The players and managers on both sides agreed it was a little early to call anything a crucial series.

His decision now leaves him available to pitch on a regular amount of rest next Friday in a crucial series against the Braves.

It wasn't a crucial series for us; it was important.

In another linguistic misapprehension, my father called these two final games "the crucial series."

The Major merely set out the crucial series of photographs.

So if you do it in a crucial short series, why wouldn't you during the season?

Does anyone even remember which year the Yankees played a crucial regular-season series?

Fitzgerald was not on the field for a crucial momentum-turning series in the first quarter.

Then, in a crucial series, Massachusetts missed two point-blank shots.

Javier went two-for-fourteen with two errors in this crucial series.