1.   Becker, batting for Roberto Kelly, then laid down a bunt to the third-base side of the mound and Wells fielded it.

2.   But he began the ninth by allowing a leadoff single to Mark Grace and then threw away a bunt to center field.

3.   Darren Bragg worked Mesa for a walk and Alex Rodriguez pushed a bunt to the third-base side of the mound.

4.   Dave Hollins, perhaps catching Arias agonizing over the play, beat out a bunt to roughly the same spot.

5.   Eric Young followed with a bunt to the pitcher.

6.   Farnsworth put down a bunt to the right of Zeile, who has been converted to first base this season, an experiment still very much in progress.

7.   Instead, the Baltimore center fielder approached the plate in the second inning and eventually dropped a bunt to third base.

8.   Lofton followed with a bunt to the left of the mound.

9.   Mike Lansing, who never had faced Mussina, then pushed a bunt to the right side of the mound while Mussina broke toward the third-base side.

10.   Pinch hitter Jay Bell followed with another bunt back to Rivera, who this time got the force at third.