for giving a gesture to a heckling fan. puig is appealing that decision. in new york city, the mets ace matt harvey had an abbreviated start in last night s game against the cubs. after the fourth inning with arm fatigue, but not before letting a monster 476-foot home run that gives chicago a 4-1 lead. but the mets would eventually prevail using a five run eighth inning highlighted by curtis granderson s 300th career home run, followed by a shot duda. anaheim, trailing yankees 4-0. one heads out to center field, but aaron hicks is there with a leaping grab to rob that would-be grand slam in the first inning. that one hurts. the angels make it back, though, going on to beat the yanks 7-5. finally, the rumors are real between boxing legend and mma s
teixeira will launch his league leading 25th home run. going left field. that put the yankees up 3-0. teixeira s 300th career home run was more than enough. sabathia tied a career with 13 strikeouts. the yankees went on to a 5-0 shutout win. sabathia is the first major leaguer to reach 11 wins. the yankees 2 1/2 games up on the red sox heading into the subway series with the mets. boston in philadelphia trying to avoid the sweep. here s one way to do it. take out the opposing pitcher. cole hamills had to be removed from the game after he was drilled in the wrist by a line drive off the bat of adrian gonzalez. x-rays were negative. his replacement didn t fair too well. jason varitek hits the first of his two home runs, this one in the sixth. kind of floats that out of the stadium. putting the sox up for good. 5-2 win for the red sox, the 700
in saturday s qualifying run when he ran out of gas. instead of challenging for the pole position in next week s race, he ll have to settle for the ninth position back in the third row. run out of gas? ride that margin so closely and then boom. at 8:40 we ll be joined by three special guests in our new york studio, danica patrick, defending champ dario franchitti and 2009 winner and former dancing with the stars champ and buds with me and christine. that s right. helio castroneves. great time when he was here last time. check out don king. that s him at fenway park this weekend watching his beloved red sox from above the green monster in left field when he happened to catch david ortiz s 300th career home run. what are the chances? john sent can you believe it? john sent the ball down to big pappy and the slugger sent him this cool autographed bat in return. john king, makes news, and he makes news.
many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. that s right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. to make matters worse the city s main hospital st. john s medical center where people would have gone to get help suffered extensive damage. witnesses say windows were blown out on some of the top floors. medical records, x-rays and other items scattered nearly 70 miles away. at least 100 patients hadden to transferred to other area hospitals. crews combing through mounds of debris and rubble searching for survivors. brian todd is live at joplin at st. john s. when we
that means the padres have a chance to leapfrog into first place in the west if they can beat the dodgers. tejada s 300th career home run helps the bad rays beat the dodgers 3-1. in the nl west with the giants loss and the padres win, san diego a half game win. very tight for the division and the wildcard. that s great. exciting in national league. let s go back to philly. on tuesday we showed you this moment in the phillies-braves game where a fan wearing a full body red spandex suit ran onto the field and was tripped by braves outfielder matt diaz. well, he was arrested, of course, thrown into the tank in philly, didn t get out until yesterday. turns out he s a 17-year-old kid being released from jail. why is he still wearing that? that s all he had. look at the dad. his parents picking him up.