Sentences with phrase «games behind first»

Sitting six games behind first place, it's important to keep history in perspective.

Despite its sudden reversal, Cleveland was only 6 1/2 games behind first - place Baltimore.

The last - place Rangers were 17 games behind the first - place Mariners.

The Bullets roasted Chicago 108 - 102, Detroit 119 - 110 and Philadelphia 100 - 97 for their eighth, ninth and 10th wins in 13 starts, but were still 6 1/2 games behind first - place Philadelphia in the Atlantic Division.

Although the Cavs currently project as the 4th seed in the conference and are 10.5 games behind the first - place Hawks, they are actually a +240 favorite to win the NBA Championship and -140 to win the Conference Title at 5Dimes.

Although that puts them just 1.5 games behind the first - place Orioles, it also puts them just 1.5 games ahead of the last place Red Sox.

A year removed from a 3 — 13 finish and fielding the league's youngest roster (average age on Sunday: 25 years, 295 days), Tampa Bay is 7 — 3 and a game behind the first - place Falcons in the NFC South.

Don't look now, but the Celtics are one game behind the first - place Philadelphia 76ers, the very same team they will meet on the back end of a back - to - back on Wednesday night in Philly.

Not exact matches

When you were making the very first Mortal Kombat game in 1992, what was your thinking behind it?

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.

The first part of its name — Riot — might be more commonly associated with Riot Games, the development studio behind League of Legends, one of the world's most popular video games.

Though almost three windows of 90 days have passed since Manchester first started letting locals know last summer that he wasn't built to sit behind a desk and run a newspaper enterprise, Burnham's group hasn't gotten that commitment in this cat - and - mouse game of selling and buying, which Manchester is handling himself, sans broker.

I was there with Dada for the fourth game, on October 9, 1966, sitting twenty rows or so behind first base.

Now that you know your wood sorrel from your sea buckthorn, it's time to get on a first - name basis with yet another game - changing Scandinavian chef: Christian, as in Christian Puglisi, the Sicilian - born, Danish - reared mind behind the Michelin - starred Relæ and Manfreds & Vin.

This was obviously suicide tactics and our weaknesses were immediately exposed as Edison Cavani put us behind in the first minute of the game.

With our new attacking line - up of Ozil, Aubameyand and Mkhitaryan, with Ramsey behind them, they should need less support from the wing - backs but even if they have trouble getting on the scoresheet our focus should be on keeping clean sheets first and foremost in our away games.

I feel comfortable in this assessment because when I first read about the young girl at Yankee Stadium, I was watching a baseball game from behind a protective net.

Everton match was the first time in TWO YEARS Wenger's team came from a goal behind to win a game.

Despite missing the first six games of the season due to last year's infraction, Atterberry has also stepped up, and his 13 assists rank as second-most on the team, and in the league, behind only Petcu (14).

In the first game Oliva, using the same old stance, hit a home run, but the Red Sox again came from behind to win, scoring four runs in the eighth inning.

They are the first team in MLB history to come from behind in a five - game series and win.

Behind a 6 2⁄3 - inning outing that included only two hits and no runs, Cleveland took the first game of the ALDS from New York by a score of 4 - 0.

Barcelona, behind quarterback and likely MVP Jon Kitna, won the WLAF first - half season title, which means that the Dragons will host the championship game.

The first was the ball game, which they won 4 - 0 behind Denny McLain, who is beginning to look like the 20 - game winner of last season.

They have possession of the second wild card spot, and are a half - game behind the Dodgers for the first one.

Three weeks after they were 13 1/2 games behind the Dodgers, the Reds suddenly were only 6 1/2 out of first.

Take a behind - the - scenes look before San Francisco hosts the Bears in the stadium's first regular - season game on Sunday

15 mins into d game, i felt we can really take some revenge of d 8 - 2 defeat, 30 mins into d game, just score a goal before d first half ends, second half begins just score man, do it stop passing around, 56th minute we go behind (i don't wan na use any excuses for dat goal), den giroud replaces Ramsey and we commit forward and d danger of conceding a 2nd on counter is d first thing dat comes to my head, 86th min, di Maria breaks free and every one puts dere hope on monreal, but Rooney scores, 2 - 0.

Elneny is closer to the first team than I'd like, he's rightfully behind Aaron Jack and Xhaka depending on needs, but they should be the midway buffer to Elneny's game time if you ask me.

There is still the possibility that Leicester and Tottenham could lose every game from now on, but for the moment we are just 3 points behind Tottenham and getting above them must be our first target.

