1.   The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight.

2.   And zero for the last eight.

3.   A Phoenix mother of three, Fraley has hosted a cookie exchange party for the last eight or nine years for her co-workers from Samaritan Health System Special Procedures.

4.   After all, the Marlins had lost five straight games and seven of their last eight.

5.   But he has won a race at Saratoga each year for the last eight, and is shooting for number nine.

6.   But this team won six of its last eight.

7.   But they have only two victories in their last eight.

8.   Carey has lost five games in a row and seven of his last eight.

9.   Eckersley, who has been successful in his last eight save chances, was weary when he began the ninth.

10.   Five years have passed since five Americans have crowded the last eight here.