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captioning by captionmax >> all right. derek jeter, three hits shy of tying lou gehrig as the all time hits leader in yankee history. bottom first. jeter's first at-bat. mired in an 0-12 slump. that is a slump buster -- the infield single. two hits shy. he would have another hit later. now, bottom of the seventh. a chance to tie, and he does it as only derek jeter can do it -- inside-out swing to right. his parents love it, the ultimate sign of respect from the rays, and joe girardi. jeter acknowledges the crowd. now tied with gehrig. bottom eighth, back to the game, jorge posada, pinch-hitting -- and he gets all of that one. three-run homer. his 21st of the year just like that, yankees up 4-2. two batters later, jeter again

-- a chance to take the record all by himself, and he walks. very anticlimactic on a special night in the bronx. 4-2 is your final. jorge posada his fourth career pinch-hit home run. but this night all about derek jeter, now tied with gehrig, 2,721 hits, next opportunity to break the record friday at home against baltimore. here is jeter after the game. >> i really didn't know what to do. we were losing at the time. i'm just trying to get on base. hopefully give us a chance to -- hopefully help us win this game. i took a moment to soak it in. the fans have been outstanding. i didn't want to disrespect tampa, then when i saw them giving me an ovation, i really appreciated it. i've said it time and time again, if you pass those guys in strikeouts, it's a big deal to have your name on the list, but being a yankee fan and knowing the history, and coming up throughout the organization, and playing my entire career here in

front of these fans, they have been tremendous, my whole career and especially this home stand here. >> so jeter reaches the mark at 45 fewer games than the iron horse, but he needs nearly 600 more at-bats to get to the magic number. >> with that we say what's up and welcome in to our house, keeping you current on espnews, alongside mike yam, i am the coach, and yammer, we go from one superstar who is always the toast of the town in new york to a young lady who was the newest toast of the town in new york. and welcome in to our house, >> it wasn't maria sharapova, not even the williams sisters, the story of this year's u.s. open a 17-year-old american named melanie oudin -- the youngest american since serena williams to make it to the quarters. going up against caroline wozniacki. first set, oudin a little frustrated there, she lost 14 of the first 18 points.

on the second set point for wozniacki. >> you're showing off with the name. >> we're big fans of the name. go denmark, right? wozniacki. calls the oudin return called out. the judges agree. wozniacki would go on to win the game, oudin, 43 unforced errors. still in the second set. oudin off the top of the net. that thing's going wide. wozniacki just 20 errors in the match. then match point, oudin going wide. the run for the georgia native is over. she would hang her hat on the fact she made it to the grand slam quarterfinal in her fourth main draw appearance. wozniacki made it at least to the third round in all four grand slams this year.

the story of the match, the 17-year-old american. >> thank you all so much for cheering for me. you pulled me through so many matches. i really appreciate it. thank you. >> i'm sorry that i won against melanie today -- i know that many of you wanted her to win, but hopefully, i won many of your guys' hearts and you will be cheering for me in my next match. >> this has been a great experience for me. i had a great run. caroline played a great match. good luck to caroline in her next match and i hope to come back next year and do even better. >> it will be a battle of 19-year-olds as wozniacki moves on to the semis where she will take an unseeded player, yanina wickmayer, who is playing in her first semis and then serena has a chance to knock out the woman who knocked out her sister, venus -- that's kim clijsters. >> the men's top seed --

roger federer taking on robin soderling. tiebreak in the third. the dropshot nasty. roger federer 64 winners. a couple volleys here. federer, a little dropshot again. tied at 6-6 in the tiebreak. moving along. soderling up 7-6 in the tiebreak and the forehand from soderling is strong. federer's return -- that thing is long. first time in 12 matches soderling takes a set from roger. fourth set. roger up 6-5. soderling, the return. into the net. leads to another tiebreak. federer up 7-6, match point, roger advances to his 22nd straight grand slam semis.

