A white van stood ready to whisk him back, the same van that delivered him out onto the course four and a half hours earlier.
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous," he said, quoting a biblical phrase from the Book of Psalms, "but the Lord delivers him out of all of them".
But the Yankees could not deliver him in as Jose Vizcaino grounded out with runners on first and third.
A third account, by Reuters, also uncorroborated, said that Seif al-Islam, fearing for his life, was seeking to arrange for an aircraft to rescue him from a desert hide-out and deliver him into the custody of the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
But we managed to pull him out and delivered him to Russia.
Move on to the Giants, whose defensive tackle William Joseph delivered the sack that created the concussion that virtually ended Warner's career with the Rams and, as it turned out, eventually delivered him to the Giants.
He struggled at the outset of the Tour de France without a lead-out train delivering him to the finish line, but won two of the last three stages — including his fourth straight victory in the final stage on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday — with the help of his Team Sky teammates.
Unaware of the carnage behind them, Cavendish's lead-out train delivered him to within 200m of the finish line and he emerged from Petacchi's slipstream to cruise over the line in four hours, 16 minutes and 15 seconds.
Even as Lazaridis rants about "unfair" lines of questioning shareholders are more than likely to hold him to an even higher standard and, as he fails to deliver, knock him out of the driver's seat.
The Pope patiently heard him out, then delivered his own brief talk in a businesslike manner, stepped down from the podium, and with a gesture of greeting to the Protestant and Orthodox observers in their tribune at the left, and with a final lifting of his arms, hurriedly left the basilica by a side door.
