* GF — Games finished: number of games pitched where player was the final pitcher for his team as a relief pitcher

* Games pitched: 1119

McGinnity started Games Two and Four of the five game series against the Athletics, winning one and losing one, while Mathewson pitched the other three.

He pitched a complete game in Games One of the 1988 American League Championship Series against the Oakland Athletics, but was outmatched by Oakland's ace, Dave Stewart.

Mussina started Games 1 and 5 of the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, posting an 0 – 1 record with a 4. 09 ERA in 11 innings pitched.

Wood, who had pitched and won Games 1 and 4 for the Red Sox, started Game 7 with a chance to win a championship for Boston.

The A's went on to lose Games 4 and 6 as well and Darling never again pitched in the postseason.

Wang pitched for Chinese Taipei, the national baseball team of Taiwan, in the 2002 Asian Games.

On August 21, Osterman pitched the first five innings of a 3-1 loss to Japan in the Gold Medal Match, ending Team USA's winning streak at 22 consecutive games and clinching the silver medal of the 2008 Summer Games.

* Games pitched: Octavio Dotel ( 83, 2002 )

He pitched in two other All-Star Games ( 1934, 1936 ) and was also selected in 1939 and 1941.

Kuo pitched for Taiwan in the Asian Games and in the inaugural World Baseball Classic, allowing three earned runs in two games.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

A statistic that quantifies the defensive contribution of a player, calculated in its simplest form as RF = ( Assists + Put Outs )/( Games Played ).

* Games played, a statistic in several sports representing the number of games a player has participated in

* OTL – Overtime losses – Games the team has lost in overtime ( Note: Many leagues do not separate overtime losses and regulation losses, including all losses in the losses statistic )

Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.

Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise and launched the charitable Goodwill Games.

The 117th meeting of the International Olympic Committee, held in Singapore in July 2005, voted to drop softball and baseball as Olympic sports for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

In September, 2006, it was announced that McFarlane will be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, founded by major league baseball pitcher Curt Schilling.

* A book of baseball games and drills, Kirby Puckett's Baseball Games ( ISBN 0-7611-0155-1 ), published by Workman Publishing Company in 1996

NHK broadcasts the six annual Grand Sumo tournaments ( having done so since the 1953 Natsu Basho ), high-school baseball championships from Koshien Stadium, Olympic Games ( under the Japan Consortium ), National Sports Festival of Japan, and a range of other sports.

Southern University won the NAIA baseball championship during his junior year, and Brock was selected for the United States baseball team in the 1959 Pan American Games.

He was disqualified and stripped of his medals for violation of the rules of amateurism, as he had played two seasons ' worth of semi-professional baseball before coming to the Games.

The American delegation at the Games had brought along baseball uniforms, but the American Olympic Committee refused to risk injury to its athletes by having the baseball demonstration take place whilst there were any events still to take place involving those athletes.

The Tacoma Rainiers play their home games at Cheney Stadium, which hosted the baseball portion of the 1990 Goodwill Games.

During sporting competitions, such as the Olympic Games, the national anthem of the gold medal winner is played at each medal ceremony ; also played before games in many sports leagues, since being adopted in baseball during World War II.

Athletics, swimming, fencing, diving, baseball, boxing, basketball, equestrian, football, artistic gymnastics, rowing, wrestling, shooting, tennis, weightlifting and water polo are the only summer sports that have never been absent from the Pan American Games program.

As part of the creation of 2K Sports, Take-Two acquired from Sega the rights to the ESPN 2K sports games created by Visual Concepts ( football and basketball ) and Kush Games ( baseball and hockey ); when announced, Take-Two renamed the franchise to omit " ESPN " from the titles.

The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games ( ACOG ) sought to build the stadium in a way that it could be converted to a new baseball stadium, and ACOG paid for the conversion.

European colonialism certainly helped spread particular games around the world, especially cricket ( not related to baseball ), football of various sorts, bowling in a number of forms, cue sports ( like snooker, carom billiards and pool ), hockey and its derivatives, equestrian ( originally of Middle Eastern origin ), and tennis ( and related games deriving from jeu de paume ), and many winter sports, while the originally Europe-dominated modern Olympic Games generally also ensured standardization in particularly European directions when rules for similar games around the world were merged.

However, a switch from track and field to baseball at the Pan-American Games revealed a talent for the game as the Dominican team took gold.

In 2001 after the circa-1937 main grandstand was demolished and a new, $ 1. 97-million, wheelchair-accessible main grandstand was built ( the park's fourth ) and a new " pop-up " underground irrigation system was installed, the park was used as the chief baseball venue for the Canada Summer Games.

Fidel Castro's belief in socialism and the benefits of sports ( he loves and has played baseball ) has resulted in Cuba's relative international success for a population of 11 million in sporting events such as the Olympic Games.

Baseball at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the third time an Olympic baseball tournament had been held as a full medal sport, and the ninth time it had been part of the Summer Olympic Games in any capacity.

* Bo Jackson: 2 Games in 1: Contains football and baseball games

Martinez, along with other future Major Leaguers Jim Abbott and Robin Ventura, won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the seventh time that baseball was part of the Olympic Games and its last year as a demonstration sport.

Prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics Games, the host nation Greece, trying to build up their chances of winning a medal, decided to put together team of North American baseball players of Greek heritage.

* Games by Vulcan Software, amongst which the Valhalla trilogy

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

He later collected a number of these into book form, " 101 BASIC Computer Games ", which was first published in 1973.

Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games in 1992, which helped revitalize the city.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

The discus throw is a routine part of most modern track and field meets at all levels and is a sport which is particularly iconic of the Olympic Games.

In 1999 it was licensed to Living Room Games, which produced the Second Edition.

Fencing is one of five sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics.

At Gen Con 2012, FASA Games, Inc. was revealed, which includes FASA Corporation co-founder Ross Babcock on the Board of Directors.

His paper was followed by his 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, with Oskar Morgenstern, which considered cooperative games of several players.

In AD 393 the Emperor Theodosius abolished the Olympic Games, which by then had become corrupt, and gymnastics, along with other sports, declined.

Throughout the world, there at three FIG levels: Age group ( Age 11-16 ), Junior ( 12-19 ) and Senior ( 15 +), which are used in the World Championships and many other events around the world, including European Championships and World Games.

In 1971, he began working as editor-in-chief at Guidon Games, a publisher of wargames, for which he produced the board games Alexander the Great and Dunkirk.

Games that are designed for the Game Boy Color, but which also include backwards-compatibility with the previous Game Boy systems, have a similar design to the original grey Game Boy cartridges, but are colored black for identification.

* After the airing of the season 5 episode " Games, Flames, and Automobiles ", in which Al created a game based on Tool Time, Northern Games released The Home Improvement Board Game.

Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.

The Champions franchise released a new version under the Fuzion system, which had been a joint development with R. Talsorian Games, called Champions: the New Millennium.

Illuminati: New World Order ( INWO ) is a collectible card game ( CCG ) that was released in 1995 by Steve Jackson Games, based on their original boxed game Illuminati, which in turn was inspired by The Illuminatus!

After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another, and improve the financial balance of the IOC, which receives greater income on Olympic years.

However Id Tech 4 had far fewer licensees than the Unreal Engine from Epic Games, due to the long development time that went into Doom 3 which Id had to release before licensing out that engine to others.

In the Atari 8-bit game Rescue on Fractalus !, published by Lucasfilm Games in 1985, the graphics depicting the cockpit of the player's spacecraft contains two window struts, which are not anti-aliased and are therefore very " jagged ".