But he went back on his word, and was booed lustily by the Royals' home crowd while failing to hit a single home run himself.
Maria Sharapova double faulted 10 times, didn't hit a single ace and faced 14 break points in her semifinal match against Petra Kvitova, last year's Wimbledon champion.
To be sure, there are more than a few gaping holes in this argument, not the least of which is the fact that the financial crisis that took down asset prices around the globe is not even remotely the same as a natural disaster that hit a single area.
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With two outs, Lee hit a sharp single up the middle to score Mayberry.
Tsien's version of the protein produces all of its light when hit by a single color.
Jayson Nix hit a leadoff single, went to second on a wild pitch and advanced on Stewart's sacrifice.
Tejada hit a leadoff single in the first, Davis drove in two runs and the Mets won with Jeremy Hefner on the mound for the first time all season.
Hefner pitched his best game of the season for the New York Mets and was gone by the time Andre Ethier hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning that sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-2 win Thursday.
When gun purchases hit a new single-day record with almost 159, 000 background checks on Black Friday last month, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a pro-gun lobbying group headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut, a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, marked the milestone with a celebratory blog post.
Get ready for plenty of direct-to-consumer advertisements, celebrity awareness campaigns, and big-selling drugs, because Big Pharma appears to have found not just a single hit, but a whole bunch of them.
Hammer, who had a hit single in 1990 with "U Can't Touch This, " has been enjoying a resurgence in his career and took the stage with "Gangnam Style" Korean performer Psy during the American Music Awards last November.
Each night the trio of Williams, Pipkin and Brian Elmquist drew in the crowd quickly, won them over with a sound that's more electrified than their peers and earned standing ovations something more difficult to pull off in apathetic Nashville than a hit single.
Andruw Jones hit a two-out single in the fourth for the first Dutch hit against Volquez, who yielded Wladimir Balentien's first-inning RBI groundout before settling in to earn the win.
The Dodgers scored in the first when leadoff man Carl Crawford was hit by a pitch and Kemp hit an RBI single.
He drove in John Buck, who walked and advanced on a wild pitch, with the Mets' first hit since a one-out single in the second.
Barmes hit an RBI single in the second inning and Tabata hit a two-run homer in the third, after McCutchen's RBI single.
When the charts launched over 70 years ago, a hit was defined as selling copies of a single or generating airplay.
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He had a pinch-hit single in the sixth, then showed he was OK by running from first to third on a hit.
The crazy sequence began when Greg Dobbs hit a two-out single with Pierre at second base.
After Alburquerque gave up another walk, Lyle Overbay hit a two-run single to pull the Yankees within a run.
Do doors really fling open when cops or FBI agents hit them with just a single leg or shoulder-shot?
Pierre was at second base and Greg Dobbs hit a two-out single.
In this analysis, pensioners are among the least hit groups, with a single pensioner's income falling an average 2% and a pensioner couple down 2.3%.
Pearce had an RBI double off Nik Turley during a five-run first, then hit a two-run single against Cody Eppley that made it 7-0 in the second.
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