that's all the offense josh beckett would need. beckett, who will play in his second all-star game, struck out seven, career win 300. red sox beat the royals, 6-0. dodgers and brewers, national league all-star orlando hudson ending the first half with a bang. sixth inning, left side of the plate. solo shot to the right. dodgers up # 6-0. in the eighth, hudson again. a pair of homers. dodgers head into the break with the best record in baseball. they down the brushgs 7-4. another all-star. tigers brandon inge flexing his muscle against the indians. brandon looking ready for tonight's home run derby. tigers mall the indians, 10-1. at the other end of the spectrum, alex reels with a high fly ball to center. a sure home run. adam jones making it look easy. orioles fly past the blue jays, 4-2. tour de france, after nine stages, lance armstrong remains in third place, eight seconds off the lead. final round of the john deere classic shot of the day from steve stricker. his approach on 17 is right on the money. the ball hits the pin and b

beckett goes the distance. strikes out 7.w, the angels and the yankees are 1-1 in the fourth inning. oakland beat familiar tapeh 7- 8. jack custody pinch hit a single for an rbi. the detroit tigers man takenning their first place advantage in the american league central down in cleveland, 10-1. the betweens have a 13-5 advantage over the white sox, and in the second inning, seattle leads the texas rangers 8-0. that's a look at the american league scoreboard. when we return, adam jones will visit with us. birds beat toronto 4-2 for their second win in a row. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding ll. 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. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com. grab your bag. it's on. male announcer: the chicken is tender, juicy, and lightly breade

then beckett atop the seventh, pena, a 4-6-3 d feed and beckett one out away from a complete game anddoes 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 than a million legos to re-create all of the city's major landmarks spending 12 hours a day. at that rate it could take him the rest of the summer to finish up.

josh beckett charged with making that a one-night wonder. and roger faces dr. ivo.could the champ come over the sport's biggest curiosity? that's coming up. you know what i like about tennis are the rankings. i like to know exactly where you stand at all times. yeah, it works for us. yeah. hey, if they ranked "sportscenter" anchors, where do you think i'd be ranked? - i don't know. - come on. i'd rather not get into it. come on, pick a number between one and 10. well... i'm not sure you'll be in the top 10. i'm in the top 10, roger. >>> ♪ >> headed to big mac land. gone. >> hammers it to left. he has done it again. >> not since alex rodriguez had 30 at the all-star break and ended up with 50 homeruns has albert gone to 30. what are we watching here? ,. >> we're watching how everyone else in the lineup hits around him. ludwick getting healthy, derosa being in the lineup now. that's what is important. albert is so consistent. he is going to do exactly what he is going to do he is the best hitter in in the game and he shows up the same every single day. what he needs i

what will they do for an encore against the red sox ace josh beckett?his quest for tennis immortality continues. roger federer 2 wins away from a 15th grand slam title. >> and open season on nba free agents, but kobe is stayingoo the west coast and continue his l.a. story. ♪ ♪ >> you are watching espnews where we are keeping you current with the latest breaking news, scores and highlights. plenty of baseball matinees. the mets won. >> i didn't know that. >> first the classic at wimbledon. andy roddick trying to take the next step facing lleyton hewitt. what a match. 5th set. hewitt leads 3-2. hewitt tries the backhand returner. roddick charges the net. tied at 3 in the 5th. next game, hewitt up 40-30. both players keep battling. hewitt in the near court. nice rally. stays on the other side for roddick. hewitt takes the 4-3 lead. next game roddick up. the serve, hewitt can do nothing with that. tied at 4. next game, advantage roddick. andy. at the net. andy passes the forehand up the line. a lead for roddick. roddick up 40-30. serving. the return. hewitt

i think josh beckett realized they could swing the bat. >> they had a comeback of 3 own today.ed back today. in a division of a tight race, though, is this more than one game losing something like that? >> not really. you understand these things happen. it's how you bounce back and react to it. weak-minded teams will let it bother you and lose 5 in a row. the boston red sox have been there and done that. a couple of years ago they had a big comeback win against the baltimore orioles that got their manager fired. they know about coming back on teams. they know teams can comeback on them. >> you did not mention papelbon. is there concern here with him over the last few weeks? >> well, he's still throwing 95 to 97 miles per hour. a lot of pitchers especially young guys like him, they will go through a period where they have a little dead arm. sometimes when you go through that period, your location is awful. john smoltz was throwing 92 or 93 miles per hour but he was located and baltimore could not hit him. papelbon was throwing harder but was not locating. he will be fine. he wou

