-- daisuke day although they have not made that official yet.back over the screen. perez, switch hitter, getting the start in center field in this ballgame for tampa bay. he has not played in this series. 26 years old. he was act vatted from the 60- day d.l. he missed 130 games with a left wrist problem. he had surgery on it. and then he went down to the minors and so he's playing in just his first month of the major league level this year. he played 23 games last season with the rays, and he was on the post-season roster and got in five playoff games last year. 1-2 delivery and that is going to be down low. 2-2. >> jim: he is a speedster. last year if you look at his minor league numbers when he was healthy, he was right around .288. he can steal anywhere from 32 to 57 steals. switch hitter. good defensive record. so he can really steal bases with the best of them. >> gary: mark hendrickson running over and decided to let it go by. you can see what happens, mark hendrickson, 32 pitches now, obviously why he struggled as a starter as evidenced b

daisuke matsuzaka looking good. the red sox beat the angels 4-1 at fenway. i'll be headed to owensville tomorrow. the ravens back to practice and headed to san diego this weekend. >> lucky guy. talk about a magical ride. >> the world of harry potter brought to life in florida, details next. >>> a wizard world of sorts will soon appear in florida. the 20-acre site will include three rides as well as a replica of haywards castle. the potter's spell is said to be cast next spring. >>> from harry potter to the other famous harry. great britain's most eligible bachelor has he's called spent the day continuing his pilot training in the >>> coming up next on the late show, actress haish. >> thank you for watching wjz news. have a good night, we'll see you tomorrow.

looking shot, you can kind of see the sun trying to break through a little bit there, it is cloudy and daisuke matsuzaka happen on the roads. you to have watch on some spots. not hard to lose traction when some of those oils come to the surface of the roads. bwi, brain cooled air, down to 66 degrees. west wind at 5 put it has been gustier than that, maryland's most powerful radar, let's zoom you in county into anne arundel county, you will see some pretty good rain falling towards is a verna park, arnold getting sacked with some pretty heavy precipitation right now as well. a lot of this precipitation moving out toward the vest a cheek but there is still some rain in the direction of cecil county as well. as you make the trek up 85 you will find not just the roadway but show showers before you check out. >>> all that wet weather coming in courtesy of a pretty significant fall cold front which we start to get here in late september into october. not going to be a major frigid blast buddy enough to trigger showers and cool down big time. upper 70s, we're not going to see numbers like this, espec

but suming that all goes well, i think there's a chance the bidding could go beyond where the daisukesuzaka contract was with the red sox, which was $52 million. in other words, chapman could wind up getting the biggest contract of any free agent this off-season, including john lackey and matt holliday. chris: wow. that is one to watch. espn baseball insider buster olney. buster, thanks. >> thanks, chris. chris: well, for more on the red sox series against the royals, log on to espnboston.com. john: speaking of a strong arm, matthew stafford, looks like the lions will stand by their man. he's our quarterback, jim schwartz said. we're pleased with him. he's going to be a very good quarterback in the league, and we're going to win with him. we are joined now by nfl inspider adam schefter. another quarterback situation in cleveland. the browns have scored just one offensive touchdown in two games. brady quinn, he's still their man. how long is that leash in cleveland? >> well, i think that people around the league know that the browns have one of the best f. not the best backup quarterba

daisuke matsuzaka making his second start back from the disabled list and he was pret good. pie, swing,took it like a man. third inning. 4-0, boston. many jacoby ellsbury sends that the other way into the folks. chris wauters pitching for boston in the fourth. jason bay, what a season he's had with the contract out there for the taking this season. 110 r.b.i.'s, that ties a career high. red sox win 9-3. >>> "monday night football" tomorrow night. a couple of playoff ball favorites, colts and dolphins. >>> more "sportscenter" coming up including the vikings' day against detroit and u.s.c. falling in the polls after the stunning loss at washington. cordless multi-tool. re-model. re-grout. re-store. all re-powered. meet the hand tool, re-thought. the power and versatility of six tools... packed into one. more innovations. more great values. craftsman. trust. in your hands. ♪ in such small bites, people are wondering, how does cheez-it® do it? - i know! - three, two, one. ( beeping, whirring ) ♪ - baking complete! - ( bell dings ) cheez-it®! where do you come up with this stuff?

. >> jim: and daisuke who pitched very, very well for the red sox, at least his scheduled day would behink he is going to pitch again. >> jim: maybe better because they said effective and efficient. he was, what, 18-3 last year? i know he won 18 games. i don't know if it was two or three losses. he was very effective, but he wasn't efficient. >> gary: and quick. they said he looked refreshed and throwing a real live fastball. mora did not get a fastball there. breaking ball. aybar. mora and he just did. that thing snow coned out of his glove. mora is retired. talk about pitching, we are looking at some of the candidates for the post-season awards here. how about the cy young award in the american league. c.c. sabatthia i think is going to be at the top of that. texas out of nowhere. i think they all get consideration. >> jim: felix is coming on. halladay, good numbers. low e.r.a. hernandez is even lower. sabatthia did win it two years ago. he won 19 games that year. >> gary: c.c. has certainly plaid a tremendous difference in that yankee team. >> jim: and pitching in that ballpark. >>

daisuke pitched very well in his first start in about three months.i hope that we get to see him on sunday and see if he can replicate throwing the ball. >> gary: jason beaterslet atriple and a run scored and two fly ball outs. bass and a one ball and two strike count to him. just think last night if the yankees had - and the red sox, they came from behind to win and the red sox had won, it would have been down to four games. >> jim: it was 10 in the loss column at one point. >> gary: the number i always look at is the games behind times two. you have to make up 13 games if you're the red sox against the yankees. just overall. bass and guns it and gets him. >> jim: so you mean if they're six and a half you have to double it because they have to win games. >> gary: yes. >> jim: the red sox, that's in the a problem winning. the yankees still have to go to the withest coast. but they do play each other three games. >> gary: watch this right here. spinning, turning, twisting and getting the out. >> jim: they pulled it out of the ground and picked it up an