Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

Although both concede they would like to hit 60, they stick primarily to the baseball player's standard quote: `` The important thing is to win the pennant ''.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

Although not flag officers, modern day commodores in the U. S. Navy rate a blue and white command pennant that is normally flown at their headquarters facilities ashore or from ships that they are embarked aboard when they are the senior officer afloat.

The pennant is flown by inspection vessels in EU waters.

However, the usual way to show the link with the House of Orange-Nassau is the orange pennant above the red-white-blue.

The system is somewhat analogous to a system of pennant numbers the Royal Navy and some European and Commonwealth navies ( 19 in total ) use.

One of the most famous episodes in Major League Baseball history, the " Shot Heard ' Round the World " is the name given to Bobby Thomson's walk-off home run that clinched the National League pennant for the Giants over their rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers.

NOAA ships in commission display the NOAA flag ; those with only one mast fly it immediately beneath the ship's commissioning pennant or the personal flag of a civilian official or flag officer if one is aboard the ship, while multimasted vessels fly it at the masthead of the forwardmost mast.

Jackson's version of the story is that he noted that the Yankees had won the pennant the year before, but lost the World Series to the Reds, and suggested that they needed one thing more to win it all, and pointed out the various ingredients in his drink.

The national anthem is played, the transferring officer reads the commissioning directive, the ensign is hoisted, and the commissioning pennant broken.

The team logo is a stylized version of the flag of Ohio, which is a pennant.

* M31 is the pennant number for HMS Cattistock, a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel

Bunning is remembered for his role in the pennant race of 1964, in which the Phillies held a commanding lead in the National League for most of the season, eventually losing the title to the St. Louis Cardinals.

The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons, the vexillological word for a pennant.

* Beginning in 1893, the National League's championship pennant is awarded to the first – place club in the standings at the end of the season.

* The Curse of the Goat is used to explain the failures of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, who have not won a World Series championship since 1908, and a National League pennant since 1945.

The reinvigorated Elliot's enthusiasm for team play is contagious and the mediocre Dragons become contenders for the Central League pennant.

Galvin is the only player in baseball history to win 20 or more games in 10 different years without winning a pennant, finishing his career with a total of 365 wins and 310 losses.

Little is known of the area occupied by Nailsea before the coal mining industry began, although it was used as a quarry in Roman times from which pennant sandstone was extracted.

Commodores fly a Broad Pennant which is a short swallow-tailed pennant based on the St George's Cross, with a red ball at the canton ( upper quarter next to the staff ).

When a rank flag is flown the commissioning pennant is displaced downward.

The Chicago White Stockings win the pennant in this one season under the new name and the old minor league status.

Changes to these regulations were made during 1863, when a new naval jack, battle ensign, and commissioning pennant design was introduced aboard all Confederate ships, echoing the Confederacys change of its national flag from the old Stars and Bars to the new Stainless Banner ( as pictured above right ).

When, on 11 May 1749, Commodore Keppel sailed from Plymouth to the Mediterranean, as Commodore commanding the Mediterranean Fleet, ( with his pennant in his old ship HMS Centurion intending to persuade the Dey of Algiers to restrain the piratical operations of his subjects ) Reynolds travelled with him as far as Minorca and there painted the first of his 6 portraits of Keppel, left, along with others of officers of the British garrison there.

The pennant, which was really the old " pennoncell ", was of three colours for the whole of its length, and towards the end left separate in two or three tails, and so continued until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

These ships would thenceforward fly a special pennant and the men would wear a special badge on their uniforms with the old Coat of arms of Madrid.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

Although the French Navy no longer uses the term " destroyer " ( French: destructeur ), the largest frigates are assigned pennant numbers with flag superior " D ", which designates destroyer.

He often referred to himself as " a bad-news broadcaster ", since the Reds were only a serious contender for the pennant nine times in his tenure.

In the " pennant race ", a player must first achieve at least a 75-55 record during the regular season, then win a best-of-7 " World Series " against L. A. or N. Y. depending whether you have chosen a team from the Eastern or Western league respectively.

The Phillies, a particularly young team which came to be known as the " Whiz Kids ", had won the National League pennant in dramatic fashion on the final day of the season to garner their second pennant — their first in 35 years.

From 2004 until 2010, the race served as the opening round of the " Chase for the Sprint Cup ", a ten-race " playoff " designed among the top ten ( twelve as of 2007 ) drivers in the standings of the series following the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 to spur interest in a championship series while NASCAR faces competition from the start of the NFL season and college football, the pennant races and post-season of Major League Baseball and the outset of the NHL and NBA seasons.

When Dick Sisler's home run off Don Newcombe won the pennant for the Phillies ' " Whiz Kids ", the Dodger season was over.

More unpopular with players, however, was the somewhat bizarre premise that " playing a perfect game ", not winning a pennant, was the game's ultimate goal.

As a result of the " shot ", the Giants won the game 5-4, defeating the Dodgers in their pennant playoff series, 2 games to 1.

Thereafter, a formalized challenge system developed whereby the championship, symbolized by a " pennant ", would change hands upon the defeat of the existing champion in a two out of three series.

Each navy has its own system: the United States Navy uses hull classification symbols, and the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth use pennant numbers.

** Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board

The Pennant ( church ) | church pennant of the Royal Navy and the Royal Netherlands Navy

In the Royal Navy, the commissioning pennant is a small St George's Cross with a long tapering plain white fly.

* A church pennant, as used by the Royal Navy, European Navies and Commonwealth Navies, is a broad pennant flown on ships and at establishments ( bases ) during religious services, and has the George Cross and Dutch flag incorporated ; chosen after the English Dutch Wars where both sides stopped for Church on a Sunday.

She was decommissioned from the Royal Canadian Navy on 27 November 1945, then recommissioned by that navy as a Prestonian class frigate with pennant number 319 on 26 November 1953, and decommissioned again on 14 April 1956.

The Royal Navy's commissioning pennant

In the Royal Navy the commissioning pennant is flown continuously in every ship and establishment in commission unless displaced by a senior officer's Rank flag.

Any vessel designated as RMS has the right to both fly the pennant of the Royal Mail when sailing and to include the Royal Mail " crown " logo with any identifying device and / or design for the ship.

* M30, the pennant number for the Royal Navy ship, HMS Ledbury

The Royal Navy's commissioning pennant.

: This article is about Royal Navy and European ship pennant numbers.

In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers ( an internationalisation of the term " pendant numbers " which is what they were called prior to 1948 ).

The name pennant number arises from the fact that ships were originally allocated a flag identifying a flotilla or particular type of vessel: for example, in the Royal Navy, the red burgee for torpedo boats, H for torpedo boat destroyers.

HMS Lancaster was initially allocated the pennant number F232, until it was realised that in the Royal Navy, form number 232 is the official report for ships that have run aground ; sailors being superstitious, it was quickly changed to F229.

After World War II, in 1948, the Royal Navy adopted a rationalised " pennant " number system where the flag superior indicated the basic type of ship as follows.

She was originally laid down as a Royal Navy Castle-class corvette, Rayleigh Castle, pennant number K695, but was renamed and converted before completion.