A team playing with this style emphasizes doing little things ( including risky running plays like base-stealing ) to advance runners and score runs, often relying on pitching and defense to keep games close.

A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means.

The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a " 2 – 3 " format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage.

The team may, however use its third down in an attempt to advance the ball and gain a cumulative 10 yards.

If an eligible receiver on the passing team legally catches the ball it is a complete pass and the receiver may attempt to advance the ball.

That player's team immediately gains possession of the ball and he may attempt to advance the ball toward his opponent's goal.

A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.

Well in advance of the particular game, a number of different kinds of forward pass plays will have been planned out and practiced by the team.

In the event of change of possession during a play, the team newly in possession of the ball may try to advance it toward their opponent's goal, which the team formerly in possession will naturally resist.

The team entitled to snap the ball will usually know in advance the moment when the snap is to occur as one of their players calls out signals, which usually include a loud sound such as " hut " voiced one or more times, the number of which they know ; they are thus said to know the " snap count ".

The Dolphins were successful in the early 1970's, becoming the first team to advance to the AFC Championship for three consecutive seasons.

1991 also marked the first time that any team that finished in last place in their division would advance to the World Series the following season.

Role-playing games also include single-player offline role-playing video games in which players control a character or team who undertake quests, and may include capabilities that advance using statistical mechanics.

* In November 2006, the entire SNO team was awarded the inaugural John C. Polanyi Award for " a recent outstanding advance in any field of the natural sciences or engineering " conducted in Canada.

Under the NFL's unconditional blackout rules at the time, the Super Bowl could not be broadcast locally even if the local team did not advance to the Super Bowl, and it was a sellout.

But Miami also had the same core group of young players who helped the team advance to the previous year's Super Bowl VI.

The Cowboys, with their offense and " flex " defense, became the first NFC wild-card team to advance to the Super Bowl after posting a 10-4 regular season record and postseason victories over the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams.

As a result, the Cowboys became the first ever wild card team to advance to the Super Bowl.

In doing so, Oakland became the third wild card team to advance to the Super Bowl, and the first wild card team to win three postseason rounds since the NFL expanded to a 10-team playoff format in 1978.

As a result, the Bills became the fourth wild-card team to advance to the Super Bowl.

Fortunately, Barthez's team found their form and won their final round robin match 2 – 0 to advance to the next stage, where they upset heavily favoured Spain 3 – 1 in the round of 16.

In the replays, Switzerland ousted the team of Germany, to which some Austrian players had been added for political reasons, with a score of 4 – 2, while Cuba managed to advance to the next round at the expense of Romania.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.

The agenda for each session is planned up to seven months in advance and begins with the release of a preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda.

French morale collapses and a general retreat begins, as Wellington gives the signal for a general advance.

** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins his advance towards London in support of the English Restoration.

Lonoke's history begins with the advance of Union troops through Central Arkansas during the American Civil War.

Nevertheless, the Dominion begins to advance, and seizes control of Deep Space Nine.

* April 20 – A new Nationalist advance begins in Vizcaya province in northern Spain, supported by a preliminary aerial bombardment.

A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.

Planning for a pow-wow generally begins months, perhaps even a year, in advance of the event by a group of people usually referred to as a pow-wow committee.

Many years before this story begins, the armies of Regos and Coregos sought to invade Pingaree, but their advance was repelled by Pingaree's king with the help of three magic pearls given to him by the Mermaids.

If a fielder begins to visibly make an attempt to prevent an advance but then elects not to throw, the advance is not due to defensive indifference.

Usually the pastry chef does all the necessary preparation of the various desserts in advance, before dinner seating begins.

Sparring practice begins with the bamboo sword ( chukdo ) but now due to new laws passed down from the Haidong Gumdo federation a plastic / rubber sword must be used in competitions, advances to mokgum, and depending on the school, may advance to weighted training weapons with protective padding or armor.

Conventions to be played must be agreed by partners before play begins and must be disclosed to their opponents, either in advance by the use of convention cards or by alerts, announcements, and answers to questions about one's partner's bids once bidding has begun.

Bickle begins to advance only to have the enraged, wounded bouncer behind him trying to attack him while going up the stairs.

: 2: The Battle of Kock begins with a German advance.

Topics can be supplied long in advance, or may be given 45 minutes or an hour before the debate begins.

The team scored against then begins with possession of the ball inside of their own circle and can begin to advance the ball towards the other team's goal.

The Source Book did much to advance the view that modern logic begins with, and builds on, the Begriffsschrift.

Once ( and if ) the advance has been paid back from record sales, the artist then begins to see royalty payments for additional sales.

Toto, one of Zac's classmates, makes a sexual advance toward Zac and begins to follow him.