1.   An apparent blown call by home-plate umpire Angel Hernandez helped the Dodgers maintain a one-run lead in the seventh.

2.   And Reynoso was left with a three-run lead to work with.

3.   And none may ever be bigger in his career as he drilled a Hoffman fastball over the wall in center field for a two-run lead.

4.   Armed with a four-run lead, Hernandez cut down the Devil Rays in the fifth and sixth innings.

5.   Arthur Rhodes is actually laboring to protect a five-run lead.

6.   A four-run lead after four innings took the suspense out of a clincher in a series that never really had any.

7.   A five-run lead heading into the eighth inning nearly disappeared as the Royals used two singles, four walks and an error to score four runs.

8.   A seven-run lead in this ballpark and the wind blowing out, anything can happen.

9.   Buddy Bell ponders the uselessness of the six-run lead.

10.   Brown was pitching with a three-run lead after the top of the fifth, when Tony Gwynn and Greg Vaughn banged back-to-back homers.