41.   There was no getting off the hook the next time, however, when the Blue Jays broke the game open in the seventh.

42.   This, they told each other, is when Piazza breaks the game open with a three-run homer.

43.   Those things just break the game wide open.

44.   When his team needed him most, Bibby broke the game open like a pinata.

45.   While the offense struggled in the first half, the defense broke the game open with interceptions on consecutive plays in the second quarter.

46.   Paul Coffey, Doug Brown, Kris Draper and Igor Larionov scored for the Red Wings, who blew the game open with three second-period goals.

47.   A strategic mistake gave Kindelan a chance to break the game open in the sixth.

48.   Australia struggled against a depleted and tired England until winger Ben Tune broke the game open in a three-minute burst of brilliance midway through the second half.

49.   But the Phillies broke the game open with five runs in the seventh inning.

50.   Colorado blew the game open in the second period on a power-play goal by Ville Nieminen and another great one-on-one effort by Chris Drury.