Sentences with phrase «months of baseball»

Despite how many teams are in this thing, four games isn't all that much with just under two months of baseball to go.

It has been an exciting few months of baseball with no shortage of storylines and surprises.

There are three more months of baseball to ruin all of these awards, of course.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

We've played a month of baseball, and most of the bad teams have proven that they're unequivocally bad.

So here are the stories we'd be perseverating on after a month of baseball if April didn't exist.

There was a triple play in every month of baseball last season, except for June.

Not exact matches

Later that month, «Poblano» made a dramatic reveal — the man behind the stats was none other than Nate Silver, the wunderkind known to baseball stats nerds as the inventor of PECOTA, a remarkably accurate system for predicting baseball players» future performance.

On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, more than 2 billion users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications (disca), Walt Disney's (dis) ABC as well as live sports like Major League Baseball.

Major League Baseball has marked the start of its playoffs tonight by partnering with YouTube to promote its paid online streaming service, YouTube TV, during the 2017 World Series later this month.

Baseball had a whiff of offense in their air during a cold and wet April, when strikeouts exceeded hits during a full calendar month for the first time in the sport's nearly century - and - a-half history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Baseball had a whiff of offense in their air during a cold and wet April, when strikeouts exceeded hits during a full calendar month for the first time in the sport's nearly century - and - a-half history, according to...

When I say our Baltimore team struck gold in supporting a great cause last month, I am referring to the bowling kind of strike, not the baseball kind or the panning...

When baseball starts in April, we've had five months of imaginary baseball.

There is absolutely no way to make players squeeze an extra month of hyper - competitive baseball in if they don't want to.

They were one of the only teams in baseball to hit November with a laundry list of needs and spend the next few months checking them all off.

Also, note that there's an extra month of postseason baseball, with a third of baseball affected.

[Update 9/27/17] It took more than a month to get final approval, but according to the Associated Press, Derek Jeter and his ownership group have officially succeeded in buying the Marlins, as the rest of Major League Baseball's owners approved them.

Even if the Dodgers get the first crack at re-signing both of them, we're still talking about three months of guaranteed baseball for each.

Superb pitching by two great masters, airtight defensive baseball and the use of all the wiles and stratagems that either team possessed made the fifteen - inning contest yesterday merely a resumption of the hostilities between Washington and Philadelphia that raged for months last year.

Steinbrenner, who still owns 55 % of the team, agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball 17 months ago, following an investigation that found he gave $ 40,000 to gambler Howard Spira.

My prediction: By the end of the month, I'll be watching more minor league baseball than major league baseball because of the wretched play of the major league team.

When the renegade Federal League took the established baseball big leagues to court in a 1915 antitrust action, Landis delayed his ruling long enough that the frustrated Federal League officials — after 11 months of waiting — submitted to a buyout.

By the end of this month, baseball's postseason will have produced its share of memorable moments.

The fallout from the umpires union's ill - conceived 1999 mass resignation continued last month, when an arbitrator in Philadelphia declared that Major League Baseball must take back nine of the 22 umps who lost their jobs.

Last month the officials of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. took note of Allen's mania and appointed him historian as of this April 15.

Baseball has commanded the attention of Americans for more years and for a longer period each year — the better part of six months — than any other sport.

An exciting part of September baseball is watching teams clinch their berths in the postseason and seeing the stories of the playoffs begin to form throughout the month.

Ideally, he would be so good that he would allow his team to play for an extra couple weeks, or even a full month, every season, when the attention of the baseball world would be partially focused on him.

Only a month ago my wife and I had argued over whether Noah should play baseball on the travel team again this fall, only a month after his all - star tournament had ended; argued over how much competition was too much in the making of a kid.

The 2011 MLB Season has been underway for just over a month and, with Sports Insights» MLB Betting Systems currently +24.5 units, this a good time to review the intricacies of betting Major League Baseball.

That means that some poor sap on the Mets would take a baseball to the butt because six months ago, his teammate talked about doing something that isn't out of the ordinary and then actually did it.

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

This bill would raise it to $ 1,160 a month for 40 - hour workweeks, which is far from being enough of a raise to make this worth it, never mind be an actual fair wage for thousands of people who play minor league baseball every year.

The two of them have a deal, though: Olender is McLain's agent in booking appearances at baseball - card shows, and they were scheduled to finally meet at a show this month.

The inclusion of vuvuzela comes after months of exclusion for the annoying noisemaker; since the July Cup final, the horns have been banned by many baseball, football and soccer teams, and recently FIBA announced that they would not be permitted at the upcoming world basketball championships in Turkey.

With contrarian methods in baseball giving back some of the MLB season's gains after the All - Star Break, the Sports Investing Index is down -16.2 % during the month of July.

After a garden variety kind of bad month in August, they peeled out and zoomed past every other team in baseball to finish with the worst record and the first - overall pick.

If I gave in and began negotiating baseball contracts through an agent, then I set a precedent that's going to bring awful pain to general managers for years to come, because every salary negotiation with every humpty - dumpty fourth - string catcher is going to run into months of dickering.

Leo took his passion for baseball and aimed it at his two sons — Steve is 13 months older than Dave — putting them through drills in the backyard of the family's small stucco home in San Jose.

After several months of gains in baseball, the contrarian approach used in the Index — and Sports Insights Square Plays — had a difficult month.

Me, personally, I'm dreading end of May because there's nothing but stupid baseball on TV for the next two months.

Judging by the bagfuls of letters delivered to Barber each month, much of his NPR audience consists of baseball buffs.

After a month of splashing and mud fights both at games and at practice we moved the field away from the sewer so that it included the entire baseball diamond at the other end.

A lot can change in the first month of the major league baseball season... then again a lot can stay the same.

Trend Bet the Cubs run - line Context Chicago has the best record in baseball and the Cubbies have absolutely destroyed the month of August going 18 - 4.

So far this month we have heard from a fascinating range of sports moms, from a mom of an Olympic athlete to moms who were themselves Olympic athletes, from a mom of two former minor league baseball players to a Minnesota hockey mom and author.

My son is two years past the traditional Little League age... he will start his freshman year of high school in two months and he seems light years away from being a 12 year - old playing baseball on the 60 foot diamond.

Mary Kalou, assistant superintendent for business, said Park District officials and members of the Arlington Heights Youth Athletic Association met with school officials last month to propose a baseball diamond and soccer fields at South.