andrew mccutchen. he is 2-2. he has gone big and little by homering and bunting for a hit. >> rob: be careful with the changeups to righties. >> bob: you don't like that pitch. >> rob: no, i don't like that pitch. it is not conducive to throwing to right-handed hitters. go down and in. and it will go out like that. >> bob: your saw him make the adjust tom the off-speed pitch and he hit a rocket out there. the first career multihomer game for mccutchen. 7-2. six of those runs charged to craig stammen. >> bob: let's see. i'm looking at the lineup. i don't see clement, target gal, oliver, all i see are base hits. >> rob: if you don't make quality, well located pitches, bob, these guys are still dangerous. it didn't get close to this level or at this level by not being the best player on their high school, college and every minor league team they play on. so they may not be high stockwise as major league players go, but they're still major league players. you've got to make your pitches. you can't help guy

andrew mccutchen, three home runs.of the first, this one barely gets over the 325 sign in left. home run number one. yes, i said home run number one. bottom of the fourth, mccutchen again. this one a laser shot. barely gets out. his seconds of the night. pirates up 7-2. bottom of the sixth, mccutchen again. this one, as j.w. would say, is a no-doubter. his third of the night. he would get a curtain call. wait, kid, you're not done. a chance for four. bottom eight. three double play, mccutchen ends the night. not bad, though. the only national league lead-off hitter in the last 55 years to have three home run and six r.b.i.s in the same game. the first pittsburgh player with three home runs since ramirez did it in 2001. outfielders, how about this. mccutchen becomes the third pirates outfielder to hit three home runs in a single game. >> it was a great night. i mean, it's just one of those nights that, i g mean, it's just like i'll -- i know i'll never forget it. i'm just shocked by what happened and what i done. it was

mccutchen is only 22. out of fort meade, florida, where he was a politicallity- sport star in high school. stammen jams him and get as foul ball. there he is, 2-4 with two of his season's three rbi's last night. lastings milledge. 2-2. stammen's 14th start, opponents hitting .266 against him. and turning on that one, mccutchen, the left-field line. he struggled and hit fair and at the wall. it is a home run! josh willingham couldn't get it! and that is the one corner of left field where you can get a 325 or 30-foot fly to leave! >> rob: well, 2-2 pitch. too much of the plate. mccutchen. he get as good whack at it. and it doesn't make great contact, but just enough to clear the wall right by the fair pole. crazy. >> bob: you know, i've noticed teams play their left fielders pretty far off the line here because it is so shallow down there, and then it gets deep so quickly. but now we've already seen two runs tonight that might have been prevented. milledge was playing dunn way out in left center and if josh

nieves just gunned down mccutchen. wil nieves is calling a goo game today for balester and burnett. now morton, formally with atlanta, a 2.25 e.r.a., tin still looking for that first win, and opponents are hittg .360 against him. we'll get you going at 6:30 with nats xtra. byron kerr and ray knight in the studio, before we play the  game of this series tomorrow evening. things have brightened on a couple of front, the skies ha brightened, and the nats with a 2-run lead. and wil nieves is coming up next, and after him, there' big -- [ indiscernible ] jessie chavez has pitched four plus innings gets the nats,d given them no runs on one h adam dunn for the pitcher aftr nieves, still only one out he in the 7th. >> rob: probably let him play the rest of the season in t infield. let's see what he can do. >> bob: nieves hits a ground ball to the right side. delwyn young with the second out. over to 3rd is gonzalez, and dunn

mccutchen. if mock can handle the young bucks that he made three starts. 3 and a 1/3. 5 1/3 he gave up your runs on 8 heights five days ago. mccutchen 7 for 12 in the series. he scored 6 runs. on the first pitch. you had a chance to visit with him this afternoon, i found it interesting what you told me about his football/baseball decision. >> rob: he was great at both but in high school he blew out his acl. that made his choice easy. >> bob: five years after his junior year in high school he is in the big leagues. >> rob: yes. baseball he didn't think that he would get hurt as much. more longevity. >> bob: it is easier to hit a ball carrier or a linebacker than to hit a curve ball like that. >> rob: that was not he is 6- foot, 180. he would have been a wide receiver. wide out. >> bob: 2-2 mock to mccutchen. a fastball. going to leave again. if it is there. it is. mccutchen has fourth homerun in the series. his 7th of the year. look out ricky henderson, 15 years from now there is a kid that may c

how about another mccutchen highlight. that is his third homer of the game. the pirates win a laugher 11-6 against our poor nats. a sea of red tonight at oriole park, camden yards. pedroia, a solo home run. it would stay that way until the top of the fifth. kevin youkilis flexing. that has a chance to go out. way back. that's gone. home run, 2-0 boston. they would add two more. the o's lose. they get blanked 4 hf 0. tiger woods continues his charge at the buick invitational. another good day. that is two in a row on the course for tiger. here he is on the 16th. his nine-the forer, that would give him another birdie, and it falls. move on to 17, the next hole. tiger with the hot putter,his is from 25 feet away. it has eyes. tiger is pumped. that moved him to 17 under for the tournament. tiger ends his day one stroke off the lead, amazing after the horrendous first round he shot. the seniors playing the u.s. open. fred funk, a long putt for bird and that drops him to 13 under. d.c. united trying to get things going against the houston dynamo. 39th minute, right

