. a game break in arizona. chapman couldn't get a single out. jason kubel drives in two and the diamondbacks have won four straight. they walk off the reds by a score of 4-3. in detroit matt scherzer strikes out six batters, doesn't walk anyone through seven innings. getting close to becoming the first pitcher to start a season 11-0 since roger clemens did it back in 1997. let's get you back to st. louis. here's joe buck and tim mccarver. >> joe: thanks. that was your pick, scherzer for the a.l. cy young award. >> tim: i just thought scherzer, that the maturity came together

with the physical ability and it was going to be a big year for him, and so far it has been. >> joe: here's matt holliday in the hole 0-2. a couple things, scherzer's from this area, st. louis. one of the real good guys in the game. >> tim: oh, yeah. >> joe: detroit started the game with a three-game lead over cleveland. meanwhile arizona with their fourth straight win. they started the day two and a half games up on san diego in the n.l. west. here's a ground ball left side. andrews gloves and throws. one out. holliday 0 for 3. take a look at the fox sports one pitching comparison, presented by fox sports one, america's new sports network coming august 17th. there are the numbers for the

two 22-year-olds. >> tim: a lot of people may have forgotten that the san diego padres this year under new ownership with peter o'malley and relatives of peter. moving to san diego, the former owner of the los angeles dodgers. >> joe: allen craig now took a ball. >> tim: they're doing it right in san diego thus far. >> joe: they're right in the thick of it in the n.l. west. meanwhile at the start of the day here on the 22nd of junes are even the most avid baseball fan, if asked this question i would bet more times than not would get the answer wrong. the cardinals have the best record in the major leagues right now. at the start of the day, which

team had the second best record in all of baseball? here's the 2-0 to craig. left side and beltre makes the play. they're good over on the left side of the infield, two out. >> tim: the pirates. >> joe: pittsburgh pirates second best record in major league baseball at the start of this day, june 22nd. last two years they've been very good in the first half of the season. they've had a tough time in the second half. they are getting better. they are infusing a lot of that good, young talent -- >> tim: like garrett cole. >> joe: he won last night. he looks legit. they're going to stick around i think the second half of this year. >> tim: i do, too. >> joe: first strike to yadier molina. will meyers traded from the kansas city organization to tampa bay got his first home run today. it was a grand slam ain a losin

cause against the yankees. zach wheeler pitched with matt harvey on a dream day for the mets and their fans and they won both ends of a doubleheader against atlanta. >> tim: traded to the mets from the san francisco giants for carlos beltran. >> joe: with the pitch up and away, ball one. 1-2, two out, nobody on. >> tim: and carlos signing a two-year deal as a free agent with the st. louis cardinals on the second year of that two-year deal. >> joe: fouled back. we're going to hear from kenny either here in the sixth inning or in the seventh about carlos beltran, what he's meant to this community. and while the cardinals have this hot shot outfield prospect oscar tavares getting ready at triple a, i would think that the cardinals will do what they can to try and bring beltran back here for at least another year.

we'll have to hear it in seven. striking out it molina. three strikeouts for martin perez, who has been outstanding. pretty night downtown st. louis after a lot of rain. 4-2 texas after six.

>> joe: all-star game coming up july 16th at citi field in new york in queens for the all-star game here in 2013. you can pledge your n.l. or a.l. allegiance and all of our coverage begins right here on fox on that tuesday night july

16th. >> tim: and you can vote 35 times, right? >> joe: is that limit? >> tim: i think that's right. >> joe: elvis andrus is up on the count 2-0. seth maness got out of a bases-loaded jam in the top of the sixth. here comes his 2-1 pitch. misses 3-1. kevin siegrist, the left-hander, who you can't say somebody literally has come out of nowhere but, i mean, he is a weapon. >> tim: not bad for a 1,235 round pick. >> joe: pick, not round. >> tim: i'm sorry, pick. so there were 1,234 players signed before him or drafted before him. yeah, that's right. he is something. >> joe: yeah, his throws creeps into the mid 90s, developing

