After being staked to a lead, Halladay surrendered back-to-back doubles in the fourth to Pat Burrell and Cody Ross — that man, again — bringing San Francisco to 3-2.
Joe Smith walked in a run, and Scott Schoeneweis and Luis Ayala surrendered back-to-back home runs to Wes Helms and Dan Uggla to snap a 2-2 tin in the eighth.
But Keisler walked David McCarty leading off the bottom of the inning -- not the best way to curry favor with your manager -- and then surrendered back-to-back singles.
But this time Gordon surrendered back-to-back walks to start the inning, and after the runners were bunted into scoring position, the tying run came across on a sacrifice fly by Ronnie Belliard.
Nelson allowed two homers during the regular season and surrendered back-to-back shots in the fifth inning today; two of the four homers he has allowed this year were hit by Martinez.
After a leadoff walk in the third, Mahomes surrendered back-to-back home runs into the second deck at Qualcomm, a perch reached only by Mark McGwire this season and just 14 times by the Padres in the park's 32-year history.
In the final game, Girardi was faced with something approaching a pitching crisis when his starter, Ivan Nova, faltered by surrendering back-to-back home runs in the first inning to Don Kelly and Delmon Young.
He bought it, but immediately surrendered it back to the web giant.
The flag carried by Percival's party on the way to Bukit Timah was also a witness to this reversal of fortunes, being flown when the Japanese formally surrendered Singapore back to Lord Louis Mountbatten.
They might include Tut arms or I-surrender back bends, but for the most part the Orientalism was a matter of the plot — slave auctions, mummies come to life — and of the sets and costumes: cute little fezzes and the like.
