Sentences with phrase «won pennants»

Pie in the sky doesn't win pennants.

That being said, single and doubles win pennants — not home runs.

That victory was the culmination of a controversial, years - long rebuilding strategy that Sports Illustrated presciently wrote about in 2014, even going so far as to put a prediction that the Astros would win the pennant in 2017 on the magazine's cover.

The most amazing thing about this year's amazing American League race is the fact that the Chicago White Sox, who haven't finished first since 1919, are going to win the pennant.

You seldom win a pennant without good strength up the middle.»

He is a shrewd, practical businessman named George Weiss who would like to win the pennant but won't be too disturbed if his team loses this year

At the same time, the Cubs, being the best team in baseball, just won the pennant, something they haven't done in 71 seasons.

They won the pennant.

Instead of shutting it down, he blew past the Boras limits, helping the Mets win a pennant.

Oh, right, the one who helped us win the pennant, uh, yeah, uh, put him out to start Game 3.

You can't win the pennant without a good double - play combination.»

I'll be careful with how this comes across, because the last time I made fun of the Mets» outfield defense, they won the pennant.

To me, his enthusiasm and his excitement are part of what made the Dodgers win the pennant.

Willie Mays hit home runs, stopped fights and just missed winning the pennant for San Francisco.

(Serious students know the Yankees will win the pennant.)

In 1949 the Saints won the pennant — their first since 1938 — and the hated Millers finished far back in fourth.

The Sox win the pennant in the Impossible Dream season.

It was a nifty magic trick to win the pennant with a team that hit 95 home runs in the regular season, but it was a magic trick performed by Gob and he's looking at the audience with wild I - can «t - believe - that - worked eyes.

The Bums, playing with a fury characteristic of their manager, stormed through the National League with flashing spikes, edging the St. Louis Cardinals by 21/2 games to win the pennant.

Chicago was gambling when it got Rick Sutcliffe from Cleveland, but the deal may have won the pennant

With a little help from the old ones, this is a team that could win a pennant

THE BIG IFS: The Yankees are in the happy position of being able to afford one major disaster and still win the pennant.

But it won no pennant.

The short version: They were a team that could score, and they needed to develop pitching for the first time since winning the pennant last decade.

The Braves have finally won their pennant and they should be even better this year.

Spike Jr., now 45, had grown up with the Tigers, worshiping Bucky Harris in 1934 and»35 when the Tigers won the pennant and finally joining the front office as vice-president in the following year.

And while you can win a pennant with a Niese or a Vargas — it's been done in each of the last two seasons — it's not exactly the kind of pitcher who moves the preseason over-unders.

When the Tigers were ready to be good again, just two years later, they had two all - stars in place to help them win the pennant.

There was a flurry of repetitions when Russ Hodges, ordinarily a somewhat phlegmatic sportscaster, gave his on - the - spot report of Bobby Thomson's «miracle of Coogan's Bluff» home run in the Dodger - Giant playoff game in 1951: «The Giants win the pennant!

TEAM RUN - SCORING ABILITY The first - place Braves» low percentage of base runners scoring and the seventh - place Dodgers» high percentage prove it takes more than run production to win a pennant.

The Giants win the pennant!

«When the Sox won the pennant in»67 my whole life changed,» he says.

Is that really going to boot them back under.500 after winning the pennant?

The Cardinals, for all the relief Frank Smith will bring, will still have headaches, most grievous among them the scarcity of second - string starting pitchers, the craftsmen who win the rubber games in three - game series, the games that win pennants.

The modern closer's role — essentially to pitch only the ninth inning when his team is ahead by three or fewer runs (i.e., a save situation)-- was refined by A's manager Tony La Russa while Oakland was winning pennants in 1988,»89 and» 90.

The Giants win the pennant!»)

Kluszewski symbolizes the awesome hitting of the pitcher - shy Redlegs, who do not expect to win the pennant but who will win many games from those who do, including the Giants.

Exhibit A of this is that Russ Hodges's call of Bobby Thomson's historic 1951 homer («The Giants win the pennant!

Here's to hoping we both win the pennant for a World Series that makes Yankee fans physically ill.

Before the Mets won the pennant, they were sentimental favorites because tanned gargoyle Chase Utley broke a Mets player.

Detroit has advanced to the AL Championship Series in each of the last three seasons, going on to win the pennant in a sweep over the Yankees in 2012.

They won the pennant three years later.

That puts the Mets in the postseason, where they win the pennant (homer from A-Rod against Randy Johnson in Game 7 of the NLCS, no big deal).

Baseball 1960 will be remembered as the year Ted Williams retired with a Frank Merriwell flourish and Stan Musial didn't; the year the Pittsburgh Pirates won a pennant and made the oldtimers happy by hitting behind the runner; the year the New York Yankees took a.001 lead into the second week of September then vigorously won the race with 15 straight and a record number of home runs (193); and the year nice guys Warren Spahn, Pete Runnels and Dick Groat finished first.

Not long ago he shared a cautionary tale from the work of Chuck Brodsky, whose 2002 album The Baseball Ballads includes the story of Fred (Bonehead) Merkle, who cost the 1908 Giants a chance to win the pennant when as a base runner he failed to tag second base on what would have been a walk - off single.

In» 68, McLain was the center of energy on a team that won the pennant and then the World Series.

No American League team has ever won the pennant after making a midseason managerial change, but the Angels, who five times have changed managers during a season, might well do it under 36 - year - old Jim Fregosi, who began his major league career as an Angel cherub in 1961, the year the team was formed.

I don't think we'll sign any more unless we are right on the edge of winning a pennant and we think one particular player can make the difference.»

It was the curse of California's Gene Mauch, the greatest manager never to win a pennant, versus the Curse of the Bambino.

If Mantle continues to hit, the Yankees will probably win the pennant again, especially if he continues to play the way he did during his two - week reign of terror.