the mlb program will receive $25,000 on behalf of n.l.roud sponsor of mlb and road trips go to holiday inn.com to book your next reservation for your road trip. down to the field with ken rosenthal. >> ken: we're here with curtis granderson and mariano riveria. we'll start with you. were you thinking triples? >> i don't know. i figure if i get thrown out, thrown out. >> ken: talk about the pre game, president obama in the clubhouse. what was that like? >> amazing. got a chance to be that close to him and shake his hand and i got video of him. >> ken: mariano, in the all-star game you're perfect. eight innings four saves. talk about going out with the one-run league knowing the american league streak was on the line. >> it was great. the thing, our guys gave me the opportunity to be there. you have to come and shut it down. it was an interesting game. >> ken: what is it like pitching in this game as opposed to pitching in a regular season or even a playoff game? >> it's great. it means something, it means whoever wins here got a chance to

thats the longest current streak in mlb. >> later this week tiger woods hosts the at&t national.ing off that sixth place finish at the u.s. open. earlier tonight, woods was a guest on "pte" and discussed among other topics former nhl star jim brown's comments saying woods needs to be more socially active. >> jim brown was critical recently saying, and i want to read this quote accurately, he is a killer, he'll run over you. but as an individual-for-social change terrible, terrible i don't know if you heard that from jim brown. and i wonder what your reaction was, not the first time you have heard that sort of thing. but if you had a reaction, is it any different than you've heard over the past few years? >> well, i try and help as best i can, through my foundation. i think we do a pretty good job of that. obviously, certainly in southern california, here hopefully in the d.c. area soon, we've made an impact with over 10 million kids involved in our foundation and around the country. we've made our impact. the social change that jim is referring to, you know, i haven't talked to h

may affect the mlb all-star game.st does have a couple storms in there for you. >>> let me take you to the west. lax airport in los angeles. had an earthquake overnight last night. 3.2. people felt it, but no damage under the runway. but i'll tell you, robin, if lax is a rockin ', don't you come knockin '. >> they didn't have any flight delays, even. >> no, and it was directly underneath the landing pad or landing strip. >> 3.2, nothing. >> i know it. all right, thank you. >> all right. >>> police have arrested a fourth suspect now in the murders of a florida couple. but they say that as many as four others could still be out there. and we're learning that two of the men in custody may have been on the victim's property in the past. >>> we salute the troops. today's salute is to a couple stationed together in iraq. private first class skood woods and private first class rebecca woods met and married in the army. scott's mom sent in the pictures, and is she says, yeah, they have been gone for two months, but it feels l

power player will be on the field during tonight's mlb all-star game. president barack obama will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. he'll also make a brief appearance in the broadcast booth. >> 5:21 is the time just about. time for traffic and weather on the 1s. >> let's check in with meteorologist tom kierein up in storm center 4. good morning. >> good morning, stephanie -- excuse me. kimberly and joe. look at that moon. we've got a beautiful half moon in the southern sky. live picture this morning. it's smili down on us. we've got another cool start. the air smells sweet and clean. it's now 65 in washington, and it's in the mid-60s in prince george's county but cool ner montgomery and fairfax counties. only in the upper 50s to near 60 there. near 50 parts of the shenandoah valley and the panhandle of west virginia. eastern shore, mid-60s. we're off to a car start. as we get going today we'll have lots of sunshine this morning. during the afternoon, low humidity and highs in the mid-80s. tomorrow, more of the same. not too humid and warm. terrific

the project is being called mlb for als.allparks nationwide, teams will autograph first bases, later to be auctioned off. and during the seventh inning stretch, famous americans will read aloud gehrig's immortal words. at yankee stadium today, michael goldsmith threw ought the ceremonial first pitch. major league baseball has also launched a special website where people can donate to als research and learn more about the disease that afflicts 30,000 people in the u.s. each year. the als therapy development institute is one of four organizations that will benefit from baseball's auction. >> i wanted to show my kids and my students that you can press ahead and try and make something positive of a desperately horrible situation. >> reporter: a dream now realized, thanks to the courage of two men. one who gave his name to the disease, the other determined to stop it. peter alexander, nbc news, provost, utah. >>> when we come back, your stimulus dollars at work. is it money well spent or a recipe for waste? that's why i use cover

. >>> last night was the big mlb al me but the buzz wasn't just for the best in the business. the president was in town to throw out the first pitch. president obama sporting his white sox jacket, faithful to the end last night. he is the first president to throw out the first pitch at an all-star game since gerald ford in 1976. the pitch wan't bad. what's the deal with that jacket? >> everybody knows i'm a white sox fan. and my wife thinks i look cute in this jacket so between those two things, why not? >> i love that answer. >> he was really good in the booth. i thought also what was really cool, i watched a little bit, when he was down there and went into both dugouts. he went to the american league first but all the all-star players had their camera phones and taking pictures. they were like little kids down there. and i also thought -- i don't know if you watched the game ornament but i thought fox did a really nice job, especially wi the pregame coverage because they had a wonderful segment called the all-stars among us, where people were nominated for wonderful things t