>> the four seed, novak djokovic taking on fernando verdasco, the winner to the men's semis. second set, djokovic up a set, verdasco the nice overhead. won the second set. the turning point, tied at 5-5, verdasco the entire court. hits it along. the turning point, tied at 5-5, djokovic wins the game and the set 7-5. more from djokovic. he wins the fourth set rather easily 6-2. >> baseball, rangers came into play trailing boston by two games in the wild card, they take on the indians, top of the

first, no score, marlon byrd, a three-run shot, his 17th of the year off of fausto carmona -- five earned runs in 2/3 inning. texas win putting pressure on boston at baltimore. bottom sixth, red sox down 4-3, dustin pedroia hits matt albers in the leg. joey gathright comes in to score. we've got ourselves a tie ballgame. victor martinez off the green monster, extends his hitting streak to 12 games with a go-ahead pinch-hit double in the seventh inning. thanks to a red sox win as well as a rangers win, no change in the wild card race. texas still trailing boston by two games. >> they may not be friends now, but there was a time when eric mangini was a disciple of one bill belichick. the friendship ended when mangini went to new york, but the philosophy stayed the same. keep things close to the vest, and only tell people what you think they're entitled to hear. mangini never endeared himself to new york fans, or media, and it's starting the same way in cleveland. coming into wednesday the browns

were the only nfl team who had not named their starting quarterback. mangini? well, he wanted it to stay that way. however, as practice ended, word began leaking out that brady quinn will take the first snap from center sunday against the vikings. quinn was considered the favorite all along, and now, knows that he is the man. >> they both took it the way i would expect them to take it -- as pros, as good teammates and based on the way that they competed and handled this whole situation, it's really not surprising. i don't think anybody is in an awkward spot trying to maintain a competitive advantage. we all do that. that's all our goals, and we're trying to do everything that we can do to win the game on sunday, and i think everybody's excited about doing that. >> neither brady quinn nor derek anderson blew anyone away this preseason, though quinn did hold

the clear statistical advantage -- quinn completed nearly 68% of his passes, and threw the only touchdown pass among cleveland's top two signal callers. coming up. as brett favre prepared for his season opener against the browns, wait until you hear what he had to say about his old coach, and team, from new york. and the cardinals have all but locked up a postseason berth on wednesday. albert pujols played like he has already locked up the m.v.p. >> and team u.s.a. gains breathing room thanks to a big win. find out why the u.s. goal that lifted them might never have happened. have happened.

>> cardinals up 1-0. grounds out to third. take a close look. oh, ball down. after the game he said i'm all right. it's just a little swollen. he had to be taken out of the game with a bruised knee. keep in mind, this guy has 360 and 12 home runs and 32 ribbies since he was acquired in late july. from the machine, albert pujols, the two-run shot for him. and st. louis up 4-0. in the seventh. he wasn't done. a solo shot for him. his second of the game. he ties the franchise record with his tenth multi home run game this season. bottom seven. adam wainwright just dealing. seven inn innings, no earned runs expairks major league leading 18th win. the cardinals have won four of

six. wainwright 6-0 with a 1.# 3 era in his last seven starts. he gave us his thoughts on the offense. >> i can't do it by myself. that's pretty special. but, you know, you can't think about numbers. i mean, you can look at those numbers, but i think our main goal was how we're playing in our division. right now we have an 11 and a half game lead. i'm more excited about that. hopefully to get the opportunity to get to the playoffs. and obviously most of those that i have hit helped my ballclub to win. so i'm excited about that. >> i don't know. listen, i don't know how anybody could be better than he is, ever. no offense to henry aaron and all those guys. but, i'm sere, hank. albert pujols is really, really good. >> yeah, he is pretty good. look at the numbers here. pujols has at least ten multi-home run games in a

season. only sammy sosa in 1999, and hank greenberg in 1938 had more. pujols might be able to match their totals or pass them when you consider he has 21 games left. >> all right, a good one between the phillies and the nats. we'll pick it up top eighth. jason ward having a career year. he would add to it. oh, just got the ball on that one. his 33rd. 5-4 phillies, next batter is pedro feliz. we in the business like to call these back-to-back jacks. 6-4 phillies. ryan madsen on for the save. no brad lidge. gets adam dunn to lineout to chase utley to jimmy rollins, the 4-6 double-play ends the game. and the phillies win 6-5. madsen picks up his sixth save. now charlie manuel said that brad lidge would be in next time

