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The 2012 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2012 postseason pitting the top-seeded New York Yankees against the third-seeded Detroit Tigers for the American League pennant and the right to play in the 2012 World Series. The series, the 43rd in league history, began on Saturday, October 13 ...
The 2012 New York Yankees season was the 110th season for the New York Yankees franchise. The Yankees began the season in St. Petersburg, Florida against the Tampa Bay Rays on April 6. They finished the season 95–67, first place in the American League East .
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]
The Yankees and Orioles were meeting in the postseason for the second time; the Yankees had beaten the Orioles 4–1 in the 1996 ALCS, which witnessed the controversial Jeffrey Maier incident in Game 1. The Tigers went on to defeat the Yankees in the ALCS, then lose the 2012 World Series to the National League champion San Francisco Giants.
As of Thursday evening, the Yankees were contemplating 11 or 12 pitchers for ALDS and hadn't shared their Game 1 starters at left field and first base Yankees sort through final roster decisions ...
Germán pitched the 24th perfect game in major league history Wednesday night, retiring every Oakland batter in an 11-0 victory The post Yankees’ Domingo Germán throws 1st perfect game since ...
The two teams’ rosters included a combined 12 future Hall of Famers, including Robinson, Mickey Mantle, and Yankees catcher Yogi Berra. ... who was so good in the postseason he earned the ...
The entire master schedule was released on September 14, 2011. The Major League Baseball postseason was expanded to include a second wild card team in each league beginning in the 2012 season. [3] The season marked the last for the Houston Astros as a member of the National League.