. >>> in sports, it was a no-hitter last night in the mlb. sap fran's giants, sanchez, hit the first no-hitter against the padres. the nationals have recorded 60 losses befe the all-star break for the second straight year. more on "sports minutes." >>> good morning, everyone. your sports minute begins with baseball. not picking on the astros. high drama in houston. bottom of the ninth, jeff blum up with the bases loaded. a walkoff to win it. the astros beat the nationals. orioles hosting the blue jays. dave trembley walks the game as he begins serving a two-game suspension. brent cecil shot out the os, the former terp, two hits. brendan morrison yesterday to a one-year contract with a reported $1.5 million. in his 12-year nhl career, morrison has four 20-goal seasons. notary public golf, at the u.s. women's open, christy kerr who won the tournament in 2007 leads the way by one stroke. you can watch the third and fourth round. that's your sports minute, i'm hakeem durmish. have a great day. >>> why 350 passengers were forced to evacuate using

mlb is investigating whether he is 16 or not. if he is 18, no big problem.ut if he falsified birth certificate, he is three there another year it could be another year or two years. they won't spend big bucks on the kid if he can't join right away and what the investigation will show, how long it will drag out. we were heard $5 million or $6 million. maybe it's more like $3 million. andy mcphail won't open up the checkbook or stay we should spend the money on the kid if they can get him. apparently you have to prove his age. they expected bones -- they checked his birth certificate. they will cut him in half and cut the rings. >> three children could be a key. [ laughter ] >> i think so, two. >> and the social security checks. >> maybe he is 26 for all we know. >> and could be an upgrade. [ laughter ] >> does he know tejada, by chance. check it out, masn sports.com. we'll have another edition of dempsey's dugout. >> i'm brian bass and better looking than ty wigginton. >> many feel they are look- alikes. that story with dempsey's dugout next on masn. geico's

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milwaukee slugger prince fielder, the mlb home run terribly champ.feated nelson cruz in the find round and hit # home republicans in the three rounds of competition. >>> president obama will throw out the first pitch at tonigame and then head for the broadcast booth. president will join at nowpsers for the telecast from busch said yum. fox hasn't termed which inning the president will hit the air. so have you to watch it to catch it. >> we are hearing it might be between the third and fifth inning. >>> the washington nationals enter the all-star break with a big break-up. after moderate success his first season, the nationals went from bad to worse. jim riggleman is the new manager. >> he is an old school manager with a left major league experience. he is more of a hard-nosed disciplinarian type of manager but but a player's guy. >> this will be riggleman's fourth stint as a big league manager. >> some espn comments have some not so nice comments to say about the nats. we'll hear those coming up in the next half hour. >>> go to myfoxdc.com for the la

and now this is the nfl, this is mlb, this is the top.s -- are you happy -- can you enjoy it or is it going too fast. >> oh, absolutely -- no, i am only 30 years old, you know. a lot of stuff has happened in my life already, but i am enjoying every day of it. like i said earlier every day i wake up. i kind of laugh because i have the best job in the world. here i am with you guys telling people to come to the first mariner arena tonight to watch me in a cage match. it doesn't get any better than that. >> i am curious. do you approach the cage match differently. >> yeah, i try not to get my face thrown into the cage. >> easy to say, but hard to do. >> very hard to do. >> jeff hardy wants to do that tonight on numerous occasions. are you working harder at your career than you did when you were a kid? >> i mean, it's -- i would say so, yeah. i mean, i don't think i ever have, like, a slack day or a day off. i mean when i first started i certainly wasn't doing, you know 5:30 in the morning wake- ups to do tv shows and stuff like that. so ther

the most curious event of all, governor, was that the mlb chairman and president, chief operating officerrd shop. i don't know if he said, hey, pete, you stink or whatever he said to him, but he visited with him, too. so something's going on as much as baseball is insisting that nothing has officially changed, and the 20th an verse rib will anniversary will come and go next month with pete rose still being suspended. >> keith, you had a chance to speak with pete rose over this weekend. what can you tell us about the conversation, and what was his mood like? >> it was very strange, because rose is usually anything but taciturn on this subject. will he tell you how much he deserves to be back and what a benefit he will be to the game. he was giving one-record answer to questions. he said he underplayed was morgan was doing here. he said the visit with sparky was very nice, but he didn't go into detail. he just listed who was there. and that is so atypical to rose, that it suggests that he is trying to -- his critics would say put on a good sense of behavior. one way or another, he's being q

