r it and got it. bob: i'm surprised he waited that long. it's part of your job as a hitter to protect that run at first base when james russell does what he did. len: yankees, as we mentioned, roughed up santana, 9-1 the final. two homers by robinson cano.

inside corner 0-2 to carroll. len: phillies into their six-game skid with 9-6 win over the orioles in baltimore. len: jim thome had two doubles and an infield hit. how about that. bob: jim thome and soriano getting an infield hit on the same night. wow.

thome dhg tonight for the phillies. nationals beat the red sox 7-4 at fenway. 13 ks for strasburg in six innings. he's 7-1, he threw 119 pitches, a career high. how about 13 strikeouts is not even his career high. 14 a couple of years ago. in his major league debut. bob: what was the limit on innings this year? 180. len: 160. bob: enjoy it while it lasts. len: it will be fouled as revere with you on the move. cincinnati beat detroit on a wilson valdez squeeze bunt in the bottom of the 10th.

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honda accord. alfonso soriano the story tonight. the dh with two big home runs cubs lead 7-6 in the ninth. two wick ones on stewart. whoa. are we on princess video all of a sudden. bob: i don't know. len: ground ball deflected by burnett to the shortstop dozier, 1-6-3. len: gardenhire said joe mauer

would be available tonight. he missed the kansas city series with a thumb injury. not in the line-up tonight. i mention that because it looks like it will be sharp, shawn camp the right-hander. willie, morneau and doumit due up in the bottom of the ninth. mauer won't hit for willingham morneau, probably not doumit. probably not par me lee. they do have another catcher as well chlt well. mauer could possibly, if he wanted to use him for doumit could

use him to catch later. he has a right anterior capsular strain in his shoulder. 1-2 to johnson. len: i have a nice note of peoria chief. they said a

franchise record 29- 2/3 innings. without allowing a run. they gave up a run in the third tonight won 4-2 as they swept cedar rapids. nicely done. bob: very nicely done. i know we've been on the stump for a long time. cubs fans if you're in the vicinity, go out and cap some of the stars of tomorrow today. highly recommend going out and catching a peoria chiefs game. or any of the cubs affiliates for that matter. if you're in the neighborhood, prices are good. quality of balls really good. you get to see some very odd things between innings. bat races.

three legged races, all kinds of races. len: into right. mastroianni with the catch. len: star lip castro has hadcass -- starlin castro has had an interesting night at the plate. in his last at-bat a 7-6-3 double play. fouled back on a slider.

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all season has been shawn camp. and he'll try to grab his first save as a cub. it will be the 11th of his major league career which started with kansas city back in 2004. len: willingham 0-3 with a walk. willingham with a little jamey carroll action on the slider. he didn't really try to get out of the way. you can see that .405 on-base percentage. gets on base a lot. checked his swing and rolled one foul. right through the wickets.

deep to left. line shot. right off the base of the wall. willingham will have to hold with a single. that's significant. cubs dodging a bullet there. that had two bases written all over it but it bounced right back. bob: talk about dodging a bullet. willingham hits a bullet. maybe a little bit of top spin. hits it right at the base of the wall in left field. nice play by joe mather on the carom. len: this huge crowd making noise. it doesn't look like anybody has left tonight. justin morneau runner at first and no one out. here we go. swing and a miss.

trying to hit it right there. bob: straight changeup basically shawn camp is sinker or slider but a very effective pitch that time to a fastball hitter. len: 0-2. this is the 27th time shawn camp has pitched against the minnesota twins. .467 career e.r.a. len: close. morneau is 3-6 with a double, a homer and four rbis

against camp. bob: just missed that outside corner. good place to miss. if you're going to throw that slider leave it off the outside corner. len: right center campana back on it warning track, the leap, he can't get it. willingham around third. morneau to third. we're tied and the winning run is 90 feet away. another triple tonight each team with two. and they have all been big. bob: nice piece of hitting. ball down and out of the strike zone.

another strup. just out of the reach of tony campana as he leaps against that wall. under the circumstances that may be a time to be a little more cautious and play it on the carom. len: denard span is going to run for morneau who is at third. here's doumit. infield in. the outfield isn't too deep. bob: i think you're right. campana just missing. len: campana is really deep at center. they are telling him -- emphatically waving his arms telling tony and de jesus, you've got to come in. 1-1. bob: i think sometimes len teams bring their outfielders in too far so they get caught flat footed or backpedalling as

they catch that fly ball and can't get off a strong throw but he was playing way too deep. he's in a more reasonable position now. len: 1-1 pitch. swung on and missed. obviously a key guy here. if you get doumit without contact for getting that winning run in you can walk par me lee to set up the double play. there it is. stays alive. don't go anywhere. when we're done cubs trying to get it to extras. whenever we finish the wgn news will follow immediately.

inside. len: 3-2. if you walk doumit it's not the end of the world. len: you can see what camp is trying to do. look at two through five two through six, everything way out of the zone to try to get him to chase. bob: a great night for clevenger behind the plate. he's saved a number of bases blocking balls in the dirt. len: got him. that's one.

bob: shawn camp that slider commands it on both sides of the plate. len: came out and put his left arm up and the second base umpire scott barry waved to the bullpen. he wasn't calling for a pitcher, he was calling for joe mather, the left fielder. are we going to see five infielders here. bob: can't think of another reason to call your left fielder into a mound visit. len: joe will get a new glove. super joe will be

the rover here, at second base. that was the second baseman's glove. bob: judging on where everybody is standing this looks likes an intentional walk to parmelee. len: casilla is on-deck a switch hitter. and then you have dozier the right-handed hitting shortstop. theoretically, they could walk two here to load the bases.

i think i would, wouldn't you? casilla is he really a double play candidate? >> he's grounded into one from the left side of the plate this year. a .204 hitter as a left-handed batter. >> you've got to strike him out, right? unless you get him to hit a ground ball right at somebody. >> yeah. len: we'll see. bob: shawn camp has been the most consistent strike thrower out of the cubs bullpen all season long. sometimes there is a concern if you walk the bases loaded, you turn right around and walk the next hitter the ball game is over but i think sveum has enough confidence in shawn camp that they are going to go ahead and walk casilla as well. maybe not.

len: this could be a work around situation. mather is straddling second base. here they go they pitch out. i think could be a four pitchout at-bat. len: because of the possible squeeze attempt. it seems odd to bring in the extra infielder and have him play directly behind the pitcher's mound. normally you put them on the side of the field where you think the guy is most likely to hit the baseball. which once again makes me think there will be four pitch-outs here. len: there is a chopper, the throw, they will get him. bob: yeah. len: for out number two.

joe mather will have to switch gloves again. nice play by barney throwing offbalance steve clevenger, who was all over that plate no way he was going to allow span to get on that dish. parmelee at second casilla at first. it's brian dozier, the shortstop. bob: we've seen a lot of that already this season. that late time-out. really puts the pitcher in jeopardy.

len: slider off the plate. mastroianni is on-deck. slider over for a strike. len: willingham started the inning with a single went

off the base of the wall in left. morneau tripled at home, was at third with no one out. camp has navigated around that base runner and has a shot to get out of it here. swing and a miss. four straight sliders, 2-2. bob: shades of carlos marmol coming in. when your back is against the wall you go with the pitch you have the most confidence in, that you think you can throw where you want with confidence. got away with one right there. that was a little up and over the plate probably a lot more than he wanted. as right-hander matt capps continues to crank it up in