Sentences with phrase «major league games last»

Third: Alburquerque is three full seasons removed from his last bananas strikeout rate, and he appeared in two major league games last year.

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While zooming through three levels of the minor leagues last season, Snider batted.275 -LRB-.349 OBP,.480 slugging) with 23 home runs and 91 RBIs.After a late - August call - up to the majors he hit.301 in 24 games and now saysthat playing in the big leagues was «easier than I thought.»

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

• Until last week Met outfielder Vince Coleman had six intentional walks in 990 major league games — and only one since 1988.

Unfortunately for us fans, no league has locked its players out as often as this one over the last two decades — 1,698 regular - season games lost, more than major league baseball, the NBA and the NFL combined.

Last season he had personal major league lows in home runs and RBIs, and at one point in September he got so fed up that he refused to enter a game as a pinch hitter.

Last Wednesday, Giants» pitcher Matt Cain tossed arguably the greatest game in the long and storied history of Major League Baseball.

Keuchel is 9 - 0 with a 1.67 ERA in 11 starts for Houston this season, but last pitched in a major league game on June 2.

A rugged, no - frills league in the Last Frontier State has funneled almost 400 college players to the majors and kept fans in Fairbanks up late each June with its quirky Midnight Sun Game

Although Ramos was sacked by Spurs just before the first anniversary of his appointment and left them bottom of the Premier League table after eight games of the 2008 - 09 season, he is still the last manager to guide the White Hart Lane club to a major trophy, having lifted the Carling Cup in February 2008.

No major trophy for 13 years and counting Last time we even saw a QF in the CL was a whopping 7 years ago We almost never challenge for a major trophy Wenger couldn't even get close to winning the league even when all rivals finish below him Wenger keeps picking a weak starting XI, especially for really tough games Wenger loves keeping rubbish players at Arsenal for as long as possible

The Colombian international is also a big - game player, netting in the Europa League final victory over Dnipro last season, and based on recent form it looks fair to say he would be a major upgrade on Balotelli and indeed on the Reds» other options in attack, with players like Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini also struggling, while Daniel Sturridge has had some injury concerns in recent times.

The Braves tied a major league record last week when they ran their streak of games with at least one home run to 25.

And with 27 RBIs in his last 24 games, tying him with Andres Galarraga of the Colorado Rockies for the major league lead with 140 for the season, Belle could be excused for asking, «Is it hot in here, or is it just me?»

Today, in London alone there are 380 soccer fields, and the attendance last season at games played by teams of Great Britain's four major leagues was more than 34 million — more than twice as many as attended major league baseball games in the U.S. this year.

Toronto finished ninth in the majors in runs per game in 2016, after leading the league last year.

But it's going to take 100 victories to win the NL West, and the Astros, 81 - 81 last year, aren't that good yet — not with a shortstop (Andujar Cedeno) who spent half of last season in the minors, a leftfielder (Luis Gonzalez) who hit only.243 and a catcher (Eddie Taubensee) who has played in just 130 major league games.

Interviewed afterward by NBC's Sandy Koufax and by Dizzy Dean, who had been the last 30 - game winner in the major leagues, McLain called Tiger fans — you'll enjoy this — «the world's greatest.»

He last appeared in a major - league game in 2011, when he was 39 years old and briefly on the Rays, and since has spent his time in South Korea, the Dominican, and the farm systems of the A's and Cubs.

The Braves blew a major league - high nine games last year with a lead going into the ninth inning.

World football has gone from strength to strength in the last couple of decades, specially the club game in Europe has been on the rise since the developments in 1992 when most of the major league around Europe More...

Going into Tuesday's game against Real Madrid, the major theme was whether or not Juventus could gain revenge for their 4 - 1 loss in the UEFA Champions League final in Cardiff last June.

Arsenal were top of the Premier League at the turn of the year, but their title hopes have since faded with their home form a major contributing factor - they have collected 14 points from their last eight games at the Emirates Stadium.

They come into the game on top form having won seven and lost just one of their last nine Premier League matches, and despite the fact that QPR caused a major upset in their last game by winning 1 - 0 at Chelsea everything suggest they are worthy odds - on shots for this.

Throughout last season, Sky Sports subscribers enjoyed in - game clips of Premier League goals and other major incidents exclusively by logging into our app.

Roberto Di Matteo's men have not faced any of the major sides in their league games so far and were held 0 - 0 in their last away game at QPR before struggling to beat Stoke 1 - 0 at Stamford Bridge.

KEY FACT: Apoel are winless in their last 13 Champions League games, drawing MATCH ODDS: Spurs 2/7 Draw 9/2 Apoel 11/1 ANDY SAYS: Spurs win, without many major issues... 3 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: This won't be a classic, narrow Spurs win... 2 - 0 SILKY SAYS: Spurs should win this with relative ease... 3 - 1 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Spurs leading at half time @ 8/11 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Davinson Sanchez is in the top - 100 and less than # 1

Smith, who plays for Arsenal ladies, last game was in her club's 301 win over ASD Torres in the Champions League, however Powell is prepared to gamble on the fitness of the striker and take her to what will be her sixth major tournament.

There was speculation at the end of the season as to whether Rooney had played his last game for the club, coming on in the final stages of the UEFA Europa League final in which United beat Ajax 2 - 0 to lift the trophy, the only major honour United had not won in their illustrious history.

One of the greatest fears shared by major - league pitchers — and hitters — was realized at a spring training game in Surprise, Ariz., last Wednesday night: Aroldis Chapman, the fireballing Cincinnati Reds closer, was hit flush in the face by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez.

Also, they played so long before Robinson that no one in the stadiums was alive the last time an African American man appeared in a Major League game.

Since Rocket League debuted on the Playstation 4 and PC last year the game has become a major smash hit that has redefined sports like Soccer and made them fun in a brand new way.

Last week's Major League Baseball All - Star game on Fox drew 11 million.

The NFL started streaming games last week, ESPN will start live streaming Major League Baseball games, and the NBA is in negotiations to stream local games.

When all 30 major league teams support Marjory Stoneman Douglas High after last week's mass shooting by wearing MSD baseball caps before their first spring training game — with the option of also wearing them during the game — it will be a little different for the Marlins.

Major League Baseball players will honor victims of last week's shooting in Florida by wearing Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hats at spring training games this week.