2006 SportsCenter Top 10 Plays July 24-30

Monday-Sunday, July 24-30, 2006

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>> TOUGH TO NARROW DOWN THE TOP 10 PLAYS MONDAY NIGHT. NUMBER 10 COMES FROM THE RED SOX AND A’S. AND FOUL POP. JASON KENDALL, ISSUES BOBBLING THE HAY. SWISHER IS THERE TO GRAB IT. THAT IS TEAM WORK. A’S END UP LOSING.

>> PETE ROSE, BOB BOONE, 200 OF — 2006. NUMBER NINE, HELP FROM GREG MADDUX. 1-4-3. WHEN YOU ACQUIRE 100 GOLD GLOVES LIKE MADDUX HAS, SOMETIMES IT’S HARD TO FIELD WITH THE LEATHER ONE. >> SPEAKING OF FIELDING, NUMBER EIGHT.

WILLIE THE CLEPTO CAT, FIELDS A FEW GARDENERS GLOVES. AND THE CAT’S OWNER DECIDES WHY NOT DISPLAY THEM IN THE FRONT YARD. RATHER NICE COLLECTION, I’LL SAY. >> NUMBER SEVEN, TWINS-WHITE SOX. JASON TINER. PRETTY CLOSE. GRABBED UP AGAINST THE WALL. TWINS WIN AGAIN.

>> NUMBER SIX, BLUE JAYS-MARINERS. REED JOHNSON DOESN’T HAVE A SCALE A WALL. HE JUST LAYS OUT. TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT. NOTHING LIKE SACRIFICING THE BODY FOR THE GRAB. >> NUMBER FIVE, IT’S CRAZY GRANDMA. SHE’S SKY DIVING FOR HER 80TH GRANDMA.

GRAVITY CAN BE YOUR FRIEND AT 80. THE BRAVES AND THE PHILS. BETEMIT, A THROW TO FIRST FOR THE OUT. THAT’S AWESOME. BRAVES TAKE IT 10-8. >> NUMBER THREE, TWINS AND THE WHO CAN. JASON BARTLETT, RANGING, RANGING, RANGING. OVER THE SHOULDER.

MADE IT LOOK EASY. >> THIS IS KIND OF EASY. THE CUBS AND METS. JUAN PIERRE, PROBABLY NOT. BUT LOOKS PRETTY. CUBS FAKE IT 8-7, THE FINAL. >> NUMBER ONE, THE CONNECTICUT SUN AND THE NEW YORK LIBERTY. ERIK THORNE MADE A THREE TO BEAT THE FIRST QUARTER BUZZER.

THE THIRD QUARTER A LITTLE FARTHER BACK. >> LETS IT GO FROM MID COURT. OVER HER HEAD, KNOCKS IT DOWN! >> AND NUMBER ONE — SHE’D LIKE TO ACTUALLY WIN A RACE. FROM ONE TOP 10 TO ANOTHER. OUR “TOP PLAYS.” REDS-ASTROS.

AFTER THE PITCH, BRAD MUSS — AUSMUS FAKES THE THROW TO SECOND. ROYCE CLAYTON, HE IS FOOLED. HE’S OUT. >> THAT’S EMBARRASSING. >> FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. >> NUMBER NINE, CALIFORNIA’S IMPERIAL BEACH. SEARCHING FOR A CONTEST LOOKING FOR JEEP KEYS.

WHAT THEY HOPE THEY DON’T FIND IS THE FAULT LINE. >> TWO WORDS. METAL DETECTOR. >> DODGERS-PADRES. MIKE CAMERON GUNS DOWN TOBY HALL. PADRES IN A 7-3 HE WIN. MYSPACE ON THE OTHER END OF THAT — MIKE PIAZZA ON THE

OTHER END OF THAT PLAY. >> AND REGGIE WILLISBROUGHT HIS ADULT GLOVE. SLIDING THERE TO MAKE THE CATCH. GREAT CATCH BUT NOT A GOOD GAME. ANGELS LOST. >> BRANDON PHILLIPS HAS BEEN ALL OVER THIS SHOP. RICH AURILIA MAKES THE STOP. BEARING DOWN.

GREAT DOUBLE PLAY. >> AT NUMBER FIVE, HOOPS IN THE SUN. SUMMER LEAGUE, ORCHARD PARK IN THE BRONX. MIKE PETERSON. OH! OVER THE GOLF CART. SICK! FORE! FORE! >> REDS OF ASTROS. BRANDON PHILLIPS AGAIN. OH, WHAT A CATCH. REDS WIN 2-0.

BRANDON PHILLIPS APPARENTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRTUALLY ALL OF IT. >> AT NUMBER THREE, TIGERS-INDIANS. CASEY BLAKE TO CENTER. CURTIS GRANDERSON, “I GOT IT, I GOT IT, I GOT IT, OH, I DON’T GOT IT .” HE’S AROUND THE BASES IN HIS P.F. FLYERS. THE INDIANS WIN.

