Sentences with phrase «lost pennant»
One year when the Cubs lost a pennant - clinching game, he said, «Too bad we couldn't have had a victory.
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If they tighten their defense — especially around second base — the odds are good that they can regain that lost pennant.
Sirs: When are you going to stop worrying about how the Phillies lost the pennant and start writing about how the Cardinals won it?
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As the entire internet has well observed, the Mets pennant now (in 1969) looks forward to the Miracle Mets, who after notching losing records in every season of their existence, abruptly won the World Series.
This was a travesty, a caricature of baseball in which an exciting pennant contender got to play only half a game under adverse conditions and lost by only one run.
He is a shrewd, practical businessman named George Weiss who would like to win the pennant but won't be too disturbed if his team loses this year
For example, Georgie Porgie, as Boston Red Sox manager Jimy Williams calls him, just elevated his vice president of player development and scouting, Mark Newman, over his general manager, two - time American League pennant winner Brian Cashman, because Cashman lost two arbitration cases last winter.
The Dodgers hadn't won a National League pennant since 1920, and they lost the World Series that year in part because of an unassisted triple play.
You just can't go around talking about pennants and losing ball games to the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Tigers rode Rodriguez and Magglio Ordonez to the AL pennant just three years after losing 119 games.
And as Braves manager Russ Nixon puts it, «Pennants can be won or lost by benches.»
Jan 04,2016... The New York Yankees lost eight games in a week and once again changed a runaway into a pennant race...
Blowing an opportunity to gain in the pennant race, Milwaukee lost three games to the Giants and Dodgers in four hectic days
But in his last six years he won 129 games and lost only 47 (with 25 - 5, 26 - 8 and 27 - 9 seasons), gained five straight ERA titles, took the Cy Young Award three of four years and pitched four no - hitters, including a perfect game, in leading the Dodgers to three pennants.
He played seven innings against the Cubs in a losing effort that mathematically eliminated the Cardinals from the pennant race on September 24.