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The 2017 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2017 postseason pitting the second-seeded Houston Astros against the fourth-seeded New York Yankees for the American League pennant and the right to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series.
The Yankees, with losses in the ALCS in 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019, and 2022, became the first team to lose in the LCS five straight times. [22] [23] This was the first four-game sweep of the Yankees since the 2012 American League Championship Series and it is also the first time that the Astros have swept an opponent in a best-of-seven game series.
The Astros would go on to defeat the Yankees in the ALCS, then win the 2017 World Series over the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers. It was the Astros first-ever World title. It was the Astros first-ever World title.
Oswaldo Cabrera had a career-high four hits with three RBIs and Giancarlo Stanton added a solo homer to lead the New York Yankees over the Houston Astros 7-1 on Friday night. Manager Aaron Boone ...
The Astros held off a late rally by the Yankees to win Game 1. In Game 2, Justin Verlander pitched a complete game as the Astros won by a 2–1 score again to go up 2–0 in the series. In the Bronx, the Yankees blew out the Astros in Game 3 to get on the board in the series.
The Astros boosted their lead to 3-1 in the fifth when the Yankees committed two errors on one play to make it 3-1. Houston starter Hunter Brown allowed four hits and a run with five strikeouts in ...
(2) New York Yankees (AL East champions) vs. (3) Cleveland Guardians (AL Central champions, Wild Card Series winner): Yankees win series 3–2. The team with the better regular season record (higher seed) of each series hosted Games 1, 2, and (if necessary) 5, while the lower seeded team hosted Game 3 and (if necessary) 4.
The New York Yankees made them work for this one, but the Houston Astros still prevailed. The preeminent AL juggernaut won a back-and-forth ALCS Game 4, 6-5, to complete the sweep and advance to ...