2007 MLB Highlights July 12-13

Thursday-Friday, July 12-13, 2007

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15 OF THEIR LAST 21 BEFORE THE BREAK. THE TIGERS LEADING THE A.L. CENTRAL FOR THE SECOND HALF FOR THE SECOND STRAIT SEASON. OPENING. BOTTOM FOUR. BELTRE ON THIRD. PUDGE ROD RETION. PUDGE IS AT HOME AND HE IS HOT. HE WANTS BATTER INTERFERENCE.

MAY HAVE BUMPED UMPIRE MIKE WINTERS TWICE AND HE HAS TO BE RESTRAINED AS HE IS EJECTED. PUDGE MAY HAVE HAD A BEEF. BETANCOURT MAY HAVE GOTEN IN THE WAY. STILL YOU CAN’T BUMP THE UMPIRE. STILL CHIRPING FROM THE DUGOUT. HERE IS JOSE LOPEZ.

NOT FILTHY. NASTY. LOADED FOR BELTRE IN THE FIFTH. WATCH THIS PLAY CLOSELY. BASE KNOCK OFF MILLER. TWO RUNS SCORED. BELTRE WILL OVERSLIDE SECOND BASE. HOLD ON. CARLOS GUILLEN. DOES HE TAG HIM HERE? HE NEVER DID. NO THROW TO THIRD. THREE RUNS HAVE SCORED.

JIM LEYLAND OUT THERE SAYS ALL RIGHT. I’M GOING TO APPEAL. THEY GET THE BALL BACK TO GUILLEN. BEGGET BELTRE RULED OUT. BRUCE FRESHMANNING MAY HAVE MISSED THIS PART OF THE CALL. LOOKS LIKE HE GOT A CORRECT IN THERE. NEVER DID GET HIM BUT APPEARED

BELTRE DID TOUCH THE BASE. NONETHELESS THREE RUNS SCORED BECAUSE ALL CAME IN BEFORE THE ONE-RUN LEAD. J.J. PUTZ. NINTH STR MILLION IF THEY ADDED ALEX THAT WOULD BE 25-33% OF THEIR PAYROLL IN 2008. >> A-ROD .545. THREE WHORMSE THE YANKS. HERE WE’RE GOING TO GET AN —

JUST OFF THE GLOVE. IN FRONT OF THE BALL. HE IS LIKE, THAT IS A BIG LEAGUE PLAY. I’VE GOT TO MAKE THAT. LATER IN THE INNING. BOBBY ABREU. RIGHT FIELD WALL. RODRIGUEZ WOULD SCORE. THINGS GET FUN IN THE FOURTH. THE ALWAYS DREAMY DEREK JETER

UP AGAINST JAMES SHIELDS. THE WINNER IS DEREK JETER. AND THAT IS JUST IN TERMS OF THE MEN WITH THE HOME RUN. JETER’S SIXTH HOMER OF THE SEASON. A-ROD COMES UP. TACK ON ANOTHER $1 MILLION FOR THAT ONE. HIS 31ST HOME RUN.

THE FIRST TIME JETER AND A-ROD HAVE HIT BACK-TO-BACK HOMERS AS TEAMMATES. NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR YOU BROTHER. ABREU. THREE NORMSE THE FRAME IS BRAVES GETTING SOME MORE OFF WILSON’S ARM. YANKS IT. THE NATION OPENING THE SECOND HALF. ING TORONTO.

BOTTOM ONE. DAVID ORTIZ. KNOCKED OFF ROY HALLADAY. J.D. DREW. RED SOX TRAILING 1-0 COME BACK TO TIE IT AT 1-1 IN WHAT WOULD BE A BIG BOSTON FIRST INNING. RAMIREZ DOUBLES. DUSTIN PEDROIA SCORES. BY THE WAY, HE ALSO WALKED FOUR. BOTTOM SIX.

