Sentences with phrase «runs than its opponent»

The hope is, however, that the 2018 season becomes the first berm against that flood of losses, and that the young core put together after a years - long teardown will finally start to score more runs than their opponents.

If a team scores more runs than its opponent, it wins.

Not exact matches

Bennett is one of a kind for sure — funny, easygoing and much more chill than you'd expect from a man who runs over opponents for a living.

His opponent, Republican Beth Grossman, had spent more than two decades in the DA's office and ran on her experience with the position.

They know better than to tug on an opponent's jersey, run out the clock or take a dive to fake a foul.

He said that Paul's statement that he went to consult the Jerusalem leaders, «lest somehow [he] should be running or had run in vain», (Galatians 2.2) meant more than that he feared his opponents might seriously interfere with his work unless they were checked.

Indiana has been faster to the ball than its opponents all season, and the same is true during this amazing early run.

Throw in the relievers limiting opponents to a.235 /.298 /.376 line — just slightly better than what the starters have done — and Cleveland's stellar run differential over 82 games makes even more sense.

In this 32 - game stretch, Milwaukee has outscored its opponents by more than two runs per game.

Typically an aggressively pressing team will press even a player that is in a good position to release the ball, so the tackle will «fail», even though it often forces the opponent to stop what was a potentially promising run, or forces them to pass in a different direction than they had hoped to go.

But the» 96 — 97 team, which lost in the NCAA final to Arizona, ran the same stuff with less famous personnel (guards Wayne Turner and Anthony Epps) and better statistics, forcing turnovers on 29.8 % of their opponents» possessions, a higher rate than any team in kenpom.com's database, which only goes back to 2002.

BASKETBALL — Eastern leader BOSTON ran its victory streak to eight games (15 for 16 overall) and held its opponents to fewer than 100 points in the last four (while trouncing LA 114 - 78 and Philadelphia 112 - 78, the Celtics allowed the Lakers only 30 points in the first half and the 76ers 32).

They only outscored their opponents by eight runs last season, which would point to them being around a.500 team rather than a 95 - win team.

Premier running back Terry Underwood of Cliffwood Beach, N.J., voices another tenet of the Wagner ethos: «I always anticipate my opponent being a little better than me.»

It would be fair to say that the goal has not come against the run of play either, Sean Dyche's side have been more than a match for their opponents.

Many Arsenal fans have questioned why the French international can't manage to stay on for the whole 90 minutes of games and maybe score more as our opponents get tired legs, but Arsene Wenger is adamant that he will continue his policy of taking him off in the later stages of games.Le Prof told Arsenal.com: «First of all I would like to say that in my job you sub strikers more than defenders, because they have to create, they have to provoke, they have to be incisive in every run.

Opponents long ago gave up on running against Alabama, which faces pass attempts more frequently than almost anybody in the country.

Now, down by seven to the No. 2 team in the nation with less than six minutes left, on fourth - and - 19 on their opponent's 23 - yard line, Kelly decided to run the hook and ladder with a player who had never even practiced the play before.

Opponents ran the ball 5 percent more frequently than the national average on standard downs and 14 percent more on passing downs.

Anyone questioning whether the Wolf Pack have enough fuel to sustain a deep run need look no further than their first two games in the NCAA tournament, when they outlasted a pair of high - major opponents with multiple projected first - round NBA draft picks between them by making double - digit comebacks in the second half.

Guys forgetting the snap count and jumping off sides; lining up off sides; running the wrong route; dropping ball;, flipping the ball to the opposition; tackling rather than blocking; taking the wrong line to a runner; over-running tackles; missing blocks completely; blocking in the back; tackling out of bounds; holding opponents rather than blocking or defending; fighting with opponents; failing to block anyone,

With Michu's main strength being running onto a through pass played by one of Swansea's more gifted ball players such as Britton or de Guzman there may be no better opponent to play against than Arsenal with their main problem in defence as seen at White Hart Lane last week is keeping a stable and aware defensive line once they have pushed up further out of their own half.

The team has scored more than twice as many runs as its opponents.

We're battling for a champions league spot most of the year, get out of our Europa Group but fall to a bigger opponent in the knockouts, our cup runs end shorter than we'd like, but it's a successful season because we continue to play European football next season.

