Afterward, Rodriguez effectively patted Braden on the head and said it was great that he pitched a perfect game and even better that he beat Tampa Bay, which, at least for the moment, has been having an even better season than the Yankees.
Benteke should have done better when he beat the offside trap to meet Ciaran Clark's ball into the box, but he failed to make a proper connection.
This Pulitzer prize-winning life does ample justice to the "moral power" the novelist admired, but also reflects the peerlessly eloquent orator; the stoical head of a family afflicted by death and depression; and, above all, the shrewd manager of men who riskily gave cabinet posts to the better-known trio he beat to the 1860 Republican nomination - William Seward, Salmon Chase and Edward Bates.
The world No2 is playing the best tennis of his life – better, even, than when he beat Djokovic to win the US Open in 2012, the year he defeated Roger Federer to lift Olympic gold on this court, and then when he returned a year later to break that 77-year Fred Perry drought with another stirring but anxious victory over Djokovic.
Though Contador's skills in the time trial are much better than Schleck's — he beat him by 1 45 at last year's time trial — he did not want to rejoice over a potential Tour victory too soon.
Before the race, Milorad Čavić made headlines by saying in an interview that it would be better for swimming if he beat Phelps.
In the primary, when he beat Al Lewis (better known as Grandpa in "The Munsters" television series) and the political writer Ronnie Dugger, he walked the length of Long Island to attract attention.
In 2000, he shot 18 under par and beat Davis Love III by four shots; his total of 15 under was one stroke better than Phil Mickelson in 2001; he beat Michael Campbell by four and Mickelson and a host of others by five in 2002 by shooting 13 under; his 11-stroke win in 2003 ranks fourth on the list of his largest margins of victory, tied with the 2000 NEC Invitational.
He pulled another surprise when he beat out better-known scientists in the ensuing race to identify the other 63 codons in the genetic code.
It was called "the Optimizer," and, strategists for President Obama say it is how he beat a better-financed Republican opposition in the advertising war.
