Sentences with phrase «american league record»

Tanana's victory was his third shutout of the year, and Ryan's 12 strikeouts enabled him to tie Sam McDowell's American League record of 74 games with 10 or more whiffs.

The Cardinals have suddenly entered into discussions for the Twins» Brian Dozier, who hit 42 homers this past summer to set an American League record for second basemen.

• On the eve of the World Series, the Cleveland Indians beat the Detroit Tigers, 11 - 1 and, in so doing, set an American League record of 111 victories in one season.

The Brewers set an American League record for hits (31) and singles (26) in a nine - inning game.

He hit 25 home runs that year and set an American League record, since broken, of being hit by pitches 24 times.

• Cleveland's Kenny Lofton and Milwaukee's Pat Listach, who both broke John Cangelosi's American League record for steals by a rookie (50).

That home run put the Rangers up 30 - 3, an American League record, a score that was topped only by a Colts / Colonels game from 1897, when baseballs were made out of leather swatches wrapped around shrunken raccoon skulls.

Not exact matches

While nobody has measured the prevalence of fraud, Lloyd Chapman, who heads the American Small Business League, notes that firms are unlikely to be deterred by the government's record of enforcement — not one firm has been prosecuted for falsely representing itself as small.

This would repeat through the rest of the NL if no one claims him, and then it would start over again with the White Sox, who have the worst record in the American League.

They don't give trophies for the best record in the American League, and the hands are closer together than they've been all year.

New York's 21 - 12 record ranks as the best in the American League, and the Yankees» offense continues to roll with an average of 4.85 runs per game.

Since May 24, when the Indians were 14 - 30, they had gone 39 - 35 through Sunday, the fifth - best record in the American League over that span.

Their 17 - 13 record since the All - Star break was the best in the American League East.

Whatever the reasoning, the American League has owned the National League with a 2,003 - 1,825 record — good for a 52.32 % winning percentage.

An eight - game winning streak beginning July 31 vaulted the Red Sox into first place for good, and Boston's 36 - 19 record since then is second in the American League during that time, trailing only the almost - never - lose Cleveland Indians.

Flint set a record here in 1966 by becoming a Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League in less than 11 weeks of play.

The Rangers are in first place in the AL West and have the best record in the American League, but getting to that point has not been easy.

Villa keeper Brad Guzan made his 100th consecutive Premier League start, but the American could not stop Stoke extending their impressive recent record at Villa Park — the Potters are now unbeaten in their last five trips.

The team failed to address some of the concerns with their starting rotation (namely the lack of depth behind Hamels and Darvish), but the Rangers already have the best record in the American League and were able to add two premier bats to an already potent lineup.

Both leagues set records (in a strike - shortened season, at that) for most pitchers used overall (starters and relievers combined): 290 in the National League and 295 in the American League.

Lyle begins his journal on the day in October 1977 when he learned that he had won the American League's half of the Cy Young Award with a record of 13 - 5, a 2.17 ERA and 26 saves.

The Chinese Super League has rapidly grown in this past year, having made some big money moves over the last 12 months, including record breaking deals for a number of South American superstars.

The Astros (91 - 58) are 1 1/2 games behind Cleveland (93 - 57) for the best record in the American League.

The Indians lost against the Mariners but the Astros won so the race for best record in the American League remains tight, with Houston only 1.5 games back.

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.

Manaea and Graveman performed well against the team with the best record in the American League, in their ridiculous mini-park, and you're whining?

He played in 14 All - Star Games and 14 World Series (he holds 10 Series catching records) and won the American League MVP award three times (1951, 1954 and 1955).

The season record is all the more impressive because it was accomplished the first year the American League went to the designated hitter.

Chinaglia was the North American Soccer League scoring champion in 1976 with 19 goals in as many games, and again last year when he broke the decade - old 30 - goal record, getting 34 in 30 games.

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.

Texas finished with the best record in the American League at 95 - 67 and is going off at +500 on the odds to win the World Series.

On the day his club's American League - record 20 - game winning streak was to end, Oakland Athletics lefthander Barry Zito strolled into the visitors» clubhouse at the Metrodome wearing a flowered silk shirt and a pair of baby - blue, pin - striped engineer pants.

The Indians get their shot at 22 and MLB history on Thursday against the Royals, a team which, coincidentally, were victories No. 19 and 20 in the 2002 A's then - record win streak for the American League, the one the Indians just surpassed with their victory Wednesday.

They set an American League home run record of 193, but only one Yankee hitter was over.300 (Moose Skowron at.309), and not another was over.284.

The Sox are in first place in the AL East with the American League's second - best record despite having a smoking crater where their third baseman is supposed to be.

United captain and record goal - scorer Wayne Rooney future remains uncertain amid talk of a return to his former club Everton or a move to American football in Major League Soccer.

• The Italian team's shoot - out record is W3 L3: 2 - 3 v AC Milan, 2002/03 UEFA Champions League final 4 - 2 v AFC Ajax, 1995/96 UEFA Champions League final 1 - 3 v Real Madrid CF, 1986/87 European Cup second round 4 - 2 v Argentinos Juniors, 1985 European / South American Cup final 1 - 4 v Widzew Łódź, 1980/81 UEFA Cup second round 3 - 0 v Ajax, 1977/78 European Cup quarter - final

On 20 August 2012, the American set a new record for consecutive Premier League appearances for one club with his 184th game in a row.

Bruinius's account, enlivened with many novelistic touches, is backed up by well - documented hard data, including the legislative records that show how 30 states implemented forced sterilization programs; and how many individuals and groups including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, Ivy League scholars, temperance advocates, suffragists, and liberal American churches and synagogues all got behind the campaign, inspired by the idea that America could be a place where moral purity and social harmony reigned.

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