Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.

Campbell made a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street.

After a rough start, which included a brawl between Michael Barrett and Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs overcame the Milwaukee Brewers, who had led the division for most of the season, with winning streaks in June and July, coupled with a pair of dramatic, late-inning wins against the Reds, and ultimately clinched the NL Central with a record of 85 – 77.

He had a recurring dramatic role in the second season of Sons of Anarchy and has also had roles in several films.

At the beginning of the 1993 season, in a dramatic and controversial move, the board of the club sacked coach and long-time player Wayne Schimmelbusch, and appointed Denis Pagan in his place.

Science fiction television producers will sometimes end a season with a dramatic cliffhanger episode to attract viewer interest, but the short-term effect rarely influences financial partners.

One key offseason trade between the San Diego Padres ' General Manager, Kevin Towers, and the Texas Rangers ' General Manager, Jon Daniels, would prove to have a dramatic impact on their 2006 season.

The season marked a dramatic 25-win improvement over the 1985 season, which resulted in a yet another last-place finish in the West.

In dramatic fashion, Brett went 2 for 4 in the final game of the season against the Twins, beating out his three rivals, all playing in the same game.

In the 1967 – 68 season, with a new home court in the form of The Spectrum to defend their championship, once again the 76ers made it back to the NBA Playoffs and in the rematch of the previous year's semifinals, the 76ers held a 3 – 1 series lead over the Celtics, before the Celtics staged a dramatic come back to beat the Sixers in seven games.

Despite this, and a 36 – 46 record, the Pacers had a very strong finish to the season, which included a desperate attempt to steal the 8th seed from the Atlanta Hawks, and dramatic improvement in forwards Danny Granger and Mike Dunleavy.

Following a tough start to his Loftus Road career, Hughes made sure of QPR's Premier League status following a dramatic 3 – 2 defeat at Manchester City on the last day of the season after a run of 5 straight home wins saw them escape the drop.

They saw however a dramatic drop in form over the summer which saw them briefly flirt with relegation, before a late surge of form late in the season salvaged 10th place.

Although this scene is usually understood as the Flood bringing about the world ’ s and the year's end, it might also represent the dramatic onset of the rainy season.

Melbourne's 2011 season started with a dramatic draw against, tying 11. 18.

In one of the more dramatic scenes of the series, in season four, J. R. Ewing flies in his Learjet to the Lamesa airport.

Although Mighty Blackpool have won the league title fifteen times, the last time they were league champions was in the 2001 season after a dramatic finish to the season saw them finish one point ahead of Old Edwardians.

The team posted a 38-44 record in its second season ( 1975 – 76 ), but did not qualify for postseason play, despite the dramatic improvement.

Creator Bill Lawrence stated in a video interview that season 8 will be more like the first few seasons in tone, with more of a focus on more realistic and dramatic storylines and the introduction of new characters.

The draw of the Viceregal Court and its social season was not enough to encourage most Irish peers and their large entourage to come to Dublin any more, their absence and that of their servants, with all their collective spending, severely hitting the economy of Dublin, which went into dramatic decline.

Consequently, in the first episode of the third season during a particularly dramatic scene Joe leaves Rhoda and the two remain separated for the entire season, with Groh appearing in only nine of the season's episodes.

Toward the end of the 1920s, the introduction of sound into movies made possible dramatic new film styles and the use of verbal humour.

Civil wars since the end of World War II have lasted on average just over four years, a dramatic rise from the one-and-a-half year average of the 1900-1944 period.

It is also due to dramatic improvements in agricultural production and the end of a four-year drought in most of the country.

His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.

Theologically, he represents the shift from the classical to the medieval outlook ; his popular writings are full of dramatic miracles, potent relics, demons, angels, ghosts, and the approaching end of the world.

Shattering religious and cultural taboos, devastating vast swathes of countryside, and destroying whole cities, the Peloponnesian War marked the dramatic end to the fifth century BC and the golden age of Greece.

Paradigm shifts tend to be most dramatic in sciences that appear to be stable and mature, as in physics at the end of the 19th century.

Towards the end of the period, the early dramatic precursors of opera such as monody, the madrigal comedy, and the intermedio are seen.

By the end of the Jōmon period, a dramatic shift had taken place according to archaeological studies.

Evan Hadingham combined evidence from found objects with the storm scenario to imagine a dramatic end to the settlement:

Stars more massive than 8 solar masses ( M < sub >⊙</ sub >) will likely end their lives in a dramatic supernova explosion.

There was also a dramatic migratory shift of the population from northern to southern China, as the North held 75 % of the overall population at the dynasty's inception, but by its end was reduced to 50 %.

Brest is located amidst a dramatic landscape near the entrance of the natural rade de Brest ( Brest roadstead ), at the west end of Brittany.

Since the end of the Iran – Iraq War, Iran's new foreign policy has had a dramatic effect on its global standing.

Once in a while, Wiggum will have an argument with his fellow officers, which often end in dramatic, tearful moments of reconciliation.

Toward the end of December, while travelling up the Nile by boat, Dadd underwent a dramatic personality change, becoming delusional and increasingly violent, and believing himself to be under the influence of the Egyptian god Osiris.

Patagonia is a region located at the southern end of South America, territory shared by Argentina and Chile, boasting some of the most dramatic landscapes on Earth.

The German Mozart tenor tradition goes back to end of the 1920s when Mozart tenors started making use of Caruso's technique to achieve and improve the required dynamics and dramatic expressiveness.

Lou Gehrig's speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939 was not reproduced verbatim in the film ; the script condensed and reorganized Gehrig's actual spontaneous and unprepared remarks, and moved the iconic " luckiest man " line from the beginning to the end for heightened dramatic effect.

It has been suggested that the use of a pastoral romance from the 1590s indicates that at the end of his career, Shakespeare felt a renewed interest in the dramatic contexts of his youth.

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) used whites in blackface to represent all of its major black characters, but reaction against the film's racism largely put an end to this practice in dramatic film roles.

Many airs end a section on a G or A note in the first octave, at which point a piper will often play one of these hand chords for dramatic effect.