plus the analyst who says google's headed $50 higher, and the mlb home run derby is tonight, and one stock swinging for the fences. he's looking at me like, what? before we get to all of that, time for a fast flash, shares of ge, general electric, the parent company of this network on the mend today, 6%, backing away from a three-month low. earnings out on friday. is this worth looking at, guys? >> i think ge is a $12 stock. i think their infrastructure business alone is worth $12. if you assume it's zero, i think $12 is the right price. it's worked out pretty well so far. >> it felt like ge got the financial side of their balance sheet bid today. and i'm not sure you have the same kind of love there as if guys they're going to have a lot of earnings power in the next year or so. i love it for the same reasons guy pointed out, but i think today's move was a little outsized and i don't think you get the same follow through tomorrow. >> let's move on here to an exchange. new futures trading operation, trying to give the cme group a run for its money when it opened for business on frida

australian to make it to the major leagues in the ever-growing diversity of players around world in the mlb paul. the counselor goes to 3-1. thompson has only work $13 and a third innings, has walked five in those innings. and has struck out the 16. opponents hitting .283 off the right-hander. 3-1 therefore to mora. that will be looped into right center field. that's going to be a base hit. hunter over to get it. so mora is on. melvin 2 for 4 after being off two games. now matt wieters. he has flied to center twice, and drawn an intentional walk. and the breaking ball is taken inside. matt in the series one hit now in 5 at bats. wieters checking with down at third. only thing that could be on here would be the hit-and-run. 1-0 count, breaking ball. no, fastball, rather. up high, sailed on hill, and the count goes to 2-0. so thompson working behind hitters. >> jim: you can see a high- energy type of guy. if you watch rich thompson, you can see how many times he inhales, exhales, trying to slow everything down, and for some guys, just a little bit easier than others. >> gary: 2-0 count, thomp

plus t analyst who says google's h headed 0 higher, and the e mlb ho run derby is toght, and one stock swiwinging for the fenceses. he's looking at me likike, what? before we get toto all of at, time f for a fasflash, shares of gegeneral electric, the paparent company this network on the mend today, , 6%, backg away frfrom a thr-month low. earningsgs out on iday. is t this wortlooking at, guys? >> i thi ge is a $12 stock. i think ththeir infrtructure bubusinesslone is worth $12. $12 is the rightht price. it's workeked out prty well so far. >>>> it feltike ge got the financl side of their balancnce sheet bid d today. and i'm not sure y you have e same kind ofof love the as if guguys there going to have a lot of earnings power inin the nex year or so.. i love it t for the me reasons guy poininted ou but i think todas move was a little outsized andnd i don think you get the same follow ththrough tomorrow. >>>> let's me on here to an exange. new futures tradining operatn, trying to giveve the c group a run for its money when i it open for business o on fridaytreasury fufutures coracts hit

the mlb all-star game, plenty of highlights. >> plenty of highlights.ggest stars, some of the biggest names in the game. one all-star wanted to pay tribute to someone who he said wases an even bigger hero, an american soldier serving overseas. we'll show you how he did it. >>> the house intelligence committee once documents about a cia program to kill al qaeda leaders that they knew nothing about. the new cia chief told them that former vice president dick cheney kept it from congress. now, democrats say that that's against the law. they may push for a full investigation. but two former intelligence officials say that cheney's getting a bum rap because the program never got off the ground. >>> stunning video shows the inside of a plane that has a football-sized hole in it. the hole appeared monday on a southwest airlines flight from nashville to baltimore. the plane was flying at about 34,000 feet when the crew reported the hole. it landed safely in charleston, with of west virginia. a passenger spoke with cnn. >> the fist sound i heard was like a pop,

and willingham has tied an mlb record with two grand slams in one game. here it is.do so. but he's just the third in national league history. he joins fernando tatis who hit two grand slams in one inning. >> it was today, too, or he hit just one? >> he hit just one. fernando tatis hit his grand slams against chang hoe park, who always seems to give up up home runs that are always significant. >> elsewhere, espn.com's jason stark is reporting that the bluejays and phillies continue to talk about a deal that would send roy hal aday to philadelphia. but a source with knowledge of the discussion say those talks are not going well. >> daily news reporter adam reuben showed up to cover a mets news conference this afternoon. when it was over, the writer was the one surrounded by microphones. mets gm omar manaya call aid press conference to announce the firing of team executive tony bernazard. reuben first broke the story that bernazard took off his shirt and challenged the double double-a team to a fight. manaya claimed reuben wrote the story so he could land a job with the

more on the pending mlb trade deadline.is now a baseball insider for espn.com. keith, assess the phillies-indians trade from both sides for us. >> love it from the phillies' perspective. they managed to get a guy who has been pretty clearly top three in the american league for the last year and a half. amongst starting pitchers. they didn't give up their best pitching prospect or either of their best hitting prospects. for cleveland, having a hard time juferg their side of the trade. they took on four guys not in the top three in the phillies organization. all of those guys have major red flags on them as prospects, whether it's injuries or just lack of production. to me it seems like too little return for a guy who was justifiablely the cy young award winner in 2008 and was pretty clearly top three or four in the league in 2009. >> the indians did pull the trigger. this most likely takes the phillies out of the roy halladay sweepstakes. do you think the blue jays might be kicking themselves for not getting one of those phi

to stretch out his pitching arm, the next few days, set to throw the first pitch at tuesday night's mlbs and he will also appear at a 7-minute spot during pregame coverage promoting community service. and the video will also feature former president bill clinton, jimmy carter, and both of the bushes. >> julie: vice president biden also enjoying america's favorite pastime, the vp and his wife, in philadelphia to watch their favorite team, when an unlack victory over -- the phillies win over pittsburgh an went into the 9th inning and down by 4 and rallied for an 8-7 victory, and shaking hands outside the locker room and biden said he never gives up on his team! >> good for him, and the flight attendant is accusing delta of making a major fashion foe faux pas and the union and members seeing red, for years now this has been delta's signature atightly for female flight attendants. julie, you would look good in that. >> julie: thank you very much. >> and and northwest attendants claim the red dress is not available... in a size larger -- >> what are you saying. >> a size larger than 18. and

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. >>> be sure to tune in to fox 45 to see all of the action at mlb all-star game. >>> still to come,ock party. find out where you can put your feet on the street. that is coming up next in our hometown hot spot. >>> and you don't like the >>> it is all about moving your feet to the beat on the streets of towson. block parties on friday nights offer, fun and a lot more. we are joined from towson with the details on this morning's hometown hot spot. good morning, jill. >> good morning, how are you. >> this is a lot of fun happening in yo you towson. >> there's live kne music at catonsville. >> similar to a block party. >> yes. music and it's all here in baltimore county. >> there's something for the parents down to the kids. >> exactly. i'm here promoating free family fun at baltimore county. you can visit our website to find more than 60 events happening. from the libraries and malls and our nature centers. there's a lot going on especially this summer when some people may not be taking vacation or cutting back. there's a lot happening on baltimore county from the beaches, nature cent

we asked sports nation, what should mlb do with instant replay, junk it, leave it or expand it. >> expand it. what's the down side? don't tell me this will slow the game. in the seventh inning, people sing. oh, the replay, got it really right. baseball's always struggled with technology and advancing and evolving. they're way late on replay. the nfl has been using it for years. even now they slowly introduced it only for home runs. plays at the plate count as run, too. bring it in, embrace technology. evolve baseball. a little bit of instant replay. they're getting there, but slowly. >> bud selig not a fan of instant replay. it is a big deal for him to allow it in the little way he has. please, time wasted? managers yelling at umpires, that's time wasted. >> we asked "sports nation," what should baseball do with instant replay, junk it, leave it, expand it. you voted? >> expand it. >> i say expand it. sports nation voted leave it, 46%. but 90% want inassistant replay. they just haven't figured out how they want it. >> it will take one big controversy in the world series and everyone will

eric: baseball's greatest hit the field for 2009 mlb all-star game.fox & friends" weekend host dave briggs for an inside look at the festivities. steve: hey, dave. dave: what's going on, eric in the prompter can be tricky, my friend. eric: tell me about it. >> all the pressure tonight on the national league squad who has not won an all-star game since 1996. winner, of course, still gets home field advantage and the world series until at least 2011. as for last night though, all the expectations were not on the squad but one man. one albert pools, the face of the game and certainly of this city. it was the home run derby and pool hulls put on a show for the fans. he did get help from one fan maybe interference you could call it. that was it for st. louis's king of pop. the night belonged to prince fielder, son of sesil. he was the winner of this home run derby, outlasting nelson cruise one home run with 503 feet into the st. louis sky so the prince is the st. king. back here at bush stadium security is tight. secret service detail all over the park bec

. >> this reminder that the mlb trade deadline is friday. espnews has you you covered all day long.ball tonight" insiders like peter gammons and steve phillips will be a long way as we sort out the rumors and react to the deal so far. roy holliday still a toronto blue jay. we'll see if there is any talk. >> my sources tell me it will be a dandy of a show. >> it's been a great career for me. it's over. as hard as that is for me to say, it's over. as they say, all good things must come to an end. >> there will be no viking adventure. brett favre calling it a career. espnews begins now. >> coming off his perfect game, mark buehrle retired the first 17 batters he faced against the twins. by the way, johnny vandermeer, only guy ever to throw back-to-back no hitters. in the fif ghts book's lure gets cuddyer swinging. smiled against jencks. he retired jencks consecutive batters at 41. next batter, joe crede grounds to short. buehrle has the new record, 42 in a row. he was perfect through five. perfect through 5 and 2/3. in the sixth, alexei castillo walks. so there goes the perfect owe. bu