season. you see all the home runs, youkilis goes yard, so does lowell, teixeira a big night, damon and posada also with home runs. royals and indians in cleveland, that's gil meche, 4-9 in his career against the indians, looking good there, shin-soo choo swinging, mark derosa looking, for meche, 11 ks in seven innings of work. alberto callaspo crushes one, this blast came with the bases loaded, and we call that a grand slam. his first career slam since may 5th, olivo with a home run, the 11 ks for meche is a career high. just the fourth win in the last 19 games overall for the royals. >> and updating you, phillies-mets, they've got to extra innings, bottom of the tenth, and we have one out, and they are 4-4, cole hamels gave up four runs to the mets, 11 hits, five innings of work, in the bottom of the seventh, the mets got three runs against sean green who just relieved mike pelfrey to tie it up, the mets frustrating fans, they granted 15 base runners through the first nine innings, a season

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batting just .176 on the season. oakland trying to win their fifth consecutive longest streak of this year. orioles have lost three in a row coming in. this road trip they so hoped to make some hay are now 1-3 and only a game left tomorrow. 1-0 delivery. hannahan take the fastball up high. 2-0. >> buck: no mystery as to how you put streaks together. put them together on the pitching. oakland pitched great during this and the orioles on the other hand great starting pitching and they haven't the last couple of >> gary: road trip hasn't been pretty for either the starting pitching or the hitting. 2-1 delivery on the way. even the count at 2-2. 2-2 delivery with two down. and hannahan's gone. so good job as baez comes onto retire the side in order in the 7th inning. remains a 9-4 lead to the a's.  >> gary: a 9-4 lead for the a looking to take the second game of this series as well as the first. felix pie out of the line up. this is in the 3rd inning. one at bat in this game as the ball bounced up and hit him in the t

he has 18 home runs that leads the nationals this season and only 2 1/2 months into the season last year'season leaders ryan zimmerman and lastings milledge collected 14. i think he's doing a good job and definitely the investment is work for the nats. johnny, phil? >> debbi, thank you very much. 224 home runs for dunn last six years. only pujols has more. that's pretty good stick work. >> pretty good. who was last guy to wear the washington uniform? i'm sure you listened may 6, 19 p 0 western frank howard hit 300 against rudy may against the angels -- of the angels. >> i was going to say that but you took the words out of my mouth. stick around. we'll continue. johnny holliday and. mr. baseball in washington, phil wood. coming right back at you after these messages. ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. >>> welcome back, everybody. "nats xtra" pregame on masn. johnny holliday along with phil wood. great night fo

he's had 23 home run seasons. he's had 24 home run seasons. he's a guy who can put up big power numbers once he gets back into the lineup on a more regular basis. with the orioles, and really, let's go back even farther than that, a self-proclaimed never a good starter. one reason why is because he's such a hard swinger. right out of the box, first week of the season, he gets a chance to play. he just swinging as hard as he possibly can. that's not a good thing. what wigginton needs to do is after playing regular for a little while, the swing starts to cut down. he starts to back off a little bit and starting to hit the ball where it is pitched. early in the season, he's not like that. when he gets locked in, he's one of those kind of guys that will go 3/4 of a season, half a season of carrying the ball club which is really what he's doing right now. he is very locked in. he's not overswinging at the ball and he's putting up some numbers. >> wigginton is batting .432 in his last 1 games. now, luke scott is known somewhat as a street kidder. co

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he will be ready for the regular season. this is the second off season surgery for westbrook. he had his knee cleaned after the title game. cris carter, what about the injury? concerned eagles fans, is that something new? absolutely not. brian westbrook's ankle. should you be concerned in you should be. same surgery i had a number of years ago, but the difference was i had it in february right when the season ended. so my whole rehab was stretched out through the off season. westbrook is going to lose his conditioning because he can't do anything weight bearing on that ankle. so that's going to set him back. so once he gets to training camp, he's going to be working on getting into game shape. in conditioning that will carry him in november and december. because there is no off season if westbrook is not healthy. >> this is a man who touches the football a lot out of the back field. receiving and running. so, naturally he's going to get a lot of injuries, and he's missed some games over the years. we'll see if he can make it to week one after his off season surgeries this year

tremendous early part of the season still underway for him. now markakis gets to look in and see jones rather than the other way around it's been most of the year and a lot of times. talking to adam before the game he was working on his swing. he said my mechanics were getting screwed up a bit. that one will be blocked. so the last couple of days he's been working on shortening up stride and he said my front shoulder was coming up and i was swinging under the ball. i was putting the ball in the air so he's trying to square up and stay balanced and keep the swing a little shorter. >> buck: all of those things will contribute to a long swing. >> gary: runner at 1st base. jones around on that one. home plate umpire will make the call. orioles what they need right now is the contagiousness of somebody early in the ball game getting a couple hits so that the others in the lineup can feed on it and begin to get some of the confidence back that they have lost at the plate. jones -- that's where they've been going. those inside hard pitches down low.

