41.   Any reminders of how important that first road trip of the second half was three years ago was coming from the players who experienced it, however.

42.   As a result, they sailed to their seventh victory in eight games on a West Coast road trip that might prove to be their finest ever.

43.   As for Everett, who was hampered earlier in the season by a quadricep injury, Green had questioned his desire on the road trip.

44.   As it is, the Dodgers are straining to keep up with the San Diego Padres, who chased them through the road trip and won as often.

45.   As for the road trip as a whole, the Mariners can once again lay claim to being road warriors.

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47.   As part of his path-of-least-resistance campaign, he was quite happy to open his season in the middle of a road trip.

48.   As the Mariners departed for Kansas City to begin a two-city, four-game road trip, their offense is in a malaise.

49.   As the holiday season approaches, Southern California travelers are overwhelmingly choosing road trips over flight plans.

50.   As the Rockets head for home early Saturday morning, they also arrived at the halfway point on their road trip to Twouston.