How to Use major league in a Sentence

major league

noun
  • The pitch clock could come to the major league as soon as 2023.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • The hope is to someday land a gig with a major league team.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Of the 30 major league teams, 13 have no complete games.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2022
  • In only the 28th major league game to end on a triple-play.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
  • It’s been less than a week since J.P. Martínez got his major league callup.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Just to get to major league free agency is such a unique thing.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The joy is just in being at a major league baseball game.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The 26-year-old played in five major league games for Toronto last year.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Sports fans can watch the city's three major league teams (the Cavaliers, the Browns, and the Guardians) live at world-class sports venues.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • It’s all been part of the growing process of his first full major league season.
    Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 23 Sep. 2024
  • And no one needs to designate us as a major league city.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The ace then threw 62 pitches in his first major league start and 72 in his second.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Bean was the second major league player to come out as gay.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
  • This marked his first time at Chase Field since making it to the major league level.
    Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2022
  • So in Columbus there’s the Columbus Crew, which is a major league soccer team that is owned by the Haslams.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • That was the most whiffs by any major league team on a single day since pitches were first tracked in 1988.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 28 July 2024
  • These things take time and, in most cases, about two years of struggle at the major league level.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Weather was a key factor 35 years ago when the Cubs became the last major league team to add lights to its home field.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Cleveland has the youngest team in major league baseball.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Gilbert, of course, threw a no-hitter in his first major league start last August.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
  • Ramírez has now driven in a major league-leading 51 runs in 44 games.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 30 May 2022
  • Comparisons around the league show the ball would have been a homer in 26 out of 30 major league stadiums.
    Matt Young, Chron, 9 May 2022
  • David Ortiz hit home runs against all 30 major league teams.
    Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
  • Stone threw the first shutout (and first complete game) of his major league career on Wednesday.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • James Kaprielian will make his first major league start.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
  • For the second time in less than a week, the Hartford Yard Goats went toe-to-toe with one of the best pitchers in major league baseball.
    Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2024
  • Betts has driven in 105 runs in the leadoff spot, the most in a season in major league history .
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Witt has cut his strikeouts in each of his three major league seasons but still whiffed 106 times this year.
    Jerry Beach, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Valenzuela made his major league debut in the fall of 1980 as a relief pitcher.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • In the final lineup, the Angels had Jack López, a 31-year-old who was playing his 34th major league game, batting second.
    Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 30 Sep. 2024

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