. >>> 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 about aspirin. you need to be your own advocate. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. you take care of your kids, no

hanley ramirez, josh beckett, mike lowell go to the red sox and help them win a world championship. at the time, you were getting a minor league player in return. hanley ramirez is one of the most talented players in the major leagues today. it was pretty good for the florida marlins. >> bob: made a mark on the wall behind detwiler and olsen. you know, the dugouts here are so close. i'm sitting in one of those dugouts, i might be tempted to wear a helmet. it is really, really close here. >> rob: you'd get laughed at for that. >> bob: i know i would, but at least i'd be an alive guy getting laughed at. >> rob: they're not pitching tonight. there you go. willie harris grabbed a glove. which will slow playing a little d. in there. >> bob: you can't keep willie out of the lineup. >> rob: the pitcher can go down to the bullpen if they don't want to sit that close. >> bob: good at-bat by josh willingham fouled off a couple. let's see what willie did here. >> rob: playing a little second. i don't know if they're not keeping with willie in -- i think they're getting elijah some at-bats. he'

. >> jim: watching the game earlier in the week, he took josh beckett extremely deep.e just can elevate the ball. big strong guy. if you are matt albers, what you do best is sink the ball. we saw him get out of the last inning with a double play. set up outside, throw over first, though. the ballgame is played tight throughout as the orioles got their runs early in the ballgame in the 3rd inning, 3 runs, 4 hits, and they added another in the 5th inning, roberts, jones, markakisrbis. both teams have played it close to the vest in holding runners, trying to make sure they get that double play possibility. there has been that runner at first base. >> gary: the orioles 10-9 in one-run game and that's just a part of it. can you hold runners? can you get your catcher a ball that he can make a good throw on? 0-2 delivery, trying to get him to chase and he would not do it. it goes to 1-2. yankees beat toronto today 6-5 in 12 innings. matsui, jorge posada, johnny damon all had homeruns in that ballgame. yankees have been playing some pretty good baseball and toronto caught them

i met daniel beckett, too. the finest writer now that i have met is robert stone. he is someone i admire a great deal. >> what is it that, when do you conclude that they are great writers? >> i conclude they are great writers when they leave me to make associations, connections, leaps in my mind that i do not feel i could have made otherwise. which once i made them, they felt inevitable somehow. >> who do you think rates today in this society, could, non- fiction political writing? >> i am a fan of a lot of writers. i love christopher hichens. it is not important for me to agree with political writers, it is important for me to carry along with their argument so i can entertain their points at youthfully. other political writers? there are people at the atlantic like james fallin. as far as columnists type writers, i like frank rich. it is hard to go through it all. >> where do you live right now? >> i live in livingston, montana. i live in a loft. i do almost all of my writing there. i found it necessary at an early stage in my career, about 20 years ago, to remov

see beckett from it. same channels always. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ applause ] >> mike: that here much. welcome to huckabee from the "fox news" studios in new york city. the president and the congress say there is a major health care crisis in this country and everything to push a bill they claim is the reform our country needs. tonight our neighbors in canada, they have such a plan. i wondered how is it working out for them to do was speak with two canadians, a doctor and a mother of a young patient. you are going to want to hear their first hand account of government healthcare and then you can beside if that's what you want for your family. >> what do your fellow americans think of the proposed plan, and i wonder if our leaders in washington are even listening. exclusive and read the results from pollster scott chris nissen tonight on the show. [ applause ] >> mike: he is a comedian, actor and talkshow host, but tonight you're going to learn what a miracle his succe

