Sentence examples for beginning a run of from inspiring English sources

He hit 19 home runs in 66 games his rookie year, beginning a run of power production that seemed unshakable.

As for New York, Babe Ruth arrived in 1920 and changed the team's fortunes for good, beginning a run of success that has rarely abated.

On Friday Mr. Carter's only opera, "What Next?," had its New York stage premiere, beginning a run of performances that ends on Tuesday, his 99th birthday.

In 2012 Madrid all but claimed the league with a 2-1 win at the Camp Nou, beginning a run of just one defeat in seven clásicos.

World War II cut short her singles career, then came raising a family and eventually middle age, which she laughed at by beginning a run of United States Tennis Association senior titles that now exceeds 300.

His second pitch Friday, a fastball to Trevor Crowe, caught the outside edge for strike two, and Hughes put him away with a curveball, beginning a run of five consecutive strikeouts that flaunted the breadth of his repertory: curve, fastball, fastball, curve, cutter.

It began a run of seven straight wins, culminating with the World Series clincher in Detroit.

That series began a run of nine years in which the teams met seven times in the playoffs.

This weekend it begins a run of one of the hardest operas for soprano in the repertory, Verdi's "Traviata".

Jeter and Girardi go back to 1996, when the Yankees began a run of winning four of five World Series.

Terry's return looks well timed as Chelsea begin a run of six matches in 23 days across four competitions.