eastern espnews. >> and the rays taking on the blue jays and aaron hill had a nice day saturday. bottom four and man on, he goes yard, two-run shot and his second homer of the day. fourth career multihome run game. 8-0 blue jays. everything looked really good and wow, how things changed. that's 9-8 in the top of the 9th and willy aybar ties it and top 12 for jason bartlett going bring home ray zobrist and rays take the 10-9 lead and blue jays wondering what happened? what happened? bases loaded for adam lind and got an opportunity but it's not going happen for him. rays come all the way back and win this game by afinal of 10-9 and tampa bay has now lost four

of five to the rays this season. it matches the largest lead the blue jays have blown. they did it three times before. as for the rays intersection first time in twelve years in their twelve-year history they have overcome an eight-run deficit. tampa was the fourth team this season to overcome a deficit with at least eight runs and all in the american league. last time there were four such comebacks in one season in the al, 1933. i wasn't a thought and neither were you. >> not at all. phillies still very much in the halladay sweepstakes and cardinals won the holliday sweepstakes. bottom three, jayson werth trying to become a sweepstakes winner and rick ankiel with other ideas and take a look bringing one back. and ankiel would also send one out in this at the plate. bottom six, phillies down one,

bases loaded but not for long. rollins second career grand slam comes off jason bartlett and the phils get a few extra points and win it by a final of 14-6. matt holliday bangs out two more hits on saturday, now six in two games with st. louis. julio lugo got six hits in his last two with the cardinals and the phils the story winning 12 of 14 overall. yankees had won eight in a row over all coming in. andy pettitte was good in the 7th and aceves gives one up and one on for the captain. derek jeter the two-run home run and he said you ride it as long as you can.

mark texeira adding to the comeback as well. way out of here. yanks pull to within 6-4. where it was in the bottom of the ninth, one on, two out, jeter. opposite field but this one not deep enough. >> couldn't get it done that time. >> not that time. i sense a little hostility in your tone. as win it by a final of 6-4. yanks have won 21 of 27. how about geogonzalez gave up 11 earned runs last time out and one earned today enroute to his second win of the season. >> first-place tigers looking for three in a row against the rival white sox after yesterday's doubleheader and bottom of the 9th, curtis granderson going to bring home a run and tie it at three and they're taking into extra innings. man on for carlos gian and that's cleat thom who led off the inning way single and he's

coming home. that's a walk-off hit and run tigers win 4-3 for guillen his first since august 24th, 2007 and tigers lead is extended to three games with three straight wins how ever he tail hoes. bobby jenks blows his second straight save. . >> ahead we'll check in on the wnba all-star game. one record fell and one player won mvp but she wasn't the story line. we'll tell you about it and on hall of fame weekend we'll hear from the inductees as well as ozzie smith and hank aaron on

>> theth wnba all-star game all kinds of former uconn stars back in the alumni state includi incs who dropped 22 points and silvia fowles wanted a highlight all to herself. >> there it is! silvia fowles throws it down. >> working it out. this did not help the east cause our. they got trounced 130-118. snapping they're two-game win streak and the west has now won seven of the ten. now meanwhile i mentioned that cash the mvp of the all-star game and the record. the record was originally set by nico nicole powel and she stole the

recognition away from her. >> right on back. sprint cup qualifying at indy. rain swept over in the motor speedway delaying qualifying for three hours and mark martin, most sprint cup series wins there year with four and posted a lap of 182.054 miles an hour and dale earnhardt jr. says he will race sunday and juan pablo montoya had the second lap but mark martin takes the pole and prior to this year he hadn't won a pole since 2001 and the others start being near the front, dale earnhardt jr. and tony stewart. >> tomorrow afternoon ricky henderson and jim rice will lead the 2009 cooperstown induction class. for henderson it was a first-ballot induction, for

rice, a long wait but in his 15th and final year of eligibility he finally joins baseball elite. both men were introduced today at the hall of fame press conference. >> this day has came and it's probably the most thrilling time of my life of being selected to the hall of fame. >> i don't know about ricky but i hope i don't skew up my speech and make it quick. thank you. >> i was a rookie and now since i'm getting inducted into the hall of fame they let us know we're still the rookies and i accept that being a rookie. >> i think before the hall of fame i think it was more gratifying for me to be able to play 15 years and play out my career with the boston red sox. and to fall in the footsteps or to even be categorized in a category with williams, yaz and myself and now the hall of fame is better and to you think about three numbers that are going to

be retired. and three numbers and three players in the hall of fame and three guys that played for one team is out standing. >> this many the induction ceremony of henderson and rice. we'll have the coverage on espnews beginning at 1:30 eastern. >> course, the 400-pound gorilla at cooperstown is the steroid use and whether users will find a home in the hall. mark mcgwire has failed to garner so much many as 25% and years from now rafael palmiero paul will be eligible with bonds, clemens and sosa waiting in the wings. hall of famer, ozzie smith offered his take on the steroid-era players. >> we as hall of fame members have not had that conversation about exactly where each and

every one -- i think from an individual stand points we all probably had something to say about it so we can only speak right it now from personal standpoint and i think when you look at this era and everything that has transpired the only thing that you can do because there are people who were considered hall of famers before they were the accusations of the use of performance-enhancing drugs, for those people in the particular era i think the only thing you can do is put an asterisk by it and it has to read that these numbers were accomplished during the steroid rare. >> in a related story, what must henry aaron be thinking when it comes to issues like steroids, what must henry aaron be thinking. during his chase of babe ruth's home run record the editor wrote about the pending achievement

