But the prolific Root, who scored 54 off the last 39 balls of his innings, along with Jos Buttler (45) and Chris Jordan (19 not out), punished a tiring and increasingly ragged side in the evening session to guide the hosts to a position of total supremacy.
In a duet featuring the stove — smoke billows from it — Alejandro Cerrudo and Ana Lopez bounce through Mr. Ek's rubbery positions with ragged anxiety until we finally see what's in the oven: a child doll.
Even with their ragged play, the Yankees were in position to win.
These days, however, the situation is more ragged, and more reprehensible, than it was, say, last autumn, when the government tried to retrieve its position in the polls by hastily reforming inheritance tax.
But Ohio State, ranked No. 5 last week, has surged into the second position, displacing the Hurricanes, who endured a ragged 42-17 victoveroveRutgersrs (1-8).
And visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where few things in the darkly lighted galleries ever change position, can see the frames and the ragged edges of four paintings that were cut out and taken during a brazen 1990 theft.
Alonso was clearly on the ragged edge on his lap and will not expect to maintain his position at the front come qualifying.
Much later, this picture finds its rhyme in a beautiful vision of mutability: "A ragged line of sparrows sat on an electrical line, constantly switching positions like musical notes being rewritten".
We found ourselves in a position where we were 16-6 down and we just looked very ragged after that.
His centuries at Lord's and Headingley helped keep his side in the game in the first instance, and put them in a position to win in the second by running Alastair Cook and his team ragged.