ORTIZ. BIG PAPI. CENTER FIELD. VERNON WELLS IS OUT THERE. HE’S GOT SOME ISSUES IN FRONT OF THAT BIG GARAGE DOOR. PEDROIA WAVED IN ALL THE WAY FROM FOURTH. RED SOX UP 6-4. TIME FOR MANNY RAMIREZ. AARON HILL OFF THE GLOVE. ORTIZ SCORES. 7-4.

BOTHERING HIM LATELY MORE THAN USUAL AND THAT CERTAINLY DIDN’T HELP. THE RED SOX W METS OPENING THE SECOND HALF WITH A TWO-GAME LEAD ATOP THE N.L. EAST, HOSTING THE REDS AT SHEA FOR THE FIRST OF FOUR. BRONSON ARROYO. THERE IT GOES. THE SOLO SHOT.

FIRST LEADOFF HOMER OF THE SEASON FOR REYES. RUBEN GOTAY. THEY OPEN THE GAME WITH BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS. 7,238 GAMES. FIRST TIME EVER. 2-0 NEW YORK. GOTAY SINGLES. FREEL COMING HOME WITH THE THROW. MILLEDGE GOT THE START IN LEFT. HIS FIRST HIT OF THE SEASON.

FREEL. 7.5 SECONDS INTO SECOND FROM THE MOMENT OF CONTACT. NOT BAD. >> REGULAR DIMENSION? >> 90 FEET TO OPEN. INTERSANDMAN. NEXT PITCH. ENCARNACION. PHILLIPS RUNNING ON CONTACT. NOW HE HAS HIMSELF ALL HUNG UP. THE METS WIN 3-2 AS THE REDS MANAGE ONLY FOUR HITS.

>> LARGE NUMBER. 10,000. >> A’S-TWINS. CHAD GAUDEN ALLOWED TWO EARNED RUNS. HE WAS PRETTY DARN GOOD. MICHAEL CUDDYER. JASON BARTLETT WILL SCORE. CUDDYER TIED A CAREER BEST WITH FOUR HITS. BALL FOUR. TAKE YOUR BASE. WALKED FOUR IN THE FRAME. 2-0 TWINS. BOTTOM SECOND.

JASON BARTLETT SINGLES TO CENTER. PUNTO WILL SCORE. 4-0. THEY ARE GOING TO GO FROM THIRD TO FIRST IN THE CENTRAL. GUDE INOUT AFTER FOUR INNINGS. HOME TO THE PLAYOFFS. >> 10 BEST PLAYS. SHAWN GREEN UP THE MIDDLE. BRANDON PHILLIPS. NICE BACKHAND. SCOTT HATTEBERG THERE.

REDS LOST, 3-2. >> NUMBER NINE. WORLD CUP SOFTBALL. SWRENS, U.S.A. OKLAHOMA CITY. DIVING STOB. MAKES A LOVELY PLAY THERE. 9-1 STARS AND STRIPES. JOHN DEERE CLASSIC. LARRY MIZE FOUR SHOT ON THE PAR 5 17. FOR BIRD. HE HIT A 74. 10 BACK.

>> DIDN’T HE WIN THE MASTERS ONCE OR MING? STANLEY CUP AT DISNEYLAND. USUALLY IT IS ON FROZEN WATER. >> THE UNDER 20 WORLD CUP. CHILE AND PORTUGAL. BIG SAVE. WATCH OUT FOR THE GOAL POST. WHOA! >> NUMBER FIVE. YANKS-DEVIL RAYS. MEMMINGY CABRERA.

CHOPPER TO SECOND. JOSH WILSON. THROWING OUT FOR MILK MAN. >> WE HAVE MORE FROM THIS GAME LATER. >> DO THEY HAVE A MELKY? >> SHOULD IF THEY DON’T. >> NUMBER FOUR. SUMMER LEAGUE. GRIZZLIES-CAVALIERS. SHANNON BROWN. CAVS LOST 100-76 BUT HAD THIS COOL DUNK. >> TROY GLAUS.

