the pirates beating the braves 3-2, cards battering the marlins, 13-4, the astros, a dramatic win 2-1 on a geoff blum rbi, but the phillies and mets continue to battle it out, top of the 11th inning, tied at four. bobby parnell on the mound. they just hit a home run. the phillies have. and so we have a 5-4 lead in that one in the top of the 11th inning. at least breaking that 4-4 tie, 2-0 reds-nationals, and they're three outs in the win, but in a rain delay. will they get to finish that one? >> more updates for you. looking to win his seventh straight decision. he was stellar. fourth inning, jermaine dye swinging at a curve, jim thome, looking at a curve. fifth inning. paul konerko, what do you have? fastball, strike three. tigers up 2-1, verlander going for the complete game, thome strikes out, wow, verlander nine ks, one earned run in the complete game, his fifth career complete game, verlander 7-0 in his last nine starts with an e.r.a. of -- pause for dramatic effect -- 1.10, this is his first career win at u.s. cellular field, tigers take it 2-1. posada flies out to left field, t

cubs and astros, rubber match there. people stopped talking about this, but the hill in houston had issues with michael born todayful.ha >> michael borne, that is cow's hill, the executive named it. that is one of the best catches. he catches the ball on his rear end. >> never thought about evening it out? never thought of leveling it out. >> it's a quirky little part of the park. >> somebody breaks their ankle. >> troy hawkins in for the save. that's dramatic. and there he goes. sre derrek lee. >> good to see him hitting with power again since the firste month of the season. >> let's go to the 13th of the season. two men on. jeff, who? what is this, the world series? walkoff hit on wednesday. walkoff hit on thursday. that's a couple pretty good days for him. >> so the astros win again. cubs just a game above .500. >> think about this. since may 17, the cubs have averages 3.1 runs per game. before that, 5.1 runs per game. their offense is dropping. >> what is the difference? >> the bottom line is milton bradley and some

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. >> back to baseball and a dramatic finish between the cubs and astros. we start at the beginning. top two, geovany soto going solo. his third home run of the year. second in his last four games. bottom nine, 1-1 game, bases loaded for geoff blum. here comes miguel tejada. and the astros win in walk-off fashion 2-1 on geoff blum's second career walk-off hit. >> rockies going for a season high seventh straight win as they take on the brewers. top of the fifth, tied at 2-2, brad hawpe, gap shot, right center field it goes. hawpe 2-4forget, we heard about him for so long, we forget, he's ad then gets hot a produces. >> al: first and second for >> top of the first inning, 22-year-old rookie colby rasmus, tend extending his hitting streak to 12 games and a colorado win. >> soccer, now, england taking on andora. -- andorra. david beckham in his first competitive match with the english national team in two years. wayne rooney -- header puts england up 1-0. 39th minute. 2-0 game, rooney has three goals in the last two world cup qualifying matches. england up 3-0. second half, leading 4-0,

the astros can't wait to resume the nl portion of their schedule. they've dropped 6 of 7 to the a.l. second home run of the year, astros hold off the twins by a final count of 6-5. it's his first round-tripper since april 25th. lance berkman also went deep, solo jack. >> still to come on espnews, spain continues to unleash the red fury in the confederation red fury in the confederation cup. - ( 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. >> i don't think the clearinghouse is an easy, perfect solution. .1. but i think they are a good cases for extending a clearing platform beyond the credit world. i mean, this has been discussed by some academics in the u.s. but simply having cbs in clearinghouse and leaving other derivatives of the clearinghouse creates problems. i think that there needs to be more scrutiny and transparency still of how cbs are being used a

central-leading tigers putting their seven-game win streak on the line against the astros. top nine, tigers down 5-4. latroy hawkins gets the ground out. astros hang on to win 5-4, and s detroit's seven-game win streak is over. >> nhl draft.ft, the islanders took center john to tavares with the first pick tavares tavares led the o ontario hocke. league with 54 goals. he's the isles first overall fo pick.vrall four of the top five picks were centers. rounding out the top 10, three defensemen and two wingers. >> the flyers have acquireduire defenseman chris pronger from the ducks. 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 t

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the difference in this game and the game with the astros. there you saw the score. royals and pirates back on. it was raining for a period of time. the rockies keep trucking, up 2-0 and won 19 of the last 22. >> coming up, full highlights and reaction from south africa. one of the most memorable soccer games in u.s. history. we'll show it to you. >> and the heat is on in atlanta and tommy hanson battling the flu. will the rookie have the energy to deal with the red sox? (announcer) what does greatness taste like? miller lite. (announcer on call) off the glass, centered in front... oh what a great move, another great move... he skates in on goal... he scores! unbelievable! it's all over! oh my... (announcer) that's what greatness tastes like. triple hops brewed. great pilsner taste. miller lite. taste greatness.

