Sentences with phrase «american league lead»

He has six homers (tied for the American League lead), he's slashing.346 /.404 /.605, and he has more RBI (21) than Bryce Harper (18).

Not exact matches

A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.

In 1929 he served on the executive committee of the League for Independent Political Action and was still active in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the leading pacifist organization on the American scene.

The Express led the Pacific Coast League in attendance two of the last three seasons and won the 2011 PCL American Southern Division title.

When they do, they'll support a pitching staff that leads the American League in FIP and the world in WAR.

Cash, now 42 and a good deal heavier than he was in 1961 when he led the American League with a.361 batting average, did not embarrass himself.

Durocher and Maris should be voted in, but I resent any implication that Tony Oliva, a lifetime.304 hitter who won three batting titles and led the American League in hits five times, may be less deserving.

Yeah, yeah, we know the Royals play in the American League, but is their leading NL positions in votes more or less outlandish than Omar Infante as the AL's starting second baseman?

The year after that, he led the American League in innings pitched, and the year after that, he won the first of his two Cy Young Awards.

He leads American League hitters in WAR, according to Baseball - Reference.

Quiet Dick Hall can hit too — .454, to lead all American League pitchers.

White Sox Three weeks ago general manager Ron Schueler insisted that the American League Central - leading White Sox didn't need to make major moves.

Meanwhile, through Sunday, the Red Sox held a two - game lead in the American League East despite a patchwork at shortstop that had been solid defensively but unimposing at the plate.

Baltimore snapped a five - game losing streak on Sunday with a win over the Toronto Blue Jays and own a half - game lead over Toronto in the American League East.

Even without postseason implications — Oakland led Boston by a game in the American League wild - card race at week's end — there's enough bad blood between these teams to keep things interesting.

The Red Sox, who they began the week just three games back of in the American League East, just finished sweeping Baltimore and pushing them seven games out of the division lead.

MILEPOSTS — NAMED: To the Baseball Hall of Fame, LOU BOUDREAU, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians for 12 years and manager for Cleveland, the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, who led the Indians to their World Series victory in 1948, the same year he batted.355 and was named the American League's Most Valuable Player.

Last season Nelson Cruz led the American League in home runs with 40 while Giancarlo Stanton led all National League hitters with 37.

The 25 - year - old * was hitting.337 /.461 /.742 and leading the American League with 16 homers before sliding into second base and tearing ligaments in his left thumb on Sunday.

Three weeks ago the Yankees were leading the American League and, as Yogi Berra put it, the Orioles and White Sox would «have to come and get us.»

In 1972 he batted.308, led the American League with 113 RBIs and 37 homers and won the MVP award.

You have a market in which Edinson Volquez, leading the American League in earned runs, might get $ 50 million, and that might be drastically underestimating his contract.

Nearly 40 % through the season, Baltimore (45 - 19 at week's end) is beginning to develop the sheen of a team to be measured against posterity, not just the American League East, which the Orioles led by nine games over the New York Yankees through Sunday.

White, who has caught 100 or more games for past eight seasons and averaged.284 at bat last year to lead American League catchers with Yogi Berra, chose to quit the game rather than leave Boston, where he shares a partnership in a bowling enterprise.

The Washington Nationals are the National League East champs, and the Cleveland Indians won the American League Central, while the division - leading Los Angeles Dodgers are assured of at least a playoff berth.

These American League favorites haven't just been winning, they've been winning big, which had led to impressive returns for runline bettors.

The Nationals return to their roots in the American League and quickly develop rivalries with the Orioles and the Bryce Harper led Yankees.

In the space of only a year Baltimore has remade itself from a home - run - slugging crew into a pitching - and - defense club that's likely to finish with the best record in baseball and the distinction of having led the American League East wire to wire.

Through Sunday he was tied for the American League «lead» in losses (14, with the Tigers» Brian Moehler), and led outright in runs allowed (130), earned runs allowed (121), homers allowed (34) and highest ERA (7.46).

It should be the game - winner if it goes, and a victory in this game on Aug. 27 would keep the New York Yankees from cutting into Baltimore's six - game lead in the American League East.

BASEBALL — The Toronto Blue Jays held a three - games - to - two lead over the Kansas City Royals in their best - of - seven American League Championship Series, and the St. Louis Cardinals led the Los Angeles Dodgers by the same three - games - to - two margin in the National League playoffs (page 36).

In 1956 he led the American League — in fact, all of baseball — in batting and home runs and runs batted in.

When the White Sox really get to dreaming about what Kittle and Walker might do for them, they harken back to 1975, when a couple of kids named Jim Rice and Fred Lynn checked in with Boston and led the Red Sox to an American League pennant.

Fans have quickly gotten on a first - name basis with Ichiro, the brilliant batsman and dazzling all - around talent from Japan who has led the Mariners to the top of the American League

Consider the mythic status of Walter Johnson, who threw so hard he never bothered to learn to throw a good curve - ball and still won 416 games and led the American League in strikeouts 12 times.

The Orioles lead the division with a 24 - 14 record through 38 games, have the fifth best team ERA in the American League at 3.70, and have a strong lineup with major power potential.

One reason why Fingers never led the American League in saves at Oakland is that he had a little help from his bullpen friends — Paul Lindblad, Darold Knowles and Jim Todd.

Morgan, a member of the MLB Hall of Fame for his years with the Cincinnati Reds and regarded as one of the greatest second baseman of all - time, played on the same prep team at Castlemont as May, who had an 18 - year MLB pitching career and led the American League in ERA in 1980.

Mattingly also became the first American League player to lead the majors in doubles two years in a row since Tris Speaker did so from 1920 to» 23.

# 17 Duane Ward FARMINGTON Fireballing reliever for Blue Jays led American League with 45 saves in 1993; played on two World Series championship teams.

Before an 8 - 3 loss to the Red Sox dropped them four games off the pace on Sunday, New York had been within three games of first in the American League East without gaining sole possession of the lead since June 18 — a total of 93 days.

However, Weah has been included in the 18 for this weekend and with PSG's healthy lead in league play he could be in line for some minutes, a pretty remarkable statement about an 18 year old American playing for one of the most recognizable teams in the world.

With Americans tuning in to watch the league for the first time on the commercial broadcasting station, last year's leading goalscorer put the visitors ahead after what was otherwise a relatively lackluster start to the David Moyes era in Manchester.

Giovanni Savarese leads the Portland Timbers after a five - year stint with the New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League.

Eight - time world champion LaShawn Merritt opened his Diamond League campaign with a 44.41 to win over the 400m, while American Ameer Webb ran a world leading 19.85 in the 200m.

In 2005, he led the White Sox to their first American League pennant since 1959, and their first World Series win since 1917 with a 4 - game sweep of the Houston Astros.

She also led the First Chinese Baptist Church at 21 Pell St. Lee participated in the Women's Political Equality League and organized a group of Chinese American women to March in a key 1917 pro-suffrage parade.

Most unions and the League of United Latin American Citizens opposed the 2007 proposal because of its expanded guest worker program, which the organizations complained would lead to «exploitation.»

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

This appendix is sometimes difficult to decipher but useful for those obscure soccer stats such as the leading goal scorer in the American Soccer League for the 1921 - 1922 season.