Sentences with phrase «back of a wild card»

They are just five games back in the AL East and 2.5 back of a wild card spot, so it's not ridiculous to think they might end up rolling that boulder up and over the hill before the season is out even with their problems.

They woke up on Wednesday morning 68 - 71, riding a five - game losing streak and a 1 - 9 record in their last 10 games, six games back of a wild card, and trailing the Mets and Pirates.

At the actual deadline: Eight games back of the Wild Card Currently: Eight games back of the Wild Card What they would have done differently: Nothing, apparently

The A's are 19 - 23, five games back in the AL West and four games back of a Wild Card spot already.

Not exact matches

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

Games back of second wild card Leading the second wild card by one game, and they're tied for both the AL East and the first wild card with 24 games left.

Odds of reaching the postseason 4.7 percent, which sounds low until you remember that they were down to a 2.9 - percent chance of winning the Wild Card Game in 2014 and a 1.6 - percent chance of coming back to win Game 5 of the ALDS in 2015.

It's just that the Astros find themselves 2.5 back of the Rangers and half a game out of a wild card spot, and upgrading to Bregman might be what tips the scales in their favor for at least one of those postseason opportunities.

The Seahawks attempted to keep pace with the Falcons and Buccaneers in the NFC Wild Card race in a matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have surged to take control of the AFC Wild Card after back - to - back wins.

This matchup marks the second time these teams have met in the postseason, the first of which was back in 1996 during the AFC Wild Card Playoffs with the Jaguars winning, 30 - 27.

The Colorado Rockies, winners of the second NL Wild Card spot, are back for the October dance for the first time since 2009 and just one season after an 87 - loss campaign.

To make things that much more complicated, over in the AL, there are six teams bunched up like that in part because just.001 points of winning percentage separate the Orioles and Blue Jays in the AL East — the Red Sox hold the second wild card and are just two games back of the division lead themselves, and the only way the O's and Jays both end up with a wild card is if Boston leapfrogs them for the division.

They're 17 - 21 and already 4.5 games back of the AL West leaders, the Mariners and Rangers, as well as the second wild card.

The Rangers are only four games back of the second wild card spot as things stand right now, with only a 5.9 % change of making the playoffs, but if they have any hopes of making it that far Beltre playing is obviously more ideal that him not playing.

The problem is that the team Stanton is coming back to is in a far different situation than the one he left: On August 14, the day they lost Stanton, the Marlins were 61 - 56 and a half - game out of a wild card spot.

The Yankees aren't out of things yet — even with the injuries and the disappointments, they sit just 3.5 games back in the AL East and are currently half a game up on the Twins for the AL's second wild card.

After the 8 «Äì5 Ravens put themselves in prime position for a wild - card berth — bam — they have to face a pair of division champions, the Colts and the Steelers, on the road on back - to - back Sundays.

At the actual deadline: Two back in the AL West, four games up in the Wild Card Currently: 7 1/2 back in the West, 3 1/2 back in the Wild Card What they would have done differently: Panicked in the middle of the slide and made a huge move

They are 6.5 games back of the Mets in the NL East, and at nine games back are effectively out of the wild card race barring a miracle.

Powered by the prodigious power of giant human Giancarlo Stanton, Miami vaulted back into Wild Card contention after the break.

After the night's action, the NL Wild Card race sits at Colorado in the pole position, Milwaukee 1.5 games back, and the Cardinals 2 out of it.

The Rangers are now tied with the Angels at 2.5 games back of the second Wild Card spot thanks to their 4 - 2 win over Seattle.

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New York is still four games back of the Red Sox in the AL East with eight to play, but assured of at least a Wild Card berth.

The Angels continued their losing skid with a fourth loss in a row (thanks to the Indians continuing their hot streak), putting them 2.5 games back of the Twins for the second Wild Card after Minnesota absolutely crushed the Tigers 12 - 1.

Chicago was 7.5 games back of the Diamondbacks, who held the second of the two NL wild cards.

Gonzalez, a middle - of - the - order bat who hadn't homered since his debut game with the Dodgers last month, hit solo shots in the third and seventh innings as Los Angeles remained three games back of the last Wild Card spot.

That plan created its own set of challenges, and so now we're back to a late Sunday finish, well after the final Wild Card game is done.

It's a rematch of last year's AFC Championship and a potential playoff preview, provided the Broncos fight their way back into the wild card picture.

A reader that day would have known only that the hometown Royals trailed first - place Cleveland by 19 games, though the more salient fact was that Kansas City was only one game back of three teams in the loss column in the race for the wild - card playoff spot.

The Blue Jays are five games back of the second AL wild card, the Tigers six back, and they have six and seven teams ahead in between them, respectively.

While that's mostly because the American League wild card race was exceptionally sloppy and hilarious, there was still that hope in the back of the mind of the most optimistic Tigers fans.

Through most of July, they were four or five games back of the second wild card spot.

Of those who didn't start the match against Reading, Knockaert is the wild card most likely to find favour in Pearson's plans in the Premier league while one might expect Liam Moore to challenge strongly to be first choice at centre back when he is a year older and more experienced.

Davide Zappacosta could be a bit of a wild card for Chelsea and while there have been no links with Chelsea, the 23 - year - old is highly - rated in Italy and is also — more importantly — a right wing - back.

Following the Producers» Guild's surprise coronation of «The King's Speech» last week, the next two days could help level the race — most are favoring «The Social Network» to fight back with a DGA gong, but the SAG Awards are more of a wild card.

This all takes place within the space of two weeks, and that's some dramatic licence, even if Goran Ivanisevic was a wild card when he came back from injury to win Wimbledon in 2001 - but he had previously been world Number Two.

When it works, the movement in the game can be a lot of fun, but it always seemed like whenever I got some momentum going, I'd end up getting stuck on an object or in a wall, or fall into a pit of water (touch water twice in a row, and you drown — sending you back to a checkpoint), or the evil Wild Card boxes will appear seemingly out of nowhere to slow you down with their blast of sound.

Last week the actor apologized for a homophobic rant he unleashed back in 2015 on the set of the film «Wild Card»

Freeman brings his sage wisdom and gravitas, Caine is the suave gangster with dry British wit, and Arkin (who oddly starred in the similarly themed Stand Up Guys a few years back with Al Pacino and Christopher Walken) is the boisterous wild card who gets all of the biggest laughs.

The wild card of the cast is undoubtedly Zac Efron, because despite the actor's dogged determination to shed his «High School Musical» image with more adult roles, he's yet to really prove that he has the talent to back it up.

Set back, relax and enjoy a quick game of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, which is an online multiplayer free - to - play trading card game (TCG) that was given birth after the overwhelming popularity of the mini-game initial version of it found in The Witcher 3: Wild HCard Game, which is an online multiplayer free - to - play trading card game (TCG) that was given birth after the overwhelming popularity of the mini-game initial version of it found in The Witcher 3: Wild Hcard game (TCG) that was given birth after the overwhelming popularity of the mini-game initial version of it found in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Robot Rescue is a bit of a wild card, because I actually did play it back when it was relatively new.

Florida entered Thursday seven points back of Columbus for the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference with three games in hand.