Sentences with phrase «first pennant»

The job was completed in time for opening day in April, 1976, and the Yankees celebrated their return by winning their first pennant in 12 years.

Houston beat the Yankees in Game 7 on Saturday to win their first pennant since 2005.

The good old days for the Phillies were in 1950, when Manager Eddie Sawyer led the club to its first pennant in 35 years.

Not exact matches

Pennant previously owned over 8.15 million shares of MTW as of the end of the first quarter.

The most amazing thing about this year's amazing American League race is the fact that the Chicago White Sox, who haven't finished first since 1919, are going to win the pennant.

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.

Pennant, 35, has certainly suffered something of a fall from grace after looking something of a wonderkid during his Arsenal days, when he scored a memorable hat - trick on his full league debut against Southampton, though he never managed to maintain a first - team place.

In 1949 the Saints won the pennant — their first since 1938 — and the hated Millers finished far back in fourth.

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.

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's eyes.

The short version: They were a team that could score, and they needed to develop pitching for the first time since winning the pennant last decade.

• 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.

TEAM RUN - SCORING ABILITY The first - place Braves» low percentage of base runners scoring and the seventh - place Dodgers» high percentage prove it takes more than run production to win a pennant.

THE OUTLOOK: With better pitching than last year, Cardinals could certainly make first division, possibly threaten for the pennant.

Baseball 1960 will be remembered as the year Ted Williams retired with a Frank Merriwell flourish and Stan Musial didn't; the year the Pittsburgh Pirates won a pennant and made the oldtimers happy by hitting behind the runner; the year the New York Yankees took a.001 lead into the second week of September then vigorously won the race with 15 straight and a record number of home runs (193); and the year nice guys Warren Spahn, Pete Runnels and Dick Groat finished first.

The two biggest factors in the Cubs» surprising turnaround last year were rookie outfielders Jerome Walton -LRB-.293, 24 steals) and Dwight Smith (52 RBIs in 343 at bats), the first position players from the same team to finish 1 - 2 in the Rookie of the Year voting since Fred Lynn and Jim Rice did it for the 1975 pennant - winning Red Sox.

Kyle Hendricks will take the mound for the Cubbies in his first appearance since tossing seven and a third shutouts innings against the Dodgers to clinch the National League pennant.

In 2005, he led the White Sox to their first American League pennant since 1959, and their first World Series win since 1917 with a 4 - game sweep of the Houston Astros.

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It has staffed a college center, the school's first, filling it with T - shirts and pennants from colleges around the country.

The pennant is often the first thing you see when you open up a pdf of chart patterns.

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Oh my creative juices are flowing... a pennant banner, quilt (one for my little girl and small one to match for her dolls)... that is what keeps coming to mind I would love to do first.