The Padres held a steady lead on the National League wild card spot.

However, from that low point until the end of July, Houston went 42 – 17 and found themselves in the lead for an NL wild card spot.

With a steady five game lead for the Wild Card, the hope of a playoff spot seemed secured, but the Brewers struggled in September, first getting swept by the New York Mets, and then just over a week later, getting swept in four games by the Philadelphia Phillies, losing their lead in the Wild Card.

The album's lead single, the gospel-based " Tender ", opened at the second spot on the charts.

Walt Disney was impressed with Baskett's talent and hired him on the spot for the lead role of Uncle Remus.

This spot is to be reverenced with religious awe and solemnity of demeanour, by those whose affairs lead them to visit it.

In 2002, when Compaq merged with Hewlett Packard ( the 4th place PC maker ), the combined Hewlett Packard took the top spot but struggled and Dell soon regained its lead.

A lead mining settlement at this spot, " Mine á Breton " or Mine au Breton, was founded between 1760 and 1780 by Francis Azor, of Brittany, France.

Such changes in the geometry of an orbit lead to the changes in the insolation ( incoming solar radiation )-quantity of heat received by any spot at the surface of a planet.

Saville left in 2007 and Mary Ramsey regained the lead vocalist spot.

Alston, known for her shyness and stage fright, was never comfortable with being out front, stepped down from the lead spot giving it to Dolores " LaLa " Brooks.

" Bills, Bills, Bills " was released in 1999 as the album's lead single and reached the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their first US number-one single.

The referee awarded the penalty and teammate Johan Neeskens scored from the spot kick to give the Netherlands a 1 – 0 lead with 80 seconds of play elapsed, and the Germans not even touching the ball.

His band members Claudia Linnear and Don Preston were added to Nix ’ s choir of backing singers ; Preston would switch to lead guitar for Russell ’ s solo spot during the shows, just as Russell ’ s bassist, Carl Radle, would replace Voormann temporarily.

Radars were carried only on the roomy TBF Avengers, but not on the smaller and faster Hellcats, so the radar-equipped TBF Avenger would lead the Hellcats into position behind the incoming bombers, close enough for the F6F pilots to spot visually the blue exhaust flames of the Japanese bombers.

Schenker was one of many guitarists to audition for the lead guitar spot in The Rolling Stones in the mid-1970s following Mick Taylor's dismissal.

The lead single, " So What ," became Pink's first solo single to ever reach the top spot on Billboard Hot 100.

Kurt Cobain's death in 1994 also lead to a resurgence of popularity, with Bleach entering the Top Pop Catalog chart at number six in the week following his death, and eventually earning the top spot on May 7.

With a spot in the Finals up for grabs in Game 3, the Fever would start off the game with an early 17 – 3 lead.

Gullit was replaced by Bruce Arena, but he was not able to lead Los Angeles into a play-off spot, for the third-straight season.

Baldrick asserts that Urban, there on the spot, appointed the bishop of Puy to lead the crusade.

In 1975, folk singer Tim Hardin took the lead vocal spot and played guitar with Can for one song, at two gigs, performing his own " The Lady Came From Baltimore ".

They soon added lead guitarist Lita Ford who had originally auditioned for the bass spot.

Lead singer Cherie Currie was found and recruited in a local teen nightclub called the Sugar Shack, followed by Jackie Fox ( who had originally auditioned for the lead guitar spot ) on bass.

On the West Coast, in 1942 the band did a spot in Reveille With Beverly, a musical film starring Ann Miller, and a " Command Performance " for Armed Forces Radio, with Hollywood stars Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, Jerry Colonna, and the singer Dinah Shore.

In 1981, Tiffany debuted with country music singer Jack Reeves at a country and western spot called Narods in Chino, California.

He appears again as a witness at the Knave of Hearts ' trial, where the Queen appears to recognise him as the singer she sentenced to death, and the King also cautions him not to be nervous " or I'll have you executed on the spot.

The following spring, shortly before Elephunk came out, Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine offered Ferguson a permanent spot to take over vocal duties and fill the void left by background singer Kim Hill's departure in 2000.

The zajal is a talented singer or close family member who sings the sahja on the spot.

In 2005, Cuccurullo revealed to author Steve Malins that he and Nick Rhodes had originally planned on using the song for a project outside of Duran Duran with Gavin Rossdale, but had changed plans when singer Simon Le Bon took a liking to the music and began to come up with lyrics on the spot.

At one point, Richard Page of the band Mr. Mister was offered the lead singer spot, but turned it down to continue with his band.

Drummer Shannon Larkin has been a member of Godsmack since 2002, while lead vocalist Whitfield Crane took the then vacant vocalist spot for New York rock band Life of Agony whose former singer Keith Caputo had left the group in 1997.

After running out of money, he won a spot as a singer on a traveling musical company's tour.

A talented singer, Lawrence's speciality on Whose Line was her ability to improvise songs on the spot.

Released as a single in May of 1983, it was the first release from the album and became Tyler's biggest career hit, reaching number one in several countries including the United States, making her the first and only Welsh singer to reach the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100.

WHFS also arranged for her to play a free roadside show on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that was quickly shut down by the police due to the traffic back-ups that it created and landed her a spot opening for They Might Be Giants at a sold-out show in Washington, DC, the singer having been banned from playing clubs in her hometown of Annapolis due to controversial lyrics.

With Najwa's huge success, Tamer Hosny, a well-known Egyptian singer, was unable to land a number one spot for his new album, " Elly Gai Ahla ," which was released the same day.

Bacino also took to the television airwaves in ' 03 to promote " Milkshake " via a comedic commercial spot which faithfully mirrored country singer Slim Whitman ’ s infamous TV ad from the early 1980s.

This was a huge success, making Hitomi the second female singer to have a debut single in the # 1 spot, and the third solo artist to have a debut single reach # 1.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

He was trembling, a strange feeling upon him, fully expecting some catastrophe to strike him dead on the spot.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

The mean temperature of this region was approximated by the temperature measured halfways between the edge of the hot spot and the rim of the plug.

The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.

There was a wet spot -- she couldn't have been gone long ''.

If it was designed to put me on the spot, it would have to have been written before Peralta ever called me in on the case ''.

Next to the ocean, probably the loneliest spot was the desert.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

Aeneas was then enveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.

Hastings reasoned, " Here was the spot where he had lived when he first came to this country.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.

For years, it was confidently counted on that this spot, and the railroad of which it was the terminus, were going to prove the permanent seat of business and wealth that belong to such enterprises.

A flag was later erected near the spot the ball cleared the back wall, with simply the word " HERE " upon it.

Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

InBev was the second-largest beer-producing company in the world and Anheuser-Busch held the third spot, but after the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev, the new Anheuser-Busch InBev company is currently the largest brewer in the world.

There was a mighty hiss of compressed air from her tanks and the U-27 vanished from sight in a vortex of giant rumbling bubbles, leaving a pall of smoke over the spot where she had been.

One bright spot was running back Paul Robinson, who rushed for 1, 023 yards and was named the AFL Rookie of the Year.

The only loss during that streak was on September 28 to the Arizona Diamondbacks, a loss that clinched the Diamondbacks ' playoff spot.