21.   By the end of Sunday night, as the game seeped into extra innings, the tension was nearly too much for any of them to bear.

22.   Corsi messed up a critical game in Cleveland on the last road trip by walking the first batter he faced and sending the game into extra innings.

23.   Cordero made the force play to force extra innings.

24.   Craig Counsell, whose ninth-inning sacrifice fly sent the game into extra innings, followed with a slow grounder to the left side.

25.   Dierker and pitching coach Burt Hooton might feel the urge to push their young starters a few extra innings or pitches.

26.   Drenched by rain that grew heavier as the game reached extra innings, Lisa Fernandez struck out eight and allowed just three hits.

27.   Even in extra innings on a bad move by the manager?

28.   Extra innings would not have been necessary if the Astros had taken advantage of a bases-loaded threat in the ninth.

29.   Extra innings, right?