great relay throw by dustin pedroia. in the top of the third.ia going oppo -- opposite field and gone for his eighth home run of the year and his first opposite-field home run of his career. bottom three. derek jeter. deep drive. center field. look at jacoby ellsbury. into the wall to make the grab. but later in the third inning, nobody's catching this one. johnny damon off john smoltz. his 20th home run of the year for damon. his first 20-homer season since 2006. top four. casey kotchman connects. two-run home run. his first with the red sox. they are up 3-1. but in the fourth, the yanks tee off on john smoltz. melky cabrera -- the no-doubter -- three-run home run, his 11th. smoltz tagged. nine hits, eight earned in 3 1/3 -- his e.r.a. is 8.32. jorge posada off former yankee billy traber, and that's gone for a three-run home run -- his 14th. yanks score eight in the fourth. they lead 9-3. normally, it's joba throwing at kevin youkilis, but on thursday night it was mark melancon throwing at dustin pedroia. it will be interesting to see if on fri

great relay throw by dustin pedroia. in the top of the third.ia going oppo -- opposite field and gone for his eighth home run of the year and his first opposite-field home run of his career. bottom three. derek jeter. deep drive. center field. look at jacoby ellsbury. into the wall to make the grab. but later in the third inning, nobody's catching this one. johnny damon off john smoltz. his 20th home run of the year for damon. his first 20-homer season since 2006. top four. casey kotchman connects. two-run home run. his first with the red sox. they are up 3-1. but in the fourth, the yanks tee off on john smoltz. melky cabrera -- the no-doubter -- three-run home run, his 11th. smoltz tagged. nine hits, eight earned in 3 1/3 -- his e.r.a. is 8.32. jorge posada off former yankee billy traber, and that's gone for a three-run home run -- his 14th. yanks score eight in the fourth. they lead 9-3. normally, it's joba throwing at kevin youkilis, but on thursday night it was mark melancon throwing at dustin pedroia. it will be interesting to see if on fri

great relay throw by dustin pedroia. in the top of the third.ne for his eighth home run of the year and his first opposite-field home run of his career. bottom three. derek jeter. deep drive. center field. look at jacoby ellsbury. into the wall to make the grab. but later in the third inning, nobody's catching this one. johnny damon off john smoltz. his 20th home run of the year for damon. his first 20-homer season since 2006. top four. casey kotchman connects. two-run home run. his first with the red sox. they are up 3-1. but in the fourth, the yanks tee off on john smoltz. melky cabrera -- the no-doubter -- three-run home run, his 11th. smoltz tagged. nine hits, eight earned in 3 1/3 -- his e.r.a. is 8.32. jorge posada off former yankee billy traber, and that's gone for a three-run home run -- his 14th. yanks score eight in the fourth. they lead 9-3. normally, it's joba throwing at kevin youkilis, but on thursday night it was mark melancon throwing at dustin pedroia. it will be interesting to see if on friday night there will be any retaliatio

pedroia at the plate. here comes dustinfly ball and in the old yankee stadium this one probably isn't going out, but in the new one it does. eight home run of the year. 1-0 sox. jeter goes high. here's ellsbury to make the catch. he hangs on it to. looked like it was going to be a pitchers' duel. yankees down 1-0 here comes damon, and the flood gates open. ties the game at 1-1. top fourth, same score. kotchman hitting one out. in the bottom of the fourth, the yankees down 3-2. cabrera, striking this one deep to right off of smoltz. three-one shot, 11th of the year. smoltz would go out after giving up nine hits, eight earned runs. bottom fourth, how about posada, crushing this one to left center. 14th of the year, making up for the mistake. 9-3 now. top of the eight. he gets drilled. the yankees win by seven. the manager, the fourth is a charm. >> big hits all around for different guys. it was an important inning and gave us a cushion. >> definitely better to be 1-8 than 0-9. those are eight games we can't get back, but we w

dustin pedroia almost gets hit there. just for good measure. things getting heated here.ruise, 13-6. >>> to the links. the bridgestone invitational. it's round one here. tiger woods laz won six times. phil mickelson playing for the first time since the u.s. open. he had that deal with his wife, amy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer. on 18 here, putting for par. phil shot 3 over 38 on the front nine. back nine, though, started to turn things around. lefty getting it to go down. mickelson shot 3 under 32 on the back nine to finish at even par. tiger, though, started the die on the front nine. here on 5, chipping from the rough for birdie. looks like it goes in. oh, boy. tiger can't believe it. and to be honest, neither can i. tiger on the par 4 13th, putting for birdie. that's cash. tiger, 2 under, finished at 2 under. and is trailing the leader by four strokes. >>> jeremy and vinita, back to you. >>> well, it is a bargain-hunter's dream. and hagglers are flocking in by the thousands. it's the world's longest yard sale, uning from ohio to alabama, along route 127. >> ho

baltimore, dustin pedroia little but swings a big stick for the red sox. facing david herndez. that's a good swing on that ball i think. out of the park for a solo home run. his sixth of the season and the sox take a 1-0 lead. and that was more than enough for boston starter josh beckett, one of the best pchers in all of baseball. here in the second. freezes aubrey huff. he struck out five in seven innings of work. beckett gets his 13th win as the red sox shut out the owes 4-0. the buick open's rating should double for tomorrow's final round because tiger is an top the leader board, nearly perfect when leading after three rounds. 35-1 on the pga tour when he has the outright lead going into sunday tiger woods and his caddie stevie williams feeling it in grand blanc michigan. here's tiger teeing off on number 3 from 170 yards out. probably used like a pitching wedge and snuggle it up there nice and close. that's what we call precision sets up a birdie. tiger from 33 feet away. bird is the word. we left the bug up there this time. you can see the reaction. he has a one-stroke lea

dustin pedroia, the lone hit so far, 1-1 with a double in this game.king to beat new york for the first time since game one of the '96 world series, his first time facing the yankees as a member of the red sox. joba chamerlain looking to move to 4-0 since the all-star break. he's won three straight starts for the first time in his career. get you caught up. how about cliff lee making his first start at citizens west bank park as a member of the phillies. said he was anxious about the first start but he certainly did not pitch like it. chris iannetta, garret atkins, barmes, sent them all back to the dugout. one earned run, nine strikeouts. aaron cook is taken out of the yard by paul bako. 2-1 phillies' advantage. they go on and win the thing by the final of 3-1. said lee with regards to the win, the first one at home to, get it out of the way, "i am really, really pleased with it." of course, more on lee and what he's accomplished since coming over to the phillies last week. of course, he had the complete game at san francisco last friday and then today

jim thome, dustin pedroia, for the 4, 6, 3, d.p. ful wakefield going one run on six hits.p at two. but not anymore. big papi with the big slide. second of the night. tenth career walkoff home run. first multi-home run game of 09 for him. red sox, end up winning it 3-2. they've won three straight in the 7 of the last nine. the white sox have lost 14 of the last 17 games versus the red sox, and dropped below 500 for the first time since june 28th. >> now ortiz has been up-and-down the batting order this season. but he's in the five hole. on ortiz is hitting .227 on the season, with 22hr's.le however, when hitting fifth. he's batting .250. and half of his home run total has come prosecute that spot. >> all right, the red sox very interested in what's going on in the bronx. rangers-yanks, texas looking to make it two straight over new york. jorge posada though. bottom of the second. gets the yankees the three-run home run. his 17th. posada had to leave the game later with a bruised ring finger. but the yankees win 9-2. they bounce back after a tuesday loss. every yankee starte