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because m ur because murph is not here to eat bags and bags of them. here is hector neris. eight earned runs in his last 6 1/3. he is on to face peter o'brien who has two home runs tonight. pitch is inside. one ball, no strikes. three-run shot and a solo shot. all three of his hits this year have been home runs. i don't know if he can keep that pace up. >> matt: if he can, he would be an awfully good hitter but he'd have an awful low average. >> tom: inside again. 2-0. one of the things pete talked about last night in his team meeting was, if there's something you have to work on, work on it. for hector it's trying to get

that arm slot proper. one away. well, that is a crooked line score right now. >> matt: yeah, it is. you know, it's a great point of going to the batting cage and working with your hitting coach or working with your pitching coach. you can do all the work in the world and feel comfortable in the batting cage and then, once you step in the batter's box, or step on that mound, everything speeds up. >> tom: kind of -- we were watching franco today off the tee. and everything was the way you would want it to be. whereas, i mean tee work is -- does not correlate to live pitching, obviously. but what we saw on that tee work, he hasn't been able to do tonight against live pitching. >> matt: right. that's why you continue working

on your tee work, in your batting practice. i just find that the approach right now hitting-wise is almost like everything is trying to be at pull mode. >> tom: i agree. >> matt: for everybody. >> tom: i think that's part of what pete's conversation was last night as well. i think you are right on with that, matt. >> matt: what's frustrating is this team can hit. power-wise, question mark. they have gap power. they can hit doubles. but they work on it in bp. nice split-finger right there, by the way. they work on it in bp. so all of a sudden, what's the difference of working on it in batting practice, on the field. it's the same approach. you just slow everything down. if you feel that you're overswinging or you're not recognizing pitches, then take a few pitches. track them as you're hitting. there's a lot of little things.

you get a wider stance. wider stance helps you out. helps you quiet your body down, makes you use your hands. there are a lot of little things that you can do to help slow the game down. and not be in a hurry like i said in the first key is don't be in a hurry to hit. 65% of the time the pitcher will throw a first-pitch strike. next thing you know he'll try to throw the nasty slider. then you're 1-1. then he'll try to spot the fastball away. next thing you know you're back in a 2-1 count. it happens. >> tom: been there done that? >> matt: many times. right, jeff? it's just a thing where you need to -- it's just a thing where you need to just relax when you're hitting. same as pitching. you're going to hit a bump. you're going to struggle. but you're all of a sudden it's

going to be a good pitch and say, oh, there it is. or a foul ball. there it is. i'm back again. >> tom: quick pitch and liner to right that will drop in for a base hit. so jake lamb has his third hit of the night. nick ahmed is the batter.

liner to left field. cody asche makes the catch! and the side is retired. so cody tracks that one down. we'll head to the bottom of the ninth inning. last chance for the phillies. they trail it 10-2. cody has had a nice night defensively out in left field. he has the assist and now the sliding grab.

>> tom: well, take a seat. w.b. mason deliveries of the game. one. >> matt: tomas hitting his first of the game in the fifth inning. >> tom: two. >> matt: another bomb to right center. o'brien crushed that one. >> tom: three. >> matt: tomas destroys that ball. fastball out over the plate at the base of the center field wall. >> five. >> o'brien again. >> tom: six. >> matt: breaking ball over the plate. crushed to left center. those your w.b. mason deliveries of the game. >> tom: diamondbacks tied a franchise record with home runs in a game with their six. randall delgado will be the pitcher. he has a team record, new franchise record for the phillies.

