figgins way back. the last thing he is anticipating nick markakis may bunt down the third base line to get the tying run to the plate. >> jim h: ball and a strike on markakis. groundball swept towards second base. kendrick goes to second to get the lead runner. and markakis will reach at first so one down but kendrick knowing he was only going to get one out, takes the lead runner and jones retired. update now for the voting for the at&t player of the game. matt wieters at 49% has the leet lead on roberts and guerrero. still time to vote. a, become, or c to 581862. the results listen os xtra postgame. >> jim p: the orioles were 12- 25 on the road and averaged 3.89 runs on the road and 5.3 at home so again, this is the way you want to play. how do you do that? it's nice to have two of your hitters, you know, as players of the game. i think you like to throw a pitcher in there once in awhile. >> jim h: this has been a plethora of run support for a road game. >> jim p: yes, but not enough of a plethora. [

and that will retire figgins. two down here in the 5th inning.ly 28th, you can help orioles support the maryland food bank. find out what your favorite orioles like to cook and how good they are in the country. it will be at the espn zone from 11:30 1:00 for the team's first ever cooking competition. that's on tuesday, july 28th. >> gary: markakis, roberts and zone? >> gary: the. we're going to find out tomorrow exactly what's on the menu. >> jim: yeah, but i'm going zahny, i don't care what on the menu. >>> why in? a veteran, been around longer. i just have a sense. >> gary: here is the 0-1 delivery. >> jim: pail and bucket type of guy, shows up every day. now that he's my favorite, i'm going to have to help him. officer he doesn't know what he's doing. >> gary: that shows a lot of confidence. i think he's the best, but he may not know what mess doing. >> jim: well, he may need. >> help. >> gary: i would think he would ribs. i think he may be a rib guy. 2-2 count. bobby abreu has grounded out twice in the ball game. 2 for 4, two home runs, two r

figgins has to wait, bare hands it, got him!oh, my. >> jim do you  a better throwing arm from a third baseman? i can't see anybody in the american league that throws this, maybe belltry who just had shoulderld gloverbut he'll catch this ball with his gloe an at e last minute, bounces to his right, our left as we look at it, and he just grabbed it, heaves it over there, some low heat. >> gary: he is really playing 8th d out of it down there at g. ori have the 6-3 lead, outhitting the angels 10-6. nick markakis part of the offensive thirst in this game. luke scott, two double, huff three rbi homer. markakis will take the pitch, and the counter goes doemean he going to stay there. palmer knows if he pitches well, and maybe santana struggles, or somebody else does, he has a real shot at being right back in the rotation. important thing for him right now is that he's here and pitching at the major league level. >> jim: the important thing for the angels, he's six games over .500. i'm sure they probably score a lot of ns for hi

figgins came in tied for the league lead.reat slide to get around weekers who did a heck of a job trying to give him the outside part of the plate. take it away from him. but again, figgins scores one of the runs and you can see a lot of offense. eight runs in four innings between the angels and orioles. >> jim h: scored three of the four at bats and had base runners at all four. adam jones takes ball one. markakis and huff will follow in the oriole 5th inning. only the one home run with the wind blown out -- i think we will see a f more before the ga ends. line drive and a base hit to left field over aybar so adam jones on the day he was name to the all- star team, gets base hit and a three-game hitting streak. >> jim p: three last night. he came into the game 4 for 11 in july after maybe, you know, a peer of adjustment in june where they adjusted. >> jim h: a market corn. >> jim p: we don't want to mention that. that's what od of adjustment. >> jim h: jones has 90 base hits. roberts has 91. markakis to third. second one. ba

figgins waiting on deck if the inning goes on.att albers, breaking ball almost got him to bite and the count is full. so, now, izturis will be running, 3-2 and 2 down. >> jim: gary, as you know, big difference, especially in a one- run game, between 2-2 and 3-2 because he will be running. >> gary: and good speed. it gives him a chance on a base hit. >> jim: long base hit and certainly a double, you know. a lot of time, you have good speed not running, hard to score on a double down the line. that won't be the case here. >> gary: here is the 3-2 delivery, swung on and missed. albers got him as he jammed him with the heater. our 737s fly to over 65 cities across the country every day. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour. almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. starting august 16th, fly southwest airlines from bwi airport to boston logan for just $49 one-way. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag. it's on. - (

