2007 MLB Highlights May 2-3

Wednesday-Thursday, May 2-3, 2007

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OF HANK AARON’S MARK OF 755. WEST COAST BASEBALL, GIANTS HOSTING ROCKIES, 30 RUNS SCORED IN THE TWO-GAME SPLIT THUS FAR. BARRY BONDS WANTS TO ADD TWO MORE, AND ONE MORE. ONE HOMER POPPED OUT AT THE FIRST AT-BAT. THERE’S A DIFFERENT POP FOR

BARRY BONDS, WHO HITS HOME RUN NUMBER 743, NOW 12 SHY OF HENRY AARON’S HISTORIC MARK. BOTTOM EIGHTH, BONDS ON DECK. MANNY CORPUS WALKS AURILIA WITH THE GIANTS DOWN A RUN. THAT BRINGS UP BONDS. I CAN STILL RAKE. TWO-RUN SINGLE, THE BAT SPEED

THERE, THE GIANTS WIN IT, 5-3 YOUR FINAL. ADAM RAISED THE CAIN, CAN HE RAISE HIS GAME? BREWERS GET THE SWEEP. >> THE INDIANS HAVE THE BEST RECORD IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE, THEY’RE 15-8 HOSTING THE BLUE JAYS. BOTTOM FIVE, INDIANS DOWN A

RUN. JOHNNY PERALTA, THREE-RUN, WE ARE IN EXTRAS. ONE ON, TRAVIS HAFNER, BLUE JAYS PUT THE SHIFT ON. THIRD BASEMAN GOES TO SHORT, HE GOES TO SECOND. HAFNER SAYS SHIFT THAT. MARCUM AND ALL THE WAY FROM FIRST BASE, DAVID DELLUCCI, HE

SCORES, INDIANS WIN, 7-6, THEIR A CUP SERIES RACE. >> TO THE DIAMOND AGAIN, JOSH BECKETT WITH A CHANCE TO BECOME THE FIRST SIX-WIN PITCHER. TOP FOUR, A’S DOWN A RUN. TOP SIX, CROSBY TO THIRD. DIFES TO THIRD, RUNS INTO PIAZZA.

PIAZZA LEFT THE GAME WITH AN INJURED SHOULDER. SOX GET TWO IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SIXTH. THEY NOW LEAD. ELLIS IS FROZEN. SEVEN K’S IN SEVEN INNINGS FOR BECKETT. JONATHAN PAPELBON NOT AVAILABLE. COCO CRISP, A NICE DIVING GRAB. RED SOX WIN IT, 6-4, WHICH

>> DEFENDING AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPION DETROIT HAS WON THREE STRAIGHT, LOOKING TO SWEEP VISITING BALTIMORE. GARY SHEFFIELD SALIVATES AT THE THOUGHT OF FACING TRACHSEL. CHEF, 20-52 WITH FIVE HOME RUNS AGAINST TRACHSEL. HE WAS BATTING .117 THROUGH THE

FIRST 15 GAMES THIS SEASON. REMEMBER, LELAND GAVE HIM THE DAY OFF AND ENERGIZED HIM, HE’S HITTING OVER 400 — .400 SINCE THEN. RUNNER ON THIRD TWO OUTS, SHEFFIELD, TRACHSEL, BROKEN BAT SINGLE, SCORES, GAME IS TIDE. CHEF FEEL GOES 4-4 ON THE DAY

HERE OFF CHRIS RAY. HE’S BATTING .226. THE TAKE” BEGINNING MONDAY ON ESPN2. >> MIKE SCIOSCIA’S NEXT WIN MAKES HIM THE WINNINGEST IN HISTORY. SCORELESS HERE AT THE TOP OF THE FOURTH. SUPER CATCH. STILL SCORELESS UNTIL THE TOP OF THE FIFTH.

IBAR COMES IN TO SCORE, ANGELS LEAD 1-0. ESTEBAN HERMAN AT THE PLATE. WHAT DO YOU KNOW, ONE OF THREE RUNS FOR THE ROYALS, THAT’S THE WAY THE GAME FINISHED UP. K.C. LED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE SERIES HALF THAT.

>> 12-12, LIEUERS OF THREE STRAIGHT, UP ON A HOMER. BETANCOURT SAYS CANONIZE ME. BOTTOM SEVEN, GAME TIED. BETANCOURT GOT ME, I’LL GET YOU. NEXT BATTER SAYS, YOU’RE NOT GETTING ANY OF. THIS JOHN DANKS WHO IS NOW 0-4, SEVENTH WIN IN EIGHTH GAMES. SEATTLE, 3-2.

