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The 2011 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2011 season. The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series. This was the last postseason to feature the 8-team format, as next season ...
The 82nd edition of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 12 with the National League defeating the American League for the second straight year, by a score of 5–1. As had been the case since 2003, the league winning that game had home field advantage in the World Series.
The regular season finished on September 28, with the ALDS beginning September 30. [2] Game 5 of the Yankees–Tigers series was played on October 6. [3] Under MLB's playoff format, no two teams from the same division were matched up in the Division Series, regardless of whether their records would normally indicate such a matchup.
November 17 – Major League Baseball owners approve the sale of the Houston Astros to a group led by private equity fund company CEO Jim Crane, with the sale conditional on the team moving to the American League beginning in 2013. November 21 – Seattle Mariners OF Greg Halman is found fatally stabbed in an apartment in Rotterdam.
The 2011 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2011 postseason that pitted the winners of the 2011 American League Division Series (the second-seeded Texas Rangers and third-seeded Detroit Tigers), against each other for the American League.
The 2011 National League Division Series (abbreviated NLDS) were two best-of-five playoffs comprising the opening round of the Major League Baseball postseason, played to determine the participating teams in the 2011 National League Championship Series. Three divisional winners and a fourth team—a wild card—played in two series.
The 2011 New York Yankees season was the 109th season for the New York Yankees franchise. The Yankees began the season at home against the Detroit Tigers on Thursday, March 31. [ 2 ] The Yankees clinched a playoff berth in the first game of a doubleheader on September 21, and clinched the American League East title in the second game. [ 3 ]
The 2011 National League Championship Series (abbreviated NLCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2011 postseason pitting the winners of the 2011 National League Division Series, the wild card St. Louis Cardinals and the second-seeded Milwaukee Brewers, against each other for the National League championship and the right to be the league's representative in the 2011 ...