night. ladies and gentlemen, we direct your attention to the pitcher s mound for tonight s very special ceremonial first pitch from the most watched cable news program in america for 12 years running, best selling author, syndicated columnist, political commentator, and anchor of the o reilly factor, please welcome bill o reilly. he is joined on the mound tonight by his son spencer. all right, bill. are you ready? it s your pitch. bill: all right, now, the big right hander, looks over, winds and deals, a little high. at least i didn t bounce it like miller. miller bounced it 18 times in there. all right. josh stoley, the catcher. good guy. spencer kind of dazed. [ laughter ] he said dad, can we do that every game? and that is reality check. pinheads and patriots on deck. featuring a bizarre ending to the u.s.s. open golf
night. ladies and gentlemen, we direct your attention to the pitcher s mound for tonight s very special ceremonial first pitch from the most watched cable news program in america for 12 years running, best selling author, syndicated columnist, political commentator, and anchor of the o reilly factor, please welcome bill o reilly. he is joined on the mound tonight by his son spencer. all right, bill. are you ready? it s your pitch. bill: all right, now, the big right hander, looks over, winds and deals, a little high. at least i didn t bounce it like miller. miller bounced it 18 times in there. all right. josh stoley, the catcher. good guy. spencer kind of dazed. [ laughter ] he said dad, can we do that every game? and that is reality check. pinheads and patriots on deck. featuring a bizarre ending to the u.s.s. open golf
worse. texeira hits a grounder to third. on his way to third base, he collapses, clutching his leg. he suffereds a hamstring injury and would be removed from the game. yankees starter a.j. burnett kept the game close to the top of the sixth. with two on and two out, the rangers benji molina, the catcher, a deep shot to left field, a three-run home run, puts the rangers ahead for good. 5-3 at that point. it got worse from there. josh hamilton, on fire in the series for texas. two solo home runs, one in the seventh, one in the ninth last night. he s fit four home runs in his last four games. rangers push the yankees to the brink of elimination with a 10-3 spanking at yankee stadium in the bronx. the yankees will try to avoid elimination this afternoon, 4:00 eastern time in the bronx. they ll throw their best pitcher out there, cc sabathia against c.j. wilson for the rangers.