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The 2012 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2012 season. The winners of the Division Series moved on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series .
The Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in West Sacramento, California. [4] The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division .
The Athletics–Giants rivalry, formerly termed the Bay Bridge Series, or the Battle of the Bay, was a series of baseball games played between—and the rivalry of—Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics of the American League and San Francisco Giants of the National League.
The 2025 Athletics season will be the 125th season for the Athletics franchise, and it will be the franchise's first year in West Sacramento. The team will play their home games at Sutter Health Park as part of their temporary relocation following their departure from Oakland , and prior to their planned relocation to the Las Vegas metropolitan ...
The Athletics won three straight World Series championships from 1972 to 1974 before adding another in 1989, while the Raiders won two Super Bowls in 1976 and 1980.
The Twins defeated the Athletics in five games to return to the ALCS for the first time since 1991. In Oakland, the first two games were split by both teams - in Game 1, the Twins prevailed in an offensive slugfest, 7–5. While in Game 2, the A's offense got the best of Twins' starter Joe Mays as they prevailed in a 9–1 blowout to even the ...
Barry Zito pitched seven solid innings as the Athletics stole Game 1 in Minneapolis. Mark Kotsay hit a rare inside-the-park home run in a 5-2 Athletics victory in Game 2 to go up 2–0 on the series headed back home. In Game 3, the Athletics blew out the Twins to complete the sweep. This was the Athletics’ first playoff victory since the 1990 ...
The Athletics farm system consists of six Minor League Baseball affiliates across the United States and in the Dominican Republic.Four teams are independently owned, while two—the Arizona Complex League Athletics and Dominican Summer League Athletics—are owned by the major league club.