Sentences with phrase «american racing league»

Not exact matches

The most amazing thing about this year's amazing American League race is the fact that the Chicago White Sox, who haven't finished first since 1919, are going to win the pennant.

Witness the exciting race in the American League.

The Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox are in the middle of a heated race for the American League Central Championship...

The second wild card race in the American League has been a procession of different teams getting their lips stuck in the escalator, and it's been unfathomably ugly.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

Furious pennant races used to be the exclusive property of the National League, but last week the action was in the American, five teams whaling away at one another, each with reason to believe it could be first in September.

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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.

Houston also gained on Cleveland for American League home field advantage and are only two games back in that race.

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.

Their respective aces, Josh Beckett and C.C. Sabathia, run 1 and 1A in the American League Cy Young race.

The American League wild - card race was tighter than Spandex, with five teams separated by only three games: Texas, New York, Seattle, Milwaukee and Kansas City.

For those still in the race, scoreboard watching, especially in the snarled American League, can be exasperating.

With Mike Trout expected to miss six - to - eight weeks due to a thumb injury, a new favorite has emerged in the American League MVP race — Aaron Judge.

While that's mostly because the American League wild card race was exceptionally sloppy and hilarious, there was still that hope in the back of the mind of the most optimistic Tigers fans.

Apart from the obvious dangers involved, it would be sad if Saturday's incident affects the American League East race, which as of Monday had the Yanks four games behind the Toronto Blue Jays.

Kenyans aren't often beaten in the 3000m steeplechase but they lost the men's and women's races at the last Diamond League in Rabat and, here in Monaco, the victory in the men's race went to Evan Jager as the American clocked 8:01.31 to beat Jairus Birech by a whopping six seconds.

Based partially on his own Ivy League experiences, the film revolves around a traditionally African - American residence hall at a predominately white college, examining race in an America that after Obama's election was suddenly said to be post-racial.

Low - income African - Americans in segregated neighborhoods remain subject to what Contract Buyers League attorneys called a «race tax» and what my father referred to as the «million dollars a day cost of being black.»

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

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