Sentence examples for avoid sweep from inspiring English sources

Angels avoid sweep Mike Napoli hit a grand slam, Hideki Matsui doubled in three runs, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the visiting Tampa Bay Rays, 12-3, to prevent the Rays from sweeping a series in Anaheim for the first time.

(AP) RAYS AVOID SWEEP John Jaso drove in five runs, Matt Garza won for the first time in a month and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Rangers, 9-5, to avoid a weekend sweep in Texas.

INDIANS POUND TWINS TO AVOID SWEEP Mitch Talbot (2-1) held the Twins to two hits and an unearned run in six innings, Andy Marte drove in three runs and the Cleveland Indians avoided a three-game sweep with an 8-1 victory at Minnesota.

Brewers Get to Smoltz and Avoid Sweep The rookie Casey McGehee hit a two-run homer off John Smoltz in the sixth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the host St . LouisCardinals, 4-3, to avoid a three-game sweep.

Rangers Shut Out Rays to Avoid Sweep Scott Feldman won his fifth consecutive road start, Michael Young and Ivan Rodriguez each drove in two runs and the visiting Texas Rangers avoided a three-game sweep by beating the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-0.... Ricky Romero won for the first time in four starts and the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Los Angeles Angels, 8-3.

In other AL games, the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 and the Cleveland Indians beat the Minnesota Twins 7-1 to avoid sweeps, the Tampa Bay Rays completed a three-game sweep by holding off the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 and the Seattle Mariners trounced the Houston Astros 12-5 to notch their season-best sixth straight win.

If they can somehow trick themselves into thinking that the last game of a series is actually the first, they will not have to worry about avoiding sweeps.

For example, what is often fascinating is not what's being said, but what's missing, avoided, swept under the carpet.

Teams are trying to avoid a sweep, complete a sweep or snap a 1-1 tie, and the Mets would feel much cozier with Hampton lurking there.

The Yankees look to Hiroki Kuroda on Thursday to avoid the sweep, but he has not been pitching well.

With the Yankees trying to avoid a sweep by the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, their bullpen included Jeff Marquez, Lance Pendleton and Amauri Sanit.