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Shohei Ohtani is batting fifth in the lineup against Braves ace Chris Sale in Game 3 of the NLDS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Dodgers are batting .215 through the first two games of the NLDS, with the Atlanta Braves scheduled to pitch left-handed ace Chris Sale in Game 3 on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Their rotation led the major leagues with a 3.30 ERA, despite Fried, longtime ace Gerrit Cole and star lefty Carlos Rodón all missing time with injuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But manager Aaron Boone wanted his ace to give his team just a little bit more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The worst of it was that while most of them just had to turn in some overdue work, Don Hume had to flat out ace a final examination to remain eligible.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

World number two Sabalenka hit 11 aces and did not face a break point in a 6-1 6-3 victory over the Mexican.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

If the four aces can do to October opponents what the 1966 Orioles did to the Dodgers, or some reasonable 21st century facsimile, we’ll see you at the parade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Scott’s track record of big aces and occasional double faults has followed him from tennis to college sports and back again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

When a man talks like that he might as well be accusing someone of carrying aces up their sleeve.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

The two nations have almost identical populations, so how have the Scandinavians aced their plan of attack?

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

He then aced the fifth hole at Harding Golf Course on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Levito, skating in her mother’s hometown of Milan where her grandmother still lives, calmly aced her Olympic debut with a score of 70.84 that put her in eighth place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

After he aced the exam and skated on Olympic ice, he said in a mix of broken German and sprinkled English that he had prepared hard for both tests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

I aced the tests—“Eagle eyes and elephant ears,” the nurse said—but Lori struggled trying to read the eye chart.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Meanwhile he brags about acing three different cognitive tests in the last year.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026

For years, high-schoolers have boasted in college applications about learning Latin, leading the chess club or acing Advanced Placement Physics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Hortiz set the table for his successful debut season as an NFL general manager by acing his first draft and hopes to follow up with an equally impressive encore this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

According to the National Hole-In-One-Registry the odds of two players from the same foursome acing the same hole is 17 million to 1.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

If your kid was supersmart and acing tests, it was forgiven that he never hit a home run or scored a goal.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty