Sentences with phrase «first national league»

The Amazins played with true grit, determination and heart — trademarks of every New Yorker — in clinching their first National League championship since 2000.

Besides, how good does the bullpen have to be when the Braves, with a talented starting rotation of young workhorses, have a shot at becoming the first National League team since the 1923 Cincinnati Reds to have three 20 - game winners?

He was the first National League player to lead the majors in hits and stolen bases since Honus Wagner in 1908, and the first NL player to lead the NL in batting average and steals since Jackie Robinson in 1949.

• Tony Gwynn, who became the first National League player since Stan Musial to bat.300 or better for 10 straight seasons.

On June 21, 1964, in New York, he pitched the first National League perfect game since John Montgomery Ward had one in 1880.

Not exact matches

Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

Abbott is so dominant that in a league that squeezes 18 players under a $ 150,000 salary cap, she just earned the first $ 1 million contract in National Pro Fastpitch (NPF).

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.

The National Hockey League will become the first professional sports league to offset its entire operating carbon footLeague will become the first professional sports league to offset its entire operating carbon footleague to offset its entire operating carbon footprint.

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.

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 waLeague, which is the league of the team placing him on waleague of the team placing him on waivers.

My only fear is that the first match after national duty is alway difficult for Arsenal to win but what is involve in this game will make Arsenal players to work hard to destroy Old traford and come with the required three point that will put us in competing for the league

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.

First baseman Paul Goldschmidt is one of the leading candidates for MVP, hitting.307 /.413 /.583 with 36 home runs, and he has been joined by midseason trade acquisition J.D. Martinez to form arguably the best 1 - 2 punch in the National League.

The England midfielder, who has also earned his first call up to the national side in two years, believes that the club had always made the Europa League a major target.

St. Louis» Stan Musial, as reliable as an old shoe, hammered first 1958 home run and single against Chicago Cubs (April 17) to break National League record for total bases, added 3 homers.

At week's end San Francisco, which finished last in the National League West in 1995 and»96 and whose Opening Day starting lineup included four newcomers, was in first place with a 27 - 20 record.

But there is a new behemoth in the National League Central in the Chicago Cubs, who captured their first World Series championship in 108 years on Thursday night.

Furious pennant races used to be the exclusive property of the National League, but last week the action was in the American, five teams whaling away at one another, each with reason to believe it could be first in September.

They've stormed their way into a fast October start, though, taking the first two games of the National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, following an 8 - 5 win in Game 2.

The Braves were unbeaten in four games, the rest of the league was staggering, and horrible visions of another 1955, when the Dodgers won 10 straight and 22 of their first 24 to turn the pennant race into a shambles, danced before the National League'sleague was staggering, and horrible visions of another 1955, when the Dodgers won 10 straight and 22 of their first 24 to turn the pennant race into a shambles, danced before the National League'sLeague's eyes.

The National League player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league aLeague player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league aleague at bat.

But Mark Trumbo, who led the majors with 47 home runs in 2016, remains unsigned, as does former Brewers first baseman Chris Carter, who tied for the National League lead with 41 home runs.

Brooklyn Dodgers got off to flying start in National League, won first six games, thumped Pittsburgh Pirates 6 - 1, 6 - 0, 10 - 3, 3 - 2, edged New York Giants 10 - 8, 6 - 3.

Jimmy Skinner, Red Wings» first - year coach who brought Detroit through to two - point edge over Canadiens during regular season for seventh straight National Hockey League title, accepted congratulations on his feat, wearily commented: «I'm tired and I want to take a bath.»

Of course it is still a reach to say the Mustangs, from a two - bid league, with a first - year head coach, in the same region as the defending national champions and pre-season favorites, can get to Glendale, but I haven't seen a more worthy team with that number next to their name in a long time.

Gary Sheffield entered the season's final week with a shot, albeit a slim one, at becoming the first Triple Crown winner in the National League since 1937.

Pittsburgh lost first five games, found itself in familiar last - place spot in National League standings.

At the end of the year he was voted the Golden Glove as the best defensive catcher in the league (the first rookie to win it) and made the player - selected Sporting News national all - star team.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

«It was my first ever goal as a goalkeeper,» Sørensen said and remembered how he once saw Danish national goalie Frederik Andersen, who today plays for Anaheim's AHL affiliate Norfolk Admirals, score a goal in the Danish league.

He hit the first home run for Cincinnati in the National League, and he hit the first home run with the bases loaded for Cincinnati.»

HOCKEY Montreal Canadiens kept lead in National Hockey League as Rookie Henri Richardrapped two goals in 6 - 0 whitewash of Chicago Black Hawks after Boston Bruinshanded Canadiens first loss of season 3 - 2.

The first game of opening day features what is left of the Miami Marlins, who traded their entire outfield — reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, and Marcell Ozuna — plus second baseman Dee Gordon in the offseason after the team was sold for $ 1.25 billion.

Four million dollars a year to a guy who's probably the slowest first baseman in the National League?

In the National League, Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright (8 - 3, 2.32 ERA) was listed as the favorite back when we first posted these odds back in early June.

This season Bryce Harper (+200) opened as the favorite to be the first back - to - back National League MVP since Albert Pujols (2008 - 2009).

For instance, Monday night after the first game, barring snow, cold weather or rain, either the Cincinnati Redlegs or the Chicago Cubs will be in first place in the National League — since the rest of the teams in the league do not start play until the next day and will therefore remain in a faceless six - way tie for second place overLeague — since the rest of the teams in the league do not start play until the next day and will therefore remain in a faceless six - way tie for second place overleague do not start play until the next day and will therefore remain in a faceless six - way tie for second place overnight.

The longtime Houston Astros first baseman hit.297 /.408 /.540, a 149 OPS + in his 15 - year career, and finished with 449 home runs, 488 doubles, and was the 1994 National League MVP.

As the end nears, the NFL has turned into the NFL — the National Arithmetic League — and the American public is holding its breath as Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas Eve.

He began at Davidson as a slightly - built player's son, exploded as a national mid-major star, blossomed into a sensational young NBA shooter, and finally peaked to nearly everyone's surprise as the league's first - ever unanimous MVP.

Fresh off becoming the record goalscorer for the England national team in midweek, Rooney will be looking for his first Premier League goal in 10 games and scoring against the Merseyside outfit would be perfect for the former Everton striker.

During the 1997 MLB season, teams from the American League and National League competed in regular season competition for the first time in the long and illustrious history of Major League Baseball.

The Nationals outfielder was the first overall pick in the 2010 MLB Draft, and made his big league debut just two years later in 2012.

Switching to pro football from the college game he has covered so long is Dan Jenkins, whose first story on his new beat is a wry look at the 26 National Football League coaches (page 82).

In 1903, as a member of the National League's Beaneaters, Pittinger became the first pitcher to lead his league in six negative categories — losses (22), runs allowed (196), earned runs allowed (136), hits allowed (396), home runs allowed (12) and walks allowed League's Beaneaters, Pittinger became the first pitcher to lead his league in six negative categories — losses (22), runs allowed (196), earned runs allowed (136), hits allowed (396), home runs allowed (12) and walks allowed league in six negative categories — losses (22), runs allowed (196), earned runs allowed (136), hits allowed (396), home runs allowed (12) and walks allowed (143).

A student at St. John's College (now Fordham) in New York City, Bellan became so adept that in 1871 he played infield for the Troy Haymakers in the inaugural season of the National Association, the first professional league in the U.S..

LOS ANGELES — What a difference two weeks made for Yasiel Puig, who has helped energize the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first two games of their National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks.