Sentences with phrase «series game we won»

«I go back to the first Series game we won,» he says.

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Entering Wednesday afternoon's game against the visiting Baltimore Orioles, the Kansas City Royals are one win away from going to their first World Series since 1985.

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Looking at the Toronto Blue Jays this season, the team has seen the highest attendance tally for its first three home games since 1994 — the year after the Jays won their second World Series (not counting years with weekend games, because they always draw larger crowds).

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.

Notre Dame is winning the trash - talking battle with the series of racy shirts, but the last thing Notre Dame needs is to provide a feisty Crimson Tide team and fan base with any source of motivation before the game.

And his team has consistently responded, winning games and a playoff series it wasn't supposed to win, at least according to fans or odds makers.

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.

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«The blue team, they came from behind, they won three straight and they won the series just like the blue team is going to win on Oct. 19,» he told a crowd of hundreds at an event for Stephen Harper Wednesday night, minutes after the Jays won the game.

And on return to Baltimore, the Birds won Game Three of the Series with Dada and my brother John in attendance.

The Los Angeles Angels joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961 and have since gone on to win 10 American League Western Division Championships, host three All - Star games and capture the 2002 World Series Championship.

Luis Sojo got what turned out to be the game - winning RBI for the Yankees in Game 4 of the 2000 World Sergame - winning RBI for the Yankees in Game 4 of the 2000 World SerGame 4 of the 2000 World Series.

The Cubs won their first World Series game in 71 years, 5 - 1, and they used the help of a beefy metaphor to do it.

New York took control of this series with its win in Game 5, but to avoid Game 7 on the road, the Rangers will need to lock things up on Saturday.

The Thunder, led by Kevin Durant, won Game 4 of the Western Conference finals 109 - 103 to even their series with the Spurs 2 - 2.

The oddest part is that 29 out of those 35 series ended with the losing team not winning a single game.

Because while the Dodgers won the Division Series, they might still have to play 14 more baseball games before the season is over.

The Red Sox never really rebuilt, either, but they lost enough games for them to consider it, and then they won the World Series the next year.

The 28 - year - old's return to prominence after an awful 2002 - 03 season is the main reason the Sharks, who held a three - games - to - two lead in their second - round series with the Avalanche after a 2 - 1 loss last Saturday, were one win from the Western Conference finals.

Even the Padres have won a World Series game.

After splitting the first two games of this series in Montreal, the Canadiens put together a dominant performance in a 3 - 1 road win in Game 3.

He is tied with Jean Beliveau for most goals in a single playoff series (12 goals in nine games in 1944); he scored three goals or more in one game seven times; he scored 18 winning goals (6 in overtime games).

The real proof will be next year when the Celtics should be picked to win almost every game / playoff series they play.

Dating to the beginning of last season, the Avs have won three straight home games in this series, limiting the Jets to exactly two goals in each victory.

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.

If Rinne keeps playing like this, the Ducks are going to have to up their game to win this series after getting outshot, 46 - 29.

The Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers have put up big offensive numbers through three games of their first - round series — two of which required overtime — but it's the little things that have made the difference in the win column.

The Cubs hadn't won a World Series game since any of them existed, though, and that counts for all the bonus points.

The celebration of Chris Carpenter, Big - Game Pitcher is based on the rigthanded workhorse that was: a pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World Series.

Last year the Cubs had the best record in baseball (103 - 58), had home field advantage, with the Dodgers coming off a grueling five - game series win in Washington D.C.

Two days ago, the Nashville Predators star player made a pretty bold claim: the Predators would come home, down 2 - 0 in the series, and win Game 3 over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

But he had never won a Series game.

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.

Bettors could take Anaheim and / or LA at +175 to win the series and also give themselves a chance to hedge going into Game 5.

A goalie two years removed from winning the Vezina Trophy watched the first 100 - plus minutes of his team's opening playoff series from the bench, while his three - year backup was tabbed to ride his 10 - game hot streak into the biggest games of his life.

Winning Playoff games in All Sports Series is no joke however and that is something this team can build upon for the 2014 Madison League.

It's the first time since 2005 (DAL - HOU) that the road team has won the first 4 games of a series.

The Spurs were sizable favorites to win the series -LRB--265) but a horrible Game 1...

Anyways, all this crew led by Captain Allison «Reggie Bush» Mazurek did in their first ever week in All Sports Series was get the maximum amount of points allowed in volleyball by winning 6 games but they also shut - out Team Lewis (Rory & Co..

It's an interesting spot for bettors if they like either team in Game 4 — both are listed at -110, but both are also listed at +175 to win the series.

The Predators got another big road win in Game 2 and improved their probability to advance in the series by more than 20 % (from -160 to -450).

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.

For Team Pulfer, they did something that many Teams have failed to do in any of the All Sports Series Leagues — they won a Playoff Game.

Chicago came back to win Game 6 and look to have some momentum heading into the final game of the serGame 6 and look to have some momentum heading into the final game of the sergame of the series.

And yet, Rozier has posted 46 points on 47 percent shooting with exactly zero turnovers in the first two games of the series, both of them wins for the Celtics.

The Penguins made the biggest jump with their Game 3 win, moving from -130 to -380 to win the series.

The Red Wings got a big home win to narrow their series from 2 games to 1.

Teams that take a 3 - 0 lead in seven - game NHL playoff series have gone on to win 204 out of 208 times.