that's all the offense josh beckett would need. beckett, who will play in his second all-star game, struck out seven, career win 300. red sox beat the royals, 6-0. dodgers and brewers, national league all-star orlando hudson ending the first half with a bang. sixth inning, left side of the plate. solo shot to the right. dodgers up # 6-0. in the eighth, hudson again. a pair of homers. dodgers head into the break with the best record in baseball. they down the brushgs 7-4. another all-star. tigers brandon inge flexing his muscle against the indians. brandon looking ready for tonight's home run derby. tigers mall the indians, 10-1. at the other end of the spectrum, alex reels with a high fly ball to center. a sure home run. adam jones making it look easy. orioles fly past the blue jays, 4-2. tour de france, after nine stages, lance armstrong remains in third place, eight seconds off the lead. final round of the john deere classic shot of the day from steve stricker. his approach on 17 is right on the money. the ball hits the pin and ba

what will they do for an encore against the red sox ace josh beckett?his quest for tennis immortality continues. roger federer 2 wins away from a 15th grand slam title. >> and open season on nba free agents, but kobe is stayingoo the west coast and continue his l.a. story. ♪ ♪ >> you are watching espnews where we are keeping you current with the latest breaking news, scores and highlights. plenty of baseball matinees. the mets won. >> i didn't know that. >> first the classic at wimbledon. andy roddick trying to take the next step facing lleyton hewitt. what a match. 5th set. hewitt leads 3-2. hewitt tries the backhand returner. roddick charges the net. tied at 3 in the 5th. next game, hewitt up 40-30. both players keep battling. hewitt in the near court. nice rally. stays on the other side for roddick. hewitt takes the 4-3 lead. next game roddick up. the serve, hewitt can do nothing with that. tied at 4. next game, advantage roddick. andy. at the net. andy passes the forehand up the line. a lead for roddick. roddick up 40-30. serving. the return. hewitt

josh beckett charged with making that a one-night wonder. and roger faces dr. ivo.could the champ come over the sport's biggest curiosity? that's coming up. you know what i like about tennis are the rankings. i like to know exactly where you stand at all times. yeah, it works for us. yeah. hey, if they ranked "sportscenter" anchors, where do you think i'd be ranked? - i don't know. - come on. i'd rather not get into it. come on, pick a number between one and 10. well... i'm not sure you'll be in the top 10. i'm in the top 10, roger. >>> ♪ >> headed to big mac land. gone. >> hammers it to left. he has done it again. >> not since alex rodriguez had 30 at the all-star break and ended up with 50 homeruns has albert gone to 30. what are we watching here? ,. >> we're watching how everyone else in the lineup hits around him. ludwick getting healthy, derosa being in the lineup now. that's what is important. albert is so consistent. he is going to do exactly what he is going to do he is the best hitter in in the game and he shows up the same every single day. what he needs i

i think josh beckett realized they could swing the bat. >> they had a comeback of 3 own today.ed back today. in a division of a tight race, though, is this more than one game losing something like that? >> not really. you understand these things happen. it's how you bounce back and react to it. weak-minded teams will let it bother you and lose 5 in a row. the boston red sox have been there and done that. a couple of years ago they had a big comeback win against the baltimore orioles that got their manager fired. they know about coming back on teams. they know teams can comeback on them. >> you did not mention papelbon. is there concern here with him over the last few weeks? >> well, he's still throwing 95 to 97 miles per hour. a lot of pitchers especially young guys like him, they will go through a period where they have a little dead arm. sometimes when you go through that period, your location is awful. john smoltz was throwing 92 or 93 miles per hour but he was located and baltimore could not hit him. papelbon was throwing harder but was not locating. he will be fine. he wou

one night after the red sox and royals combined for 24 runs, i josh beckett delivers a tasty masterpieces lance armstrong battles the pyrenees in the field why his own teammate may be his biggest challenger. and what tune are the jazz singing with respect to carlos boozer? find out next on espnews. >> thanks for joining us on espnews. we're keeping you current. when a royal fan probably opened the newspaper this morning, saw the pitching matchup, bruce chen against josh beckett. game was probably won and lost right there. >> you're saying advantage red sox? >> off the bat. >> beckett looking to join his teammate tim wakefield for most wins in the american league at the all-star break with 11. he was sharp throughout, getting mark teahen in the second inning. top three, john buck swinging. beckett retired the first nine batters he faced. five on strikeouts. top seven, little 4-6-3 double play. beckett gets out of a jam. in the ninth inning, billy butler to end it. takes just 94 pitches for beckett to twirl his second shutout in five starts. red sox win it by a final of 6-0. beckett does i

