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The 1978 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in Major League Baseball's 1978 postseason pitting the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals for the American League pennant and the right to represent the American League in the 1978 World Series. The Yankees defeated the Royals for the third straight year to win ...
The 1978 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1978 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
October 6 – The Yankees overcome three home runs by the Royals' George Brett to win Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, 6–5, and take a 2 games to 1 series lead. October 7 – The Los Angeles Dodgers win their second consecutive National League pennant over the Philadelphia Phillies, with an extra-inning 4–3 win in Game 4 ...
The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half in each division in the 1981 American League Division Series. The winners played in the 1981 ALCS for the American League pennant. [103] b The leagues were re-aligned in 1994 to three divisions and a wild card was added to the playoffs, but the labor stoppage cancelled the ...
1978 New York Yankees; World Series Champions American League Champions American League East Champions: League: American League: Division: East: Ballpark: Yankee Stadium: City: New York City: Owners: George Steinbrenner: General managers: Cedric Tallis: Managers: Billy Martin – 52–42 (.553) Dick Howser – 0–1 Bob Lemon – 48–20 (.706 ...
The American League Championship Series (ALCS) is a best-of-seven playoff and one of two League Championship Series comprising the penultimate round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) postseason. The winner of the ALCS wins the AL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the National League's (NL ...
For the third straight year, the New York Yankees defeat the Kansas City Royals in the American League Championship Series, also three games to one. In their Game 4, 2–1 clinching victory, Ron Guidry goes eight innings for his second win of the ALCS, and Goose Gossage nails down the save.
1978 American League Championship Series; 1978 American League East tie-breaker game; 1978 Atlanta Braves season; B. 1978 Baltimore Orioles season; 1978 Boston Red ...