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a scary moment during a major league game as the new york yankees pitcher is hit in the face by a line drive. that hit him. let s see if he s okay. he walks off the field, and we ll tell you how he s doing today, tuesday, august 18th, 2015. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. certain moments in sports where you realize how vulnerable the pitcher is. bryan mitchell, a rookie. you re right. in the one snanlt at the follow through, that pitcher is exposed. that s what can happen. we ll tell you more on how he s doing. we re going to begin with active duty service members being brought in for first time since 2006 to contain these raging wildfires out west. let s start with miguel almaguer live in washington who has the latest. good morning to you. savannah, good morning. this wildfire has now torched more than 60,000 acres. more than 40 homes here destroyed. when the smoke clears, that number could rise. six western states experienc ....
a scary moment during a major league game as a pitcher is hit in the face by a line drive. let s see if he s okay. he walks off the field. how he s doing today, tuesday, august 18, 2015. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. there are certain moment s in sports where you realize how vulnerable the pitcher is those moments after letting it go. brian mitchell is a rookie and that one instant after the follow-through the pitcher is exposed. that s what can happen. we ll tell you more. we ll begin with active duty service members being brought in for the first time since 2006 to contain raging wildfires out west. let s start with miguel almaguer in washington state with the latest. good morning to you. reporter: savannah, good morning. this fire alone here has charred at least 56,000 acres, some 32 homes destroyed ....
bill neely has the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. tragedy with 54 dead, but not the mystery we have seen with other plane crashes in the past year. the two black box flight recorders have been recovered along with all of the bodies. the plane was carrying three babies, two other children, and 49 adults. it took often heavy rain and fog and lost contact. half an hour later crashing into dense jungle on a mountainside. me planes that crashed there have never been found. this one was spotted frooam ts, air. search teams still had to hike for two days to reach it. it was carrying nearly halfee million in cash for local villages. the money not found. the plane totally destroyed. the airline trigana has a deadly safety record. it lost ten planes in 20 years. it is the third deadly air saeter in indonesia in the past year. for peopl ore in this reemote area, planes are the only wayuout. all the dead here indonesian. matt? bill ne ely, thank you very mu ....
story, 359-round draft pick. len: heard it! [laughter] j.d.: 5-mile-an-hour fastball. what s up with that? 5-4, cubs. 35th-round draft pick, so supposed to be the guys with the marginal stuff. profiles as a back of the rotation guy. maybe, maybe he will get to the big leagues but typically you don t find 95-mile-an-hour fastballs in the 35th round of the draft. maybe he didn t have it then maybe his mechanics were so bad. en: right? high for ball one to junior lake. kevin gregg will get the bottom of the night. craig, holliday, freese. will not be easy, but this game is not easy. curve outside. j.d.: a little insurance would be good. ooking for some traffic. len: how about a double? .d.: that works too. en: third time he s been on. j.d.: walk, shmalk. astball down and in. if the cardinals were protecting a lead, that may be closer to the line. fouled back to make it 0-2. len: blake parker, the cubs pitcher of record. remember rosenthal for the cardinals after giving up ....
Colleagues and friends gathered today at the Motion Picture & Television Fund to celebrate the life of venerable Deadline labor reporter David Robb. ....