Sentences with phrase «national league all»

Over in the National League, everyone is chasing the Chicago Cubs (+375 to win the World Series) and the San Francisco Giants (+550) on the betting board.

The Mets are 10 - 3, and have the most wins in the National League.

He leads the National League in earned runs allowed, he's allowed two or more homers in seven games already this season, and the Padres lost every one of those starts.

This explains how a kid from a town that had no stoplights could enter this week's National League Championship Series against the Cincinnati Reds without a hint of anxiety.

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.

Inviting Wells over for food and refreshments was an easy call, seeing that over the winter Towers had invited the free agent Wells to San Diego for a less hospitable undertaking: to rescue a rotation that had given up a National League - high 144 homers and walked more batters than any but the Cubs».

It was a performance that was in keeping with his regular season, for which he should be awarded National League Rookie of the Year honors next month.

If the National League has a more promising star than the Astros» Glenn, he's Reds centerfielder Eric, who was named the NL Player of the Month for July.

The Braves will win the National League East, just as they've won it every year since 1991 (excluding strike - shortened» 94).

You could say that any Arsenal side picked should be able to get past a team struggling in the bottom half of the National League and hopefully they will, but when the manager decides to leave out a lot of our best players then he is opening himself up to the fury of the Arsenal fans if they fail.

Ben Sheets is close to becoming one of the best pitchers in the National League.

But the Mets were 26 - 8 in his starts last season, the best such percentage in the National League.

The National league outfit is keen to add more fire power up front as they missed the play offs by one place last term.

He was one of the Whiz Kids, Philadelphia's National League champs in 1950.

In the National League, R.A. Dickey has been one of the season's most incredible stories.

But if team shakes down into a cohesive unit, it could stir up National League race.

In the National League, Nolan Arenado (+275) is the favorite despite the Rockies losing record.

He pitched in four of the five games in the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings with five strikeouts and one save.

In the National League, Harper looks like a strong bet to repeat.

They had won 36 of 48 games from that day in August until the last one in September, and after sweeping the Phils in a bizarre doubleheader the night before for their 23rd and 24th straight wins at home, the championship of the National League East seemed within the Pirates» reach.

He should do better in the National league but if I play it would be the Dodger side.

18 The Beast Team in Baseball The well - stocked menagerie known as the San Diego Zoo has been devouring its opponents in the National League by Steve Wulf

Reds setup man Jeff Shaw stepped in for the injured Jeff Brantley in May 1997 and ended up leading the National League with 42 saves.

Rusie returned, in 1897, only after the other National League owners chipped in to pay his 1896 salary.

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.

# 7 Joe Medwick CARTERET Football star at Carteret High; National League MVP in 1937; played in nine All - Star games.

Ed Vargo, the National League director of umpire supervision, was no more definitive.

When Bovada posted updated their MVP odds two weeks later, Clayton Kershaw (+300) was listed as the favorite in the National League.

A local attorney and civic leader, Shea was the man most responsible for bringing National League baseball back to New York following the westward flight of the Dodgers and Giants four years earlier.

2) Tim Raines, objectively the National League batting champion and subjectively the league's best all - around player;

While the Dodgers knocked over the Phillies in four to win the National League title, New York and Kansas City seesawed in the A.L. playoffs, but the Yanks finally pulled it out

While the AL race is essentially down to two players, the National League has three reasonable candidates remaining according to the oddsmakers.

In the National League, Bryant (+300) will have a tougher time repeating according to oddsmakers with Bryce Harper sitting right behind him at +350.

Giancarlo Stanton leads this year's crop of players with a National League best 21 home runs and, according to ESPN's Home Run Tracker, leads baseball with an average home run distance of 423.8 feet.

The bottom line is that they don't care that the 1987 season is opening without the American League's best pitcher and catcher and the National League's best player.

The longtime Houston Astros first baseman hit.297 /.408 /.540, a 149 OPS + in his 15 - year career, and finished with 449 home runs, 488 doubles, and was the 1994 National League MVP.

That goal was nothing less that the National League leaders deserved, after outplaying their Championship opponents over three hours, home and away.

For instance, Monday night after the first game, barring snow, cold weather or rain, either the Cincinnati Redlegs or the Chicago Cubs will be in first place in the National League — since the rest of the teams in the league do not start play until the next day and will therefore remain in a faceless six - way tie for second place overnight.

His acquisition in theory allows Trea Turner to move from center field to his more natural position of shortstop for the Nationals, who won 95 games in winning the National League East in 2016.

This season Bryce Harper (+200) opened as the favorite to be the first back - to - back National League MVP since Albert Pujols (2008 - 2009).

In the midst of March Madness, several sportsbooks have released odds for both the American League and National League Most Valuable Player Award.

Bryce Harper and Nolan Arenado (+275) were listed as the favorites in the National League while Manny Machado (+200) is the front - runner in the American League.

Back in early March, the prominent offshore sportsbook BetOnline posted odds for the 2016 MLB Most Valuable Player Award, which is given annually to one outstanding player in the American League (AL) and one in the National League (NL).

In the National League, Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright (8 - 3, 2.32 ERA) was listed as the favorite back when we first posted these odds back in early June.

The Marlins, who were 10 - 11 at the time of the suspension, went 45 - 35 in Gordon's absence, and open play Thursday in the second wild card position in the National League, with a one - game lead over the Cardinals and 1 1/2 games over the New York Mets.

Four million dollars a year to a guy who's probably the slowest first baseman in the National League?

The Dodgers have won the National League West in each of the last four seasons, and, as they sit 11.5 games up in the division as of this writing, they'll likely make that five in a row.

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

As reported by Arsenal.com this week the manager has suggested that he may still not be ready to face the National League side Lincoln City as they look to continue their amazing FA cup dream with the biggest giant killing yet against the Arsenal.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers lost another game on Sunday, falling 8 - 1 to the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium, continuing a perplexing free fall for the National League West leaders.