But all that changed after eight minutes when a glaring error by 22-year-old keeper Scott Carson handed Croatia the lead on a pitch left partly waterlogged by a torrential pre-match downpour.
When Somerset started their second innings, Trescothick and Neil Edwards were soon eating into Hampshire's lead on a drier pitch than they had batted on in the first innings.
He also hit a batter with a pitch as Cleveland scored twice to take a 3-1 lead in the third, then threw a costly wild pitch in the seventh.
That first elevator pitch is meant to lead to a meeting and hook investors.
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Sale's primary goal this year is to pitch 200 innings and lead the White Sox to the playoffs.
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It's when they get on the pitch, it's they way they lead and they way they play - and Steven always does that very well.
Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead in the second after Rodriguez was hit by a pitch, Adams made a high throw to second when he tried for a forceout on Yunel Escobar's grounder to third and Escobar beat first baseman Lyle Overbay's throw to second on Loney's grounder, a play in which Sabathia failed to cover first.
The visitors should have taken the lead with their first attack, a quick break up the pitch in 14 minutes.
Once teams came up with an idea and plan, they had the opportunity to practice pitch the judges and seek their guidance in the lead up to the final three-minute presentations on day two.
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Besides both Wolf and Meals missing the call, Young went on to hit a three-run home run on the next pitch to give the Rangers a 5-0 lead and an eventual 2-0 lead in the series at that point in time.
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England drew the first Test with South Africa and lacked the firepower to bowl the tourists out for a second time after building a commanding first innings lead of 346, although they were not helped by a placid pitch.
After Byrd made it 4-all, Atlanta took a 5-4 lead in the eighth when Evan Gattis hit Brandon Lyon's first pitch for a solo homer.
After getting Saunders to lead off the game with a fly to left field on the second pitch of the game, nothing was easy for Hughes in the shortest start of his career.
The schedule pushed Sabathia all the way to Game 4 of the Detroit series, when it might be too late should Verlander pitch the Tigers to a three-games-to-none lead on Tuesday night.
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In the eighth, Evan Gattis crushed Brandon Lyon's first pitch for a solo homer to give the Braves a 5-4 lead.
Pedro Hernandez relieved, and Buck drove a full-count pitch into the second deck of seats above left-center field to stretch the lead to 10-2.
Jose Mourinho's Inter team hold a slender 1-0 lead going into the second leg on Tuesday, which will be played on CSKA's artificial pitch.
Gonzalez broke a scoreless tie with two outs in the sixth when he sent a 3-2 pitch from Kuroda into the right field bullpen with a runner on to give Colorado a 2-0 lead.
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