breaking ball. he's a good one. full count on elvis andrus. give you the a.l. voting leaders for the upcoming all-star game. looks like this: trout in left, adam jones in center, markakis, his teammate with the orioles in right, cabrera, hardy. they're voting a lot in baltimore. chris davis, nobody more deserving than him. joe mauer, the d.h. is david ortiz. andrus waits for another 3-2 and he'll see another one. we showed the american league side, you got to show this. the n.l. voting leaders with beltran, harper, upton, got off to that great start, sandoval,

tulowitzki, who is hurt, brandon phillips, joey votto and buster posey. andrus flies to center. one out in the seventh. >> tim: i'm sure we'll talk about this on july 16th. the one guy who surprises me with his consistency in either league is david ortiz. i mean, how he can continue to come back -- i mean, there were boston writers and people around boston saying he may be finished four, five years ago. >> joe: he's back-to-back years. >> tim: yeah. >> joe: he homered tonight. he's as big a threat as any d.h. in any lineup. you said it the other day when we were doing a game at fenway park. sounded like a foul tip. it was. strike one. pitch that rode inside. we'll take another look. but you can make the argument --

it's a foul tip. you could make the argument that david ortiz is the best -- i think so. >> joe: d.h. in the history of the game. >> tim: i think so. edgar martinez of course probably the best hitter with the seattle mariners but the combination of power, consistency, average, everything, i think it got to go to david ortiz. >> joe: 2-1 to cruz. chopped up the middle, base hit. nelson is red hot. 2 out of 4 tonight. >> tim: the d.h., by the way, for those of you who forgot, first year was 1973 and the first american league d.h. was ron blomberg -- bloomberg. and then orlando cespedes, mvp

for the cardinals here in 1967. >> joe: one on, one out. >> tim: what a hitter. >> joe: he had to be to edge out the guy who was second in the mvp voting that year. mr. mccarver. one out. 0-1 the count on adrian beltre. 1 for 3, doubled in the second, and scored on the home run by pierzynski. this should be and is. matt carpenter, first year at second base. doesn't look like it. he can turn a double play. time to stretch in st. louis. rangers on the strength of two 2-run home runs lead the cardinals by two in the bottom of the seventh on what turns out to be a pretty night in st. louis. the foodies come out. they cross oceans, leave behind their countries, and their comfort zones. nothing stops them in their pursuit of culinary perfection.

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>> joe: this games moves into the bottom of the seventh inning. that means david freese will lead it off. freese is 2 for 2, he has tripled and scored, singled. he had two of the best swings tonight against martin perez. 22-year-old left-hander who is dealing. and here is a fly ball into right. good pitch in on the hands of freese. one out. >> tim: when you can still get in on the hands of major league hitters, your third time through the order, then that means you've maintained the fastball. rangers loving what they see out of perez. coming into this game, ranger starters had won one game this month. >> joe: that was a five-inning effort as it was. it came against the a's and it was justin grim on wednesday.

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in the air to right center. this game is tied. it's pujols and it's 9-9. they just won't go away. >> joe: he's now a ranger, lance berkman. and for a while contemplated retirement. got a one-year deal to be the d.h. for the texas rangers, and trying to get his stroke back. here's siegrist on the mound. he takes over. one pitch, one broken bat, one out. a.j. pierzynski 1 for 4, as kozma took care of it. >> tim: there are a lot of good guys in the game, too. and lance berkman among the best. cortisone shot in his right knee and he will be available probably only for pinch hitting tonight, the rest of tonight and tomorrow when the cardinals and rangers play a night game here at busch stadium.

>> joe: lance is 37 years old now, as moreland takes a strike. this is siegrist. and he hides the ball extremely well. guys just don't pick him up. >> tim: and that's very unusual for a tall pitcher that throws well because most tall pitchers that throw well have leverage pitching downhill and they don't need to hide the ball. but he does. he has a combination of power and deception. >> joe: former starter, so he is still learning to work out of the bullpen with the cardinals. as mike matheny said, he was right under our nose in spring training. we've needed a left-handed presence in the bullpen to go with randy choate, their other left-handed. choate's more of a specialist. siegrist is more of a doesn't matter who is at the plate, he'll pitch.

