How to Use the majors in a Sentence

the majors

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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
• 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
• The Braves led the majors with a 62-33 through Thursday.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
• But the last Dodger to lead the majors in voting was Davey Lopes in 1980.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
• Most of those players reached the majors for the first time last season.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The pitching staff ranks fifth in the majors in the category.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
• Excited to see what Evan Carter does in his first full season in the majors.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The injuries have forced Woods to play a very limited schedule — the majors and a few select events.
  — Dave Skretta, ajc, 9 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Jonah Heim ranked second in the majors in runs saved via framing.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024