ship. symbolic nautical position dates back to 19th century. 1984, princess diana honored a ship. compared to princess diana all the time. how cool. now on to baseball. before the highlight. day games are usually scheduled when a visiting team is heading out of town. the idea being the team has a few extra hours to travel. yankees/as didn t get the message. bottom of the 18th inning. oakland won it. 3-2. for those counting, the yankees ten-game west coast trip now is really 11 games. huh. as matt gutman mentioned last night s nba finals game earlier, the championship series is now best of three games battle. that s because miami s big three, lebron james, dwyane wade and chris bosh poured in a total of 85 points against the spurs. wow! miami wins it. 109-93. the final stand at two games apiece. game five is sunday night. you can see it right here on abc. series is not disappointing.
pitched in a game, 18th inning. that s the winning run. the a s sweep the yanks in oakland. orioles hosting the red sox, first of a four-game set. bottom of the 13th inning there. tie game, two men on, chris davis bloops one to left, falls in for a base hit. baltimore wins 5-4. by the way, they re in second place. the yankees in third place. red sox still tied for the best record in the american league. to the nfl, according to patriots owner bob kraft the signing of tim tebow may be about more than just football. kraft told reporters yesterday, quote, for me personally laying tim tebow on the team he s someone who believes in spirituality. he s very competitive, works hard, but the fact that spiritually is so important to him is very appealing to me. we don t know if tebow will play in a patriots jersey or how much he ll play, the web is flooded with merchandise. he s the most popular selling jersey and the new addition to the patriots website, official gear, tebowing patriot.
because you got a loss. you know, winning and losing is part of the game. hope you like baseball because yesterday we saw plenty of it. the blue jays and rangers game took 5:28 to complete. finally ended when raji davis hit this down the third base line in the 18th inning to give the jays the walk-off win. that wasn t even the longest game of the day. the mets and marlins game lasted 20 innings. it was the longest home game for the mets since 1974. truvariyeah knocked in the winning run for miami, and get this, only the second time in major league baseball history that two games in the same day went 18 innings or more. and fredricka, props to all the fans who hung out there and stayed for an entire six hours of baseball. that was a doozy. thanks so much, andy. coming up next, your money. why you might be paying more for your mortgage. and on the job front, find out which industries are seeing a jump in hiring.
start with a 2-0 shutout win. clayton kershaw against the giants. brandon crawford to swing in the sixth. that was one of seven strikeouts on the day for kershaw. scoreless game in the 8th inning. kershaw sends it over the center field wall. his first career home run. the dodgers win this one 4-0. kershaw becoming the first player since bob lemon in 1953 to hit a home run and throw a shutout on opening day. the new york mets taking on the padres at citi field. bases loaded. this is the seventh. deep to leftment mitsinitially s like it s going off the wall. they rule it a home run. 11-2 win over the pads. unlike the other new york team, they start off the season with a victory. to the hard court. dunk city is usc, not much of a surprise here.
segment for richard? well, it is in seattle. that s a long way away from new york. almost to russia at this point. talking baseball now. the orioles, baltimore orioles, began the day yesterday a half game back of the yankees. yankees rained out last night. in order for baltimore to claim a share in the a.l. east, they had to outlast the mariners in a game that literally ended three hours ago? i m looking at the clock, about three hours ago. top of the ninth, o s down 2-0, two men on. chris davis comes through with a base hit. two runs come around. that ties the game in the ninth inning. the mariners had been looking to close it out. orioles come back to tie it. extra innings now. we re going to jump ahead to the 18th inning. credit the people still in the seats for this one. this is two full major league baseball games. top of the 18th. taylor teagarden hitting .152, drops one down the right field line. run scores. orioles add another one, and they win a six-hour marathon, 4-2. t