He showed few signs of rust, however, striking out four in a row at one stretch in his 7 1-3 innings.
Nadal, a winner in Monte Carlo and Hamburg this year, then took three games in a row to prevail in one hour and 58 minutes.
"You would probably have to do a lot of searching to find a movie that opened in wide release to have two number two weekends in a row and hit number one in the third week, " he added.
He missed five in a row at one point, including an airball that might've been 2 feet short.
Sam Dekker scored nine of his 11 points in the second half, including seven in a row during one impressive burst.
"For that to happen 12 times in a row in a random circumstance is one in 540, 000, " he said.
He loses 4 matches in a row, and one of his players is injured.
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Grant Balfour got the final out for his fourth save this season and 22nd in a row since blowing one on April 29, 2012, securing Oakland's first nine-inning shutout of the year.
While one week is not a trend, two weeks in the row could be the start of one.
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In one case a row between neighbours which had involved more than 100 calls to police was resolved by a two-hour meeting.
By this week it had become a flaming political row in Spain, and one of the rare events to prod the European Union into almost instant reaction.
Hernandez struck out Kevin Youkilis to escape the jam, but Cervelli sent a hanging splitter from Putz that Hample caught in the first row behind the left-field scoreboard with one out in the ninth.
Inter's achievement of winning five scudettos in a row equals the record set by Juventus in the 1930s but one of Inter's championships could yet be struck off.
Saints, who are chasing their fourth win in a row in the competition, ran in eight tries in a one-sided win over the team they beat in the 2007 final.
Grammy award-winning singer Michael Buble topped the album chart with his third UK number one record in a row, To Be Loved.
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At 1pm almost all the sun loungers are empty and, feeling like a seaside squatter, I nab one in the front row.
In one respect, the row over top-up fees has also been over-blown.
Gannon, who completed 34 of 38 passes and threw for three touchdowns, made a single-game record 21 completions in a row, leaving him just one shy of the overall record.
For instance, O'Connell and Simon Shaw in the second row is a possible one, but I'm not sure we'll see Saturday's back row of Joe Worsley, Martyn Williams and Andy Powell in the first Test - it doesn't look right to me.
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One was in the second row and the other four bodies were found "laying down flat in the cargo area, " Babeu said.
New Labour's immaculately crafted 1997 election campaign was built with such care because we had lost four elections in a row, had been in power for only a tiny part of the last one hundred years, and were determined to undo that past.
In theory, the president can call one only if three would-be prime ministers in a row fail to get parliament to back a new government.
One young man in the front row of the courtroom leaned forward and stared at Holmes without averting his gaze throughout the 45-minute proceeding.
Each side of Demon's delta wing has one row of these slots in the upper part of its trailing edge and another on the lower part.
Nick Easter, who scored four tries against Wales nine days ago, is included in the back-row options alongside Dallaglio, one of 12 survivors from the original 2003 squad.
But the singers all handled themselves well, although none were forced to sing more than one or two numbers in a row (so not a particular test of live ability).
Marcus North was superbly caught by wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin off Bravo and Benn was delighted to claim the scalp of Brad Haddin, with whom he was embroiled in an unseemly row on day two, with one that gripped, caught the shoulder of the bat and was taken at slip.
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