How to Use box score in a Sentence
box score
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But that is where things start to break away in terms of box score statistics.
— Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017 -
Prescott was impressive even if the box score doesn’t suggest it at first glance.
— Drew Davison, star-telegram, 26 Sep. 2017 -
The counting stats are nice, but Brown’s started to thrive outside the box score.
— Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 30 Oct. 2017 -
For a number of years in the late 1800s, no box scores were available.
— Philip Bump, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017 -
Invariably, the problem gets fixed and the final box score tells the story.
— Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017 -
Winton Woods played balanced and complete football based on the box score.
— Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 9 Sep. 2017 -
His dad would delight in Medina’s knowing all the box scores, all the stats, all the players.
— Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017 -
Coach David Beaty admitted as much in his postgame radio interview, citing the stat that jumped off the box score.
— Jesse Newell, kansascity, 28 Oct. 2017 -
Last weekend, Odom burned scouting reports, box scores and printouts of social media posts critical of Mizzou in a cooler in front of his players.
— Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 21 Oct. 2017 -
The box scores will look the same this season, but the NBA has provided an updated scoring system for fantasy games this season.
— Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2017 -
Following a crushing road loss at Clemson, the Tigers put together a weird-as-all-hell box score in a 24-10 win over Mercer.
— Alex Martin Smith, ajc, 21 Sep. 2017 -
Nate's box scores, but a lot of the plays from the game.
— David Oliver, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023 -
Some of them show up in the box score, some of them don’t.
— Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021 -
The fifth, a 24-10 win against N.C. State, should have been a tossup based on the box score.
— Christopher Smith, al, 11 Oct. 2021 -
But the box score was pretty ugly for the rest of the Bucks.
— David Brandt, ajc, 9 July 2021 -
All the telltale signs of a smooth road blowout were right there in the box score.
— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2021 -
The guy’s worth goes further than the points column in the box score.
— Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019 -
Bridges doesn’t score the most points or do the most of anything that might pop in the box score.
— Ben Cohen, WSJ, 1 June 2021 -
Why even risk it just to get an assist in the box score?
— Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Hart’s impact on the game didn’t translate to the box score.
— Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 26 Jan. 2022 -
But 24 years ago Tuesday, Bryant was just a blip in the box score.
— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020 -
So, The Freak Show will fill up a few box scores this season.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2019 -
What the box score won’t show is how close the Dodgers were to disaster.
— Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021 -
This was one of those days when a stroke of luck looks like a stroke of genius in the box score.
— Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 9 Dec. 2017 -
And then there are the intangibles, the things that don’t show up in the box score.
— Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022 -
Sengun scored nine points in his 24 minutes and was a +20 in the box score.
— Rahat Huq, Chron, 4 Feb. 2022 -
The big 0 in the box score: Confetti pieces fired into the sky.
— Dan Gelston, courant.com, 7 May 2018 -
To be able to watch it in person and not just check a box score will be a lot of fun.
— Chris Payne, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018 -
But box scores and stats tell only part of the story of Mays’ greatness.
— George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024 -
Listen to this article The hits just keep on coming for the Mets — not the ones that show up on a box score, but the metaphorical ones.
— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024
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