Sentences with phrase «american league»

Houston won the same day the Indians lost, which puts the Astros only one game back of Cleveland for American League home field advantage.

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

The Houston Astros have won their first division title since 2001, clinching the American League West on Sunday with a win over the Seattle Mariners and a loss by the Los Angeles Angels.

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.

A utility player simply can't match the production of an American League DH.

Meanwhile, the Twins are closing in on the second American League Wild Card after finishing off a four - game sweep of the hapless Tigers.

During the 1997 MLB season, teams from the American League and National League competed in regular season competition for the first time in the long and illustrious history of Major League Baseball.

Since the inception of the North American League Championship Series in 2013, two teams have dominated above all others.

For half the»83 season, Rader had the Rangers in first place in the American League West, but there were signs of trouble.

Those two are fourth and first, respectively, in the American League in ERA, combining for a 2.21 ERA in 22 starts and 150 2/3 innings entering Saturday.

After all, American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's don't shell out top dollar for designated hitters.

Over the past eleven seasons, bettors have overwhelmingly gravitated towards American League teams but that tendency has reached its peak this season.

American League teams have been far more profitable than National League teams, but that's true regardless of venue.

Essentially oddsmakers believe that the Astros have improved considerably, but not to the extent of other American League teams.

The no - no didn't bother us quite so much three years later, when that skinny pitcher, Bret Saberhagen, became the youngest American League Cy Young Award winner and World Series MVP.

Starting with Ron Santo in 1974, 12 players have joined an American League club after playing at least 2,000 games exclusively in the National League.

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 American League East has been the Boardwalk - Park Place corner of the baseball world ever since the first wild cards were handed out, in 1995.

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.

After many bold and locally unpopular midseason moves by general manager John Hart — 40 % of last season's American League championship team is either gone or injured — the Tribe has shown that it is better equipped for the postseason than a year ago.

For one, the Angels have the best starting pitching in the American League.

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).

Except teams from the American League, against whom the Braves are 11 - 17 in the 1990s.

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.

The Orioles (one), the Yankees (two) and the Red Sox (two) have grabbed all five American League wild cards.

Underrated and overtraded, the Cleveland club is back to imperil the White Sox dynasty in the American League

The newness of interleague play created a buzz, especially in Atlanta, where the best team in the National League played the best team in the American League four months ahead of the traditional staging of such a matchup.

«This is kind of a land of opportunity,» says general manager Doug Melvin, who while in Texas resurrected the careers of two players who would win the American League Comeback Player of the Year award — outfielder Ruben Sierra and shortstop Kevin Elster.

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

The Red Sox are two games up on the Blue Jays and the Orioles in the American League East after taking two of three from the former this weekend.

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

Correia will be making his first appearance in the American League.

The Los Angeles Angels have been baseball's busiest team on the waiver trade deadline day, and the American League Wild Card contenders added another player on Thursday, acquiring second baseman Brandon Phillips and cash considerations from the Atlanta Braves, the teams announced.

Actually, the [percentage of] fastballs thrown in the American League in those counts was about one percent higher.»

The Rangers are in the American League, so if the worst thing that happens here is that Calhoun becomes a DH who makes the lives of opposing pitchers terrible, then they've done just fine.

DIED: Former Yankee (1955 - 67) and Red Sox (1967 - 68) Catcher ELSTON HOWARD, 51, who was the American League's MVP in 1963 and was its first black coach (1969 - 79) with the Yanks; after being hospitalized for a heart condition in New York.

As for the American League?

The expansion of the American League is about to become reality.

Last season, Rick Porcello won the American League Cy Young despite opening at 200/1 at BetOnline in February.

We also pointed out that there were two intriguing long shot candidates in the American League: Jose Bautista (+2500) and Jose Abreu (+3300).

In the American League, several members of the Boston Red Sox saw their odds climb including Xander Bogaerts (+900), David Ortiz (+1200) and Jackie Bradley Jr (+1200).

While the average Joe bettor might be throwing a few bucks down on the Bronx Bombers and their new star pitcher, sharp bettors are hammering the defending American League champs.

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.

Tom Gordon of the Red Sox, another former starter, was atop the American League saves list at week's end, with 16.

Score, the American League Rookie of the Year in»55 and a 20 - game winner in» 56, recovered from his injuries and attempted several comebacks, but he won only 17 more games over the next five seasons and retired.

He also won an American League batting title and was second in batting in another season.

Friends say that Moore was haunted by memories of the two - strike, two - out, ninth - inning home run he gave up to Dave Henderson of the Boston Red Sox while pitching for the Angels in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series.

Their odds of winning the American League Pennant improved from +450 to +250, which make them the clear - cut favorite.

The Indians -LRB--650) have better odds of making the playoffs than any other team in the American League, and Lindor figures to play a massive role in that lineup.

«I can't figure out how anyone in the American League West finishes as high as.500.