1.   An encounter dynamic in its tightness, its ebb and flow, with the tension building to harrowing crescendos.

2.   Isaacs remembers the silence and tension building throughout the ballpark.

3.   Parreira took much of the peppering with aplomb, but you could see the tension building and hear it in his voice.

4.   Stanley stepped out and Wells stepped off the rubber repeatedly between pitches, the tension building.