not one that they would like to break anytime soon. put that baby on the back burner. let the next generation talk about it. 0-2 pitch to galvis. swing and a miss. delgado has a strikeout. delgado's numbers, in relief, this is his 30th game. 4.01 e.r.a. jimmy paredes will pinch hit. like this guy with the braves, matt. starter. just didn't work out. sometimes it doesn't. >> matt: he has a little quick delivery with his leg. almost looks like he's going to throw every pitch inside to a left-hander. that's the way his direction is. he does have a very good arm. >> tom: paredes takes up and

away. 1-0. big rip. 1-1. just a bit outside. a reminder, phillies will be

back at it tomorrow at 3:05. a little earlier. the diamondbacks. jerad eickhoff. the last time the phillies won was when he was on the mound against zack greinke. tapper back to the mound. two away. phillies are down to their final out. it is a great yet frustrating game, this game of baseball. first inning, phillies up 2-0. a lot of energy and bounce in the step. they get the triple from cameron rupp. left over at third and doesn't score. the errors by cesar hernandez unfortunately gave the diamondbacks the opening to tie it up. they've gone on since to hit six home runs. those errors may not have mattered at all, but the miscues have certainly played a role.

goeddel lines to center field at michael bourn and the game it over. the arizona diamondbacks pound six home runs tonight and collect 16 hits. it's a four-game span that has watched the opposition blast one home run after another against the phils. a number that has reached a franchise record during a four-game span. and peter o'brien and yasmany tomas each with two home runs. they are our chevrolet players of the game. so game one goes to the d-backs here at philadelphia. in the ninth inning the phillies go 1, 2, 3. back to wrap it up right after this. ♪ ♪ smooth to the core. crown royal regal apple flavored whisky.

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>> tom: final score tonight from philadelphia. it's the diamondbacks 10 and the phillies 2. robbie ray gets the win. 4-5. adam morgan the loss. he is 1-6. six home runs ties the record for the diamondbacks. it ties the 2012 record they set against the mariners. last four games, it hasn't been pretty. phillies outhomered 17-2. they've given up 41 runs. next telecast tomorrow. greinke against eickhoff. 3:00 on comcast sportsnet. pregame live at 2:30. the producer, associate producer.

tonight's director. now for matt stairs and our entire crew, i am tom mccarthy. phils lose it 10-2. here on nbc10 stay tuned for "dateline."

from our home office at rockefeller center, the wisdom of david letterman. >> you know, when you and i were trying to get on television, >> tonight he sits down with tom brokaw for his first tv interview since leefrg late night? >> do you miss it? >> no. i thought for sure i would. >> so what's on his top ten list now? >> television doesn't do the sport justice. >> hence, he's all revved up.

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a dad, it turns out, who knows a lot about that industry. kate snow reports from new jersey. >> reporter: this is 10-year-old andrew francesco. racing down the hill near his new jersey home, on a snowboard he got from christmas. his dad steven cheering him on. >> all right! that was good! >> this is it. >> he wanted to show me the exact spot. >> what do you think of when you look at that? >> i just couldn't believe it. i was so proud of him. that's my son. that's my son. >> reporter: it was a rare moment of joy for steven and andrew. most days weren't like that. andrew had been struggling with behavioral problems since preschool. as loving and goofy as he could be -- >> it's what i do! [ laughter ] >> reporter: he could also be impulsive, disruptive, sometimes exploding with rage. >> i'm passing this park right here.

we had a huge fight there once. there were times when he was just impossible. >> reporter: diagnosed with adhd in kindergarten, andrew spent a lot of time riding in the car with his parents to doctor's appointments and pharmacies. >> we'd walk in and walk out hoping we had an answer. >> reporter: i have a list here. how many drugs was andrew on over the next few years? >> the astonishing thing about this list, this is nine years of his life. he has at least a dozen different drugs. >> reporter: did you get to a point where you just didn't want to make any more decisions about medicine? >> oh, god, anybody with children with mental health problems knows how challenging and demanding it is. and over time, you just get worn down. >> reporter: when he turned 14, andrew's doctors gave him a new diagnosis. obsessive compulsive disorder and terets syndrome.