we are at the point of health care reform that can be scripted by samuel beckett. we're waiting for baucus. i thought the most interesting thing today was by some of the blue dogs in the house who said, we don't necessarily want to go forward and vote until we know where the senate is going, and that means everyone is waiting for some word from the finance committee before this really crystallizes -- >> they don't want to go out on a limb and have it cut out -- >> they don't want to go out on a limb. so the focus on that senate finance committee, just as in 1994, it becomes a critical fulcrum on whether health care can move forward or whether it's going to go off the rails. . >> as yogi berra would say, deja vu all over again. and stay with msnbc for complete coverage of president obama's prime-time speech, a news conference, in fact, tomorrow night. coverage kicks off at 7:00 eastern on "hardball." the president speaks at 8:00 when he meets with the white house press. and live post-game analysis immediately following. watch it all here on msnbc, the place for poli

it goes back to the marlins in 2003, pavano, beckett, penny, pitching at top form. you can win it all. doesn't even matter if you're winning or not. you can win it all. and that's what mitch is talking about. >> yes, coal hammel last year, you it's brought up another interesting point i think you mortgage and give up a lot of your future if you can get that close to a guarantee that you can win a championship. if you look back to the 2003 marlins they gave up adrian gonzalez foraugustette urbina and they won a world series and if you're the phillies if you can win back-to-back after going through such a drought, i think it's worth it. >> that's what baseball has become, win it now and worry about the future later. i think it's a shame when we've reach ad team like toronto and they have a great pitcher and all they are talking about is trading him all year long because we can't compete or and this is what baseball has become and bob ryan is right this is too late in the season that this is the dominant story in baseball as we head into august and it's just a given yo

you have beckett, lackey. pitchers you've never faced before that are this good.about you, because of the great start he's had. >> gary: continues to lead the american league rookies in homers, rbis, slugging percentage, second in average and on base percentage among rookie finance you missed it earlier, he has been named the american league's rookie for the month of june. 1-1 therefore to him. heater, and the count goes to 1- 2. >> jim: andaa good one. one thing about jepsen, he's got good stuff. where whether he hand command it, that's the story. got a cutter, which will just dive away. >> gary: reimold on another fast ball, and he is gone, and unhappily so. so jepsen get this strikeout, the orioles leave two on base. bottom of the 8th coming up. 8-16-1 o's.    . >> amber: before his fame today, many apologized to the fans, and thanks the tomorrowers for supporting him, but never once did he apologize for steroids, or confess to testing positive. >> gary: so he's back, i guess. >> jim: 0 for three. >> gary: torii hunter pops that one

josh beckett takes the loss. he had been 6-0 after a red sox loss this season. bay up 3-2 now on chicago. this has gone back and forth throughout. now tampa just three outs from winning this thing on the road. they're four and a half games behind boston going into tonight. the white sox just a game behind detroit. so the tigers beat seattle. so the white sox, if they don't come back, they fall two behind theand i both worked on this story together. our sources have told us, we worked separately, and collectively, that this meeting, they're trying to finalize the time of the meeting to take place by thursday or friday. once that meeting takes place, our sources are telling us that goodell will probably make this decision by next tuesday. but he would not extend beyond next week -- the and conditional reinstates meant aspect of it is interesting. not the first time that he would use this model. he would reserve the right to extend or deaf it, but give him the green light to go to training-camp if he sign wes an n.f.l. team. >> where would this meeting take place?

. >> i have to ask you, one of the things i spoke to secretary of education arnie beckett about this earlier today, that i know you're focused on is financial education and the key to economic -- that's a very important part of this path to power conference. what are you doing with the urban league in terms of financial education? >> well, we've been working with the urban league on financial literacy issues, and they've been supportive of our local ariel community academy public school, where we're teaching kids to invest in the stock market with real money, and they can watch their stocks go up and down and work with our analysts on a regular basis on how to pick stocks and how to do research. they go to the mcdonald's annual meeting every year. so we think we can immerse kids with the stock market at a young age and they'll get great habits and hopefully it will encourage other financial services companies to partner with inner city public schools thway >> thank you so much. john rogers, ceo of ariel investments, joining with me here at the national urban league conference. scott,

