brad hawpe in his first all-star game. .280 hitter into this season.ery good defensive outfielder on the 2000 college world series with lsu, has the most rbis in the big leagues by right fielder over the last two and a half years. he's popped 14 home runs this season. 2-2 pitch. got him on the outside corner, two away. >> tim: that's the thing about rivera. inside, inside, inside. five times, now he paints away. how do you come up with that? >> joe: a perfect pitch. >> tim: yeah, he makes a lot of them. >> joe: now tejada. former all-star game mvp. playing in his sixth all-star game. mvp in '05. a.l.mvp in '02. hit the ball deep, but caught in right. his first time up. ball one. jayson werth on deck, tejada trying to extend this all-star game. one ball, one strike. bases empty, and a little fly ball into right field. could end it. shallow right, and the catch is made by zobrist in the american league has won again. a final of 4-3 here in st. louis. and now the national league has not won over the last 13 all-star games. and it's rivera with a record-se

their best arm is brad hawpe in right field. le-digit assist there's years ago, but then everybody stopped running on him. he's had something like 11 assists in e0, and '08 combined. and he's back in time with the short stop tulowitzki coming in from behind. >> rob: we told you yesterday most great base stealers want to take that one step and dive back to the bargain. that's a good lead for them. nyjer is getting probably about three steps off of marquis right now, because tulowitzki is playing deep and towards third base. >> bob: he sure makes a two- out walk interesting, doesn't he? they played nick way off the line west the third baseman, because he love it is go to left field so much. >> rob: oh, yeah, they've got a the book on nick. >> bob: there is ian stewart, probably 30 feet off the bag. outfield straight away. i'll tell you, young will fowler plays a shallow center field in this ballpark. he knows who is running at second base if there's a one hop base hit. 2-2. nick johnson will roll it over and pull it foul. nats on t

brad hawpe in his first all-star game. .280 hitter into this season.ery good defensive outfielder on the 2000 college world series with lsu, has the most rbis in the big leagues by right fielder over the last two and a half years. he's popped 14 home runs this season. 2-2 pitch. got him on the outside corner, two away. f >> tim: that's the thing about rivera. inside, inside, inside. five times, now he paints away. how do you come up with that? >> joe: a perfect pitch. >> tim: yeah, he makes a lot of them. >> joe: now tejada. former all-star game mvp. playing in his sixth all-star game. mvp in '05. a.l.mvp in '02. hit the ball deep, but caught in right. his first time up. ball one. jayson werth on deck, tejada trying to extend this all-star game. one ball, one strike. bases empty, and a little fly ball into right field. could end it. shallow right, and the catch is made by zobrist in the american league has won again. a final of 4-3 here in st. louis. and now the national league has not won over the last 13 all-star games. and it's rivera with a record-

he has gone roaring by adam dunn, brad hawp, mark reynolds. he is in the top 5 in the league now. afternoon baseball upped way. here is mike macdougal. baltimore leads boston 5-12 notice 7th after their miracle tomorrow back last night and toronto leads tampa bay 5-0 in the 9th. hard to believe the boston team we saw last week could give away a game like they did last night. they were up 10-1? >> rob: uh-huh. >> bob: mets underway in milwaukee, scoreless, trying to break a five-game losing streak. 2-2 to ramirez here in the 8th. checked swing. nats want it to be fair but tavarez stumbles, throws it for some reason and that's a base hit. that's when you are going well. >> rob: this is not the worth thing. ramirez has done a lot of damage to the nationals. tavarez realizes, he had no chance to get ramirez on that play. >> bob: that was jaws little late. >> rob: yes. >> bob: i'm just glad tavarez threw the ball towards first base. that could have been bad. >> rob: disastrous, absolutely. >> reporter: here is ross gload. and ramirez used to be a leadoff guy. he still does some running

