good-bye, home run, jim thome! jim: well, not a good idea a couple of walks to get to this guy, and then go 2-0 on him. i mean, this is about as hard a line drive as you could hit. hit. three-run home run line drive. >> gary: 556th career home run for the 13th all-time leading home run hitter, and with that berken is out of the ball game. the long ball hurt him. matt albers coming on, the white sox take a 6-3 lead. they're all around us. which is why pnc created grow up great. a $100 million program that prepares young children for school. and the world they'll inherit.... sooner than you think. pnc. leading the way. ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and internet today and get an ultra-sleek compaq mini netbook. call the verizon center for customers

good-bye, home run, jim thome!ood for 3. >> well, big night for jim thome, as he hits a pair of home run, be a 7 rbi game. that is a career night. here are the numbers that rick just referred to. career against the orioles. all he does is hit. he still has a quick bat and a great eye at the plate. >> well, he really does, and if you make mistakes with jim thome, he's going to make you pay. he still has a lot of power. certainly tonight when you saw him hit that ball well up over the hedge in straight away center filed, he showed everybody around he can still get around on a pretty good 94 mile an hour fastballs. so you have to constantly change speeds with him, and you cannot live in the middle of the plate with him up there. >> what a weapon. on two swings tonight, drove in 7 runs, and the orioles drop it by a final of 12-8. we were wondering on the pregame show how the all star break would affect the orioles because of the rest that they had. this was a tired team hitting the break with four days off, and really

. >> after watching jim thome last night, in chicago against the white sox. 1-0 in the fifth and destroyed the pitch. giving the white sox lead for good and mark burly lost one of the last 20. >>> we're getting warm on this edition of geico sports extra. find out if united can crack the win column. >>> also ahead. [ indiscernible ] >> the kid with the fro, mike davis and maybe he's next in line for the nfl. we'll check in on the big brothers as he prepares for training camp in a few weeks. this is geico sports extra.  fiber one. i'm looking for some fiber. this bar is an excellent source of fiber. the's no fiber in this. tastes too good. theris fiber. [ chuckle ] no. i can't taste the fiber in this chocolate. they have 35% of your daily value. hmm. oh, samples. h. autobahn. wackenschdol. fiber one chewy bars. cardboard no. delicious yes. >> back to togeico sports extra. d.c. united fans are wondering when they will welcome back the first place in the eastern conference. frankly enough, the united hasn't won since then and entering as they welcome the colorad

jim thome drove in a career high seven runs. in that chisox 12-8 victory. >>> meanwhile in new york today, former yankee david cone tosses out the ceremonial pitch. current yankees manager, joe girardi. but now we go to the top of the second. here is cc sebathia. that ends the third inning. he lost five hits. but no runs over 7. and the yankees win. over the atlantic. british open, 59-year-old tom watson, still sitting atop the leader board. despite playing on a relatively new, surgically replaced hit. old tom. birdieing in route for a 1 spoon. off by one shot over england's rock. fisher and watson looking to be the oldest pro golfer to win a grand slam event. >>> russia's ivanoff, the winner tonight. american lance armstrong troped -- dropped from third to fourth, but still trails overall by 8 seconds. >>> chelsea scores first. later, again, chelsea, who will be in downtown baltimore next friday to take on ac milan. final score today, chelsea, 2- 0, over seattle. >>> and finally, what a day. for baltimore native sun antonio fre

o's up in the third but that merely set the stage for the jim thome show. the slugger hits this line tore right. the look on burken's face says it all. yep, he was shell shocked. and thome had. danny base, a grand slam for thome. 12-8 the final. >>> we move on to golf. wet and windy, first, e. 59- year-old tom watson. even par round today, five under for the championship. tied for the lead is tom watson. tied with relative unknown steve marino, barely got his teff. then there's tiger woods, a three-time british open champ, best in the world. not a winner this year. this errant tee shot emblematic of his weekend. he fails to make the cut. tiger on his early exit. >> just made mistakes. obviously you have to play clean rounds of golf to win, and i didn't. >> tiger's last hope was this chip shot on 18. needed to knock it in to save himself, so -- but he didn't, so he is in

speaking of having to make good pitches, that's what you have to do to jim thome. >> 2-1 foul ball o 2 and 2.the has 16 homerun on the year and he turned 39 in august. he's had 14 seasons with 20 or more homeruns. >> he's cald out on strikes. good pitch on theside% corner it the first strike jeremy does something, it's backdoor slider. >> thome,thinks it's outside. he hsa% lifetime on base percentage of over 40%. rightere,ht took aall got cous offhe with a nice approach. that's how you get the good hitters out, make quali pitches. >> thome and konerko are hitters. 2 and 0 on konerko. he was tie d for 6th in the american league rbi's with 61. he's now 33 years old. it will be back in '94. here, the hitters refer to guthrie because of the two home runs. dye is 4 out of 8 with a home run. >> that's why you're happy suzuki is taking the day off. he's one of the few guys that's not hot on this ball club. >> he's been hot over the last 20 games. here's the 2-2. then it falls down. it's a sinking line drive and he nearly took melvin with him. >> it's hit so hard that melvin is trying

