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Not james mattis takes up your invitation to check it out. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: thank you again for your service to our country. in a moment the houston astros are just one win away from their second world series title in three years. the astros up 3-2 after dropping the first two games to the washington nationals. they are smart in washington. they want to get a win. for them it's do or die. the series shifting back to houston for game 6 tonight. nats looking to win their first in history. verlander against strasburg. game 6 tonight here on fox first pitch just after 8:00 eastern time. y...

Walter johnson and what many people -- >> little mike there, he's 33. >> many people considered that game 7 in the '24 series to be one of the greatest games in all time in world series history. take us back to '24. >> what was it like? >> you were three rows out from calv calvin coolidge. >> i was only 12 years old, so my memory of that is not as distinct as the '33 world series when i was sitting right behind franklin delano roosevelt. it was a great game, and fdr and i went out later, and we had a good time. i had a lot of energy then, more than i have now obviously but back to the central ...

>> okay. joe, i'm going to be honest with you. i was born and grew up in washington. we had 33 years without baseball. there were two contests that washington cared about last night, i was focused on the other one. >> he went to the game. >> sorry. >> thank you so much for not stumbling through that answer. by the way, that is the correct answer. we're going to give you rice a roe knee, the san francisco treat. so peter, let's talk about then the chaos at the white house. unfortunately for you, you have been consumed in that. what's your take on the latest developments surrounding rudy giulian...

A pitch he had never thrown before. then he tried it several more times again and again. kept working. at the last second his fastball was really an incredible thing, came the cutter. he had suddenly developed that lethal pitch which -- are people throwing that pitch today? i have never noticed. they don't have your success, i can tell you. they may be throwing it, but it doesn't work quite the same way. and many players would come to consider it the greatest pitch ever in baseball. it would break many records and many bats. in a 1999 game against the atlanta braves, his cutter snapped a big s...

Millions around the globe. at his first tryout in worn out shoes and a borrowed glove, mariano threw nine fastballs. it was the only pitch he knew how to throw. after a few more tryouts, the yankees offered him a contract to play on their farm team, the gulf coast yankees. do you remember that, mariano? were they a good team? not bad, right? he got on an airplane and came back to america. few months later, in august 1990, mariano threw his first no hitter. that year he had an average era of .17. that doesn't mean 1. that means like 1/17 of 1. that's not a lot. how do you lose a game? i guess y...