Sentences with phrase «national league pennant»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.