root for

Asked before the game who he was rooting for, LaCour said, “I’m rooting for a 0-0 game going into the eighth inning.”

During their respective postseason runs, the two would talk often, sharing words of encouragement as they rooted for each other to accomplish something extraordinary.

Brown’s contributions will be closely watched by those rooting for players from smaller schools to come up big.

“When you watch ‘The Sound of Music,’” she tells Meyers later in the bit, “you have to root for the singing children and the other people.”

I said that I would certainly root for Democrats to win wherever possible and would do what I could to make that happen.