Sentences with phrase «games of a playoff spot»

Through Sunday, with seven weeks remaining in the season, 15 of baseball's 28 teams were either in first place or within 5-1/2 games of a playoff spot.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the ninth seed would host the 10th seed, with the winner of that game facing the loser of the 7 - versus - 8 matchup for the final playoff spot»

They will compete against whoever lands in the # 2 spot when the Playoffs begin in a non-Elimination Game and the Winner of that Game will go to the Championship!

That 6th spot is very crucial in terms of the Playoffs as the teams seeded 7 - 10 will have to win an extra game to hold the crown at Season's end and in a Single Elimination Playoff setting you don't want extra games.

Being that we are now over the 60 % mark of the Regular Season and with six regular season games remaining, now is the time to kick it into high - gear, grab some W's and secure those top Playoff spots!

Alabama is at -1000 to make the playoff, and they look to be assured of a spot even if they lose a regular season game.

Time of Death: Ryan Fitzpatrick drove the Titans into Indianapolis territory on their last drive of the game, but his last throw was picked off, essentially locking up a playoff spot for the Colts.

The Jazz are now just a half - game ahead of the Houston Rockets for the No. 7 seed in the West and 3.5 games ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers for the final playoff spot, so dropping a third straight game could really hurt their postseason chances.

At 15 - 21 through week's end, the Kings were only four games out of a Western Conference playoff spot and showing newfound resilience under coach Eddie Jordan.

We're all well aware of the phrase 6 - pointer and the match taking place later this evening will be exactly that for both of these two sides, currently sat in 4th and 5th respectively, as both will be looking to secure their playoff spots at this pivotal point in the season with just eight games of the 46 remaining.

Utah's now one game out of the West's final playoff spot with one game to go after topping the Wolves on Monday.

1st 20 games, (Stars had not fully picked up the D - system), 2nd set of 20 games — starting to get the D better, gaining confidence, 3rd set of 20 games (gaining more confidence, in a playoff spot), and 4th set of 20 (10/10 WTH just happened).

The Rangers are only four games back of the second wild card spot as things stand right now, with only a 5.9 % change of making the playoffs, but if they have any hopes of making it that far Beltre playing is obviously more ideal that him not playing.

There was a flurry of repetitions when Russ Hodges, ordinarily a somewhat phlegmatic sportscaster, gave his on - the - spot report of Bobby Thomson's «miracle of Coogan's Bluff» home run in the Dodger - Giant playoff game in 1951: «The Giants win the pennant!

Boucher started the final 13 games for Philadelphia in 2010 to help them make the playoffs, Jonathan Quick started 20 of the final 21 games for the Los Angeles Kings when they tried to make a furious push to make it in 2015 and Kari Lehtonen could be counted on to play the final nine games of the Dallas Stars» season now as they claw for a spot.

LA Galaxy have won 13 of the 19 games in which he has either scored or provided an assist, and he's scored a league - best 12 goals against teams in the playoff spots.

Despite being one game under.500, Miami is just one game back of the final playoff spot in the AFC.

They've won their last two games against Atlas and Leon, and a third straight win could leave them within touching distance of the top eight playoff spots.

The Diamondbacks, owners of a six - game lead over Colorado for the first Wild Card spot, can clinch a playoff berth as early as Sunday, with either a win or losses by both the Brewers and Cardinals.

In their 18 games so far, only six of their opponents currently occupy playoff spots, and only three have a top - 10 offensive rating.

They were without Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol and had lost six of their last eight games to fall behind the Detroit Pistons in the race for the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

They need to hope the Bulls either fall out of the playoffs or hang on for the eighth spot — they're only a 1.5 games behind the Pacers for the seventh seed.

A reader that day would have known only that the hometown Royals trailed first - place Cleveland by 19 games, though the more salient fact was that Kansas City was only one game back of three teams in the loss column in the race for the wild - card playoff spot.

The Sooners» decision to schedule tough out - of - conference games at Houston and at home against Ohio State ultimately cost Oklahoma a spot in the College Football Playoff.

I mean it's good that the schedule is coming out but I am not gonna sit there and watch 3 hours of coverage explaining why a Packers / Giants game in week 5 is pivotal when we haven't even reached the draft, or why the Rams will be in a good spot to make the playoffs by week 10.

A Top 2 spot is huge for a few reasons: 1) Those 2 teams essentially get a Bye to the Elite 8 of All Sports Series, 2) they also get to play each other in an Opening Round Hoops game where the Winner gets to pick their side of the bracket for the Remainder of the Playoffs.

Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference's last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks — but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won't hold up against the other one - loss teams under consideration.

Both teams have been at or near the top all season long and it is only fitting that they have both Clinched a spot in Top 2 Hoops game in the Opening Round of the Playoffs before the Regular Season even finished up.

Elsewhere, the Nuggets, winners of seven straight games, have moved past the Grizzlies in the standings for the fourth spot in the playoffs, a huge development because of how powerful the Nuggets» home - court advantage (read: sea - level) is.

As the College Football season winds down, almost every game becomes a potential elimination game with a number of teams vying for a spot in the first ever four - team playoff.

Buffalo then moved to within four points of Quebec for the last Adams Division playoff spot with its eighth win in nine games, 5 - 3 over Hartford.

He's played in 78 or more games in each of the five seasons leading into this one, though he slipped on a wet spot and missed two weeks in the 2016 playoffs.

With the possibility of franchising within the next year or so in North America, keeping an LCS spot could be as valuable as any playoff game this split.

After beating No. 9 Detroit on Saturday, the Heat entered Sunday holding the eighth and final playoff spot — four games ahead of the Pistons and just 0.5 games behind No. 7 Milwaukee, two games behind No. 6 Philadelphia, 2.5 games behind No. 5 Indiana, three games behind No. 4 Washington and 3.5 games behind No. 3 Cleveland.

Denver is playing like they deserve a spot in the post season with a 4 game winning streak and all of those wins were against playoff teams.

This has all the hallmarks of a «trap game» that could easily go south for the club, and wouldn't it be just like Leeds to drop points against Hull when the club has a chance to get back into the playoff spots?

Zack Snyder took to Twitter to drop this dark new TV spot for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, tagging it in connection with the NFL Playoff games (during which it will be shown).

With Thursday's win, combined with another Columbus loss, Florida snuck within striking distance of a playoff spot with three games in hand.