and a new drug, seroquel from a category called atypical anti-psychotic. >> so it's to treat that symptom, not psychosis, not he's delusional? because you hear anti-psychotic and you think of someone who has a real psychosis? >> absolutely. a real psychosis. >> then one morning a year after andrew had started taking seroquel in higher doses, steven found him in bed, struggling to breathe and called 911. when everything happened, is this the way you went? >> yes, this is the way we went. i was in the back of the ambulance with andrew. you can start to see the hospital. this is the place where andrew was born. >> reporter: it's also the place where he died. >> where he died. >> reporter: that's why it's so hard. andrew had died from neuro leaptic malignant syndrome, an

extremely rare side effect of taking anti-psychotics. even though it was listed on seroquel's packaging. steven said he'd never heard of it before. >> this was an adverse side effect to taking high doses of seroquel. >> reporter: as prescribed by a doctor? >> that's right. >> reporter: after andrew's death, steven was in shock, grieving, but also feeling guilty. he thought he, of all people, should have been able to protect his son. >> first of all, i want to thank the fda for allowing me to speak at the forum. >> reporter: because steven francesco wasn't just a desperate parent, he was also a drug industry insider. >> i have 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry. 21 years with my own company. >> reporter: you rub shoulders with executives, with doctors with regulators? >> all the time, absolutely. >> you are a pharma guy, helping cell pharmaceuticals, helping increase access to

pharmaceuticals and your own son dies of -- >> side effect. >> reporter: it's the ultimate irony. >> it's part of what i agonize over when i thought, how could this have happened to me? >> reporter: steven started digging and discovered something, his son was one of thousands of kids taking drugs that it turns out doctors may not know much about. the anti-psychotic, seroquel, it was not approved at that time for kids, only for adults. his doctor had prescribed it off label. >> andrew was, in a sense, a guinea pig. they were testing whether this drug would work on him. >> reporter: but the doctors are allowed to do that? >> they are. >> it's so-called off label. they go off what the label says and guess that it might help andrew. >> that's right. and they're hoping. they're hoping. >> reporter: steven found that's true for the vast majority of kids taking anti-psychotics, doctors prescribe them offlabel

to treat anything from dreation to adhd to eating disorders. and yet only limited clinical trials have been done on kids to test whether these drugs work for those conditions. >> about one in every 80 or 85 kids are receiving an anti-psychotic sometime during the course of the year. >> reporter: columbia university proffer dr. mark olafson is a leading researcher on anti-psychotics. he said more and more kids are getting them for unapproved uses. is it safe? >> well, there are some safety concerns with these medications. many result in weight gain, they can increase things like cholesterol. and there are longer term things that are hard to study. we know less about the effects of this drug on the developing brain. >> reporter: steven said it all amounts to a vast offlabel experiment on kids. and he thinks the pharmaceutical industry, his industry, is the one that's profiting.

>> there's a lot of aggressive marketing of the drugs to the doctor. >> reporter: attorney james pepper said he has the evidence. he represents a former sale rep for astrazeneca. she said the company forced her to pitch unapproved uses of the drug to doctors. that can be against fda regulations. >> they looked at the bottom line. it's all about sales all the time. >> reporter: pepper showed us what he said is a company report listing doctors he and other sales reps called on doctors, some of them are child psychiatrists. >> reporter: as a salesperson you're not supposed to pitch drugs off label, correct? >> correct. >> reporter: but they're sending her to places where those drugs would have to be prescribed off label? >> that's absolutely correct. there was no other way for a doctor who treats children,

except to prescribe it to a children, which was an off label usage. >> reporter: pepper is representing his client in two whistle-blowing lawsuits against astrazeneca. the company denies the allegations. this isn't the first time ast astrazeneca had been accused of improperly marketing the drug. in 2012, they paid a half billion dollar fine after a department of justice civil investigation into how it sold seroquel, including for use in children. astrazeneca declined to talk to us on children, but told us, it's never pushed its sales reps to market seroquel off label. it says it trains his employees to meet or exceed industry standards, comply with the law and promote medicines in occurrence with fda regulations. steven francesco thinks the fda is part of the problem. >> as far as i'm concerned, the fda, in terms of regulatory activity is getting weaker and

yet there's huge amounts of medication being poured down kids's throats. >> reporter: less than a year after andrew's death, the fda did approve seroquel for use in kids with severe cons, skiso frenio and bipolar mania. but doctors continue to prescribe it off label, even to children younger than 2. we wanted to ask fda officials about the prescription of anti-psychotics in kids, and what they're doing to keep kids safe. they wouldn't talk to us. so we've come to a public meeting behind these doors. fda officials are talking about seroquel and its safety in kids. we invited steven to come along and watch too. >> strange being here because i what i know about this. >> reporter: at the meeting, a routine safety review, an fda scientist presented data about reported side effects to an

