When the muscles start to tense, the stretch is beginning.

The stretch began with a 25-game hitting streak, followed by a hitless game.

By the time the next stretch began I knew Julie wasn't coming any more that night.

Just below the shallows an ugly stretch of rapids began.

The 21-points-in-a-hurry stretch began with only 12 seconds remaining in the first half.

The stretch is beginning to look more and more like a trendy Japanese shopping district.

Then another stretch of level ground, and they both began to run.

Wie's most rugged stretch began at the par-4, 417-yard No. 16.

The Cowboys' current stretch of success began in 1985 when they won, 30-29.

Indeed, the series before this stretch began was in Detroit, and the Yankees lost all three games.