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American League

noun

  1. one of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1900. : A.L.


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This is an American League team’s longest losing streak since the 2013 Houston Astros dropped 15 in a row.

The night the Sox beat the Yankees and captured the American League pennant, my heart was racing, but not, for once, because of my own anxieties.

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There are typically more intentional walks in the National League than American League because teams can walk the eighth batter to face a pitcher.

He was Baltimore’s pitching coach when the club won the American League pennant in 1979 and the World Series in 1983.

Batters used to replace pitchers in the National League were on par with their American League counterparts and, unsurprisingly, performed better at the plate than pitchers had under the original rules.

On the way to the 1996 World Series, the Yankees met the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.

Back-to-back Derby winner Yoenis Céspedes will now suit up as an American League outfield reserve.

Clark, the first Jewish American League umpire, adjudicated baseball for three decades.

The game was the Yankees 105th victory of the season, tying the American League record for season victories.

He hit home runs in every park in the American League and hit more on the road than at home.

This is their record all around the American League circuit.

After the way you pitched this afternoon, Im sure theres nothing in the American League you need to be afraid of.

For the last seven years hes led the American League in batting, base stealing and everything else worth while.

A hum of approval indicated that the Irish-American League had met with favor.

Again he turned lowering brows on the Irish-American League.

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