and the ninth man to bat will be brad hawpe. blap. >> bob: still one pitch awhich from being out of this inning and in a tie game going into the 5th. guzman robbed him last time up. has had a lot of hitters at two strike counts. has been unable to put a couple of them away here in this inning. >> rob: six 0-2 counts tonight. >> bob: plus two strikeouts. >> rob: 14th big league start bottom line. he will have to learn to quickly, when he doesn't have a great breaking ball, go to the change-up. >> bob: that was a beauty. >> rob: that was a good one. >> bob: rockies get three, two of them unearned. it is a tie game into the 5th.   >> bob: will jordan zimmerman get a chance to battle further in this game or not? >> rob: i don't know how much longer they are going to go with him. almost up to 100 pitches right now. he hasn't had a great fastball all night. he has been throwing around 92, 93 topping out and his breaking ball has been almost nonexistent. finally got up on top of one but he should have gone with some change-ups may

brad hawpe sends one deep to left but carl crawford makes the leaping catch robbing hawpe of a possible home run. a huge play by crawford who earns the all-star mvp. american league wins 4-3 on a sac fly and picks up home field advantage in the world series. >> this being my third time coming here, it definitely feels good to win the mvp award. you know, i'm just so happy i don't know really what to say. but, you know, i just hope i can come back and try to win it again. >> one more baseball note, according to reports, phillies have agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract for pedro martin martinez. the official announcement could be made today. finally, after taking monday off, tour de france picked up with stage 10, a 120-mile track that saw competitors running without earpieces. lance armstrong not pleased with the new rule but not affected, finishing in the main pack. he's still eiht seconds behind leader rinaldo nocentini. and that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >>> as always, we have news of celebrity couples splitting, but also one that manages to keep

tampa bay's carl crawford earned most valuable player horns by robbing brad hawpe of a home run in theurtis grander son scored on a sacrifice fly to put the american league ahead. rivera got three quick outs, a new record. and the american league won for the seventh time in a row, 4-3. >>> the all-star game's first pitch was thrown out by president obama. the left-hander delivered without a pounce to albert pujols. then mr. obama went to the booth and explained why he wore a chicago white sox jacket. >> everybody knows i'm a white sox fan. my wife thinks i look cute in this jacket. between those two things, why not? >> great reason. it was the fifth time a president has thrown out the first pitch of an all-star game. whether we return, unveiling a major health care bill. later, a towering celebration on bastille day. >>> on the cbs morning news, here's a look at today's weather. thunderstorms will be found from the great lakes to the lower mississippi valley. it'll remain very hot from the southern plains to the california valleys. and it'll be beautiful across the northeast. >>> here'

jonathan papelbon, on the mound, facing brad hawpe. deep to left. but not deep enough.all crawford, making the great catch. bases empty, one out. curtis granderson. and granderson hits one deep to left. over the head of justin upton and off the wall. granderson, hustling around. and he's safe at third with a triple. two batters later. adam jones, going the other way with it. sac fly. he'll take that. granderson runs. a.l. takes the 4-3 lead. bottom eighth, ryan howard. the st. louis native. strikes out swinging. joe nathan gets the a.l. out of the jam. mariano rivera to close the door and gets miguel tejada to pop out. rivera, the most saves in all-star game history with four. >>> that will do it for this espn news update. now, back to jeremy and vinita. >>> real quick, we have dramatic video of a near-disaster. it happened at an air show near frankfurt, germany. the plane went into a spin. >> the pilot managed to pull out, barely missing spectators

