being on. senator jeff flake joins us next hour, plus, conservative senator mike lee weighs in and the state of the republican party under m writing in, talking about the greatest pitching performance in postseason. you have to talk about 91. we ll be right back.
to happen but, of course, i d have women into augusta. president and the republican front-runner weighing in on the question of membership at augusta national. to baseball now, 13 teams opening their seasons yesterday. among them the tigers and red sox, sorry barnacle. got to show this. ryan swinney triples over val valver valverde. boston has new life. bases juiced for austin jackson. he comes through, pulls one through the left side, detroit wins 3-2 in front of a sellout crowd at co-mere ya park. great pitching performance from verlander as they usually do. indians and jays making an opening day history. two on for encarnacion. bases-leering double and that ties the game so they go to extra innings. in the top of the 16th, 16th inning, two on for j. pshp. ar i
i love the central time zone team. they re incredible. you ve got two great midwestern beer towns, these guys are good. and this comes because the cardinals got a huge pitching performance on saturday night from chris carpenter to knock the phillies out of the series. that saturday night game was one of the best pitching duels. you d have to go back to the braves playing the twins back in 91. it was remarkable. they ve got a special thing going. it s a small market. if you like sports, you like to see little guys, davids beat goliaths. can you imagine a detroit and brewers series? think about st. louis, they were 10 1/2 games out. it s a remarkable story.
college board says s.a.t. reading scores for the class of 2011 dropped to their lowest point in 40 years. according to the test distributor, reading scores have gone down 33 points since 1972. the average math score has gone up by 5 points in that time. the college board says more students than ever are taking the s.a.t. and going to college, they attribute the lowering scores noting that many are learning english as a second language. and president obama is expected to present marine corps corporal dakota myer for the medal with the medal of honor for his service in afghanistan. myer will be the first living marine to receive this award in nearly four decades. the ceremony will be held in the east room of the white house this afternoon. still ahead on way too early, a tale of two pennsylvania cities. the phillies behind yet another dominant pitching performance become the first team to clinch a playoff spot, while their
passing. eagles wins 13-6. listen to this, last week, reds pitcher blamed a bad batch of chicken wings on the terrible pitching performance. everyone laughed it off but he got the last laugh pitching against the rockies. he struck out the side in the fourth inning, gave up no runs over seven strong innings. reds get the 2-1 victory. cueto leads the national league with the lowest earned run average. very nice, johny! he has the whole famous dave s crew over on the sideline there. cheering him on. over there. johnny, good luck to you. you did a great job. what do you want to be when you grow up? you guys will definitely see me again at fox. i like that. is that a threat? i m coming for the job! ok. good enough. thanks, johnny. good luck to you. all right. straight ahead, who will the american people see as the