advisory panel of independent doctors. >> one of the kids that died is a 4-year-old. >> reporter: some doctors had questions about off label use. >> would it bear labelling to state there are no data to support use of this in attention deficit syndrome? >> reporter: in the end, the panel voted to keep monitoring the drug, without recommending new studies or new warnings for the label. we just listened to the fda panel talk about data from 2011 to 2015, safety of seroquel in kids. isn't that exactly what they're supposed to be doing? >> they're well intensed, but it really isn't enough. >> why not? >> because after all the discussion that went on, it's status quo. >> there's no such thing as a drug that is 100% safe whether it's on label or off label. >> reporter: peter pitts, former associate commissioner of the fda. he says they're doing the best it can to keep kids safe with the powers it has.

he says the agency can and does encourage companies to do more trials on kids, but it can't tell doctors how to practice medicine or stop them from prescribing drugs off label. steven francesco believes that what happened to his son, his son's death, is an indication of a much bigger problem. do you agree or is he over-generalizing? >> well, clearly the system didn't work for him. it failed for his son. but there are many, many millions of people who are regularly helped through off-label use of products. >> reporter: nearly everyone we spoke to from this report from the fda, to the drug industry, to doctors, all agree that more data on kids is needed. >> we need far more studies that are looking at the effectiveness and safety of the drugs as they're being used in the community. >> if you had to describe the

children's mental health industry, how would you do it? >> i can do it in a word. it's broken. broken. >> reporter: steven has given up on the industry, he's still a consultant. but he's set up a website where he hopes doctors and parents will share information about off-label psychiatric drugs. and he's written a book. it's a difficult read? >> it's a difficult subject. >> did you ever imagine that you would end up here? >> no. no. >> reporter: across from the hospital from steven's son was born and then died, he had one last thing to show me. oh, i see it. the spot where father and son scratched their initials in wet concrete, side by side. a lasting mark from happier times. coming up --

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out here later. i always told myself, when the show goes away, i will stop shaving. i had to shave every day from 20 till i was 68. roughly every day. and i got so sick and tired of it. if we win the indianapolis 500, i'll shave. >> reporter: bearded, david letterman was back in his hometown as a team owner to watch the indy 500 on the big day. he returns to indianapolis still a big star. but also just a neighborhood kid who made good. modest, unassuming, middle american to the core. >> look at how nice the neighborhood is. this is exactly the way it was when i was a kid. >> reporter: we stopped by the house where he grew up. his parents bought it for $8,000. >> $8,000, a two-bedroom house. and years later, when my mom moved out of there, she sold it for $30 million.

30 million. >> reporter: he's been paid the big bucks for so long, he no longer has any frame of reference. >> how are you? >> calle . >> reporter: the folks on the block couldn't believe he came home. and asked about neighborhood memories. >> i heard a story about the people that lived across the street and somebody broke their arm. >> me. this one. scars right there. broke my arm, right there. and i broke my leg in that backyard. [ laughter ] >> and later i broke my nose down there playing football in the schoolyard. >> reporter: but that wasn't the end of his injuries. at his high school, he told us about the class boy. >> and the word got back to me that he was gonna get me. and i remember the day coming out here and sure enough, he beat me up. >> reporter: really? >> yeah, i got beat up right here. >> reporter: for no good reason? >> i'm sure there was a good reason, tom. you don't get a beating like that just for the fun of it. >> reporter: but just for the

fun of it, in one of his old high school hangouts, we met to look back at his career and look ahead at his life. but first, absent-minded dave forgot his trademark glasses. >> i'm going to look like somebody nobody knows. is there a lens crafter near here? >> reporter: yes, there is. >> i'm sorry sorry, everyone, for the delay. it's all my fault. excuse me. >> reporter: do you miss it every night? >> no, i don't. and it's interesting, i thought for sure i would. and then the first day of steven's show, whether he went on the air, an energy left me and i felt like, you know, that's not my problem anymore. and i've kind of felt that way ever since. i devoted so much time to the damage of other aspects of my life. concentrated, fixated, focusing on that. it's good now to not have that.