DUSTIN PEDROIA UP A THE MIDDLE. LOVELY TEENG WATCH BASEBALL. YANKEES-DEVIL RAYS. ROBBERY CANO. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? CARL CRAWFORD THE SLIDING GRAB. NUMBER ONE, HOUSTON, CHICAGO. GOAL. WHAT A GOAL! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, JOSEPH. WHAT AN INDIVIDUAL EFFORT. OH, MY.

“SPORTSCENTER,” SHARAPOVA VERSUS YOUNG. >> ON THE DIAMOND WE HAVE THE RED VERSUS THE METS, THE N.L. EAST LEADERS PUTTING THE BALL IN JOHN MAINE’S HANDS. TOP ONE, THEY ARE LOADED, NOBODY OUT. FIRST PITCH TO BRANDON PHILLIPS AND HE GETS A GRAND SLAM.

REDS UP 4-1. HE POPS IT TO REYES WHO GETS TOSSED IN THE ABY FREEL. REYES WILL BE WOULD BE OK. HE ALMOST HURT HIS KNEE BUT STAYED IN THE GAME. PHILLIPS DOUBLING UP THE LEFT FIELD LINE. MAINE ROCKED. THE REDS DOUBLE UP THE METS 8-4.

>> PIRATES-BRAVES, BOTH TEAMS COMING OUT OF THE BREAK IN A BETTER SPOT THAN LAST YORE. CHIPPER JONES HITS IT RIGHT AT ADAM LAROCHE. HE HAS FORGOTTEN THE BALL. HE THINKS HE HAS IT AND GOING TO TROT OVER THERE, BUT IT IS

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. ERROR ON LAROCHE. ONE OF THE RULES IS YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE BALL. BRIAN MCCANN, THREE-RUN HOMER, JONES ALSO HIT ONE. TOP FIVE, 5-5. TULOWITZKI WITH A TWO RUN SHOT. >> ASTROS AND CUBS. CARLOS ZAMBRANO COMES IN 4-0 IN

HIS LAST FIVE STARTS AGAINST HOUSTON. TOP ONE, ZAMBRANO DIALED IN. JUST ASK HIM. TOP TWO, HE WOULD STRIKE OUT THE SIDE. ZAMBRANO 6 2/3 SCORELESS WITH SEVEN CASE. BOTTOM FOUR, CUBS UP 1-0. HE GROUNDS TOWARD THIRD, BERKMAN, OOMS.

SOTO REACHES THIRD ON TWO ERRORS AND CHICAGO IS UP 2-0. TOP SEVEN, STROS DOWN 4-0. BASES LOADED WITH TWO OUT. ERIK MONEY SEND TO RIGHT CENTER OFF CUBS RELIEVER. JONES IS THERE, CUBS WITH THEIR SIXTH SHOES OUT OF THE SEASON. WHITE SOX-ORIOLES. >> NATIONALS-MARLINS HERE.

DONTRELLE WILLIS, HE RETURNS TO EARLY SEASON FORM. RYAN CHURCH FIELD IT AND THROWS IT POORLY. CHURCH ADVANCES TO SECOND ON THE THROW. FELIPE LOPEZ ON THAT WILLIS PITCH TO RIGHT. NATIONALS LEAD 3-1. NEXT BATTER SNYDER BALL FOUR. BERKMAN TAKE YOUR.

THAT ONE GETS AWAY FROM OLIVO. NATIONALS NEW LEAD 4-1. THEY WILL LOAD THEM UP IN THE BEGINNING AGAIN. YOUNG, THAT IS YOUR BASE HIT. NATIONALS WIN 14-10. >> WHITE SOX AND ORIOLES. MARK BUERHLE IN HIS FIRST START SINCE SIGNING THAT FOUR-YEAR $56 MILLION CONTRACT EXTENSION.