astros still up top 9. derrek lee. hasn't been the greatest year for him. this was a good moment though. his 7th. tied at 1. we go all the way to the bottom of the 13th. rips it just inside the line. hunter pens is on his hours horse, that's all she wrote. cubs. his second straight game, with a walkoff hit. derrek lee's solo home run extended his current hit streak to ten games. >> still to come on the way, albert pujols has been in a slum many. he busted out in a major way this afternoon. and phil mickelson returns to competitive golf in memphis. steve will join us -- gene will steve will join us -- gene will join us ♪ (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. ♪ do you remember when making dinner meant finding just the right stick for your hot dog. when new every fork on the trail led to a new adventure? then keep the tradition going with great father's day gifts from bass pro shops. li

our unemployment rate is in an astro nom mick 9.4, and of course, they send out joe biden, one of the great double talkers of our time to tell us the unemployment rate is getting better. the government wants to run health care and tell people what doctors they can see. how much they can make, what cars to drive. and they're killing off the entrepreneurs who are the backbone of our economy. it's no wonder that the russian newspaper pravda, the former house organ for the soviet communist regime recently said the american deskenlt into markism is happening with breathtaking speed. we can blame nancy pelosi, harry reid, chris dodd, george soros, david axelrod and their ilk for the down fall of this the country. it saddens me greatly to think we were the great powerful good in the world. we as americans knew america to be strong. and we were the liberators of the entire world. we are becoming a weak nation. obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken julius caesar and thinks he's going to conquer the world with his soft spoken sweet talk and really thinks he's going to bring all the enemies of

. >>> one of my favorite players growing up and one of your teammates from the astros. >> one of the best young talents unfortunately got hit in the face. he's a short stop. he's a high school player out of puerto rico. i don't know if he'll be signable. he's also like drew. he wants his family to play baseball. he was always the guy that was all business. it wasn't about the money. it was about the joy of playing the game. you look at the two guys that made the day to start off the draft. these were the crown jewels. >> strasbourg, we've said a lot about him. i don't know if we said enough. i found out through two scouts today that he is the best prospect either of them have seen. one in 26 years and the other in his 17th year. they went out to see him and said and a half -- said that he was unbelievable. he's just 20-year-old. drew came on the radar late for us. he's got real good action on his fastball. 92, 93 miles per hour fastball. tremendous late action. he can get it to 95. he's got a 6-1 strike out walk ratio. that's what your looking for. unusually he is a reliever, closer.

and here comes tajada and the astros win in walk-off fashion 2-1 on the second career walk-off hit. the card and marlins, st. louis trying to snap a five-game losing streak. a 22 year old rookie in the first inning, the three-run home run his seventh and they snap the five-game losing streak. and england taking on andorra. and rooney getting it done, he has the header and a goal, 1-0 england. and a 2-0 game and rooney again. he got three goals in the last two world cup qualifying match-ups, 3-0 england. and the second half and a 4-0 game and beckham off the free kick and the rebound and his second goal of the match. and beckham after it was over said it could have been a difficult game but we made it easy with the way we played. sure did, the 6-0 shutout. argentina, the high elevation of ecuador. after being taken out of the box and the penalty kick, the shot is stopped and they failed to put home the rebound. and stopping this one as well, it keeps the game tied in the 59th minute. and then ripping the shot, ecuador with a 1-0 lead. and the 83rd minute and the ball played in the bo

cubs-astros on the way.

. >> rangers go for the season sweep 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 they say about t

brewers in the bottom of the sixth inning, brad hawpe had an rbi double in the fifth breaking the tie, astros tied at one, geoff blum an rbi groundout. >> angels and rays just finished up, lackey looking for a win, but he got bounced around. pena, opposite field, it's going to go. 18th home run of the season, rays up 6-3. bottom five, runner-up for willy aybar, and that is a rocket to right, a two-run homer for aybar, his fifth home run of the season. lackey seven straight wins against the rays, careerwise 9-1 against tampa bay, he got shelled, eight earned runs in five innings of work, 9-5 is your final. they snap a three-game skid. >> after stumbling out of the gate, justin verlander has been virtually unhittable over the last month. he was 0-2 with an earned run average of 9. in his last eight outings, he's been stellar, 6-0, an e.r.a. of 1.12. but verlander careerwise 0-6 at u.s. cellular field, tigers-white sox, 2-1, verlander trying to notch that game, a little run support, seven ks through eight innings of work and has walked one, verlander trying to hold on for the win, he's two outs

was the public face and introduced me, said i'm not really the college of republicans, but i'm in the astro physics department, but i got designated because they can't hurt me. it's terrible to have to say this about american universities. i just think this is an absolute disgrace. the one thing i will say negative about all those decent professors is they're not standing up for these students, and they're not standing up for the principle of intellectual diversity on their faculties and they do nothing about these departments, which are just political parties. it's women's studies, peace studies, it's not study of peace. there are no professors of military science in the peace studies. often they're called peace and justice studies, if you just didn't get the idea of what they're real live about. they're about attacking american -- the american military, in america, in the world. why do i say there should be -- if it doesn't have a military science professor, it's not an academic department, if it's talking about peace, because in a democracy, what is the military there for is this it's to

