down the line

There were sudden shifts and crazy bounces, like when a down-the-line single from Bo Bichette in the top of the seventh ricocheted off a sound technician along the elbow of the wall in foul territory, allowing Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to score from first with the help of an errant throw from Teoscar Hernández.

What kind of presidential campaign could possibly sustain the public opposition of the party’s handpicked congressional leaders, people who had heretofore been down-the-line Biden loyalists and the very people who had helped secure Biden’s legislative achievements with their hard work and arm-twisting?

“I could have gone somewhere else and probably played a lot more. But this was more of a down-the-line decision. I’ve always wanted to be a dawg, man. I’m really loyal to the purple and gold. This decision, for me, was bigger than football. It’s a character thing, to stick it out. I wanted to spend my last year with my brothers, no matter what the role was.”

Mike Johnson has been a down-the-line right-wing congressman.

In the second set, Pegula led 40-0 on her serve in the fourth game, but Sakkari fought back to win six-straight points, finishing with a down-the-line forehand winner deep in the corner to get the first break.