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Recent Examples of first base
In the first four seasons of his MLB career, Burger only played five games at first base, but last year played the majority of his games (69) at first base but did play 59 games at third base.
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
But the Marlins also will give a long look to Matt Mervis, the former highly regarded Cubs farmhand who was rated the No. 5 first base prospect in baseball just a year ago.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
That includes first base, where Gonzalez appears to be the top candidate to back up Casas barring any further additions.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Cleveland Guardians The 2024 AL Central champions had a hole at first base — briefly.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
But the Marlins also will give a long look to Matt Mervis, the former highly regarded Cubs farmhand who was rated the No. 5 first base prospect in baseball just a year ago.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
That includes first base, where Gonzalez appears to be the top candidate to back up Casas barring any further additions.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
Cleveland Guardians The 2024 AL Central champions had a hole at first base — briefly.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for first base
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The monument in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village section is in a tiny park across the street from the Stonewall Inn, a bar that became ground zero for the gay rights movement on June 28, 1969, when gay and transgender patrons and neighborhood residents fought back against a police raid.—
Susan Haigh,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Shelby Park, a municipal park along the border in Eagle Pass that had been a top crossing spot and ground zero for conflicts over immigration enforcement between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott, has seen few if any migrants try to cross on most days.—
Jack Healy,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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It’s been on the city drawing board for years but has yet to go any further.—
Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com,
al,
27 May 2021
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Winter Park is back to the drawing board in charting a path forward for its former library, which sits within shouting distance of Park Avenue.—
Ryan Gillespie,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2023
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Jason Lipshutz: Unlike the star-heavy start of 2024, the beginning of 2025 has not been jammed with big new album releases — just Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, really — and Hurry Up Tomorrow took advantage of that relative silence.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2025
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At the beginning of the Feb. 10 episode, host Jesse Palmer announced that there’d be one group date and two one-on-one dates.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Spaniard’s commitment to speaking English from day one was initially applauded, but that narrative changed when results deteriorated.—
Stuart James,
The Athletic,
5 Feb. 2025
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The block schedule would include an anchor day one day a week in which the students would attend all of their classes for a shorter length of time.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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Jack Hinshelwood, on his first start since November after knee damage, was left exposed by Georginio Rutter, who prefers to operate further forward, as the No 10.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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Bobrovsky improves to 23-12-2 on the season and has won five of his past six starts.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
9 Feb. 2025
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However, their trip to Tokyo to begin the 2025 regular season will create enough off-days throughout the month of April, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told reporters Friday in Phoenix, that a six-man rotation won't be necessary at the outset of the season.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Home prices surged about 24% over a nearly two-year period beginning at the outset of the pandemic in December 2019, the fastest rate on record, researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research found.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2025
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Martinelli drove the baseline, attracting a double-team before getting a step between the two USC defenders and creating enough space to loft the shot and give Northwestern (13-10 overall, 4-8 Big Ten) the lead in the closing seconds.—
Staff and news service reports,
Orange County Register,
5 Feb. 2025
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Martinelli split a double team near the baseline and softly laid it in to give Northwestern (13-10, 4-8 Big Ten) the lead in the closing seconds.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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