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.

However, if the wild-card team and the division winner with the best record are from the same division, the wild-card team plays the division winner with the second-best record, and the remaining two division leaders play.

However, if the wild-card team and the division winner with the best record are from the same division, the wild-card team plays the division winner with the second-best record, and the remaining two division leaders play.

The team captain or " skip " always plays last and is instrumental in directing his team's shots and tactics.

One of the most memorable plays in the game, and in team history, occurred in the bottom of the first inning when 2nd baseman, Eric Young of the Rockies hit a leadoff home run.

The Dublin team plays most of their home league hurling and Gaelic Football games at Parnell Park.

The team currently plays their home games at Comerica Park in Downtown Detroit.

The Scotland national rugby union team plays at Murrayfield Stadium, which is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and is also used as a venue for other events, including music concerts.

Most commonly, each team plays every other team in its league at home and away in each season, in a round-robin tournament.

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.

The team who plays at home is decided when the matches are drawn.

Usually each player plays for himself, rather than in a partnership or team.

* Gene therapy plays a major role in the sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis, as a certain type of alien technology can only be used if one has a certain gene which can be given to the members of the team through gene therapy involving a mouse retrovirus.

The Tasmanian Tigers cricket team plays its home games at the Bellerive Oval on the Eastern Shore.

Wilson's no-hitter lit the Astros ' fire and six days later the team tied a major league record by turning seven double plays in a game.

The team plays at Whitehouse Field.

Hannover 96 ( nickname Die Roten or ' The Reds ') is the local football team that plays in the Bundesliga top division.

Their reserve team Hannover 96 II plays in the fourth league.

Arminia Hannover is another very traditional soccer team in Hanover that has played in the first league for years and plays now in the Niedersachsen-West Liga ( Lower Saxony League West ).

The water polo team WASPO W98 plays in the first division.

The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

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.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the second division.

Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

There were many more people involved in the Oxford team, and at one point the entire Dunn School was involved in its production.

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.

After Winter and Boyer agreed to start a team in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the new league had its first four teams.

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The Baltimore Orioles of the 1970s, led by manager Earl Weaver, were an example of such a " slugging " team that aspired to score most of its runs via home runs.

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.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

`` By winning against Bradley, Kentucky and Notre Dame on those teams' home courts, they showed that the home court advantage can be overcome anywhere and that it doesn't take a super team to do it ''.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

Alameda is home to the official offices and training facility of the Oakland Raiders American football team, which is located on Bay Farm Island.

Intentional walks are a strategic defensive maneuver, usually done to bypass one hitter for one the defensive team believes is less likely to initiate a run-scoring play ( e. g., a home run, sacrifice fly, or RBI base hit ), or to set up a double play or force out situation for the next batter.

The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

Home field advantage is given to the team that has the better record, with the exception that the team that made the postseason as the Wild Card team cannot get home field advantage.

The ALCS and NLCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.