1.   As soon as the last out is made, Layton meets Sheppard at the elevator.

2.   Baylor appears worn out after six years of managing half the time in a place where every game is in doubt until the last out.

3.   Bohanon needed only one more out to escape the inning, but that last out was a long time in coming.

4.   Closer Eric Gagne had pitched in three consecutive games, so manager Jim Tracy used Giovanni Carrara for the last out.

5.   Down to their last out and nobody on base against Kerry Lacy, the Blue Jays mounted one last rally.

6.   Every day, they go to the last pitch, the last swing, the last out.

7.   Having Sierra himself make the last out vaulted beyond symbolism.

8.   He struggled with himself until late in the fourth inning when he extracted himself from a jam by getting Chipper Jones for the last out.

9.   He wants to play until the last possible inning, the last possible out.

10.   I knew the last out was the finality of having to go back home and having to walk through that door and not see my mother.