Sentences with phrase «series championship wins»

Kyle Busch has heard the talk, the whispers that the Cup Series championship he won in 2015 should come with an asterisk.

This statistic depicts the number of World Series championships won in Major League Baseball by team from 1903 to 2017.

Not exact matches

He'd run a team that was a perennial contender, had won the 2005 World Series championship and earned a Manager of the Year award.

That was the first year he ran full - time in the series and the year he won his first XFINITY series championship... driving a car owned by his father, Dale Earnhardt, Sr..

After Game 1 of the World Series, Schultz went to dinner with his close friend Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who would go on to win the championship and retire.

This quote was taken from 2013, after the San Francisco Giants won their second World Series championship.

The Houston Astros won their first World Series championship this week.

A World Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other plans.

SOCCER — Following a two - day delay caused by tornado warnings, DALLAS beat Atlanta 2 - 0 in the final game of the best - of - three series to win the North American Soccer League championship.

Johnson is coming off his big win at the Daytona 500 just six days earlier, but his success in the Sprint Cup Series — to the tune of five - consecutive Cup championships — has not translated to the Nationwide cars.

Instead, Hamlin was focused on advancing out of the semifinal round and winning a first - ever series championship.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

After his title win in 1992, Mansell left F1 and went over to America, taking the CART championship in 1993 and continuing in the series for another season.

Team Bulwa's defense led by Captain Zach «MLB» Bulwa had done everything they could to hold the speedy Dorfman O to just 13 points, and now the Team Bulwa O would have the ball with a chance to win the All Sports Series championship.

They have several members who have won All Sports Series championships before and in time you'll see them climb up the Power Rankings.

Because of the heightened stakes, this triumph was more comparable to winning the season - end Cup Series championship finale.

The Indians last won the World Series in 1948, though, and that was just the second championship for the organization, one that began in 1901.

Led by Ruth, who runs his record streak of scoreless World Series innings to 292/3, the Red Sox win their fourth world championship in seven years.

To win a first series championship, Truex faces stiff competition in Busch, Harvick, and Keselowski, all of whom are former title holders.

NASCAR team won a combined 53 races, two driver championships and one Truck Series owner championship.

Martin Truex Jr. is the favorite to win the Cup Series championship, a status earned by winning a NASCAR Cup Series - best seven races and leading in every major statistical category.

The Cavaliers were getting their championship rings a couple hundred feet away from where the Indians were trying to win their first World Series in 68 years.

(The Indians won that Series in six games, the team's last world championship.)

And Jimmie Johnson doesn't at all resemble the driver who's won a record - tying seven Monster Energy Cup Series championships.

Kevin Harvick ran down then passed Martin Truex Jr. to win the AAA Texas 500 Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, locking himself in the championship playoff round of NASCAR's Cup Series playoffs.

Before James led the Cavaliers back from a 3 - 1 series deficit to shock the 73 - win Warriors, no major sports team in Cleveland had won a championship since the Browns won the NFL Championship in 1964.

There are a combined 158 seasons of World Series championship drought among these four teams, with neither the Astros nor Rangers ever even winning the whole thing — the Cubs aren't the only suffering fan base around here, you know.

The part one of the next series is that having a QB like Foles winning a championship is an outlier compared to the last 20 years of future HOF QBs winning them.

The Astros had a chance to win their first World Series championship in franchise history — a history that dates back to 1962 when they were, briefly, the Houston Colt.45's — but even without a lengthy Rich Hill start, the Dodgers were able to prevent that and force a Game 7.

They played.500 ball for months at a time in 2016, however, and still managed to win over 100 games and eventually, a World Series championship.

The Astros will win their first - ever championship, or the Dodgers will end their near 30 - year championship drought, as their last World Series appearance and victory came back when Orel Hersisher, who last pitched in 2000, was the same age Clayton Kershaw is now.

Even when a California team does not win the U.S. championship or the Little League World Series itself, it's very rare for a California team not to be among the best.

he immediately returns to the 90s and returns to restore the balance of the force with history now correctly reading the atlanta braves dynasty of 26 straight postseason appearances and counting; with 26 world series wins — passing the historic new york yankees with total team championships.

LOS ANGELES — The Houston Astros won their first championship in franchise history, clinching the title with a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.

But tell that to the Dodgers, who have lost 10 postseason series since winning their last championship.

Still The One Trailing 0 - 2 in the best - of - five ABL championship series, the Columbus Quest rallied behind Valerie Still, its 36 - year - old center, to win its second straight title

On the strength of four championships and 93 wins in NASCAR's premier series, third-most all - time, Gordon was considered to be a shoo - in to have his name on the ballot, which was released Tuesday.

MOTOR SPORTS — BRUCE McLAREN won his sixth event of the 11 - race Can - Am Series, the Texas International, and with it the championship, his second in three years.

Truex is the championship leader and leads the series in wins and laps led, while Jones is the top rookie.

He was D4D's Driver of the Year in 2007; in 2009 he he was named Rookie of the Year and became the first D4D driver to win a touring series race in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West; and in 2010 he added a third victory and finished third in the West champioseries race in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West; and in 2010 he added a third victory and finished third in the West champioSeries West; and in 2010 he added a third victory and finished third in the West championship.

He went on to F1 where he won the championship for Williams in 1997, but since leaving the sport he's struggled to commit to any other series.

2017 saw Rookie Lando Norris become the first driver to win the title driving for a team other than Prema since 2010, and the first rookie to win the overall championship since the F3 Euro Series began in 2003.

Langenfeld, a senior first baseman and pitcher at UCLA, hit her third and fourth home runs of the Division I College World Series to lead the Bruins to a 15 — 9 win over Arizona and the national championship.

But as the 2016 edition of the Chase for the Sprint Cup commences this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, there is little talk of Johnson winning a seventh championship and tying Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the all - time Cup Series mark.

That was his last year in single seaters and he then made the switch to endurance racing, where he won the LMP2 class at Le Mans in 2008, as well as winning the LMP2 championship in the Le Mans Series.

Funny enough, even though there are less teams, I think a small market team has a better chance of winning the world series than a non-P5 does the national championship.

In addition to being a former ski racer, Barbara Peterson recently won her sixth Xterra Series triathlon world championship in the Masters division (age 40 +).

The Yankees go on to win the last of their AL pennants and World Series championships to date.

He won a World Series championship with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a player in 1981, and led playoff runs with all four of the clubs he's managed, including a World Series appearance with San Francisco in 2002.

The Thundering Herd (21 - 10) will try to finish their third consecutive season with a win in the final game as Elk Grove, the Division I North champion, will face South champion Tracy, in a rematch of the 2016 SJS Division I championship series on June 2 - 3 at Sacramento City College.