>> MINNESOTA HAS WON 4-5. JOE NATHAN CALLS THE DEVIL RAYS HIS KRYPTONITE. 3-1 HIS TEAM LEAD HEADING INTO THE NINTH. IT’S NOW 3-3678 WIGENTON HAS A THREE-HIT BALLGAME. RUNNER ON FIRST. HE’S A PINCH RUNNER. BRENDAN HARRIS, DOWN THE LINE.

IS IT GOING TO BRING HOME THE WINNING RUN? THE THIRD BASE LINE, THE POOR FELLOW FELL DOWN. HE SAID IT WAS THE HARDEST FALL HE’D EVER TAKEN ON THE BALL FIELD. YOU KNOW HE’S GOT TO FEEL KIND OF LIKE AN IDIOT.

THEN A GREAT SLIDE, HE’S SAFE. JOE MADDEN SAID IT WAS AN GAME, 6-3 FINAL. >> PHILLIES AND BRAVES, SALTALAMACCHIA MAKING HIS MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUT, SETTING THE RECORD FOR THE LONGEST NAME IN MAJOR LEAGUE BALL HISTORY. >> THESE ARE LONG NAMES. HOW ABOUT SHNELLENBERGER? .

HE SAYS DON’T WORRY ABOUT MY NAME, WORRY ABOUT MY GAME, BABY. HOWARD FACING JAMES, THEN THIS ONE, HIGH AND DEEP TO CENTER FIELD. OUT OF HERE. FOURTH IN THE SEASON FOR HOWARD. TIES THINGS UP AT 3-3. BOTTOM SIX, SAME SCORE.

WILLY HARRIS BRINGS HOME SCOTT THORMAN GO-AHEAD RUN. THAT’S HOW IT ENDED THAT’S IT FROM LOUISVILLE. NOW BACK TO YOU. >> WE’LL GO BACK TO THE DIAMOND. RUBBER GAME BETWEEN THE DODGERS AND D’BACKS. BATTLE OF LEFTIES. BOTTOM SIX, WE’RE SCORELESS. FURCAL ON SECOND AFTER A CHRIS

YOUNG ERROR. FURCAL COMES IN, DODGERS LEAD 1-0678 BOTTOM EIGHT, STILL THE SAME SCORE. ETHIER’S R.B.I. MARK HENDRICKSON 2-0, ENT YOU CAN ENJOY ON MAY 23 ON SPEBSPEN DEPORTES. BACK TO YOU SCOTT. >> ROY OSWALT OWNS THE CINCINNATI REDS. 17-1 AGAINST THEM.

IT HELPS WHEN YOU’VE GOT CARLOS, NOT NECESSARILY KNOWN FOR THE GLOVE WORK, MAKING A SUPERB PLAY THERE. BIGGIO, HE’S A HALL OF FAMER FOR SO MANY REASONS. BRIDGES IN AUSMUS. BIGGIO GETS HANGLED UP WITH PHILLIPS. PHILLIPS ARM GOT PULLED

AWKWARDLY, HE CONTINUED TO PLAY 29TH ON THE ALL-TIME HIT LIST, HE’S CLOSING IN ON 3,000. >> A DOUBLE-HEADER FOR THE CUBS -PIRATES. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL GAME. THEY ARE YOT SCORES FROM SECOND. — THERIT SCORES. SORIANO IN HIS FIRST HOME RUN

OF THE SEASON IN TUESDAY’S SUSPENDED GAME HE WENT 8-15 IN THE SERIES. CLIFF FLOYD SCORED A RUN. A RUN-SCORING FINAL PITCH, NOT GOOD. THE CUBS WIN. >> A PLETHORA OF SPORTS TO CHOOSE FROM. WE WITH BEGIN AT NUMBER 10 ON

ICE. HE BENEFITS FROM THE THORNTON PASS. THORNTON IS THE BEST PASSER IN THE WORLD AT THE MOMENT. CHEECHOO IN THE NET. SHARKS LOSE INOVER TIME. >> NUMBER NINE, CUBS AND PIRATES, GAME TWO, THE ONE WE JUST LEFT. WE TALKED ABOUT DERREK LEE, WAY

