Sentences with phrase «minor league wins»

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Quirky customs and homespun promotional strategies help this minor - league baseball team build a winning brand in its community.

A player, up and down on the minor league shuttle, is suddenly doing great things for a new team that's unexpectedly winning their division.

Europa League is not Minor We should play strong team in that If Mourinho had that attitude, he would not have won it.

Although Arsenal fans are 99 % certain that the Gunners can not qualify for the Champions League by finishing in the Top Four of the Premier League and our only remaining hope is to win the Europa League and sneak in the back door, like Man United did next season, it would appear that the Boss thinks his team need to win against some «big teams» before we can consider winning the minor European trophy.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

The Gunners can now only win a trophy in the two minor competitions of the league Cup and the Europa League, and we will need to get a result at Chelsea on Wednesday to give us our best chance oleague Cup and the Europa League, and we will need to get a result at Chelsea on Wednesday to give us our best chance oLeague, and we will need to get a result at Chelsea on Wednesday to give us our best chance of all.

Up from the minor leagues to win jobs in the big time come a handful of promising youngsters who may be fun to watch in» 59

Even if, and I do not for a minute think that we will be this lucky, the injury problems picked up by Santi Cazorla, Laurent Koscielny and Alexis Sanchez during the draw at Norwich turn out to be minor, and they are able to play for Arsenal again soon, I firmly believe that our chances of winning the Premier League title this season hinge on the January transfer window.

In last September's Triple A World Series, someone told Vancouver's Terrence Long that a minor league official had allegedly said the Canadians didn't have enough hitting to win.

... Braves general manager Bobby Cox won a major power struggle last week, removing pitching coach Johnny Sain, manager Chuck Tanner's man, and replacing him with minor league instructor Bruce Dal Canton.

With arguably the best minor league system in all of baseball, it's not surprising that the Cubbies are projected to win an additional nine games this season.

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

It would take a minor miracle for Arsenal to finish this latest round of EPL games on top of the Premier League race, well it would need Manchester United to win their derby game with Man City while we beat Everton, and if our rivals draw we would need to put seven past the Toffees to go above City on goal difference.

Going to be tough to win this series, what with the Pirates starting minor - league pitchers in two of the games.

Herman had just one Web.com Tour win in a combined 224 starts on that minor league circuit and the PGA Tour, but now he's headed to the Masters and has a two - year exemption on the most competitive tour in the world.

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.

Arsenal surely have to win the competition now to ensure they can get back into next season's Champions League as it would take a minor miracle for them to break into the top four now.

But now, with just six League games to go, he has finally admitted that we are unlikely to make up the 13 point gap to fourth place and he will now go all out to win the minor European trophy as our only hope of getting back into the UCL next season.

Gibson had played for the Trotters during one minor league off - season, but the team's clowning — and patsy opponents — didn't wear well on a man so zealous about winning.

He lives and dies by the minors, loves going to minor league games and watching the young guys win and develop.

We all know the win loss record of our minor league teams means nothing but in his point of view (which I agree with) at least one of our affiliates will be non-competitive for a while due to lack of warm bodies.

At 43, he is young and comes from a winning family: His father, Max, pitched in three World Series during a 14 - year career (1938 - 53); Hal played with only one sub -.500 team, the»73 Yankees, during his 10 - year career, was minor league Manager of the Year while with Springfield in 1980 and coached in two World Series for the Cardinals in the past five years.

According to reports the Arsenal and Germany international Mesut Ozil is currently carrying a minor injury and that is why the play maker has not featured for the Gunners since the win over AFC Bournemouth in the Premier League, almost a month ago now.

GAA & Shinty Former Northern Ireland international Norman Uprichard played Gaelic football as a teenager and won a minor league medal with St. Peter's - however he was banned by the GAA before he could receive his medal because he had signed for Glenavon!

Manchester City are still without a loss in the Premier League this season on their way to 20 wins and 2 draws, and they bounced back nicely last game to beat Watford 3 - 1 after a minor blip with Crystal Palace in Week 21 (0 - 0 draw).

The 35 - year - old sustained a minor calf problem during the second - half of the Gunners» 5 - 1 win over Everton in the Premier League last weekend, and this has potentially put him at risk of missing out on his first top - flight game of the campaign.

After seemingly getting themselves back running well in the league, Arsenal picked up minor set backs as they haven't won in their last three games in the Premier League following their 0 - 0 draw against West Ham this mileague, Arsenal picked up minor set backs as they haven't won in their last three games in the Premier League following their 0 - 0 draw against West Ham this miLeague following their 0 - 0 draw against West Ham this midweek.

We heard from a fascinating range of sports moms, from a mom of an Olympic athlete to moms who were themselves Olympic athletes, from a moms of former minor league baseball players and NCAA Division 1 basketball players to a Minnesota hockey mom and author, from a sports nutritionist to an award - winning health and safety reporter.

The extraordinary real - life story of Jim Morris (Quaid), who, twelve years after dropping out of minor league baseball because of an injury to his pitching arm, is inspired by the young men on the championship - winning high school team he coaches to fulfill his own dream and try out for a professional team.