jim thome takes bases loaded and clears them with a swing.rand slam home run as the white sox go on to beat the birds 12-8 in chicago. >> well, if you wanted to by ravens tickets, your only chance now. sales open yesterday and quickly put out the soldout season. the ravens sold out the regular season in about an hour. they have about 1,000 tickets left for their two home preseason games. >> mavericks owner has yet to see a championship, but he won big in a court yesterday instead of on a court. a federal judge dismissed insider's trading suit against cubin. he also opened a web site which touts itself as aimed at closing corporate chicanery. >> meanwhile, a celebity golf tournament planned in nevada. if he wins, he may not get a chance to keep the winners chest. yesterday nevada arrested walker on an outstanding warrant, make that thursday. on monday walker faces a court appearance to answer charges that he wrote $1 million in bad checks in las vegas casinos. walker now faces $82 million in prosecution fees -- $82,000 in prosecution charges i

chicago's jim thome hit two runs. including a grand slam to center in the sixth. and they pound the orioles, 12-8. in the british open, tiger woods shot a five over in two rounds and missed the cut for the fifth time in his poe fegsal career. fairfax native, steve marino fired a second-round 68 and shares the lead with tom watson with five under par. marino and watson tee off today at 10:00 a.m. have a great day. >>> 6:11 is your time now, 68 degrees. coming up on the saturday edition of "news4 today," investigators name the man they say likely planned the deadly hotel attacks in indonesia. also you might call it a presidential feat, why the white house is making news because of a tweet. and it's getting crowded at the international space station. "endeavour" arrives after some nifty maneuvering. (female narrator) from jennifer: a microfiber sofa bed for just $299, only at jennifer. $299. jennifer: the only place to buy a sofa bed. >>> investigators in indonesia may be close to naming the mastermind behind the deadly hotel bombings in jakarta. two suicide bombers

he gets his win as he strikes out jim thome. white sox pitchers not as sharp. contreras with the wild pitch. adam jones scores. then aaron came in for ozzie guillen and he was worse. bases loaded walk to luke scott. nick markakis scores. three runs scored on two wild pitches and a walk. then one swing drives in three more. as earl weaver used to say, old doctor long ball. the orioles win. the british open. tom watson looking to become the oldest major golf champion ever. he came within about six inches of getting it done. the young bucks came after him. ross fisher, beautiful shot here. back-to-back birdies for fisher. then a quadruple bogey. that would be an eight which is not good. that's not good. lee westwood, very good. eagle on 7. he led by two. but the old master undaunted here. birdie on number 11 to go three under. he takes the lead. meanwhile, stewart cink. how many of you thought this shot would mean a playoff later? no one but him. watch him walk through the green on 18, needing this putt to win it. you knew it right as he hit it. push it had to the

chicago's jim thomee hit two home runs including a grand slam to center in the sixth inning.hey pound the orioles, 12-#. in golf at the british open tiger woods shot a five over through two rounds and missed thcut for just the fifth time in his professional career. meanwhile, fairfax native steve marino fired a second-round 68 and shares the lead with 59-year-old tom watson at five under par. they tee off today at 10:00 a.m. that's your sports minute. have a great day. >>> two cyclists were hurt during the tour de france yesterday after being shot possibly with an air rifle. the incident, which was not seen on video, happened during the tour's 13th stage in northeast france. a spanish cyclist was hit and had the projectile removed from his thigh. a new zealand cyclist was hit in the finger. both expect to ride again today. authorities aren't sure exactly what kind of weapon was used. >>> a lot of people love to eat crabs but most of us don't know how to properly cook them. with the help of the website monkey see.com the owner of a popular crab market in virginia shows us how.

since the start of last year, but let's face it, you're getting to the end with jermaine dye and jim thomeul konerko a.j. pierzynski. going forward you're going to need offensive weapons. you're going to need more speed in your lineup the way ozzie has always wanted. maybe that's a big reason why he decided that four pitchers will go west because he's looking at next three years of a rotation of buehrle, peavy, danks assuming nobody gets hurt. that's a big assumption, but that's the logic behind kenny's thinking today. >> that's what they're saying in chicago. reacting to the jake peavy trade from san diego. reaction from southern california. we now bring in tom from the "san diego union-tribune." what are the padres saying was their rationale? >> two things. good young pitching, clear up some money off the table and sort of move forward with the rebuilding long term they're trying to do. >> why now and not a few months ago? >> peavy turned him down in may. they tried give him to the white sox and he was unwilling to accept a trade. kenny williams came back after him and was very persisten

. >> jim thome of the white sox, 1-10 of their last 11 road games versus the twin. broken bat. the ball gets past carlos gomez. and denard spann as well. thome 1-4. four r.b.i. 42 end game with four or more r.b.i. others. white sox up 8' 3. white sox cling to go an 8-7 lead. jenks gets spann to ramirez for the game-ending double play. the white sox win 8-7. minnesota is now 10-13 in one-run games. joe mauer 0fehr the night. he had an r.b.i. but just the sixth time in 63 games he's gone hitless with at least four at-bats. >> the blazers have signed jazz forward paul milsap to a four-year $32 million offer sheet. milsap, a restricted free agent so that means utah has seven days to match the offer. the jazz have to figure out a way to trade carlos boozer if they want to keep milsap. >> raptors, pistons in las vegas, summer action. first quarter, off the miss. watch detroit's first round pick, day, the flush. durr ron washington, got to be the shoes, maybe it's the hair. 13 points, six boards. and washington again, transition defense. coaches like that. fourth quarter quincey dube.