Sentences with phrase «wild game of cards»

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Through a series of YouTube videos, viewers will see players like Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter and Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Nugent - Hopkins use the credit card company's payment system as they go through a skills competition, which is a fun variation to the NHL All - Star Game's annual skills competition.

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.

In the game of entrepreneurship, they are the wild cards.

Wild Card weekend is always one of the best weekends of the NFL season and this year's slate brings with it some fairly unpredictable games and teams.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

Games back of second wild card Leading the second wild card by one game, and they're tied for both the AL East and the first wild card with 24 games left.

Odds of reaching the postseason 4.7 percent, which sounds low until you remember that they were down to a 2.9 - percent chance of winning the Wild Card Game in 2014 and a 1.6 - percent chance of coming back to win Game 5 of the ALDS in 2015.

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.

If there's one team that knows it shouldn't settle for the horrors of the Wild Card Game, it's the Pirates.

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 Panthers and Saints have released their game day inactives ahead of today's huge Wild Card showdown.

A seller in July and left for dead in August, the Brewers have won 25 of 32 games to become wild - card contenders heading into the final two weeks.

That doesn't mean the Yankees will win the first wild card for sure, because three games isn't a whole lot of games.

Since Arizona beat Colorado in 11 of its 19 matchups in 2017, the Diamondbacks will host the Wild Card game.

Now, instead, you have people like me wondering if their September will end up more or less pathetic than that of say, the 2011 Red Sox, who went 7 - 20 in the season's final month and blew a nine - game lead over the Rays to lose the AL East and a wild card spot in the process.

Their road through the postseason has been nothing short of magical, as they faced the Atlanta Braves in the play - in Wild Card game and advanced following a controversial play.

«To the contrary, this incident is consistent with your pattern of egregious safety - related violations including your hit on a defenseless player during the 2015 Wild Card game and your hit against a Baltimore tight end away from the play on Jan. 3, 2016.

In the NL, you've got six teams — the Dodgers, Marlins, Cardinals, Mets, Rockies, and Pirates — within three games of a wild card spot.

They have possession of the second wild card spot, and are a half - game behind the Dodgers for the first one.

From Week 8 onward, the Seahawks won seven of their last nine games and captured one of the NFC's Wild Card spots.

To make things that much more complicated, over in the AL, there are six teams bunched up like that in part because just.001 points of winning percentage separate the Orioles and Blue Jays in the AL East — the Red Sox hold the second wild card and are just two games back of the division lead themselves, and the only way the O's and Jays both end up with a wild card is if Boston leapfrogs them for the division.

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.

They're 17 - 21 and already 4.5 games back of the AL West leaders, the Mariners and Rangers, as well as the second wild card.

The Blues, Blackhawks, Stars, and Predators are still better overall teams, and the Minnesota Wild leap Colorado in the final game of the season to earn the final wild card sWild leap Colorado in the final game of the season to earn the final wild card swild card spot.

Except there are six teams within three games of that final wild card spot.

As it stands today, the Ravens (10 - 5) are projected to be the No. 4 seed in the AFC, and would face the surprising Indianapolis Colts (10 - 5)-- who clinched a playoff berth after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 23 - 10 on Sunday — in one of the two AFC wild card games.

The Rangers are only four games back of the second wild card spot as things stand right now, with only a 5.9 % change of making the playoffs, but if they have any hopes of making it that far Beltre playing is obviously more ideal that him not playing.

And, as Grant Brisbee wrote following the AL iteration of the wild card game, that's a positive.

Colorado won for the 11th time in 12 home games and moved within two points of idle Calgary for the second wild card in the Western Conference.

Dodgers Last week general manager Kevin Malone downplayed the likelihood of his making a big deal, but if Los Angeles, which had crept to within four games of the Diamondbacks in the National League West and 2 1/2 of the wild - card - leading Giants at week's end, is to remain a contender, it must bolster its rotation.

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.

They woke up on Wednesday morning 68 - 71, riding a five - game losing streak and a 1 - 9 record in their last 10 games, six games back of a wild card, and trailing the Mets and Pirates.

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

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.

At the actual deadline: Eight games back of the Wild Card Currently: Eight games back of the Wild Card What they would have done differently: Nothing, apparently

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 back in the AL West, four games up in the Wild Card Currently: 7 1/2 back in the West, 3 1/2 back in the Wild Card What they would have done differently: Panicked in the middle of the slide and made a huge move

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

If we did the unthinkable and got to the SB from a wild card position then it would be 10 of our last 13 games away from home.

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

FanGraphs has them at less than a one - percent chance of making the National League Division Series, and just over a one - percent chance of making the Wild Card Game.

That was proved last season when the upstart A's, last - place finishers three of the previous four years, battled for the wild - card spot until the final week, winning 87 games with a $ 25 million roster dependent on unwanted retreads (DH John Jaha), obscure rookies (righty starter Tim Hudson) and supposed has - beens (reliever Doug Jones), and with all the stoicism and anxiety of a Cocoa Puffs taste - athon.

Technically, the first wild card in the AL is also unclaimed, but that seems unlikely to change hands, as the Yankees are 2.5 games up on the Astros for it as of Thursday morning.

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.

St. Louis is mired in a close race for one of the two wild card spots with the Miami Marlins and the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the Cardinals haven't been doing themselves any favors with a 4 - 7 record in their last 11 games.

The Marlins, who were 10 - 11 at the time of the suspension, went 45 - 35 in Gordon's absence, and open play Thursday in the second wild card position in the National League, with a one - game lead over the Cardinals and 1 1/2 games over the New York Mets.

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Barring a series of unlikely events, we will see the Royals host the Athletics in the AL Wild Card game on September 30th and the Pirates host the Giants in the NL Wild Card game on October 1st.

The 11 previous teams coming off a minimum of 98 losses in the wild - card era improved by an average of eight games.