But Kolb won a remarkable 13-pitch duel with Derek Jeter and struck him out on a 93-mile-an-hour fastball after Jeter had fouled off seven two-strikes pitches.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo continued their remarkable goal scoring duel as the pair each scored twice in Barcelona's draw with Real Madrid.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was that it took place at all.
Here's still another stranger-than-fiction story: "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York" (Basic Books, $26), by Matthew Goodman.
One can read all about it (including the effect the story had on Edgar Allen Poe and P. T. Barnum) in "The Sun and The Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York," by Matthew Goodman.
The first two sets were consistently remarkable, beginning with the first point, an extended, corner-to-corner duel that Agassi won when Safin knocked a forehand out.
Remarkable because, every night, Fox's Sean Hannity and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann stage a duel of one-sidedness in political commentary that would have been the talk, and the shame, of a more civil era.
André Schürrle was the most wasteful from a remarkable 13 efforts on goal and he was often thwarted in an all-action personal duel with Bolton's goalkeeper Andy Lonergan.
Then came one of the most remarkable passages of cricket ever played, the thronging crowd caught up in the drama of a duel in which Mynn bowled 247 deliveries to Felix, who, with considerable skill, struck 175 of them.
He engaged in a classic final-round duel last June with Payne Stewart, losing the United States Open by one stroke, after Stewart made a remarkable 18-foot putt on the last hole.
