These days, can anyone imagine a post season game played in front of 19, 000 empty seats?
Of course these are the plays that get lost in the sea of home runs and post season dramatics.
During the post-season, Howard was frequently pitched around, hitting just .269 with a .897 OPS. Werth was a much better post-season value than Howard.
If the season ended today, the eight-team post season field would include the Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds.
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They go in as a touchdown favorite against the Cinderella Cardinals, a team than sneaked into the post season with a 9-7 record before pulling off three straight playoff wins.
If they succeed, 2011 will mark the third time in four years that Major League Baseball will be stuck with the team from its worst market in the post season dance.
Taking a page from college basketball, NBC and the league spread out the post season schedule among its flagship over-the-air network, NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus Network), CNBC and the NHL Network.
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The narrative goes something like this: After a 12-year post season drought, the Yankees progressed to being a very good team by 1976, taking the AL pennant before meeting their match in the World Series.
In the beginning every college football team, its alums and its fans had no greater aspirations than to end their season in the glory of participating in and winning a legendary post season Bowl game.
In time for the NBA post season, MLB's regular season, Euro 2012 and the Tennis Grand Slams, customers who receive ESPN's linear networks as part of their Xfinity video subscription can now stream these events and associated coverage live from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPNU from the convenience of their iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices, as well as online.
City's assistant manager Brian Kidd has been placed in charge for the remaining two games of the season and the club's post-season tour to the United States before a permanent manager is appointed.
Of course, regular-season proficiency can be wiped out by post-season stumbles.
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The kit was launched in New York, where the club is on a post-season tour.
Plus, for all of his on-field achievements, A-Rod has suffered from post -season struggles.
After barely making the Chase, Tony took off, winning an amazing four races in the post-season.
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As a result, they often offer low return in the post-season for their fat salaries.
But since that time, Major League Baseball has tweaked its criteria for choosing post-season umpires.
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Adding to the death spiral is the prodigious amount of junk food consumed during the NFL post-season.
These groups do an incredible job of turning a weary and beaten post-season player into performance machines.
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With no post-season bans to contend with in 2013, expect Buckeye fervor to be at an all-time high.
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They began to move the ball like they'd moved it in post-season games against Green Bay and Atlanta.
Not to sweep the post-season defensive awards (which he did, capturing the Lombardi, Butkus, Nagurski, and Bednarik trophies).
In their 11 post-season games, they've scored more than three goals just once.
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No one tops Atlanta, a combined 1-5 in World Series and Super Bowl play, not to mention numerous post-season flops in earlier rounds.
In the post-season his teams underachieved when opponents could develop strategies to counter this hyperactive system over the course of a playoff series.
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