Sentences with phrase «pennant race»

The phrase "pennant race" refers to the competition among professional baseball teams at the end of the season for the opportunity to win the championship. Full definition
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.
Even the most skillful retellings of the 2004 American League pennant race — Dan Shaughnessy's Reversing the Curse (Houghton Mifflin, 256 pages, $ 23), which offers many new details, and Mike Vacaro's Emperors and Idiots (Doubleday, 351 pages, $ 24.95), which ambitiously tries to put the whole thing in historical perspective — can't overcome the essential problem: Every reader already knows how the story ends.
Super Mega Baseball 2 promises to please both the rookie or baseball purist, letting you compete in the ranked Pennant Race mode (1v1), the chance to dominate friends in arranged matches (1v1, 2v1, 2v2), or take on the AI (solo, local co-op, online co-op).
Play online head - to - head exhibition matches, ranked Pennant Race that tracks your online records, or the standard season mode.
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.
Despite themselves, it seems, the owners have returned the focus of this baseball season to such welcome matters as pennant races and batting titles.
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 result, thus far, has been a scintillating pennant race and bright promise for the future
The oddest pennant race in National League history is always exciting but sometimes it gets just a little sloppy
The eight regulars in his lineup are at least 30 years old and have been through multiple pennant races.
And I just hope it's not in the middle of the greatest f ------ pennant race ever.
LIVELY ACCOUNT OF THE DEAD BALL ERA In Crazy» 08, Cait Murphy recounts the tumultuous 1908 season: The Cubs were a powerhouse, the AL and NL pennant races went down to the wire, and Fred Merkle made a mistake he never lived down.
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.
But with a few warnings (like: Don't read this piece if you're convinced that negative mojo during a baseball pennant race is bad luck), I figure it's perfectly acceptable to post a story about sports stars who faced home foreclosure.
Pennant Race meanwhile pits you against other players online with standard teams — no custom teams are allowed to ensure that the competition stays balanced.
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.
Lately, though, Charley Dressen has been stirring things up a little, what with his seventh - place Senators being a prime cause of the mumble, stumble and trip gait of the American League pennant race.
Metalhead Software has announced a closed beta for Super Mega Baseball 2 on Xbox One within the next two weeks, featuring the game's exhibition and pennant race modes.
A seat in the Red Sox dugout during a pennant race would cost less, but over the next 72 hours I recouped at least half the cost by gorging on samples from the likes of Protes Chips and Alpen Dough Cookies.
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.
You've got enough stuff on your mind in a pennant race than to worry about individual stuff like that.»
In his 10 years in organized baseball he has performed awesome feats: in the last days of the nerve - racking 1951 pennant race he beat the Phillies one night, pitched six innings of winning relief against them the next day.
Best of all, there are a lot of talented ones, some of whom may have an important effect on the pennant races
Alright, so using the standard grading system, we give the A - a 3.7, the B + a 3.3, the B a... looks like this pennant race gets a 3.18 GPA.
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.
There were still eight weeks left in the pennant race, and it looked as though the excitement would not fade.
But at least the National League can go whistling past the graveyard again and talk about a pennant race.
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.
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
The Question: Where do you think your team will finish in the pennant race this year?
«We were out of the pennant race right then.
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.
YOUNG VS. OLD Is the value of experience sometimes overrated in a pennant race?
They were in a pennant race, just 2 1/2 games out of first, and they traded him for the sleepy competence of Scott Feldman, who did exactly what was expected of him.
Are the Padres still in the thick of a pennant race?
The Rangers had the oddest sensible strategy at the deadline, preferring to part with prospects to acquire a subsidized Cole Hamels for the 2016 pennant race.
I'm going to be here for three years and be in three pennant races,» Hawkins said.
Jan 04,2016... The New York Yankees lost eight games in a week and once again changed a runaway into a pennant race...
When the Nationals shut down a healthy Stephen Strasburg in the midst of the 2012 pennant race, Mazzone was all over sports - talk, blasting the decision as «pathetic,» and touting his method.
The team was mathematically eliminated from the pennant race on Aug. 7.
An oracle named Smith takes a long, breezy look at the National League, listens to a character or two, sticks a pin in here and there, and comes up with the word on this year's pennant race: it will be a thriller
They probably aren't going to be the 2011 - 2013 Astros, but they're not going to be in any pennant races soon, either.
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.
Puig would slot right in, and he wouldn't have the pressure of a pennant race on his brain.
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