Sentences with phrase «play in world series»

Their bodies endure scores of injuries before that special day when they can have a chance to play in the World Series.

In 1982 he was playing in the World Series of Poker, having made his third final table of his career (he finished second to legend Johnny Moss in 1971).

When Bill isn't in the office, he likes other competitive activities including tennis and poker, and he has played in the World Series Main Event.

Ten other players were known to Binion, but had never played in the World Series before.

Otherwise, he is nearly a statistical twin of Ripken, one of his heroes, who played in a World Series when Jones was 11 years old.

«We've got Aaron Judge, and him playing in the World Series is good for the game.

I had every intention of checking in here before the entire week slipped through my fingers, but between the Royals playing in the World Series and a jam - packed work schedule, it just didn't happen.

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After a few months playing, things were starting to click and I was starting to have good results, a few of the players in the game suggested I go to the World Series of Poker in Vegas.

A series of articles by Tim Schneider from ArtnetNews pretty much sums up the current state of play in the art world and the digital economy, and I urge anyone who is interested in the topic to review those in greater detail.

According to The Independent, Redmayne is the Harry Potter author and Beasts screenwriter's choice to play Newt Scamander in a new franchise — based on a fictional Hogwarts textbook — that is described as «neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.»

AND the Cleveland Indians were playing just next door to them in their first World Series game in 19 years!

OBIT Sirs: Now that the American League has so thoroughly humiliated the National League champs in the abbreviated 1966 World Series, let it spell an end to the hard - sell promotion of National League play at the expense of the AL..

Baltimore won four American League pennants and two World Series in the six seasons Robinson played there.

If this play happened in the World Series, you would see it for the rest of your life.

They play in perhaps the most famous city in the world and can guarantee Ohtani a chance at winning the World Series every year for the foreseeable fuworld and can guarantee Ohtani a chance at winning the World Series every year for the foreseeable fuWorld Series every year for the foreseeable future.

It is also the first time the Irish National Sevens squad will play in the United States and will be the last international tune - up for rising nations Canada and the United States, as well as traditional powers like New Zealand, Japan and Australia, as they ready for the 2017 - 18 HSBC World Sevens Series.

Scheduling Update: Teams have Double Headers in Week 6 — however those Games will NOT be Played on Wednesday Nov. 1 due to the World Series.

Still, the Mets were fresh from their miraculous World Series triumph and they had two established shortstops in Bud Harrelson and Al Weis, so Foli played the 1970 season at Tidewater of the Triple - A International League.

Dane Iorg, who would go on to a 10 - year major league career and heroics in two World Series, played for Bunning that first season.

The Dodgers hadn't won a National League pennant since 1920, and they lost the World Series that year in part because of an unassisted triple play.

no one ordered the man to build a strike force around walcott and giroud or to put a quid on suarez «s asking price or to bring in nogo and park (or perez for that matter) or to sell gnabry and play iwobi regularly or to have ramsey playing in every position bar goalkeeper or to take 7 years to work out how to get the best from Ox or to believe merteshaker was alright for the epl when he was way past his international sell by date or to forego a world class DM for 5 years and then plonk down 30 odd mill on an average swiss international or try out a series of makeshift right backs and hope bellerin would maintain his earlier form and fitness... stan n`chips and co are certainly a shocking example of contemporary football ownership but on the pitch its all down to wenger and his delusions

After Taiwan won four consecutive World Championships in the early 1970s, Little League banned foreign teams from World Series play for one season, and then strengthened regulations concerning practices and residency.

It actually seemed relatively reasonable at the time, with Heyward supposedly not even taking the highest offer because he believed in playing with and for the Cubs in their quest for a World Series.

As Little League Tournament action opens around the nation on June 29 this year with district play, culminating in the World Series in late - August, for the first time in 44 years, JRW will not take part in the competition.

Catcher Kurt Kingsolver, whose father played for Oklahoma State in the 1954 College World Series, threw out three base runners and picked another off first.

Remember the play - in game during the Rockies» run to the World Series in 2007?

