Pettitte came into tonight's game needing one victory to reach 20 for the season, a mark he had achieved once in his career, and he struck out the first two batters he faced, his fastball crackling, moving, fooling.
Another edition of Pitti Uomo has come to a close and the wonderful playground of all that is new and stylish in menswear has achieved, once again, record attendances from around the world and double digit growth in almost all European markets.
They still need to beat Australia - a feat they have achieved only once in 10 Tests since 2001 - and may well have to do so with a new full-back, right wing and scrum-half after Brian Carney and Paul Wellens picked up leg injuries to add to the sickening facial blow suffered by Paul Deacon on Saturday night at Huddersfield.
He could not convert, and so, once again, failed to make it to the fourth round in a Grand Slam event, a feat he has achieved only once, at the 2011 United States Open.
It also seems poised to win the London mayoralty – a feat the party has achieved only once in the previous four elections.
Did they even know who they were?Now that those shareholders have achieved the once unthinkable, they have to make the best of their investment.
"To compete at a Paralympic Games is the pinnacle of any athlete's career and I am so pleased to have achieved this once again.
Rivera may not have achieved the stardom once forecast for him, but he is a major leaguer and therefore an unqualified success story and hero back home.
The World Cup triumph was the culmination of years of effort, but what happens to achievers, once they have achieved?
Over the last decade or so, the Carry Ons have achieved a respectability that once would have been unthinkable.
