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The six teams located in the Eastern Time Zone were all placed in the AL East, and the remaining six were placed in the AL West. When the second incarnation of the Washington Senators announced their intention to move to the Dallas–Fort Worth area for the 1972 season and become the Texas Rangers , American League owners voted to switch the ...
The Astros advanced to their first World Series in 12 years, becoming the first team to win pennants in both leagues. Houston's victory made this just the fifth best-of-seven series (following the 1987 , 1991 , and 2001 World Series , and the 2004 National League Championship Series which the Astros played in), and the first ALCS, in which the ...
The team was helmed by manager Gene Mauch, who would also manage the team during their 1986 postseason appearance. After clinching their second AL West championship, the Angels won the first two games of the best-of-five ALCS against the AL East champion Milwaukee Brewers – then
Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. ... (38D: Org. with Jazz and Thunder) The Utah Jazz are an NBA team based in Salt Lake City. ... AL PASTOR (39D: Taco ...
2023 record: 73-89 (4th place, AL West) KEY MOVES He gone: DH-RHP Shohei Ohtani, INF Mike Moustakas, 3B Eduardo Escobar, INF Gio Urshela, 1B C.J. Cron, OF Randal Grichuk
Just as the rest of the league got used to the Houston Astros as the gold standard of the American League, a different AL West team rocketed through the 2023 postseason en route to a World Series ...
American League President and founder Ban Johnson, in center, surrounded by the portraits of the league's eight teams in 1907.. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, which existed from 1885 to 1899 with teams in mostly Great Lakes states, the league changed its name to the American League for the 1900 season and the next year developed into a second major league as a ...
The winner of the American League wild card game moved on to face the top-seeded team of the AL in the American League Division Series. In 2013 , the Indians became the first team from the AL Central to qualify as a wild card under the new postseason format.