The Nitros found themselves in the driver's seat to start the year and never relinquished their place atop the division.
Martinez left after eight innings, allowing one walk and striking out nine, but as Pettitte shut out the Red Sox through the seventh and into the eighth, the boos grew louder for the Red Sox, who have mustered one run in 18 innings at home against the once-slumping Yankees and have relinquished first place.
The day that Pauley left — December 29 , 1989 Todayay" relinquished first place to "Good Morning America," and did not reclaim it until 1994.
Mr. Clinton spoke briefly, then relinquished his place to Mr. Gore, who took off his jacket as he stepped forward.
He relinquished first place with a three-putt bogey at No. 6, then failed to get up and down from in front of the seventh green.
When Tampa Bay lost to the Yankees on Sunday on Alfonso Soriano's ninth-inning single, the Rays relinquished first place in the American League East to Boston.
Japanese women recently relinquished their place at the top of the global longevity table to their counterparts from Hong Kong, partly due to the large number of elderly people who died due to the tsunami of March 2011.
Despite howls of indignation from the grandstands and the rest of the paddock, Todt emphasised that Schumacher's title hopes are Ferrari's overriding priority by ordering Barrichello to undergo a humiliating repeat of last year's race when he relinquished second place to Schumacher behind David Coulthard's victorious McLaren-Mercedes.
He stepped down as chairman in August 2009 and relinquished his place on the board.
That 1-0 defeat meant that the Austrian champions relinquished their place at the top of the Austrian Budesliga for the first time in 43 matches at the weekend, with Wolfsberger, establishing a three-point lead.
Nibali held second place on stages 13 and 14, but Scarponi overtook him on Gardeccia, finishing a minute and a half better (only six seconds the lesser of Contador), and never relinquished second place.