Green Bay played from behind the entire game, with New York striking on the first possession, moving the ball 67 yards down the field for a 31 - yard Lawrence Tynes field goal.

Derrick Henry burst through on third - and - short, nearly stiff - armed someone from behind, and raced 50 yards for the game's first score.

But if with 5 games to play we will be within reach of the first and second place then... well, just to remind you that we were 12 points behind Manure in 97 and we beat them at Old Fartford.

The young Brazilian winger, who can also play just behind the main striker, has not yet played a competitive game for the Gunners» first - team since joining from Fluminense all the way back in 2011 as an exciting prospect for the future.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly have went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win for Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier has denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly had went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win to Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier had denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

There is a definite upswing in the belief going around the Arsenal squad though, as reported by Sky Sports reporter Patrick Davison after he was given rare behind the scenes access to the dressing room as Arsenal prepare to face West Ham on the first game of our season.

He's totaled 1,170 yards in Pittsburg's first five games, the fourth - highest total in the state through the first five weeks and second in the North Coast Section behind Moreau Catholic - Hayward's Jullen Ison (1,318).

I hope we don't try to play the defensive game because they are dangerous in and around our box, they were unlucky not to score one or two more goals in the first leg at Emirates and if they find their confidence with home advantage and their fans getting behind them it could be curtains for us, i don't think they will allow us the same space as they did last week so lets take the game to them early and keep the ball in their half with high possession,

Yesterday was his first taste of the big local derby against Tottenham and he wasn't overawed by the big game atmosphere — in fact he loved the way the fans got behind the team even when we went behind.

A cleansheet is a must and scoring first, because in all home games we have played, we have come from behind.

Spurs could have their own tough test tonight against Bayer Leverkusen and they are by no means certain to qualify from their group as they are second with just four points from the first three games and with the Germans just a point behind them.

starts by dropping points on the first game and end up being 10 points behind by the end of November with the #wengerout banner coming out just before alexis goes on a free to psg... I mean I can see this all the way from Africa.

It was his first 3 point make of the game, so can you blame Stevens for letting his guys allow him that shot from a foot behind the line?

watching my team against Ireland yesterday even tough we won i wasn, t impressedit, we only start playing with purpose when we go behind and when we, re in front we slow down our play, i thought koscielny had a decent game with a couple of good clearance and his job was made more difficult by adil rami who is a burden on the team and always one mistake away, giroud can, t be blamed for his first half performance the guy was starved of any service and it, s only when griezman was moved to his favourite position that giroud started making the difference what a great assist, by the way shane long dived for the penalty but that, s ok we are square now with the irish we had henry, s handball & they had the penalty!!

In his first year, the Cardinals went 6 - 6, before rapidly improving to 9 - 3 the next year (with a loss in the Beef O'Brady's Bowl) and 10 - 2 in 2013, finishing one game behind Northern Illinois for the division crown.

First a loss at Burnley put them six points and a game behind Chelsea, virtually ending their hopes of defending their title and almost dragging them back down into the mess below.

It also helps the players and the fans to settle into the game and allows the confidence to spread, which is why Arsene Wenger has been making such a big point of it to his team after the first half of the season saw us fail to make our possession count and saw us often having to come from behind.

Just watched MOTD and paused the game at the part where Giroud put the ball in the net in the first half which was given offside, well I've just checked it over and over about 10 times and the Watford number 2 played Giroud onside, he was level when the ball was played but the Lino didn't see him because he was directly behind OG, we should of been 1 — 0 up in the first half.

Well im not in a wonderland he has his failings as we all do and great teams find a way to win good teams sit where we are 6 -5-4 but thats besides the point and it would be nice if your aunty had bolocks cause then we d be second but ive watched the games were an offensive team most the time although were terrible in the pissing rain but for the most part the game plans have worked weve created chances quality scoring chances one after the other problem is for me the finishing unless we sit back with 9 man behind the ball or ten when you push forward you will give up a goal if you lousy forwards fail to finish the set ups have been there this year but our strikers have failed to kill the games if we create quality chances and grab leads in the first 60 minutes like we have for the most part and in those games those games should of been killed even if we give a goal or two alongside the strategy but we failed to hit multiple should be goals we tried laca we'll see abou auba although hes a bit lazy so far but we'll see but we've lacked that quality in front goal a player the chances have been there im looking at the failure of the strikers and maybe that is his fault but monreal has scored as many goals recently as our strikers and thats sad our defenders or a midfielder will score and our stikers cant tally one in th first 60 mins of a game alongside them then were tired for last 40 give them hope there still only down one and we rue our missed chances while they push thats where iv been frustrated with this season not the tactics but the finishing