Sentences with phrase «league pennant»

Although Richards» new squad was a solid team, they were playing second fiddle in Detroit to the Hank Greenberg - led Tigers, who had gone 101 - 53 to win the 1934 American League Pennant.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Musical MPAA rating: NR Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen Actors: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston Plot: The classic stage musical comes to the big screen as a major fan of the Washington Senators makes a pact with the devil in order to make sure his team wins the league pennant.

The classic stage musical comes to the big screen as a major fan of the Washington Senators makes a pact with the devil in order to make sure his team wins the league pennant.

Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger lead an outfit of misfit Cleveland Indians from last place to a shot at the league pennant against the powerhouse Yankees.

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.

Following news of the Gray trade, the Yankees» odds to win the World Series improved from 10 - 1 to 7 - 1 at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook while their odds to win the American League pennant improved from 4 - 1 to 3 - 1.

Kyle Hendricks will take the mound for the Cubbies in his first appearance since tossing seven and a third shutouts innings against the Dodgers to clinch the National League pennant.

Kirk Gibson's two dramatic homers led the Dodgers to a 3 - 2 edge over the Mets in the battle for the National League pennant

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.

The St. Louis Cardinals are threatening to make the National League pennant race the longest runaway in a dozen years.

The Cubs and Nationals are starting a four - game series on Thursday, and the winner of the series will eventually win the National League pennant.

When they won the National League pennant.

The swirl of a major league pennant race or a Marciano - Moore heavyweight championship fight — yes, even the World Series — will be only of passing interest in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami and many more citadels of football.

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

A few days later, Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants hit his famous ninth - inning homer with two on off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant in a playoff.

After the Royals won the American League pennant, movie star Paul Rudd told a Kansas City TV station that he was having a big party at his mom's house.

The Dodgers hadn't won a National League pennant since 1920, and they lost the World Series that year in part because of an unassisted triple play.

For example, Georgie Porgie, as Boston Red Sox manager Jimy Williams calls him, just elevated his vice president of player development and scouting, Mark Newman, over his general manager, two - time American League pennant winner Brian Cashman, because Cashman lost two arbitration cases last winter.

Fulmer can puttee Yankees over the top in a run for the American League pennant.

Dodgers utility man Kiké Hernandez had the game of his life Thursday night, hitting three home runs and driving in seven runs to lead his team to an 11 - 1 win over the Cubs to clinch the National League pennant and the franchise's first World Series trip in nearly three decades.

The Detroit Tigers can not possibly win the American League pennant, as any serious student of the game knows, but so far this season the serious students have been flunking the course.

If New York wins the National League pennant by one game over Milwaukee, it will be a phony championship and the Giants will be cheese champions, through no fault of theirs.

Of the 20 teams that have won major league pennants in the last decade, all but one led or were among the leaders in team home runs.

Baltimore won four American League pennants and two World Series in the six seasons Robinson played there.

Entering the 2018 MLB season, the odds to win the American League and National League pennants indicate that each league has three standout...

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.

Pennant, 35, has certainly suffered something of a fall from grace after looking something of a wonderkid during his Arsenal days, when he scored a memorable hat - trick on his full league debut against Southampton, though he never managed to maintain a first - team place.

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.

Sounding only a little bit like a man whistling past a graveyard, seven of the National League's finest teams spent a happy springtime assuring themselves and a nodding assortment of itinerant experts what a whale of a pennant race this was going to be.

The Braves were unbeaten in four games, the rest of the league was staggering, and horrible visions of another 1955, when the Dodgers won 10 straight and 22 of their first 24 to turn the pennant race into a shambles, danced before the National League'sleague was staggering, and horrible visions of another 1955, when the Dodgers won 10 straight and 22 of their first 24 to turn the pennant race into a shambles, danced before the National League'sLeague's eyes.

The Bums, playing with a fury characteristic of their manager, stormed through the National League with flashing spikes, edging the St. Louis Cardinals by 21/2 games to win the pennant.

Who would ever have thought that the season's only no - hitter would be thrown by the Dodgers» Kevin Gross; that the only National League player to hit three homers in a game would be Atlanta shortstop Jeff Blauser; that Jose Canseco would be a Ranger; and that the National League strikeout leader, David Cone, would be anchoring the pennant drive for the Blue Jays?

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

The odd strategy of «buying good players» nabbed them four pennants and two World Series titles, so when they stopped winning the American League East every year, they stuck with it.

In the American League the New York Yankees, with big bats, established glory and professional experience on their side, are battling for their 25th pennant against the Baltimore Orioles, representing youth and desire.

In 1964, when he led Philadelphia to pennant contention, he was the National League Rookie of the Year; in 1969 he was booed out of the City of Brotherly Love.

The oddest pennant race in National League history is always exciting but sometimes it gets just a little sloppy

At 3/1 to win the NL Pennant, the Dodgers are the clear team to beat in the National League.

Still, Pennant found some of the best form of his career under Benitez during his time at Liverpool, and notably gave a man - of - the - match display for the club during their 2007 Champions League final defeat to AC Milan.

The team favored to rise to the top in the American League is the Detroit Tigers at 4/1 to win the AL pennant, while the Los Angeles Dodgers are a 3/1 favorite to win the NL pennant.

No American League team has ever won the pennant after making a midseason managerial change, but the Angels, who five times have changed managers during a season, might well do it under 36 - year - old Jim Fregosi, who began his major league career as an Angel cherub in 1961, the year the team was fLeague team has ever won the pennant after making a midseason managerial change, but the Angels, who five times have changed managers during a season, might well do it under 36 - year - old Jim Fregosi, who began his major league career as an Angel cherub in 1961, the year the team was fleague career as an Angel cherub in 1961, the year the team was formed.

Big league baseball is no longer a novelty, but still the throngs spill into Los Angeles» Coliseum to watch the pennant race in the game's strangest but most exciting setting

But in 1969, the year of the «Miracle Mets,» Ryan pitched seven innings in the pennant - clinching win over Atlanta in the National League playoffs, and he saved Game 3 of the Mets» five - game triumph in the World Series against Baltimore.

Futures involve betting on a team to accomplish certain goals in the upcoming season, such as winning their division, their league's pennant, or the World Series.

Former Premier League winger Jermain Pennant has not enjoyed the best of starts to his career at League One Bury.

Three hours later — okay, maybe closer to four, this is a Yankees» game — one fan base will be devastated, while another will be relieved their team has escaped into the American League Division Series, where it will take on last year's pennant winners, the Kansas City Royals.

OffshoreInsiders.com presents the odds to win each league's pennant and the World Series.

If this were the major leagues, it would be the ideal time for a pennant drive.

The uncanny ability of a middle - aged baseball player rockets a major - league team toward the 1939 pennant.

With three World Series championships, six pennants and four manager - of - the - year awards under his belt, La Russa is widely considered one of the best managers in the history of Major League Baseball.