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[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 the hree runs. so rizzo basically gave himself up. looked like in that swing down and out in the count and wanted to get licked and he did. i'm guessing. but -- j.d.: well, regardless of his intention, for him to get that man over, at least. so he'll get high-five's from the visiting dugout. well, you got the right guy up there. boy, castillo, the at-bats he has been having, got to like his chances. a little jelly-legged on that breaking ball. fortunately for him, it was not called a strike. good day's work. when your team has five and u scored two and driven in two, that's a good day. freeman, the lefty, getting ready. len: and he just got hit, and pretty high. i thought he got hit high last night, too. j.d.: he did. boy, this is scary. whenever it's a fastball. very similar to last night. 95 miles an hour. trying to crowd him. way up and in. take his catcher's mask to the plate. first and third. j.d.: cardinals middle infielders that were there said back up a step. len: that's into right. lake will score. castillo will move to third. 6-4. j.d.: first hit of the night for nate schierholtz. hit deep into right field but this is his first knock and it's a big one. len: always like to have a little insurance for the closer. right now, two-run lead. golden opportunity to make it t least three. castro takes a breaking ball or a strike. two out of four tonight. len: two down. castro strikes out and it will be up to ransom. back with you tomorrow. we'll have it here for you on wgn. 1:00 for the leadoff man. first pitch 15 minutes after that. edwin jackson, former cardinal. he will face a current cardinal, which makes sense. joe kelly. by definition, right? j.d.: couple of hard-throwing right-handers. en: kelly with a sub3.00 earned run average. e's been really good lately. j.d.: edwin had been on a nice roll but struggled his last time out. len: braves are looking to win their 15th consecutive ballgame. they are scoreless. at home against the marlins. bottom of the eighth there's three hits total in the ballgame. fish have two. braves have one. cards get a break because the reds did lose to the padres, 3-1. cardinals two up on cincy going into play today. and they have now just started in colorado. j.d.: wants to know where the pitch is. throwing his arms up saying never mind the swing. where is the pitch? thrown a couple sliders in this inning that he thought were right there but hasn't been ble to get the call. they are loaded on the walk. really have to like the cubs' approach tonight. be ready to hit. j.d.: and be willing to take your walk. seventh walk of the evening. for cubs hitters, and the cardinals have only taken one. j.d.: the man of the match right now. len: cardinals actually a better average with runners in scoring position hitting .400. cubs are .250 but that's ok. they have had a lot more chances. len: castillo is at third. foul by barney. tied the game with a two-run double and scored the go ahead run on the navarro pinch-hit ouble. the shortstop descalso has got to throw to first and he gets barney. the cubs add a run. we go to the bottom of the ninth 6-4. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake? 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he's your guy. refrigerator in one arm, the ouch in the other. len: deep to right. schierholtz. can't get it. it's a home run. with two tonight. 6-5. insurance run? somewhere awfully big. first time it was a line drive into the left. goes off here. len: 15 on the season. now freese. till a lead down to a run now. oh, that deflects off gregg and goes right to castro and they get the second out and everybody on the infield heads right to kevin gregg. he wants the ball. j.d.: ha ha, he's so calm. what's the big deal, fellows. ooh, that's scary. that will go 1- 6-3. j.d.: find out just where it got him. len: oh, man. ack of the right shoulder? freese very upset. needed a line shot. thought it was going to get him to center. shake it off a little bit. j.d.: sturdy as those big christmas trees he grows out there in oregon. en: so a fortunate bounce. jay, 0-3. back to gregg. cubs win! maybe their best win of the year against their archrivals trailing late off a guy firing bullets at 100 miles an hour and they get three runs in the eighth and come back and stun the cardinals. 6-5, the final. >> coming up on wgn news, the bodies of two gunshot victims are found in a driveway. we'll have details. >> and turning to a wedding chapel to send a message and a faith annual march which means school bells will soon be ringing across the city. the news is next. 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as brother and sister. >> the love was always there. he was somebody i would call on and talk to and confide in and that i trust it with my life and my son. >> she said the shock of his sudden death has not set in. she said cariffe was the father of 4. >> it's a real sad situation and i am still in shock. just keep saying to myself, it cannot be real. >> the police say the second victim is a female, but they would not release her identity, saying the investigation is ongoing. person of interest we are talking with right now. any other details on that have to wait until monday morning. it is all under investigation at this time. the assistant chief credits quick police work for tracking down the person of interest. he said that early hour of saturday morning, there were fewer people on the street and the police were able to track down the man they wanted to question. -- live inll you me calumet arc, making carlo. and eight were killed other wounded in shootings all over the city last 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to sexually assault her. the victim's son heard her screaming and call the police before grabbing a knife and of the minor out apartment. he was arrested outside of the building. >> schaumburg police have issued alert about a woman who was a a while taking out her garbage. his is a sketch. they say that the two hispanic males attacked the woman near northartment complex on millwood early friday morning. they beat her unconscious. when she awoke, they were gone. the second suspect has this tattoo on the right side of his neck. he also had a white people with a dark spot -- yell so had a white pitbull with a white spot over its eye. arrestice announced an of larry cox this evening. he is accused of participating in a shooting that killed a woman and her five-year-old son. oath were found inside of their home on south winchester on june 28. another suspect, antonio lewis, remains in the hospital. the police found him on the west side street with multiple gunshot wounds which occurred the night after the shooting. >> a final takeoff at gary airport. the legionnaire was the only commercial carrier based there. they cited a lack of demand for pulling out less than two years after its debut. lurewere unable to customers away from o'hare airport or midway. the airline announced its plan to stop service in may. the gary airport, which bills itself as chicago's real third airport, will continue a project to lengthen its main runway to handle larger aircraft. >> hundreds of thousands gathered on chicago's south side parade, for the annual one of the country's largest back-to-school celebrations. wgn was there. the second saturday in august means parade day on the south side, the largest and oldest african-american parade in the u.s. >> it is a celebration of our black traditions, black history. >> today is all about the children, all about education. >> the annual parade signals it is back-to-school time for kids. >> i'm excited, i have been trying to keep good on my grades this year, so i will try a lot harder. too,'s a serious magic's, let's go back to school. that was the reason for the parade and good thing to remember even now. >> education is the vehicle through which a quality is funded. >> some kids are less excited than others after closings have them attended new schools later this month. many acknowledge the mood is different. realistic, but i think it just changes. i think there are still be excitement of kids going back to school the first day, parents getting ready. i have been doing this so long, i was getting excited before school starts. >> every year is important. they get a full education. >> it has been a tough year, but we are ready to go back to school and get the kids back to school. one of the things we are trying to do is pull the kids together. >> the idea of the parade dates back to 1929, the founder of the chicago defender. tohe came up with the idea celebrate the newsboys, which mushroomed to the what it is today. it is the 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