In some North American sports, the phrase games behind or games back (often abbreviated GB) refers to a common way to reflect the gap between a leading...
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games or more. The Spiders lost 40 of their last 41 games, finishing 84 games behind the 1899 National League champion Brooklyn Superbas and 35 games...
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60+1⁄2 games behind the NL Champion San Francisco Giants, who had once called New York home. The Mets were the latest team to be 60+ games behind in a division...
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Pine Tar Game, and fell further behind the division-leading Orioles. The Yankees finished second, 91–71, seven games behind the Orioles. On December 16,...
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most sports leagues around the world to be played behind closed doors. In Brazil, the practice of games without public access is known as "closed gates"...
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games, behind the winner Magnus Carlsen. In June at Norway Chess 2014, a ten-player tournament, Caruana finished fourth with 4½ points out of 9 games...
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20–134 (.130), the worst in MLB history, 84 games behind the pennant-winning Brooklyn Superbas and 35 games behind the next-to-last (11th) place Washington...
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runs scored and won 101 games, a whopping 30-game improvement over the 71–83 1960 team, but still finished eight games behind the Yankees. This marked...
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player (1,520 games) behind Mark McGwire (1,412), Babe Ruth (1,475), and Alex Rodriguez (1,489), and surpassing Albert Pujols (1,523 games). He also became...
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337 runs over the course of the season (928 to 591) and finished 47 games behind the Minnesota Twins. They were swept a total of 21 times while notching...
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