on "espnews." >> after a one-run loss in the series opener at citi field, the phillies turn to cole hamels to take on the mets. hamels, 4-0 with a 2.84 e.r.a. over his last seven outings after going 0-2 in his first three starts. let's check in as to how this game is going at citi field. hamels gave up 11 hits, four runs, and the mets had a 4-1 lead, but in the top of the seventh, mike pelfrey gave up three consecutive singles to load the bases and then sean green proceeded to give up three runs, and so here we stand, tied at four, ibanez and rollins with rbis for the phillies. they're in the bottom of the seventh tied at four, and here's a note about raul ibanez in his 15th major league season, he leads four offensive categories in the national league. a post on a midwest sports fan site said enhancing drugs could not be ignored. an angry ibanez said the following. another game going on >>> ranother game going on rig now. cards, marlins in st. louis. top of the 8th. they hold a 6-4 lead over florida. they've led this throughout after a homer in the 1st to make it 3-0. st. louis is trying

cole hamels takes on the mets going for his fifth win in a row. an emotional phil mickelson prepares to rejoin the pga tour as he and his family prepare to

win two games against the phillies, that is a nice series and that wasn't the case sunday against cole hamels. it would have been very easy to mail in your effort and say, hey, we just took two out of three against the reigning world champs, but they came back against hamels late in the game and won a well played 2-1 ballgame. i have a sense they feel the same way tonight even though they're down by four. >> jim: you go back even a game before that when they came back and won in the ninth inning. roberts, ground ball towards third. back to first and out at first base. there's the double play, andino scores, but that is a huge play for meyer and the marlins. >> buck: dan uggla has a strong arm. this is what you want. he chased the pitch up out of the zone. the speed is right on the money to uggla who converts it quickly. he'll hang tough in double play as he makes the throw. >> jim: it is 6-3. three hits in the inning leading to two runs, but the double play erasing the other base runner on the bases, and there is a pitch low to markakis. the game on saturday night in philadelphia, that was th

cole hamels takes on the mets going for his fifth win in a row. an emotional phil mickelson prepares to rejoin the pga tour as he and his family prepare to face their toughest test yet. brad childress speaks at least about the brett favre situation. he now says there was never a deadline. >> good evening, welcome to "espnews" where we keep you current with the latest breaking news, scores, highlights, everything, all in hd. along with mark morgan, i'm michelle lafontaine. mark, is it over? red sox-yankees? >> not yet. it almost is. game two of a three-game set between the yankees and red sox, tied for the lead in the a.l. east, the yankees 0 for the season against their arch rivals. let's set the scene. posada at the plate, runner on second, top nine, papelbon is in for the red sox. they're trying to close the deal. boston going back to last season has beaten the yankees seven straight times trying to make it eight, that would be 7-0 this season, posada fouls one off, the game may be moments away from concluding, and we will show you highlights as

cole hamels trying to get his fifth straight decision, fifth straight win, he gave up four runs and 11 hits, plus the mets came to tie it, three runs against sean green after mike pelfrey gave up three straight singles to load the bases. feliz and ibanez and rollins have the rbis, pelfrey one, and castillo, another one. taking you out to atlanta, dog night at turner field. start a barkin'. two on, two outs, jason hair me -- jaramillo singles. mclouth throws, seems to be on the money, the pirates go on to hold the lead, and 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth, two outs, matt capps gets norton to fly out to end the game and the danger, garrett anderson had the two-out homer that brought atlanta within one. pittsburgh starter charlie morton left after pitching just one inning due to tightness in his right hammy. the braves see their winning stream come to an end. the braves have seen their winning streak come to an end. >> the vikings have backed off their pursuit of brett favre after favre failed to report to organized team activities this week. brad childress hit the radio air waves with his

you saw bastardo and cole hamels in philadelphia and cole hamels, of course, has steapd established himself premier left-handers in all of baseball. it's a challenge when you're not really swing the bat the way you would like and then you compound that with a whole lineup of left-handed starters. >> jim: on a four-pitch walk with two men down, markakis on base a second time. first walk allowed by sean west. west coming off a loss. he lost to the yankees last friday night. lasted only four innings and allowed five runs on 10 hits as adam jones comes up representing the tying run. markakis now will take his lead from first. that's over, but low, 1-0. he had won his prior two starts before facing the yankees in interleague play. two wins since coming up from double-a. he made eight starts in the minors. this is his seventh for themarlins. he misses inside adam jones with ball two. adam popped out to second base his first at-bat. he's now 0-8 in the series and 0-- 0-9 last overall. there's a strike taken all the way. 2-1. west has been stingy with the base hits allowed in the big leagues. he's

as cole hamels says "we're fortunate everyone in the n.l. east is playing really bad." hamels on the found, taken out ie the fifth game, has words fol home plate spire mark carlton. >> he was leaving anyway. >> exactly.as he was arguing balls and strikes. rickey romero dealing for the no-no in the sixth. chase utley breaks up the no-hitter. after an infield single, romero gets howard to ground to second base.there' nice job by aaron hill to marco scutaro for the 4-6-3 double play. the blue jays win 6-1. phills also 1-7 since ibanyez went down with the groin injury. brad lidge returned from the dl. roy halladay out since june 12th with a mild groin strain says he'll start monday against tampa bay. >> josh beckett and the a.l.-leading red sox opening a three-game series in atlanta. bottom of the second inning, beckett strikes out jeff francoeur. then in the fourth, with two on, beckett hits francoeur again. beckett struck out six in seven scoreless innings. top of the fifth, big papi, david ortiz, ace solo home run, his eighth of the season, seventh this month. the red so

