American League

And I tell you what, the argument for a salary cap took the biggest hit as we watched just the baseball playoffs play out.

As we saw in the American League side of things and in the National League side of things, the big, bad, expensive Yankees and Dodgers get summarily smoked by both of these teams on the way to their World Series meetings.

Go ahead, try to buy a championship if you want to.

And I did work for the Dodgers two years in a row.

He had two assists in the game yesterday against Seattle.

And Sierra now leads American League outfielders with 17 assists for the year.

No score in the game here at the bottom of the first inning.

Fletcher on first base.

1-0, Seattle leading in the top of the second.

In the bottom of the first inning, Kansas City's Kevin Seitzer singled in the first, giving him 200 hits of the season.

Seitzer becomes the ninth rookie in American League history and the first since the Twins' Tony Oliva in 1964 to get 200 or more hits in his rookie season.

Seattle leading 1-0 over Kansas City, and they're batting in the

The St. Louis Cardinals, who just a little over a week ago, were leading the National League by a game and a half, have now lost seven straight games.

In the American League, the Yankees won a slugfest from Cleveland, 11-6.

Yogi Berra and Roger Maris, homers for New York, will roger his 19th of the year.

Max Alvis, Willie Taspi, and Mike Delahose homered for Cleveland.

Cardinals now have dropped seven straight.

Charlie James had two home runs in the game and William McCovey homered for San Francisco to win it in the seventh inning.

In the American League, the Yankees won a slugfest from Cleveland 11-6.

Al Downing struck out 14 men in seven innings to win his fourth game of the year.

Talbot delivers, and McCraw takes low, 3-0.

Detroit leads the American League, three games ahead of the Indians, four over the Orioles.

And then Oakland, the Yankees, California, Washington, and Chicago, almost in a dead heat for last place, separated only by percentage points.

The 3-0 pitch is in there for strike one.

That's the first of a doubleheader.

Everybody watching the Tigers are out in front by three over Cleveland, four over the Orioles, seven over the Twins.

Only four clubs in the American League playing over .500.

And if Minnesota loses that first game tonight, they'll be right at 500.

The Expos and the Braves tied up 1-1 down in Atlanta.

We've already had one rain out in the American League.

Down in Baltimore, the White Sox and the Orioles rained out.

Forward rookie Walter Davis of the Phoenix Suns has been named the NBA Rookie of the Year in balloting by sports writers and sportscasters, the former North Carolina star.

The Mets knocked off the Reds last night.

Chicago will play at San Diego, St. Louis at Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh at San Francisco.

In the American League, one game has been postponed.

Chicago at Baltimore has been postponed because of wet grounds.

Howard batting .350.

He trails Norm Church, who leaves the American League with a .365 batting average.

Howard takes the screwball outside.

Ball two, 2-0.

And he's keeping the action quiet.

They haven't beaten him.

Speaking about breaking stuff and slow stuff, some of these big Yankee batters and American League batters are still unable to realize what's tomorrow.

The Giants get to the finish up there at Boston.

This is the only day game in either league today, but there will be a twin bill involving Toronto and Cleveland that will be getting started.

5.35 this afternoon, the American League tonight, Detroit and Milwaukee, Kansas City and Texas, California at Oakland, and New York at Seattle.

Once again, the 3-2 pitch.

That is hit in the right field, and that's going to be a big hit.

Foster takes it low and outside.

And the count evens one and one.

No other activity at the time in either the National or American League.

One-one pitch.

And the...

American League, Baltimore beat Cleveland 6-0, and Texas leads California 7-6 after eight innings.

Cedeno at first with the first hit of the game.

He has his lead, and Cumberland throws over.

They were at 10-1, and a pair of home runs by the Dodgers in the eighth.

12-1 they lead in the eighth inning.

In the American League, Baltimore 6, Cleveland nothing.

McNally, which is his second consecutive shutout, is 2-0.

And Fran and I would like to talk about the Yankees.

And all of a sudden, Fran Healy, the race in the American League East, which was the longest shot to be a race, is suddenly the closest race in the four divisions.

Yankees just two

games behind.