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In the crazy one, the Dodgers blew two four-run leads, tied the score with three runs in the ninth inning and lost in the 10th.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The most poignant portrait is that of Dale Mitchell, whom the Dodgers sent up to pinch-hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The Dodgers went down 1-2-3 in the ninth, a quiet end to a once-promising season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
This season, albeit early days, Manchester United are in 13th spot and Liverpool ninth.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Polina Gelman, who’d taken up flying in ninth grade, was in her third year of a history degree at Moscow University on June 22, 1941.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are sevenths and ninths in music, beautiful and effective in their degrees; but perhaps none of them are so absolutely satisfying to the ear as the perfect chord.
From A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli
The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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