Sentence examples similar to 1 cushion from inspiring English sources

Mussina had a 5-1 cushion with two outs in the seventh inning, but wilted in a blur of four straight hits that scored three runs.

Rooney's second goal, a deflected but ultimately decisive 77th-minute strike, gave Aberdeen a 4-1 cushion and looked to have killed the game.

Guerin, who had not scored since Oct. 28, scored twice in a six-and-a-half-minute span to give Dallas a 4-1 cushion.

Stevenson, who put Montreal up 1-0 withisis fourth goal 10 08 into the second, gave the Canadiens a 3-1 cushion with 10 38 remaining.

Allen Craig pounded a solo homer to left field with two outs in the third inning, giving the Cardinals a 5-1 cushion.

After Martinez left, Matsui received a standing ovation before his third at-bat and promptly belted a two-run double off J. A. Happ to give the Yankees a 7-1 cushion.

They scored two runs in the eighth on Todd Zeile's single and a wild pitch and moved to the ninth with a 4-1 cushion and Benitez pitching for the third straight day.

With a 4-1 cushion, Wheeler gave up a two-run homer to Dan Uggla in the fourth, and Freddie Freeman tied the score with a solo home run in the sixth.

Barça carried a 3-1 cushion from the first leg into the match (the team with more aggregate goals after two matches moves onto the semi-final), and whatever slim comeback hopes P.S.G. might have had vanished when Neymar, Barça's star striker from Brazil, scored in the middle of the first half.

Handed that early 5-0 cusheon, he cruised.

Cards still have that nice 4-0 cushion.