there is a save opportunity. that didn't happen on this night. cliff lee goes 7. allowed four earned. he improves to 6-2 since coming over to philadelphia. >> usa soccer was feeling the heat on wednesday night. the red, white and blue was facing a virtual must-win. get out the pen and paper and take notes on this scenario. with the victory against trinidad and tobago, the americans would ensure themselves a top four finish, and no worse than a playoff berth against the fifth place south american country. the loss doesn't sink them. they'd likely need to win out if they wanted to play in the world cup. >> josie altador. a hat trick in an earlier qualifier. first half, little tnt here. catching the defense on the u.s. side napping. tim howard hits the cross bar. on the other hand, a big save. crazy sequence here. take a close look. first chance, just a touch high. little tantrum there on the

field. and alta dore on the other side, nice attempt. better save. we're scoreless at the half. >> now second half, still a scoreless game. ricardo clarke finds the space. he's got himself a goal. at that time clarke was scoring, the u.s. bob bradley was getting ready to replace him. bradley decided to leave him in. pedro gomez caught up with him after. >> i had a feeling afterwards when we were making the substitution, i had a feeling it was going to be me. so thank god i got the shot and got to stay in the game. i thought it helped us advance and win this game. >> 16 points now, this pushes you up temporarily for the moment up to the top of the co concacaf standings. how does that feel? from the git-go, even at the el salvador game, we knew we had to come out in this game and get a win. we wanted three points and that's what we got. >> needing just one point

against croatia. 18th minute. england up 1-0 already. and steven girard hits for the header. and beckham, he's a fan. 65th minute, wayne rooney tracks it down, pops it you up, and guess who? girard, the athletic header for him. england clinches a spot in the world cup for 2010 for the fourth straight year. after the match, beckham showing too much skin. but the ladies love it. >> the top three teams in the fifa world rankings have punched their tickets to south africa. with number # england also in. number injury report.

>> when we finally did an mri and found out i had a torn bicep last year, i felt like with about four or five games left that even though i was making some pretty good throws, and some decent plays, i felt like i was doing the team more harm, because i was missing some throws. subtle, just a yard off. i had no qualms about having kellen play. i just didn't feel confident because of this injury. so, sure, i don't want to go through that. and neither do the vikings. >> now this is highly unusual for any player to make these accusations. when reached for comment, jets general manager mike tanenbaum had no comment. >> coming up, brandon marshall's

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the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator fm illinois. a senator: let me thank the senator from illinois for his kindness and appreciate the opportunity to proceed with my final speech on the floor of the senate, which is a unique moment in time for sure. mr. martinez: the opportunity to serve in the united states senate is the culmination of what has to be an unlikely journey from a place of my birth in a small city in cuba to having journeyed to the united states and had the incredible opportunity to be in the hall of this most cherished institution of democracy anywhere in the world has, indeed, been a privilege and unlikely journey, as i say. i'm really very grateful to the people of florida for giving me the opportunity to represent them in the united states senate. i rlly do think of my time here in the senate as a culmination of my time in public

service. the close of a fulfilling chapter in my own version of the american dream. having lived through the onsit of tyranny in one country and played a part in the proud democratic traditions of another, i leave here with a tremendous sense of gratide for the opportunity to give back to the nation that i love and it's not the nation of my birth, but it's theation of my choice, ich is a significant difference. it is a great nation, and the proud tradition of welcoming immgrants t this country is one thatas been throughout the history of this nation, but then in addition to welcmming, itas given us the opptunity to do the great things that all who are a part of this country can do. and i've been more privileged than most in the opportunities i've been given. so that's why i considered serving my community, my state, and our nation for the past 12 years a really great privilege. it was a desire to give back, to make a consideration to this nation that propelled me to enter a life of public serce.

as a mayor and cabinet secrery and as a senator, preserving opportunities for others to receive their own claim to the american dream has always been a mission for me. i have worked during all phases of myublic life with a sincere desire to make a difference and today i prepare to returno -- to return home knowing that i have done my best to advance the things that make our nation great, prosperous and free. we truly live in the greatest nation in the history of the world and throughout my life in public service, i have been humbled to play a proud role in this democratic history of our nation. as mayor of orange county, it was a real pleasure and privilege to lead the community that had done so much for me and my family when we first arrived if this countrynd then had an opportunity to lead them as mayor was a rare treat and wonderful opportunity. we carried out an aressive agenda and tried to do the things that -- to make everybody who lived