HE WAS SWINGING THE BAT HE REACHES OUT, SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS. >> TIGER AND JORDAN. ARE YOU PACIFIC RIM INVESTING, GOING LONG-TERM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE A BILLION? I’VE ALMOST GOT A BILLION. FUN TIMES, WHAT COVERA, TIGER, M.J., AND SOME SWINGER WHO OWNS

A MERCEDES-BENZ KEELERSHIP. >> KAKA MANY MILAN WINS 3-0 OVER MANCHESTER UNITED. >> TIM DUNCAN IS MOVING ON, NOT BEFORE MARCUS CAMBY REHINDED HIM, ESPECIALLY IN THE PLAYOFFS NEVER BRING THE KOOL-AID TO A GROWN MAN’S PARTY. >> NUMBER FIVE, BARRY BONDS,

743, WITHIN 12 OF HANK AARON’S CAREER RECORD. AND THE GIANTS WON THE ZASME WHITE SOX-MARINERS. A FOUL, OUT OF PLAY. JOE CREDE, HE THROWS IT. CREDO, THAT’S BROOKS ROBINSON STYLE. WHITE SOX LOST, THOUGH. >> AT NUMBER THREE, MARLINS, BORCHARD THINKS HE’S GOT

SOMETHING. YOU’VE GOT NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE MONTH FOR APRIL. >> PHILLIES-BRAVES. BASES LOADED. KELLY JOHNSON, FLY BALL TO RIGHT. SHANE VICTORINO. >> IT’S JARED SALTALAMACCHIA. LONGEST NAME, ALL THOSE LETTER ON THE BACK OF HIS JERSEY SLOWED HIM DOWN.

>> DIAMONDS — DODGERBACKS — I MEAN DODGERS DIAMONDBACKS. >>> SUPERDOPPLER 2000 SHOWED MONSTER STORMS WEDNESDAY IN TEXAS SO WE HAD A LITTLE DOUBLE-HEADER THURSDAY. ANDY PETTITTE LOOKS TO GET A WIN. MICHAEL YOUNG THROWS TO ROBINSON CANO. PETTITTE OUT OF THE JAM.

MICHAEL YOUNG, 0-5. JASON GIAMBI, HIS FIFTH OF THE SEASON GIVES THE YANKEES A 2-1 LEAD. GERALD LAIRD SWINGING IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH. HE STRIKES OUT. ETTITY WAS IN LINE TO GET THE WIN. JETER 0-3 LOOKING FOR A BASE

HIT. IT WASN’T WELL STRUCK NECESSARILY BUT DOESN’T MATTER. IT’S A BASE HIT. THE HITTING STREAK TO JETER EXTENDED TO 18. MEN ON THE CORNERS, TWO OUTS. HIDEKI MATSUI TURNS ON THEANDMA. HE’S BACK ON TRACK WITH THE E.R.A. UNDER 10.00.

JOE TORRE CALLED IT A HUGE GAME. MIKE HUSBAND EVENA OFF THE D.L. SAMMY SOSA, 1-2 FASTBALL, NO SHOT. FIVE INNINGS, FOUR HITS, ONE EARNED AND THREE K’S. BRIAN BRUNEY GETS SOSA RIGHT IN THE DOME. ONE MORE LOOK. ALWAYS A FRIGHTENING MOMENT.

YOU SEE IT UP, IT’S TIGHT AND GETS OVER THE SHOULDER. SOSA WOULD LEAVE THE GAME BUT REPORTS FROM THE DUGOUT WAS HE WAS ALL RIGHT, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. YANKEES UP 5-2. JETER EXTENDED THE STREAK TO 20 IN THIS GAME.

KENNY LOFTON, HE IS ACTUALLY THE TYING RUN AND INSTEAD IT’S A 4-6-3 DOUBLE PLAY. LOFTON STILL HAS SPEED. THEY GET HIM. S SATAN WITH A JESUS TATTOO. WELCOME TO THE EXTREME. >>> FENWAY PARK, RED SOX-MARINERS. MATSUZAKA WALKED TO BEGIN THE

GAME AND ADRIAN BELTRE NEXT, TWO MEN ON. JOSE VIDRO NEXT. THREE ON. AND THE 35-PITCH FIRST CONTINUES. ONE RUN IN ON A GROUNDOUT. BASES LOADED FOR JOSE GUILLEN. MATSUZAKA, SEVEN RUNS, FIVE HITS AND FIVE RUNS IN FIVE INNINGS. MARINERS TOOK A LEAD.