the rookie, andrew mccutchen already has two home runs. red rover, red rover, send andrew right over the wall again. crushes one to left. a three-run jack. three home runs in the game. that doubles his home run total for the season. his six rbi leads the bucs to an 11-6 win over the gnats. he gets the curtain call. baltimore, dustin pedroia little but swings a big stick for the red sox. facing david herndez. that's a good swing on that ball i think. out of the park for a solo home run. his sixth of the season and the sox take a 1-0 lead. and that was more than enough for boston starter josh beckett, one of the best pchers in all of baseball. here in the second. freezes aubrey huff. he struck out five in seven innings of work. beckett gets his 13th win as the red sox shut out the owes 4-0. the buick open's rating should double for tomorrow's final round because tiger is an top the leader board, nearly perfect when leading after three rounds. 35-1 on the pga tour when he has the outright lead going into sunday tiger woods and his caddie stev

>> yeah, i've faced mccutchen and pearce before.ot of them in that they give up -- i mean, i knew most of those guys. >> middle innings, did you feel like you made adjustments or settled down in anyway? >> yeah, i mean i felt great in the inning. third inning, ground balls got through the hole. took some who has and sometimes those balls hit right at somebody, you know. they didn't, so i had to keep on going out there and battling. in the middle innings, i felt the same as i did in the first. >> you set a real high bar for the last three months in what you've done. do you feel like on a night like tonight it wasn't a bad outing by any means, but it wasn't maybe up to the way you kind of establish yourself now? >> yeah, i mean, last year i mean that kind of start might have got out of hand i wouldn't be able to hand it. just going to take positivity out -- positives out of it. i kept it as close as i could with the best stuff i had. >> today, the trading day deadline. nats sent a couple of guys packing. jake peavy traded from san die

one thing that mccutchen can't do now is thinking about home runs. his game. you have three home runs in game, but this -- >> bob: and here's milledge, first pitch breaking ball to him. lastings is 3 for 9. coming back to the big leagues on friday. 4 for 10 now. he skoshes that ball. -- the scorches that ball. and nyjer recovered quickly. not sure milledge was running full speed out of the battes box. he could have challenged fo second base with two outs. is he running hard? >> pretty much. >> bob: no fault there. >> rob: i think he didn't thik it got far enough away from nyjer to make the attempt. >> bob: arrest monday began does have 11 assists this year. >> bob: you saw the fastball location up in the zone, milledge did a great job fighting it off for a singl runner goes, off speed pitch. nieves a great throw, and the ball waiting for milledge he got to second base. wil nieves, the for 35, gunnig outrun centers, and he threa pea down to second

mccutchen. nats have retired him twice since his game leading off homerun. the assignment to get the game and series over. that's a good breaking ball.   >> bob: nats offense in gear. 8 more runs on 12 hits. mccutchen beyond the reach of guzman for a single in the 9th. >> rob: the problem is that it was a strike curve ball. talk about a lot of pitchers tried to. want to say overdo it. make two good of a pitch. don't have to be perfect. , you want the extend the zone. >> bob: milledge. that got him near the trademark. checking to see if his bat was intact. clip lip is the pitcher of record. three scoreless. no hits. no walks. two strikeouts. two double plays. it doesn't get better than that. >> rob: he is smart. o-2. three pitches. this guy definitely is swinging at one of them. >> bob: no breaking balls for strikes here. >> rob: struck holy name out. >> bob: there is up and in. a bouncer. belliard to short. on a risky play. ronny plays it perfectly to get the lead runner. not easy for a right-handed throwing first baseman. >> rob: remember talk

andrew mccutchen.ually a pretty good up-and-comg player but he look liked albert pujols last night. touched the nationals up for three home runs. >>we start with the racing presidents. last night, flattened by the wall. adam dunn doesn't flatten this one out. a popping fly. >>> lastings milledge, come on. you now he wasn't going to get that. christian kuzman trots home. dunn ends up with the rbi double. one run scores and here comes andrew mccutchen racing around third. he score as well. milledge ends up with a 2-1 for his efforts. >>> then the man of the night. the look. andrew mccutchen already has two home runs an he says may i have another, please. thank you very much. that's gone. up and over the wall and left. the three-run home run. three home runs in the game. that doubles his home run for the season. the sick rbi leads the pirates to an 11-6 win over the nationals. >>> in brm, pedroia and the red sox in town. a little man but he yields a mighty large stick. good swing and that is good and gone

