Sentences with phrase «last game of the series»

Justice won the last game of the Series with a home run.

With this being the last game of the series, I can appreciate that they wanted to wrap things up their own way.

Was Sayanara Umihara Kawase (+) truly the last game of the series?

Not exact matches

Microsoft (msft) is reportedly developing «the Netflix of video games» and last year Hulu commissioned four original series about online gaming competitions.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

Other GoFundMe campaigns have raised money for Olympians in need of money to cover travel and expenses related to last year's Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, and for Chicago Cubs fans who wanted to attend a World Series game.

Notre Dame is winning the trash - talking battle with the series of racy shirts, but the last thing Notre Dame needs is to provide a feisty Crimson Tide team and fan base with any source of motivation before the game.

Last year's NBA Finals — in which the Warriors defeated the Cavaliers in six games — averaged roughly 20 million viewers per game and the series reportedly earned ABC more than $ 223 million in advertising revenues, which means this year's seven - game series likely earned the network an even greater haul in terms of ad revenue.

Ratings for last night's game were the highest for an NBA Finals matchup since 1998, when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls posted a 22.3 rating in the final game of their series with the Utah Jazz.

Cable ratings for Sunday have yet to be released, so it remains to be seen if HBO's massively popular series Game of Thrones was able to stand up against the NBA's season - ender, though it is also possible that last night's very poorly - timed outage for HBO Now — the premium cable channel's paid streaming service — could have sent at least some viewers over to ABC for the end of the Cavaliers - Warriors match - up.

Last night's ratings were also up 7 % from the most recent Game 7 of an NBA Finals series, in 2013, in addition to easily beating out already strong ratings from earlier games in this year's NBA Finals, which saw just over 20 million viewers tune in for Game 5 last wLast night's ratings were also up 7 % from the most recent Game 7 of an NBA Finals series, in 2013, in addition to easily beating out already strong ratings from earlier games in this year's NBA Finals, which saw just over 20 million viewers tune in for Game 5 last wlast week.

As an inveterate Boston Celtic fan, idolatrous in my fanatic devotion, I watched the first game of the Championship Series against the Lakers last night, overjoyed that my team had made it this far, saddened by their expected loss.

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.

Last year, not long after selling his game to Microsoft for $ 2.5 billion, the creator of Minecraft sent out a series of telling tweets:

Nevermind that in the last episode of this Game Day Eats Series, I said we weren't competing this year.

These two teams were separated by only one point during the regular season, and the difference between them has been razor thin over the last few seasons, with Montreal holding a slight edge of 12 - 10 in the previous 22 games in this head - to - head series.

Thornton, 37, played the last four games of the Sharks» first - round playoff series against Edmonton after missing the first two.

Dating to the beginning of last season, the Avs have won three straight home games in this series, limiting the Jets to exactly two goals in each victory.

The celebration of Chris Carpenter, Big - Game Pitcher is based on the rigthanded workhorse that was: a pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World Series.

The Tigers are part of a huge batch of SEC East teams that return a vast majority of last year's contributors, and their fate will be determined by a series of relative tossup games.

It's not a coincidence that in the crucial last two games of the series against Brooklyn the team thrived as he did.

Tickets will be discounted for the series at Miller Park and due to last minute staffing issues because of the change, attendance will be capped at 10,000 for Friday's game and 23,000 for Saturday and Sunday.

The Flyers have won four of their six playoff series, including a six - game triumph over Pittsburgh in the first round in 2012, their last playoff meeting.

But perhaps the tone of the series will change in San Antonio, where the Spurs are 11 - 0 SU and 10 - 1 ATS over their last 11 games.

As if Rangers fans didn't have enough of a heart break watching last nights heroic game 6 of the World Series,...

England will be looking to make the most of their first fixture on home soil in what is the last fully - capped game if the series before taking on Scotland in a development game.

The fact they sacked Guidolin means the «new manager effect» will be coming in and I expect a really tough game, because we usually crumble after we build up a good series of wins, and last season was another example of that.

Aldridge had his horrendous game at the beginning of this series and then put up 34 and 12 last night, so no one will ever mention Game 1 aggame at the beginning of this series and then put up 34 and 12 last night, so no one will ever mention Game 1 agGame 1 again.

Last weekend Pittsburgh moved into Milwaukee for a scheduled three - game series, the first of at least two dozen crucial ones that should pop up this year, and the picture began to change.

Manning's place in the game can not be argued, but he is 36 and missed all of last season thanks to a series of neck surgeries.

The Cavaliers had previously beaten Virginia Tech five straight times in Charlottesville and had won 10 of the last 12 games in the series overall.

Finally, it was the year that the pivotal game of the World Series was won after the last out was called.

had his horrendous game at the beginning of this series and then put up 34 and 12 last night, so no one will ever mention Game 1 aggame at the beginning of this series and then put up 34 and 12 last night, so no one will ever mention Game 1 agGame 1 again.

Last April in Buffalo's chilling seven - game series against the Washington Bullets, McAdoo averaged 37 points and 13 rebounds with highs of 50 and 21 in one game.

Whether the suspension in Game 3 last series got into his head or simply threw him out of rhythm, we'll never know.

After getting a taste of the postseason last year — the Athletics put a five - game scare into the Yankees in the American League Division Series — the best team $ 40 million can buy (or rent) wants the whole enchilada.

After Detroit's victory in the final game of the World Series last October, celebrants outside Tiger Stadium hurled rocks and bottles, fought with police and burned and overturned cars.

It's a longjourney from a year ago, and yet the Galaxy, which last won the MLS title in2005, realizes there's an even bigger step to take, starting on Sunday in thefirst game of the two - game first - round series against L.A. rival Chivas USA.

These clubs have split their two - game season series each of the last four campaigns (since Detroit moved to the Eastern Conference).

Matt Murray held the Predators scoreless through the last 123 minutes of the series, and the only time he was beaten in Game 6 was on a call blown dead because the referees lost sight of the puck.

My Playoff prediction right on track... I hoped this series would go 7 and the last game would go 7OT periods so that either one of these teams are too gassed for the next series

Over the last four years, this series has produced the best sports video games of all time.

If there was a symbolic changing of the guard, it occurred in Game 5 of the Florida - Boston playoff series last spring when Bill Lindsay, a winger with nice but not blinding speed, beat Bourque to the outside, cut in and scored the series - winning goal from his knees.

But Toronto was thoroughly better than Boston last season, both in the regular season (actually challenging for the No. 1 seed, eight games ahead of Boston and three other teams) and in the playoffs (where the Raptors, you know, won a couple of series).

It was their third straight victory in this series, but all three of those games were played on Phoenix's home floor; the Thunder have won their last 12 home contests against the Suns.

Since moving to South Carolina last year, Mazzone has cut back his radio appearances to a 10 - minute morning call - in once a week and before the first game of every Braves series.

But manager A.J. Hinch remained confident in the slugger, and Springer responded with three hits in Game 2, including a double and the game - winning home run, and he homered in five of the last six games of the serGame 2, including a double and the game - winning home run, and he homered in five of the last six games of the sergame - winning home run, and he homered in five of the last six games of the series.

i flew up to the last series up here; we swept a four game series and my wife and i ended up on tv standing in a section of braves fans doing the chop.

ROOKIE HOPES: Promising group, but help for World Series team is expected only from Infielder Foster Castleman who spent last half of»54 with Giants, played only 13 games.

Second, the final games of the WS should be scheduled for the last weekend in October, all Fri - Sat - Sun play - off games played during the day, and the first round of the play - offs expanded to a best - of - seven series.