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The American League West is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. The division has five teams as of the 2013 season, but had four teams from 1994 to 2012, and had as many as seven teams before the 1994 realignment.
The Houston Astros (90–72) clinched their seventh straight playoff berth on September 30, [5] then clinched the American League West division title, their third consecutive divisional title, their sixth in seven seasons since 2017, and a first-round bye as the second seed the next day with a 8–1 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks and the ...
In 1994, the league, along with the National League, reorganized again, this time into three divisions (East, West, and Central) and added a third round to the playoffs in the form of the American League Division Series, with the best second-place team advancing to the playoffs as a wild-card team, in addition to the three divisional champions.
The American League playoff field was set on Friday with the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals clinching the final two wild-card spots. ... (92-69) – clinched division Sept. 21. AL West ...
The winners of each league's wild card rounds advance to face the two best division winners in that league's Division Series. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch (pictured in 2015 with the Astros) The Houston Astros (88–73) qualified for the postseason as the American League West division winner, clinching the division by beating the Seattle Mariners ...
The tightest races to watch in the final weeks include the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees battling for first place in the American League East and the National League wild-card, which ...
Yahoo Sports runs down some interesting people to watch in the American League West division including the most scrutinized plyer in the league and a GM on the hot seat
The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series. Oakland and New York won the 1981 American League Division Series while Los Angeles and Montreal won the 1981 National League Division Series. [1]