will come around to score, figgins 2-4 in the game, angels up 6-2. next batter, maicer izturis a three-run shot to right, his fourth of the year, angels score nine runs in the fourth inning. that's the most runs they've scored in a single inning all year long. they continue to roll. they've now won eight straight games. that's the longest active streak in baseball. twins manager ron gardenhire said, "it was ugly. we were throwing to the wrong base, missing the cutoff men, it's what you preach in little league and all the way up." twins have been outscored 39-14 during the four-game losing streak. the angels offense has been outstanding. scoring almost eight runs per game and slugging exactly .500. >> the yankees putting their eight-game winning streak on the line against the a's. top seven, bases loaded, landon powell comes through for the a's, nomar and rajai davis score, a's score all their runs in the seventh and win it 6-4. new york's eight-game win streak, its second longest this season has been snapped. 160 home runs at yankee stadium, matching

figgins takes the breaking ball away. it's 2-2. >> jim: yeah, he made a play last night, i said i didn't realize you had that kind of arm, where have you been. most third basemen don't make that play on jones. but he's really the brian roberts of this ball club. i mean, he steals bases, has the most steals. 24, been caught seven times on base. he and brian robbers both have the same amount of runs scored, so that's your job as a lead- off guy. >> gary: you'll note the red hats been worn. they're been worn around baseball for the 4th of july. bobby abreu coming up. oriole fans know all about him from last night. >> jim: yeah, high change-up the first time, only a solo, and then watch this swing. got that front arm, and you can see the body language kind 0 tells you jacoby guthrie thought he made a great pitch, and it was until it landed in the bleachers. >> gary: guthrie said i thought that was a fly ball that would stay in the ballpark. the fact he was able to pull that bat back in, which he loses all of that leverage of

later in the fourth inning, angels in front by two, two on for chone figgins.rt of slices one to the opposite field, gary mathews jr. comes around to score, halos led 6 of 2 and next man up maicer izturis, the angels are red hot. eight straight wins. that's longest active streak in baseball and go on to win it by a final of 11-5. angels have scored 51 runs in their last seven games and batting .320 as a team over the span. >> on the mens 200 meter at the london grand prism, tyson gai dealing with a groin strain and doesn't show up and ran this thing in 20 seconds flat. let up at the end, says i'm just taking it one day at a time and frustrating the mind has to get strong again as far as dealing with that injury. meanwhile, usain bolt running for the jamaican team in the 4x-100 and usa sitti sitting inh and you're not going catch him. jamaica wins in a time of 34.46 seconds. usa finning in third. >> 20th stage of tour de france. 104 mile claim from mount lemars to mount ventoux. a wind-swept terrain. overall leader alberto contador ate lance armstrong and andy s

figgins was off balance. posada rips the glove off the hand. he makes the play barehanded. concentration at its finest. john collins is coming up after this. >> coming up tonight, we followed the suspicious death investigation. hear more from the woman's family as police tried to determine the cause of death. the economy taking a toll on certain benefits. the latest cutbacks could affect those trying to add to their families. john ]phtpññ >> a shower to this out tomorrow. the best chance of rain are overnight tonight and again on thursday. it will be a hot and humid day. it will be up around 90 degrees. >> thanks for >> last week's shooting has brought to light greater concerns about the state of our teenage resident. investigations by the team has released a list of offenses of the shooter. the latest incident came after he cut off the home detention anklet he was supposed to wear and a 5-year-old girl became the latest victim. the police chief lamented the lack of parental discipline in the lives of these teenagers who have rain the violence down on the city. state a