for him and a target of death threats and other racial hate, what in the heck must henry aaron be thinking in sports today. the hammer was asked about it today in hall of fame weekend. >> i think it's going to have an affect of people saying, well, most of the guys who had these fabulous records li of 600 and home runs i think people will say they were on steroids. it's hard to believe everybody was on them. look at young kids like pujols of course with the st. louis cardinals and i just believe that watching him gradually get to a place where he is today i think his ability is the only reason he's having the kind of here he's having. i would hate to even think that he is -- or anybody ever say he was on steroids. that's the only affect it's

going have then player that is great and could be great even if they didn't take steroids, you know, and i think that those players have to remember that if they had just and did what they were ordered to do normal they'd be voted into the hall of fa fa i think something will be put on there i hate to say it an asterisk or something behind the. >> how do you want to see it handled? how do you want to see the record and hall of fame candidacy handled. >> there's no way you can handle it or say the reason a player hit so many home runs or did great things is simply because of the fact he was on steroids. there's no way you can do that. you can only take as the commission is trying to do to clean it up and trying to make the players be on what they call

a list of tests and things like but i don't know that there is any systematic way to handle the whole thing. you have to hope your doing the right thing and the players realize you're trying to do what is right. >> so what should be done in the hall of fame regarding the records of the steroid players and the players themselves. >> i don't know as i said before it the only thing that's probably going to happen and this is my own thinking that some of the players or most of the players that have achieved the great records and home runs and whatever else, you know, pitching, whatever you want to say is that their name's going to be with the asterisk behind it. that's the only way. i don't know any other way. i don't believe simply because a guy used steroids it's going to make him hit an x number of

steroids. if a guy an is on steroids i think the recovery effort is good and play today and two games tomorrow but i don't think it has anything to do with him hitting a fastball or something like that 90 miles an hour. >> do you envision a day when you and barry bonds will be together in cooperstown and how would you feel about that? >> it doesn't matter to me. i'm only one person, is barry's voted into the hall of fame i would be part of it and sit is there and shake his hand and be part of his ceremony. >> as you know your home run record was passed. roger maris' single-season record was passed. how do you view the legitimacy of the new record. >> it's a record and they made it. barry bonds passed me in home runs and that's the way it is. i'm no more than 755 home runs

and i think that he has what eight or nine more or might be twelve more than i did, you have to say he is right now the home run champ. >> how does that make you feel? >> it doesn't bother me. really. i gave baseball everything that i had. everything for 23 years. i played the game the only way i knew how to play it and go out and play it the way i think all the fans knew i could play it and that was it. i have no feelings -- i don't have any feelings towards any player. i don't have no guilt players or resentment for the any other player i just feel i did everything humanly possible that henry aaron can do and that is it. >> great stuff from hammering hank. outside the lines will have more on the issues of steroids and how suspected users should be viewed. more points and opinions from more hall of famers, sunday morning, 9:00 eastern, outside the lines on espn.

>> the cubs looking to move five games over 500 for the first time in two months. johnny cueto has it struggled and continues to and ramirez takes the two-run shot and he has a 9.61 era and bottom three, bases load and chris dickerson coming up with that nice flash of leather there, alfonso soriano says there's no one getting any leather on this one. solo shot to left center, the cubs get this by the final of 5-3 and cueto 0-3 with a whopping 10.19 era over that span. lance armstrong will be shipping champagne but in honor of teammate alberto

>> just four games separates seven teams in the nl wild card chase. san francisco and colorado tied and houston has won 6-8 and two back with the braves and marlins two and a half off the lead and milwaukee four games back. there will be a test on this one leer. jonathan sanchez of no-hitter fame earlier in season way

no-hitter through three innings. giants and rockies are scoreless as they play the top of the 4th inning in a game between the top two teams in the nl wild card. >> well, the indians looking for three in a row on the road for the first time ever this season, rather. chris jakubauskas -- i have really hurt this kid's name. >> you're not alone. >> i apologize, young man. though you didn't help yourself giving up the home run to jimenez and pittsburgh 4-zip and indians up 8-0 and ryan garko said that seattle pitching is stellar today. he went yard as well, 10-3, indians the final and they win for the third straight game for the first time in a month. they went three in a row on the road for the first time at all this season. >> twins and angels. halos had won seven straight

games to open up a three and a half game lead atop the west. bottom four, kendry morales and angels lead 3-2. later in the 4th inning, chone figgins going to single home gary mathews jr. who said good things tend to happen when you put together solid at-bats. easy for the angels to say these days. they scored 51 runs in their last seven games and batting .320 as a team and maicer izturis finishing things off three-run home run and angels win by a final 11-5 and bang out 14 hits. twins are slip sliding away. they've lost four in a row. 20th stage of the tour de france, 104-mile climb from mount lemard to the summit of mount ventoux a wind-swept baron

terrain as it's been described and alberto contador riding costably with lance armstrong and during the ride, frank schleck looking to pass lance on the hill and lance following his every move andy schleck trying to make up time on contador and contador and armstrong holding their possessions well and near the finish line, breakaway rider manuel garate finishes the stage and contador finishing safely with armstrong and both schleck brothers right near them. lance remains in third overall. contador realizing he's essentially won the tour de france. stage 21, the finale a 102-mile ride into gay paris with a ceremonial trip down the champs-elysees. it will be a day that belongs to contador the 2007 champ who will

win it again in 2009. all right, top stories on the way in espnews including the latest on the roy halladay rumors. the deadline rapidly approaching. what they jays want from among other teams the phillies and the new york yankees with the longest win streak in baseball entering play today with a big comeback and stop and stay and see if it was enough. at 155 miles per hour, andy roddick

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