time. the yankees won 6-4 to keep their lead on the red sox. last night, the arizona diamondbacks ian kennedy became the first 20-game winner against the pirates. struck out 12. former yankee. d-backs beat pittsburgh 1-0. arizona sneaky good, by the way. now have a five and a half game lead in the nl west. one last item. dallas mavericks owner mark cuban is joining warren buffett, jumping in now on the tax debate taking place in washington. in a post on his blog titled the most patriotic thing you can do, cuban writes this. quote, be patriotic. go out there and get rich. get so obnoxiously rich that when your tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write. your second thought will be, what a great problem to have. your third will be that in recognition of paying your
whatever you re going to tell yourself. guerrero deep fly to center. look at the catch. reaches out to rob guerrero. puts out the basket and hangs on as he collides with the wall. unbelievable play. we should point out the phillies are 6 1/2 up. atlanta s hot, though. they ve won five in a row. i think it s good for the phillies. if they had a nine, ten game lead, they would coast all september. i think that atlanta is staying in there. phillies in a short series in the fall. braves are a good team, though. finally check out a little triple play. nashville sound taking on the omaha storm chasers. omaha with runners on first and second, a hard line drive to center. how is this a triple play? logan schaffer misreads it, keeps it alive. the ball goes off his glove, off
congratulations to the people of vancouver skating in to the stanley cup finals. to baseball, the yankees looking to keep their half game lead on the red sox. curtis granderson a two-out single scores a run from third. game tied at four. next batter, mark teixeira, a hard single off first baseman juan rivera that trickles into right field. granderson comes all the way around to score. yankees score four runs in the last two innings to win the game 5-4. red sox also won last night. they beat the indians. the sox still a half game behind the yankees. coming up on morning joe, as joplin, missouri, wakes up from its nightmare, tornadoes strike neighboring oklahoma. we will have the latest on this rash of severe weather. and when we come back here, we ll huddle up around the water cooler where president obama flexed his diplomatic muscle on the ping-pong table. how can expedia save me even more on my hotel?
knicks. cavs and pistons won t make the playoffs. two had to be restrained and both were ejected. watch villaneuva after finding out he got tossed. cavs won it, 110-101. the mavs are now in second place. jason terry scored 6 of his 21 in the extra frame. dallas won it, 98-91. they have a half game lead on the lakers. college hoops, mya moore until the wnba draft and on the men s side, kemba walker has declared for the draft. something had to give in boston. a homer just inside the foul pole. fuld got it down with his glove, dustin pedroia a shot to left. here is fuld making the diving darn.
single. a.j. burnett goes around the bat. burnett only went three innings because of a two-hour rain delay. skies cleared and stadium emptied out. after the rain delay it was all rays. top of the seventh inning carl crawford, a solo home run puts the rays up 4-2. the very next batter is longoria. he goes deep as well into the half-empty seats. rays go on to win 7-2, now just a game and a half behind the yankees. the final game is tonight. cc sabathia and david price. should be a good one. back to the national league, in the west division, three teams battling for the title there. san francisco with a half game lead coming into the games yesterday taking on the cubs at wrigley. bottom of the third fukudome mow of the cubs, a home run to right puts chicago up 1-0. takes it to the top of the ninth inning. cubs closer marmol gets guillen swinging to end the game. cubs bin 2-0 over the giants.