. >>> boston's josh beckett earned his 100th career victory by starting with a strikeout and ended the game with his seventh strikeout as the red sox blanked the kansas city royals 6-0. >>> and detroit's brad inge warmed up for today's all-star home run derby by clouding two of them last night as the tigers routed the cleveland indians 10-1. inge now has 21 homers. >>> when we return, a look at the nation's top story, and a private swim club tries to make amends in the wake of a discrimination scandal. what does v-e-g-e- t-a-b-l- e-s spell? well, honey, that spells... ( thinking )vegetables! oh wait, i want her to eat it... but i can't lie. lying's bad. mommies don't lie. you get grounded for lying. and how am i going to drive the carpool if i'm grounded? announcer: there's a full serving of vegetables in every bowl of chef boyardee. and that's no lie. it's obviously delicious, secretly nutritious. but i did. you need to talk to your doctor about aspirin. you need to be your own advocate. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. you take care of your kids, no

. >>> josh beckett trying to remain unbeaten at home going for his 11th win versus the royals lookinggood striking out three of the first four batters he faced. it is becht facing john buck. advantage beckett. he returns the first nine batters he faced. then beckett atop the seventh, pena, a 4-6-3 d feed and beckett one out away from a complete game and does it. gets his 100th career win. >>> cards and cubs. game two of a doubleheader. ryan ludwick a home run machine. top one, two-run shot. then in the top of the sixth, ludwick does it again, seventh career multihome run game. he finished 3 for 4 with two homers and 4 rbi batting .478 in his last six games. that'll do it for this espnews update. now back to jeremy and vinita. >>> oklahoma city did being completely rebuilt but not with bricks and stone. a lego master is painstakingly duplicating the cityscape with the blocks. >> kurt zimmerly is using more than a million legos to re-create all of the city's major landmarks spending 12 hours a day. at that rate it could take him the rest of the summer to finish up.

hanley ramirez, josh beckett, mike lowell go to the red sox and help them win a world championship. at the time, you were getting a minor league player in return. hanley ramirez is one of the most talented players in the major leagues today. it was pretty good for the florida marlins. >> bob: made a mark on the wall behind detwiler and olsen. you know, the dugouts here are so close. i'm sitting in one of those dugouts, i might be tempted to wear a helmet. it is really, really close here. >> rob: you'd get laughed at for that. >> bob: i know i would, but at least i'd be an alive guy getting laughed at. >> rob: they're not pitching tonight. there you go. willie harris grabbed a glove. which will slow playing a little d. in there. >> bob: you can't keep willie out of the lineup. >> rob: the pitcher can go down to the bullpen if they don't want to sit that close. >> bob: good at-bat by josh willingham fouled off a couple. let's see what willie did here. >> rob: playing a little second. i don't know if they're not keeping with willie in -- i think they're getting elijah some at-bats. he'

. >> jim: watching the game earlier in the week, he took josh beckett extremely deep.e just can elevate the ball. big strong guy. if you are matt albers, what you do best is sink the ball. we saw him get out of the last inning with a double play. set up outside, throw over first, though. the ballgame is played tight throughout as the orioles got their runs early in the ballgame in the 3rd inning, 3 runs, 4 hits, and they added another in the 5th inning, roberts, jones, markakisrbis. both teams have played it close to the vest in holding runners, trying to make sure they get that double play possibility. there has been that runner at first base. >> gary: the orioles 10-9 in one-run game and that's just a part of it. can you hold runners? can you get your catcher a ball that he can make a good throw on? 0-2 delivery, trying to get him to chase and he would not do it. it goes to 1-2. yankees beat toronto today 6-5 in 12 innings. matsui, jorge posada, johnny damon all had homeruns in that ballgame. yankees have been playing some pretty good baseball and toronto caught them

