Sentences with phrase «of major league games»

He found a company that produces videotapes of major league games and bought 10 minutes of Ellis Valentine highlights.

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In October 2015, rumors surfaced that the company was in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a well - known organizer of video game tournaments, though Activision (atvi) ultimately acquired the company earlier this year for $ 46 million.

Facebook has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to show 20 of the league's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live prograLeague Baseball to show 20 of the league's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live prograleague's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live programming.

This week is packed with major sporting events, starting with the first official games of Major League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and Momajor sporting events, starting with the first official games of Major League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and MoMajor League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and Monday.

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

It turns out the number of people who buy tickets to watch Major League Baseball games in a season parallels consumer confidence.

While not tweeting in the middle of a game should be a no - brainer, major leagues also bar their athletes from tweeting before and after them, as well.

This week, millions of people worldwide will have watched the 87th Major League Baseball (MLB) All - Star Game, showcasing 70 top players from the American and National Leagues.

Major League Baseball and the National Football League have lucrative contracts with the television networks and closely guard the airing of their games.

Also, for the first time, NIKE will become a marketing partner of the NBA Development League (NBA D - League), engaging in seasonlong marketing activities with a major presence during the NBA D - League All - Star Game presented by Kumho Tire and the NBA D - League Showcase presented by Samsung.

The beginning of March signals the start of preseason exhibition games for Major League Baseball...

There is a long history of famous major league baseball players who missed important games since they chose to observe the Sabbath and not play.

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulOf the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulof the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulof the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulof thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

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.»

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

The rest of the game was something of a procession for the side that have become the second team — after Bayern Munich — to seal one of the five major league titles across Europe.

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.

Make sure to catch the game and check out two of the major contenders for promotion to the Premier League in 2015.

Betts also hit a bases - loaded infield single to drive in his fourth run of the day, and he's now batted.283 /.358 /.447 with seven homers in his first 58 major - league games.

Joey Votto has led all of Major League Baseball in wOBA -LRB-.423) since 2015, yet the Cincinnati Reds have been a whopping 86 games under.500 in that time.

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

Major League Baseball in conjunction with the Miami Marlins agreed that it is in the best interest of our community to relocate this weekend's Marlins games against the Milwaukee Brewers to Milwaukee.

City are in a worrying run of form at the moment, with the reigning Premier League champions recently losing games to West Ham United, Newcastle United and CSKA Moscow to put their hopes of silverware in major doubt for this season.

Opta powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com have collated the data and the Gunners come out on top in all eight of the major criteria despite only leading the Reds by five points in the Premier League table.

Now, the arrival of another Wayne Gretzky might make up ground — phenom Sidney Crosby, a 17 - year - old who through Sunday had 50 goals and 75 assists in 50 games with Rimouski in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, already has NBC abuzz — but even Gretzky wouldn't have been Gretzky in this overcoached era of constipated hockey.

For the purpose of keeping parity in the league and to keep it from becoming major league baseball, a game for big market teams.

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.

Sano was an integral part of the Twins» success in 2017, hitting.264 /.352 /.507 with 28 home runs in 114 games in his third major league season.

However, having scored six goals in six games to top the Premier League scoring charts so far this season, and with Arsenal struggling to suggest that they can compete for major honours like Manchester City can, this is a wild bit of speculation from Pearce.

And with Major League Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

These young guns will only get a chance to prove themselves at top level if and only if arsenal make massive signings that will give us a major trophy... if we are for example leading the league in like seven points in February, then we can afford to give them some minutes on field but they wont get game time on the current team cz the manager realizes that the club needs trophies and hez running out of time so i even doubt he will use them in capital one cup... Good luck boys

New Tigers manager Buddy Bell is one of 13 men to have played in at least 2,000 major league games in this century without ever appearing in a postseason game.

The reality of the situation is that we are no longer in competition for any major piece of silverware... Yes we're out of Champions league, the game at the Nou camp is merely a formality, putting 3 goals passed Messi and co, now that's delusional!!

On May 23 in the second game of a doubleheader he played leftfield against the Phillies, his first major league start at a position other than catcher, as part of manager Lloyd McClendon's plan to ease the physical burden on three - time All - Star Kendall and to gain more offensive production from him.

A second new component to the pace of game program is the addition of timers that will measure non-game action and break time between innings and pitching changes during each Major League game.

Of course we want to see changes throughout the club, win major trophies, buy world class players and see entertaining football, but boycotting the games isn't going to achieve this, it may do in the long run, and I'm talking years and not a 2 or 3 seasons, but by that time we could be regulars in the bottom half of the league on a regular basiOf course we want to see changes throughout the club, win major trophies, buy world class players and see entertaining football, but boycotting the games isn't going to achieve this, it may do in the long run, and I'm talking years and not a 2 or 3 seasons, but by that time we could be regulars in the bottom half of the league on a regular basiof the league on a regular basis.

«Boring, boring Arsenal» and «1 - 0 to the Arsenal - were famous chants from rival fans in those days, while other successful spells from the likes of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona have been led primarily by the team's creative and goal scoring prowess, but in general you need to do all parts of the game well to win a major trophy, especially the marathon that is a domestic league.

Charlie Morton has pitched out of the bullpen exactly two times in 10 major league seasons, postseason games included.

Kompany's handling of Diego Costa was a major part of the game and may have given the rest of the Premier League defenders a way to combat Chelsea.

He came through the academy system at Barcelona and although he might not be happy with his recent lack of games, I think that he would only leave the Nou Camp for another club that was guaranteed Champions League football and at least a chance of winning major titles.

can you just imagine a top level club being so desperate that they would hire Wenger to manage their club... I guarantee that there is no truth to this story except the fact that he might have considered leaving Arsenal for a split second then he proceeded to lock himself in Kroenke's closet and threatened to harm himself with the plastic fork he always carries in his breast pocket, just in case there are free samples at the grocery store, until he was promised 2 more years... at which point they embraced one another in such an awkward fashion that Kroenke's mustache got stuck in Wenger's coat zipper... two hours or so later, once they were finally separated, they retired to Kroenke's private lounge where they watched his favourite movie «Major League» then played a quick game of Monopoly

The 2018 Major League Baseball season gets started Thursday with a nearly full slate of games, including four nationally televised games on opening day.

Joe has upheld the rules of fair play for more than 5,000 Major League Baseball games, and is on his way to the record for most career games ever worked by an MLB umpire.

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

In parts of eight major league seasons with the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, Pirates, and Nationals, Melancon has a 2.60 ERA in 444 games, with 168 saves, 407 strikeouts and 101 walks in 404 innings.

As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.

After few games (and a usually misguided transfer market), we already know that wining the BPL (nor the CL... Well, I am dreaming here...) was never the objective and getting «butt f*cked» by the major outfits of the league is now a religious occurrence.

The 1999 Champions League winning stopper played almost 400 games during his time at United, a spell which saw him claim an impressive total of 15 major honours, including five Premier League titles.

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?»

Ruth's entire major league experience for 1914 was five games, four as a pitcher (he won two) and one as a pinch hitter (he faced Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators and struck out).