four homers against the padres. they snap an 11-game losing streak. cubs were hitting them out and the white sox chris sail was punching them out. striking out 15 over 7 1/3. sail was a strikeout shy of a team record set all the way back in 1954. chi sox beat the raise, 2-1. yesterday was a memorial day that one family will never forget. the atlanta braves invited the family of master sergeant david simms to turner field. between innings, they watched a recorded message from sims who was deployed in afghanistan. big setup. as sims gave his family the shock of their lives by walking out of the stands. his wife and four kids immediately maul him. the crowd gave the family a standing ovation. a terrific moment to cap off memorial day weekend. that s your first look at sports. i m bill seward. doesn t get better than that. now for another look at the weather, here is meteorologist todd santos. he has your weather channel forecast.
kinsler to ground into an easy double play. miguel cabrera and his bat puts the tigers ahead. a line drive, rbi double. little help from the third base bag, skips over adrian bell tray s head. nice break for the tigers. they get a 3-2 lead. aim inning, delmon young, a deep two-run home run, his second home run of the game. fifth of the playoffs. he s hurt, playing great, tigers up 6-2. texas wouldn t go away, though. nelson cruz, in the eighth inning, turns on a 100-mile-an-hour verlander fastball, puts in the left field seats. verlander, 7 1/3. tying run on first. but phil coke, the left-hander, gets mike napoli to ground into a game-ending double play, detroit hangs on to win 7-5. rangers lead the series three games to two. series now heads back to texas. for game six tomorrow. finally, if you hadn t noticed hockey is back. the season began a week ago
because we re seeing a big boost. looks like the dow jones industrial average is up 136. the s&p is up 13.5. the nasdaq has jumped 37 1/3 on the day. good news there. the other thing people are really talking about today is the price of oil and how it s declining i think today for the first time in a long time. it was less than 100 bucks a barrel. that s right. we ve seen a huge selloff in commodi commodities, and that is the story of the week because it s been causing a lot of fears about inflation on wall street and elsewhere as we saw the price of silver and gold skyrocket. a lot of that was a reaction to the risk that was out there in the market and the potential for inflation as we see that going down today and this whole week, it s a response to the fed maybe getting to the end of their loosening policy, signaling that they may be tightening things up so fears about inflation are tempering. so really that selloff in commodities probably a good thing overall for the economy. tha