okajima relieving josh beckett who pitched well. two outs and two on.the win as the red sox become the first american league team to reach 50 wins for the second consecutive year. >> meanwhile, josh beckett, definition of a stopper. with his win on tuesday night against the as in boston he improves to 6-0 this year when he takes the hill following a red sox loss. the red soxless monday night. tied with matt cane, and 8 -- in night games, 2-2 during the day. >> how about the yankees? they won 10-12 in minnesota. bases loaded. top of the fourth, for a-rod. gets all of this one. a month shot in the metrodome. he thinks it's gone and it would have been except carlos gomez robs rodriguez. that was the only positive for the twins. they lose 10-2. baker allowed five earned runs. sabathia owns the twins. 6-1. 1.22 e.r.a. in his last seven starts against minnesota. >> the struggling tigers trying to snap a three-game streak. that's verlander, he would add 11 strikeouts to his total. he pitches at home, he is nearly unhittable. now, 5-0 this year at home. he beco

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josh beckett takes the loss. he had been 6-0 after a red sox loss this season. bay up 3-2 now on chicago. this has gone back and forth throughout. now tampa just three outs from winning this thing on the road. they're four and a half games behind boston going into tonight. the white sox just a game behind detroit. so the tigers beat seattle. so the white sox, if they don't come back, they fall two behind theand i both worked on this story together. our sources have told us, we worked separately, and collectively, that this meeting, they're trying to finalize the time of the meeting to take place by thursday or friday. once that meeting takes place, our sources are telling us that goodell will probably make this decision by next tuesday. but he would not extend beyond next week -- the and conditional reinstates meant aspect of it is interesting. not the first time that he would use this model. he would reserve the right to extend or deaf it, but give him the green light to go to training-camp if he sign wes an n.f.l. team. >> where would this meeting take place?

david hernandez and josh beckett, orioles haven't announced officially the sunday starters against claytz who is playing against boston. tomorrow, a night game tomorrow. here is the 0-1 delivery. that is taken for a strike. chris tilghman will be making his debut -- tilghman will be making his debut. he'll go against disairchgy. that will be his opponent -- grerng grerng. the numbers for tillman this year. fans will get to another future names for the orioles and there will be a day game 12:30 and that will be brad bergesen taking his 6-5 mark out against luke hochevar who is 6-3 on the season. one ball, two strike count. pena on at first base being held. gordon swings through it. foul tip says the umpire. two strikeouts for berken. >> buck: what jerk needs to do -- jason berken needs to do is focus on one pitch at a time and try to execute a pitch, get down in the zone. that's where he's most effective with the fastball he threw to gordon and try to put together some pitches, sequence of pitches leads to an out, one out leads to two and then you're look at the end of the inning. that's

verlander ties josh beckett with 12. for detroit, the win snaps a 7-game losing streak. it's the most they've scored since may 25th. >> golf, he didn't play at the british open which snapped the streak of 51 straight major championship appearances which dated back to 1994. and phil mickelson is playing at the pga championship. lefty has missed time on tour to be with his wife amy who was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> tiger woods and rocker bob seeger pairing up for the buick open pro-am. yes, i said bob seeger. tiger here, with the 25-foot chip, lipping out. tiger when he usually misses he's not smiling. but he is right now. got aloof it. tiger here, the long putt. about two feet short of the cup. now you're probably asking bob seeger, what is the deal there? he's from michigan. and seeger here the 20-foot chip, just by inches. >> on a play like that though, you've got to forget about t. >> he's a traveling man. but he's from ann arbor didn't have to go far. >> let's get you updated right now. dodgers and cardinals. manny ramirez is a dangerous hitter. he's so dangero

if you can throw 91 and locate and have sideways movement, you can beckett i have. >> i think josh bardtive tonight. you know he can hit. had a couple of doubles. let's look what josh did against the mets. the only two runs of the night for the nationals. >> he is swinging right. the fastball drivessist to left field for the double. inside with it and that is a hitter that knows a little about hitting. look for a pitch away you know he won't necessarily go that way again. pitcher changes his pattern, but you're right on top because you are thinking with it. rbi's number 18 and 19 for the catcher for the nationals josh bard. we'll step out for a moment. more to come of nats extra post game. 6-2 new york wins it. some fans still hanging around and filing out of nationals park after a disappointing night but tomorrow is another night. announcer: what's your cialis moment? when she gives me that look. when at last we're alone. when we both decide. announcer: today, guys with erectile dysfunction can be ready with another dosing option from cialis. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven