The nearest team-mate to Terry is Branislav Ivanovic, who is closely marked by Clint Hill.
Gestede does well to keep possession on the right, pops the ball to the nearest team-mate and his low, hard cross finds Taylor, whose shot under pressure flies wide.
Meanwhile, Costa seemed to be playing a solely Costa-shaped game, sprinting forward to press on his own, chasing admirably if pointlessly every pass, often finding himself 30 yards from the nearest team-mate pursuing some lone, bounty hunter's cause.
Tampa Bay missed a chance to improve its wild-card hopes as the nearest teams in that frame lost: Baltimore was beaten at home by the New York Yankees, Cleveland was also downed at home by Kansas City, Oakland was edged by Minnesota and Texas lost an important interleague game against Pittsburgh.
And the nearest rescue team could be miles away.
My hometown, Kansas City, is nearly four hundred miles from the nearest N.B.A. team, in Oklahoma City.
The nearest either team has come since to an unbeaten season was Rangers's near miss of 1967-68.
It is a decade since anyone else had won the league and in the last five years the nearest a team outside of the big two has got to the title was 17 points.
The nearest opposing team Villa faced during that season was Sheffield United, who played 62 mile away in South Yorkshire.
And it appears that the amount of crystals was increasing as the eruption neared, the team reports in the February issue of Geology.
The nearest the Godolphin team have come to success in the dirt finale to the Breeders' Cup was when Sakhee went down by a nose to Tiznow in 11 years ago.