>> NUMBER TWO, TWINS-WHITE SOX. BIG GAME, BIG PLAY. JASON BARTLETT. GREAT THROW TO GET SCOTT PODSEDNIK. PUNCHOUT. DIVING TO HIS FEET AND GOT HIM IN A HUGE TWINS WIN. >> AT NUMBER ONE, BRAVES LOST TO THE MARLINS. RYAN LANGERHANS IN PLACE OF

ANDRUW JONES MADE SOME ANDRUW JONES-LIKE CATCHES. >> A RIG. THE 10 BEST FROM WEDNESDAY. TOP 10 PYS PIRATES-BREWERS. FF CIRIL. HE’S GOT A GLOVE. DOESN’T MEAN Y HAVE TO USE IT. >> NBERINUMBENI MASTERS, MICHELLE WIEHE’S FROM HAWAII. OHA! -FOOT EAGLE. ED FOR EIGHTH AT THREE UNDER.

>>SETHELOVE NOTHE ND. YOU DON’T HAVEO E THAN THER. I’M GOINGO NBER SEVEN. DRES-DODGERS. MARK BELLHORN. YOU KNOW, YOU TALKEDBOUT ICHIE SEXSON HAVING TTH WELL,ELORN,E HAS TEETH, TOO. THERE THEY ARE, TOOOE AND SITSHE >> IF IT’SICF YOU GO AHI TO YOUREEPSURIN T GAME.

>>HIS SRE PLAY. >>UMBER EDNEAYIG FIGHTS. THOUGHT IT WASANCE CLASS. SAYS YOU CAN’TANCEIT MY DATE,UTOU C DCEITY GHT HAND. HE MIGHT WANT TORINGIS HANDS UP. >>S-TR. BREY HUFF,HETAAR DIVING, YOU NEGOTIATION CGHT WIT A GLOVE. GOT UP, TEWIT T HAN SORT OF TOPY OUT. TIM: NUMBER THREEED S-A. BBY KIELTYIT THEACK

HAND. TAKE ANOTHER LOOK. THE’SEA T REDOX-1 >> NUMBEWO,UBMETS BODY SCORING HERE’S WHY. PEOPLE LIKNIEEDO, KING PLAYS LIKE THAT. GAME EEDN A 3IE WHAT A GAM >> TIME NOW FOR TOP PLAYS. WE COUNT THEM DOWN STARTING FROM NUMBER 10. BLUE JAYS AND THE A’S. REED JOHNSON IS GOING TO HIT

ONE RIGHT BACK AT JOE BLANTON. BLANTON DEFLECTS IT. BOBBY CROSBY COMING UP FIRING. A’S GO ON TO WIN IT 5-2. THANKS AT LEAST IN PART TO FINE BAREHANDED DEFENSE FROM THE A’S SHORTSTOP. >> NUMBER NINE, CUBS AND CARDINALS, CHRIS DUNCAN WELL

HIT OVER TO THIRD BUT ARAMIS RAMIREZ THERE TO MAKE THE DIVING STOP. GOT IT JUST BEFORE IT GOT THROUGH. MORE FROM THAT GAME COMING UP. >> NUMBER EIGHT, BREWERS HAVE ADDED ANOTHER SAUSAGE TO THE GREAT SAUSAGE RACES, A MEXICAN SAUSAGE NAMED CHORIZO.

“I AM HUMBLE TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF SO MANY WORLD-CLASS WIENERS.” REALLY? >> CAREER NIGHT IN THE WNBA FOR DIANA TAURASI. YOU SAW IT. 41 POINTS AGAINST THE COMETS, BUT NOT ENOUGH. PHOENIX GOES DOWN BY THREE.

>> NUMBER SIX, MORE FROM THE CARDINALS AND THE CUBS, TODD WALKER DIVES FOR A GROUNDER UP THE MIDDLE, GETS DAVID ECKSTEIN GOING TO FIRST. LATER HERE IS MORE FROM WALKER. COULDN’T PICK OUT JUST ONE TOP PLAY FROM HIM SO ANOTHER DIVING

STOP. >> MARLINS AND BRAVES AT NUMBER FIVE. MIKE JACOBS INTO THE HOLE. MARCUS GILES. DOWN TO GET IT. BUT THE MARLINS GO ON TO WIN IT 6-1. AT LEAST, THEY HAD DEFENSE. >> NUMBER FOUR, THE U.S. BANK CHAMPIONSHIP, COREY PAVIN.

COREY PAVIN BROKE THE PGA NINE-HOLE SCORING RECORD WHEN HE SHOT A 26 ON THE FRONT NINE AT THE U.S. BANK CHAMPIONSHIP. HE WENT ON TO SHOOT A NINE UNDER 61. I WOULD SAY HE’S YOUR FIRST ROUND LEADER. >> CARDINALS-CUBS AT NUMBER

THREE, TWO OUTS, ALBERT PUJOLS. >> AND NOW “HARDLY THE USUAL TOP 10.” >> THANK YOU FOR THAT INTRODUCTION. “HARDLY THE USUAL TOP 10.” AT TOP 10 OUT OF ALL THE INTRODUCTIONS WE HAD, THAT WAS ONE OF THEM. DIAMONDBACKS,-ASTROS.

