How to Use pennant in a Sentence

pennant

noun
  • The Red Sox won the American League pennant in 2004.
  • The Giants, the Padres and the Dodgers are fighting for the pennant.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Tops on the list, of course, is the 1951 pennant race between the Dodgers and the Giants.
    Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The Phillies won the pennant and will meet the Astros in the World Series.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The Padres hope their spending pays off in a pennant for the first time since 1998.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The moment the ball left the bat, Contreras jumped out of the dugout like the Cubs had won the pennant.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • The Yankees have made the playoff five years in a row but haven’t won the pennant since 2009.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Orosco threw all sliders and struck out Bass to win the pennant.
    New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • There have been 14 teams take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NLCS, and all have gone on to win the pennant.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
  • But the Tigers were in a close race for the American League pennant.
    Robert Gudmestad, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Baseball needs its greats at the heart of pennant races.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • This was said after the Yankees fell in five games to the Rays, who won the AL pennant.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The two times the Padres won a pennant, they got fed into a wood chipper.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The Dodgers beat the Giants in the final two games to secure a pennant — for St. Louis.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Get your Guardians garb now as Cleveland races for the pennant.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Phillies won 4-1, but Pittsburgh went on to capture the NL pennant.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The Astros won the American League pennant for the third time in five years.
    John Perrotto, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • He’s been to the playoffs five times but never won a pennant.
    Jake Seiner, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Baker won a pennant with the 2002 Giants then fell to the Angels in the Series.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The pennant belonged solely to the Sox after a loss by the Detroit Tigers.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • There could be one of Trench’s Fenway Park pennants hanging in the rafters.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Winning a pennant for the cost of $60 million or so will leave a wart or two.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The idea now is to get to the World Series and be set up to win the pennant again the following season.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2021
  • The Mets, at the time counted out of the pennant race, eventually won it.
    Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
  • Time for the Orioles to win the American League pennant.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The winner will go on to play for the National League pennant and a place in the World Series.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • All previous 14 teams to win the first two games of a best-of-seven NLCS went on to take the pennant.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2020
  • All previous 14 teams to win the first two games of a best-of-seven NLCS went on to claim the pennant.
    Stephen Hawkins, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • How then, could a team with such front-line talent be a clear also-ran in the pennant race?
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Last year’s surprise National League pennant winner has owned the Rockies for the last two seasons.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2024

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