here s nbc s fred roggin. good morning. we have not seen a pitcher this dominant in nearly a decade. the tigers justin verlander struck out six over seven scoreless against the white sox, earning his 23rd win of the year. first pitcher to do that since 02. tigers won 11 straight. tim wakefield picked up his 200th career win and he did it one knuckleball at a time. kept the blue jays guessing. struck out seven. papelbon showered him with champagne. red sox with an 18-6 win. mariano rivera needed one more save for 600 and he got a little help from russell martin. gunned down ichiro to end the game. rivera joins trevor hoffman as the only players to have 600 saves in their career. yanks beat the mariners 3-2. florida, marlin and braves, and this certainly didn t help. saw a runner stealing second. look out!
public. is this a referendum on the obama presidency? there had been polling done ahead of this election and it showed that the economic recovery was the number one theme. the fact that bob turner, who was a former cable tv executive, has never been a politician before, although he s run in some other races. the fact that he could beat a democrat in this district where the democrat was really expected to win this race easily until the past few weeks. democrats became increasingly nervous. this is a district where democrats outnumber republicans 3-1. it s not as liberal as many people might think. there are a lot of conservative democrats, that is, and the republican candidate here seized on their frustrations. been asked by the people of this district to send the message to washington and i hope they hear it loud and clear. we have been told this is a referendum and we re ready to say, mr. president, we are on the wrong track. you know, kyra, the democrat in this race t
okay. we ll get to sports now. we re still debating that. over the weekend, the boston red sox returned to their pre-1967 borders in fenway park. they played the cubs. late last night at fenway, tim wakefield, 73 years old. another knuckleball going, seventh inning, jets jeff baker swinging. how old is that guy? 43 years old. there s youkillis. and 4 for 4 last night. 2 of 3. beat the cubs last night. take the series. in new york, a subway series, derek jeter. there he goes, base hit. up the middle. two runs, would score.
serve tens of millions of americans and they re important. but they re also unsustain knuckleball their current form. . reporter: it s meeting resistance on capitol hill. nancy pelosi took up the discussion. i will admit, as we make social security more solvent, it will have a positive impact on the deficit, but we shouldn t go looking on reducing benefits or raising ages and all the rest. now, another option for shoring up social security would be raising social security taxes. but that could hurt small businesses and low wage workers. so again, there are just no easy answers. wolf? thanks very much, lisa, for that. we ll continue searching for some answers. from the arctic circle, to the sweltering georgia sun, the former alaska governor sarah palin campaigns for a southern gubernatorial candidate and puts the democrats on notice over expiring bush tax cuts. does she have the power to put
i am talking about ari yashida. she just graduated high school and is now playing proball in california. she signed with the chico outlaws. they call her the knuckle princess because of her killer knuckleball. she credits the red sox, tim wakefield with helping her perfect it. princess makes her mound debut may 29th. remembering a legend today, francis albert, old blue eyes, chairman of the board, the voice, you know frank sinatra, he died on this day in 1988. too many hits to name, new york new york, fly me to the moon, my way. all classics. a day to remember the legend and the legacy.