. >>> in denver, brad hawpe warmed up for his first all-star game with a game-ending run scoring double, as the rockies edge the atlanta braves 8-7. >>> boston's josh beckett earned his 100th career victory by starting with a strikeout and ended the game with his seventh strikeout as the red sox blanked the kansas city royals 6-0. >>> and detroit's brad inge warmed up for today's all-star home run derby by clouding two of them last night as the tigers routed the cleveland indians 10-1. inge now has 21 homers. >>> when we return, a look at the nation's top story, and a private swim club tries to make amends in the wake of a discrimination scandal. what does v-e-g-e- t-a-b-l- e-s spell? well, honey, that spells... ( thinking )vegetables! oh wait, i want her to eat it... but i can't lie. lying's bad. mommies don't lie. you get grounded for lying. and how am i going to drive the carpool if i'm grounded? announcer: there's a full serving of vegetables in every bowl of chef boyardee. and that's no lie. it's obviously delicious, secretly nutritious. but i did. you need to talk to your doctor a

brad hawpe, lines it to first.nson rolls over, picks it up clean, tosses to first to get hawpe out. take another look at this. incredible play by nick johnson. rolling over and maintaining contro tossing for the out. moving on now, top of the seventh inning. rockies still are up 1-0. jason marquis is in a bases-loaded jam but ronnie belliard grounds out to short. rockieturn the double play. belliard just out at first. nats blow the chance. they lose 1-0. >>> to new york, the yankees against the blue jays. new outfielder eric hinske makes his debut in pin strikes. hinske making no time in making a big play. look at the diving catch. hinske also would hit a home run in the game. there you go, getting congratulations from his new teammates. the yankees here down 4-0 in the fourth. cano, one to deep left field. jose batista tracks it down, hits the wall and throws the ball back into the infield. the blue jays would double up alex rodriguez. the jays beat the yankees 7-6. >>> one face did you not see playing in tiger wo

brad hawpe will be the batter. tonight's tell cast presented by authorities of washington nationals. may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the washington nationals. 1-3 with an r.b.i. single back in the first for brad hawpe. bradhawpe. trying to close out the 7th inning here get the nats back in the dugout with the bottom three hitters in the order coming up. >> bob: has got a little deception in that delivery that would make it hard for a left hanker to hang in there. shawn is not a big guy either. >> rob: check the delivery out. >> bob: all right. >> rob: pauses and then throws to the top.   >> bob: breaking ball. good swing. that's what you call going out around the ball and getting the sweet spot on it. brad hawpe came in batting .349, ninth in the league. that will get troy tulowitzki to the plate here in the inning. the nationals by the way as we referenced their hitt

brad hawpe of the rockies hits one. looks to be a home run and then he's robbed by crawford right there. they would win it. they get homefield advantage in the world series. >> my wife thinks i look cute. >> that's the best reason to wear anything says the married man. >> yes, it is. thank you. hark, i think i hear another married man. does your wife dress you? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> she bought my tie this morning. >> did she? >> yeah. >> we'll get the camera over there. bob's here to tell you how your flight is going to be flying. of all days, we can't get the camera there. >> when they get this close, the bridge of my nose is at risk. >> nice tie. >> yes. thank you. if you ee going to do any traveling, the first part of the day looking pretty nice. miami, it's a nice morning. this is what you want to see in july. temperatures, you get up to around the low 90s. but look at that. what a gorgeous shot. a little bit of haze out there. you're going to find haze around atlanta. here's what we'll call for a delay. we had showe

still tied at 3-3, the rockies' brad hawpe sends one deep to left. huge play by crawford gets him the mvp award. they win 4-3 and get home field advantage. maybe the red sox, maybe the yankees get home field in the world series. >> certainly the sox teams. >> one more baseball note. according to reports the phillies have agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract with pedro martinez, the official announcement could come today. the tour de france picked up with stage ten. the 121-mile trek saw x competitors riding, get this, without ear pieces. a new ban on electronic equipment. lance armstrong does not like that. but apparently not affected finishing in the main pack still eight seconds behind the overall leader. lance going for his eighth tour de france title. >>> coming up next, some news you can't use and a complete breakdown of president obama's first pitch. we're going to really get inside, talk about some of the conspiracy theories behind it, show you some of the best and worst first pitches you'll ever see up next. q >>> news you can't use. >>