Sentence examples for avert sweep from inspiring English sources

RED SOX AVERT SWEEP David Ortiz hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs, John Lackey ended a career-worst four-game losing streak and Boston avoided a three-game sweep by beating visiting Baltimore, 6-1.

Lundqvist did it in 2008, to avert a sweep by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Sunday night was the 24th time in his Yankees career that Pettitte started the final game of a series with the Yankees trying to avert a sweep.

The Bulls stole a game to avert a sweep, but the 4-1 sedges edge by which Cleveland prevailed on the first leg of James's farewell tour was a fair measure of where the teams stood in the N.B.A. hierarchy.

While the Mets averted a sweep to the Phillies at home, some of the tension in their rivalry has cooled.

The Blue Jays spoiled Boston's annual Patriots Day game and averted a sweep of the four-game weekend series.

(AP) METS 5, GIANTS 2 Mike Pelfrey pitched into the eighth inning and Carlos Beltran homered as the Mets averted a sweep at home.

PADRES 2, ORIOLES 0: Brian Lawrence pitched eight innings of five-hit ball and Ray Lankford drove in two runs as San Diego averted a sweep in Baltimore.

The next day, they averted a sweep to ignite an 11-game winning streak that started everyone wondering whether they would sneak into the playoffs.

A day after Toronto averted a sweep, the crowd at the roaring Rogers Centre expected the Blue Jays to roll over the rookie.

The victory averted a sweep of the season series by sixth-place Montreal, which had won the three previous meetings between the teams, and gave the Rangers their first three-game winning streak since Jan .8.