Sentence examples for starter in the first from inspiring English sources

Trumpet arias at this glorious level require no footnotes, and I would add only that Tex Carleton, the Cardinal starter in the first game, threw sixteen scoreless innings himself before giving way to a reliever.

The Yankees lost their divisional to the Indians because Chien-Ming Wang, their ace and the starter in the first and fourth games, couldn't get his sinkerball working.

Manager Joe Torre has not officially announced that Clemens is going to pitch Friday, let alone who will be his starter in the first game of the season.

Bartolo Colon, the starter in the first game Saturday, ended a personal three-game losing streak on Sunday by allowing two runs in seven innings in a 7-5 victoverover the Oakland Athletics.

The day before, when he learned he would be a surprise starter in the first game of the World Series, Jose Vizcaino said: "It's like a dream come true.

A late starter in the First Class game (and it shows a bit) his second season at Headingley saw him play all 16 matches, chugging in for more than 500 overs, taking 68 wickets and never letting his captain down.

A backup quarterback early last season, Pryor became the starter in the fourth game and went 8-1.

He was the No. 3 quarterback entering last season and wound up the starter in the seventh game, replacing Scott Mitchell and Stoney Case.

That would be Bruce Gradkowski, who supplanted Campbell as the starter in the second game before separating a shoulder in the fifth.

Pietersen has also been named as a likely starter in the second of England's two Twenty20 matches against New Zealand at The Oval.

Scott Spiezio, who had a run-scoring single in the second, added a solo homer off the Devil Rays starter in the eighth.