connell: ken rosenthal, good guy for fox. world series will be played here tonight, first time in washington, d.c. since october 7th of 1933. melissa? melissa: all right. connell. got more coming up on joe biden as well, making a big promise about his kid, and his presidential bid. we'll have more on that coming up. ♪. just free trades? fidelity has zero commissions for online u.s. equity trades and etfs, plus zero minimums to open a brokerage account. with value like this, there are zero reasons to invest anywhere else. fidelity. with sofi, get your credit cards right- by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. and get your interest rate right. so you can save big. get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. most people think of verizon as a reliable phone company. (woman) but to businesses, we're a reliable partner. we keep companies ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business. virtualize their operations. (woman) and build ai customer experiences. we also keep them ready for the nex

joe: for the possible usage of gerrit cole here tonight, down to the field we go and say hi to ken rosenthal. >> ken: gerrit cole has never pitched relief as a profession professional. at some point tonight he's likely to bullpen. did to close out game 72014 but he could pitch two innings most likely starting with a clean inning. and if roberto osuna is needed to escape the jam before the ninth, we could see gerrit cole. cy young candidate on the verge of free agency closing out the world series. for more on the national starting pitcher tonight, here is tom verducci. >> tom: thanks, ken. on sunday, max scherzer couldn't raise his arm. three days later he is starting game seven of the world series. in between he received a cortisone shot in his neck. this morning he woke up and texted manager dave martinez "i am good." tonight he has no restrictions. he has a longer leash than houston starter zack greinke. martinez has pulled him from a game mid inning only five times all year. it's already been an incredible comeback story, but tonight the last chapter shall be written. >> joe: it's been su

the answer to that, here's ken rosenthal. >> ken: we are not going to see gerrit cole pitch five scoreless innings in relief the way madison bumgarner did on ono days' rest to close out game 7 of the 2014 world series. we are not even going to seem pitch three innings the way jon lester didn't game 7 in 2016. now, we might see two innings out of cole but the more interesting question is when we will see him. it could be as early as the middle innings or as late as the ninth inning, if a.j. hinch uses roberto osuna earlier to get out of a jam. the idea of gerrit cole closing out this world series, on the verge of free agency, the verge of the richest pitching contract in major league history is an intriguing concept to say the least. however this game plays out, cole is looming over it. >> kevin: a lot of great story lines. great job on the reports with cole who by the way was the best pitcher in baseball arguably for those who haven't really watched too much this year. i'm fascinated with max scherzer tonight and there's another factor in this besides max miraculously recovering. his catch

ken rosenthal can i know you talked to max and people with the nationals about what he's been throughisone shot that got him back on the mound. last night talking reporters scherzer mentioned part of the nationals medical team. chiropractor, expert on biomechanics. they did two treatments a day starting monday. 45 minutes each. worked on soft tissue, core stabilization, strengthening the neck. opening joints freeing the muscles. these sessions which continue today helped scherzer get to this point. it was a combination of things. the shot, the treatment and here is max pitching in the fifth inning of game 7. >> joe: thinks. one ball, two strikes on gurriel gurriel. >> john: the reason that is so important to max, you can see the effort he gives when he throws the baseball and he exerts. the neck snaps down when he lets go of the ball and goes away from home plate and then he looks back as fast as he can to see what happens. >> joe: left side, turner. good play. out straight to first safe. the inning continues. the only run of the game so far is the home owned by the man at first now,

that plus ken rosenthal will join us. a lot coming up after the bell today.ust saw a-rod on the field, by the way. a couple of other guys. there they are. connell: big papi. cheryl: connell mcshane, see you on "after the bell." all right. let's talk about our next story. as saudi arabia gears up to host officials at the dollars at the desert, they are also considering their future with softbank. charlie gasparino has the details. >> softbank has announced it wants to start another vision fund. the big question is would they get saudi money for the second vision fund. remember, they were in the first one, the first one took a bath, right, they wrote stuff off. that's the one that wework was in, i believe. did not do very well. we do understand this. this investment conference i believe is next week, all the major banks are going, steve mnuchin, treasury secretary is going. the head of softbank is going. mohammad -- mbs is going. cheryl: mohammad bin salman. i know. >> he's going to be there. from what we understand, they are going to start negotiating, the sau

ken rosenthal from fox sports will join us. see you then. david: you lucky guy.icket for one of these lobbyists is nothing. that's chump change for those guys. that's another story. connell, we will be looking forward to seeing you at 4:00 today. >>> also in sports, there's this. charles barkley calling out vice president pence for singling out the nba on china. listen. >> vice president pence needs to shut the hell up, number one. all american companies are doing business in china. i don't understand why these holier than thou politicians, if they so want to worry about china, why don't they stop all transactions with china? david: he has a point. i don't know. what do you think? >> i think he does have a point about the hypocrisy going on here about the nba doing business in china when so many other companies do. including other companies involved, you know, in the nba like nike and so forth. but that shouldn't stop the nba or excuse the nba's behavior here. i think really, shaquille o'neal showed us how this should be done when he came to the defense of the ge