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The 1978 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in Major League Baseball's 1978 postseason pitting the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals for the American League pennant and the right to represent the American League in the 1978 World Series. The Yankees defeated the Royals for the third straight year to win ...
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October 14 – The Yankees even the Series with the Dodgers 2–2 when Lou Piniella's 10th-inning single scores Roy White with the winning run in a 4–3 Yankees victory. October 15 – The Yankees move one win from clinching the World Series with a 12–2 rout of the Dodgers. Thurman Munson drives in 5 runs and Roy White contributes 3.
For the third straight year, the New York Yankees defeat the Kansas City Royals in the American League Championship Series, also three games to one. In their Game 4, 2–1 clinching victory, Ron Guidry goes eight innings for his second win of the ALCS, and Goose Gossage nails down the save. Roy White's sixth-inning homer provides the winning run.
Stanley Cup – Montreal Canadiens win 4 games to 2 over the Boston Bruins; World Hockey Championship. Men’s champion: Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia; Junior Men’s champion: Soviet Union defeated Sweden; Note: In the early years of the Junior tournament, Canada did not send a true National Junior team to the event.
The 1978 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five matchup in Major League Baseball’s 1978 postseason between the West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the East Division champion Philadelphia Phillies. It was the tenth ever NLCS and a rematch of the 1977 series between the same teams.
The 1978 NCAA Division II baseball tournament was the postseason tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of baseball among its Division II colleges and universities at the end of the 1978 NCAA Division II baseball season.
Game 5, which saw the Yankees advance to its first World Series since 2009 with a 5-2 victory in 10 innings, averaged 5.6 million, a 33% increase over Game 5 of last year's ALCS between the ...