MATSUZAKA HAS A 5.45 E.R.A. THIS SEASON BUT HORATIO A MYRRH SAYS A GIVER, GIVING BACK A FIVE-RUN LEAD. FIRST SIX BATTERS REACH IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SECOND. DAVID ORTIZ SCORES JUSTIN PEDROIA THERE. WE’RE TIED AT 5-5. BOTTOM FOUR, MANNY RAMIREZ

AGAINST RAMIREZ, ADVANTAGE, RAMIREZ. MANNY’S FOURTH OF THE SEASON, A TWO-RUN SHOT. TOP FIVE, 7-6, TWO ON, TWO OUT. YUNIESKY BETANCOURT GROUND TO SHORT. LOOK AT JOSE GUILLEN STOPS IN FRONT OF JULIO LUGO WHO HAD AN AWFUL DAY AND HE CAN’T MAKE THE

THROW AND RICHIE SEXSON SCORES. BOTTOM EIGHT, THIS IS MANNY ADMIRING MANNY. HIS SECOND OF THE NIGHT, FIFTH OF THE SEASON. THAT WHEN CAUGHT UP IN THE EXCITEMENT OF IT, THAN WATCH ANY SPORT OUT THERE. >>> HOW ABOUT A HEAVYWEIGHT MATCHUP IN BASEBALL? PHILLIES-GIANTS.

BONDS AGAINST ADAM EATON HERE IN THE BOTTOM OF ONE. RANDY WINN RECOGNIZES SHANE VICTORINO’S ARM IN RIGHT. BONDS WENT 1-2. MATT CAIN WAS PUMMELED. JONATHAN SANCHEZ DIDN’T FARE WELL. ABRAHAM NUNEZ, THE R.B.I. THERE. BOTTOM SIX, 9-6, RICH AURILIA LINES IT.

AARON ROWAND TRIES TO MAKE THE CATCH. ROBERTS SCORES. THEY SCORE FIVE IN THE SIXTH. RYAN HOWARD, 0-5 AND FOUR K’S, IES UNIFORM. >>> METS WITH THE FIRST OF SEVEN STRAIGHT ON THE ROAD. ARIZONA GOING TO PLAY HOST.

NEW YORK HAS WON ITS LAST 10. TOM GLAVINE GOING TO CAREER WIN 294. IN THOSE 10 THEY WON IN THE DESERT, THE METS HAVE OUTSCORED THE DIAMONDBACKS 84-20. THIS IS INFORMATION WE COULD HAVE USED EARLIER. BOTTOM ONE, GLAVINE AGAINST ORLANDO HUDSON WHO WILL HOMER

OFF HIM LATER. THAT RIGHT THERE IS CAREER STRIKEOUT NUMBER 2,500. 20 YEARS, AVERAGING 5.4 K’S PER NINE. THE METS ARE GOING TO GET SICK IN THE TOP OF THE NINTH, INCLUDING THIS. >> IN THE AIR, DEEP LEFT CENTER FIELD.

BACK TOWARDS THE WALL GOES YOUNG. THAT BALL IS OUT OF HERE! A THREE-RUN HOMER FOR DAMION EASLEY. >> METS TURN A 4-3 DEFICIT INTO A 9-4 WIN. DAVID WRIGHT GOE ONLY THE KENTUCKY DERBY PROVES IT EVERY YEAR.

>>> BACK TO THE DIAMOND. CLEVELAND, 6-1 THUS FAR IN EIGHT GAMES. CLIFF LEE’S FIRST START OF THE YEAR, SIX INNINGS, FIVE EARNED AND FOUR K’S. PART OF THE DAMAGE DONE BY TROY GLAUS AND HE WILLOW OCCASIONALLY HAMMER A BALL. HERE COME THE TRIBE.

BOTTOM FOUR, ONE ON, TWO OUT. SIZEMORE LINES ONE TO CENTER. RIOS DROPS THE BALL. WE HAVE A PLAY AT THE PLATE AND A BIG COLLISION. FILLS INDIANAPOLIS AND BARFIELD GET TOGETHER AND THEN THERE’S WORDS AND PUSHING AND SHOVING. DAVID DELLUCCI HAD TO BE

RESTRAINED AFTER THE DUST SETTLES. YOU’RE THINKING IF YOU GOT AN UMPIRE FANTASY LEAGUE WHO WILL GET THROWN OUT? HERE SIZEMORE FINDS GROUND. MIKE ROUSE WHO HIT A SINGLE WAS ONLY 1-19 BEFORE THE SINGLE AND SCORED. HOORAY, EVERYONE IS HAPPY.

