Sentences with phrase «postseason series»

However, save for 2010 they lost postseason series to other teams.

The Astros are 6 - 0 in Houston, and their ALCS against the Yankees was just the fifth seven - game postseason series in which the home team won every game.

But look at a wider sample: Since 1998, 24 postseason series have gone down to the wire, with the home team going 11 — 13.

The last time any postseason series featured a pair of 100 - win teams was 1977 in the American League Championship Series, with the 100 - win New York Yankees beating the 102 - win Kansas City Royals in five games, the second of three straight ALCS battles between George Brett, Thurman Munson, and the gang.

That championship is still the crowning glory of the White Sox, who hadn't even won a postseason series since 1917 before that World Series.

Charlie Morton takes the mound for the «Stros, while CC Sabathia tries to get the Yankees to win their second come - from - behind postseason series of the year.

If he does it at the worst time, though, when it's exceedingly unlikely that the manager will cost any team a postseason series on his own, it will be extra cruel.

It's also their first postseason series win since the 2003 NLDS and most baseball fans can recall how that year finished, with the Cubs blowing the NLCS to the Marlins in 7 games.

Will it be the Bulls, whose MVP front - runner, point guard Derrick Rose, has never won a postseason series?

This explains why Jones, the Atlanta Braves» rookie third baseman, could have been the unofficial MVP last week of his first big league postseason series.

But tell that to the Dodgers, who have lost 10 postseason series since winning their last championship.

In consecutive postseason series that year, he held his own against four other top power forwards: Buck Williams, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone and Charles Oakley.

The Reds went 22 seasons between postseason wins — as in, one game, not a series — and it's now been 21 seasons since their last postseason series win.

Finally, the left hander's 17 2/3 innings were the most by any Yankee pitcher in a five - game postseason series, and his two victories pushed the Bronx Bombers» record to 10 - 2 in postseason games he has started.»

By pointing out the teams that have come back from a 2 - 1 deficit in a best - of - seven postseason series over the last 20 years, I'm appealing to Cubs fans who aren't quite ready to hate their team yet.

Still, we all think we know how a postseason series is going to go after one team takes the lead.

And yet, the odds are so much better when you're up a game in a best - of - seven postseason series.

Maybe this is the year the Athletics win a postseason series for the first time since Bush the Elder was in the White House.

We dove into all eight postseason series on this playoff edition of the Drive & Kick podcast.

They were both overextended to win the first postseason series the Dodgers reached.

Forget the part where the Nationals haven't even won a postseason series since 1981, when they were the Expos, and how losing Harper was going to make that a much more difficult hill to climb.

There have been 34 times that a baseball team has been down 0 - 3 in a best - of - seven postseason series.

No, the Nationals haven't won a postseason series since they were the Expos, and even then it was a weird, stilted regular - season format that snuck them in.

But if you're having the feeling that it's a little different, that it's missing something that keeps it from being as exciting as your average postseason series, you're not alone.

Not exact matches

«YouTube brought tremendous creativity, marketing energy and innovation to the most exciting part of our year, the Postseason and World Series,» MLB executive vice president of commerce Noah Garden said in a statement.

This was a stupid concept, and it turns out that every one of these postseason teams would like to win the World Series if possible, and nothing is guaranteed if they don't win it this year.

This World Series always promised to be the cruelest of World Series, and we've known that since the postseason started:

The Ducks had seen each of their previous five postseason trips come to an end after blowing a 3 - 2 series lead with a road loss in Game 6 and a home loss in Game 7.

It was a pragmatic decision, considering they had roughly a five - percent chance of making the postseason and a.1 - percent chance of winning the World Series, according to FanGraphs.

Cardinals right - hander Chris Carpenter — the anchor of the team's postseason rotation in 2011 — lasted just four innings, netting his second loss of the series.

The road team has covered the spread in all four games this series, and that's par for the course this postseason.

Hernandez's three home runs matched an MLB postseason record for a game, and his seven RBI matched a League Championship Series record.

He averaged 16.5 points in the postseason, including an abominable Western Conference Finals against the Warriors where — after Kawhi Leonard exited the series with an ankle injury — he had two games with only eight points.

The Cardinals have had past success in pivotal games (3 - 0, +2.71 units) and road dogs have performed superbly in the postseason, but the edge has belonged to home teams in recent series deciding games.

Still, barring a series of calamitous injuries, the Warriors and Cavs are the teams to beat in the postseason.

In arguably this postseason's most exciting game, the Utah Jazz defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 1 of their playoff series on Saturday night.

Wallace is a Bull now, and in his place is34 - year - old Chris Webber, who didn't play much defense even before the 2003microfracture surgery on his left knee that severely limited his mobility.Judging from his poor performance in the Chicago series (he missed all eight ofhis shots in Games 3 and 4 and sat both fourth quarters), C - Webb may well be anullity throughout the rest of the postseason, with most of his minutesabsorbed by McDyess.

Showing some love in the postgame handshake line to Boston's Charlie McAvoy, who was making his NHL debut at age 19 this postseason, was a nice cherry on top of the series:

The Cubs - Indians World Series When you apply for postseason credentials, you have to select which matchups you would attend for a potential World Series.

Because in the NBA postseason, what happens during a timeout can decide which team wins a series

Nor does it give back the seven playoff points that were stripped that may be critical come the postseason when Harvick is chasing a second Cup Series championship.

The Dodgers hope to shake off their postseason demons and win the World Series in 2017.

Baseball's big public data repositories don't have detailed postseason batted - ball information available, but Houston's made 10 more air outs this series than L.A., in addition to those four more home runs.

The low point came in Game 1 of the Portland - Utah series, when the Trail Blazers scored an NBA postseason record - low five points in a quarter en route to a 93 - 83 loss to the Jazz.

After getting a taste of the postseason last year — the Athletics put a five - game scare into the Yankees in the American League Division Series — the best team $ 40 million can buy (or rent) wants the whole enchilada.

Watch «The Flip» below, and make sure to catch all the postseason magic on Fox Sports 1 throughout the MLB division series:

In 1921 he also took on the game's greatest star, Babe Ruth, for violating an arcane rule forbidding members of a World Series team from postseason barnstorming.

Carrasco missed the 2016 postseason due to injury, and while his absence didn't hurt in the ALDS or ALCS, by the time the World Series came around and pitches like Corey Kluber and Andrew Miller were clearly out of gas, Carrasco's absence was felt.

Ultimately, if we lose this series, this is STILL the BEST and MOST SUCCESSFUL postseason for the Sharks ever.

Baseball's men in blue, in particular, seem to rank slightly below ambulance - chasing lawyers after missing a dizzying series of calls this postseason, so many that MLB has reportedly decided to go with only experienced umps for the World Sseries of calls this postseason, so many that MLB has reportedly decided to go with only experienced umps for the World SeriesSeries.