Sentences with phrase «vanarama national league»

A season ago, Kemp led the National League in home runs, runs and RBIs, swiping 40 stolen bases in the process and nearly winning the Triple Crown.

By reaching the.500 mark (71 - 71) for the first time since early June, the Phillies are now just four games behind the St. Louis Cardinals for the second Wild Card spot in the National League.

Dickey led the National League in strikeouts and became the first knuckleballer to ever win the Cy Young this season.

Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu has said Barcelona's board will have to consider the option of leaving the national league in the event of Catalonia's split from Spain.

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

In particular, he remembers watching Astros third baseman and former National League MVP Ken Caminiti weep into a woman's arms.

4) «Embrace the target» After getting to the National League Championship Series in 2015, the Cubs» goal for 2016 was nothing short of winning the World Series.

I also ended up playing in national league volleyball, so I travelled every weekend throughout the country to play.

So much confusion has been caused by our football team wearing the same name as the Boston National League baseball club... that a change appeared to be absolutely necessary.

The Dodgers defeated the Nationals, 4 - 3, and they're moving on to the National League Championship Series, where they'll face the Cubs.

I'm pretty comfortable believing the pitchers who appeared in the Pacific League from 1992 to 2000 are, at the very least, as talented as the pitchers who appeared in the National League from 1963 to 1971.

Without another move, they were going to have the lowest payroll in the National League East, behind the Marlins and Braves.

A National League curfew forbids starting an inning after 12:50 a.m..

Led by Avery's bravery, second - place Atlanta last week seized momentum in the National League West by chopping 3 1/2 games off the Giants» lead in six days to close within four games, the closest they have been to San Francisco since May 29.

Sutton are used to facing fellow Non league and national league sides week in week out, not a club with the history of Arsenal FC.

OBIT Sirs: Now that the American League has so thoroughly humiliated the National League champs in the abbreviated 1966 World Series, let it spell an end to the hard - sell promotion of National League play at the expense of the AL..

Buzzy Bavasi, Brooklyn vice president, telephoned Warren Giles, National League president, in Cincinnati.

Arguably the best team in the National League....

Half a century ago the Chicago Cubs dominated the National League.

They emerged from the National League ahead of 14 other teams because they were better than those 14 teams.

Probably because they were the deepest team in the National League, the one with the most talent.

They've finally cobbled together a young rotation, and they have one of the better lineups in the National League already.

Or, to put it another way, Ichiro would have had at least as many hits in his early 20s if he's facing the 1960s National League pitching.

Obviously there is a vast difference in quality because we are seeing a major Premier League team coming up against a side that was only promoted to the National League last season.

But comparing Olympic teams is hardly like matching up the National League East, in which everybody has 25 players and 81 games, home and away.

Buckner had annoyed Oakland fans earlier in the week by comparing the A's unfavorably with such National League also - rans as the Pirates and the Reds.

All of the above applies to Castro, who is hitting.114 /.250 /.205, which is worse than 29 different starting pitchers in the National League.

Sirs: Either the Orioles are the greatest team in the history of baseball or the National League simply is not as good as some people would have us believe.

The Cubs will have the National League ERA - leader pitching, and they'll have a Cy Young candidate available in relief for as long as it takes.

As I'm sure most of you will be aware, Arsenal have been drawn against National League side Sutton United in the 5th round of the FA Cup.

Mostly, though, I reject the idea that the Japanese leagues are some sort of third - tier league compared to the National League of the»60s.

BRAD LIDGE had just sandblasted the Cardinals, throwing two shutout innings to save the Astros» 5 — 2 Game 3 victory in the National League Championship Series last Saturday at Minute Maid Park, when Houston pitching coach Jim Hickey was asked about Lidge's availability for the next day.

«The National League is so much better.

Danny Litwhiler, onetime outfielder in the National League, now Florida State University baseball coach, hit seven home runs in seven tournament games depite a broken hand, sparked his Tallahassee, Fla. team to the state slow - pitch softball title.

The Phillies would get the first chance to claim Bellinger because they have the worst record in the National League, which is the league of the team placing him on waivers.

He was the National League's Most Valuable Player in» 61, with the Reds, and the American League MVP five years later, with the Orioles.

BASEBALL — AMERICAN LEAGUE ALL - STARS evened the score in 1959 All - Star competition by beating National League 5 to 3, at Los Angeles.

The 2016 National League champions, with a chance to light a century of pain on fire.

On Monday, I shared the only possible ballot for the National League All - Star starters.

Kyle Hendricks will start Game 3, almost like an afterthought, as if it's no big deal that he won the ERA title in the National League.

In the National League especially when you only carry a 4 man bench, position flexibility becomes very important too.

The Chicago Cubs had the best double - play unit in the National League, year in and year out, during the»30s.

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.

The Cardinals» Todd Zeile, who played more innings than any other National League third baseman last year, was sent on Aug. 10 to Triple A Louisville, where he is trying to regain his swing.

1955 looks like the Year of the Slugger in the National League as the Dodgers shoot for an all - time homer record

The Giants» Matt Williams, regarded as the National League's best third baseman last season, has had a miserable year.

Through Sunday he was leading the National League in hitting -LRB-.340) and RBIs (84), and with 25 home runs, was two off the league lead.

Patek, who used to play in the National League, said that instead of plumping for interleague play, the majors should adopt interleague umpiring, just to even things out.

There are five teams out of 30 that are going to start the season without a ton of hope, and they're all in the National League.

The rest of the National League should be scared.