MILWAUKEE WON FOUR STRAIGHT AND LEAD THE N.L. CENTRAL. DAVID BUSH TWIRLING AND TONY GRAFFANINO ROBS CHRIS DUFFY. SCORELESS BALLGAME. RUNNERS ON FIRST AND SECOND, CHRIS FIELDER, CHOPPER, FINDS GROUND. THE BREWERS LEAD 1-0. OFF-SPEED PITCH IN THE SEVENTH

IS ONE THAT BUSH WOULD LIKE BACK. JOSE BAUTISTA HITS HIS SECOND HOME RUN OF THE YEAR. PIRATES LEAD. ALL FOUR OF THE RUNS THE BUCCOS GOT CAME IN THIS FRAME. PAULINO WITH A SOLO SHOT. T 7:30 EASTERN TIME. >> BACK TO BASEBALL.

REDS-ASTROS IN HOUSTON. THE TWO STARTING PITCHERS HAVE A COMBINED ONE WIN IN THEIR LAST 25 STARTS. ERIC MILTON AND RODRIGUEZ. RODRIGUEZ WISHED HE HADN’T SEEN KEN GRIFFEY JR. TOP ONE, SOLO SHOT. 566 ON HIS CAREER AND THREE ON THE SEASON.

CHAD QUALLS GAVE UP A WALK, A TRIPLE AND GRIFFEY WITH A RUNNER ON THIRD AND INFIELD PLAYING IN. JEFF CONINE WITH A SAC FLY AND GRIFFEY STOLE SECOND AND WENT TO THIRD ON AN ERROR. BOTTOM EIGHT, REDS UP 5-4. NOT ANYMORE.

MIKE STANTON GIVING UP THREE RUNS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN FOUR APPEARANC CARD. REMINDING JUWAN HOWARD IT’S ILL-ADVISED TO BRING KOOL-AID TO A GROWN MAN’S PARTY. JAZZ WIN. >> WHO ARE YOU TO HAVE A LIST? GRAFFANINO, DIVING STOP AT

THIRD. CHRIS DUFFY, YOU KNOW WHAT? HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS P.F. FLYERS. WE HAVE MORE IN THIS GAME. >> I’M DONE WITH THAT. THAT WAS SO LAST YEAR. HERE IS TONY GWYNN JR. TRYING TO GET ON BASE VIA THE BUNT BUT THEY’RE HAVING NONE OF THAT.

>> ANYONE FOR TENNIS? CHAMPIONS CUP. HIS NAME IS PETE SAMPRAS, 14-TIME MAJOR WINNER, DIDN’T TOUCH A RACKET FOR THREE YEARS AN PLAYS IN HIS FIRST TOURNAMENT IN NEARLY FIVE YEARS AND OF COURSE HE WINS AND BEATS PETER FORDA.

>> THE DEVIL RAYS ARE FAR FROM GREAT BUT THEY’RE STARTING TO PUT SOME PIECES TOGETHER. B.J. UPTON CAN GO. NICE DIVING STOP TO GET JASON BARTLETT AND THE DEVIL RAYS WIN AGAIN, TAKING THE LAST TWO FROM THE TWINS. >> AT FIVE THE ANGELS-ROYALS.

REGGIE WILLIS HAS A 10-GAME HIT STREAK, THE LONGEST BY AN ANGEL BUT JOHN BUCK MAKES THIS PLAY. HE NAILS HIM! ROYALS GOT THE WIN. >> DEREK JETER HAS EXTENDED HIS HITTING STREAK TO 20. MATT INDICATEA — MATT KATA DENIED HIM HERE.

MELKY CABRERA IS RUNNING AND GOT DOUBLED UP. THE YANKEES TOOK BOTH GAMES BY A SCORE OF 5-2. >> WHILE ON THE WIRE EVERYTHING IS WAITING. IN SEOUL, KOREA, THEY’RE GOING .62 MILES. >> WOULD YOU DO THAT?

>> NO, NOT FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY. IF YOU FELL YOU FELL INTO WATER. >> YEAH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO