DEVIL RAYS 6, MARINERS 0: Paul Wilson threw seven impressive innings and Tampa Bay handed Seattle an improbable loss, ending its eight-game losing streak against the Mariners.
After the improbable loss to the Knicks on Friday night, one in which the Heat let a 15-point lead slip away in the second half, Dan Majerle said he never should have been called for a foul with 17.6 seconds left that sent Allan Houston to the line for the game's decisive points.
An improbable total loss on the credit derivatives, for instance, would absorb only half Berkshire's cash on hand.
The Patriots play in, and mostly win, astoundingly entertaining high-stakes games that come down to memorable plays in their final moments — a list of contests that spans the Tuck Rule Game, a full sixteen years ago, and the astounding comeback in last year's Super Bowl, against the Falcons, with several agonizing and improbable Patriots losses tossed in as well.
The innings provided the bedrock for a competitive reply to Nottinghamshire's 320 that seemed improbable when the loss of Dale Benkenstein and Ben Stokes left them five down for 148.
More jagged, but just as generous in its articulation of loss and improbable female solidarity, is Zach Clark's wonderful White Reindeer (Matchbox Films, 15), which sadly skipped UK cinemas despite being the best alterna-Christmas film in approximately an eon.
In Feral, we find George Monbiot in gloomy mood, mourning the loss of the improbable bestiary that lies under Nelson's Column, and with it a world that was once rugged and wild and big.
Though the story is set in New York in 1974 — put in motion by Philippe Petit's walk across a wire strung between the twin towers — it was for McCann the product of years of working through his anger and grief after the towers fell, and in its evocation of loss and the improbable ways in which we can sometimes find grace, it is the greatest novel to come out of the World Trade Center attacks.
Rokas et al (1999) [ 75] pointed to an intron insertion in en class homeoboxes of Diptera and Lepidoptera but not in Strepsiptera, Coleoptera or Hymenoptera, arguing that an intron loss is an improbable event.
Not having a paid job, or having more than six months full-time sick leave in combination with the expectation that return to work is impossible or improbable is considered as job loss.
Once arisen, fungiculture is not known to have been lost in insects and loss has been regarded as improbable [ 28], which provides an additional argument against the scenario involving a loss in Lasius.
