Sentences with phrase «out of a wild card»

It's just that the Astros find themselves 2.5 back of the Rangers and half a game out of a wild card spot, and upgrading to Bregman might be what tips the scales in their favor for at least one of those postseason opportunities.

The problem is that the team Stanton is coming back to is in a far different situation than the one he left: On August 14, the day they lost Stanton, the Marlins were 61 - 56 and a half - game out of a wild card spot.

At the actual deadline: Two games out of the Wild Card Currently: 5 1/2 out of the Wild Card What they would have done differently: Sell, sell, sell

Not only that, but this final defeat also knocked the O's out of the wild card spot they had managed to cling to.

At the actual deadline: 3 1/2 games out of the Wild Card Currently: Eight games out What they would have done differently: Nothing

At the actual deadline: Three games out of the Wild Card Currently: 3 1/2 games out of the Wild Card What they would have done differently: Not a danged thing

At the actual deadline: Two games out of the wild card Currently: 1 1/2 games up in the AL East What they would have done differently if the non-waiver trade deadline were Aug. 31: Not a whole lot

At the actual deadline: Six games out of the Wild Card Currently: Four games out What they would have done differently: Not a whole lot

They are 6.5 games back of the Mets in the NL East, and at nine games back are effectively out of the wild card race barring a miracle.

But, sitting just 3.5 games out of a wild card spot means they aren't out of it.

Not exact matches

The Titans are playing for a Wild Card spot on Sunday and with DeMarco Murray out for the game, a large portion of the Tennessee offense will be on the shoulders of Derrick Henry.

They are just five games back in the AL East and 2.5 back of a wild card spot, so it's not ridiculous to think they might end up rolling that boulder up and over the hill before the season is out even with their problems.

The Bucs» loss to the Cowboys not only dropped them out of a tie with Atlanta, but it also booted Tampa out of the final wild card spot for an entire day.

While I wouldn't advocate trying to deliberately play to end up as the first wild card (after all, something could screw that up and then the Wild are either WC # 2 or out), it's probably preferable to end up in the Pacific Division's side of the bracwild card (after all, something could screw that up and then the Wild are either WC # 2 or out), it's probably preferable to end up in the Pacific Division's side of the bracWild are either WC # 2 or out), it's probably preferable to end up in the Pacific Division's side of the bracket.

If only U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson had used one of his wild - card picks on the 2014 FedEx Cup winner, maybe things would have turned out differently at Gleneagles.

A loss for either team could put them out of the playoff picture altogether in the NFC East and NFC Wild Card.

In the American League, six teams — the Orioles, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Tigers, Astros, and Mariners — are within five games of a wild card spot, and the Yankees are just 5.5 out.

Toronto is dangerous because it has ace righthander Roy Halladay (9 - 2, 3.07 ERA) and a high - powered offense (first in the majors in sluggingpercentage), but assuming the AL wild - card winner comes out of the Central, where the White Sox and the Tigers each were on pace for more than 105 wins, the Blue Jays would have to hurdle the Yankees and the Red Sox, who havefinished one - two in the East every year since 1998, to reach thepostseason.

The Yankees aren't out of things yet — even with the injuries and the disappointments, they sit just 3.5 games back in the AL East and are currently half a game up on the Twins for the AL's second wild card.

They're now leading the race for the second wild card, and the Yankees most certainly aren't out of reach.

Now, they're seven out, half - a-game behind the Tigers for a wild card, and with a problematic schedule left in front of them.

They have built a phalanx of All - Stars, and as everyone keeps pointing out, they're not satisfied with the second wild card spot.

On the other hand, they're just 4 1/2 out of the second wild card, and while Cliff Lee returned to the Phillies and Aroldis Chapman returned to the Yankees after deadline deals, the vast majority of players traded don't return.

The Rangers are just 4 1/2 games out of the second wild card, although they're behind two teams in their own division, and they're five games under.500.

The American League East has been the Boardwalk - Park Place corner of the baseball world ever since the first wild cards were handed out, in 1995.

After the night's action, the NL Wild Card race sits at Colorado in the pole position, Milwaukee 1.5 games back, and the Cardinals 2 out of it.

Despite their best player's prolonged absence (more than 70 games already), the Rays pitching has been amongst the best in the league — helping Tampa stay just 2.5 games out of the final wild - card spot.

