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Major League Baseball enters the 6th year of seven-year contracts it signed with its broadcast partners prior to the 2007 season. This year, Fox will televise the Saturday Game of the Week (which will be shown in prime time each week from May 19 to July 7), the All-Star Game, the National League Championship Series, and the World Series.
The postseason began on October 5, 2012, and ended on October 28, 2012, with the Giants sweeping the Tigers in the 2012 World Series. It was the second title in three years for the Giants and their seventh overall. This is the last postseason in which the defending champions made the postseason in a leap year. [5] [6] [7]
March 2 – Major League Baseball expands its playoff format to 10 teams for the 2012 season, adding a second wild card in each league. The decision establishes a new one-game, wild-card round in each league between the teams with the best records. [7] March 16 – Andy Pettitte comes out of retirement to a $2.5 million deal with the New York ...
Year American League Champion National League Champion World Series Champion 2010: Texas Rangers: San Francisco Giants: San Francisco Giants 2011: St. Louis Cardinals: St. Louis Cardinals 2012: Detroit Tigers: San Francisco Giants: San Francisco Giants 2013: Boston Red Sox: St. Louis Cardinals: Boston Red Sox 2014: Kansas City Royals
The 2012 Boston Red Sox season was the 112th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished last in the five-team American League East with a record of 69 wins and 93 losses, 26 games behind the first-place New York Yankees. It was the first time the Red Sox finished last in their division since 1992.
The 2012 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2012 postseason pitting the third-seeded San Francisco Giants against the defending World Series champion and fifth-seeded St. Louis Cardinals for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2012 World Series.
The 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 123rd for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 55th season in Los Angeles. The Dodgers celebrated the Golden Anniversary of Dodger Stadium, their home since 1962. It was a transitional year as the sale of the team from Frank McCourt to Guggenheim Baseball Management was not finalized ...
The Baltimore Orioles' 2012 season was the 112th season in franchise history, the 59th in Baltimore, and the 21st at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. They completed the regular season with a 93–69 record, good for second place in the AL East and qualified for one of two American League wild card spots.