i couldn't care less about late night television. i'm happy for the guys, men and women, there should be more women. and i don't know why they didn't give my show to a woman. that would have been fine. >> did they ask you about who should replace you? >> no. oh, no. they didn't ask me about anything. they were just happy i was going. >> reporter: so now, david's favorite role is dad. >> i'm so in love with my son, who is 12 now. i think he's here. is harry here? there he is right over there. [ laughter ] >> reporter: actually, harry wasn't there. dave keeps him out of the spotlight. i'm sure you didn't regret you didn't have him earlier? >> no. but it could have happened much, much earlier, but i was tv boy and i didn't -- you know, i'm happy to have harry. i wish harry had a brother or a sister, you know, one or two, but thank god, because look at me, we just got in under the wire.

and i mean, we were barely let in. [ laughter ] >> reporter: he might have some regrets about starting a family so late in life, but he was married to his career. ♪ ♪ he did more than 6,000 shows over 33 years in late night. >> i want to tell you one thing, i'll be honest with you. it's beginning to look like i'm not going to get "the tonight show." >> i don't think so. >> [ bleep ]. >> let me see if i can repeat that order. you ordered something, a couple of tacos or something, chicken something, and a burrito supreme with no meat, is that correct? >> she's gone already, chief. >> i'm supposed to have braces when i was a kid, but i didn't. my parents used the money for a wet bar downstairs. >> reporter: growing up in indianapolis, he wanted to be

like his idol, johnny carson. >> here's johnny! >> reporter: carson was another mid westerner, who started small. so did dave. it doesn't get much smaller than a college radio station. when you were doing that with all ten watts, did you also think, maybe i can carry this all the way to los angeles or new york? >> no. no. all of that happened by accident. i'm not a man of vision, but i am now thanks to these new glasses. [ laughter ] you know, when you and i were trying to get on television, nobody got it. nowadays, everybody in here got their own show. we were up at lens crafters, they're all on tv. >> reporter: on his first day reading the headlines, his dad was watching. >> in the story, somebody was being honored posthumously, and i got a call from my dad, and he

said, you know that posthumously, and i said, what did i say? you said posthumously. and i said, oh, god, oh, no, i went to ball state. where would i have seen posthumously? >> i introduced somebody one time as the athletic director m emright us. >> that's delightful. >> reporter: he took out his cigar and said, i've got some arthritis and my dad's a little gout, but never have had emri t emrightis. >> now i don't feel so bad. >> reporter: dave learned more than proenunciation in his hometown. he developed his quirky, witty style, and at age 27, headed to los angeles. >> for now, this is dave letterman, wishing you a pleasant good night. >> reporter: why california?

>> california is why johnny carson was. and i knew from watching "the tonight show" that there was a place called the comedy store, where anybody could get up on stage and try to make people laugh. you work in the comedy store. from the comedy store, you get to be on "the tonight show." >> reporter: dave's routines caught the attention of carson's scouts. and after two years -- >> would you welcome, please, david letterman. david! >> the kind of thing i'll always remember, growing up in indiana is when dad used to tease me with the power tools. how many of you -- did you have that? [ laughter ] >> i would terrified by the guy. people would say to me, what was that like sitting there next to johnny carson? and i would say, it would be like getting on a city bus and you look over and holy crab, it's abraham lincoln. i've seen this guy on the $5 bill all my -- why are you riding on -- you know, it was like that. and i never got out from under it.

>> reporter: even after knowing carson for more than 30 years, dave was still intimidated. >> the last time i saw him, he and his wife, they had a boat, and they ended up up the hudson to the west side. they said, would you like to come and have dinner with us on the boat? the truth of it is, i didn't. i was just terrified. >> reporter: but he said yes. it was a beautiful summer evening, sailing around manhattan. >> then johnny had just a little too much wine. just a little too much wine. and he had a little edge to him. and here we are in the middle of the hudson and i'm thinking, oh, golly, he's going to turn on me. so what i did, i started talking to him about jack benny. >> reporter: his hero? >> and everything settled down. and i thought, thank god, i survived it. >> he was more complicated than the guy next door in so many ways.

