1.   Anaheim played a rare sloppy game defensively.

2.   Oakland cannot afford similarly sloppy games the next three weeks against San Diego, Kansas City and Pittsburgh.

3.   Overall, it was another sloppy game for the Astros, who were charged with two errors and failed to make at least that many other plays.

4.   Recently, when the Twins had a couple sloppy defensive games, Kelly had them on the field early the next afternoon for a refresher course in the basics.

5.   The twists of the road trip continued in a sloppy game on Tuesday.

6.   Three games later, Roddick played a sloppy game on serve and was broken.

7.   Eleven penalties and four turnovers made for a sloppy game.

8.   It was a sloppy game.

9.   It was representative of such a sloppy game in wet conditions that the guy who scored the only touchdown botched his spike attempt.

10.   Louisiana Tech needed a big game from its bench players to survive a sloppy game.