Sentences with phrase «of pennant racing»

Carlo Ancelotti at AC Milan will no doubt remember these qualities from that night in Athens in 2007, Claudio Ranieri at Juventus has memories of Pennant racing down the wing in a Leeds shirt back in 2004 and Juande Ramos imagines Aaron Lennon but with crossing ability.

But when the best part of the pennant race is to look up every night and think, «Say, I guess the Yankees are inching closer after all,» it's probably not a great race.

Sounding only a little bit like a man whistling past a graveyard, seven of the National League's finest teams spent a happy springtime assuring themselves and a nodding assortment of itinerant experts what a whale of a pennant race this was going to be.

All this, and a whale of a pennant race — or two

«We were out of the pennant race right then.

Are the Padres still in the thick of a pennant race?

If this is September and this is the office of San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker, the sweet aroma of a pennant race must be in the air.

Not exact matches

Greenberg's particular legend among Jewish fans stems from his decision not to play on Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar — at a crucial time in the 1934 pennant race.

Best of all, there are a lot of talented ones, some of whom may have an important effect on the pennant races

Furious pennant races used to be the exclusive property of the National League, but last week the action was in the American, five teams whaling away at one another, each with reason to believe it could be first in September.

The Braves were unbeaten in four games, the rest of the league was staggering, and horrible visions of another 1955, when the Dodgers won 10 straight and 22 of their first 24 to turn the pennant race into a shambles, danced before the National League's eyes.

This is the time of the season where everyone starts to focus on pennant race this and pennant race that, but there are still fans watching the bad teams.

Despite themselves, it seems, the owners have returned the focus of this baseball season to such welcome matters as pennant races and batting titles.

YOUNG VS. OLD Is the value of experience sometimes overrated in a pennant race?

How much did the vote of confidence, the feeling that reinforcements were going to help everyone get through the long pennant race, help those two teams?

The Giants and Dodgers, battling each other and themselves, thrash out a surprise pennant race that brings to mind their brawls of old

The swirl of a major league pennant race or a Marciano - Moore heavyweight championship fight — yes, even the World Series — will be only of passing interest in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami and many more citadels of football.

Baseball 1960 will be remembered as the year Ted Williams retired with a Frank Merriwell flourish and Stan Musial didn't; the year the Pittsburgh Pirates won a pennant and made the oldtimers happy by hitting behind the runner; the year the New York Yankees took a.001 lead into the second week of September then vigorously won the race with 15 straight and a record number of home runs (193); and the year nice guys Warren Spahn, Pete Runnels and Dick Groat finished first.

SIMPLE ANSWER The brilliance of the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers, goats of the 1962 pennant race, was explained last week by their manager, Walter Alston.

And I just hope it's not in the middle of the greatest f ------ pennant race ever.

Last year, in the only pennant race of his career, Langston went 3 - 6 the last two months, as the Expos crumbled.

BY JOE RINI Milestones for Dickey and Wright and Collins to Return in 2013 Although September was short on pennant race drama for the New York Mets, two players did scale team milestones during this last week of the 2012 season.

Metalhead Software has addressed one of the biggest complaints of their original game by adding a brand new online multiplayer game mode called Pennant Race, offering head - to - head exhibition matches, tracking your statistics as you play.

You can play as one of six teams in their race for the pennant.