beckett steve the idea of the power here. in the wake of this in the town of worcester they instruct their representatives to the new provincial congress which is taking the place of the old assembly. this by the way is before lexington so they instruct him, they instruct him to say it is time to form a new government as from the ashes of the phoenix of the old. and no matter what our enemies might say about its of labor ready to take this step. this is to the day 21 months before the congressional declaration of independence. the longer version is in my second book, the first american revolution but now that obviously people are kind of like what is going on? the first thing everyone is thinking, how come i don't know this? how can you tell the story of the revolution without not only not just not featuring but not even mentioning the actual overthrow of political and military authority? it makes absolutely no sense. i was wondering what happened to that story. who decides the stories that have filtered down? who is the gate

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okajima relieving josh beckett who pitched well. two outs and two on.the win as the red sox become the first american league team to reach 50 wins for the second consecutive year. >> meanwhile, josh beckett, definition of a stopper. with his win on tuesday night against the as in boston he improves to 6-0 this year when he takes the hill following a red sox loss. the red soxless monday night. tied with matt cane, and 8 -- in night games, 2-2 during the day. >> how about the yankees? they won 10-12 in minnesota. bases loaded. top of the fourth, for a-rod. gets all of this one. a month shot in the metrodome. he thinks it's gone and it would have been except carlos gomez robs rodriguez. that was the only positive for the twins. they lose 10-2. baker allowed five earned runs. sabathia owns the twins. 6-1. 1.22 e.r.a. in his last seven starts against minnesota. >> the struggling tigers trying to snap a three-game streak. that's verlander, he would add 11 strikeouts to his total. he pitches at home, he is nearly unhittable. now, 5-0 this year at home. he beco

. >> with becketts win, he improves to 7-0 at fenway park.e same season at least 7-0 at home. >> yankees and rays, james shields winless in his last six starts. yankees coming off a 9-1 homestand. first road game of the second half. robinson cano. his 15th of the year. hits 14 all of last year. but nick swisher. snapping a 22-game homerless drought. he hit two in this game. yankees win again. 11-4 the final. they are 10-1 since the all-star break. another strong outing by a.j. burnette. you you go back to early june, he was pulled in the third inning of the start against boston. after that, he said when i do get on that run, it's going to be impressive. i promises you that. since that start, 6-1. 1.6era. getting his tenth win tonight. >> michael vick might be able to play in games as early as october. commissioner roger goodell has conditionally reinstated him. full reinstatement will be decided on by week six. in the meantime, vick is free to sign with the team and can practice. >> first and most importantly i think we all want to recognize

right now, nie beckett is trading lower, as well. $63.22 a barlt.ay, chris teen, general electric, parents of swnz is forecast to earn 23 cents a share. investors may focus on gm's cash reserves as i tries to offset losses from ge capital. bank of america is reporting today. citigroup reports at 8:00 a.m. while it may benefit from strong investment banking, city may be hit by several charges including a special assessment by the fdic. let's take a look at where all the companies are fairing across the board. it was mixed throughout the morning and is now much improved. and ibm's second quarter profits rose 12%, topping forecasts, although revenues lagged estimates today. but that was overlooked as big blue is raising its full year outlook. google's second quarter profits rose 3%. that is the slowest growth rate since the company went public in 2004. ceo's eric schmidt says although the company has made it harder to sell online ads, he doesn't expect it to get tougher. ibm up 3% while google trading lower by 1.6%. joining us now is julian pendock, pa

if you can throw 91 and locate and have sideways movement, you can beckett i have. >> i think josh bardtive tonight. you know he can hit. had a couple of doubles. let's look what josh did against the mets. the only two runs of the night for the nationals. >> he is swinging right. the fastball drivessist to left field for the double. inside with it and that is a hitter that knows a little about hitting. look for a pitch away you know he won't necessarily go that way again. pitcher changes his pattern, but you're right on top because you are thinking with it. rbi's number 18 and 19 for the catcher for the nationals josh bard. we'll step out for a moment. more to come of nats extra post game. 6-2 new york wins it. some fans still hanging around and filing out of nationals park after a disappointing night but tomorrow is another night. announcer: what's your cialis moment? when she gives me that look. when at last we're alone. when we both decide. announcer: today, guys with erectile dysfunction can be ready with another dosing option from cialis. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven

