jack burt, our nasa quality. jack's been here over 20 years, actually 26 years with nasa. jack was raised in melbourne. he was born in wisconsin and grew up down in melbourne and went in the marine corps and came back to work in the space center with us. now, our number five sitting inside the hatch there, that is chris mineert. chris is probably our senior closeout crew guy next to travis. chris has done a lot of closeouts, i'm guessing probably, oh,60 or 70. chris was born in long beach, california, and grew up in palmdale, and chris actually worked at the plant building some of the orbiters in the early days. and this is randy bresnick. and randy's been part of the astronaut office for at least seven years and done five other launches. ray quevas is our other suit tech from houston, and ray's been with us for 14 years, i think, as a closeout crew guy. and he's worked a total of 28 years, and he's done 17 launches, as a matter of fact. >> and here we are back live in the white room, still we can see taking out some emergency breathing air packs right now. >> yeah. randy

bark at the park bottom of the third, josh willingham hitting in the third spot two-run jack upper deck bomb. burtlds sylvester sta loan ronald reagan all pumped up for this. hideki matsui in the clean-up spot willingham scores a's extend the lead 5-3. bailey strikes out the first two he faces, then gets kendrick to fly out to right. bailey earns his ninth save a's win 9-3. >> reporter: well the a's had just one goal coming into tonight's game that was to start off the second half of the season with a "w," and they did just that, sparking their offense against the division rival angels in the win column. >> pitched great, you know a little bit in the fifth got out of sorts with his command, but shoot, it was more of a pitch count thing than anything. >> it was great to get back in here and celebrate, turn the music up relax, something we need to do a lot more of in the second half but we have to piece it together day-by-day. >> reporter: it's brandon mccarthy that gets the "w," but they had to use six relievers, not what a manager wants to do on the eve of a double header. >> and as kate said the