Sentences with phrase «game championship series»

The Regionals are double elimination, the Super Regionals are a best of three series, and the World Series is double elimination followed by a three - game championship series.

A return to a 15 - game championship series, providing additional revenue?

Not exact matches

After Game 1 of the World Series, Schultz went to dinner with his close friend Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who would go on to win the championship and retire.

In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.

A World Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other plans.

Miami showed no sign of playing above a championship level in Air Max 2014 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday, getting beaten 111 - 92 as 4 - point favorites in their first home game of the series.

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.

Watching the Chicago Cubs battle to their first World Series championship since 1908, I sensed my latent sentimental streak for the game's early days returning, so I picked up a copy of Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times.

SOCCER — Following a two - day delay caused by tornado warnings, DALLAS beat Atlanta 2 - 0 in the final game of the best - of - three series to win the North American Soccer League championship.

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.

However, they lost a close game to another 1 - Loss Team, a Team that has championships in its past All Sports Series Leagues.

If Kansas State is to maintain its national championship aspirations, its unpredictable, Tarkentonesque quarterback Michael Bishop (3,150 total yards) must convincingly lead the Wildcats, 11 - 0 but No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series standings, past Texas A&M (10 - 2 and ranked No. 10) in the Big 12 title game at the TWA Dome in St. Louis.

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

During the Tigers» championship season of 1968, he caught 155 of their 162 regular - season games and all seven in their World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

That shot may have clinched the series in a Game 3 the Cavs needed to salvage the remnants of their championship aspirations.

PRO BASKETBALL — The Lakers beat the Celtics 136 - 111 in Game 3 of the NBA championships in Los Angeles to lead the series 2 - 1 (page 36).

The Astros had a chance to win their first World Series championship in franchise history — a history that dates back to 1962 when they were, briefly, the Houston Colt.45's — but even without a lengthy Rich Hill start, the Dodgers were able to prevent that and force a Game 7.

They played.500 ball for months at a time in 2016, however, and still managed to win over 100 games and eventually, a World Series championship.

LOS ANGELES — The Houston Astros won their first championship in franchise history, clinching the title with a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.

On Ashland's first series of the championship game, Gaston pulled and knocked the ball out of Steinman's hands.

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.

We're deep into Game 2 of the College World Series championship series, and Florida and LSU have already delivered on what was a much ballyhooed best - of - threeSeries championship series, and Florida and LSU have already delivered on what was a much ballyhooed best - of - threeseries, and Florida and LSU have already delivered on what was a much ballyhooed best - of - three tilt.

The Thundering Herd (21 - 10) will try to finish their third consecutive season with a win in the final game as Elk Grove, the Division I North champion, will face South champion Tracy, in a rematch of the 2016 SJS Division I championship series on June 2 - 3 at Sacramento City College.

What's more, the same select major events that Grantland Rice and Ted Husing faithfully covered before the war remain preeminent: the Triple Crown horse races, the Indianapolis 500, heavyweight title fights, the Olympics, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournament, the World Series, the bowl games, the Wimbledon and U.S. tennis championships.

And in that year's ABA championship series against Denver, he put together five consecutive games the likes of which no one had ever seen: 45 points, 12 rebounds; 48 points, 14 rebounds; 31 points, 10 rebounds; 34 points, 15 rebounds; 31 points, 19 rebounds.

David Freese, the eventual Series MVP, and Lance Berkman each stroked a game - tying hit when a third strike would have given Texas its first world championship — Freese hit a 1 — 2 pitch for a game - tying triple with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and Berkman tied things again with a single on a 2 — 2 pitch with two outs in the 10th.

Other notable additions to next year's ballot include Andy Pettitte, who won 256 games and was a part of five Yankees World Series championship teams; switch - hitter Lance Berkman, who posted a 144 OPS + in 15 years; and 2002 American League MVP a Miguel Tejada.

The San Antonio Spurs were just seconds away from winning their fifth championship in franchise history before an improbable series of events helped the Miami Heat force overtime and eventually a decisive Game 7.

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Tony Plush sent the Brewers to their first ever NL championship series by hitting the game winning RBI off Diamondbacks closer J.J. Putz in the bottom of the 10th inning.

The inspired, pugnacious Bruins fought their way back from two games down to force a winner - take - all finale against the erratic Canucks in a rowdy and rude championship series.

That starts with the Minnesota Twins each round after their 103 - loss season, and ends with the Chicago Cubs, who won 103 games in 2016 en route to their first World Series championship in 108 years.

Coming up after the NCAA national championship game, we'll start our 2017 - 18 men's basketball player review series, and that will carry us through the month of April pretty well.

The team wound up a banner year with a trip to the American Legion World Series in Fargo, N.D. Arlington Heights lost 10 - 0 to Newbury Park, Calif., in the championship game Sunday night, but coach Lloyd Meyer said the team was still ecstatic about finishing second in the nation.

New York's baseball fan - in - chief counts himself among those who were impressed with Maine - Endwell's victory in the Little League World Series championship game.

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.

New York's baseball fan - in - chief (Gov. Andrew Cuomo) counts himself among those who were impressed with Maine - Endwell's victory in the Little League World Series championship game.

They then lost the first game of the best - of - three championship series to the impressively strong North Carolina Tarheels, but managed to win the next two games and take the three - game series in exciting fashion and clinch the championship.

F1 ™ 2017 is the official videogame of the 2017 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ™, and includes the return of classic F1 cars to the series, as well as an even deeper career mode, numerous multiplayer enhancements, and a brand new «Championships» game mode.

The organizers of the Evolution Championship Series, also known as EVO, has announced the game line - up for their world championship tournament for this year.

By providing such a small selection of racing locales and cars in Forza 5, it feels like Turn 10 is banking on players falling in love with a vehicle, drooling over the interiors, and tuning it up and down the class ranks while taking on the game's various championship series.

Not only do hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May provide humorous dialogue introducing every championship series, but the game also includes Top Gear challenge races.

Set at the titular Horizon Festival, the game asks players to work their way through a series of championships until they've accumulated the roughly 100 race wins necessary to be crowned victor.

Game description: The highly acclaimed PAC - MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION series has finally come to the Nintendo Switch in» PAC - MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 PLUS!»

The championship games of 1903 are considered baseball's first (modern - day) World Series.

George Springer and the Houston Astros rocketed to the top of the baseball galaxy Wednesday night, winning the first World Series championship in franchise history by romping past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5 - 1 in Game 7.

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The fact you can only finish a series by scoring a podium finish in every single race is again a drastic change from the previous Forza games on the Xbox One, to the point where Forza Horizon 2 (a game that, less we forget, uses a mostly impractical music festival as a premise) has a more autosports - authentic championship setup than a Forza release with the term «Motorsports» in its name.

The in - game virtual racing championship will be an ongoing series which will occur on weekends throughout 2015/2016 to coincide with real - life Motorsports events.

Well there is good news for you then as EA has launched the official World Series of Poker game onto Android so you can live out your championship poker dreams... at least with virtual money that is.