Sentences with phrase «games against minors»

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MSU cost Louisville a trip to play Notre Dame in the women's title game and a shot at minor redemption against Penn State in the NIT.

If low variance Alex Smith has played below expectations (possibly far below) twice against this PIT team and still came so damn close to winning the game both times, then you know your best chance at winning comes with Alex Smith and minor changes that put him in a better position to meet expectations and / or convert just one of those missed chances.

But wenger did not name Sanchez in the squad against our title rivals, and after the game Le Prof revealed that Alexis had had a «minor setback» and would now miss the busy Christmas period but would be ready for the New Year games which was expected to start with this weekend's cup game against Sunderland.

Evgeni Nabokov, a holdout last season, again played like an elite goalie; center Patrick Marleau, who had three goals against the Blues, replicated his 28 - goal regular season (tying Cheechoo for the team lead); forward Nils Ekman, previously a journeyman minor leaguer, chipped in 55 points while playing fewer than 15 minutes a game.

While he appeared to be over what looked like a minor shoulder injury, Luck admitted in 2017 that the shoulder problems he's still struggling with first started with that September 2015 game against the Titans.

FC played a minor role in his first 4 or 5 games coming off the bench before making his first start, against WH I think — there was none of the panic hinted out in the general hysteria on here.

-- Indians top prospect Trevor Bauer (4 - 1, 2.15 ERA for AAA Columbus) has been promoted from the minors and will start today's game against Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers.

Minor League Baseball has had a pitch clock in place since 2015, and there hasn't been any kind of mass revolt against attending MiLB games.

He was scheduled to pitch against them last Saturday, but they hid him away in a minor league game and sent Chris Rowley to start instead.

The Germany international is currently recuperating from a minor knee injury which saw him miss the games against Chelsea and Brighton and Hove Albion prior to the international break.

Sanchez has missed the Premier League outings against both Leicester City and Stoke City due to his minor injury, but Wenger expects him to feature in the game at Anfield, he said: «If all goes well through the week, he should be available to be selected for the next game, yes.»

The team news coming into today's game is good news for Spurs after Pochettino confirms their centre - half Toby Alderweireld is returning to the squad after recovering from a minor back problem leaving him out of their 2 - 1 win against Burnley.

How sad and frustrating that a minor offence had him yellow carded against Montenegro and thus ruled out of the England game at Wembley.

The obvious candidates for omission are goalkeeper David de Gea, who didn't feature in Lisbon a fortnight ago, with Danish keeper Anders Lindegaard set to deputise once more, 32 - year - old centre - back Rio Ferdinand, who didn't have a particularly good game against Stoke at the weekend and has a minor knock, and possibly Darren Fletcher, who hasn't played an awful lot of games since Christmas.

After seemingly getting themselves back running well in the league, Arsenal picked up minor set backs as they haven't won in their last three games in the Premier League following their 0 - 0 draw against West Ham this midweek.

Playing against a real person, the strength of the pitcher - batter face - off carries the game; playing alone, you're more likely to send this one down to the minors before the end of the season.

When a string of murders is linked to night baseball games at the Astrodome, it's Seaver (a former minor league player) pulling together clues and racing against time to prevent yet another murder.

It was the first game of the season for the minor league team Reno 1868 FC, who played against the Swope Park Rangers.

PEGI (the rating system used in Europe) has rated the game PEGI 7 for minor «non-realistic violence against human like and fantastical characters.»

The offline modes do reveal the game's minor inadequacies, however: team AI can be flaccid and unreliable, especially against tougher opponents, and the same simplicity which makes Rocket League immediately playable can cause things to get repetitive when played alone; a criticism that only becomes apparent precisely because it's so damn addictive.

While some groups have argued against an R18 + rating trying to reduce the chance of violent games ending up in a minor's hands, with an R18 + rating, parents may take notice what games they buy their children.

Perhaps it was unfair to put minor Zelda games like Hourglass up against powerhouses like Ocarina and Past, but that's Hyrule polling justice for you.