How to Use the majors in a Sentence
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Add one more to the mix: the lack of a clear path to the majors.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
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The group as a whole has been the second-worst in the majors, with a 5.47 ERA.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
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The Braves led the majors with a 62-33 through Thursday.
—Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
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But the last Dodger to lead the majors in voting was Davey Lopes in 1980.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
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Most of those players reached the majors for the first time last season.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2023
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The Sox entered the contest with just 46 starts of at least six innings this year, tied for the third fewest in the majors.
—Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
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Acuña leads the majors with 13 hits to lead off a game after hitting a single in the first. ...
—George Henry, Chron, 22 Apr. 2023
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The Giants ranked first in the majors in ground-ball rate last season but worst in errors.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
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Sears, who leads the majors in hit batters, worked around four walks and allowed four hits and one run.
—Michael Wagaman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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The pitching staff ranks fifth in the majors in the category.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
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Excited to see what Evan Carter does in his first full season in the majors.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
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The Cubs haven’t been afraid to try to steal third base, either, with their 12 successful steals of third ranking fourth in the majors.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2024
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The injuries have forced Woods to play a very limited schedule — the majors and a few select events.
—Dave Skretta, ajc, 9 Apr. 2023
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Over the past two seasons, Irvin ranked 14th in the majors in innings pitched, excelling at throwing strikes.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2023
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Jonah Heim ranked second in the majors in runs saved via framing.
—Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
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Freeman and Betts were recently listed by MLB as two of the 10 best players in the majors.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
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For an organization that wants to put last year in the past, the team that led the majors in walks saw the same issue spoil its start to the season.
—Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
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Mookie Betts led the way at the plate with three hits and two RBIs, maintaining the best batting average in the majors at .377.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
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The Dodgers led the majors through Saturday in at-bats with runners in scoring position (225), thanks in part to their two-game head start in Seoul.
—Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2024
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The Alabama native has been busy this season, his first in the majors since 2019 due to injuries, with appearances in four of the Tigers’ nine games.
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2023
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The team’s fielding should be somewhat better than last year, when San Francisco was the worst in the majors in that department.
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
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LeMahieu, the former Birmingham Brother Rice star, opened the bottom of the first with a fly ball to right that's likely an out in most other ballparks in the majors.
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2023
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Their bullpen has been unexpectedly dreadful, finishing the trip with a 5.18 ERA that ranked fourth-to-last in the majors.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
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Unproven rookies and Lance Lynn, who led the majors in home runs allowed this season, will fill out the rest of a shaky playoff rotation.
—Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
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His play during his MLB debut during the weekend was enough to keep him in the majors, with Schumaker intrigued by his skill set.
—Ethan Mannello, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
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The payoff showed up early; many of those young players made their way to the majors in 2022, when the Guardians’ pesky hit-and-run offense lifted them into the playoffs with a promising young roster.
—Chelsea Janes, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
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Anthony Volpe extended his hitting streak to 21 games with two hits, tying the longest run in the majors this season.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
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The execution of Martinez’s message, buoyed by the thin air at Coors Field, Abrams’s return to the lineup following a two-game absence and facing the worst pitching staff in the majors seemed to do the trick.
—Spencer Nusbaum, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
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Heyward got to the majors first as a phenom in the spring of 2010, when his prodigious batting practice blasts were clearing the right-field fence at the team’s spring training complex and damaging cars in the parking lot.
—Scott Miller, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
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Just don’t tell that to the thousands of fans who packed the ballpark, a lagging baseball industry at large looking for an early June spark, and a Dodgers team flexing their muscles against the club with the most wins in the majors.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
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