Pressing is fun to watch and works well against opponents who can't pass very well or who aren't organized to deal with it but Conte knows that passing beats running every day; the ball is faster than our legs.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

With nearly all ballots from Tuesday's run - off vote counted, Mr Weah is well ahead of the opponent, Vice president Joseph Boakai, with more than 60 % of the vote.

He also was then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall's running mate in the 2002 gubernatorial race in which the duo's primary opponents were none other than AG Andrew Cuomo and Charlie King.

This is far more serious a campaign than any of my opponents are running.

On paper, nobody benefited more from Mr. Silver's demise than the governor: after all, his most entrenched and intransigent opponent was gone, and it seemed no successor could ever run the Assembly with such efficiency or force again.

He's now running for Congress against one of the country's most powerful Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who clobbered his last opponent by a margin of more than 2...

No sooner had Michael J. Flaherty Jr.'s prosecutors obtained a felony vehicular manslaughter indictment in a hit - and - run case that a grand jury initially probed in 2014, than the acting DA's opponents pounced with questions about his personal involvement.

One of the Democrats running in the state's 2nd congressional district has raised more than $ 200,000 in the first quarter of 2018, doubling her primary opponent.

The Trump for New York team has been critical of public polls showing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with an overwhelming lead in the Empire State, insisting her GOP opponent, Donald Trump, is actually running a lot more competitively in the candidates» shared home state than the conventional wisdom allows.

Klein, interestingly enough, ran on no fewer than four ballot lines in 2012, gaining access to the GOP line thanks to some peace making with erstwhile opponent Bronx County Chairman Jay Savino, who is now facing federal corruption charges for an alleged scheme to put fellow IDC Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ballot through bribery.

There are less than three weeks to go until primary day, and Claudia Tenney, who is running for Congress in a Republican primary against 22nd Congressional District Republican Richard Hanna, continues to push for a debate with her opponent.

But since he received less than 50 percent of the vote in the nine candidate field, there is a fair chance at least one of his opponents from today's special will run against him in the Democratic primary this September.

In recent weeks, both Democrats started running negative ads about their opponent — a telling sign the primary is more competitive than previously anticipated.

«We feel that the NDC has a much more credible programme for the future of our country than our opponents and the reason is simple; that our opponents try every opportunity they have to denigrate our achievements, through the lectures that their running mate gives, through even the manifesto that they launched few weeks ago,» the Vice President added.

Her closer - than - anticipated victory made Republicans look again at the district, but she ran a more serious campaign in 2016 and defeated her GOP opponent by 12 points.

But we ran nonetheless, and for an old - fashioned reason: We believed we would govern the state better than our opponents.

And on top of that, he said, he's running a very different campaign than his opponents in the party, visiting all 163 towns in the 19th Congressional District.

«On a margin of three to one, people think that my opponent has ran a much more negative campaign than I.»

But Moya's attendance record is likely to draw less attention than his opponent's criminal record — he's running against Hiram Monserrate, who served time in prison for misappropriating $ 109,000 in city grants the last time he was in the City Council.

He argued that his party's opponents were right to claim that the party often «says different things in different parts of the country» and that it runs the risk of becoming a representative of vested interests in the public sector, rather than being a mouthpiece for voters who actually use key services.

It might take more than a few shuttle runs up a set of Philly stairs for Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed after he takes a look at his opponent in Steven Caple Jr's Creed 2.

Charter opponents, led by the Chicago Teachers Union, have long argued that charter schools — whose teachers are not represented by CTU — are treated differently than district - run neighborhood schools.

The main objective of the game is to score more touchdowns than the opponent by the fourth quarter, but being a strategic, turn - based game, players can't just run up to the goal line and score freely.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Challenges are the main area of the game, these include Races (get from A to B faster than your opponents), Duals (where you race against one opponent), Road Rage (where you must take down a set number of opponents before the time runs out) and Stunt Runs (which basically comes down to you showing off by pulling outrageous maneuvers to beat the target score before the time runs oruns out) and Stunt Runs (which basically comes down to you showing off by pulling outrageous maneuvers to beat the target score before the time runs oRuns (which basically comes down to you showing off by pulling outrageous maneuvers to beat the target score before the time runs oruns out).