The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

* L — Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win

The team struggled with injuries and lost all four tests ( a game against the Western Province had test status ).

The Lions performed well in the remaining All Black tests though they lost all three, the team did not lose another non-test in the New Zealand leg of the tour.

The 1968 tour of South Africa saw the Lions win 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but the team actually lost three tests against the Springboks and drew one.

In its first game in the American League, the team lost to the Detroit Tigers 14 – 13 after blowing a 9-run lead in the 9th inning.

Lara returned to the team for the second Test ( and scored a huge first innings score of 196 ), but in the process lost his captaincy indefinitely to the newly-appointed Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

The team hosted ( and lost ) their divisional round match on January 15, 2006 against the Carolina Panthers.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

During Young's one year with the Canton team, he won 15 games and lost 15.

Thelma Barlow, who played Derek's wife Mavis, was angered by the sacking of her co-star and resigned, while the production team also lost some of its key writers when Barry Hill, Adele Rose and Julian Roach all resigned.

This curse purportedly became popular after the team lost Super Bowl V, when they were forced to wear their colored jersey because they were the designated home team.

Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.

The team made the finals, but lost to Fitzroy in the elimination final.

The Marlins also lost key parts of their second championship team, Ugueth Urbina and Iván Rodríguez left via free agency ( signed by the Detroit Tigers ).

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

In the six-plus decades since winning the championship in 1947, the team suffered many losing seasons, and currently hold the league's longest active championship drought.

The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

The team finished with a franchise best 14 – 2 regular season record and the NFC West division championship.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

The 1981 season saw Walsh lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship ; the team rose from the cellar to the top of the NFL in just two seasons.

The Brabham team took the constructors ' world championship in both years.

The team were second in the constructors ' championship, aided by second places at Monaco and Watkins Glen scored by Piers Courage, driving a Brabham for the Frank Williams Racing Cars privateer squad.

Aided by number two driver Rolf Stommelen, the team came fourth in the constructors ' championship.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

By then, the team had appeared in 10 straight championship games and won seven.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

It was Graham's last game ; the win capped a 10-year run in which he led his team to the league championship every year, winning four in the AAFC and three in the NFL.

Had the Bears won either championship, the club would have completed a championship three-peat – a feat completed only by the Packers ( twice ), although no team has done it since the AFL-NFL merger.

Speaker took over the reins as player-manager in, and would lead the team to a championship in 1920.

The Cubs have not won the World Series in years, a longer championship drought than that of any other major North American professional sports team,

The Rockies became the first team ever to sweep both the division series and league championship series in the same postseason.

The team went on to win the Georgia state championship in 1903, 1904, and 1905.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

* CG — Complete game: number of games where player was the only pitcher for his team

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

Defensive indifference is generally only scored instead of a stolen base when the game is in a late inning and the team with the stealing baserunner is down by more than one run.

If the game has been scored correctly, the total number of plate appearances for a team should equal the total of that team's runs, men left on base, and men put out.

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.

One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game.

The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

The team managed two early wins before losing the test to New Zealand and only winning one more game as well as drawing once.

The team did not win the test series though, winning one game but losing the other three.

The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time ( overtime ) may be issued when the game ends with a draw.

Whichever team got the most points won the game .< ref >

* Shares St. Louis Blues team record for assists in one game ( 5 on February 27, 1988 )

On June 30, 2009, the Orioles rallied to score 10 runs against Boston Red Sox after facing a 10 – 1 deficit in the 7th inning, winning the game by 11 – 10, setting a Major League Baseball record for the largest comeback by a last-place team over a first-place team.