garciaparra. >> they still love him in beantown. top of the fourth, no score.rs at the corners with no outs. nomar, singling to left. jays on giambi scores, 1-0 ace, nomar, 2-4 with an rbi. a's win it 6-0. anderson, first rookie to shut out the red sox in fenway since jim abbott in 1989. boston had their six-game home winning streak against nomar and the a's snapped the garciaparra on the emotions he was feeling monday night. >> i was trying not to try. i was getting choked up. these fans have made me feel just that way. since the day i put on that uniform. and, you know, they have given me such great memories and such great moments. they gave me another one today that i will never forget. >> i can't get off this high. the adrenaline, once it wears off i'll be sore. my body will be hurting after the adrenaline wears off. it's just a tribute to these wonderful people here that i can feel like this. >> among players with at least 1,000 at-bats at fenway, garciaparra's career batting average is six best all time. of the five ahead of him, four are hall of famers.

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nomar garciaparra's return to fenway. >> nomar garciaparra. >> in the fourth inning, nomar gets the a'sd first. this was his first trip to fenway park since the red sox traded him in 2004, the year they won the world series. >>> and that is all from here. back to you, jeremy and vinita. >>> and real quickly, it seems like michael jackson's image is popping up everywhere. look at this tree stump. a northern california family says it looks like the king of pop's face. >> others say, it looks more like jesus.

. >>> five years ago red sox fans were shocked which garciaparra was traded away to the cubs. last night they got the chance to watch him play at fenway since the move. now wearing an a's uniform but the crowd gave him a one-minute standing ovation before his first at-bat. he finished 2 for 4. the red sox with only two hits in the game. meanwhile the phils weren't having trouble getting hits. 21 against their game with the reds. philadelphia scored 22 runs. that's right. in fact, they led 10-0 after the first inning tying a club record. phillies with three home runs in the inning. >>> how about this, according to reports, the tribune company has reached a written agreement to sell the cubs and wrigley field to joe rickets for $900 million. nothing has been finalized. >>> six weeks after announcing his wife had breast cancer phil mickelson also announced his mom has the same disease. >>> lance armstrong had a big day at the tour de france moving from tenth to third, positioning himself for a shot at the yellow jersey. fabian from switzerland remain the overall leader 40 seconds

nomar garciaparra signing some autographs. dustin pedroia, fork 'em sun devils.. solo jack. up 1-0.on. the new red sock, adam laroche. and laroche tags the green monster. jason bay, come on in. j.d. drew to third. sox up 3-0. boston endes up cruising to an 8-3 victory. now 34-15 at home this season. that is the best record in the bigs. oakland has lost nine of the last 11 games at fenway. he's lost 7 of the last ten games overall. >> with becketts win, he improves to 7-0 at fenway park. he and tim wakefield start the 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'

we have a lot of comments that we're going to play for you from terry francona to nomar garciaparra,boston. we've got all that coming up. you've already heard from david ortiz this half hour. tim kurkjian is coming by, as well, in moments. more baseball afternoon action. the o's looking for a split of their four-game set with kansas city. scary moment in the seventh. billy butler comebacker catches burgeson in the knee it looked like. he got up pretty quickly. limped off the field and then sort of collapsed in the dugout. he is listed as day-to-day. he got the win, struck out six in seven innings. 13 strikeouts against texas on saturday and now allows seven earned runs in six today against a baltimore squad that doesn't scare that many people offensively. the big news for the orioles, you just lost your best pitcher arguably. the orioles have sent george sherrill to the dodgers for two prospects. sherrill eighth in the a.l. jonathan broxton, now they have great lefty to set him up. roy halladay, according to buster olney, trade talks about him are dead. that from an e-mail from j.p.

garciaparra. >> they still love him in beantown. top of the fourth, no score. runners at the corners with no outs. nomar, singling to left. jays on giambi scores, 1-0 ace, nomar, 2-4 with an rbi. a's win it 6-0. anderson, first rookie to shut out the red sox in fenway since jim abbott in 1989. boston had their six-game home winning streak against nomar and the a's snapped the garciaparra on the emotions he was feeling monday night. >> i was trying not to try. i was getting choked up. these fans have made me feel just that way. since the day i put on that uniform. and, you know, they have given me such great memories and such great moments. they gave me another one today that i will never forget. >> i can't get off this high. the adrenaline, once it wears off i'll be sore. my body will be hurting after the adrenaline wears off. it's just a tribute to these wonderful people here that i can feel like this. >> among players with at least 1,000 at-bats at fenway, garciaparra's career batting average is six best all time. of the five ahead of him, four are hall of fa