(1) The games, the drama of a pitching duel, the back and forth of a slugfest , a pennant race between good teams (before the wild card made that just about defunct), the history and so much more.(2) the fight brought back memories of the classic 1976 Lyle-Foreman slugfest(3) When I got on board - as a fan, if not a true believer - the group was entrenched in a slugfest with the flourishing occult business.(4) I told him I often had to replace an online (in-my-mind) persona with the real world personality and the two entities often had a bit of a slugfest battling out who would be dominant.(5) This is basically an even matchup, a toe-to-toe slugfest of a heavyweight championship battle in the making.(6) Not only did Denmark win the verbal slugfest , it dominated the 1-0 match.(7) The 1884 slugfest also serves as a reminder that a single ill-advised sentence from a warm-up speaker or a campaign surrogate can easily explode into a full-scale flap when time and partisan tempers are short.(8) those hearings turned into a rushed, circus-like political slugfest(9) As the opposite sides in the mayoral race draw their lines and gear up for the all-island slugfest , the detritus of local obsolete municipal councils are getting themselves ready to make their now-squelched voices heard.(10) By now the match had settled into a slugfest for possession and territory.(11) In this way, players have to be much more deliberate about the punch that's thrown, because trying to turn the match into a slugfest will only tire your boxer out and make him susceptible to a quick knockout from your rival.(12) And a slugfest is just what the '04 race could become, especially if Dean's insurgency continues to pick up steam.(13) Both were settling into the fight, which was establishing itself as a boxing match and not a slugfest at all.(14) The top four points earners in the final Challenge standings each won their first-round race, setting up a slugfest in the semi-finals.(15) And they didn't disappoint the crowd of just over 3,000, posting two unanswered second-half tries in a spirited display as the weather deteriorated, reducing the match to a slugfest .(16) Clarke's performance poisoned the public hearings, leading to weeks of a partisan slugfest .