COREY PATTERSON, DEEP AND GONE. HIS THIRD HOME RUN OF THE YEAR. PLENTY OF RUN SUPPORT FOR BEDARD. HE RINGS UP JERMAINE DYE. SIXTH K OF THE GEEL. FIELDS APPEARS TO HAVE STRUCK OUT, AND THE UMPIRE RUL YEAR IN 2001. >> BOTTOM ONE WE ARE SCORELESS.

ICHIRO GOES DOWN SWINGING CART SI BONDERMAN. BASES LOADED FOR SHEFFIELD. 1-2 COUNT. AND WASHBURN’S PITCH OFF THE PLATE. WOULD HAVE BEEN STRIKE THREE. THE VERY NEXT PITCH IS SHEFFIELD’S 22ND CAREER GRAND SLAM AND THE TIGERS ARE UP 4-1.

BOTTOM SEVEN, TIGERS UP 6-3. INGE ROBBING JOHJIMA. TOP PLAY NOMINEE. INGE NOT DONE. BOTTOM EIGHT, GUILLEN, SLOW ROLLER TO THIRN, INGE BARE HANDING EFFECTIVELY. BOTTOM NINE, TWO ON, TWO OUT, TYING RUN AT THE PLATE, AND PINCH HITTER BEN BROUSSARD, TODD JONES, DEALS AND STRIKES

HIM OUT SWINGING. BASEBALL. BUD SELIG DID NOT ATTEND. GIAMBI OUT FOR SIX WEEKS WITH A FOOT INJURY CAN ONLY WATCH THE YANKEES AGAINST THE D-RAYS. BOTTOM TWO, RACE UP 1-0 WITH TWO ABOARD. WILSON OFF ROGER CLEMENS, THE

DRIVE TO CENTER ROLLS TO THE WALL. TWO SCORE. WILSON WITH HIS FIRST TRIPLE OF THE SEASON. CLEMENS, DICEY, 5 1/3, FIVE HERNANDEZ. SCOTT KAZMIR RINGS UP MATSUI, PHILLIPS TAKE A SEE. KAZMIR SIX SCORELESS. TOP EIGHT, JORGE POSADA, GOING SOLO.

YANKEES DOWN 6-3. NEXT BATTER, MATSUI, DEEP AND GO, BACK-TO-BACK JACKS. YANKEES DOWN 6-4 ON MAL SUE’S 12 HOME RUN OF THE YEAR. TOP NINE, YANKEES DOWN TO THEIR FINAL OUT. HE FLIES OUT. KAZMIR WITH HIS FIRST HOME WIN IN MORE THAN A YEAR.

ROYALS AND INDIANS, CLEVELAND BEHIND WESTERBROOK GUNNING FOR SIX STRAIGHT AT HOME. PENA GROUNDING ONE TO BLAKE WHO MAKES THE BAREHANDED CATCH AND THROW TO FIRST. TOP SIX, WESTBROOK FACING LEREW. HE GET HELP FROM THE D BEHIND HIM. LEREW HITS INTO THE 5-4-3

DOUBLE PLAY. ONE OUT AND ONE OUT. PERALTA IS WALKED TO SET UP THE DOUBLE PLAY. RUNNERS ON FIRST AND SECOND FOR GARKO. GARKO STEPS IN, HERO OR GOAT? HERO. HIS FIRST CAREER WALK-OFF HIT. MAKE IT SIX STRAIGHT HOME WINS FOR CLEVELAND. 5-4 IS THE FINAL.

THE TRIBE I UP A GAME OFF THE N.L. WEST LEAD. BARRY BONDS SITTING ON CAREER HOME RUN NUMBER 751 AND COUNTING COMING IN. TOP ONE, MATT CAIN FACING RAFAEL FURCAL. ADVISE CAL, OVER THE SHOULDER, GORGEOUS. IT IS WORTH ANOTHER LOOK.