, and figgins as we know one of the best base stealers in the fame, and coming on was jim johnson, and runner took off, and here was wieters, one of his best throws and the tag, and it got them out of an inning tell. tell me about the setup. >> it's his third very god throw to second base in a row. and what i liked was the got short quick footwork. lined himself up well. very powerful arm. i think this is one of the best a.m.s in the american league. puts the throw right on the money. more balanced than his used to. that face mask, maybe it would have to go, or they put a few tacks in it or something to keep it from crossing in front of his face, bought very good throw tonight. watch this, right on the money. very good throw. i think that's one of this best throws of the season so far, and i think he's really coming along went the footwork, and i can just get him to set on little bit better to block the ball, we've got it all the way. >> well, the orioling win it tonight 6-4 to eastern up the series. elsewhere in the american league, the red sox at home against seattle. a 2-2 game in t

. >> jim h: figgins shows a bunt. 2-1. >> jim p: the one thing about rich hill, he doesn't mind gettingom camden yard where his e.r.a. is 14.34 and on the road it's 4.5 runs per game. >> jim h: you never know in the rotation how it will fall but he had the majority of the starts on the road and the windup jim is referring to for the 6'5" left-hander. >> jim p: he is trying to get more -- he gets the front side up and i think, you know, so does andy pettitte, having a marvelous career. and i think what happened was he said he would, you know, he is not doing it already today, steps off to the side. he was trying to be more direct, north and south but he forgot, he tried to do that in his next game and his shoulder got up and there was no impetus to go to home plate so not much on the pitches. >> jim h: plays the hop and guns it across to get figgins. one down in the angel 1st inning. looking at the oriole defense, tough to play because you did not play well last night defensively and lost a game you may have been able to win. very good outfielders. andino made a good play at shortstop. r

chone figgins hit a two-run double into left and the angels wrapped up a sweep of kc 9-6. >>> in houstonyadier molina singled with a game tied at 1-1. they put the st. louis team up on top. with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, miguel tejada's rbi single completed houston's three-game sweep 4-3. >>> and with the game tied at 2 in the bottom of the sixth, manny ramirez belted a pinch-hit grand slam as the dodgers beat the reds 6-2. l.a. goes for a sweep tonight. >>> when we return, more on president obama's fight for healthcare reform. >>> and the first grandmother speaks out about life in the white house in a rare public appearance. diabetics on medicare! i'm a diabetic and i want you to know over 230,000 u.s. doctors have authorized their patients to receive their diabetic supplies through liberty medical. and that begins with the one touch®ultra2 meter. easy to use, fast results... at no additional cost! liberty helps keep you on track by delivering diabetic supplies to your door... and filing your claims. i never feel i'm going to run out of anything. with liberty i always have so

chone figgins gets him and helps lackey out of a jam.nick swisher back to oliver and doubles off melky cabrera and complete the sweep. >>> josh beckett trying to remain unbeaten at home going for his 11th win versus the royals looking good striking out three of the first four batters he faced. it is becht facing john buck. advantage beckett. he returns the first nine batters he faced. then beckett atop the seventh, pena, a 4-6-3 d feed and beckett one out away from a complete game and does it. gets his 100th career win. >>> cards and cubs. game two of a doubleheader. ryan ludwick a home run machine. top one, two-run shot. then in the top of the sixth, ludwick does it again, seventh career multihome run game. he finished 3 for 4 with two homers and 4 rbi batting .478 in his last six games. that'll do it for this espnews update. now back to jeremy and vinita. >>> oklahoma city did being completely rebuilt but not with bricks and stone. a lego master is painstakingly duplicating the cityscape with the blocks. >> kurt zimmerly is using more

up 5-2, two on fortune figgins. next man up. izturis. 51 runs. in 7 games. a three-run shot.streak in the "bigs." abreu, one of -- three of 14 hits, today. >> stage 20 of the tour de france. it is a 104 mile climb. wind swept barren tir rain. contador and armstrong, neck-to-neck. and watch frank move past lance. and his brother, andy, trying to make up time. the top-three, overall, riding together. andy, makes his move. trying to shake contador. and juan, winning the stage, moments later, all crossing in. close time. contador, realizing he has won the tour de france. stage 21, a 102 mile ride into paris. ceremonial trip. contador, will win, in 2009. >> champagne will be in his hand. >> you bet. >> top stories on the way here on "espnews," latest in the roy halladay sweepstakes. what the jays are saying about the phillies' latest demand ñm=s during the autobahn for all event, you can get great deals. it's perfect. i just want to make sure it's the right decision. - future... us? - we got here as quick as we could. look, it's the cc. you don't pay for scheduled maintenance, you