MIKE LAMB TRIES TO TAKE THE EXTRA BASE BUT SLIDES THREE FEET PAST SECOND AND HAS TO SLIDE BACK IN SAFELY. NOT SAFE THERE. IS SAFE THERE. HARDLY THE USUAL. >> NUMBER NINE, PGA BANK CHAMPIONSHIP, COREY PAVIN,

UNLIKE THE LLAMA, HE’S NOT A BIG HITTER BUT SET A PGA SCORING RECORD FOR NINE HOLES AND SHOT A 26 ON THE PAR 34 FRONT NINE AND SHOT AN OPENING ROUND 61 AND HOLDS A ONE-SHOT LEAD IN THIS EVENT. COREY PAVIN.

>> NUMBER EIGHT ON TUESDAY, REDS-ASTROS, TOP SECOND, TWO ON, TWO OUT. AUSMUS WITH TRICKERATION CATCHING ROYCE CLAYTON GETTING FAR AWAY FROM THE BAG. WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO HIM SINCE I STRUCK OUT IN THE MOVIE “ROOKIE.” >> ROYALS-RANGERS. DEJESUS SINGLES.

MATTHEWS SAID I’VE GOT IT. IT ROLLS TO THE WALL AND HE’S CHASING AFTER IT. IT’S A THREE-BASE ERROR, DAY HUGHES MAKES IT HOME TO SCORE — DEJESUS MAKES IT HOME TO SCORE. >> AT NUMBER SIX, FROM LAST SATURDAY, YANKEES-BLUE JAYS.

NICK GREEN SORT OF GAVE UP ON THAT TED LILLY PITCH. THAT’S NOT GOING TO BEEN ON HIS RESUME REEL. >> MR. ED AND WILBUR EVER HAD THIS PROBLEM. PAUL O’NEILL IS UNHAPPY BECAUSE CITY AFFAIR THREW HIM. HE GOES ZINEDINE ZIDANE ON P.M.

>> RYAN FREEL, THE PITCH DOESN’T HIT HIM BUT GETS IN HIS LAUNDRY. GET THAT LOOSE AND GO TO FIRST BASE. >> AT NUMBER THREE, HE’S MADE FROM COARSELY CHOPPED FATTY PORK AND SEASONED WITH CHILE AND PAPRIKA. THE NEWEST RACING SAUSAGE, CHORIZO.

>> WILL HAVE HIS FIRST RACE ON SATURDAY AND THEN SENT TO THE MINORS FOR FURTHER SEASONING. AND A LITTLE OVERHAND RIGHT IN THE FIGHT WILL PUT YOU DOWN A MINUTE IN THE FIGHT. BUZZER-BEATER. FOX-19. AND FOR WHATEVER ISSUES THE B ITBASSMASTERS NEXT. REDS-ASTROS.

AFTER THE PITCH, BRAD AUSMUS FAKES A THROW TO SECOND. CLAYTON WATCHING THE RUN DOWN TO THIRD AND HOME. OH, MY BAD. >> INTERNATIONAL POOL. IN LAS VEGAS. HITMAN WINS $350,000 IN CASH. YOU COULD WIN $250,000 FOR FISH AND $350,000 FOR POOL. >> NUMBER EIGHT,

DIAMONDBACKS-ASTROS. CARLOS QUENTIN, NICE GRAB. AND THE RUSSIAN JUDGES GAVE HIM A 9.8 ON THE DISMOUNT. >> A WONDER STRIKE! OH! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? >> THAT’S U.S.A. AND REAL IN SALT LAKE. A 3-3 TIE. >> BRANDON PHILLIPS JUMPS OVER A DUDE.

GETS THE DOUBLE PLAY. WE LIKE EDITING EQUIPMENT, WHICH IS WHY WE SHOW YOU THINGS IN SLOWER MOTION. ASTROS LOST THE GAME 2-0. >> MARLINS-BRAVES ON TUESDAY. 18 IS SICK. THAT’S RYAN LANGERHANS. YOU COULD WATCH LANGERHANS ROB JOSH WILLINGHAM.

THE BRAVES LOST THE GAME 2-1. >> NUMBER FOUR, NEW YORK LIBERTY’S ERIN THORN JUST WENT SILLY ALL WEEK LONG. >> THORN FOR THREE. BANKS IT IN. THORN WILL HAVE TO LET IT GO FROM MID COURT, OVER HER HEAD. >> RED HOT, CROSSES OVER.

OH! GOT IT. AND ONE. >> WEDNESDAY NIGHT FIGHTS, JUST DANCING AROUND THE RING UNTIL HIS OPPONENT IS LIKE ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE. OH, THAT’S A TERRIBLE DEAL. LOOKS LIKE A DUDE WHO■ HAD 19 YEARS, ONE MINUTE INTO THE FIGHT.

>> GRADY SIZEMORE, NOW I DON’T KNOW WHY THAT’S NUMBER TWO. I THINK IT’S MORE LIKE SIX. THAT’S JUST ME. >> IT’S PRETTY GOOD. BUT IT’S NOT NUMBER ONE IN THE HOOD, G. COREY PATTERSON GETS THE HONOR