he may be headed to baltimore sometime later there season. -- this season. >> chris tillman pitched sixabdid not walk a batter and struck out three tonight for the norfolk tide. the tide, of course, the triple- a farm team of the orioles. that's where tillman is pitching and pawtucket was leading tide 4-3 when we last heard the score. tillman now, 5-4 for the season. a 2.59 earned run average. 66 innings. less hits than innings pitched. 59. he has 18 walks and 70 strikeouts, and, of course, he was acquire immediate the trade. day hillman will be in the starting rotation. obviously no later than next year. tom davis and rick dempsey welcome you back here to our masn studios after the orioles lost in 12 to the florida marlins. rick, you have this blog on masn sports. some fans think -- >> here we go. >> some fans actually think you wrote on the blog that you're -- you have the impress to trade brian roberts. >> you have to go on masnsports.com to see exactly what was said out there. i never did say that you should trade brian roberts. i only pointed out his value to a ball club at a time

it will be his 13th start of the season.ked behind the plate for the mets. breaking ball is up high. 2-0. >> jim: i was talk to go brian. he said santos has been so good. he's hitting 12-16. he really hasn't played that much. he's thrown home runs in there. we saw last year when he was called up by the orioles. brian is a guy i said are you pla took? he said, no, again taken my job. he had the back problems and pulled a calf muscle trying to rehab. there's a strike. >> gary: the injury list is long and important. delgado with a hip problem. john maine a starter right shoulder problem. j.j. putz, former closer. jose reyes with a right calf. wagner woorks left elbow surgery. a lot of people jerry manuel and mets thought would be available for them are not and are out for extended periods of time. so, the leadoff -- the one- outwalk is the first surrender by guthrie. that will put schneider on. what we were talking about earlier, schneider is one of those batters you've got to get. >> jim: yeah, it really sets up this inning fo

melvin hitting at .272 on the season.ake that one right centerfield and there is the speed of davis. this is a guy who looks like he is coming out of the blocks. >> buck: tremendous acceleration. see how this speed allows him to track that one down. great play. he had a great jump. >> gary: that was not that easy. >> buck: no, he got to it quick. >> gary: boy, does he cover ground. >> buck: he stole 57 bases one season in the minor league. he has great speed. >> >> gary: that one hit into the air to right field. again luke scott, way back, 367, good-bye, homerun. and there goes the shutout. and the bat of luke scott continues hot as he delivers the long ball. that will be number 13 on the year. >> buck: that's exactly what you are supposed to do with hanging breaking balls and he left it on the inside part of the plate. this ball is meant to be away and it's up and he uses that top hand and drives it out of the ballpark with a simple flip of the wrist off that facing of the second deck in right field. >> gary: so the last

and he has turned his season around with quality starts last week.ime to trust him, especially against a struggling reading. and moyer is available in many lesion and an example why the season anymore don't tell the whole story. check us out, the best fantasy analysis away. >> and winning four straight the first time taking on the pirates. dog night at turner field and i guess that means you bring your four-legged friend. and a single to center. and the former pirate comes up throwing and the throw is cut off by greg norton. and laroche comes in to score and it looks like it would have been on the money. and. >> the m's and o's and jose lopez and company struggled in the charmed city recently. jose lopez and the two-run home run and the mariners snapping the five-game losing streak in baltimore. giants and d-backs. and allowing two hit so far in 4 1/3 innings and a two-run home run in the third is the ninth for the year in san francisco. and the a's are leading the twins 3-2. and cabrera with an rbi, along with suzuki. and liriano on the hill for min

what will be his goals the rest of the season? >> i think he wants to play good golf and sort of prove to people that he's not this high risk character anymore. that sewer say sponsor and you're having doubts whether or not to invite him to the tournament because you're not sure he'll withdraw on you or embarrass your tournament. he's trying to convince you he's worg the trouble. and trying to convince the golf fan in general, and maybe even his peers that he's sort of turning the battleship around. it's going to take a while. but i think slowly but surely he has a chance to do that. i'm still skeptical, but i like what i saw today. >> all right, espn dot com's sr. national columnist, you're always worth the trouble. thanks for joining us. >> okay, take care. bye-bye. >> okay, you too. >> baseball, rubber game at shark stadium. that's what they call the game in miami now. cardinals-marlins. if you've seen albert pujols you'll seen one thing, a see ya. ninth jack of the season. 1 for 4, down .317. top 8, pinch hitter, kobe ras muss

the dodgers 8-1 against the rockies this season. monday night, manny ramirez made his final minor league rehab appearance, this is a single in his first at-bat. so manny out of the box early but then he whiffed on three pitches in his second at-bat, and then, in his third at-bat, he struck out again. so manny is expected to work out with the dodgers on tuesday and wednesday, before rejoining the team on july 3. >> facing the giants, opening a four-game set monday night, bottom of the first, the two all-stars facing each other. lincecum has been filthy as of late. bottom of the fifth, jayson larue, over lincecum's head. showing his athletic ability. the throw to first. bottom of the eighth inning, larue up against. lincecum this time says come on. sit down. eight ks through eight for the reigning cy young. bottom of the ninth, lincecum is still in there. 95 pitches, a two-hit shutout. a 2:06 performance. lincecum improves to 5-0 with a 1.61 e.r.a. against the cardinals. the giants continue to win without big offense, though. they sco

his 14th of the season. texas goes on to win 12-3. padres have lost 13 of their last 15 interleague road games. >>> nhl draft, the islanders took center john tavares with the first pick friday. tavares led the ontario hockey league with 58 goals this season. he also broke the ohl's record for career goals. he's the isles fourth overall number 1 pick. pick >> the flyers have acquired defenseman chris pronger from the ducks. in 2007 he won a stanley cup as a member of the ducks. >>> straight ahead on espnews, she's got the last name, but what about the game. tiger woods' niece trying to make the cut in her lpga tour debut. >>> after taking the weekend off, roger federer will face a familiar opponent as he continues his quest for history i hear what you're saying, i just don't do commercials, it's not my thing. conan, this is different. it's a ton of money, and it's only going to be seen in sweden. only in sweden? all the hollywood guys do this. guess one commercial couldn't hurt. ♪ ( whispery ) bud light. dancers: vroom vroom, der party

along with the fact he continues to make progress during the off season. sanchez is in line with a good running game to be the starting quarterback. sure, kellens is there, he's got the lead right now, but now that this deal is behind sanchez, he can concentrate on winning the starting job and being the quarterback the jets expect him to be. >> the sacramento kings hired paul westphal as their new coach for two years plus the team optioned for a third season. lead coaching sources told espn.com that the kings offered the job to kurt rambus, but he passed. >> the magic may have sent a message don't count us out yet. full coverage from orlando is on the way. phil mickelson makes an emotional return to the pga tour weeks after he and his wife, amy, discovered she has breast cancer. cñgÑ >> back on "espnews" updating you as to what's going on in the national league, the pirates have beat the braves 3-2 after a late garrett anderson home run in the bottom of the ninth, they held atlanta off at turner field, reds with a 2-0 lead over the nats, and they're three

spend parts of two seasons as an oriole in uniform.in triple a and then got a call up play the remaining season in 2003 with the orioles. 27 games and then one at bat one game in 2004. ended up signing with oakland. been. >> gary: been hitting the long ball. 0-2 count to cust. that will be taken inside. he said after the ball game last night his back which is continued to act up on him is still hurting and hurt last night. play as long as i can and last night of course his longest bat. 1-2 delivery to him breaking ball and that would just miss outside. gourds good back door breaking ball. hernandez hasn't gotten the call. >> gary: seven home runs last 28 games. and that pitch will be taken. and the count is full 3-2. squeeze on the strike zone here. he's going to have to work one inning against cust sitting fouls back into the screen. >> buck: cust has a degenerative disk in his back and causes back spasms. something he's going to have to deal with. not much he can do in the middle of the season to address it. rest it when it tightens

they couldn't lose a game to start the season.n atlantic a real good battle. 1-2 to guzman. that's a breaking ball, caught him looking. three consecutive strikeouts for ricky nolasco. that will bring up nick johnson with two outs. >> rob: he got them 1-2-3 in the first inning, then he had a lot of trouble in the second inning. now he comes back with a great off speed breaking ball. >> bob: that thing had some serious snap. >> rob: snap dragon. >> bob: it was. he throws a first pitch breaking ball to nick. johnson under .300 for the first time in a long, long while. >> rob: you guess that he tries to throw three or four in a row, and nick can recognize the rotation and crush it. you saw that one, that last breaking ball was hanging. >> bob: the last time i can find nick johnson under .300 was 22 at-bats into the season when he was batting .273. so nick johnson has been well over .300 since the first week of the season. that's how consistent he's been. he got jammed enough on that one. it will stay in the park for carroll. and ricky

that avoided the shutout for the orioles. >> rick: 13 homerun of the season. luke scott now has 8 homeruns in his last 9 games. >> jim: since coming off the disabled list, a week ago, 8 homeruns for luke scott. guthrie just goes 2/3 inning. he takes the loss and the orioles held to just one run on five hits. orioles have now lost three of four games on this road trip. let's head back to oakland now and rejoin gary thorn and buck mart martinez. >> gary: there are pitchers in major league baseball that like to see other teams and teams that would rather not see them. dallas braden is one of those pitchers that the oriole was like to miss. aubrey huff in the 1st inning. change-up was very good. got matt witters, jones. he ties a career high. only the luke scott homerun the only run he allowd in 7 innings 4 of his 11 career wins have come at the hands of the orioles. got a lot of confidence pitching against the orioles line-up. >> jim: for the orioles, obviously, a disaster for jeremy guthrie. he could not get the pills where he wanted him to be. and this oakland

papelbon's 19th save of the season. ties bob stanley's red sox save record with his 132nd career save. the red sox have now won eight straight against the orioles and baltimore has now been shut out for the fourth time this year. three times at home. this night, it's all about jon lester. he improves to 8-0 with 10 career starts. among active starters, only three other pitchers have as many wins versus a single opponent with no losses. randy johnson is an incredible 13-0 versus the cubs, while roy halladay is 8-0 against the twins. schmidt, 8-0 against the marlins. >> when the current wimbledon fourth night draws to a close roger federer could stand alone writing his own chapter in the history of men's tennis. federer, who had his ron of five straight singles titles at the all england club snapped by nadal last year, will not have to face his rival this week. and if federer can navigate the rest of the field, he'll win a record 15th grand slam title. on monday he faced soderling. to the second set we go, federer having

the twins are just # and 20 on the road this season. they're only 1 of 4 major league teams with fewer than ten road wins. phillies and mets and mets in the top of the tenth in the rubber match between these two teams. highlights coming up. >> tonight, rockies-brewers, colorado. riding a 7-game winning streak. ian stewart has been a major part of that. he gets into one again. top 4. solo shot, number 12 for stewart. rockies up 2-nil. bottom 7, bases loaded. huge opportunity! >> oh oh. struck out swinging. >> i thought you pulled something. >> i pulled something. >> brawn, and the rockies escaped with a 5-4 win, they won eight straight. they've outscored their opponents 55-20 in that span. >> a good, long one in houston. it's been some talk about the deep one to center, and the hill and all that. straight way, michael borne is out there. watch out for the hill, kid. what? no problem. oh, no, he didn't. borne catches it, that would be ap top play -- oh, yeah, wrong show. >> all right, lee off hawkins. that would tie the game. >> bottom of

mattis had a good half the first season. a terrific e.r.a. so far this year.tan has gone 3-2 with an earned run average of 2.11. and luis lebron out of the bullpen for the keys, cal even joseph, the catcher batting .338. and brandon wear was acquired in the deal that sent ramon hernandez to the reds. he was part of the deal. he's hitting .280 and playing first base. and flor mon hitting well. and now let's look at the minor league score board. chris tillman was giving up three runs and he's 5-2 for the season. buoy shutting out. and brandon side more, 1 for 3. buoy won the second game 4-2. but brandon slider drove in two. and the frederick keys, 6-1 as jack whitten allows two hits and struck out three. britain is 3 and 2 for the season. >>> time to take a look at top five play this is -- plays this week in baseball. >> and he hits to rightfield. ichiro was just looking. >> hit one in the air to rightfield. luke scott way back. goodbye, home run. >> and the bat of luke scott continues to be hot. >> and a towering pop-up, first base side. and he got it. nice pla

that is it the thing we have to do in this season or the next off-season. and like any championship team, we have to get the best defense that we can. it is instructive, i think, to me. back in 1991 when the braves had their first championship year, their first year in the world series, the only change that was made from 1990, which was a last place team, to 1991 which was a world series series, we signed three pieces. we signed sid green, belliard and pendleton, three defensive players. all of a sudden our pitching was a heck of a lot better. it is amazing how that works. believe me, we understand that connection, we are aware of that, and we are on the look out for those final pieces once we get the rotation put into place. that is why i am as excite as i am about the future and about how close we are. that is my observation, but i tell you what encourages me more. in the last two weeks, our new pitching coach was once a part of a phenomenon like this, five starters who had success in oakland. he was one of those kids. he says to me sitting in the dugout

best 14-5 in one-run games this season.er going 41-41 in save opportunities last season, lidge blew his major league leading sixth save. he's already allowed six more earned runs this season despite pitching 43 fewer innings. >> still to come on espnews, it was supposed to be a pitching duel. instead, the bronx got to see a barn-burner. tigers in the hunt at memorial -- tiger's in the hunt at memorial. ♪ (tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t >> moving day at the memorial. tiger woods, three-time winner there looking to make his move in round three. on the 11th hole, second shot on a par 5, tiger on the dance floor in two and then watch the way this ball rolls. creeps closer and closer toward the flag. it's almost as if the ball is saying, "hey, tiger hit me," finished nine feet from the hole. tiger would be set up for an eagle putt -- going fast and going downhill. tiger at four under after draining that. birdied 14. then on 15, another birdie putt. woods at six under par. on 17, this is a par putt. lips ou

additional planning for the 2009 hurricane season included discussions with u.s. transportation command on arrow medical evacuation, general population evacuation, discussions with the department of homeland security, and also fema. health and human services, and our service component commands. all of these are planning conferences and table top exercises we've conducted for this season. if and when called northern command continues to stand ready to provide robust support to civil authorities during the 2009 hurricane season. thank you for the opportunity to present today and i stand ready to answer your questions. >> thank you, general. we very much appreciate it. >> thank you very much, madam chairman. and to our distinguished panel and certainly a good opportunity to listen and learn what we are preparing for. and mr. fugate, we know that we had a bad, it wasn't quite a tornado so we hear a lot about hurricanes but inland a hurricane is a tornado and that's what we get in illinois. and my home as a matter of fact is in tornado ale down in southern illinois. an

he tried to win a second start for the first time this season.ictory over the royals would pull cleveland out of the last place. they have a .276 on-base personal. the royals are leading right now in the top of the fifth. olivo, his second homerun in june, averaging just two homeruns in the month of may. >> evan is alall mighting, leads derek jeter for the 2009 all-star game. rays hosting the angels and so far it's all angels. leading 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth. taylor, an rbi sing until the first, followed up by an rbi groundout by juan rivera. >> mariners and the o's, seattle opening a nine-game road trip in camden yards, orioles leading 1-0. roberts 1-2 with a run. keep you updated here on "espnews." >> espn the magazine is learning from two independent sources, jeremy mayfield tested positive for methamphetamine drug a -- during a random drug test. he said he ingested a double-dose of an over the counter allergies mention and a previbed drug for attention deficit disorder. a third drug came up positive. the name of the drug has been remo

it is so hard to determine and weigh in, in this long season that is a baseball season of finding out if an issue is serious or not. then we have the yankees, five straight win, three and a half out of first behind boston, and now they take on the surprising seattle mariners. let's talk about the yankees quickly. do they have something going now? >> they do. we knew that they were going to score runs when teixeira got past his early season struggles that he has every year. you knew they were going to score. the problem i think i have with the yankees is they have a bunch of d.h.s in that lineup, but i think phil hughes and brian bruney, they have solidified the weak point of that team, which has been middle relief to get to mariano rivera. i think phil hughes has chance if they keep him in the bullpen to be a guy that allows joba chamerlain to stay in the rotation. he has that dominating stuff when he only has to pitch one or two innings. >> in the a.l. east, boston, yankees and ray, but you can only pick two to get to the postseason, which of those two of the three? >> i still think

for the orioles this season, it's not just been there have been errors. keep in mind, the orioles talked about better "d." it's that the errors have mattered. this is a whole new stat we put up. this is about unearned runs per error. the detroit tigers almost every time they commit an error there's a run. the orioles are not very far behind kansas city, atlanta and houston. it's that the errors result in opponents runs. >> jim: and rick dempsey just told us in the pregame if the orioles are trailing after six, they're 2-30, so when the errors are committed. last night jeremy guthrie will be the first guy to tell you, even though you don't want to do it, i lost my cool. it happened the second time through the order in the middle of the line-up. he didn't execute his pitches and the mets took advantage of that and that's where they got the first four runs. >> gary: so you try and come back from that. uehara needs to have the performance that will take him deep into the game and the defense needs to be able to catch the baseball. probably because i've never

cubs win 6-5 on soriano's ninth career walk-off hit and second this season. >> rangers go for the season of the astros. before the game the rangers honoring former president george bush with his own suite. he used to own the rangers. 3-3 game, hunter pence with a home run, stros win 5-3 and avoid the season sweep. >> mets and o's concluding their series at camden yards. drama in the bottom of the ninth, o's down 4-3, francisco rodriguez walks adam jones. felix pie -- come on in. k-rod entered the game with a .56 e.r.a. ends up blowing the save. aubrey huff, second straight game, deciding hit, o's end up winning it 5-4. >> still to come, mother nature washes out the open's first round. what this means for tiger and the rest of the field. the rest of the field. stay current with espnews. - ( cheerful tune playing ) - learned how to change my own oil. think i did something wrong! but you know how pricey these german cars are to maintain. right? max: actually, volkswagen has no-charge scheduled carefree maintenance. even the cc. ( chuckles ) ...no charge. even on the cc. bus: you know what t

glenn perkins pitched well, gets his third win on the season.en wins, cardinals have lost four of their last five. >> meanwhile, marlins and the rays, b.j. upton in the eighth, game tied at three. deep to right center field. it'll go off the wall. jason bartlett, navarro, gross all score on the double, that's how the rays break it open. and tampa wins it 7-3. they've won three straight. five of their last six. b.j. upton two hits, those three crucial rbi. he's hitting .396 over his last 11 games. 12 rbis. >> giants and brewers in milwaukee, matt cain, 9-1 coming in. bottom of the third, brewers up 2-1. cain wish he is had that one back. that's j.j. hardy with a rocket to dead center, brewers up 3-1. later in the game, during the sausage race, we always see, h a 68 today in the ! second round. he said he hit the ball better than yesterday. maintains a two-shot lead over ryan moore who had a second round 65. rain reeked havoc with day two at the highlands. >> the next show is on the way, in about, i got about two minutes 50 seconds. we're out of h

he said despite last season, he thinks this team this season is playoff bound. >> it's going to be areat year. we're going to the playoff. i look at us on paper -- paper don't mean anything. i look at us in practice -- it don't mean anything, but the progress, i see it. i can come out on a limb and say what we're going to do because i've done it before and it's happened. >> gatorade cooler talk. nfl analyst eric allen. you heard your man. the bengals are making the playoffs. what do you think of mr. ochocinco's predictions? >> chad is a phenomenal football player. a guy on the brink of being one of the most dominant receivers in the league until a couple of years about -- ago. defensively they finished 12th and they added some pieces to the puzzle on that side of the ball. but offensively, that's a combination they have to work. those two guys have to get together and make it happen. he has to go back to the chad ochocinco of 2005, 2006 when he was really making it happen. >> and he was really chad johnson. what do you think about his prediction? >> i think because they're playing in

his 23rd of the season. his major league leading 23rd home run this season.games. >> how about the dodgers? one of the most amazing classic fall moments. out of the clubhouse and up to the game-winning two run shot to give the dodgers a 5-4 win. >> bringing in the a's and dodgers. top two, we are scoreless. majors best, l.a. going to win three straight against the american league for the first time since 2006. >> the '# 8 worlditted the anaheim angels against the san francisco giants. first and only tie, of the fall classic. it will actually win games for the first ever world title. right now the angels with the 1-0 lead as they play in the bottom of the second inning. juan rivera, the r.b.i. double in the first inning. 17 ribs for rivera in his last 15 games. s. >> tiger woods, gearing up for another run at the u.s. open title at bethpage black. tom ron nawldy, earlier today. with tiger woods, 4-2 to now. overall, it's the shots are slightly different. but again, we have more rain coming in. what hole plays most differently to you now? >> well, 7 plays diffe

the dodgers 8-1 against the rockies this season. l.a. lost four out of its last five overall. >> monday night, manny ramirez made his final minor league rehab appearance. dhg for class a. a single in his first at-bat. second at-bat not as productive. he struck out on three pitchers. ramirez expected to work out at dodger stadium on tuesday and wednesday before rejoining the dodgers on july 4. >> san francisco, a game and a half lead in the wild card race over st. louis. how about tim. what a night he would have facing pujols, bottom of the first. went down swinging. that would be the theme. bottom of the fifth, jason flared over the mound. athletic. makes the great catch, throws to it first. bottom of the eighth inning, 10-0 giants. the pitcher still on the mound. larue, down swinging, 8 ks, bottom of the ninth, mark derosa, flies out, 95 pitches, a complete game. 2:06. lincecum improves to 5-0. the giants continue to win without big offense. they score in double digits for the first time since may 11. but lincecum has been unbelievable

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fist winning season -- first winning season ever. first time they won more than 70 games. >> johnny: lannan today with his 13th start for the nats. line-drive to left field and phillips has a base hit. the reds threatening here and brings up the clean-up hitter, gomes. >> rob: when he gets in trouble, he's got to see a double-play ball right here to try to get himself out of the inning. >> johnny: will nieves will call time for a moment. johnny gomes had that rbi double last night. of course the reds went on to win it in that marathon 4-2. nny gomes had that rbi double last night. of course the reds went on to win it in that marathon 4-2. gomes .345 batting average. no balls and a strike with one away. >> rob: the reds clubhouse this morning to pay my respects. >> johnny: was the door locked? >> rob: no. actually, one of their coaches, mark berry, i go back almost 30 years with mark berry. he had a conversation or two about some old times. i talked to jonny gomes. remember i said the first night this young man was having a heart atta

and that's the sixth multihome run game this season. and now the twins down 5-3 and kubel down the line and pujols getting it done. a gold glove in 2006. and four r.b.i.'s and two home runs and the cardinals end a three-game losing streak and st. louis scoring three runs and they get five today. and albert, of course, a big game. but he played it off as if it were no big deal. >> some day i am going to miss those pitch, some day i am going to have a good day like i did today. i wish they could come more often, but all the time it isn't going to happen. it isn't going to happen. because if it does happen, why you even play this game, it wouldn't be fun to you. so you need to adjust for now. i mean last night i came in here, today i watched a couple of video, i find a couple of things i think i was missing and i went out today and executed and that's how you learn. >> the sixth multihome run game, the most in major league baseball. and the 29 career with two home runs passing mark mcgwire in cardinal history. >>> and yesterday, milton bra

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let me say that this hearing is focused on her cane response because we snap started hurricane seasonthis week, but we will be a salmon issues that affect not just the hurricane region but all regions of the country in this hearing today and we will be focusing on plans and processes that actually have applicability across the board from many different types of threats the its hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.. the ranking member and i both represent stains that have seen a large portions of our states, major cities and very important role in areas devastated by recent hurricanes. 2004, 2005, in 2008 were particularly hard years for cities and communities throughout the gulf coast from with florida to texas but the last century has been difficult for many states now like to put the first chart up there in a news of a number of hurricanes that is the hurricane belt from 1955 to 2005. and the blue line is very keen katrina -- hurricane katrina which was the greatest among all who the storms depicted there by a significant amount in terms of size of damage and then hurricane rita which ranks

pronger was the league mvp in the 1999-2000 season with the blues. in 2007, he won a stanley cup as a member of the ducks. >> straight ahead on espnews,pn, she's got the last name, butnam, what about t bhe game?e. tiger woods' niece trying toingt make the cut in her lpga tour debut. taking the weekend off, roger federer will face aps continar opponent as he continues his quest for h ♪ (guy) you know, the beer you choose says a lot about you. you want friendly, but not pretentious. classic, never trendy. you want a real american beauty. (woman) are you talking about the budweiser? or me? yes. ♪ >> williams' sister takes the court in what many believe is an invisible collision in a ladies final a week from saturday. friday was serena's turn against vinci. >> she served beautifully. had 10 aces in all, including ending the match with a very big ace. i just think she looks good, chris. in the beginning of the tournament, i thought it was venus' to win, but the way serena is playing, especially since they lost in the final last year, did not play well, i