. >>> improve, posada gets tangled with figgins, he makes the catch, bare handed. that's how they used to play with no gloves. a golf, approach shot, headed right, hit this lady in the crowd although she didn't seem to mind. >> yes! [ laughter ]. >> lovet.ha t i wouldn't expect that reaction. she loves golf more than the rest of us. to the bad, please. the nationals finding new ways to hose themselves >> oh. >> reliever tyler clippard trying to intentionally walk, he baulks in a run. giving away money and set it on fire. can't do anything. ishikawa going after the pop foul winds up doing the parallel bars routine in the padres dugout. they got out of the way. >>> back to arizona, you know, they've a lot of retirees out in the desert so instead of kids as the ball boys they have older folks and old chuck there, get a close up look at the facade, he made it over fo the early bird special on time which is what matters. here's the ugly. roman torres speaking cooper in the gut. he complains to the ref, i didn't do any thing. if you want ugly. this is actually ugly. hamm

figgins hustles it down but wieters, three big hits for the day.ence builder. >> upped the average to ..277. he went 3 for 3 today. he hit .277 after sending to the major leagues. he is coming on more guerrero is an interesting story. he hit a big home run. today, another big home run. two of the four against the orioles. >> he struggled in his part of the career more than before and the orioles had him on the road for the first two games but last night he gets ahold of this and just look at this shot. i mean, it's above two bullpens -- not one but two bullpens and half way up the grand strand from there. you can't let a guy like this get confidence and expect to throw him strikes by him a little bitty shot makes it out of the center field wall barely but it hurt the orioles to tie the game 5-5 and hurt that young man right there, rich hill. vladimir guerrero starting to heat up again. he will swing outside the strike zone. why don't we stay there? no, throw him strikes and that's what you get. >> how about a career average, .342 and 19 home runs,

sean figgins started the day leading in runs in the league with 78. roberts is now up to 74.orneau all in the top ten in runs scored. taken inside. and olivo will take a walk. count goes to 2-0. these are the kind of nights, trey hillman has suffered under the bullpen. he just doesn't have anywhere else to go. nobody has been consistent enough in front of their closer to be able to say, if i can get this lined up, i will be okay. from night to night he doesn't know that. that's going to a base hit, roberts shot that one into the left. brian has a couple of hits in the game. that's where brian is most effective. brian, this season, fourth most fly balls in the major leagues. when he's doing, that the average tends to suffer a little bit. last year, only 185 fly balls all year, up to 144 coming in to tonight's play. >> buck: yeah. not going to knock the ball out of the ballpark on a consistent basis. like to see him keep it on the line and the ground. that's where he'll hit for his best average. >> gary: he did that right there. >> buck: this guy can hit in the air. >> gary: he

with shawn figgins in the pop-up. loses his mitt. still somehow makes the catch.s i'm jeff fish shell. >>> a pennsylvania swim club director is defending the club from accusations of racism. why he thinks it was okay to cancel swimming privileges to some young campers. stay tuned. >>> the bush administration's domestic surveillance program was actually much bigger than previously acknowledged. a new report from inspectors general to lawmakers says intelligence agencies were collecting unprecedented amount of data after 9/11. president bush, as you know, he allowed the interception of some communication into and out of the u.s. without a court warrant. the new report says the surveillance program relied on factually flawed legal analysis based on the advice of only one justice department attorney. >>> there are signs of movement in california's ongoing budget crisis after talks broke down earlier this week. governor arnold schwarzenegger and lawmakers from both parties are meeting again today to discuss ways to close a $26 billion budget shortfall. meanwhile, major