Their team has no natural geographical rivals and is far from the major news-media centers.

Again, we felt that he was a natural rival to Sherlock Holmes.

"I guess they're a natural rival for us because of that, even though we've beaten them since," Kugler said.

Teams should play their natural rivals, he proposes.

Anyway, the men were natural rivals in ability and could be expected to puff up at some point.

The two cities, perhaps because of their proximity, are natural rivals, she said.

Instead they will play the team in the other league deemed to be their "natural" rival.

The remaining four games will be played against a team's "natural rival" in two back-to-back two-game series from May 27-30.

These natural rivals are neck-and-neck performers, but go about their business in different ways.

Any added excitement produced by the games will be most important when the teams are not natural rivals.