h >> tim: left-hander or right-hander. >> joe: a breaking ball gets moreland. two out. >> tim: there's this developing curveball. when a guy throws that hard and is that tall, adjusting to the breaking ball is very, very difficult, as moreland shows. >> joe: molina, a good job of framing that pitch over the outside. here's david murphy. as far as berkman's concerned, he's 37 years old now. he's had four operations on his right knee, two last year and his big power side has been his left-handed batting stroke. and he noticed because that knee is not even close to 100%, he's not able to really stiffen that right leg. >> tim: straighten it out, that's exactly right. >> joe: here's a tap four for strikes two on murphy. >> tim: when you're not able to

straighten that leg out, you don't use the lower half of your body, you use only your hands and lance will be the first one to tell you he can't hit that way. very few can. >> joe: look where he is on most home runs by a switch hitter. mickey mantle number one, then lance murray, chipper jones and carlos beltran. reaching for it is murphy and that's about as quick and easy as they come. siegrist does his job. bottom of the eighth inning rolls in. cardinals will send a pinch hitter. ♪ now roundup has a new sharp-shootin' wand ♪ ♪ i'm sendin' them weeds to the great beyond ♪ ♪ roundup yeha! [ whip cracks ] ♪ ♪ no need to pump, just point and shoot ♪ ♪ hit 'em in the leaves, and it kills to the root ♪ ♪ 'round fences, trees, even mulched beds ♪ ♪ 'cause the only good weed is a weed that's dead ♪ ♪ roundup yeha!

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>> that moment for david freese and the cardinals wouldn't have been that moment if they don't come back the next night and win game seven. >> tim: one of the proudest moments of my broadcasting career was sitting to jack buck's right in 1991 when he made the call and kirby puckett hit the game winning home run in game six of the '91 season and then sitting next to you when you made the same call. and that was -- you talk about goose bumps. >> joe: that was the end of one of the most interesting -- >> tim: electrifying. >> joe: electrifying nights of baseball we've ever seen in our booth. >> joe: the cardinals had ty

wigginton announced as the hitter. jon jay will come off the bench. just by sending his left-hander, martin perez back out there. ron washington made mike matheny use a player that doesn't get to bat. >> tim: that was a very shrewd move. i think ron outfoxed mike matheny there. that's something you don't see that often, have the pitcher go out there, the one hitter announced and then they have to change hitters. >> joe: only 82 pitches on the night for perez. jay's trying to say that pitch hit him. he does not win that argument with the crew chief gary darling. tan a tanner scheppers has great stuff. you saw that first pitch was 97, as jay now is in the hole 1-2.

scheppers is going to have to pitch well to match what martin perez did. perez was supposed to be the number five starter. as you said a couple times, broke his forearm during spring training. jay fouls it off his front leg. he was good enough tonight, forget about the number five stuff, he's got that kind of stuff, triple a they sent him back down. >> tim: he retired the last ten guys that faced him tonight. very impressive. >> joe: the 1-2. jay pops it up into left. murphy is there. one out. take a look at the fox sports 1 game summary presented by fox sports 1, america's new sports network, coming august 17th. pierzynski and cruz with two-run home runs each. that's all the scoring for texas. it's been great pitching on the rangers side.

allen craig with an rbi single in the first inning, martin perez with seven strong innings, two earned runs on five hits. we were delayed an hour and six minutes to start. this game has zipped now in the bottom of the eighth inning. one out, nobody on for matt carpenter. matt is 1 for 3. a ball and a strike. cardinals will need a new pitcher when they take the field in the ninth. siegrist went one inning with one strikeout. here's the 1-1. late swing by carpenter and a 96 mile-per-hour fastball, it's 1-2. >> tim: it's a great gauge. it's not always a swing and a miss by a pitcher but it's how many balls are fouled off the

other way. we talked about it, perez with many, many outs the other way of those ten in a row that he retired before leaving the game. >> joe: carpenter checks his swing on ball two. matt started this game seventh best in the national league hitting .315. he's been very good in the leadoff spot. number one position in the cardinal lineup. his on-base percentage is .414. that almost tailed back for the inside corner and it's a full count. with one out, nobody on carpenter grounds one. going to be a tough play for kinsler. and a base hit. infield hit for matt carpenter, he's 2 for 4. today's telecast presented by ace hardware