. remember, he spent time in the national league with the astros and the pirates. he's had 37 at-bats, hit .297, also, livan hernandez played for 8 different teams, so ty has seen him along the road. he says i know what to expect with hernandez. he's going to try to keep you off balance, change speeds, go up and down, but knowing what to expect, i feel like i can tame him on. gary? >> gary: so he gets to face him again. he's 5 for 18. that to center field, the firt pitch. beltran is there. runners will stay where they are. wigginton retired on one pitc. and two down here in the 2nd inning. that will leave it up to matt wieters. wieters happy to are that one under the hr column. get that out of the way. now he'll try to pick up a rb, a two-out rbi with runners on at first and second base. >> jim: something he's failed to do. he's only had 13 opportunities, so he has the home run, but when he hits a home run, the runnes at first. so still looking for a runner in scoring position. >> gary: two down. wieters will take the pitch, an

. >> rob: the astros gave jon. , the minshgave up you g >> jim p.: we did give up eric. >> rob: i won't get into that one. but you got adam jones, a fabulous player. you got luke scott who is a fabulous player. i think you guydid quite well. >> jim p.: tejada goes to houston. >> rob: that's two. there's eight more guys involved in those trades. >> jim p.: exactly. chris tillman also part of the bedard deal. >> bob: line drive, the runner makes a mistake, then hernandez bobbles the ball and blows the double play. >> jim p.: i don't think he could believe aubrey was getting that far off the bases. there you go. where it is. >> rob: that's actually kind of funny. on the transfer he loses control. >> bob: the second base umpire staring right at him. >> jim p.: it almost looked like he was staring at huff and could not believe he was that far off the bag. >> bob: that's worse than throwing a 4-6-3 or not turning from the other side of the infield. here's scott who doubled. if he gets a hit here, that will be very costly. nationals had a chance to turn their third double play in four innings.

just for a bit of recent background, last year lance berkman of the astros led all of baseball with a run produced streak of 21 games. the last washington player to lead the league was ed stroud in 1968 with 11, but the all- time record holder is hall of famer joe crone of the nationals of 1933. that year from the 25th of may, to the 30th of june, he produced at least a run a game. during that streak he scored 34 runs, batted in 45, his runs proud total was 77. we're talking about productive outs here sometimes. you can go a number of games, without getting any hits, but maybe you have a sacrifice fly, maybe you have hit into a fielder's choice and a run scores on that and there's the rbi, maybe you got on base by an error or a walk and you end up scoring. washington won the pennant that year, another small bit of irony, the all time hit streak record that season also 33 games. close as anyone has come is 24 games by andres galarraga in 1997. the montreal franchise record is 15. but obviously hits are great, winning is better, and runs are much better than that. >> nobody has better d

and, again, you go to boston, yankee stadium, certainly toronto, you know, the astro turf. >> rob: we just noticed it at yankee stadium big time. >> jim: and they're throwing more more home runs in that ballpark than anyone else. if you have a fast infield, it is going to be very difficult to pitch in those ballparks. >> jim: here is aubrey huff. >> jim: how do you figure out

. >> ray: the astro deem used to be tough but theypainted that dark. metro dome, as i mentioned, has never been tough. i never played a game down there but a lot of people talked about the difficulty in picking the ball up, not only in the outfield but all the things that come into play. they built that ballpark and basically the roof is right on top of you. the cat walk comes into play, the rights are right on top. there is a glare up there. i'm not making excuses, you know. again, major league players have got to catch those balls. we have not done it and that's why we have only won 16 ball games. >> bob: aguarantee. >> johnny: manny acta said, i agree with him, i guarantee you that nick johnson wanted to catch that ball. next time, he will have a better feel. he overran it, that's it. >> ray: i guess didn't see it. >> johnny: hope you join us tomorrow night, 7:05 the first pitch in progress, tampa bay rays against the nationals. good night. welcome to chili's. something new is on the grill. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just

are so sick that they use the emergency room as their primary access point which makes health care astro numberically more expense -- astronomically more expensive. when children are 5 years old, families don't have to wring their hands every day on how to pay for health care because it's universal. you go to kindergarten on the first day that you are 5 years old. that doesn't happen in america when you turn 5 years old and it comes to health care. parents all over the world have to worry when their child is sick whether or not they can take their child to the doctor. is their problem going to get worse? parents and families in america are going to have to worry go they continue to have their coverage if they don't have a job. they have to worry about getting coverage if they're sick. those are worries that is unacceptable in the most prosperous, most democratic nation in the world, and we must find a solution and create comprehensive health care reform for all americans. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentlewoman has expired. the gentleman from south c