1.   Applying the pressure for the first time all game, the Capitals quickly broke the scoreless tie.

2.   Aramis Ramirez broke a scoreless tie in the sixth inning with a two-run, bases-loaded single off Astros righthander Wade Miller.

3.   Atlanta broke the scoreless tie with a run in the sixth after Sheffield had denied Andruw Jones of a home run by making a catch at the fence.

4.   Atlanta broke the scoreless tie with a run in the sixth when Chipper Jones doubled and scored on a single to shallow center by Jordan.

5.   -- There were just two first-round scoreless ties, the stuff that prompts yawns from casual U.S. fans.

6.   Boston broke the scoreless tie in the fourth when John Valentin led off with his first home run of the season.

7.   But after four good chances, the Bruins left the ice in a scoreless tie after one period.

8.   But all he had to show for it was a scoreless tie.

9.   But it was a far subtler, equally dramatic play that the Astros used to break up a scoreless tie in the seventh inning.

10.   But until a thunderstorm struck with two out in the top of the third inning and a scoreless tie, Northridge was giving Venezuela all it could handle.