They began the game as if not even Catfish Hunter, unbeaten till then in World Series play, could impede them.

If Boston could beat Cleveland at Jacobs Field in Game 5 of the 1999 Division Series, it would play the New York Yankees for a spot in the World Series.

The superstar of the Little League World Series, Philadelphia pitcher Mo'Ne Davis, who hopes to go to UConn and play basketball for Geno Auriemma, has shown that she has all the tools to make it big in either baseball or basketball.

The benches cleared in the 2014 World Series when the delicate pitcher took exception to failing in front of everybody, but that was also after the play was over.

These two clubs have none of the complacency which sometimes characterizes professionals who have played in too many World Series in recent years and whose salaries have reached a level where taxes destroy the incentive represented by the bonus that comes from Series money.

They played.500 ball for months at a time in 2016, however, and still managed to win over 100 games and eventually, a World Series championship.

It would be nice to see a World Series played in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

We played a behind closed doors friendly against Jamaica seniors on Sunday which was a great experience for the team, both heading into our upcoming series of games but also in preparation for the World Youth Cup in July.

It took only two games to realize that there had never been a World Series like this, and not only because Bonds had not played in any of the previous 97.

His accounts of the World Series resemble intricately plotted morality plays in which the good guys always win — whether by skill, determination or luck — because it would be unthinkable that the good guys might lose in this best of all possible games.

Mays played in four World Series and did not hit a home run in 71 at bats; his team lost three of those Series.

The Dodgers played in the same World Series because Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger making back - of - the - bullpen money allowed them to feel comfortable paying superstar money to Kenley Jansen and Justin Turner.

Their odds for the World Series and pennant have certainly improved over the past month, but no team or futures bettor can feel comfortable when the wildcard game is in play.

I loved that he called up a rabbi in 2004 to see if he should play on Yom Kippur during the playoff run that would result in the team's first World Series win in a million years.

He has been Rookie of the Year and MVP, he has played in 11 All - Star Games and four World Series, he has led the league in hitting three times, and on May 5 of this year he got his 3,000 th hit.

In an unlikely but splendid setting on the outskirts of Austin in the Texas Hill Country, Circuit of the Americas — a $ 450 million, state - of - the - art, 3.4 - mile, 20 - turn road course — played rootin» - tootin» host to the world's most popular racing serieIn an unlikely but splendid setting on the outskirts of Austin in the Texas Hill Country, Circuit of the Americas — a $ 450 million, state - of - the - art, 3.4 - mile, 20 - turn road course — played rootin» - tootin» host to the world's most popular racing seriein the Texas Hill Country, Circuit of the Americas — a $ 450 million, state - of - the - art, 3.4 - mile, 20 - turn road course — played rootin» - tootin» host to the world's most popular racing series.

«Playing for the Reds, the money's going to be there one way or another,» Seaver said, visions of playoff and World Series shares dancing in his head.

Old School With a 72 - year - old manager making his World Series debut and a time - tested style of play (but no curses, jinxes or hexes to speak of), the Marlins stood up to those perennials of the postseason, the Yankees, in the Fall Classic

After playing only 30 matches from January to October while recovering from a series of injuries, she won consecutive tournaments to qualify for last week's season - ending tournament in Madison Square Garden, a showdown for the world's top 16 women.

The last time they won a World Series, Satchel Paige was on the team and they beat the Braves, who played in Boston.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, I saw Clemente's 3000 hit, the first World Series night game, the 1979 clincher against the Reds, and at least one game from every post season series in which they pSeries night game, the 1979 clincher against the Reds, and at least one game from every post season series in which they pseries in which they played.

He played in 14 All - Star Games and 14 World Series (he holds 10 Series catching records) and won the American League MVP award three times (1951, 1954 and 1955).

INK FOR THE GOPHERS Sirs: In case your staff hasn't got the word yet, the World Series of college baseball was played at Omaha.

Almost inevitably, it seems in retrospect, the events that followed — expansion, divisional play, nighttime World Series games, artificial turf, the designated hitter — honored financial expediency rather than good baseball sense.