1.   As adept defensively as advertised, Weiss was, when healthy, a revelation as a leadoff man.

2.   As leadoff man, he must set the table.

3.   As the leadoff man for most of the season, he was a consistent catalyst.

4.   Biggio, of the quick bat and even quicker feet, is darned-near your perfect base-stealing leadoff man.

5.   A new center fielder and leadoff man was acquired in Darryl Hamilton.

6.   After getting leadoff man Todd Walker in the first, Martinez went walk, single, single, walk.

7.   After buzzing a fastball by Rickey Henderson, he tosses a forkball, and the leadoff man laces it to left for a hit.

8.   After leadoff man Johnny Damon opened with an opposite-field single, former Dodgers prospect Tom Goodwin dumped a bunt up the third-base line.

9.   After retiring the leadoff man in the sixth he went walk, hit batsman, walk, and Jimy Williams decided that Ramon had gone far enough.

10.   Again, it began with a walk to leadoff man Steve Finley.