IT IS A TOP PLAY NOMINEE. BOTTOM ONE, TWO ON FOR BARRY BONDS. HE GROUND INTO THE INNING-ENDING 4-6-3 DOUBLE PLAY. TOP FIVE, MARTIN WITH A BASE KNOCK TO LEFT. BONDS, NICE TRAP, BUT DODGERS UP 3-0. BOTTOM SIX, BONDS AT THE DISH.

AND HE DRAWS A WEEK. OF COURSE THIS GUY THINKS THE DODGERS ARE CHICKEN FOR NOT PITCHING TO HIM. NEXT BATTER, RYAN KLESKO. JAMES LONEY TREMENDOUS PLAY TO GET THE FORCE AT SECOND. A COUPLE OF MORE LOOKS AT THIS. IT IS A TOP PLAY NOMINEE.

BOTTOM EIGHT, GIANTS DOWN 3-0 WITH TWO ON. BONDS LET’S INTO THE 3-6-3 DOUBLE PLAY. L.A. GETS THE W. SEVEN-GAME HOME STAND AGAINST THE BRAVES AND THEN THE MARLINS. >> PADRES-DIAMONDBACKS. ALL THE N.L. WEST ACTION IN HOUSE HERE IN THE FIRST SERIES

OF THE SECOND HALF. BOTTOM ONE TWO OUTS, JACKSON DRILLS ONE DEEP TO RIGHT. GET HIM A HALO AND WINGS. DIAMONDBACKS GO UP 2-0. BOTTOM FOUR, ERIK BYRNES OUT OF THE KAYAK AND ON TO THE BASE PATHS. CHOPPER UP THE MIDDLE AND UN

SCORES, 4-1 DIAMONDBACKS. INTO THE FIFTH, THIS IS WHERE IT GETS REALLY GOOD. BRIAN JOURS FACING DAVIS. JEFF SALAZAR SCALING THE FENCE, MAKING THE GROUP. YOU WILL GET NO POINTS AND YOU WILL LIKE IT. BOTTOM SEVEN, TWO OUTS, JACKSON

SCORES AND SALAZAR SCORES FROM SECOND THE DIAMONDBACKS UP 6-3. THEY ARE GOING TO WIN IT 8-3. HIT THE BUMP 5-0 IN SIX CAREER STARTS AGAINST THE PHILLIES. BOTTOM ONE WE ARE SCORELESS. SHANE VICTORINO DROPS A BUNT TOWARDS THE MOUND AND WELLS

THROWS IT AWAY. PHILLIES UP 1-0. WELLS ROCKED, ONE INNING, EIGHT HINS, FOUR EARNED. TOUGH NIGHT FOR MOLINA. VICTORINO ATTEMPTS TO STEAL SECOND AND THE THROW IS OFF LINE. VICTORINO ADVANCES TO THIRD. MOLINA CELEBRATING HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY ON FRIDAY THE 13TH. NOT A HAPPY DAY FOR HIM.

THINGS GET WORSE. CHASE UTLEY GROUND TO FIRST, PUJOLSES THROLES TO HOME AND MOLINA DROPS THE BALL AND ANOTHER RUN SCORES. LOOKING FOR REDEMPTION, TOP FOUR, MOLINA GOES DOWN SWINGING. PUJOLS HOMERLESS IN 77 AT-BATS. TOP OAT, CARDINALS DOUBLE PLAY

11-1. PUJOLS ABUSING THE BASEBALL, CRUSHING IT 471 FEE THE BREAK. HE IS 40-4 AFTER THE BREAK SINCE 2003. HE IS 4-0 IN HIS LAST FOUR STARTS. OAKLAND ENJOY YOUR FRIDAY. TWINS, BRILLIANT A YEAR AGO. 49-27 AFTER BREAK.

WE GO TO THE SECOND AND SANTANA KEEPS GOING. ERIK CHAVEZ. STRIKEOUT NUMBER FOUR FOR SANTANA. IN THE THIRD, JACK PUTS. HE TRIED UNSELF. THAT IS FIVE STRIKEOUTS FOR SANTANA. SWISHER THANKS I WILL HAVE ANOTHER. MARK ELLIS, WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU GO BACK TO THE DUGOUT.

