1.   He could not take her to bed in his double, conjugal room, but, no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere.

2.   And you have to have several singles to keep focus on an artist so they can build their tour and MTV campaign.

3.   Anthony Telford came on for the sixth, but he got into trouble in the seventh when Johnson had a pinch-hit single with one out.

4.   A-Rod did have two singles in his first two at-bats but Gonzalez was clearly the star shortstop of the day.

5.   Argent added that only recently did he discover that Elvis Presley had Zombies singles on his jukebox and that John Lennon had wanted to produce the band.

6.   Astros catcher Brad Ausmus had two singles against Brown, and were it not for Ausmus, the Padres righthander would have taken a no-hitter into the ninth inning.

7.   Atlanta looked like it had something working when Smoltz and Grissom had back-to-back singles to start the sixth.

8.   Bell also had three singles, his second game in a row with three hits.

9.   Blalock had two singles in three at-bats.

10.   Bernie Williams had a single, double and triple.