>> no. demons. some demons. but who among us doesn't have some? >> reporter: when johnny decide in 2005, we found out later he wrote jokes for dave. like this one. >> there are two things, two man made things that are visible from 50 miles up. one, of course is the great wall of china, and the other, donald trump's hair. that's right. >> reporter: that was 11 years ago. what does dave think of donald trump today? coming up. >> that's part of the way we set it up. good luck.

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back at his old high school, david letterman told us he doesn't miss late night television. but when asked about this year's chaotic campaign, he zeroed in on donald trump. i don't know what his problem is. i don't know if there's pathology there. i don't know any of that. but you tell me the men putting together the constitution, witnessing this election, wouldn't they have just said, that's part of the way we set it up, good luck? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. he didn't cheat.

>> right, he has nothing illegal going on. he's despicable. at this school and everybody's school, you hear the great thing about america, anybody can grow up to be president. oh, jeez, i guess that might be true. >> reporter: he's now spending a lot of his time on projects that represent his other interests. for two weeks, he was in india, doing an upcoming documentary for the national geographic channel. and he appeared at the 75th anniversary of one of his favorite charities, the uso. >> and i said, who do you think i am? [ laughter ] and he said, walt whitman. >> reporter: and he wants to get involved in even more causes. >> i always told my friends, i would like to go to somalia and unload sacks of rice out of the back end of a c-130. i don't want it to be the david letterman this. i'm not going to have a big fund-raiser, where people are, oh, you get to play miniature

golf with regis. we're not going to do that. >> reporter: but he's also got time to indulge himself a bit and he was consumed by a certain race. >> i said if we don't win the 100th running, i have very detailed plans to fake my own death. you might get a mysterious e-mail from me, but you won't know anything more. >> reporter: it was the 100th running of the indianapolis 500, the biggest single sporting event on the planet. more than 350,000 people in attendance, and there he was. ♪ back home again in indiana >> reporter: not just as a spectator, but as a racing team owner. just a few miles from where he grew up. >> i'll tell you, and i don't know what it says about my upbringing, i never thought i'd get to come to the race itself. we were always of the impression, no, we're not going

to the race because it's too expensive. >> reporter: the admission then was just a few dollars. now he's worth hundreds of millions. for the son of indianapolis, the big race is life itself. his team driver is graham ray hal, the son of indy legend bobby rahal. car owner letterman was on edge as rahal started in the 26th position, and watched nervously high in the stands with his wife regina. but in the end, the winner was alexander rossi. dave didn't follow through on his threat to disappear, because his team didn't win, but that means the face fuzz will stay. >> nobody in my family likes it. my son says, it's creepy. and i can't dispute that. i said, i know, i know, mary, it is creepy. but it's also dad. and you're stuck with creepy old dad. coming up, from this proud

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>> this is me saying, i love you, dad. >> when he's called to work, he gets on the train. >> sometimes he talks on the phone. >> when he's done with work, he goes back in his car and drives home. >> he just like sits there and works and just does stuff on the computer. it's really boring. >> he gets into his car and then he drives home. >> you mean like, what your dad does when he's at work. >> um, he goes to lunch, and that's all he does. >> i would tell my dad how thankful i am for him. >> i'm gonna get my dad a coffee and wine. >> i love you, daddy. >> i love my dad to the -- pluto and back.

>> i love when he tucks me in and gives me kisses when he comes home from work. >> thank you for playing with me. i really appreciate you as a father. >> thank you for take being care of me, being a parent and letting me stay up late. >> i hope that you live as long as i do, because i love you so much, i wish you would never go away. >> i'm going to say to my dad, happy coffee day, happy wine day. >> happy father's day! >> on behalf of all the dads, thank you. that's "on assignment" for tonight. i'll see you weeknights for "nbc

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