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The 2016 Cleveland Indians season was the 116th season for the franchise and the 23rd season at Progressive Field.The Indians won the American League Central for the first time since 2007 and also beat the Boston Red Sox in the ALDS for their first playoff win in nine years.
The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
The 2016 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2016 postseason pitting the fourth-seeded Toronto Blue Jays against the second-seeded Cleveland Indians for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2016 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
The Indians won in 1995 and 1998, while the Red Sox won in 1999 and 2007. The Indians swept the Red Sox to return to the ALCS for the first time since 2007. The Indians narrowly took Game 1 by holding off a late Red Sox rally. In Game 2, the Indians shut out the Red Sox, 6–0, thanks to a solid pitching performance from Corey Kluber. When the ...
Mumbai Indians (MI) are a franchise cricket team based in Mumbai, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Captained by Rohit Sharma, they were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2016 Indian Premier League.
The Indian cricket team toured the West Indies for a four-match Test series. Prior to the four Test matches, there were two tour matches. [1] [2] The tour coincided with the 2016 Caribbean Premier League. [3] This was the first bilateral tour between the two sides since the West Indies pulled out of the previous tour in October 2014. [4]
The 2016 Indian Premier League season (also known as IPL 9, and branded as Vivo IPL 2016 for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007.
In 2016, Ramírez achieved then-career highs of .312 batting average, 46 doubles, and 22 stolen bases, while spending time at second base, shortstop, third base, and left field. He helped lead the Indians to their first World Series appearance in 19 years, hitting .310 (9-for-31) in the series, which the Indians ultimately lost in 7 games to ...