He allowed one hit and struck out four in his only postseason appearance.In 1996, he fashioned a 4-3 record with a 3.83 ERA before being traded to the Texas Rangers....
The Wings dispatched a fractured St. Louis Blues team and a surprising rival Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to reach the conference finals for the third straight season.This is the first time that these two teams met in the postseason.Detroit was looking for its first Cup win since 1955, and to avenge the shocking four-game sweep to New Jersey in 1995....
Finally, insurance giant Progressive assumed sponsorship of the Gator Bowl on New Year's Day in Jacksonville after a four-year run as sponsor by Konica Minolta ended in 2010.One postseason all-star game changed both its location and name....
The two teams have met four times in the postseason, with each team winning two games.Three of those four playoff meetings were held in the 2000s decade....
At the end of the regular season the team which has the most points is awarded the title of regular season champion.The league in the past generally takes a several week break between the regular season and postseason.As with the regular season, the format of the playoffs has varied from year to year....
He only got one chance in the postseason and he certainly made the most of it.
His .344 batting average was the best in that year's Interstate League, Levan's first professional batting championship.For his efforts, he was named to the league's postseason all-star team....
These requirements leave four players ineligible who are living and have played in the past five seasons, and one (Seerey) who did not play 10 seasons in MLB.No player has ever hit four home runs in a postseason game (the record is three)....
Despite his solid season, he was originally not expected to make a start in the postseason.
Because each postseason series is split between the home fields of the two teams, home-field advantage does not usually play a large role in the postseason unless the series goes to its maximum number of games, giving one team an additional game at home.However, the first two games of a postseason series are hosted by the same team.That team may have an increased chance of starting the series with two wins, thereby gaining some momentum for the rest of the series....
He posted 33 tackles on the year and was part of a unit that ranked sixth in the NFL in rush defense, allowing an average of only 98.3 yards per game.He started each of the final ten regular season games and opened two of three postseason contests.He recorded two tackles in the playoffs, including one in Super Bowl XXXIX as the Patriots beat the Eagles and Traylor earned his third Super Bowl ring....
While the Giants have more total wins, head-to-head wins, National League pennants and World Series titles in their franchise histories, the Dodgers have won the National League West only 5 more times than the Giants since the start of division play in 1969.Both teams have made the postseason as a National League wild card twice.The Giants won their first world championship in California in 2010, while the Dodgers won their last world title in 1988....
The 30-year-old veteran also played in all 18 Stanley Cup Playoff games with the Lightning as they made it to within one game of the Stanley Cup Final.He recorded a goal and five points during the postseason.On the 29th of June, Hall was re-signed to a one-year, one-way contract....
During the bowl's existence it was generally the first bowl game played during the postseason.It was regarded as one of the lower-profile bowl games in that the conferences involved were mid-majors, and was one of the first bowls to restrict its television marketing efforts to the medium of cable television....
He retired as the most accurate field goal kicker in CFL and NFL history of all kickers with at least 100 field goal attempts (230 of 266, 86.5% as of January 2010, since surpassed by Dan Bailey and Steven Gostkowski).He is also known, however, for some high profile missed field goal attempts in postseason games.Vanderjagt began his college career at Michigan State, where he was a quarterback in 1988....
The Nuggets continued their strong play early on in the NBA, as they won division titles in their first two seasons in the league, and missed a third by a single game.However, neither of these teams were ultimately successful in the postseason.Similarly to the other new NBA teams, the Nuggets were given many financial issues including a 2 million dollar entry fee....
He posted 34 catches and lead his team with six touchdowns in 2003 and 56 catches in 2004 despite scoring just three times.His best performances in his career came in the postseason....
