Sentences with phrase «lost the world series»

Even losing the World Series means something, according to Tommy Lasorda, who managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for 20 years (1976 - 1996).

The Senators lost the World Series the previous year when Johnson gave up nine runs in Game 7, which was the last thing fans remembered him for before Opening Day, 1926.

My satisfaction level for a baseball season is as follows: Winning the World Series = 10 Losing the World Series = 5 Losing an earlier playoff series = 2 Losing the wild card game = 1.5 Being relevant in September = 1 Sucking = 0 (Last two years have been 1's.

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.

Although the Royals have been the only team to lose the World Series and come back to win the following season, as a whole, the losers have had more success during their next season.

Bonds couldn't have double - lost the World Series for the Rays.

The Rays lost the World Series, and three of their losses came in one - run games.

So, Sunday night, watching the Mets lose the World Series, I started to feel contractions!

Not exact matches

Last season, the team's patience was rewarded with a trip to the World Series — where they lost to the Royals.

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.

Lest that last sentence get lost in this series of posts, I would like to emphasize that sentence as the key sentence in not only this series, but also in living in a world filled with people.

In this new series, Premier Christianity will be hearing from some of the world's leading sceptics, beginning with former evangelical Christian Bart Ehrman, whose questioning of the Gospel accounts led him to lose his faith

In the attempt to conceive of cosmic unity and influence as a series of all - inclusive prehensions «which loses nothing that can be saved» (PR 346), 4 and then returns to the world what was saved for the world to prehend, close consideration must be given to

God can not be a reality that «simply knows» the truth about cosmic relationships (PS 21:106); God's experience (I) establishes the overall contrasts or relationships not found in creatures, and (2) it retains forever the relationships that the world creates but will eventually lose since every moment and series in the world will forget or die.

After becoming the 2010 Central Division Champions — the Reds» first playoff spot in 15 years — they lost against the Phillies who will go on to the World Series.

The Red Sox never really rebuilt, either, but they lost enough games for them to consider it, and then they won the World Series the next year.

That means he's seen a lot of losing — but enjoyed the Bears Super Bowl win, the six Bulls titles, and yes, even the White Sox World Series title, even though he's a Cubs fan.

He lays off of the second one, at least, but eventually strikes out looking as lost as he has most of the World Series.

It will suck if the Dodgers lose because that would give me another opportunity to scour YouTube and find another commercial from 1988, which is the last year the Dodgers won the World Series.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

Then in 1968, as the team returned from losing in the first round of the NAIA World Series, word was passed down the bus aisle that Sul Ross president Norman McNeil was discontinuing the baseball program.

Darvish had one of the worst World Series any single starting pitcher has ever had, losing two out of the Dodgers» four losses in a seven - game series, and doing it so quickly and emphatically that they never had a cSeries any single starting pitcher has ever had, losing two out of the Dodgers» four losses in a seven - game series, and doing it so quickly and emphatically that they never had a cseries, and doing it so quickly and emphatically that they never had a chance.

Since «48, Cleveland has dropped the World Series three times, lost an ALCS they were up 3 - 1 in when the Red Sox outscored them 30 - 5 over the last three games, and then lost their only other playoff appearance since 2007 in the Wild Card round.

It was just the second time a team scored 12 or more runs in a World Series game and also lost.

The Phillies lost Game 4 of the 1993 World Series to the Blue Jays, 15 - 14.

One player, the sources say, lost $ 5,000 on the World Series.

He won a series of bets during the 1958 World Series, rolling over the winnings until losing a $ 100,000 bet on Game 7 when the Yankees dumped Milwseries of bets during the 1958 World Series, rolling over the winnings until losing a $ 100,000 bet on Game 7 when the Yankees dumped MilwSeries, rolling over the winnings until losing a $ 100,000 bet on Game 7 when the Yankees dumped Milwaukee.

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Harper repeatedly mentioned that Strickland has a World Series ring, and Nats lost the sSeries ring, and Nats lost the seriesseries.

He just finished the final year of a 4 - year contract and the Yankees were just a win away from the World Series this year, losing to Houston in Game 7 of the ALCS.

Only 1 club has ever lost all their first 6 decisions in World Series games: Detroit Tigers (1907 - 08).

His accounts of the World Series resemble intricately plotted morality plays in which the good guys always win — whether by skill, determination or luck — because it would be unthinkable that the good guys might lose in this best of all possible games.

Mays played in four World Series and did not hit a home run in 71 at bats; his team lost three of those Series.

Cleveland's failure to win the World Series last season — it lost to the Atlanta Braves in six games — showed Hart weaknesses in the team that were not so apparent during a 100 - 44 joyride through the regular season.

West - San Francisco Giants - The defending World Series champs took a major hit losing Buster Posey for the year.

They won their first World Series in almost a decade and once again won back the hearts of fans across the country (if they ever actually lost them).

And they lost to the wild card team, the Marlins, who have two World Series rings without ever winning their division, both times plowing through the division - winning Giants to get there.

I cried when the A's lost to the Dodgers in the World Series that year.

The Braves somehow managed to be the team of the «90s in Major League Baseball but still lost four World Series, only winning one.

His last broadcast was Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, which ended with the Indians — true to form — blowing a ninth - inning lead and losing the Series in the 11th inning.

Experienced Dutch international Vlaar may be keen on a possible move to the south - coast club after a hugely impressive series of displays at the World Cup finals though one imagines Paul Lambert wouldn't be keen on losing his club captain.

Options like this will be key for the Royals down the stretch, as they attempt to one - up their 2014 campaign in which they made it to — but lost — in the World Series.

The Astros lost Game 1 of the World Series to the Dodgers despite a solid effort from ace Dallas Keuchel.

It's happened now every season since 2008 «'' even in the three World Series years «'' and we believe they've now lost 15 times in a row with him in attendance.

However, Wrigley saw the Cubs lose the «29, «32, «35, «38, and «45 World Series by a combined record of 20 - 6.

England travel to the Caribbean having lost series» to Australia and New Zealand - the only teams above them in the world rankings - since that Commonwealth Games defeat, before bouncing back with two convincing wins over Malawi in December.

Nigerian - born former England striker, John Fashanu, says Nigeria has lost its weight in world football following series of poor performances at international competitions.

The team wound up a banner year with a trip to the American Legion World Series in Fargo, N.D. Arlington Heights lost 10 - 0 to Newbury Park, Calif., in the championship game Sunday night, but coach Lloyd Meyer said the team was still ecstatic about finishing second in the nation.

The series Through The Ice, Darkly currently on show at the Peggy Notebaert Museum as part of the Weather To Climate exhibition is specifically about the subjective change in the landscape, the shift of mood apparent to an artist's eyes, a lost ice world.

Although losing in the World Series is hard, we can take pride in the fact that the Mets played with heart and determination and represented Queens and all of New York City in an exceptional manner.