Sentence examples for runner left from inspiring English sources

Before there were fantasy leagues, old-school baseball buffs kept their minds busy by manually scoring every play of a game, using hieroglyphics like "1B 5 LOB" (To denote a single to third, with the base runner left stranded at the inning's end).

He did that until there was one runner left, and then everyone got down and did pushups in the snow.

The runner leaves everything behind, for better or worse.

I say George Steinbrenner emerges before the first runner leaves Hopkinton tomorrow morning.

If men are in the field but a female runner leaves them all behind and finishes in record time, should that not be treated as the record?

We once – true story – interviewed Flowered Up in a pizza restaurant in Islington, and at the end, the band did a runner, leaving us with the bill.

Mr Laws will join Ms Morgan in interviewing the three runners left in the Ofsted race.

There were 10 pitching changes, 20 walks, 3 errors and 24 runners left on base.

Two runners left the track on stretchers after completing the race.

But wise is the spectator who watches from the other side of First Avenue, on the runners' left.

When the bell rang for the final lap, there were just a few runners left to chase.