Sentences with phrase «championship series last»

But over the last four years, Cox has replenished the farm system — the Braves» top three minor league clubs all played in league championship series last year — and in the off - season he sought to improve the major league club's offense with the three AL imports.

Not exact matches

What you really think is that you've already seen more than enough of that woman and her boring husband, and that even if next Friday weren't the opening game of the NBA championship series you still wouldn't want to be with them — not for any reason, not under any circumstances, not if they were the last people on earth, not in a million years.

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.

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.

He has spent the last two years managing in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, at Lansing in the Midwest League in 2011 (where he led the team to the championship series before losing) and at Dunedin in the Florida State League in 2012.

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

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 last one came after the World Series, when Carlos Correa proposed to his girlfriend Daniella Rodriguez after giving Houston its first 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.

Reduced role or not, there was Abdul - Jabbar on the floor with 14 seconds left in a do - or - die Game 6 of the championship series against the Detroit Pistons last season.

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

A couple of weeks ago the WEC announced that the next season would be a «super season», running for 15 months across 2018 and 2019 as the series seeks to re-align its calendar so that the Le Mans 24 Hours can be the last race of the championship.

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.

Bowyer hopes his breakthrough mirrors Truex, who after snapping his streak in 2013 began a career resurgence that culminated with him capturing the Cup Series championship last year.

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

Only eight years removed from their team's last World Series championship, Twins fans have replaced their Homer Hankies with white flags, essentially surrendering the season before it begins.

Last season the Sixers lacked a dependable shooting guard and experience at center, and as a result they lost to Los Angeles in the championship series.

This series is a rematch of last year's Finals, where the Sparks took home their third championship in franchise history in dramatic fashion.

Honestly, the game was directly reminiscent of last year's Finals Game 5, which had one of the best endings to a championship series of all time.

The 2017 season had been over for about 30 minutes last month when Brad Keselowski, one of title eligibles who fell short of beating Martin Truex Jr. in the championship finale, rationale explained why the 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series season presented significant hurdles to himself and other Ford - powered drivers.

You know 1907 is a long time ago, but to make it feel that much longer ago, remember that the last Cubs» World Series championship came a year after that start.

Last year, Busch was in a similar position and claimed his first series title by outdueling Kevin Harvick for both the race win and championship.

The Brit is taking the step up to Formula 2 after winning last year's Formula 3 championship to go with his Formula Renault 2.0 NEC, Toyota Racing Series and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 titles.

LG Kathy Hochul's official Twitter account got ahead of itself last night, congratulating the Mets on beating the Cubs and advancing to baseball's championship series when the deciding game still had more than an inning to go.

The winners were series regulars and 2004 championship runners - up Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli, who have been joined this year (and when they won at Daytona last summer in the Paul Revere 250) by Emmanuel Collard.

Launched at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, AMR amplifies and accentuates the sporting prowess of the British marque's road cars, by taking inspiration or direct influence from Aston Martin Racing's participation in the FIA World Endurance Championship; a series with which the marque tasted world championship success with factory drivers Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen just last season.

Engelhart races with Konrad Motorsport in Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, while Ineichen is also a Konrad team fixture as the reigning B - class champion in the German Porsche Carrera Cup — a series in which Engelhart finished second in the main driver championship last year.

Larbre claimed the GT1 Le Mans Series title with the DBR9 in 2006, proudly continuing an unbroken series that has seen the team win a major sports car championship every year for the last seven seSeries title with the DBR9 in 2006, proudly continuing an unbroken series that has seen the team win a major sports car championship every year for the last seven seseries that has seen the team win a major sports car championship every year for the last seven seasons.

2012 saw BMW on the championship podium after two decades away from the DTM series, and last year's season had its successes, as well.

In the last season that # 101 raced, 2008, the car was run in four race in the European Le Mans Series achieving three firsts and a third but missed out on championship victory by a single point.

Audi team driver Lucas di Grassi — who nearly won the championship last season — says that all this new manufacturer competition makes a «big difference» for why he races in the series.