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The 2020 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball's 2020 postseason between the two American League Division Series winners, the defending American League Champion and sixth-seeded Houston Astros and the top-seeded Tampa Bay Rays, for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2020 World Series.
The American League Championship Series (ALCS) is a best-of-seven playoff and one of two League Championship Series comprising the penultimate round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) postseason. The winner of the ALCS wins the AL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the National League's (NL ...
The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half in each division in the 1981 American League Division Series. The winners played in the 1981 ALCS for the American League pennant. [103] b The leagues were re-aligned in 1994 to three divisions and a wild card was added to the playoffs, but the labor stoppage cancelled the ...
The 2020 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2020 season.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league played only a 60-game season, and an expanded 16-team postseason tournament began on September 29, with games of all but the first round being played at neutral sites.
The New York Yankees seized what may prove to be a decisive advantage in the American League Championship Series, subduing the Cleveland Guardians and surviving an off outing from ace Gerrit Cole ...
The Rays would earn their second American League Championship Series berth, their first being in 2008, while the Astros won their fourth straight American League Division Series. The Rays would go on to defeat the Astros in the ALCS, then lose the 2020 World Series to the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Guardians won the decisive Game 5 of their ALDS against the Tigers 7-3 on Saturday to advance to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2016. The Guardians won the ...
The series was the 50th in league history, [c] with Fox/FS1 televising all games in the United States. For the third straight year, Major League Baseball sold presenting sponsorships to all of its postseason series; as with the NLCS, this ALCS was sponsored by GEICO and officially known as the 2019 American League Championship Series presented ...