After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.

After defeating the St. Louis Blues in seven games the Wings would fall in the Western Conference Finals to the eventual champion Colorado Avalanche.

After Little Richard left show business for the ministry, Brown was asked to fill in leftover dates leading to an increase in his concert success and the eventual recruitment of members of the vocal group, the Dominions, to replace the Famous Flames.

After Duke Xiao's death, King Huiwen of Qin and his successors retained the reformed systems and they helped to lay the foundation for Qin's eventual unification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC.

After negotiations during November 1940 on where to extend the USSR's sphere of influence, Hitler broke off talks and continued planning for the eventual attempts to invade the Soviet Union.

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to Super Bowl XXXIX at the end of the 2004 season, where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24 – 21.

After the death of Brian Epstein and the unpopular surreal television film, Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles returned to a more raw style with The Beatles ( 1968 ), Abbey Road ( 1969 ) and Let It Be ( 1970 ), before their eventual break up.

After the very close relationship between the quagga and surviving zebras was discovered, the Quagga Project was started by Reinhold Rau ( 1932 – 2006 ) in South Africa to recreate the quagga by selective breeding from plains zebra stock, with the eventual aim of reintroducing them to the wild.

After Tipu's eventual defeat in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and the capture of the Mysore iron rockets, they were influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, which was soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars.

After the abortive Utah War of 1857 – 1858, the replacement of Young by an outside Federal Territorial Governor, the eventual resolution of controversies regarding plural marriage, and accession by Utah to statehood, the apparent temporal aspects of LDS theodemocracy receded markedly.

After an eventual sharing of technological information, Moon technology became standard issue on Tracy's police force, including air cars, flying cylindrical vehicles.

After a popular uprising against his rule, Idrimi was forced into exile with his mother's relatives to seek refuge in " the land of Canaan ", where he prepared for an eventual attack to recover his city.

After the eventual cession of Norway in 1814, Denmark retained control of the old Norwegian colonies of the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.

After Liu Bei's death later that year, Zhuge Jin's brother Zhuge Liang, the regent for Liu Bei's son and successor Liu Shan, reestablished the alliance with Sun Quan, and the two states would remain allies until Shu's eventual destruction in 263.

After 1820, a series of compromises postponed a showdown on the issue of slavery, but in the late 1850s, the new Republican power took political control of the North and promised to stop the expansion of slavery, which implied its eventual death.

After dispatching Buffalo in five and sweeping the defending Stanley Cup champion Rangers, the Flyers were upset in the Eastern Conference Finals to the eventual Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils in six games.

After drafting eventual Rookie of the Year and three-time All Star Brandon Roy in 2006, attendance climbed in the 2006 – 07 season and continued to rebound in the 2007 – 08 season.

After two first-round exits at the hands of the eventual champions from Montreal in 1959 and 1960, it was expected that the Canadiens would once again beat the Hawks when they met in the semifinals in 1961.

After qualifying for the post-season in 2001 and 2002 as the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference ( losing to the eventual Stanley Cup winners Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings, respectively ), the Canucks became regular contenders for the Northwest Division title.

After the eventual German defeat which ended World War II in the European theatre of war in 1945, Rybnik was once more integrated into Poland, the territory of which was now being shifted westward on Joseph Stalin's initiative.

After Mao succeeded in restoring his prestige during the 1960s, Liu's eventual downfall became " inevitable ".

After massive hype in the off-season, the Tigers had a terrible start to the 2007 season, losing their first 9 matches ( this included suffering their biggest ever defeat, at the hands of eventual premiers Geelong, by a whopping 157 points ).

After Fleurus, the republican army would keep its momentum in the war, staying on the offensive until its eventual victory against the First Coalition in 1797.

After Cooper retired in 2001, Houston clinched the playoffs with a 19-13 record, but lost in the first round in a sweep to the 2001 eventual champion Los Angeles Sparks.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Burkina Faso recognized Russia as the USSR's successor.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Honduras recognized Russia as the USSR's successor on January 3, 1992.

After the breakup of the western Roman Empire, the study of rhetoric continued to be central to the study of the verbal arts ; but the study of the verbal arts went into decline for several centuries, followed eventually by a gradual rise in formal education, culminating in the rise of medieval universities.

After Rockwell's breakup in 2001, the laboratory was spun off as a semi-autonomous company called Rockwell Scientific, half owned by Rockwell Collins and half owned by Rockwell Automation.

After the breakup of the Mali Federation, President Senghor and Prime Minister Mamadou Dia governed together under a parliamentary system.

After the final breakup of the Gondwana about 110 million years ago, South America was separated from Africa and drifted north and west.

After the breakup of the Mongol Empire, the Tatars became especially identified with the western part of the empire, known as the Golden Horde.

After the breakup of his third marriage, and his flight to Brazil in 1931 ( with his new love, Mady ), Foujita traveled and painted all over Latin America, giving hugely successful exhibitions along the way.

After their breakup, rumors persisted that the couple planned to re-marry, until Demi Moore married Ashton Kutcher.

After the breakup of the USSR, the newly independent republics bordering the Caspian Sea claimed shares of territorial waters and the seabed, thus unilaterally abrogating the existing half-and-half USSR-Iran agreements which, like all other Soviet treaties, the republics had agreed to respect upon their independence.

After the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, many maps leaked into the public domain and are available for download.

After the acrimonious events that resulted in Jefferson Starship ’ s 1984 breakup, Paul Kantner reunited with Balin and Jack Casady in 1985 to form the KBC Band.

After the breakup, Monzón's private life was fairly low key.

After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.

After the breakup of Split Enz in 1984.

After the breakup of Oliver's band in 1924, Dodds replaced Alcide Nunez as the house clarinetist and bandleader of Kelly's Stables.

After the breakup of Bauhaus in 1983, they were joined by drummer Kevin Haskins.

After the group's breakup, Furay and Messina compiled various tracks recorded between mid-1967 and early 1968 into a third and final studio album, titled Last Time Around.

After the breakup of Godflesh, guitarist Justin Broadrick formed Jesu, which utilizes the power trio format.

After the Pixies reconvened in 1990, Deal felt increasingly sidelined by the band's frontman, Black Francis ; this led to the Pixies ' breakup in early 1993.

After her breakup from her husband, Nazario refocused her career and released Metamorfosis in 1992, following it with presentations in some of the most prestigious halls of the island.

After the breakup of the Roman Empire and their departure from Britain, other invaders soon followed.

After the breakup of the Mongol Empire, the Bashkirs were separated between Nogay horde and Kazan and Siberian khanates, founded in the 15th century.

After the breakup of Acorn in 1998, development of the OS was forked and separately continued by several companies, including, Pace Micro Technology and Castle Technology.