they have one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball, but they've benched jimmy rollins as cole hamels says "we're fortunate everyone in the n.l. east is playing really bad." hamels on the found, taken out in the fifth game, has words for home plate spire mark carlton. >> he was leaving anyway. >> exactly. he was arguing balls and strikes. rickey romero dealing for the jays. no-hitter into the seventh. broken up by chase utley. ryan howard grounds into the 4-6-3 double play. romero seven scoreless innings. gave up just two hits, struck out seven. the jays take it 6-1. phills also won in seven since raul ibanyez went down with a groin injury. brad lidge also returned. roy halladay out since june 12th with a mild groin strain says he'll start monday against tampa bay. >> josh beckett and the a.l.-leading red sox opening a three-game series in atlanta. bottom two, beckett strikes out jeff francoeur. then in the fourth, with two on, he gets francoeur again. beckett seven scoreless, struck out six, scattered six. top five, big papi. david ortiz with a solo home run. his eighth of the year.

cole hamels started the game, 11 hits allowed ties a career high for him, but chan ho park gets it donefirst win since being moved to the bullpen. he's thrown out five straight scoreless innings. mets shot themselves in the foot. 16 left on base. >> jerry manuel not a fan of the loss, especially to a division rival. >> any game at this point for us -- like i said, we're trying to take games off the board because we're somewhat depleted, but any game that we have a lead, and i felt we got pretty good pitching for the most part, and we hit the ball well, we just didn't get any timely hits, so i think we're still -- in a good spot. i think we need another good pitching outing tomorrow, to continue to give us a chance, and go from there. we've got to keep pitching well. we do that, we'll be fine. >> major league baseball has reminded manny ramirez and the dodgers he is not allowed in the clubhouse when the media is present for the remainder of his 50-game suspension. manny's suspension runs through july 2nd. joe torre and the pros and cons of manny being with the team. >> we want to see him

third most wins amongst all left-handed pitchers, 25 years old or younger, behind scott kazmir and cole hamels. he's won 31 games in the last three years. >> coming off, he's been on the d.l. since may 17. before rehab starts he had, his e.r.a. was about 9-0-1 record in the four starts. >> i don't worry about that. i think anytime somebody's in rehab their numbers are inflated or deflated. plus, he's just trying to get himself in shape and trying to get that mental picture of home plate, strike zone, and also feel strong mentally that he's capable of going out there and pitching five or six innings in a big league game. >> somebody who's going to be going down and working at syracuse because he's been having a little problem. shairon martis began the season with so much on his shoulders that everybody just raving about this guy. he's kind of gone on a down slope a little bit, ray. maybe he'll work at things at syracuse and be back with the ball club in no time at all. >> he was not a known commodity coming out of spring training, went around the league, amassed a five hit. now he's not pitched

phillies' fans, sunday, back to the starting pitching, jeremy guthrie matched up very good against cole hamels and beat him 2-1. every aspect of this team's play has been very good over this five-game win streak. they have outscored their opponents by 10 runs. they have outhit them. they're batting .324 as a team. they're pitching to a .320 e.r.a. and every single thing they have done really makes them understand how you play the game to win. defense has been exceptional. pitching has set the tone, and the hitters have had timely hitting. >> jim: the orioles have won five in a row. they have trailed at some point in each of the five games. how do you win the game ? it starts with the starting pitching and ends with the bullpen. the bullpen has been lights out. >> buck: they sure have. the bullpen has been rested f. because of that, everyone has pitched very well. george sherrill has pitched phenomenal. matt albers has been exceptional. brian bass has been their long man and even hendrickson has picked autopsy win. a 1.29'ear. we mentioned wins for bass, johnson, albers and hendrickson. no runs

hander and the orioles faced three left-handers in philadelphia and handled them off, including cole hamels on sunday. >> jim: the lead runner is baker the, the catcher, and gload is the trail runner at first. another one in the dirt, and another one smootherred by wieters. >> buck: when you call for that split-finger pitch, the only place it is going to beat you is down in important of you in the dirt. so you have to anticipate going to your knees and blocking a ball. he blocks that one a little more effectively. he snared it in the webbing of his glove. >> jim: ground ball edwards the hole. there is a base hit. reimold is charging. the runner will be held at third. the third base coach saw that reimold was charging in on that ball, and he held the runner, so the marlins really have a big rally going here now. the bases loaded, only one down and coghlan the lead-off hitter now has two hits. >> buck: he just slaps it through the left side of the infield. it goes right at the left- fielder and most third base coach also look at the alignment. if the left fielder is running straight towards t

cole hamels goes for washington -- craig stammen goes for washington nationals. it's followed one tradition: use the best high-country barley... and only rocky mountain water. and it's been brewed under one motto: never compromise. now maybe this means we're a little set in our ways. but we know a few guys who will drink to that. coors. the banquet beer. >>> "nats xtra" here on masn. nationals made a deal with the pittsburgh pirates. they acquire closer nyjer morgan and sean burnett -- sean burnett and nyjer morgan. it will be a noon affair in florida. pregame starts at 11:30 a.m. give you a wakeup call about 9:00. make sure you're up. then, the braves come to town after a day off. thursday, atlanta's here. sunday's game in masn hd and dc 50. nats hit the road on monday. >> he's been throwing the ball well. the big papi home run set him back just a tad. five innings plus every outing. really like the kid. he throws it for strikes. he's only walked 10 guys all year long. i just feel real good about him every time he goes out there and pitches. >> how about this gu

. >> jim: guthrie coming off a good start where he beat cole hamels 2-1, the orioles sweeping the last series up in philadelphia. >> bob: here is josh bard swiping a great bat an