1.   An official of Major League Baseball said it had asked umpires who had remained loyal to Phillips to ask him about dropping the suit.

2.   Clemens, meanwhile, had taken a couple of steps toward the first-base line, asking home plate umpire Charlie Reliford for a new baseball.

3.   Dodgers manager Davey Johnson argued and Kellogg asked home plate umpire Eric Cooper for help.

4.   He said that when the Astros played at Shea in May, they asked the umpires about the propriety of using the cameras the way the Mets supposedly were.

5.   His pitches were dancing so much, according to Jose Canseco, that the All-Star at one point asked the umpires to check the baseball.

6.   Just ask the umpires.

7.   So, Agassi first asked chair umpire Norm Chryst if there was anything in the rule book that could stop Kucera from using what amounted to a hesitation tactic.

8.   Agassi asked umpire Norm Chryst.

9.   With two outs, Sweeney asked plate umpire Mike Fitcher to have Weaver move the rosin bag behind the mound.

10.   He asked umpire Dana Loconto if he had seen the ball on the call he made, but was calm and walked away without incident after his plea failed.