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Example sentences for: playoffs

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The Mets, who barely made the playoffs after a dismal mid-season performance, are competing with Boston for recognition as the "Cinderella team."
Four teams remain in baseball's playoffs.
The regular season and playoffs have eliminated more quixotic teams: The Donald Trump-like Baltimore Orioles, willing to spend endless millions to prove their incompetence; the Alan Keyesian Chicago Cubs, hopeless but mesmerizing; the Reform Partyesque Boston Red Sox, erratic, crazy, but with just enough brilliance to be dangerous.
Boston pitcher Pedro Martinez threw six no-hit innings in the final game against Cleveland to make the Red Sox only the fourth team ever to overcome a two-game deficit in the playoffs' first round.
In the National Football League playoffs , the Denver Broncos will play the Pittsburgh Steelers for one berth in the Super Bowl, and the San Francisco 49ers will play the Green Bay Packers for the other.