Cepeda attended the 1969 spring training on West Palm Beach, being welcomed to the team by Hank Aaron.This marked the first time that the league's postseason had best-of-five-game playoffs.The Braves won the National League West with a record of 93-69, before losing to the New York Mets in the playoffs....
The Bridgewater State baseball team has been a dominant force in the New England region for decades.They have made dozens of postseason appearances and won several league and regional championships.Bridgewater State has one of the highest all-time winning percentages (.645) in the country....
He played briefly the following season for EV Zug of the Swiss Nationalliga A.Throughout his career, Lemieux was noted for playing his best games during the postseason.Once Lemieux was called up to the NHL for good during the 1985-86 season he played in 15 consecutive postseasons....
With this victory, Wolf is no longer the active leader in career games started without a postseason win.
Every home game -- regular season, postseason, and even preseason -- has been sold out since.The Patriots responded by putting together a seven-game winning streak to end the 1994 season, making the playoffs for the first time since 1986....
Playing every day, he set career highs in batting average, on-base percentage and RBI.It was in the postseason that he had his greatest success.Spiezio batted 18 for 55 (.327) for Anaheim in the playoffs that year....
The current football program has seen mixed success, with teams only qualifying for the postseason three times in its first eight years.However, the Vert & Or have shown progress as they played in their first Dunsmore Cup in 2010, losing a close game to the Laval Rouge et Or....
In 1970 the Bengals moved to play at Riverfront Stadium, a home they shared with the Cincinnati Reds until the team moved to Paul Brown Stadium in 2000.The team reached the playoffs three times during that decade, but could not win any of those postseason games.In 1975, the team posted an 11-3 record, giving them what is to this day the highest winning percentage (.786) in franchise history....
In the 2009-10 season the top four teams advanced to the playoffs and play two best-of-five rounds.The league scheduled the end of the regular season and postseason around the Olympic break.In each round the higher ranked team from the regular season will receive a home-ice advantage and the series will begin play and have the majority of games play in their rink....
He was also named to the Texas League postseason All-Star game.Lumsden suffered a setback in, while pitching for the Triple-A Omaha Royals....
In that game in Los Angeles, the Rams blew a 4th quarter lead, and needed a last-second touchdown set up by a blocked punt to pull out the game and keep their division title hopes alive, while the Packers had already clinched their division and were playing only for pride.In this postseason affair, however, Green Bay would be playing for more than pride.The weather was expected to be cold and snowy, but it was unusually warm in Milwaukee (mid-30s) on this December day....
In the postseason, he pitched 16 innings, allowing one earned run and saving five games, and he clinched the Yankees' victory in the 2009 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies -- his fifth championship.He was the only closer who did not record a loss or blown save that postseason....
In game 4 of that series, he hit a three-run homer, then a grand slam home run that broke a 6-6 tie, en route to an 11-8 victory.His RBI total in that game set a single-game postseason record.The win knotted the best-of-five series at two games apiece and forced game 5....
Mendoza's performance improved slightly in 2000 as he went 7-4 with a 4.25 ERA in 65 and 2/3 innings pitched, including his first complete game since 1998, and last of his career.Despite his improved performance, he was left off of the postseason roster.The following year, he was 8-4 with a 3.75 ERA, and returned to the postseason....
However, the Marlins would usually open the entire upper level for the postseason.
At four hours and twenty minutes, the game was the longest nine-inning postseason game ever played.
As of, the Angels and the Dodgers have never met in the postseason.To meet in the postseason would require that they both advance to the World Series in the same year.To date, the two teams have made the playoffs in the same year four times: 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2014....
When his search proved fruitless, Rauch felt an obligation to the school, and accepted the position as head coach for one season, on September 10, 1977; during that time, a successor was found.He also served as director of the short-lived Canadian-American Bowl, a postseason all-star game.Rauch also served as a part-time writer for the St. Petersburg Independent, a local newspaper that had him cover his old team, the Raiders, when they reached Super Bowl XV....
In the fifth inning of Game Five the 2008 National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Furcal made three errors to set records for most errors in one NLCS inning and game.He was just the second player to make three errors in one postseason inning.No shortstop had made three errors in one playoff game since Buck Weaver in the 1917 World Series....
