Before the game, the Nationals' Johnson made what would prove to be a prescient comment about Gonzalez: "A couple times out, I think he's had about 50 pitches after two innings, and Gio will usually come by me and say, 'Relax, Skip, I got it.' " To an extent, Gonzalez stuck to that script.
"The last couple times out, I threw a ton of changeups, and I thought that was going to be the same plan going forward tonight," said Hughes, the Yankees' first starter to work at least seven innings in a postseason game and not allow a run since Mike Mussina in Game 3 of the 2001 division series.
However, she is an advocate for couples taking time out together.
"I actually hit him a couple times out of frustration," she said.
"I was a little shell-shocked the first couple of times out, wondering if this is the right thing to do," he said.
Slaughtered by the critics the first couple of times out, it flowed smoothly and didn't seem particularly eclectic when the (sorely-missed) New York City Opera revived it during their final (2010) season.
For your first couple times backing out, don't worry about putting your foot on the acceleration.
It was easy to imagine the couple, in better times, out on the emerald bay together, in the boat whose valuation became a subject of argument at their divorce hearing, in 2001.
She prefers "couple time"... to "out-with-the-girls" time.
The jet-setting couple took time out of their busy schedules to get some R&R in Rio de Janeiro with Lopez's 4-year-old twins, Max and Emme.
Ever since the story of Adam, Eve and their Garden was crafted, readers have returned to the first couple time and again to figure out how all couples should act.
