the American League

noun

: one of the two major leagues in professional U.S. baseball

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The worst pitching staff in the American League, with an ERA pushing 5.00. Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025 Saturday’s loss drops them to 43-51 and 6 1/2 games back of the final wild-card spot in the American League. Jacob Calvin Meyer, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025 From watching Josh Hamilton light up the sky at old Yankee Stadium in 2008 to seeing 22-year-old Mike Trout putting the American League on his back in 2014, each game and every derby has a special memory. Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 12 July 2025 With numbers like that, Boone, who will manage the American League in Atlanta on Tuesday, said that he’s been trying to make an All-Star case for Bellinger for a few days. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for the American League

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“The American League.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20American%20League. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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