Word: playoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next day, there wasn't a playoff berth on the line, or even the Ivy title, now safely salted away--it was just a matter of pride...
...recent years I have begun to lose touch with professional sports. Not so much because I don't enjoy a hot afternoon at the ballpark or an overtime playoff game, but simply because of what I call "athlete apathy...
...they won their third National League pennant in a tense six-game playoff with Houston, culminating in the longest post-season game in history, a 6-5, 16-inning victory in the Astrodome...
Most seasons, there is little enough nobility left for the loser of the World Series, but this may be the oddest year, where the playoff victims are actually mourned and remembered. Because of a mysterious leg infection, possibly from a spider bite, the Angels were deprived of their best player, Rookie First Baseman Wally Joyner, for the three straight losses. Confounded only by the ump in a nine-inning two-hitter, Nolan Ryan struck out twelve Mets not just with an aching elbow but for four innings on a sprained ankle. "A lot goes into getting you this far," Ryan...
...Crimson will still be eligible for a playoff bid if it wins its remaining three games...