smoltz, hernandez, beckett on sunday, berken and buckholtz on sunday. 2-2, fouled away, and will holdred sox and yankees battling for first place. yankees have the two and half game edge, tampa bay is 6.5 out. 2-2 delivery, izturis fouls that one back. philadelphia continues to be one of the hot teams in baseball, they have a four-game win streak going right now, 8 out of the last ten games, 7 game lead over florida, and the mets had 10.5 games out. that is a fair ball. butler on the bag and a 1-2-3 inning. going to be a three, 1-2-3 innings recorded by greinke.    . >> gary: the all-star in center field is adam jones. >> buck: he likes the royals pitching in the first inning opener, curveball, deep center field, number 15. brian banister, first inning, fastball, deep to left field, number 16. right here, with greinke tonight, first inning again, for adam jones, number 17. >> gary: those are the two runs for the orioles. as tillman has given up the homers too callaspo, jacobs, and olivo. >> buck: i short changed him, number 17 tonight. he has

david hernandez and josh beckett, orioles haven't announced officially the sunday starters against claytz who is playing against boston. tomorrow, a night game tomorrow. here is the 0-1 delivery. that is taken for a strike. chris tilghman will be making his debut -- tilghman will be making his debut. he'll go against disairchgy. that will be his opponent -- grerng grerng. the numbers for tillman this year. fans will get to another future names for the orioles and there will be a day game 12:30 and that will be brad bergesen taking his 6-5 mark out against luke hochevar who is 6-3 on the season. one ball, two strike count. pena on at first base being held. gordon swings through it. foul tip says the umpire. two strikeouts for berken. >> buck: what jerk needs to do -- jason berken needs to do is focus on one pitch at a time and try to execute a pitch, get down in the zone. that's where he's most effective with the fastball he threw to gordon and try to put together some pitches, sequence of pitches leads to an out, one out leads to two and then you're look at the end of the inning. that's

verlander ties josh beckett with 12. for detroit, the win snaps a 7-game losing streak. it's the most they've scored since may 25th. >> golf, he didn't play at the british open which snapped the streak of 51 straight major championship appearances which dated back to 1994. and phil mickelson is playing at the pga championship. lefty has missed time on tour to be with his wife amy who was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> tiger woods and rocker bob seeger pairing up for the buick open pro-am. yes, i said bob seeger. tiger here, with the 25-foot chip, lipping out. tiger when he usually misses he's not smiling. but he is right now. got aloof it. tiger here, the long putt. about two feet short of the cup. now you're probably asking bob seeger, what is the deal there? he's from michigan. and seeger here the 20-foot chip, just by inches. >> on a play like that though, you've got to forget about t. >> he's a traveling man. but he's from ann arbor didn't have to go far. >> let's get you updated right now. dodgers and cardinals. manny ramirez is a dangerous hitter. he's so dangero

money in a bank come expecting you can get it back and find out that the managers of the bank of beckett on derivatives and investment banking and hedge funds type activities, so absolutely something even stronger than glass-steagall needs to be instituted. the second half of the question is a very good question. i am a big supporter of the theory that you cannot spend $4 trillion in guarantees some $13 trillion of assets and not have significant, significant government costs and going forward. and if the government has significant cost going forward is not clear where they will get the money. by their own projections they are showing 2 trillion-dollar deficit each year and that forecast allows for 4% growth from 2011 and on. i just don't see how we are going to get back on the growth record so we are going to fund the basic operations of the country, we will be putting out $2 trillion a year of new debt borrowings and then we have all these guarantees that might come back to haunt us, so it looks to me like, and the banks have not finished with all of their losses yet so it is clear the