Nearly 100 games into the season, Baltimore is just 1.5 games out of the wild - card despite being outscored by nearly 50 runs on the year.

Out of the 10 wild card game winners from 2012 - 2016, five have won the division series, showing just how unpredictable baseball can be.

Still, they were stuck in fourth, five games out of a wild - card berth.

My rule of thumb is that one third of the kids don't pan out (and the percentage goes up the less talented the group), Then you have to deal with the wild card of injuries.

Cappa is a sort of «wild card» coming out of DII in regards to level of competition and all that, but I like his mentality.

Dillon Gee is ostensibly the Zack Wheeler replacement, but that won't last long if someone else like Noah Syndergaard or Steven Matz starts pushing him from the minors, and Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom are good enough at the top to let the Mets contend for a wild card spot, even if the division is probably out of reach.

The Indians will try one more time to send the Yankees packing at 7 p.m. ET, with Trevor Bauer, who starred in Game 1, going on short rest against Luis Severino, who was knocked out of the AL Wild Card Game after earning just one out.

Ichiro Suzuki's return to Seattle shows he has something left to offer, all those midseason rotation adds end up paying off this year, and Felix Hernandez is able to pull out of his early 30s slide long enough to give the Mariners a reliable starting five, a place in the AL Wild Card hunt, and the end of what is currently the longest playoff - drought in North American sports.

At least, that was the thought until the red - hot Marlins came out of nowhere to put themselves over.500 and into contention in the wild - card race.

This season, however, we could see the latter come into play, where a higher point team is left out of the postseason thanks to the wild card format.

He's our wild card: something out of nothing.

Another wild card is methane, which inevitably seeps out during the extraction process, escaping from imperfect joints on thousands of pipes, valves, compressors, and holding tanks, or simply migrating through hairline cracks in the rock.

When it works, the movement in the game can be a lot of fun, but it always seemed like whenever I got some momentum going, I'd end up getting stuck on an object or in a wall, or fall into a pit of water (touch water twice in a row, and you drown — sending you back to a checkpoint), or the evil Wild Card boxes will appear seemingly out of nowhere to slow you down with their blast of sound.

And in the Best Documentary Feature category, where it can help to come out early in the year — that way you avoid being lost in the deluge of screeners that voters in the Documentary Branch receive — we've already seen a strong contender in the political doc «Weiner,» and a complete wild card in ESPN's five - part, seven - and - a-half-hour «O.J.: Made in America.»

«12 Years a Slave» and «The Wolf of Wall Street» are among the intriguing wild cards as voters begin filling out their ballots

But when the fists and roundhouse kicks aren't flying, there's lots of down time in «Wild Card,» during which the film tries to make a compelling character study out of Escalante (here rechristened Nick Wild), a compulsive personality drawn equally to the blackjack table and to sob - story underdogs in need of a helping hand.

The arrival of a Jason Statham movie in our house is always an event, and following the slight drought of releases in 2014, the great news is that he has a few coming out in 2015, starting with WILD CARD from director Simon West.

Sorry I mean't to add one other thought, if the card holder is carrying a high balance and their interest rates increase like the banks have been raising in recent months, this could backfire on the banks themselves, I mean since the banks give a 45 notification of the increase and the consumer is already maxed out and can barely make the payments as it is, the increased interest rates because of how the congress requires at least all the monthly interest and some of the principle to be paid on the cards, done so that consumers could reduce the amount of time to illiminate their debts, this may spawn many card holders whoms payments will increase much like those adjustable rate mortgages that people walked away from to go wild with their remaining balances on the card and then default, the whole irony is that the consumer may very well use the card thats damaging them to pay for bankruptcy proceedings lol!

I hear you about wanting to giggle — the whole thing was just ridiculous honestly, and when we walked out of there paying $ 204 we knew we paid the least of anyone who has ever stayed there which was wild Definitely go to Bermuda if you can do this Fairmont set of cards and you'll love the trip!

But I also know better than to swing at a pitch in the dirt... (interesting that others covering the card don't mention the one thing you're apparently most interested in, but the post doesn't call them out because they're less - read and wouldn't generate the notoriety / traffic) I'll be following up on the card, but not because of wild theories and personal attacks.

But you must first go through training before you can be trusted out on the field and take down a few of the Wild Bosses who help run the evil Wild Cards organization!

While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet.

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