to baltimore, the first career three homerun game. and b o bichette helped to power the blue jays to a double header win against the orioles. in the bronx, aaron judge continued his race to the al homerun record, hitting his major league leading 54th homerun of the season in the series opening win over the minnesota twins. there are some things to count on, folks, life, death, taxes the yankees beating the twins and the bronx bombers five games ahead of the division. tampa s win puts the raies in a tie with the mariners for the top american league wildcard spot after seattle lost 3-2 to the white sox. to anaheim, reining american league mvp ohtani had a pair of homeruns in the romp over the
hormone of the season to help the angels win over the new york yankees. ohtani the first major league history 30 homeruns and 10 pitching wins in the same season. let s go to meteorologist michelle grossman for this the forecast, on the first day of september. how is it looking out there? hey, there, jonathan. not feeling like september out west and looking at a dangerous heat wave building today and tomorrow and through early next week had. is going to be a prolonged event. looking at temperatures in the 90s. into the triple digits. 41 million americans under a heat alert in the west and a heat advisory and an excessive heat warning including sacramento, los angeles, you can see the hottest temperatures we ve seen so far. so for today, temperatures will fall, records will fall, we re looking at temperatures climbing into the triple digits, and in reno, fresno, salt lake city, 100 degrees today, and no relief tomorrow. we re looking at more triple
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pitcher pujols has hit a homerun against breaking a tie with barry bonds and setting new major league baseball record and two homeruns behind a-rod and of course six behind the magical 700 number. i could supply part of the forecast, the northeast is humid and terrible. how is everything else? terrible. yes, we are looking at humid conditions in the northeast. it is hot. looking at temperatures in the 90s today. everywhere else we re looking at some downpours. so those of us who need umbrella, long stretching cold front, that will bring some relief eventually but first we re looking at heavy downpours in parts of the ohio valley into portions of the southern plains, and especially in texas, we could see some flash flooding today and zoom in a little closer, with that cold front that will be moving through the northeast, and before, that we re looking at that air mass and looking at the chance for strong to severe storms later on today. that means winds gusting up to
just throwing that first pitch for a strike. awkward hit. to deep left. it is gone! it is a grand slam! 690! albert pujols takes it, grand slam. his first as a pinch hitter. it moves him into a tie with hank aaron, babe ruth, for the tenth most all-time grand slams. the lashl league leading cardinals win the fourth in a row 13-0 and consistent send the rockies to a fifth straight loss. pujols, if he gets ten more homeruns in the last part of the season? let s go to meteorologist michelle grossman and the weather for the weekend forecast. what s it looking like, michelle? we are looking at a lot of rain. so it will be a soggy start for many, maybe an indoor movie day, especially in the midwest to the southeast, and the gulf coast, scattered storms, especially in the southwest. this is where we re concerned