mccutchen at the shortstop. , you know the wall. the old field. why ogi was trying to get that homer back still stands. >> rob: guzman trying to double up the pitcher. >> bob: just talking old news anyway. [ laughter ] >> bob: and that still stands over near the university of pittsburgh campus. yogi was watching it fly out. milledge to zimmerman. bounce the throw. that is on and nats turn a double play. the key was zimdom got rid of it quickly. nats turn the 96th of the year. @p @>pk@c@" ep6l.xopnpq.cp+pgú  >> bob: we're here and i thought it was addressee stalllard. let's see who gave it up. let's relive one of the greatest world series moments. >>> a swing and high 5.   >> bob: i spook to this carter, one of the players walk off homeruns to clinch the world series. >> rob: a buddy of yours showed up here, rob. how you doing. >> bob: don't mess with the hair. >> rob: the hair, the hair. >> bob: have you been trying to shot a hot dog at him. [ laughter ] >> rob: there may have to be a mutiny on the bounty is that what you

thel in the air, and they've got andrew mccutchen out in center. you can't get it by him. >> bob: here's wil nieves, 0-3 today. willie harris playing left field, batting 9th on the double switch. ronnie belliard, 0-0 this year. pirates are occupied with him right now. so he's running on the next pitch. i like it! jim riggleman going for the insurance here. out for a sunday afternoon stroll. the count is 1-1 to wil n ronnie is one of those guys w carries his batting gloves to keep his fingers closed while running and sliding. >> rob: you're not supposed to put your hands on the turf wh you slide, you'll break a wrist. >> bob: jam them into the b. >> rob: you hold them up. lots of guys go to that wrist/thumb hard plastic protection you can velcro ad your hand. >> bob: 1-2 to wil. 0-3 for the strikeout. they've gone to the 10th inning in cincinnati. reds came back and tied that game with colorado. that's a good take by wil. it's hard to lay off p

. >>> in pittsburgh, andrew mccutchen of the pirates hit a game-ending two-run homer off brad lidge.phillies lost for only the second time in nine games, 6-4. >>> the texas rangers got a double fly end the yankees' rally in the ninth inning. texas beats new york, 10-9. >>> and in the bottom of the ninth inning, minnesota's young hit one the opposite way for his fourth hit of the game. that scored another player to give the twins a 7-6 win over baltimore. when we return, more on the enduring legacy of senator ted kennedy, who died last night at the age of 77. i'm a diabetic and i want you to know over 230,000 u.s. doctors have authorized their patients to receive their diabetic supplies through liberty medical. and that begins with the one touch®ultra2 meter. easy to use, fast results... at no additional cost! liberty helps keep you on track by delivering diabetic supplies to your door... and filing your claims. i never feel i'm going to run out of anything. with liberty i always have someone to talk to and now they refill all my prescriptions. call now to receive a diabetic cookbook

>> you know, obviously andrew mccutchen leads the list.irates drafted in '05. he came up in june. he's their starting center fielder and is kind of the piece they're building around for the future. you look to his right and there's lastings milledge was ar disappointment both with newo le york and with washington.man, wi he's found a fresh start here. his attitude has improved a loto the pirates see potential with him. and then there's guys like garret jones who came up, was n.l. rookie of the month in july in his first time as a starter in the majors and a guy like kevin hart who just joined the pirates' rotation. they have... while the team obviously is out of contention for anything this year, a lot of these individual players have a lot to play for. they're looking to earn spots going into next season, so at least there is some motivation in that. >> and jenifer, you menned andrew mccutchen who made an impact on the team certainly since coming up from the minors. he did not play in yesterday's loss in arizona due the slight dizziness.

andrew mccutchen coming around. milledge goes 2 for 4 with two rbis.le the eighth inning, the nationals trying to beat up on johan rah ran and christian kuzman lines one up u. nyjer morgan comes in to score for the national. he himself a former pittsburgh pirate but it wasn't enough. milledge and the pirates win 5-4. that's your sports on this saturday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a great day. >> we're certainly going to have a great day in the weather department. >> we certainly are. compared to yesterday's nasty weather. today looks wonderful with lots of sunshine out there. it will be warm though. highs are at 90 degrees and quite huchld but all in all, a nice day. >> not so nice tomorrow. >> not too bad. >> we'll be back tomorrow at 6:00, 7:00, and 9:00. until then, have a good day. so when you said you bring fiber optic all the way to the home, you meant... we bring fiber optic all the way to the home. um... which gives you more bandwidth than cable. so you can upload faster. so it's like comparing a horse and buggy to a sports car. am i th

mccutchen did that one day against the nationals. >> bob: the mets are at the bottom of the league ineffield back. 2-1 to cantu. and that will even the count. big strong dan uggla on deck. martin has had a hard time putting away hitters. he has had a lot of two-strike counts, just like ramirez a moment ago and a couple of guys in the first inning. he hasn't been able to get the out. >> rob: in the first inning, he had a great 12-6 breaking ball. even a good slider. he's gone away from it. knocked down by the pitcher. he didn't want to chance the play at second base, and you can understand why and he made a very good play to get one out. >> rob: great reaction right here. in position to knock this ball down. he has no play on ramirez. he doesn't want to force the throw. he takes him out -- he takes the sure out. >> bob: two outs, uggla coming up. dan walked the first time up. the pitch count really mounting here. two outs in the third, and reaching the 60-pitch mark. j.d. martin and josh johnson, 31 pitches and 21 strikes. but it is still a one run ballgame and that is 3-0 on uggla. he