STRIKEOUT NUMBER SEVEN. HOW ABOUT SOME OFFENSE, BOTTOM FOUR, RUNNERS SECOND AND THIRD. THAT IS DOWN AND HUNTER WILL SCORE. TWINS UP 3-0. MIGHT AS WELL BE 70 BECAUSE SANTANA IS LOCKED IN AND LOCKED MARLINS. >> RANGERS AND ANGELS. >> A.L. WEST LEADING LOS

ANGELES ANGELS IN THE FIRST OF A THREE-GAME SET. VLADIMIR GUERRERO WALKING. >> BASE HIT TO CENTER. STRUGGLING TO GET TO SECOND FOR THE DOUBLE AND THIS IS WHY. LAIRD FALLS FLAT ON HIS BELLY AFTER ROUNDING THIRD. HE WOULD SCORE LATER IN THE INNING.

VLAD GROUNDS IT FOR A DOUBLE PLAY. BOTTOM NINE WITH ONE OUT. GARY MATTHEWS JUNIOR ON THIRD FOR CASEY KOTCHMAN. BASE RIT TO R >> JASON BLUE, SOX RED, MANNY RAMIREZ HASN’T HOMERED SINCE JUNE 20TH OR JULY 13. CAREER HOME RUN NUMBER 482.

HE HAS 54 GEMS THE BLUE JAYS. THAT DOES MORE THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER AGAINST THE JASON. 2-0 SOX UP. TOP FIVE, THE AND THE NATION’S JOY HAS GONE TO THE NATION’S SOR 0 YO. JOHNSON SCORES AND TORONTO UP 6-5.

IN THE NINTH, BIG HITTERS TUE DUE UP. BIG PAPI FLIES TO CENTER. NOT ENOUGH. NEXT BATTER, RAMIREZ, IS HE LOCKED IN? HE FLIES TO RIGHT. AND THAT’S NOWHERE NEAR THAT POLL THEY HAVE OUT THERE. TORONTO IS GOING TO WIN IT 6-5. WE ACCEPT.

“SPORTSCENTER’S” TOP PLAYS, ALL PROCEEDS FROM THESE PLAYS GOING TO BM, ICHIRO AND FREENEY. RED, METS, MILLAGE,, FREEL PLAYING THIRD, YOU ARE OUT. READ WIN 8-4. >> INDEED. >> IF YOU WERE BEHIND THE METS AND YOU WON. >> NUMBER 9, NBA SUMMER LEAGUE, CELTICS-BUCS.

PRUETT FOR THREE. CELTICS WIN 84-76. HE HAD 14 POINTS AND THREE ASSISTS. >> NUMBER 8, YANKEES D-RAYS. IWAMURA HAD AN ERROR. THIS TIME HE MAKES THE PLAY AND THE D-RAYS WIN IT 6-4. GRIZZLIES-CLIPPERS, THORNTON SPINNING AND HITTING THE HIGH PERCENTAGE SHOT. HE HAD 19-10.

CLIPPERS WIN 90-84. >> NUMBER 6, BLUE JAYS-RED SOX. COCO CRISP, TO RIGHT FIELD. ALEX RIOS COMING. DODGER GET THE WIN 9-1. NUMBER FOUR, LAKE TAU HOE. 60 FEET, MICHAEL JORDAN, DRAIN O. >> NUMBER 3, CARDINALS-PHILLIES, CARLOS RUIZ, DEEP FLY TO LEFT, CHRIS

DUNCAN OWNS THE WALL. GORGEOUS. CARDINALS LOSE 13 OF H 3. NUMBER TWO, RAMIREZ, TO SHORT, LOPEZ GOT THAT AND FROM THE KNESSETTER MAKES THE THROW AND GETS HIM. THAT’S USING THE INGNUTE. NATS WIN 14-10. >> NUMBER ONE.